Chapter 106 - Black Trails

Section Five 

Ghoul investigator Headquarters (GIH)

Thirtieth Floor

Barbra's Office 

Natasha drops the stack of photos on her desk, Barbra's eyes drift to it, it showed pictures of the black ghoul at Lorna's apartment exiting and entering.

"This Captain, is a mole in our midst, a conning snake that is secretly meeting with a physic killer," she said pissed, folding her arms.

Barbra took the photos one by one assessing the content seeing what she said was true.

"I had my suspicions on Lorna, surviving every black ghoul encounter, this captain is the reason the black ghoul is always a step ahead of us, it's all because of Lorna" she adds.

"I see," Barbra said squeezing the pictures in her hand, Natasha could feel her fury, thank God it wasn't directed at her, she smirks knowing she would get a promotion after uncovering a secret dark like this, in the means of downfall, it was a bonus for her.

Barbra raised her head to meet her eyes.

"Well done agent Bell" she began.

Natasha smirks proudly.

"I will make sure I handle this personally, so this stays between us" she adds.

Natasha frowns at her words.

"But why Captain? The rest deserves to know".

"They will agent Bell after I see to this myself, I'm I clear on that," she said sternly.

Natasha gulps hard.

"Yes, Captain" she answers.

"Good, now you may leave," she said.

With a nod, Natasha works out of the office pissed. Barbra picks up her phone dialing Chase's number, he picks.

"My office now!".

***

Outskirts of the City

The Silver-lining Manor

Sean was buried in research in his office, he searches for various answers on the net, but nothing came up as he expects, he sighs leaning back on his chair.

"We were one, one of the same body" he repeats Liam's words when they talked weeks ago, it sounded so familiar but he couldn't pinpoint where he heard it from.

"Where did I hear it from?" He said lost in thought.

Race walks into his office.

"Didn't I tell you to always knock?" Sean said with gritted teeth

"Oops sorry, just came to relay the message, the agency branch in California has been destroyed," Race said.

"Good, soon very soon we will concentrate on only the headquarters," Sean said darkly, he just couldn't wait.

"Hey what are you reading?" Race asked already going through Sean's laptop, Race was away from the invading type, it was in his nature.

"Dammit, Race doesn't touch that Laptop" Sean hissed.

"Pff... you are searching for contents stated 'We were one, one of the same body?" Race said in amusement facing him.

"Well you won't see it in here, its ancient history dude just like the one my grandma always tells me that ghouls have an ancient history, it's about our birth and origins, but its a lost history, few scraps were seen a long time and it talked about Lucas Carter, boss ancestor".

"And about the greater power having authority over us like a ghoul king and that he will be the key to unlocking our lost history before we joined civilization" Sean finished for him, he was also let in on the tail when he was growing up.

"Of course I heard that saying 'We were one of the same body' from Allen when he was making some research, it a term used long ago by the very first ghoul when he merged with the first Claw and then became the first Ghoul," Sean said, his eyes widening in realization.

"But the rest are smoke, the history of ghouls are lost we don't know our origins, we just know its stared with a Man merging bodies with a Claw and some said we were created" Race shrugs.

"I thought of that too but it was more of a theory," Sean said.

"It was Liam who said that exact words Race. 'We were one, one of the same body" he adds facing him.

"Wait you mean boss said that? But he grew up human right he has never heard of any tale from the elders growing up so how did he quote the same words" Race said disbelievingly.

"You are right Race it doesn't make any sense, Liam did say Ghost was acting strange and he's dreaming"

"Pff... I'm not so surprised in that case because Ghost literary talks, that is impossible"

"Yes," Sean said with a skeptical look.

"Everything about Ghost and Liam is impossible" he adds faintly.

"To sum it all, boss is the greater power, it explains it all" Race said with a shrug.

Sean wasn't satisfied with just that, there was something, something was strange and he knew it with every fiber of his bone, this wasn't just about Ghost being upgraded by Liam's father, this was something more.

"The internet knows nothing about our history, it's all about Jonathan Jones's foolish discovery, my grandma once told me the ghouls true info was documented thousands of years ago in a book, but it's lost through ages" Race said.

"A book? could we at least find it? it could explain everything" Sean said.

"And you think you're just the only one who has searched for it for an explanation, dude our history is still like a blank page, I'm sure anyone who might have found it would have said something" Race reasoned.

Sean nods knowing it was true. Everything about them was a lost history they didn't understand, that's why the humans will forever be scared of what they couldn't explain.

***

Section Five 

Ghoul investigator Headquarters (GIH)

Tenth Floor

Steve in his private lab documenting something, a smirk present on his lips, beside the book he wrote on his desk, there was a much older one, brown in color, writings, and markings not in human languages, on his other note he translated a page, he wrote the word down in English.

"White Claw," he said in amusement, it took years and now so close, everything was revealed before his eyes and he couldn't help but still be amazed, he was right to join the agency to be this close.

"Silver," he said a name feeling his fingers on a drawing from the ancient book, it was a Four Leaf Clover symbol in a mixture of black and white.