As the man finished reading his target's information he went to another room in his apartment room and opened a safe big enough to fill up the size of a small bank.
As he opened it you could see different weapons, wooden stakes, wooden bullets, vervain grenades, metal knives covered in werewolf toxin and more.
He grabbed a pistol, a 9mm with a silencer that had wooden bullets laced with vervain, enough to stun but not to kill.
He grabbed it, closed the safes door, grabbed a coat and walked out like a cool anime character would with his cape flapping in the wind. Except, he didn't have glasses or a big smile.
He got on a plane the next morning headed to the northern continent. This world's name is Swara. It is separated by 4 oceans, each in an intermediate direction, called by the direction they are in.
So, the man who was hunting Alicia was currently flying on a plane, somewhere in the middle of the north east and north west ocean.
There are 5 continents, one for each cardinal direction, named as such and one central continent in well, the center. Marcellus and Alicia currently live in the northern continent, where this man has just landed.
It has now been a week since the man has landed and he has been following the target, learning more about her. Trying to find weaknesses, catch her alone, figure out her habits, ect. Well, otherwise known as stalking!!!
He has discovered a few noteworthy things. She seems to be staying with a human mother and son pair. If she has compelled them or convinced them, it is inconclusive.
She is almost never alone and when she is, it is never for more than 5 minutes give or take. She also seems to be going to a human school. She stayed after the school had let out, so he checked with administration and found out through his winning charm, good looks and the threat of a long, painful death, that she had joined a club.
He wasn't able to figure out what club, however it hardly mattered. The only problem was that she was always around that human boy, who the man learned was called Marcellus Mckinley.
His eyes narrowed because this boy brought unnecessary variables to the mission, however, it would seem that his only option was to knock him and her out together.
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Three months after the first day of training with Casstis….
Marcellus was walking home with Alicia, While they were joking around, they stopped at a garbage bin and tossed out their 'slushie' cups. Arthur didn't join them because he had something to do, and didn't have time.
"Why does Casstis always have to work us so hard anyway?" complained Marcellus with a sigh. They had been going to train with Casstis everyday for the last month now. Everyone has made decent progress, however, nobody more than Marcellus because he has a cheat.
His internal lightning, he can adapt faster and that, along with his perfect memory and increased brain speed, made him learn more and faster than everyone else.
"We can always quit y'know?" complained Alicia as well. However, she wasn't being serious, she liked fighting. Not as much as the two battle-maniacs–Casstis & Marcellus– but she finds it interesting nonetheless.
"Nah, but you can if you want to, I am finally better than you at something," joked Marcellus with a sly smile. "Can't beat you in literally anything else anyway" He sighed as he muttered.
These two have gotten more used to each other, so Alicia knows he is just messing around but, how can she, a princess, not retort.
"Oh, are you so sure that you can? We can find out right here right now!" Exclaimed Alicia as she jumped away from Marcellus with a wide grin.
"Sure I'm down, however, how about a bet?" asked Marcellus as he smiled slyly and got into his stance.
Alicia had a back stance, while Marcellus had a cat stance with his claws fully out. He doesn't normally do this but he can because he was alone with Alicia.
Alicia seeing him do that had a small grin as she did the same.
Just as they were about to run at each other, someone in a black cloak came from out of nowhere!!!
The figure took out a gun, a 9mm with a silencer, from his hood and pointed it at Alicia, who was still reacting to the sudden appearance of the attacker!
Marcellus, seeing this obviously didn't want this person to shoot Alicia so he tried to think of what he could do. Could he get there fast enough to stop the man? What would happen if he was too late?
Marcellus kept pushing his brain to figure out a way to stop him, but then realized something.
The world around him was moving in slow-motion. Or, was it that his reaction time was sped up enough to make it like this? Maybe from the adrenaline or dread from not being able to save Alicia.
Alicia hadn't even finished reacting, the man was still slowly drawing his pistol and Marcellus just watched all of this in relief.
You may think that his thought process would take a long time, however, all of this happened in the span of less than 1 second.
Marcellus then started jogging to the almost frozen man. He grabbed the gun from the man and hit him on the back of the head to knock him out. After that, time flowed like normal again for Marcellus.
Alicia just stood there with an imaginary question mark above her head as she saw Marcellus holding a gun and a cloaked figure on the ground.
"What just happened?" asked Alicia in confusion, unsure about the situation.
She was getting ready to fight Marcellus when all of a sudden, a man in a black cloak runs over here and aims a gun at her. Why was she the target? Was this one of her fathers enemies? So many questions, so little answers.