The police are on their way to Stellar Inc. when Erica was still brawling. "I'm ruined. Ruined!!!!!!"
As she got up, a man was right in front of her. She screamed and leapt backwards. His face is handsome but his dark eyes shows empty expression, but his dark hair is shoulder length and neatly straight cut . He, like Lloyd, also wears fully dark leather outfit, but his resembled a little like vampire's outfit. He was leaning against the opposite war with a boring expression on his face. He carried a long rapier at his side, giving him the look of a warrior.
"D-Darkmatter..." Erica gasped.
"So, I guess you're finished..." Dario said, staring at her. "So, what awaits you now is prison."
"W-Wait..." Erica stammered. "You don't understand... Those people who took V.V. are strong, especially the one with the blade..."
That seemed to have caught Dario's attention.
"What blade?" He asked.
"It's a long blade that look like a chopper without a handle." Erica said. "You should know that boy, he's from the S.D.S."
Dario looked surprised only for a moment. He then laughed and said,"So, he's here? Wonderful. That means we can act Scene 1."
As he was about to leave, Erica then shrieked, "You are not gonna leave me here, aren't you?!"
"You are not even in my script..." Dario then laughed and left. As he reached outside, the police had also arrived. As he entered his limosine and took off, the police went inside the building. He then told the driver. "Go to the Grand Central Park."
"What are you planning to do there, sir?" The driver asked.
"Oh, just to invite our guest." He answered casually.
**********
"Whew...." Lloyd said, throwing himself on his bed. "I'm exhausted. And we actually managed to do 3 slaying job in a day."
"Yup." Glenn said, staring at his watch. "I think I'm gonna skip school today. I need some relaxation."
V.V. just sat on a cushion and asked, "Relaxation?"
"Yep." Glenn said. "Since we really do deserve a break."
"Then, let's just go." Lloyd said, sitting up. "Since V.V. doesn't know anything much about the outside world."
"Yup." Glenn said. "I agree. We could also drag Mia with us-"
"No..." Lloyd cut in flatly. "There's no need for her to get involve."
Suddenly, there's a knock on the door and a voice that says, "Postman."
"I'll get it." Lloyd said. He came back few minutes later with a letter in his hands.
"What is it?" Glenn asked. Even V.V. was staring at the letter with curiousity.
Lloyd looked at the letter and read it out. It's pretty kind of short.
I owe you one for getting rid of Erica Giovanni of Stellar Inc. Why don't we meet at the Grand Central Park for a formal greeting? - Darkmatter.
Lloyd glanced at the others and said, "I sense a trap."
"Me too." Glenn said.
V.V. looked scared. She inhaled and started shaking. The other two, noticed, but chose not to say anything first. V.V. was originally going to be sold to Dario Darkmatter so there's probably a chance that he'll try to get her back.
"Should we go?" Glenn asked.
"I don't know." Lloyd frowned. "I have a few things to ask him personally."
"Then that means a yes?" Glenn asked.
Lloyd nodded and turned to V.V. who was staring at him with fear in her eyes. "Don't worry, he is not gonna get near you. At least, as long we are near you."
V.V. then run towards him and clung onto him tightly and whispered, "Thank you..."
**********
The Grand Central Park is actually a rather popular place for tourist attraction. The tourists are in the park, snapping photos and watching plays or else buying pretzels. The trio had dressed casually to avoid passerby stares. Lloyd had dressed in a plain grey sweater with long sleeves, cargo pants and brown combat boots for himself. Glenn had dressed himself in his Columbia sweater and V.V., well, she still wore the same gown that she wore, except now there's a six-petaled flower broach on her ribbon, something that Lloyd and Glenn gave her as a welcome to the group present.
Lloyd glanced around, carrying a large blade that he had wrapped in cloth to avoid the tourist looking at him. After all, danger never takes a vacation.
"You know," Glenn said, looking around Central Park. "It seems pretty normal to me."
"Don't slack off." Lloyd said. "Keep your eyes peeled." Suddenly, he glanced around. V.V. is not around here anymore. "Hey, where's V.V.?"
Glenn also look around. "Yeah, where IS she? She was right beside me a minute ago."
"Oh god..." Lloyd smacked his hand on his forehead and groaned. "Ok, you look there, and I'll look at the other end."
"Gotcha." Glenn ran towards the other end as Lloyd moaned and ran towards the opposite end.
*********
V.V. was sitting near the other fountain, staring at some pigeons near her feet. She had wandered around when the other two were talking, feeling eager to see more of the outside world, she first ran off to a stand, then towards a play, then here. She was staring at the sky. It's a really sunny day, perfect for picnicking or walking around the Central Park. But as far as she know, she was taught very little things and spent her time in that cell as long as she can remember. She wasn't even allowed to step foot out of her cell, but ever since she met Lloyd, Glenn a little later, for the first time, she started to learn many things in the outside world.
Suddenly, a shadow fell over her, and she looked up to see a tall, dark-haired, handsome young man standing right in front of her. She have never met him before, but somewhere in her brain, something is telling her that she seen him somewhere before.
"Hello..." He said. "Why are you alone?"
V.V. just blinked at him, then she got up, saying, "I'm not supposed to be here. I think I had better go back in case-"
But then the stranger grabbed her hand and said, "Wait, can you kill some time off with me?"
"Huh???" V.V. looked confused. So far, she know how to use simple sentences, but advanced type, she's working on it.
"As in, can you spend some time with me?" The stranger asked, staring at her in the eye.
"Um...Listen, I really think I should go. I just wandered around here through eagerness, so-"
"V.V., get away from him!!!!" Glenn yelled, taking out his gun.
That was when V.V. stared at Glenn, her expression still confused. The stranger, still holding her hand, said, "So you're V.V.? I didn't expect you to be this cute."
That was when Glenn hit him away from V.V. who looked a little scared. She was staring at Glenn who was holding the stranger down.
The stranger then said, "You must be Glenn Skyler, yes?"
"Don't think I don't know who you are, Dario Darkmatter." Glenn said, still pinning him down.
Dario tutted. "Touchy, aren't we? I never thought you were able to find me here."
"Yeah?" Glenn said. "You shouldn't have let yourself been seen by some passerby. But thanks to them, I was able to find you. Apparently, some old lady told me that she seen a cute girl heading towards the fountain and a handsome blonde man from some buisness company followed her shortly after she had headed towards the fountain."
That was when Dario kicked Glenn off him and said, "I'm surprised a Columbia student could find me out through descriptions." He then eyed at V.V. and said, "I'll be taking you back with me."
Suddenly, V.V. freaked out. Because she remembered, a sciencetist also said the same thing with her. That was when she screamed. "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" Without warning, her hair became a large sickle-like blade and nearly diced both Glenn and Dario.
"Aiyeeeee!!!!!" Glenn shrieked, rolling away from the sickle blade-like hair.
"So this is Erica's latest invention???" Dario said, staring at V.V.'s hair. "Impressive..."
"Glenn???" Lloyd said, running towards him. "What is it???"
"Where the hell have you been, Lloyd???" Glenn yelled. "That bastard Darkmatter is here!!!!!"
"Wonderful." Dario said, clapping his hands. "Looks like all the cast are in place."
Lloyd glanced at him and nearly had a heartattack. Because...What he's actually looking at is his own face, but it's wrong. The dark eyes that stares back at him are empty like pit black holes but there's a type of cruelness in them, and the expression is mocking, hiding the personality of a cold-hearted man.
"Why on earth do you look like me???" Lloyd gasped.
"Ho-hum...You still don't get it yet?" Dario asked.
"What do I don't get it?" Lloyd snapped as V.V. finally calmed down, her hair back to normal and she was sitting on the ground, still shaking in fear.
"How much do you remember about your past?" He asked rather casually.
"There's no need for you to know!!!" Lloyd removed the cloth from his blade and tried to dice Dario into half, only to be blocked by Dario's long rapier.
"You are still feisty as ever..." Dario said.
"I didn't even met you before." Lloyd said. "How do you even know so much about me????"
Glenn was aiming at Dario's back as the other two were talking, carefully, he pulled the trigger, only to find a tall hooded vampiric figure appeared in front of Dario's back and took the bullet.
"What the-" Glenn looked stunned. He lowered his gun. "Did I get him?"
The figure don't look like human. Maybe it's because of his blood red eyes and extremely pale skin that seems to glow. Or the fact that his nails are extremely long.
"ARGHHHHHH!!!!!" Glenn leapt backwards and shrieked, "VAMPIRE!!!!!!"
"It sure took you a long time to show up, Revarie."
The vampire wore a long dark flowy cloak with the hood firmly pulled up, the colour of the dark night, his clothes are even the same dark colour as his cloak. The bullet had pierced his chest, but the bullet was being pushed out of his body as he regenerate.
"Ow....That hurts...." He snarled staring at the wound. Glenn was gawping at him, his mouth wide open in shock. He glared at Glenn and said, "You are gonna pay for this..."
"Ummm...I did not mean to shoot you," Glenn said, lowering his gun. "But you were the one that-"
The vampire called Revarie charged after Glenn, who said, "Arghhh...I did not do anything WRONG!!!!!" He then ran off, but he is hiding a grin on his face.
V.V. was about to help Glenn when someone grabbed her. She turned around and saw a boy around her age holding her back. He wore a white beanie that almost cover his eyes, but V.V. could see that his face was not completely hidden by a strand of long fringe from in between his eyes reached uhtil his nose. His eyes are large but looked a little sunken, but they're a bright amber colour. He wore a normal cream coloured sweater with a hood and dark green shorts. In addition to that, he wore large sport shoes that looked pretty kind of big. But he seems pretty kind of strange.
"We shouldn't interfere in their fight." He said, pulling V.V. back. As he said that, he lead V.V. to a bench and sat beside her. "Do you want some pretzels?"
V.V. looked confused.
The boy smiled at her and said, "Be right back. I'll get us some pretzels."
As the boy left, Dario said, "Oh, he's here too."
"Who's here?" Lloyd asked, smashing his sword against Dario's rapier. "If you have been ringing allies, then I can't waste my time." He then hit with such powerful force that the rapier flew out of Dario's hand. It went flying to the sky and landed in the fields.
As Dario turned in surprise, Lloyd had already moved on to fight with the vampire known as Revarie only to be stopped by the boy who had came back, carrying two freshly hot baked pretzels in his hands.
"Get out of my way." Lloyd said. "I'm in a hurry."
"You shouldn't interfere with Revarie's fight." The boy said coolly. He then held out a pretzel to Lloyd. "Have a pretzel."
"No thank you." Lloyd snapped. "And you must be the other person that appeared. That's what he said."
"Yes indeed." The boy said. "But I have no interest in fighing with you. I'm just here to observe." He then pushed the pretzel to Lloyd's hand. "You need to chill." He then handed the pretzel to V.V. who was still sitting on the bench. "Here you go. This is a pretzel. It's a delicacy of Manhattan."
V.V. stared at it, unsure what to do until the boy said, "Go on. Try it. I didn't poison it, you know."
Lloyd stared at the pretzel and said, "What are you plotting?"
Glenn, running up to them was covered in dirt and suffering a few scratches, but otherwise looked fine. "Boy, that sure was exhausting."
"What happened to Revarie?" Dario asked the boy who was leaning against a lamp post. The boy stared at Glenn and gave a shrug.
"You wanna know one thing." Glenn said, waggling his fingers. "All I have to do is pull off his hood and wham!!! Note to yourself, never bring a vampire out in the sun."
"Don't worry." Dario said, staring at Lloyd and Glenn. "All we did was show them our greeting. That's it for Scene 1." He then headed towards a long black limosine. The driver had opened the door and Dario was getting in.
"Bye." The boy said, following him.
As the limosine left, Lloyd tossed the pretzel into the thrash and said, "Well, that was a really eventful day. Now, we got to- NO!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING???!!!!!"
He was staring at V.V. in shock, who was trying to get more pretzels from the stand by stealing. (She had her hair turned into a large hand to snag some pretzels.)
"No no no no no NO!!!!" Lloyd yelled. "Stealing is wrong!!!!"
V.V. just pouted until Glenn gave her a lollipop and she accepted it with joy. He stared at Lloyd and said, "Now what?"
Lloyd just stared at the sky and said,"Find out who Dario is and beat the crap out of him."
Glenn just sighed and said, "Here we go again..."
***********
SMASH!!!
Revarie was throwing a china piece on the floor with rage. He still can't believe it, he was outsmarted by a human. Even though Glenn was running away, he just shake him off his back, sneak up behind him, and pull down his hood. The boy was sitting on a bed, reading a book and saying, "Come on. It can't be that bad."
"Outsmarted by a human..." Revarie yelled. "Do you have any ideas how shameful it is????"
The boy shrugged and just went back to reading his book, pulling his beanie lower.
The door opened and Dario entered.
"Stop being such a whiner just because you were outsmarted." Dario said.
Revarie glared at him and said, "You know how much I hated the sunlight. Yet, you still drag me out."
"Hey, at least you managed to get back in one piece." Dario snapped.
The boy flipped a page and said, "So, now what?"
"We are gonna lay back for a while." Dario said. "After today's event, it's safer for us to lie low."
The boy nodded and said, "True."
They both then stared at the old grandfather clock which is slowly ticking away. Looks like this is just the beginning.
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