An unusual mission
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A few minutes later, on St. Ann's Well Garden, the two Hunters members of Team 4, Lucian and Kyle, are landing on the rooftop of a building that is located about twenty meters away from the location where the fire ghoul was spotted last time. The moment these two have arrived, they see the fire ghoul in the sky, flying at a low altitude. More specifically, to the altitude of a five-story building in London. The two hunters are looking down, and see how some people are looking scared at that thing. Some are recording it with their smartphones, while others are running away either to the nearest church to pray to God or to their homes to lock themselves up and be safe near their dear ones. But a beast like this, does not mean it is the end of humanity.
"The people have seen it." says Lucian to Kyle, who is preparing the crossbow with an arrow that has a device attached to the tip. "We are going to delete their memory?"
"Yes," says Kyle, finishing the loading of his arrow, "but for now, let's focus on the objective of our mission."
"What is the plan?"
"Simple," says Kyle, looking up to the fire ghoul that flies all around the place, looking after something, and not minding the presence of Kyle and Lucian. "You will try to possess the creature and tell me what it is looking after."
"What?" asks Lucian curios.
"Look here," he says, pointing to the people. "They do not seem to be attacked."
"…Yes. You are right."
It is written in a manual about hunting creatures from the second dimension that a fire ghoul usually comes to the first world to capture humans and eat them alive. But this fire ghoul did not kill anyone, or at least that was what the two hunters were seeing down the street. Lucian decides to fly toward the monster, classified as a fire ghoul.
The moment Lucian got close, the creature turned around, and it screamed at him with desperation.
"I lost my puppy!"
"Huh?" asked Lucian in mid-air to try to possess the fire ghoul.
"…Puppy?" asks Kyle after a few seconds when he heard the yelling of the fire ghoul.
"Have you seen my puppy?" asks the fire ghoul to Lucian, who can clearly see him. "Is it a dragon species? He is this tall." he shows him by a classic movement the height of the dragon he is looking for. It looks like it is the size of a dragon, the size of a baby. "He is green-blue-red, and has red eyes. Also, spikes all over his body, and green wings."
Lucian is looking over to Kyle for a moment, who is leaning his weapon down for a moment to let Lucian handle this thing. The ghost looks straight at the fire ghoul and he asks him about the documents he asks. The fire ghoul handles a few documents for him, but the ghost, not being able to catch them, descends to the ground, where Kyle is running quickly to catch them before they hit the ground or get to the hands of a human specimen from the first dimension.
Kyle quickly looks over the three documents that possess the identification of the individual from the second dimension, the approval to go to the first dimension (a thing that is rarely happening, only when an emergency strikes., and apparently, a pet lost in the first dimension is classified as an emergency) and the evidence that he is actually coming here to search for something. The teenager looks at the ghost who is flying closer to him, at about three feet away from him.
"It has all the documents."
"So, does it say the truth?" asks the ghost to Kyle.
"We have to contact the base to be sure," says Kyle to Lucian.
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Meanwhile, at about three streets away, Carmen and Louis are running after the baby dragon who is flying at a speed of ten marches. Louis, alone, would not be able to match the speed of the thing, but in that case it is also Carmen, who has mastered the use of the Vewolf legs.
The woman, having the body type of chubby person, is running at a speed that could even match the myth of the legend, Usain Bolt, on an Olympic run. Even if Carmen is fast, she can barely keep her distance from that dragon. The girl tries to yell at him to stop, which is ineffective. For obvious reasons.
Carmen and the dragon are running on York Avenue, then they take a turn to the left on Lansdowne Rd. dodging humans who were trying to mind their business, cars and also a coffee shop worker who was trying to serve coffee to a homosexual couple who had come here to take them for a vacation. After all, Brighton is seen as the "official" gay couple's town to have an amazing vacation. But leaving these weird fetishes of humans aside, the dragon takes a right turn and barges into the First Church of Christ Scientists.
The moment the dragon entered the inside of that Church, Carmen followed him, and she tried to catch him, but the humans were a pain in her ass. They were either running, screaming, or praying to God to forgive their sins. Kind ironic. But the damage was not big enough. Sure, the dragon did destroy a few pictures there and there, made a woman suffer cardiac arrest, and there was a man jump through a window. Even so, the bad thing was that Carmen was not able to catch the baby dragon, which managed to fly through the roof of the Church and fly to the direction where St. Ann's Well Garden.
"Damn it!" says Carmen.
A priest walks slower to Carmen, confused and in terror. A few other humans are walking to Carmen, wondering if she is a sign from God itself to make them become better humans and abandon their way of living. Some of them try to ask the girl with Vewolf legs something about her, but the woman uses a device that erases the memory of humans in a custom radius. The girl took it before she left the base because a device like this is a must. She selects the entire radius of Brighton, forgetting what they have done for a whole hour, the timer on five seconds, and she presses the button to start the device.
The girl lets the device down, and she tells the humans before she sprints from that Church to continue chasing the beast.
"Be good people."
The girl had left the church, and when she did that, a whole blinding light hit the entire population of Brighton city. The entire town had forgotten the things that had happened for an hour, including the dragon, the fire ghoul, and even what they had done the past hour. When the device has deliberated that blinding light, it disintegrates itself, leaving a small sign of dust.
The girl gets into a narrow alleyway where she cannot be seen by anyone, and she transforms back into a human. Her hairy Vewolf legs become human again, her normal pair of things. The girl looks at the store window, she observes she has got a small cut on her cheek. Probably from one of the small glasses that had fled from her direction when that chubby man jumped through the church window.
Carmen doesn't look too much at her image. When she hears the roars of a dragon, the girl quickly runs to the direction where it was heard. Running using her normal human body, rather than her half-Vewolf powers. Dodging the people who had gathered at the Church, and looking inside to see that disaster that was left by her, the dragon chased. Thankfully, the device Carmen has sued has also deleted any evidence about her and the dragon chase.
There were some videos because, nowadays, people are recording everything they see fascinating and uploading it to the internet to gain clout and some sort of popularity for a few minutes, then they are forgotten for an eternity. Even if they were recorded, who would believe them? Nowadays, almost everything is CGI. People would probably say things like "This is a movie shot!", "LMAO! So fake XD!" etc.
After five minutes of running, Carmen arrives at St. Ann's Well Garden, and there she sees an image that is making her happy and confused. The baby dragon is hugged by the fire ghoul. She wonders what is happening there, then, Kyle, who jumps down using the rooftops of the buildings, the cars, and even the boxes, comes closer to Carmen.
"This is a short story. The fire ghoul was searching for his pet."
"The baby dragon is his pet?" asks Carmen to Kyle, and looking kind of happy at the fire ghoul who is hugging the fire ghoul on the rooftop of a normal high structure.
"Her." says Kyle to Carmen, almost making her say: "I am sorry, what?". "The individual is a female."
"Aha. What is going to happen?"
"We will do a report on her, then we will send her back to the second dimension. No big deal. We will also have to delete everyone's memories for the entire day."
"I-I have deleted them for an hour." reveals Carmen to Kyle, who is making him turn around, a bit disappointed.
"Carmen," says Kyle. "Our code is to delete human memories when we confirm the capture or the elimination of the target."
"I u-understand. I am sorry."
Kyle sighs, he looks at the fire ghoul.
"Next time be more careful, alright?"
"Yes," says Carmen, feeling ashamed of her actions.