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On the dining room in the Tavern, there are a few Hunters who have gathered at a table, decide to take their breakfast and relax for the next 12 hours after they will have to face a second wave. At that table there are Hannah, known as the "Tamer of Birds", Mike, known as "Metal-Human", Louis, Navylian, Xander and Nami.
"Tough day, innit?" asks Mike to his teammates after they ordered their breakfast, most being scrambled eggs and coffee.
"You can say that." says Hannah to Mike. "Our team almost died, but thanks to Ray, we did it."
"Our Leader?" asks Axel who is a member of Team 1, where Ray is leading the team of Hunters. "Why he was going there?"
"He mostly got tired of staying in apposition after I left." says Navylian to the people at the table. "When I left to help my team, he probably left the restaurant and came to help you guys."
"And he did such a good job." says Hannah. "Do you know where he is?"
"Right now?" asks Navylian. "I don't know. He is probably checking the status of next wave."
"We are going to the same cities?" asks Louis to Navylian, his team leader.
"Yes. Nothing changed. You still are going to the same while I and him are taking care of other parts." says Navylian to the people at the table.
Soon, the breakfast came. It was delivered by a teenager who is working in there. He puts the plate of scrambled eggs at each table, together with the coffee everyone has ordered it. After he successfully did this, the waiter goes to another table, where Rose and Hannibal are staying there and order breakfast. These two are "close friends" to say.
"So." says Xander to the table happy. "My friend is banging the plant woman from Team 3."
"Aha." says most of the people at that table not really interested in this. Plus, most of them knew that these two lovebirds are dating for about three months.
"We know." responds Nami to Xander. "These two are dating for about three months if I am not mistaken."
"Yeap." responds Mike to Nami.
"Seriously?" asks Xander surprised. "How come I did not know about this?"
"No idea." says Mike eating the scrambled eggs, then he responds after he finished his chewing. "This fight was crazy, am I right?"
"Yeah, totally." says Louis to Mike, dressed in a bald old man skin, wearing some clothes who are characteristics to old people such as a shirt, a pair of brown trousers and a pair of leather shoes. "My teammates did some good job for their first campaign."
"Your teammates?" asks Navylian to Louis, a bit amused. "Kyle was on command. Not you. And yeah, they've done good for newbies."
"These two new members of yours," says Mike taking a sip from his coffee. "Are from Brighton?"
"Like everyone else from my team." says Navylian.
It is normal to have a member of Hunter Team stationed from a long distance away from the base. There are some people in England who are reserve members in continents such as Asia, Northern America and Africa. There is even one member who is working on British politics and on the night is going on duty in France as a member of Team 5.
"Did your team got a new reserve?" asks Navylian to Mike.
"They were." says Mike to Navylian. "But the said person resigned its application on the last moment before he was accepted. Don't know what pushed him to do that. He was ever excited to work with us."
"Really?" responds Nami to Mike. "Wow. We also had one like this. A few years ago, who also wanted to join our team. But instead joined other."
"Probably got a bit intimidated that the team is composed of mostly women." says Louis as a joke.
"Louis." says Nami to Louis, throwing an anger look.
"Sorry." says Louis feeling a bit bad for joking.
"Carmen." says Xander to Navylian. "The girl from our team… Is she single?"
At this question, Hannah, Nami and Louis almost spat out their espresso from the cups. They never expected to hear a question like this from Xander. Although he is a teenager, he most of the time acts like a middle school bully when he is on fighting mode.
"Xander." says Navylian to him. "I would like for you to keep these questions for yourself, alright."
"She is." says Louis to Xander.
"Louis!" says Navylian throwing him a look, that makes Louis look in shocked at him. Then, he coughs to regulate his speech. "Louis. I would like for you to keep your mouth shut, okay? You may be superior to most of us at this table in terms of experience, but that doesn't make you to be a higher up. Okay? Now, mind your business unless I tell this to Carmen."
"Sure, Boss… That was a joke."
Then, someone enters the tavern. Those someone is a group of high schoolers, who are looking like your average thugs who can be spotted on the dirty streets of England capital, with knives and everything to use it to rob innocent looking people. They entered the Tavern like it is their house, and walk to their table, which is the one where Rosa and Hannibal are sitting.
"This is our table. Now get out of here, wanker." says the thug to Hannibal and Rosa, who were having their breakfast.
"There are a lot of tables available." says Hannibal, not looking at the group of five high school thugs.
"Yeah. But we want this table. So, get the fuck out of here." says the hooligan leader to Hannibal who is not turning back.
These school thugs don't see that this Tavern has personnel who are not exactly full or half human. They see humans, but these individuals are using some kind of camouflage to make them look human enough. But the ones at the other table, Nami, Navylian, Hannah, Mike and Xander don't need this kind of trick because their appearance makes them human. Hannibal and Rosa are also human. Louis being the only human who is not visible on this tavern. But he got it covered in this fake human skin he is wearing to make himself look human to people from the First Dimension.
The leader thug, feeling pissed off, he decides to throw a punch to the back side of Hannibal. but Hannibal, sensed this and catches the punch who was coming to him. He then gets off from the table, twist the fist of the hooligan, and hold it for a few seconds. The hooligan as he is having his arm twisted, and bones cracking, he yells the words to let him go, but Hannibal, seeing two hooligans coming at him, he uses the leader, throws to a thug and then he punches the other one. That punch was hard enough to the face, it made the person fall on the ground, in a knockout state.
The other two thugs, seeing Hannibal taking down three people by himself, they decide to leave this place, leaving the three hurt friends of theirs on the floor, where the owner of the Tavern is immediately escorting them out of this place. He ignores their begging to let him stay or kick out the dude from the tavern, but the Owner doesn't have any of that, he threw the thugs outside. After he has done this, he goes over to Mike.
"Thank you, boy." says the Owner to Mike. "These fuckers always come here to cause problems."
"Don't worry about it." says Mike to the Owner. "They were pissing me off my breakfast."
The Owner leaves, letting these two Hunters at the table savour their breakfast.
"You are good." compliments Rosa.
"This was nothing." says Mike feeling a little full of himself.
The two people continue their breakfast, having some small chat about the battle they've had on this night with the zombies, both of them praising their own techniques they've used to kill the zombies and also talking a bit about some popular TV shows because these two are still teenagers. Most teenagers are watching TV shows rather than reading a book or a comic book because this is something social media encourages, or they wanted to see something rather than read it and imagine the scenery on their head by themselves.
After a while, Xander and Joshua are leaving their table, walking upstairs toward their room. They wanted to have a nap before the next wave will commence. As they are walking to their room, the two people observe how a hunter gets out of a room, and walks toward the dinner place. The hunter who has left the room is a girl, blonde hair, with a ponytail, wearing normal looking clothes for human individuals from the first dimension, a round face and blue eyes. The hunter seems to be older than the two hunters who are on the hallway.
"You two are newbies?" asks the hunter with the blonde ponytail.
"He is." says Xander to the ponytail hunter pointing at Joshua. "And you are?"
"I am Nami. Team 3. What's your name big guy?" she asks with a smirk as she is looking at the muscles of Xander.
"Xander." says the individual who looks like a body builder. "Team 2. And my friend here is Joshua. Also member of Team 2."
"Hm…" says the girl taking a quick peek at Xander pants, then she looks at its face. "Would you like to accompany me to the bar?"
"…Sure." says Xander who almost did not get the fact that this person is trying to get a hit on Xander.
"Imma leave it to you, big guy." says Joshua going forward toward his room. "I am getting tired anyway."
Joshua walks to his room, not minding the two people who are starting to flirt each other and probably are going to end in a bed in few hours. Joshua walks a few more meters, then he arrives in front of the door where his room is reserved, first he knocks to door to be sure nobody is there, but when he knocked a voice from inside the room told him.
"Who's it?!"
"Hannibal?" asks Joshua. "Are you there?"
"No." says Hannibal from inside the room.
"You are masturbating?" asks Joshua.
"No…" says Hannibal cleaning the mess he made in the room and throwing the tissues into the bathroom toilet.
Joshua knows Hannibal has masturbated into the room. This guy has a great smelling track with it can be considered a blessing to such a fighter like him, but it can also be a curse for moments like these. He decides to go back to the dinning room, to spend sometimes either looking on some old magazines from there at a table, or just wondering what he can do into this city.