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I was conducting a multi-billion ransom with the president of Britain. I held his daughter, Estelle hostage. She was not tied to a chair, no. That would be extreme. She's just a kid after all.

 'YOU VERMIN, MY FATHER IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UK' Estelle raged.

I almost summoned my dual swords and chopped her head off. Almost. 

'Listen, I'm not even tying you to a chair, be happy' I said as I wandered around her "Makeshift" hostage room. What? I'm not that cruel to do the stuff they do in the movies

Plus, if I do, her worth will be decreased by a thousand or so.

Estelle tried to punch me, but I spun around and kicked her thigh. She fell to the floor. But the thing was, she just grunted.

She thinks I want to torture her, and she  doesn't want to give the satisfaction  I thought.

I tried to help her up, but she smacked my hand away. I sighed

'I'm not trying to torture you' I said. She glared at me. Her glare was as scary as a puppy pouting that he didn't get a marshmallow.

Jack POV

'Ok, you have an underground lair and you don't know the brutes? I questioned. I mean, few people know their existence, but he has an UNDERGROUND LAIR for god's sake.

How do I know about them? Good question

FLASHBACK

I was 12 years old, my older brother would always leave our small apartment every night, I was very curious back then, and am still now. So I followed him through the dark, twisting roads at nightfall. He entered a building. 

I peeked through the windows and overheard a discussion. There were about 50 of them, sitting on chairs, near a giant oval table.With my brother in it.

'The Shadow Warrior is our friend. He will help us dominate the world.'

But my brother, said otherwise.

'How do we know this Shadow Warrior will actually help us?'

'YOU DARE DOUBT HIM' The leader bellowed in fury.

'No sir I ju-' My brother was cut off by another bellow of rage.

'Seize him!' The leader yelled.

My brother was seized by all of them.

'PUT HIM IN THE DUNGEONS' The leader roared. Three muscular men took him to a stair leading downstairs. He noticed my face and mouthed "Leave". The leader noticed this and screamed.

'CHASE HIM YOU FOOLS, CHASE HIM' 

I ran and just kept running. I could hear the pad of rapid footsteps and bellows of the men. I took a turn and ran forward. 

It was a dead end.

One of those men came forward with a bat and swung it at me.

I whimpered and covered my eyes in fear. But the strike didn't come.

I opened my eyes and saw the man with the bat sent sprawling through the air. I saw the fear in the men's eyes. 

A robed figure jumped over me and started chanting in a strange language. The dust around the figure started moving in a circle, forming a  mini cyclone. The robed figure then thrust his hand forward and the cyclone chased them away.

I finally found the courage to ask a question burning in my mind.

'W-Who a-are you' I asked.

The figure chuckled and said.

'I am your father, little jack'.

I gasped. 

My mom never talked about my dad. And yet here he was, a sorcerer? 

'Your brother died doing a noble cause' tears came from his eyes hidden beneath his cowl.

I was relived. I was afraid my elder brother was doing some evil stuff.

'When the time comes, I will tell you' He said ominously.

' I have notified your mom about this, NONE of this is your fault'

He slowly started to disappear.

'WAIT' I yelled.

He gave a friendly smile and vanished.

A day after that, my mom sent me to a boarding school. Were she said I would be "safe from bad people". Tears were streaming down her cheek. 

She kissed me on the forehead as a goodbye and gave me to the boarding school matron.

Even though I was sad, I knew my mom had a reason, she always had.

I smiled a sad smile and waved bye with tears flowing out like a river.

I made friends with Mark, Justin and Cassie.

When we became teens, we found out that our boarding school matron had stolen some valuables from other people. 

We used that as blackmail to make her let us go live with each other, as Mark was a nerd who know a lot of stuff to help us in the real world. 

The Boarding school matron funded for our house and bills until one of us got a job and we starting living together.

The others had different backstories with The Brutes. So I recounted the parts until the sorcerer left, so that the others could know about the strange incident.

'What if it's a random dude who just used some lights to make it look like magic or something?' Justin said.

'Yeah, I don't really believe in magic, no offense' Mark said

'None taken' I said. 'I was just telling you the entire story so you could help me figure stuff out.' 

'Even I don't think he's my dad, like he NEVER even visited once in his life, now he comes in the middle of this man trying to beat me. Then he's like I'M YOUR DAD KID!'

Everyone laughed because of the voice imitations I was using. I was the class clown in school, so I'm pretty funny. 

Suddenly a bright blue light exploded in front of us.

Oh another cliffhangar, what's gonna happen?

I'll update soon, as I just now got a stroke of inspiration

Kinda weird how I just said I was getting inspiration.

My prayers have been answered :)