《The Dark Angel》


 Chapter-00 Prologue

    Inside a spacious and luxurious mansion, was a room decorated with great splendor. Outside this room, a large group of people had gathered. A young male paced relentlessly in front of the doors, his face was filled with anxiety and worry.


    He looked to be thirty years of age, and he gave off a majestic aura. Although he had aged a little, one could still see the handsome youth that he once was.


    He was wearing a gold lined silver chang pao, which added to his handsome appearance, and he was surrounded by an aura similar to that of a host. His face was resolute, even his eyebrows were knitted together, almost forming a single lump.


    Three meters outside of the room, a group of 30 people, ranging from young to old, were all lined up nervously. The elders of the group looked to be 60 to 70 years old already, with white hair all over their wrinkled faces.


    However, despite their age, their eyes could still make people shiver and quake in fear from the godly lights that flickered within. Judging by the glow from their eyes, the amount of fear they could inflict on others was so much that people wouldn¡¯t take them to be frail old men at all, but rather robust and healthy middle aged men with the strengths of a tiger and dragon combined.


    The rest of the men were all around 30 to 40 years old, with imposing aurasand eyes that revealed nothing. It was obvious with only one glance that this was not a group of normal people.


    And within the room in front of them, the sounds of a woman crying in pain could be heard.


    ¡°Madam, keep on pushing, the baby is almost out. I repeat, the baby is almost out¡­¡± An elderly but impatient voice could be heard through the pain-filled echoes. Those who could hear the voice could tell the owner of the voice was an elderly woman.


    Outside the room, the middle aged man who was anxiously pacing about, abruptly froze in place and spokewith a sense of urgency,


    ¡°tcht¡­this has been going on for anentire day and night already, how has Mei¡¯er not given birth? If this drags on for any longer, I¡¯m afraid even Yun¡¯er will face an unfavorable situation.¡± Even the man¡¯s voice was filled with never ending anxiety.


    ¡°My lord, please don¡¯t worry too much. Madam will definitely be fine. You forget that Madam is a Sixth Order Warrior ¡± A white haired elder spoke with a tone of confidence, but even his face could not hide the look of worry on it.


    The lord clad in a white chang pao began to sigh again repeatedly; the worry and anxiety on his face did not decrease even the slightest amount.


    Eventually, after the men outside had waited for two more hours, an excited voice came from within the room. ¡°My lord, my lord! Madam has given birth! She has given birth and is safe! And so is the boy but my lord madam is...!¡±


    the wariness in his face had been completely wiped out and replaced with an expression of joy and emotions. He was so emotionally moved that he couldn¡¯t find the right words to say, and blew open the doors so quickly that it was as if they didn¡¯t exist in the first place.Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author.


    His speed was almost inconceivable; no ordinary man could possess enough strength to pull off the same amount of speed he had just displayed.


    But upon entering the room his joy was quickly extenguished, and soon replace by rage and sheer killing entent. The woman had indeed delivered a baby boy, but at the cost of her own life.


    The mam screamed and in a flash of his sword painted the room red with the blood of all those present in the room, hearing the commotion the white haired elder arrived in the room only to be shocked speechless.


    Body parts laid broken everywhere, heads rolled aimlessly, blood dripped off every nook and cranny of the room. But the bed in which laid a pale sleeping beauty was spotless.


    In the middle of all this chaos a man kneeled in front of the bed, holding his sword in his left and the jade like hand of the beauty with his right.


    he was howling like wounded beast. tears streaming down his face, he was hurt, cut deeper then any blade could. This man was Di Haitan,patriarch of the Du family one of the pillars of the continent.


    Never in his dream would this old man thought he would witness this tragedy. after a few seconds the eyes of the old man spotted a small unmoving body.


    One small enough to me mistaken for a puppy, with wide eyes and fright the old men asked his master


    "Ma..aster please tell me you..didn''t k....ill the child?"


    With a savge beastly roar the man answered


    "Child that little devil killed my precious Mei''er he should not be allowed to live, he desereved only death."


    This moment was soon spread across the continent as the ''nightmare of Du'' and went down in history and forever cermented the name Du Haitan as a first classed monster in the eyes of the public.


    ~~~~~Immortal realm~~~~~~


    Sitting on a golden throne a handsome man dressed in a gold chang pao sighed as he looked in a basin of clear mirror like water. upon inspedting it further one could clearly see the actions taken by Du Haitan.


    "These stupid mortals never never cease to amaze me. Ths moron used the Heavenly pact then he broke it, briging missfortune on his clan now he took it out on a small newborn child,disstasteful. Well still my heart ache for the little one, he didnt deserve that."


    Sighing oce more he continued watching the actions of the unsuspecting humans. The more he watched the more furious he became, and finaly he couldn''t keep his calm.


    he stood up and with a booming voice he shouted


    "To Rin, come here now"


    in less the a few seconds a shadow flashed in the corner of the room and materialized into a man. The man was skinny and pale, almost as if he was a mummy.


    His name was To Rin, he was the oldest immortal aside from the Emperor, but he was a lazy old one. He only cared about one thing and one thing only and that was sleep.


    In order to whip him in shape the Emperor asigned him soul duty, like the name suggest he was the one in charge of monitoring the souls of the dead ones.


    he could send them trough the cycle of rebirth of downright torture them for eternity, everything was his call. But right now he knew that he was going to be asked to do something witch he didn''t want to do.


    "What old man, what do you want i was sleeping you know" To Rin


    "sigh i know danm it, anyway i want you to do me a favor. a baby just died n universe 76 i marked his soul so please send itl to the rebirth cycle and...:


    "snore...snore" To Rin


    "To Rin WAKE UP IDIOT" Emperor


    "What huh...yes dead baby... soul rebirth ...right ok on it " To Rin


    In a flash To Rin disapeared again, and after sighing the emperor sat sown is throne smilling. thinking about how this man never changed since their begining.


    soon To Rin came back with a grave expression on his face, he lloked as if a man had stolen his wife, and he could get her back at all, he was sick.


    the emperor looked confused but still he asked


    "what did you do?" Emperor


    "i...i..i... i did get a hang of his soul and yes it is intact. but there is a situation" To Rin


    "WHAT HAPPENED" EMPEROR


    "I accidently resurected him...here" To Rin


    Silence... the hall got so quiet you could hear the breath of those present it

 Prologue-00 prt 2

    After slip up caused by To Rin, the Heavenly Emperor had no choice but to accept the boy''s sudden reincarnation into the world of immortals.


    Though he accepeted him, he himself knew that this world was not suitable to raise a young, naive and immature child. And why you asked?


    Simply that a storm was brewing, and it will no doubt reach land soon, and when it does the repercussions it will bring will shake the very Heavens itself.


    You see the mortals who have ascended, were used to be at the very top f their world, and with that came endless pride, and putting one simply above all.


    Now they were glorified lapdogs of others, and didn''t sit well with their overly enflated egos. They wanted more, felt like they deserved more.


    And simply it didnt work like that, because those who ruled over them where born with all the power they wanted, they knew they were above all.


    And they had the means to back it up. that my friend caused frictions, the mortals were building an army which consited of all ascenders.


    They beleived with their combined and united strengh they would come out victorious in the end and ruled over the immortal realm itself.


    like the saying goes "a tiger that doesn''t growl will be mistaken for a sick cat" just because the immortals don''t parade their strengh around doesn''t mean that they aren''t ruthless.


    And their lies the problem, upon entry into the realm of the immortals, all ascend mortals had their memories scanned,duplicated, and stored into the heavenly vault.


    All of their life experiance are recorded. on the flip side they were all also imprinted with the heavenly soul mark which allows the emperor to what their thinking at all times.


    with a sigh the emperor looked at the sleeping baby and then to To Rin and said


    "Im sorry little guy but things will be tough for you, the best i can do is make the coming days as enjoyable as possible."


    "And you To Rin you will have to take responsible for this screw up as well and help me raise this kid"


    With a face full of terror To Rin answered with a booming voice, it was as if he was screaming at an army


    "What am i his mom"


    The emperor also lost his mind and equally screammed back


    "You''re the one who Fucked up"


    And as soon as he finished the baby woke and started crying, both men''s faces immediately paled, fatherhood was not their forte,.


    they desperately tried to calmed the crying baby, but to no avail. I took the little guy almost 20 minutes to stop crying as he cried himself to sleep.


    "So what do we call him?" To Rin


    "Well how about Shao long" Emperor


    "Whatever" To Rin


    Much to the demise of those two all powerfull immortals they life changed for the worse, in the next eions that passed they had to be both mommy and daddy to a young baby soul.


    To Rin was responsible for military, martial arts, alchemy, forging and talisman refinement training. The Heavenly emperor himslef was responsible to literature, seal refinement, cultivation, leadership and world cultures.


    Together they trained him to the best of their abilities, they also taught him to condence a soul vault a skill only taught to true immortals.


    While they viewed the boy as nothing but a curse and a blessing, othe immortals didn''t share their parenting emotions.


    They avoided the boy like a plague, despite his many attemps to befiend them. As for the other ascend mortals they all tried to use him to their bennefit.


    Being young and easily enfluenced, Shaolong though he had found himself some friends, he happily chatted and trained with them.


    He gave them some cultivation ressources, and going as far as even guiding them in martial arts. He was imerssed in this false delusion of friendship.


    And like predicted by the emperor the judgement day arrived in a typical morning, the ascend mortals launched an attack directed at the immortals in order to wipe them out.


    But unlike what they hoped for they were all captured and defeated without as much as hurting a hair on their heads. The emperor had already warned all the others.


    The laws of the heaven dictates that all who rebeled must be executed along with his or her clan, after sentencing them to death and before their execution date.


    The assemnbly of immortals was in session, in roder to prevent this from happening a second time, a vote must take place.


    They came up with a solution. thre rules were established


    1.No humans will ascend to the heavens, they will al be sent to a deserted and upstarting plane


    2.Amongs innocent the humans in the heavens tey will all be exiled to the said world


    3. All guilty parties will be executed and have their soul destroyed and will never be able to reincarnate.


    After the laws were passed the Emperor ordered Shao Long to pass judgement against those rebels. struck with disbeleif and sadness he begged.


    "Father please, please spare them... their my friends." Shaolong


    "Nonesense, Shaolong open your eyes. this is the price they must pay for their sins, besides the other immortals would not agree" Emperor


    "But father you are the Emperor surely you can do something." Shaolong


    "Snort.. true i am the emperor but do you think i alone can stand against the millions and billions of immortals. wake up have i thought you nothing? even an army of ants can kill an elephant if they work togather" EmperorIf you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    "But..." Shaolong


    "Silence child you will do as i say. if not you will be executed along with them so chose wisely and do not wear out my patience" Emperor


    immediate after being yelled at by his father Shaolong cowered away in fear, all his life he has been pampered and protected.


    He was given any and everything he wanted, his father and uncle showered him with love and care, and never had he been so severely chasities before.


    In a desperate attempt he looked over to his uncle To Rin sitting to the left side of the room in order to beg for help. but much to his surprise To Rin was looking at him with eyes of shame and disappointment.


    He had trained him he had raised him from the first level of Foundation Realm to the nineth level Immortal realm. he had braved all the brutal and difficult training he had to offer and yet he had let him down and acted like a coward.


    After realising that there was no hope for him Shaolong accepted his mission and fate. he must become an executioner to the very people he once called friends.


    And after killing them he shall be exiled to an unknown plane alone, no father no uncle, no nothing. That was the most difficult thing for him to accept .


    the next day he stood at the execution platform wearing an executioner outfit, his eyes blood shut, and his blade tightly clutched in his hand.


    there was not a soul in sight the execution grounds were empty and gave of an eerie silence. soon light footsteps were eared .


    To Rin appeared in front of Shao long, his eyes were cold and sharp, it made one shiver with fear. his body gave of a baleful aura of blood that caused one to choke and unable to breath .


    He stood there in looked at Shao Long for a bit before saying in a dry tone


    "Use the asura tactic when performing the executions, youare not allowed to use anything else or else you will die a painfull death "


    Without waiting for a response be turned around and oncae again spoke


    "its starting"


    Soon as he finished speaking Boom, boom, boom, three crashes of thunder, and in the execution ground below the Immortal Executioner Stage suddenly appeared a dense crowd.


    there were several hundreds immortals, and the number was constantly rising. Soon a sea of people streched far and wide, and they all started screaming


    ¡°Kill them! Kill them! Kill them all, Death to all sinners"


    Like clockwork the doors to the gate opened, a long line formed. a lined of people shackled up, there were men, women, children, beastmen, elves, dwarfs, demons, devils, vampires, orges, lichs. you named it they were there all mortals who ascended were present.


    Soon the first one on queu walked up to Shao long in his eyes were adorn with signs clear hatred. H took his positions on the platform and To Rin gave the signall.


    Shao Long gritted his teeth and raised the blade, he then circulated the asura tactics and swung down.


    ''Putchi'' blood flew up and covered Shao longs body as the head rolled by his feet, the body suddenly turned into a faint light and entered his body.


    Unknown to him the event that just happened shaolong was in a sad situation his nostril were assulted by the stench of iron, his vison blurred a bit, he felt nauseous, but before he could recover


    "NEXT" To Rin


    Like that things went on unknown to him how long had past, and how many people he had killed, shaolong became like a machine.


    he chopped and chopped like a madman, soon to even the hardned immortals they noticed the rapid change in him. he was like a beast, his body was covered in blood from head to toe.


    he was cold,ruthless, devoid of emotions, like a buttomless pit that caused ones hair to rise on end, watching this the previous noisy grounds became quiet and only two sounds where heard.


    heads being chopped and heads hitting the ground. this went on for what felt like centuriesk the sheer amount of guilty beings was astounding.


    But like all good or bad things they must all come to an end, after chopping off the last head, Shao long stood there motionlessly like a statue his eyes were dark,cold and sharp.


    They mirrored those of To Rin''s but with an even deeper tinge of murderous killers intent, his body gave off an even deeper and ruthless balefull aura too


    If To Rin''s eyes and aura was like an violent storm, then Shao Long was like a destructive tsunami that wiped out any and everything in its wake.


    After witnessing the end of the carnage To Rin once again spoke in a cold voice


    "Good now you can return to your quaters, we will call upon you tomorrow"


    With a nod of acknowledgement Shaolong departed without a sound or fuss he simply walked off,soon after the other immortals did the same, yet To Rin stayed rooted in this mess of bloos and decapited heads around him.


    When he was finally alone he sighed, in a flash he looked as if he had aged a hundred years in a span of a second, sadness filled his eyes he was a his breaking point.


    He suddenly said in a pained voice almost choking over his tears


    "Are you happy now huh old friend is that what you wanted huh..."


    soon a bright light materialized and the Heavenly emperor emerged, his face was twisted his eyes were red, his face waover with tear lines.


    The two men remained standing with grief plastered on their faces, they said nothing, did nothing but just stood there in place.


    Elsewhere Shao Long was in his room, afte removing the blood stained clothes, and cleaned himself off he sat on his bed.


    Soon he felt as if he was watching a play countless images filled his head passing at speeds beyond even an immortal could comrehend.


    Yet he did, they all made sense to him. It was as if he had lived countless lives. he comprehended everything, skills, abilities, experience everything.


    After his trip down memory lane his eyes opened up and walked out of the room, for the next four hours he pillaged properties of all those he killed.


    Pills, artifacts, cultivation methods, spirit herbs, tools , weapons, prescious metals, gold, jades, diamonds , silver, any and all ores and he stored them in his soul vault.


    in the eyes of those true immortals those ressources were useless trash, they were set to be burned along with all the possession of those so called sinners.


    After that returned to his qyaters and he colsed his eyes as his body shutted itself down, and he went to sleep. because soon he shall face his exile.


    Sure enough the next day he woke to a knock on the door, without as much as fixing his clothes he opened the door, in front of him stood To Rin.


    "Let''s go" To Rin


    He followed him without a word and along the way no words were spoken, in his heart To Rin was hurt the Shao long he knew died on the execution platform.


    The one next to him was an unknown, and fearful character, his eyes were cold, they trusted none, lcared fo none loved none.


    soon they reached the throne hall, like usual the Emperor sat their in a dignified way, he looked at To Rin and Shao Long as they entered.


    To the right of the hall there was a warpping portal opened up, it looked eerie and made ones soul tingle in fear, the Emperor stood up.


    he walked up to Shao Long and said in flat voice


    "As prwviously mentioned i will now send to another world, this is not something i wished to do but this is what must be done in order for peace to exist."


    Shao Long nodded, but his face was filled with indefference, as if he didn''t care at all, life or death meant nothing to him.


    After seeing his son''s expression, his heart once again clinched, memories of his innocent smiles while growing up filled his mind.


    He forcibly surpressed his body preventing it from shaking, and from shedding tears. he was in pain and he knew he would not last long.


    "This is the door to your new life, i wish you the best of luck my son"


    Without waiting for an answer the Emperor turned around and walked away, similarly Shao Long did the same, he walked through the portal without saying a word to both men.


    And just like that he dissapeared, as soon as he did the hall was filled wih cries.

 Rebirth of the dark angel

    In an abandoned factory between the borders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. A group of ten heavily armed men stood around discussing a matter, and from the heavy atmosphere one could guess that it was of utmost importance.


    It didn''t take long for one of the men to shout out loud in frustration, as he blamed one of his comarades saying:


    "Richard you F*ckin'' A**hole look at what you''ve gotten us into you dumba**!"


    Without a second delay, the man who was on the receiving end of those insults fired back at the man responsible for those less than gracefull words.


    "Hmph, Cristovao you spineless coward. Weren''t you so happy when i proposed the plan a few days ago and now look at you b**ching more than a woman on her period, hahaha what else can you expect of a portugoose"


    "Say that again you F*cking limey."


    As both of these men spoke, one can clearly differentiate their accents, and make a guess as for their country of origins, plus the slurs they had just hurled at each other were a dead give away.


    Richard hailed from England, and Cristovao from Portugal. Both of them were members of the ''Brotherhood of Anarchy'' a criminal organization, some went as far as labelling them a full fledge terrorist organization.


    They placed in the top ten most dangerous group in the world, and with good reasons.They were founded in 2007 and in those day they were only in the crossairs of many local police from around the world but that quickly changed as bursted onto the limelight in 2009, when they claimed responsibility for the bombing of Russian consulate in Argentina, and in 2010 the assassination of former French president Val¨¦ry D''Estaing.


    But they did not stop there, for the next six years they remain active and branched out in all forms of criminal activities, from drug trade with Columbian cartels, to providing muscle and trainning for the Mexican cartels.


    They also got a leg in the human trafficking game, not even the gold, diamond, arms smuggling industires were safe from their reach, not even the sex industry which is have deep ties with the human trafficking ring were spared.


    As they were also busy in Africa, they funded the local terrorrist group boko haram. Which in term got them strong ties with the extremist terrorrist group based out of Syria called ISIS.


    Some even reported that they helped and funded the president of Bolivia Evo Morales''s rise to power, but so far that was never proven true by the experts nor the thousands of spies sent by all major world power.


    The ''Brotherhood of Anarchy'' operated like a well oiled machine, their identities remained highly confidential, very rarely did they used their real names, not only that they used skin masked to change faces as well as fake passports and documents when operating.


    They also avoided being at the same place, at the same time in order to keep the authorities on their toes. They kept contacts with various criminals from around the world, both black an white color criminals.


    Also one reason as to why they were feared, was because of their modus operandi. It was all over the place, and had no clear end goal, like most organization who sends manifesto''s and so on, they never did suh things only claiming responsibilities via highly encrypted message sen to the authorities.


    Like most good runs, they all eventually come to an end. And that is where we are at this very moment, over the decade the ''Brotherhood'' had been active they, have finally dropped the ball this time around.


    They decided to kidnap the son of a highly successfull chinese buisnessman who happened to be on vacation. The reson why they did so was to get to that man and to gain a contact ledger with information about members of a specific group 1% worldwide.


    But that plan severly backfired on them. The boy was in Russia for vacation but because of his father''s buisness, the Ukrainian FISU (Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine) the Russian KGB (Committee for State Security) and the Belarussian KDB (State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus) all mobilized they''re forces to monitor him and see if he is not here to meet up with other opposing parties.


    During they''re seperste operation however, they witnessed the kidnapping of the boy by a group of unidentified indivudals. These group of ten, were heavily armed, and they deffinitly received specialized military trainning as they wounded the agents on sight and escaped with the package.


    Following this debacle Russia dispatched their FSB unit in hot pursuit of them. And after three days of fconstant fire fights, they managed to push them here, in a DMZ between the borders of Russia,Ukraine and Belarus.


    They have not suffered any casulties, but are running low on amo, food and sleep. Having retreated in a DMZ has provided them a breif moment of rest as the FSB cannot operate in this erea, but soon it will not be them who come knocking.


    Now this is a regarded as a military matter, and all three contries will be mobilizing their respective special operation units to quell them, kidnapping a valued target and retreating towards the border erea seperating of three countries is no laughing matter.


    This can tip the balane of power world wide, as it involves not three but four different countries. Just thinking about this caused Critstovao to have a headache, so he naturally lashed out on the one who proposed the plan in the first place.


    Richard was not fairing any better, as a former member of the british S.A.S, he knew first hand the method of operation of these three countries special forces units, since the fall of the late Soviet Union these countries have been at each others throats.


    And their elite reflected that, despite the lack of ressources and money spent on the military by both Belarus and Ukraine, their elites both have a pension for both gratuitous violence, and lack of mercy.


    And not only that this may very well be a joint operation with Russia, in other words this will be a direct showdown between Belarus Ukraine and Russian Spetsnaz units on who can get this done faster.


    So being blamed by Cristovao for this botched kidnapping.how could he not be upset, luckily someone stepped in between them before this could escalate any further.


    "Comarade please stop, this will not change this sitution we in"


    With a heavy russian accent a big man with slavic features steps in a pulls them apart, his name is Sergei a former member of the Russian mechanized infantry unit.


    "Sergei is right guys save your breaths for later, besides it''s annoying."


    At this moment another voice with a different accent broke out from the corner, there was a slightly tan man sitting down cleaning his weapon, from his laid back attitude one would of never thought he was in danger, seing his attitude sent cristovao to the edge once again.


    "Elam aren''t worried? we are trapped between three special forces units here, how can you be so calm about this?"


    "Not really, i mean we have three choices here. One is to cut a deal by contacting the boy''s father, in exchange for his release we get a way out of this mess,which is what i think the boss is trying to do right now .


    Two is we surrender, and hopefully we get treated fairly, or three we fight and die. i mean it''s that easy really so what''s the point of yelling. i mean for all the shit we''ve done in the past you didn''t expect us to have a happy ending did you? if you did than you''re an idiot, when i was in the IDF they always told us death is better than capture so i chose death."


    After hearing is response cristovao sighed. As a former member of the portuguese army commando, he knew that what Elam said was true, after all that they''ve done over the years being captured was not an option.


    After closing his eyes for a few seconds, he suddenly felt someone tap his left shoulder. Looking up he saw another tan man but this time he had distinct asian like features and was a full head shorter than everybody present.Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel.


    The man nodded his head and gave him a thumbs up before walking away, shaking his head cristovao started laughing at this man''s action, not only him but Sergei and Richard who was relatively quiet.


    His name was Andri, he''s from indonesia and was a former member of their famed kopassus unit. But after being discharged because of budget cuts, he needed to make ends meat so he became a mercenary.


    "well well why wasn''t i invited to this party huh guys"


    A voice broke through the darkness as a man came walking up to the group, he was a man of average height and weight, one you couldn''t remember from a crowd of caucasian men, he had no distinct features at all everything was average.


    He was not ugly, nor was he a handsome man like cristovao, he also was not as alert and anti social as Andri. But he was the opposite of Elam who was cold and serious.


    He on the other hand was bundle of happiness, he and sergei were best friend as he would like to drink, party and have a jolly ol good time. Some people thought he was an odd man out because of his personality but make no mistake he was as deadly as they come as he was a former member of the french foreign legion.


    "Hey Paully how is it out there?" asked Sergei


    "Well ther is movement to the east, west and north of us so un my calculation we have about an hour before they come knocking" responded Paul before he turned to his right and called out to another man laying down and had both of his eyes closed "Yo Jackson, got any cigs?


    Opening only one of his eyes the bald african american, who was lying down said in a low tone saying a few word before going back to sleep "Nope, besides you still owe me a since our service days in iraq"


    "Ugh, still remember that? jesus Jacks what are you a loan shark now?" replied Paul in a defeated tone but Jackson didn''t let up at all and fired back at him.


    "Well yo should be lucky since i didn''t add the ones you bumbed off me since boot camp, as your long time friend and battle buddy from the legion i will say this for your own good please pay back what you borrow"


    Much to Paul''s displeasure the whole room erupted in laughter, it was a rare sight to see them laughing like that. I mean even the cold Elman was in on it too, and that rarely happens.


    Suddenly a muffled voice was heard followed by thrashing and wiggling, every pair of eyes were fixated on the source of that noise, on the far corner of the room a faint silouhette was seen.


    "Well looks like sleeping beauty is finally awake huh." said cristovao said in a low tone.


    "Yea anyways who''s guarding him?" replied Richard in a lazy tone


    "I am why?" a voice that had faint traces of feminine traces in it immediatly replied, when Richard looked to his left muscular woman stood there wipping her wet hands on a towel.


    She stool about half an inch taller than him, her shoulders were wide, her back was buldging out of her clothes, she had a perfect shape torso evidently even through clothes.


    If one had to categorize her it would in one word ''Amazonian''. her voice was rough and deep, if not for her haircut one could confuse her as a man.


    "Lauren, i didn''t see you there? anyways he''s up." replied Richard as he pointed at the boy.


    nodding her head the woman called Lauren walked over in a brusque manner unfitting of a woman, in a flash she arrive in front of him and rmoved the cover that was over his face.


    upon making eye contact the frightned boy, with delicate features visibly calmed down a bit. Unlike those men who kidnapped him, this woman was always nice to him during the whole process.


    she made sure he ate even during the fire fight she held him tight with one arm, while shooting with the other, she also helpped him with the injuries he received during the event.


    She fed him, even used a wet rag to wipe the sweat that was covering his body due to his fear. She also called ''Misha'' ("bear cub") overall out of the group she is the only one who treated him like a human being.


    Due to his childhood the boy named Ye Xiongwas highly sensitive to the people around him, he was also an expert at reading their eyes, he could see whether or not one was genuine about their actions and words.


    So after observing this woman, he began to realize she was sincere about her actions. Sohe let his guard down around her, and as for the others well he wanted nothing to do with them.


    Lauren was a medic in the icelandic defense force, her father was a high ranking officer, and her mother was a chinese financial advisor who moved to iceland in persuit of a career.


    because of her father''s influence she joinned the military after high school, because her father did not want her to be in arms way, he also forced into medical school saying that being a medic is the best way to make a difference in saving lives.


    She also had to meet his requirements, both physically and mentally. she was required to completly transform her body, she had to follow a bodybuilding regime to the letter, and to cut off all distraction.


    Since young she firmly beleive in that idealogy, she had time nor fancy in romantic relationship. It wasn''t that she was lesbian, it was that she believed that romantic relationships were a distraction.


    By the time she reached college she was a towing six feet three inches and weigh-in at two-hundred fifteen pounds of muscle, in her native of oceland it was not uncommon to see such women, but in the outside world it was.


    Upon joinning the icelandic Defense Force she broke many records after records, such youngest to complete the all the marksmanship tests and earned her expert badge in all categories (small bore pistol, sub-machinegun, machine gun, rifle, recoilles rifle)


    She also earned the badge of expert knife fighter, during her college days she earned countless medals and world championship titles in judo, wrestling, sambo and kickboxing.


    Those made headline across Europe at that time as it was done by a woman, even though she is a pure breed amazonian, she is still incredibly attractive nontheless which also shattered the hearts of many, i mean who''d be crazy enough to court a deadly weapon such as her.


    During a NATO joint exercise the plane carrier her father was aboard was shut down accidently. This event further broke her when the high officials covered it up in order to protect the son of a general.


    Her mother striken by grief died soon after due to poor health, so at the age of 23 she left the military in order to travel the world, there in Brazil she worked at a free clinic she helped out an injured man.


    After recovering the man explained to herhis goals, after that he offered her a job, thinking about the injustuce her father suffered she decided to give it a shoot, that was over a year ago.


    During her time with the Brotherhood she was a killing machine with no emotion at all, it even scared the daylight out her comrades. even paul had to be on his guard when near her, but all that changed upon laying her eyes on this boy.


    When she was tasked to look after him she thought it was a shitty job in all honesty, but the second their eyes met she felt her heartstring tug, this boy from his eyes one could tell he was in pain mentaly, physically and emotionally.


    As a doctor and psychologist, she was able to diagnose him in a heart beat. Somehow she felt like it was her duty to protect and help heal him.


    So in the brief time they were together which was less than a day they spoke and got closer to each other, he looked at her as and an older sister figure even bordering as a mither figure in his life.


    Suddenly a loud shout was geard in the small office that was in the other room. A tall man walked out, and fury was evident on his face, behind him was another man sitting on a chair with an alienware laptop.


    Upon seeing him like this Richard asked in a worried voice


    "Mike, what''s up?"


    The man stopped in front of the group and said out loud "all of you line up we have to change plans"


    Without hesitation the group hundled up in a circle, even the man with the laptop moved, he put the computer back into a blue backpack and after sipping it he walked up to the bound up boy and placed in besides before joinning the group.


    After seeing the full line up Mike began speaking in a grave tone.


    "So i called that bastard Ye Wentian in order to arrange a ransom, but that f*cker told me to go a head and kill the kid he could careless about him before hanging up"


    After saying that everybody in the room sighed except for Lauren, she on the other hand was frowning, yup her guess was right. The boy was raised in a horrible home enviroment.


    After taking a deep breath mike continued on.


    "Now what we need to do is leave this place we have lost our leverage, so we need to evacuate pronto. We will bring the kid with us untill the borders, than we will leave and each of us will go our seperate ways, we will rendez-vous in paris in four days from today"


    Everybody nodded, and each went on getting ready. Lauren walked up to Ye Xiong cut his restraints up and helped him, after standing up he thanked her.


    She smiled and helped him put his backpack on, and turned around in order to walked him to the group. suddenly out of the corner of her eye she sees something flash past.


    In a hurry she cries out to everybody present.


    "watch out"


    In the mean time she grabs Ye Xiong''s arm and pulls him in closer to her embrace before throwing themselves down on the ground


    Whithin seconds a defining sound rang out, it was followed by raging fire, the once peacefull room became hell on earth, screams could be heard.


    very quickly bullets also rang out, the footsteps of the men responsible could also be heard. Ye Xiong was in between consciousness, images of his life kept flashing before his eyes.


    He only had one thing, and that was regret. He regretted being born, he regretted that he couldn''t make something out of himself, he regretted he listened to his father and came here to Russia.


    He laid there as his vision was getting darker and darker despite the room being lit a blaze by the fire. He could hear men speaking, yet he could not make out what they were saying.


    And soon he took his last breath.


    Like a theif in the night, without being seen by every men present in the room a red glow shone on his body, after it died down whisp of red fog escaped from the body of the dead members of the brotherhood and entered his body.


    After thirty seconds, it disapearred like it never happened. But once more the heart in his chest started beating once more, and a smug like s,ile appeared on his face.


    But he laid there motionlessly,