"Stop, you little thief!!!"
A greengrocer was yelling at a small girl, who had just stole some fruits from his stand. She's small and petite looking, with blonde hair tied into two ponytails, large green eyes, very pale skin with slight rosy cheeks and very red lips. She wore crucifix as earrings and necklaces, complete with a black dress, hand warmers and pink black stockings with combat boots, she looks like a goth.
And at that moment, she was running from the greengrocer. She skidded to a corner to a dead end. The greengrocer behind her.
"Now, I got you." The greengrocer growled.
Suddenly, hornets appeared out of nowhere and went after the greengrocer, who screamed and yelled, "Hornets!!!!!"
"Come on, Terra. Here!" Another girl grabbed the Gothic girl and ran. She's tall and Asian, with long brown hair tied into a plait that looks like a sting. She wore a loose fitting yellow blouse, white dress with a silt at one side revealing the knee length pants she wore over the dress with a pouch, and brown knee length boots.
"Hornet, what took you so long???" Terra scowled.
"Sorry. They just informed me about your situation." Hornet shrugged, dragging Terra with her.
"Where is he anyway?"
"The hideout."
As they left the market place, the place gotten quieter. The two girls headed for some abandoned warehouses. Not a lot of people go there so the organization they were in took refuge there but it wasn't simple for them, since they have to steal food all the time. They have to take turns doing it so that the people don't get suspicious.
They headed for the most shabbiest looking warehouse. It's whitewashed wall was heavily gratified by gangsters, but the windows are boarded up. The metal door is heavily shutted tight.
Hornet knocked the door hard and said, "Pyro???"
"He's out..." A voice replied. The door opened and a boy who looked slightly older than Hornet appeared. His skin is nicely tanned, his dark hair is shoulder length and his amber tilted eyes looked tired. There's also a deep cut near his cheek.
"Oh, it's you, Ray." Hornet went in, and so did Terra.
"Shhh...We are supposed to use our code names, remember???" Ray quickly shut the door and led the two girls into the warehouse.
"Sorry, Lupercalia."
"Don't call me that. I prefer Lupercus. Lupercalia is a dumb code name."
The warehouse is dark and piled with a lot of crates. But it's lit by a few naked bulbs to give a small friendly glow. There are some litters on the floor as well, but it suit its current inhabitants just fine.
"I still haven't finished cleaning up the hideout yet..." Ray said, throwing a few empty crisp packets into a large garbage bag at the corner. "Good thing you girls came back early."
"What happened to the others???" Hornet asked, tossing the garbages with agile speed.
"Sniper is out scouting the area, Inuestigandum is with him, and as you know, Pyro is out."
"Out where???" Terra asked.
"Say he was going to steal some cash." Ray said, sealing up the garbage bag and taking it outside.
"But we don't need money, do we???" Terra asked.
"Liquescere got a point." Ray nodded at her. "Hornet, why don't you steal some cash next time? With your hornets, they should be able to squeeze into some ATM machine slots and sweep out all the cash in it."
"Very funny, Lupercalus." Hornet said, sitting on a crate and playing with her plait. "Stealing food is much more better than money, don't you think?"
"Food is one thing, Hornet." Ray said. "But with money, we don't have to keep stealing food."
"Why don't you tell that to Pyro???" Hornet said. "He's the boss, after all."
"What's the commotion, people???"
Sniper and Inuestigandum had just came back. Sniper is as tall as Ray, only he is fair. His reddish brown hair is short and slightly messy. His grey eyes looked cold, but his face is friendly enough. He wore a short sleeved red jacket, black tight fitting sleeveless shirt, jeans with holes at the knees and brown combat boots. Inuestigandum had a slightly angular face, bright brown eyes and brown hair with red tips, and wore a faded green sweater, khaki pants and worn out trainers.
Hornet gave a scowl and said, "Money..."
"Ah...So that what's the commotion is all about." Sniper leap up from the landing where he was standing. Tracker just slid down from the ladder, looking expressionless.
"Lance, tell Ray that it is a bad to steal money..." Hornet said to Sniper.
"We've been through a thousand times before, Ray. No money stealing." Lance said, heading over to a crate and kicking the lid open. The crate is filled with food and drinks.
"Well, I had it." Ray snarled. "I mean, we only steal easy stuff like food, but why don't we steal cash as well???"
"Sheesh, you make it sound as though it's easy..." Inuestigandum said.
Ray gave a loud howl and sprouted fur which are as black like his hair, hands and feet became large paws with huge powerful claws and his head became a wolf's head, complete with a tail.
"Geesh. He's extremely cocky." Lance said, taking out a pair of pistols from his pouches.
"You're going???" Hornet said, wide-eyed.
Lance shrugged and said, "I can't just leave Ray alone. You have to know that a giant werewolf is bound to attract attention."
Hornet sighed and said, "I'll go. I could get my hornets to squeeze into the slots, I guess..."
"What about Pyro???" Terra asked.
"We will just have to tell him later." Inuestigandum said, shrugging. "Hopefully, he won't get mad at us for doing something rash."
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"Did anyone ordered a large New York Crust meat mania pizza and a small pure veggie pizza???" The delivery boy asked.
V.V. grabbed the pizzas and dropped a thirty dollar bill on the guy's outstretched hand and shut the door gently.
"OK. I move my queen horizontally to finish off your rook. Your turn." Lloyd said.
"Ah, no. I got no rooks left." Glenn moaned.
"Surrender?" Lloyd asked.
"Heck no." Glenn moved his bishop. "I ain't giving up. I still got my king."
"Right...And what can a king do??? Nothing except moving in squares..." Lloyd rolled his eyes. He then turned to V.V., who came in carrying the pizzas. "Anyway, V.V., did you order the correct pizzas I asked???"
"Yeah. New York crust meat mania for you and Glenn, and a small veggie one for me..." V.V. opened the box and took out a slice of pizza each for them both.
"Thanks. Anyway, checkmate." Lloyd moved his queen near Glenn's king.
"Ahhh, no I lost 7 times in a row now...." Glenn moaned as Lloyd flicked his king over.
"Stop moaning now. At least there's nothing to gamble this time." Lloyd reached for his pizza slice and bit into it. V.V. gave a small giggle as she bit into her pizza.
Glenn grabbed his pizza slice and turned on the NY News 1, grunting. Then he said, "V.V., give me some of the veggie slice as well to be on the safer side."
"OK." V.V. slapped a piece of veggie pizza stuffed full with greens, olives and mushrooms onto his plate as Jennifer Jenner, NY News 1 no. 1 news reporter popped out of the screen, reporting about some crime scenes.
"Seems like the supernatural are keeping things quiet..." Lloyd said, staring at the news, his half-eaten pizza in one hand.
"Maybe..." Glenn said, frowning.
Someone was peeping from outside the window. He was staring at V.V. with a pure look of intense hate and obsession. His hands are clenched into fists, trying to resist jumping in right now and ripping her apart.
"What are you doing here???"
He turned around to see Revarie staring at him with blood red eyes. His lips still have some blood, though.
"Just fed yourself up, have you?" The boy said, still looking at V.V. with that obsession look in his face. "You might want to wipe away that blood on your lips."
Revarie gave a low growl and said, "Why do you even bother coming back here?"
"I just want to confirm something." He said, jumping down from the window. "Let's just go."
Revarie dashed off, the boy followed with a calm expression.
V.V. who was inside, looked out of the window, feeling someone's eye on her, only to find no one.
"V.V., what's the matter?" Lloyd asked.
V.V. shook her head and shut the window, her face's an expression of worry.
**********
A night guard was whistling quietly through his teeth as he entered the security room with a cup of coffee in his hands. He scanned each of the screen before sitting down and gave a sigh. A hornet was buzzing right behind him. He looked startled and swiped at it with a newspaper.
"Shoo, go away, you hornet." He swiped at the hornet, which dodged smartly and sting his neck. "Ow!"
The hornet then flew out of the room as Terra approached the metal security gate and melted it into nothing. The alarm started to wail until Lance shot it, which cut the siren into half.
"You didn't have to come, you know." Lance said to Terra as she entered the bank.
"I wanted to. There's no way I'm gonna let you all have the fun. And Hornet can't break the metal security gate, and neither could you." She added to a large wolf standing right beside her, who gave a large growl. In response, she smacked his nose playfully.
"Hornet!!!!" She yelled until Lance slapped his hand onto her mouth.
"Shhh...You idiot...We're gonna get easily caught for this if you don't keep quiet..."
Hornet came down from a nearby stairs, her hornets buzzing behind her.
"How did it go???" Lance asked.
"An hour from now... The sleep sting doesn't last long." Hornet said, checking her watch, a cheap battered thing that she stole from a market. Although the strap had long since faded and the clock face's cracked, it tells the time perfectly.
"OK. Ray, Terra and I will go and snag some cash. You stay guard outside." Lance urged the huge wolf and Terra to follow him to the back of the bank. Hornet sat down on a nearby bench and sighed.
NOTE : Lupercus is the protector of sheep from wolves. Lupercalia is a popular feast in the third century that honoured the god Lupercus, which explains why Ray prefered to be call Lupercus; The acid girl, Terra - Liquescere means "to melt", which is in contrast to her ability; Inuestigandum means "to track".
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