Chapter 3 | Extermination

He observes as she exits the white van. He clenches his teeth and proceeds to descend from the building he was siting on. All the little kids are dragged inside an abandoned building. It has cracks and has moss growing on it. There are two guards on the front door and two others on the roof. Shadow pulls out his akimbo silenced weapons and aims at both man on top of the roof.

" Argh!" Both man scream almost simultaneously as SHADOW pulls the trigger.

Clean shot. One shot on the head and the other on the chest aimed straight to the heart. Before dying, the body of the one who got shot on the chest collapses and falls from the roof to the ground. The impact makes a noise causing the two guards on the front to set their eyes on the corpse. Both of the thugs pull out their guns in panic. One of them takes a couple steps forward into the darkness.

"Open the lights" he screams

After taking a few seconds to flick on the lights, only a body is present on the floor. The body has multiple scars and cut wounds. It lays there as a small pool of blood forms underneath.

Upon seeing this, the other guy attempts to run away.

"H-h-hel...." he attempts to scream

His mouth is covered by a hand and his neck gets slashed destroying his vocal cords. Blood gets sprayed on the wall leaving stains. Shadow lets go of the body as it collapses on the floor. He then proceeds to drag all the bodies into an alley.

He goes back to the front and snaps his finger. All of the blood stains dissipate into thin air leaving no trace.

From a small window, he takes a quick look into the building. 1,2,3,4..... 25 people on the entrance. This is a no-go. Obviously for a non-human like Shadow, this wasn't a problem. Matter a fact, Shadow only sees these beings as just annoying pest. He could get rid of them however he want but, if he were to cause too much of a commotion, there was a possibility that the objective would escape along with the thug leader so he didn't want to take any chances. He walks around and finds the electric box. One guy is guarding. Clean shot on the leg and another on the eye towards the brain. He then pulls the lever and shuts down all the lights in the building. With a flick of a wrist, Shadow magically shuts all the doors and creates a red toned force field around the thug outpost.

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// Thug 2's POV //

"What the f*ck?! Why are the lights off?"

"I don't know"

I pull out a flashlight and a lighter I use to smoke to light up the place.

"You five, go check on Daniel. He's outside near the electrical box"

"Yes sir!" they reply obediently

Few minutes pass by but the electricity is still gone.

"Where are those rascals? They should be done by now."

"Boss look over there!" I scream as I point towards a doorway.

Flashlights are getting pointed towards a black suited man. The intruder has so much blood stains on him that it's questionable if he was a living being. Blood is dripping from his clothes as he steps forward. He smiles as he holds his bloody knife towards one of my colleagues. His psychopathic smile releases a murderous intent towards the gang making me along with my comrades to paralyzed out of fear. I scream:

"W-what do you want!! W-we got guns! We're gonna kill you!" barely keeping my composure.

"ha...hahah.. HahAHaAhaha!!!!!!" the man screams out of joy

"This crazy bastard. Shoot'em boys!"

Shots are fired. The sounds of gunshots resonate within the almost vacant building. We keep shooting as our view gets blocked by the smoke our guns are making. Few seconds later, we run out of bullets in our magazines. The smoke slowly clears out. The black suited man still stands without any visible scratches or any marks whatsoever. We tried to reload our guns as fast as we could but we weren't fast enough.

He rushes towards us holding both of his knifes in his hands. He aims perfectly at our lethal points killing 6 people around me. Only 14 is us remain. The ones still alive, including me, attempt to shoot him once more. The black figured entity dodges the bullets causing friendly fire. Two additional deaths are added, 12 are left.

"Sh*t!! What are you all doing?! Kill him!"

"Over here!"

All flashlights are pointed towards the same direction. The intruder leaps, avoiding the light directed on him and throws his knife making it land on a skull. Still in the airs, he grabs a hold of his weapon still deep into the dead person's brain. He then does a front flip and launches the body attached to his knife. It lands on two man and sends them flying. Pulling out his gun, he shoots both of them between their eyes. 9 still stand. He pulls out his knife from the dead body and starts dashing towards my direction.

"F*CK, F*CK, F*CK, F********CK!!!!!"

"Keep firing!!"

...

Steps are slowly making its appearance. Ten people are making their way downstairs. One person is surrounded by the other ten members. He looks more fancier than the others. He has multiple golden necklaces, has a few teeth made out of gold and a white tiger tattoo on his left shoulder.

"B-boss you finally came!! Looks like you're finally gonna d-"

Before he gets to spit out his remaining words, his bottom chin gets penetrated by a knife making it visible to see inside his mouth. I can feel a bit of blood on my lips as it got splatter everywhere.

"So you're the one making all this fuss" our boss says proudly.

"Man, kill him for me"

That psycho, upon hearing those words, can't help but smile to his fullest content as he runs our direction

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// *Normal 3rd person POV //

Moments pass and only two remain. It became so troubling that even the boss had to intervene.

*pant *pant

"Did we finally get him?"

"We probably did" the boss says as he tries to catch his breath.

Beside both of the man, a pile of dead bodies can be found all around them. So many corpses are on the ground that it created a huge pile. Blood stains are everywhere and the floor had basically been painted in red.

*rummage noises*

Suddenly, rummage can be felt within the humongous pyramid of bodies. At first, it was only a few jiggles here and there but as time progress the bodies started falling one by one.

"There's no f*cking way!!"

A hand submerges from the stack of dead corpses like from a zombie movie. The hand snaps its fingers and causes all the nearby dead bodies to explode creating a small rainfall of blood. Shadow smiles as he tilts his head under the bloody rain. Shadow has his appearance changed a bit. He has a set of horns and his fangs become more refined.

"Ah... it has been a while since I've let out some steam" he says with joy

One of the gangsters attempt to run. Shadow mimics the gesture of a gun with his hands and cause his prey to explode.

"BANG"

The last man standing, the boss, collapses as his eyes are filled with tears and snort comes out of his nostrils. He tries to crawl backwards but gets stopped by a wall.

"DEMON!!!!"

Shadow releases a short *sigh*

"You vermin always say that when you see my horns."

He takes a short pause

"Well... you aren't wrong" he says as he smiles

He cleanly slashes his head off causing blood to splatter on him. He then snaps his finger to get rid of all evidence. He stands up and starts to walk towards the stairs but, he immediately stops.

"Ah... I forgot to ask him where the briefcase was!"

-Chapter 3 end-