Chapter 19: CHAPTER 16
"Now." Raguel tightened his grip on the knife "we ought to talk."
In the blink of an eye he immediately shot forward like hawk tackling her to the ground. Instead of hitting the hard wooden floor they both fell into a dark shadow pool.
He quickly wrapped his left arm around her neck as held her left hand with his right hand keeping the knife at bay from his face or neck.
The shadow that had appeared and swallowed Raguel and the blonde girl. Quickly moved forward to the door and out of it.
The shadow it self quickly move to the small alleyway that was on the left side of the restaurant.
"Raaaargh!!"
In the inside of a alley a roar was let out at the same time The blonde girl was lunched out of the shadow pool.
She hit the ground back first, but in a instant with a quick roll she flip back up Standing on all fours like a cat ready to pounce.
Raguel jumped out off the pool with his sharp claw hands and his serrated forearm blades at his side ready to slice her in half right in the spot where she was standing.
Unfortunately his claws and blades found nothing but air, leaving him surprise. He was five feet away from her, it would have been quiet impossible for her to fully dodge the blow without getting a cut or slice.
Or so he had taught, he felt a sharp stinging sensation on his back run into a diagonal line that was follow by pain. He clenched his teeth together making them creak.
Before he could hit the ground, he turn around in mid air like an acrobat landing in all fours Now facing the girl who held her knife now stain with blood that drip onto the girl's hand as well as the ground barely staining her shoes and apparently this caught the girl's attention. Quickly she brought the knife close to her mouth at the same time, which she stuck her tongue out.
what happened next left raguel disgusted at the brat in front of him. She gave the knife one good to the blood soaked knife
"He he he." She chuckle as she lick her lips tasting every last bit of the metallic taste of the blood "Tasty! TASTY! TASTY BLOOD!"
Yell the girl in excitement as she narrow her eyes as her twisted smile began to appear, bit this time it was with excitement rather than the act of killing.
"Your blood! Is still the sweetest after many years!!" She said "I knew it was you! I knew it! i knew it! i knew it!" She leave the stance she was as she started to jump from side like an excited toddler who found it's new toy.
"What did you say?." Ask a strange Raguel with both brows raised up "and what the hell do you mean by 'after many years'?!
"Whaaaaaaat?" The girl tilted her head to the side as she stared at Raguel with a surprise expression. "You don't remember me? Really?!"
"The only thing I remember is you trying to stab an old man's throat."
"Hmmmmmm." She let out a small grunt. "Then let me give you a hint then." Her right hand went behind her and taking something hidden
"Here you go! Catch!." She yell as her hand made an upward throwing motion.
Whatever she had thrown at him cut the air with a small glimmer of light caused by the rain that wet both of them.
With a quick move of his left hand he grabbed the object out of the mid air.
He held the object right in front. Just like a film his head was hit with flashing images of his youth when he was just a small pup.
Specifically
The day he went to the festival and met a blonde little girl who had a affinity for blood. His eyes widen as he look back up looking at the blond girl with shock as his mouth open in surprise and realization.
He held a throwing knife. The same knife he had gifted it to the girl.
"T-Toga" he stammered "H-Himko T-Toga."
"YES!." She yell excitedly as she started once again to jump "THATS ME! YOUR FIRST FRIEND!! HIMIKO TOGAAAA!!." She happily begin to skip over to him with a toothy excited smile.
She was slow skipping in circles around Raguel examining every feature and detail he had in him, wether be his horn, the gauntlet bone claw hands.
She took every detail from top to bottom .
"Even after all these years." She said as she stop in front of Raguel "You haven't changed one bit."
"But you have." Spoke Raguel making eye contact with her. "And a lot."
"Indeed i have." She happily said as she smile and pressed her cheeks with her index fingers. "But am still as cute as always aren't I?."
"Define cute when you were trying to stab an old man's throat." He softly jab his index finger on her chest pushing her back
"Hey!." She frown by the sudden backlash Raguel gave her. "It's not like you! yourself haven't kill anyone." She gave a small frown accompanied with a small pout.
Raguel's had a small surprise yet mad face. Taken by the sudden playful backlash toga thrown out at him.
"Yeah i know." She said nodding her head slowly up and down "Your the shadow demon of Mosutafu. The one and only that leaves cut out, and mangle bodies behind as well as . . Soooo . . . Muuuch . .BLOOD!!"
"Besides." She shrugged "it was just a regular old man nothing bad would happ—."
The air whistle a deadly tune that stop at toga's throat. She felt something cold and sharp slightly pressed up on her throat, a brusque move and blood will flood freely.
"Something." Raguel spoke with a dead tone His expression show no emotion in the slightest but his orange eyes show otherwise. But what exactly?
Anger, rage, murder intent, bloodlust?
Maybe a combination of all together?
But what ever it was, it carried one good promised and That was her death by his own personal hands by the so call shadow demon.
And there was a reason on why he earn that tittle of demon as well as many others among his night visits.
"Real, reeeaaaal BAD will happen." His orange eyes maintain eye contact with her golden eyes leaving a message for her to understand.
Her once carefree and playfully murder attitude had vanished, leaving behind a slight shock expression as well as a small hint of fear behind her eyes which she tried to fight it off with the growing excitement that started to grow inside of her
"maybe not today not tomorrow, but it will happen sooner or later so . . ." He lean in forward getting in close face to face.
"You better thread lightly."
"Alright. . Alright." Toga said as a small smile appear on her face "i won't do anything to the old man i got the Message clear." She said as she lightly touched the serrated blade.
"Can you put that away?"
". . ."
"Please? "
The pressure that was on her neck had vanish leaving her to rub that area with her right hand still feeling that sharp serrated edge the blade leaved behind.
"Thank you."
He said nothing he took a step back still facing toga who was now more cautious and calm but nevertheless had that small devilish smile on her
"You got some pretty nice sharp. . . Uhm . ." She saw the serrated blade sunk inside of Raguel's forearm disappearing inside, almost if his black shadow skin was eating it away.
"Knife? Blade?" She said as she tried to guess the object that had been placed at her throat.
"Go home toga." Raguel spoke as turn back around walking to the end of the alley directing himself back to naito's shop.
"Booriiiing." She said as she follow behind taking big steps playfully. "There's nothing fun to do at home. Besides i live in a rented apartment with two friends."
Raguel turn around with a brow raised.
"What? Don't think that just because i go crazy for blood, doesn't mean i can be reasonable. Alright?." She too gave him a raised brow.
"And how well is your relationship with your 'TWO' friends."
She put her index finger on her chin as she tilted her head to the side. "Well . . . To begin with, twice is a bit crazy but still sane and always argues with his other self which is a clone of himself created by his quirk, which both end up brawling for who is at command."
"Then there's dabi who . . . . Really doesn't talk that much as he's always busy smoking a cigarette or he's watching TV quietly without making any sound or gesture." She lean in forward with both eyebrows raised as she began to whispered
"I sometimes think that he's way way way more crazy than i am. As he murmurs to himself as he watches the Hero news, especially when a red head man appears on the TV news."
"Sounds like fun." Raguel said sarcastically, but unfortunately it back fired on him as toga smile as she let a small squeal like an excited toddler
"DOESN'T IT DOU?!." She said as her eyes open in overflowing excitement "ITS QUITE FUN!"
Raguel's left eye began to twitch from the carefree attitude that toga had once again showing Raguel that toga had no worries.
Well except for the affinity that is
"Except the part were we have to get money to pay for the food or other things. Which is soooo GOD DAMN HARD!!."
"Things aren't easy to get in life." Spoke Raguel as he crossed his arms "you have to work for them, that's how life works."
"I know! And that is why i came to you! As to ask you for employment!!."
". . . ."
". . ."
". ."
"What."
Raguel stood the speechless and flabbergasted. Either he was deaf or quite couldn't comprehend what toga had said. But toga happily repeat her words once again
"Yeah employment" she repeated once again "you've been working with two individuals lately haven't you?."
"How do you-
"Easy." She wore a smug on her face "Internet. Specifically YouTube."
Well
Seems like the effort of his labor had work. But had call the attention of the wrong individual which was standing right in front of him.
"AAAAnd i come here to join your group." Sha said bringing her two closed hands up to her chin as she gave a cheerful smile.
Well another yet impactful moment that leave Raguel speechless. But quickly shake it off as his expression became hardened leaving no space for other emotion or expression to slip in.
"Why?" He ask
"Why is it that you want to join."
"Well isn't it obvious." She lean forward as a small grin began to appear at the side of her mouth. "Your trying to leave or send a message aren't you?."
He grunted in response
"Which i ." She lean in forward, getting closed face to face "want to help deliver."
"Why?." He ask
"Because i too believe that this society needs a change." She said as her face was a few centimeters away from his, almost to the point were both of their lips almost meet each other.
"Sooo." She whispered looking at Raguel with predatory yet seductive eyes. "How about it?."
Both stood there in silence looking at each other.
Raguel would have declined immediately at toga's offer, of her joining him. But reconsider it as if it wasn't for gentle criminal and la brava, his debut as the monster wouldn't have caused any impact on the public.
As well as sending a message to the future generation of heroes.
If only handful of folks that are in the same page as him were to join him, they could make things easier
Or
Worse.
It could begin a war second war that could fractured the system. There could be a second All For One if that ever happened again
His only wish was to tear apart and expose the facade that the hero society had made the flaws and mistakes it had done along its rising years to the top.
And now he surely made up his mind and with that he gave his answer
"Your in."
"YYAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!" She pull backwards no longer face to face with Raguel as she extended her arms up in the air and she prepare to celebrate.
But couldn't
As she was stop by Raguel as he spoke
"Under conditions that is."
"Whaaaaaaaaaat?! why?!."
"Either you take it or leave it." It was Raguel's dead emotionless tone that seized her childish protest.
She crossed her arms and look to the concrete floor of the alley as she puffed up her cheeks with a saddened expression.
"Fine." She said
"Then we ought to talk tomorrow in the morning."
And with that all was set to go in motion for his next plan.
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TIME: 8:00pm
LOCATION: unknown
Sometimes we as humans pursuit knowledge of the unknown, were it fascinates us to the point of were we become obsessed with.
As to replicate it the same way it look.
An uncanny yet morbid obsession. That pushes the human being to either create something beautiful
Or
Monstrous
Darkness engulf the room, art the exception of a bright panel lights that came into diferente shapes, from circles to rectangles to a medium size screen and inside the screen lay four green boxes each one containing a constant beating green line. It was None other than heart beat sensor's monitoring as well as control panel that check a slow yet constant beating life of four individuals.
The sound of the monitor was accompanied by the sounds of animalistic howling and screeching that either got louder or quieter as seconds pass by.
On the left side of the panel four huge wires split into multiple ones, each one of them connected to four huge cylindrical veils. Each one containing a deep color purple liquid like substance.
bubbles as well as the color of the liquid block anyone to see what was inside the four huge veils. Except for the shape of humanoid figures Who lay there dormant, each one connected with tubes around their torso arms and legs. Slightly twitching by their involuntary muscle movement as well as the tubes that was pumping something inside them.
As that happened, a short height man wearing a white coat that perhaps suggested that he was a doctor
Or so people thought
He stood there, in front of the huge veils showing no sign no sign of emotion other than a warm smile and pride.
Pride as he look at the humanoids inside of the veil.
Proud of the work he had done
Proud of his creations.
"Without the many errors, mistakes and trials."
He moved his left hand forward placing it softly on the huge veil glass that tower over him.
"My research wouldn't have come this far." The man took his hand off of it " Now it only needs more time for them to be ready."
~"The times is ticking father."~
A female like whispered echoed around the room, as the howling and screeching continued
The short man turn his head to where the voice had come from Now starring at the dark obscure corner. At first glance nothing seem to be out of the ordinary but a person like him was able to detect the presence hidden within the dark corner.
Only one thing was visible
A bright purple eye shining in the darkness as it starred back down at the short man.
The short man let out a sight as he fully turn to face the corner with a semi tired yet happy expression.
"How many times do i have to tell you to stop doing that." He spoke, talking to the eye. "It's already. Getting to annoying."
The darkness itself began to morph into a humanoid shape, that slowly but surely enough became more detailed as it came out of the darkness Taking the shape of what seemed to be a female figure.
Stepping out of the darkness onto the metal floor and with each step it made, the figure reveal herself.
She was taller than the doctor himself towering over him. by seven foot tall. The outline of her body on her torso was cover by a worn coat with torn off sleeves from her elbow down, while for her waist below she wore a pair of that were torn at the knees leaving strips of fabric to dangle free
While for the features of her head look human enough as she seem to have short hair that ended in pointy ends almost like needles . the left side of her face was totally cover by a pice of her hair that went diagonally.
The darkness that engulfed her hide all other features she had, masking every part of her under the darkness that the room provided because of the poor lightning there was
"Having a sense of humor wouldn't be bad." She said boringly as she look to the large veils.
"Are they finished yet."
"No not yet." He said as he turn back and walk over to the wall were the unholy howling and the animalistic screeching came from. Showing no sense of emotion as he took each step getting closer and closer even when he heard or felt the vibration of violent thumping
"But sooner or later they will be. They just need a little bit more of refinement."
"What are masters thoughts about them?."
"Well he thinks of them as a . . Potential waste of time. Yet wastes it on his apprentice, shigaraki. His soon to be heir to the throne." Speak the old man sarcastically "Which is quite thoughtful of him to let the kid prove himself by creating a weapon that could stand against the 'SYMBOL OF PEACE'"
He brought his left hand forward pressing his fingers on a small bump protruding out of the wall itself
"Even do i am the brains behind it all as well as master."
"The brat is full of himself." She Sneer as she crossed her arms "always screaming and yelling whenever he pleases and when things don't go the way he wants them." she unfolded her right arm
"I sometimes think. . . ."
Whit a quick flick of her wrist and the sound of scissors being open. Long curved blade like hooks jutted out where her finger nails were
"He needs to be thought a long painful lesson."
The man turn his head to the side, looking at the female's direction.
"You best be speaking speaking that out of your so call 'sense of humor'." He pressed the bump, and with a small click the button disappear inside the black grey wall.
"But if you're serious, I hope that at least one part of your body is intact when the master is done with you giving you the lecture of not letting any harm fall upon the young apprentice."
With a mechanical sound of gears a large rectangular cavity reveal itself as it spit out a medium size control pane with few buttons as all were replaced by switches and levers.
"Je." She let out a chuckle with follow by a snort "come on I'm just kidding, I'm not really going to." She moved her gaze to direction of the atrocious howling and screeching were coming from.
"And what about him." She pointed her head towards the wall where the howling and screeching was coming from. "He's already been in there since morning with them."
The old man grimaced as his fingers moved rapidly, touching buttons on the panel. "He's still standing if you're wondering." the old man answered while he did his thing
"and the others." She still did not stop looking at the wall, even so the noise continued and became more macabre as if it were a music composed of screams of agony and animalistic rage.
"The others are in there with him, being . . . 'tested' so to speak." A not so loud and not so weak noise was heard against the wall at the same time as an inhuman piercing scream that resembled that of an animal giving its last breath before dying.
"Is master aware of him?." She ask as she maintained her head fixed in the same position, facing the direction of the sound
" No, not jet by now." His fingers move across the panel typing and touching each button. " But sooner or later he will be." He lay his hand on top of a lever
"Master would be pleased to meet him."
"Him?." She shoot a sarcastic raise eyebrow to where the sounds were coming from.
"Yes indeed."
And with that the lever was pull down. The wall that face the doctor started vibrate for three seconds, before a small white reddish line began to appear.
Slowly becoming becoming bigger as it turn into a rectangle shape fully opening itself to reveal a large rectangular red stain glass with smudges and god knowns what was the mush that was slowly falling to the ground
Leaving a red trail as it leave small lumps of itself behind.
"He may have personally seem the nomu that young shigaraki itself made." Both were now looking at the inside of the window, now the animalistic noises were becoming clearer and clearer for their ears.
their eyes followed dark figures with yellow eyes that were running in all fours fiercely toward one larger than them that towered above them.
they rushed towards the big figure with horrible screams and screeching that somewhat sounded a human as well as an animal.
Maybe because it was a big figure maybe the little ones thought it was slow and clumsy movements.
But rather to be a thought it was rather a instinct
like that of a predatory animal that followed its hunting & killer instincts when seeing the giant that was standing in front of them like a gigantic prey that they believed was defenseless.
to their misfortunes the figure was not as defenseless as they thought it was.
the small figure cloaked in black with yellow eyes open its lipless maw revealing its needle shape teeth's, with the help of its four claw hind legs.
It throw itself with a mighty leap, threatening to pounce upon the tall figure who remain solid like an statue.
The open maw of the creature were directed to the tall figure's face.
whos face had a canine animal skull as a face, with hollow eyes that only had a very deep darkness inside them that absorbed the little light that shone from the corners of the immense gray room where small but powerful reflectors hung from the ceiling trying to light up the room as much as possible.
The small creatures deadly teeth's were inches away from its objective, which was the front lobe of the tall figure.
But the bite itself never came down upon its target, as the jaw of the creature frantically snap open and close by a few inches of its target.
The smaller creature was suspended there held in mid air, as it throw its arms forward, missing by a couple of inches. Perhaps the cause of its sudden suspension on mid air was the work of whatever quirk the giant behemoth figure was using
But why would something like it use such a skill? its size and the muscles that surrounded its body could be enough to crush the small creature.
Or maybe we are not seeing it more closely. a wet sound was heard, which came from the chest of the small creature.
The giant with the face of a canine animal skull looked down at the chest of the small creature.
looking at four fleshy extensions like fingers without skin only muscle and a kind of metal protection that covered those extensions were embedded in the chest of the creature
"pathetic" came a deep voice that sounded more like the growl of an animal
With that and a screech of the small creature it explode into pieces turning into a mist of blood. what caused it was not a quirk, but rather his own force that the tentacles ejected. the same tentacles quickly retracted into his hand, each forming fingers covered in metallic armor at each joint.
The skull face giant turn around facing all the other creatures
To be exact, all the other inferior creatures who back away as what seem to be red pupils inside those dark hollow sockets of its skull face.
Skull face wanted to tear each one of them apart to see how strong were this creatures, as the other one didn't quite last
You could say he wanted to play with these new toys father had created.
"Sadistic fuck." She said with disgust as she narrow her eyes
"If the heroes ever defeat shigaraki's nomu, especially of the Hero #1 does it" spoke the doctor "then they have come a lot further then they should have, but then they haven't meet my glorious creation horrikan either."
The female figure look at the tall dark figure skull face now known as horrikan, mercilessly slaughter the small ones.
"Father don't you need a few of them?." She said looking at the smaller creatures "to help with the assault."
"Indeed we do." He said as he pressed a button that started some kind of intercom as the inside of the room were horrikan and the other creatures were was fill with the screech of the intercom as it turn on
~||"HORRRIKAN!"
He turn his body around facing not were the sound of the intercom cane but the window that was open, were the doctor was standing behind
~||"Make sure to leave some of them alive, just weed the strong out knock them out"
"WHAT ABOUT THE OTHERS?!•" he keept his bright red pupil gaze at the window, waiting in anticipation for his father's order.
~||"get rid of them"
And with that the being known as horrikan began its wicked fun.
"I don't get why horrikan has that creepy ass hyena skull and jaw as it's face."
"Personal decision that i really don't care." Said the doctor turning around now looking at the large huge veils with the bodies still twitching from time to time
"Aren't these the high ends you have been working on father?"
The doctor let out a small laugh at first but it sooner became a howl of laughter, this quite strange the female figure but nevertheless remained still as she saw the doctor come back to his senses.
"N-Now that's. . Ja ja . . A good joke there ja ja." The doctor regain stood up straight and firm "no they are not part of the high ends."
He look at them with a wicked yet prideful smile
"They are far more superior, but now they need time as well as some quirks. . And talking about quirks did you find the girl?."
"No father." She replied as she look down to the ground with a narrow disappointment eyes "she was gone the moment i got inside her cell, and the building was destroyed."
"Hmm someone has already beaten us to her?." He rubbed his chin with his left
"Sorry to disappoint you father." She kneel down hitting her fist against the metallic ground as she hung her head low in sign of submission "I'll accept any kind of punishment you'll give me."
"Stand up kage." Spoke the doctor "the mission was bound to fail either way, now we need to worry about something else." He said looking at the four huge vials
"We need more quirks."
He reach inside the pocket of his coat and took out what seem to be two printed photos.
"These are our new targets to gather the materials to finish the project."
She look up at the doctor holding the two photos
"Think of them like ingredients to make the perfect meal." Spoke the doctor as kage carefully examined "i hope you do well in this mission."
She held one picture up to her face with unexpressive eyes. "Father i can take on multiple targets and come out victorious." She lifted the other picture with her other hand laying her eyes on the other individual "but this one is to much to handle."
"Who?." The doctor ask rising a brow "gigantomachia? Do not worry about him your not taking on him alone. Am sending you with horrikan an as to handle, while the other."
He look at the other picture she was holding.
"Am pretty sure you can handle the number 9 hero known as the Dragon hero Ryuko Tatsuma, can you not?"
"Yes i can father but pairing me up with horrikan? You know how much of a psycho he is father." She said spatting the name
"Are you complaining kage?" The doctor look at her directly with both brows arched.
Kage shook her head quickly as she avoided his stare "no i am . . Not father."
"Good" he said as he turn back, once again facing the large vials that each one contain a body
"It is time to let our plans begin and set them moving." The doctor lay a hand once again on the glass
"Get yourself ready kage. Great moments are awaiting in our incoming future."
"Yes father." Kage said stepping backwards into the dark shadoy corner disappearing completely, leaving the doctor to look at his superior creations
God help the heroes if these are released and used by All for one
Because there won't be any hope to hold onto, but the sweat essence of death and it's reaper that will sow their pathetic lives and their heroism.
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