Story (III)
'Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
Playin' in the street gonna be a big man some day'
The theme song for We Will Rock You by Bohemian Rhapsody played loudly in the middle of a dinner and a man dug his phone from his pocket and pressed the green button on the screen as it shown with an unknown number that was listed as blocked ID. The man sighed as the screen came up to show darkness, and he excused himself from the table apologetically and went outside. Just as he got through the door, the camera moved left and when it stopped it showed a person in dark robes, sitting in a chair. His clothes were ripped and torn, and his body was dripping with blood, as by the puddle underneath him, but the darkness of the screen didn't capture the damage, even after a light was turned on in the room, directly over the person in the chair and the man holding his phone studied the person closely but didn't recognize anything under that hood.
Tsk Tsk Tsk. A short, pudgy man with a brand on the left side of his neck, and a long scar going down the left side of his face from his eye, around and down through his cheek to the bottom of the man's chin, and further down to the middle of his throat where it stopped as a thin, pointed end to the line.
"Now I am well aware of your line of work, and that's why you are going to do whatever I say or your brother here" the man went over to the hooded man and put a knife to his throat "dies"
"Hmmm, how about no" the man pressed end to the call and put his phone in his pocket, and he went back inside and swat at his table and said "now where were we" and then his phone rang again.
The man under the hood's head followed the pudgy, weak and puny human man in-front of him stood still in shock, and the hooded man's mouth turned into a smile. His eyes had been closed the entire time because all he needed to hear was the beating of the three men's hearts in the room that he was in, the smell of his own blood in the room, and the 'feeling' of the cuffs and ropes tying him down to the chair. His hood was ripped away as the man tore it back and punched him in the face, his healing was suppressed to make it actually look like he was in pain, but really he didn't feel anything: no pain, no emotions, and no regret as he killed the humans thinking that they were more powerful than him.
The pudgy man ordered them to get the man on the other line back on and when the man picked up the phone again there was still no recognition in his voice. Though the man in the hood could sense that it was faked he still smiled at the humans stupidity at the fact that the fact that they didn't sense the lies that spilled through the other person's voice to the screen.
"Who is that supposed to be now?" he said and the screen started to move up and down as the man on the other side motioned for his partners to come out of the restaurant that they had eaten lunch at and they were driving back to base before the pudgy man had started talking again after a furious outburst of shock and anger at the fact that the person that he was trying to blackmail, wasn't showing anything at all. Same as his prisoner strapped to a chair, his eyes closed, his hair a very light blond, but had been tainted red by his own blood, the streaks of silver at the ends dulled and tainted.
The man on the other side of the screen turned on his lights and drove through the crowd of cars quickly as he made his way back to base, the others needed to see what happened to people when they captured his brother and when he looked back at his friends in the backseat, looking at the screen that he had propped up on the phone holder in the middle of the car, but the camera of the screen was tilted so that the person only saw the man driving and not his friend's smiles as the pudgy man on in-front of the driver's tied up, angry brother that sat bleeding in the chair in-front of the screen.
All of the man driving's friends knew what his brother, who was tied up was capable of.
"Okay fine, you have my brother" the man on the other screen said as the pudgy man finished his speech about how he could 'sense' the other man's lies and that he was going to listen to him or his brother would die "now what do you want"
"I want information" the pudgy man said and the driver scoffed as he parked his car in the front of the organization that he was apart of, turned off his car, and got out before walking to the front.
"Okay I am going to be right back" the man on the other side of the screen said and covered the camera of his phone with his hand as he ran into his organization's front door, showed the head people his 'problem' slipped through the elevator, and got into the main department's office area where he called everyone to the conference room and set his phone in-front of his chair before sliding up on his phone screen with his unused hand, and the screen went from his phone to the TV on the wall in-front of him, and the man looked at his phone's camera as he uncovered it once again. Everyone was now seated and watching the screen, and then one person came in with two bowls, one was popcorn, and the other was small snacks: chips, candy bars, cheese sticks, etc. and the man crossed his arms as the people around him grabbed their snacks quickly and quietly and watched the screen in anticipation.
"You have no idea what I want" the pudgy man screeched and his two body-guards as well as the man tied to the chair winced as the loud noise pierced their ears, and then the body-guards moved up next to the pudgy man and the man tied to the chair opened his paws and sliced through his bonds before quickly grabbing on of the knives from each of the body-guards' belts, and then went back to sitting in the chair studying the blades with his hands.
"Never-mind, of coarse you wouldn't know what I want" the pudgy man said and his 'guards' looked back to see their prisoner in his chair still hanging his head like he had been earlier, and they turned back to the screen not even noticing that the man in the chair's bonds were cut through.
"Oh I can guess" the other man in his nice suit said "I'm guessing that you want information regarding my organization and money, for the 'promise' that you will return my brother, Shade, back unharmed.
Shade smiled as his brother used his name and the pudgy man looked back at Shade in shock.
"Really, you captured a person without even knowing their name, or what they did?" Shade's brother said mockingly "you must be really desperate to get something then, what is it tiny man, do you want recognition because your last mission caused you to fail and come crawling on your hands and knees in-front of your surperior for forgiveness and that you'll get something that'll make them prove your worth to them, or they'll kill you if you make another mistake.
The pudgy man stepped back, his face showing completely of shock and Shade's eyes opened. Their iris' not showing anything that was human, the eye was covered entirely by the silver sheen of the third eyelid covering the entire eye, and everyone in Shade's brothers' conference room gasped in shock as they saw Shade open his eyes for once.
"What was that?" the pudgy man said trying to look around the screen as if it would allow him to see the room, and Shade's brother just chuckled.
"Oh that's just the room full of people in the room with me watching in amusement as you guys talk your way to your deaths, oh and have you realized that Shade isn't in his chair anymore" Shade's brothers' words made the pudgy man look back to see that hid body guards' knives were in their own backs and they were on the ground, dead, and Shade wasn't in his chair any longer, and when the man looked back at the screen, he looked up and saw Shade hanging on the wall. His claws dug into the brick to allow him to stay there, and he screamed as Shade launched himself at the pudgy man that tortured him for information. Then there was a sharp crack, a bit of slurping sounds, and then Shade stepped into the camera's view and his third eyelid slid back as he wiped his bloody mouth.
Shade's fangs gleamed in the light and his eyes startled everyone in the room; they were wolf-like, animistic eyes that glowed in the darkness and Shade went back to the chair that he was tied to and his muscles rippled as he ripped the entire thing from the floor, but the chair was bolted to the ground and so the entire bottom ripped in half, making Shade frown at it and then jump on the two separate pieces and stay crouching there with perfect balance as his yellow eyes shown in the darkness.
The center of the pupils were a deep silver, the outside of the iris was yellow tinted, and the outside of the center of the pupil was a deep blood-red, and the silver sheet of Shade's third eyelid glowed from where it stay retreated at the corner of the eye, on the opposite side furthest from the nose.
"Hi brother" Shade said, his blood-stained fangs gleaming in the light, and his brother smiled on the other side of the camera, his entire conference room was staring at the screen in shock.
"I think that you've scared the hell out of my conference meeting" his brother said and Shade chuckled.
"Well it's your fault that you got them involved in this....mess" he said looking down at the bodies around him, his face-wounds had faded into a red color as Shade let his healing seal his cuts, and bring the swelling of his face down from all of the punches that he'd gotten for not talking "honestly I am a little sad to have to kill those two stronger humans that way, they would've given me a good fight." Shade's face was now healed completely, as was the red of his body, and everyone saw that despite his obvious animistic behavior, he was a strikingly beautiful man.
"Honestly I don't know how you turned down this power, this opportunity of being able to kill without being killed by others, for a woman" Shade said, his voice slightly disgusted, but his brother shrugged.
"You were the one that was bleeding out on that street to death, I had only gotten a single gun-shot to my thigh, whereas you were beaten, and bleeding from everywhere on your body. It riddled with bullet-holes, I was surprised to hear that you had survived the transformation that the people had done to save you when they injected you with that strange red liquid and then disappeared, with you, from that alleyway like ghosts"
"Well luckily for me, I survived the change, and I am now the most feared assassin in the world, so thanks brother, for not letting me die that day" Shade said his voice showing his gratitude, as well as his gleaming eyes and teeth as he smiled viciously.
"Is that an actual apology I hear?" Shade's brother said and Shade growled in annoyance before letting the knife that he had been holding slip into view.
"I will be in the America's in three days, and I suggest you be awaiting my return with your finest soldiers" he said and then his body rippled with power and a savage roar escaped from his lips as his arm went back and forth in under a second and the knife tore through the lens of the giant camera in-front of him, and the screen that it projected fizzed out into view, and Shade was already tearing through the rest of the compound, not caring about finding a way out at the moment, but just letting his blood-lust take over as he killed and drained all of the weak and quickly killed the strong humans in the compound.
Shade's brother pulled up the screen just before Shade had released the knife and he zoomed in on the shape of Shade's arm to see that three of the fingers were pointed to the right of the camera and the knife wasn't in that arm.
"Show-off" Shade's brother scoffed and turned off the screen and everyone quickly ran from the room and back to their stations, trying to shake off the image of Shade from with minds.
"Shade is going to be coming from the Atlantic, and we have three hours to figure out where he will hit land, and the rest of these two days to move everything that we have done to that area to try and kill him before he destroys our country" Shade's brother said to everyone as he moved through them, all of them frantically typing away at their computers and then a lady, one of their smartest on prediction, and most accurate stood and Shade's brother looked at her expectantly.
"I believe that he'd going to come for Washington DC because if anyone is going to tear apart, why not do it from killing the President and then moving down from there through the entire government system until nothing's left, and then they could either take control themselves, or kill the citizens with no one to tell them what to do, what to think, where to go, or what to believe" she said and Shade's brother was surprised.
"Good job Alyssa" Shade's brother said and then clapped his hands, making everyone in the room jump "now lets have the President call an American Emergency and move our entire military force to strategic positions all around Washington DC to keep Shade contained the best we can while we evacuate the eastern half of the country, and try to protect our government"
"Yes Sir!" everyone said and withing hours the state of Emergency was called for the entire country, the next hour the President called a meeting on camera and told everyone to start to go west to where it was safer as all of our military forces moved in on Washington DC and placed themselves all over the country in strategic places and stations over the next two days, and before this happened Alyssa asked Shade's brother a question.
"Why is Shade coming into this country?"
"He wants me to join him" Shade's brother said and three days later Shade came to shore, and literally walked onto the beach stalking forwards with deadliness and anticipation for the blood and destruction to come. And his brother was waiting there, right in front of him, and Shade extended his claws at his sides and took out his swords, and his brother did the same.
"Now, there is a way to save your country, and you know what that is" Shade said and smiled at his brother who stood in-front of him, both with identical swords out and at ready.
"Join me and I will spare your country of it's destruction...for now" Shade said and his brother got into a ready stance, and Shade growled in annoyance.
"No" Shade's brother said making Shade roar in rage, but stay where he was "I will not join your quest for world domination through violence and an insanity-driven blood lust." Then they both launched themselves at each other and the boom of a cannon was heard, and Shade was blasted backwards to the edge of the water as his brother stood straight once more and sheathed his weapons.
"I'll be waiting to end you once and for all once you get through our armies" he said and stepped backwards as another shot rang out, and Shade quickly sheathed his swords and caught the tank's mortar bullet just before it hit him, his muscles rippling in power and rage, and he tossed the thing aside as he stopped sliding and roared in rage before shooting forwards with unimaginable speed towards the tank shooting at him as it came forwards and into view.
So thanks for reading this short story and I am going to ask you...should I make a second part of this to sum up the story, or should I make this an entire book with both brothers' stories being told throughout it and then transitioning into now??
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