Note: this is a past chapter, it doesn't focus on the current timeline of the story, reading this chapter won't be mandatory for the understanding of the story, but I would recommend this chapter for a more preferable experience, the choice is yours
8 Years Ago…
"Wyatt, The Choosing will be initiated in a couple of days and you still don't have any candidates for your new squad", Elias says.
The Choosing…an event that's done when a certain squad is wiped out completely.
It's a game of where each team that's within this Choosing, that team is determined by the captain's candidates, but that game changes every time The Choosing is initiated.
If that certain captain has no members left, even after The Choosing, their captaincy will be withdrawn by the council and the organization's president and Wyatt…happens to be one of those captains who are threatened by this fate, but he isn't the only captain that shares that unwanted fate.
"God, I know but…Ive had some candidates in mind, but they all refused me and the profession of being a devil hunter, they know that i'm a failure as a captain, no captain should get their whole squad wiped out, for fuck sake", Wyatt says.
"Y'know, as long as they're hybrids, you can choose them to be your candidates, they don't have any sort of restrictions towards criminals or anything like that", Elias says.
Wyatt has never thought of such an idea, going for a criminal who's experienced in the act of murder would be perfect for this profession.
"Elias, give me an insight on the country's most wanted hybrids", Wyatt says ( Hybrids are people who don't get affected by Hell's Equivalent Exchange Law ).
"You shouldn't me commanding your seniors, but okay", Elias says as he opens his computer and checks, "a certain boy and girl have gone on and caused a havoc with their killing spree, you could check them out, they're last sighting was at the Monument Theaters", Elias says.
"I don't like how you aren't naming them, do they not have a certain identity that's been confirmed by the government or something like that, I need some info regarding them", Wyatt says.
"Well, there are some leads on their outer appearances, the boy has long black hair with an earring on left ear, he usually commits his acts of murder in a trash bag cut into a cut-out that looks like a shirt, not so fashionable", Elias says.
"And the girl?", Wyatt asks.
"Nothing except that she commits the killings with him, if you find one of them, you'll immediately find the other, don't worry about it", Elias says, "I'll get a vehicle prepared for you to the Monument Theaters".
"Got it", Wyatt says.
Wyatt is usually an optimistic guy when a mission is initiated…but here, he didn't have a single distinguishable emotion left, nothing but a sense of emptiness is within his mind.
An Hour Later At The Organization's Garage…
Wyatt just stood in front of the car, just staring at it…
"Hey, hey dude, c'mon don't just go unconscious on me man", Elias says.
"Oh sorry, it's just a bit difficult for me right now", Wyatt says.
"Listen man, I know depression's quite deep and I shouldn't be talking in such a nonchalant manner, but depression resides within a body that fights to survive, but in a mind that just wants to die…it's all in there, don't forget", Elias says as he points his finger towards his head.
They both just enter their car and drive ahead to Monument Theaters in Los Angeles, it's a 1 hour drive.
1 Hour Later, When They Arrive At Monument Theaters…
Wyatt just leaves the car and inspects the area.
A crime scene did occur not so long ago within the theater itself, while a movie was playing, the Italian boy was at fault here and he was with the girl when he committed the murder, this is what info on a certain magazine said.
"God, did we really have to rely on a fucking magazine for help, why couldn't we just get some actual detectives to assist us in this?", Wyatt asks.
"Did you forget that they're against us?", Elias says, "the whole government is against the devil hunters organization because we've committed atrocities without their consent, we're going to have to use these fake police ID's to complete this mission, here", Elias says while handing over the police ID to Wyatt, "Okay, let's meet up with the guy that runs the place, we can ask to inspect the camera footage, and then we can connect the fingerprints that we'll have to the footage using our transmitter device".
Wyatt then nods his head.
They walk into the theater and they see this old man, he had a broom in his hand, but no manager would be cleaning the place up, he must be the place's janitor or something, so they continue to walk past him.
"No no, stay here, I'm Mr. Wu Feng, I'm the man who runs this place", Wu Feng says, "you two must be police investigators, please come I'll take you around".
Both Wyatt and Elias pull out their fake police ID's and Elias says, "yeah we're police investigators, we work for the Central Intelligence Agency, how did you know though?".
"Well, ever since that murderous incident within our theaters, no one has been entering the place, my business has gone six feet under the damn ground, and here I am now…sweeping the floors, the only people I'd expect to enter the place would either be the police or some detectives", Wu Feng says.
"We're here to help, may you please lead us to the theater's CCTV monitoring room, we can take everything from there", Wyatt says.
Wu Feng nods back and leads them into a hallway, to the right of the hallway was where the monitoring room was.
"You can check the latest security footage file, that was the last time someone entered the theater anyways, you should be able to see the murder while it's happened, good luck gentlemen", Wu Feng says as he leaves the room.
Now that they were on their own, Elias leaves the room to enter the auditorium where the murder occurred, room no.27, while Wyatt watches the footage to find some sort of contact that occurred between the Italian boy and an inanimate object, they could then use a transmitter device to connect the both of them, to finally reveal Wyatt's new potential squad member and also, they each have a walky talky to contact one another.
Wyatt plays the footage and he sees the events and how the unfolded.
So first, two masked suspects walked up from their chairs, they then walked towards the bathrooms and yes, if the girl was with that Italian douchebag, then that would've meant that the girl entered the boys' bathroom…weird, but no one would've known she was masked.
The camera footage is very limited though, Wyatt can't see what's happening within the bathroom.
They then walked out of the bathroom with a black bag, the black bag contained a couple of rifles, they then proceeded to shoot everybody within the auditorium.
"God, that's a sight for sure", Wyatt says.
The camera's video quality is too low to distinguish what seat they had contact with, but assuming that they entered the bathroom, they must've touched something within the bathroom.
"Elias, check the stalls in the bathroom for any fingerprints, and also check for any secret hatches, they might've had their weapons stored in one of them",Wyatt says into the walky talky.
"On it", Elias says as he enters the auditorium.
It's quite bizarre really, as you enter a theater's auditorium as a child, you'd always feel a sensation of excitement, blood pumping with intensity but here, this was different, an empty auditorium's quite frightening…in a way.
He enters the bathroom and checks every stall and in one of them, there's this weird looking crack under one of the toilets, in the floor.
He pulls the crack open and he sees a black bag under the toilet.
"Well damn, Wyatt we're lucky to be here before the detectives, I've hit the damn jackpot!" Elias says into the walky talky, "it's a black bag with two rifles in it".
"That's exactly what we need, it's probably the same black bag that I saw in the security footage, get it back to the CCTV monitoring room", Wyatt says.
Elias runs back to the monitoring room with the bag.
"Okay let's see what we've got over here", Wyatt says, "I've scanned our suspects from the security footage, I should be able to reveal their identities once our transmitting device connects the security footage to their fingerprints", Wyatt says.
Wyatt grabs an AK-47 out of the bag and starts scanning the fingerprints on it with his transmitting device, "this is one precious son of a bitch", Wyatt says, "and that should do it, the scanning is complete, Elias, check the scanning results on the computer, it should've gotten us our suspects' true identities".
Elias walks up to the computer and sees the identities, "they're Zane Orion and Emma Sophia", Elias says.
"Well, we've got them now, let's find them…", Wyatt says.