Chapter 20 - See You Soon : Part 1

The wind swirled around the leaves as the mercenary sped through them. He made a zig-zag move while running, avoiding the bullets that started to rain on him again after he distracted the helicopters a while ago.

Sweats ran through his forehead, mixing with his dried blood from the wound on his head, causing his hair to stick onto his face. He clicked his tongue when one of the bullets touched his black trench coat, making a hole at the end of the fabric.

Glaring at one of the helicopters, Kiaran took out two smoke bombs from his trench coat and threw one of them at the helicopter.

Falling for the same trick again, the helicopter lost control and bumped onto the two other helicopters as it did just a while ago. The criminal's deep blue eyes glinted in amusement before he continued his whole 'running away from the guards' thing.

The fallen leaves around his feet flew around as he skidded past them. The loud noise of footsteps still followed him and he did not even have to look to know that they were the persistent guards'.

His hand was still holding the last smoke bomb tightly as he ran. Kiaran could feel his mask suffocating him a little as he gasped for air. He had been running for too long now.

He stopped in his track when he saw a tall stone wall in front of him. He brought his black-gloved hand to his hair, brushing it to the back. He turned around and raised his hand. Sighing deeply, he let the smoke bomb go inside his sleeve.

He waited for a few seconds before the guards finally arrived. The loud footsteps stopped at the same time as all guns were pointed at him.

The mercenary smirked behind his mask. "You know, just because I don't kill, doesn't mean I can not hurt you."

He chuckled a little as he took his time. "It's a sad thing that my murderer is not here at the moment."

"Now you guys have to suffer and not die." He continued, playing with his word as his eyes met a guard with the same hair as him.

"I will make sure you wish my murderer was here." He kept looking at the identical hair guard with a glint of playfulness and danger, making the guard's hand tremble a little.

It was so fun to intimidate an enemy, Kiaran thought. Though, the lieutenant was the most fun to tease.

"Partially, it's your fault that he's not here." He darted, tapping one of his feet lazily. Guns were still aimed at him, no one dared to shoot, it was as if they were waiting for Kiaran to do something.

Despite the danger he was in, he could not help but think how dumb the guards were for wearing sunglasses in the middle of the night. What a fashion tragedy.

Also, don't get him started the black suits. What kind of pretentious action movie did they think they were in.

A faint roguish look glazed on his face before he took out the smoke bomb that was hidden in his sleeve and threw it in the air.

"Enjoy the taste of your own medicine." Before the smoke covered his whole body, he managed to salute the guards.

"Don't die!"

And all hell broke loose.

It was such a mess to see.

Except for the fact that they could not actually see anything because of the smoke that surrounded them.

Everything was happening so fast, everyone was shooting at where the mercenary was. The loud gunshots danced in between the smoke.

A flash of black clothing person appeared for a second at the edge of one of the guards' vision. The guard's blond hair waved to the left as he jumped to the person and tackled him to the ground.

The guard grinned when he realized he just caught the mercenary. "I got him!"

The mercenary's blue eyes widened, the white part of his eyes was red and full of water. The blond guard was holding his head down while covering his mouth. He tried to wriggle out of the guard's grip, desperately pleading to the man.

"The mercenary is just all talk, huh?" Another guard approached him, she raised her eyebrows, looking down at the mercenary.

"What do we do with him?" She asked again, messy brown hair fell down on her face, covering almost half of her sunglasses.

"Kill him on the spot." The blond guard that was holding the criminal answered. Smiling in triumph as he caught the mercenary's blue eyes.

"Alright, Lucas," The woman reloaded her gun and aimed it at the mercenary's forehead, nodding at her comrade as she went to pull the trigger. "Hold him down."

The blond guard nodded back at her. Lucas smirked as he let go of the mercenary's mouth and went to hold down both of his hands, mocking down the criminal.

The mercenary gasped for air, he choked as he wailed on the ground. "No, no, wait-"

Then a bullet went straight to his brain.

The blood from his head oozed to the ground, staining his black mask and messy black hair. Terrified blue eyes looking at the night sky, lifeless. He took a final gasp of air that night.

The woman put aside her brown locks to her ears. Putting her gun down, she rolled her eyes. "He is just a pretentious bastard."

Lucas stood up, he brushed his hands before kicking the mercenary's body. "Wait until the lieutenant heard how easy we killed him, it must have irritated him so much."

The woman guard sighed, she walked away from the body alongside the blond guard. "He betrayed us though."

"Well yeah, but still-" The blond man paused, looking back at the body one more time before diverting his gaze to her. "I would pay to watch the look on his face when he heard the news."

"In my opinion, the lieutenant is still the only one who's so close to taking the mercenary down." A guy suddenly chimed in between the two of them from behind.

The two guards looked at the person at the same time. The woman raised an eyebrow while the blond man tilted his head.

The black-haired guard shrugged as he continued. "I mean, he's always there right when the mercenary finished his job, right?"

Lucas gave him a disappointed look. "Newbie, you were trembling so hard when the mercenary spoke all highly."

The blond guard snarled as he pointed to himself and the people around him. "Are you saying we're not good enough? Cut the bullshit."

"You literally just saw that I killed him." She added, rolling her eyes as she walked away from the newbie. Lucas looked at him up and down before finally catching up to his comrade.

"...right." Blue eyes glinted behind the black glasses as the guard adjusted his clothes. "My bad."

Kiaran looked over to the corpse of the guard that had the same haired color as him, laying on the ground while wearing his outfit. He blew his bangs and fixed the sunglasses he was wearing.

He swiped his hand to the dead guard's clothes that he wore. He switched it earlier in between the smoke as he had written the dead guard's fate to die in his place.

Shivering to himself, he remembered how disgusting it was when he thrust the blue contact lens into the guard's eyes.

He was so sure that he accidentally gauged the guard's eyes out.

Thank god he did not actually do that. That would be too gross.

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Axel gaped at the sight of the house he was in. His blue eyes glimmered as he compared his house to this fancy replica house of his. He looked around and watched the old furniture that he only saw in the movie.

Kiaran left with Cain earlier. They told him that if he ever needed anything, he just needed to call them. He did not know where the two demons went, so he decided to explore around.

The bandage on the left side of his head went loose a little as he jogged around the corridor. His hand traced along the wall, comparing it to the wall in his world. Sometimes, he would glance at the fancy clothes he was given. He really felt like some kind of royalty wearing this thing.

He felt a lot better now. He could go back to his home after this.

The thought made Axel stop.

With a hand that still stayed on the wall, he looked around once more. Although this time, he did not intend to watch the furniture, he just let his mind wander. The boy stood on the horns of his own dilemma.

He remembered how the building he was in crumbled before he blacked out. The mirror crashed onto him, and he was almost ninety-nine percent sure nothing was left standing.

That meant his way out of this world crumbled too.

Axel sucked in a breath, biting his lips as a sudden stab of fear assaulted him. The panic raised in his throat, thoughts jumbled around his mind when he tried to calm down.

"You okay?"

Axel let out a totally manly scream and was not high-pitched at all as he snapped his head towards the voice owner. His hands automatically formed in a fighting pose before realizing that it was the demon version of Adreanna that was there.

"Oh, it's you." Axel cleared his voice and quickly straightened his body. "Sorry, I kind of lost in my thoughts." He smiled awkwardly as he looked at his pseudo-sister.

The older girl did not answer. She just stared at the human that went nervous as seconds passed. Adreanna's red eyes went over to the boy's hand. She noticed Axel's shaking hand and raised her eyebrows a little.

Her head tilted slowly as she examined Axel. She watched as Axel's breath went uncontrolled, blue eyes that she wished could turn red soon twitching a little. The boy literally went into a silent panic attack.

There was an achingly awkward silence that surrounded both of them.

"Uh," Adreanna opened her mouth, trying to think of a way to calm the boy and break the silence. "Can you... braid my hair?"

Axel blinked a couple of times at her. Blue eyes were at a loss as they met with the blood-red ones. "I'm sorry?"

"My hair is messy and I want you to fix it."

Axel tried so hard not to frown at Adreanna. He did not understand this demon version of her nor the human one that was supposed to be his sister.

He looked over her black braided hair that actually already looked neat enough and it just made him even more confused.

"Ah- right. Okay." He nodded anyway as he met her red eyes again. "Do you have any hair ties that I can use?"

Adreanna took some hair ties from her pocket and offered them to him. Axel's hand graced with hers for a mere second before taking all the hair ties from her.

Adreanna glanced at Axel's hand again. She nodded a little to herself when she noticed that his hands already stopped shaking. She felt warm when she knew that her brother was saved and calmed.

She liked the feeling.

"Follow me." She commanded as she walked ahead of Axel, who quickly trailed behind her to the balcony. Their footsteps echoed in the hall, being proof that Axel was alive and well with her.

She opened the door and let the breeze of the morning time brush her face, making her braided hair sway with the wind. She sat down on the floor, tucking her porcelain wings down, and patted the floor behind her, signaling Axel to come.

The boy quickly sat down behind her. He placed down the hair tied to the ground and brought his hand to the demon's hair. His eyes went over to the black wings for a second, admiring how the sun's light bounced off the porcelain feathers.

Axel took a deep breath before untying her braid little by little. His face became serious as his ocean eyes focused on the smooth black hair. The tip of his tongue came out of his mouth a little, staying like that as he finished untying everything.

He put his tongue back to his mouth when he managed to unbraid her hair and silently pat his own back. Adreanna's black locks went loose, dancing with the little breeze that surrounded the both of them.

Looking at the shining hair in front of him, Axel smiled. "You know, you look really pretty with your hair down."

Adreanna could feel her breath stop at the comment.

She could see Axel dying in her hand, staring at her with his red dying eyes, smiling within the blood that adorned his teeth. The demons were fighting in the background and everything was too loud.

"You know-" Axel coughed, blood oozing from his mouth. "-you look really pretty with your hair down."

Her porcelain wings flared up as she saw the image of her dying brother again. She took a wild gasp of air, trying to calm her rapidly beating heart.

With one hand holding Adreanna's hair, Axel used his other hand and put it on Adreanna's shoulder. "What's wrong? Did I- did I pull your hair too hard?"

Adreanna snapped out of her gaze and looked over to Axel with a heaving chest. She started to breathe slowly and lowered her wings as she saw the face of her alive brother.

She did not need to worry. Because her brother was alive and braiding her hair right now.

"I'm alright, just continue what you're doing." She managed to crook out before turning her back on Axel again. The boy hesitantly nodded and started to braid her hair.

"I should tell that to my sister when I get back, don't you think?" Axel spoke again. "She looks beautiful with her hair down." He finished his sentence and let the soft silence take over.

He was oblivious to how Adreanna tightened her jaw at his sentence.

She just needed to be patient before they became a family again.