April 21st, 2021, exactly the next night.
Wandering around and homeless now, the only thing he can do is patrol, he's running low on resources and now that AbuserAmuser somehow knows his identity, he's aware that he's going to start running low on the leads to him next, there's only one lead on his mind and that is the fact whoever he may be, is working with the corrupted police force, but, that barely narrows it down and can barely considered a lead since there's too many small time criminals who are as well and too many corrupt officers in the city to be able to tell who...
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"The police and thugs here are after me, a criminal who's likely working with or for the AHPD knows my face, and to top it all off, my supplies are getting low, atleast I've yet to come across any anomalous though." Derek thought to himself as he was traveling through the city on his way to the police station.
Derek heard sudden loud screaming and yelling that sounded muffled from some distance away, he followed the intense cries to the back of an alleyway.
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"Heh, that lame wanna be Mist-sentinel ain't here to save this guy again, He broke everyone's bodies last time, but with you here, we should be able to take this guy back to the boss without having to worry about him or any other jackasses messing with us." Said the thug from last time who tried to warn him.
"Yeah, Mist-kid isn't going to be an issue while I escort you guys, An Esoter with over 4 years of martial arts training, no issue for me!" Said Thug #2 overly confident about his ability, or so, Derek thought that about him.
"Shut up, you idiot, his father was mist-sentinel, do. Not. Underestimate. HIM!" Thug #1 said angered by his friend's cockiness, "Listen, if we goof this one, the captain will have our heads damn it!" Thug #1 reminded his friend in a fiery tone.
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"Oh, so... the police captain has a big role in this city's corruption chain, huh?" Derek Asked rhetorically after he leaped out of nowhere, "Thanks guys, I was about hit a dead end." He finished with a smile on his face.
Thug #2 pulled out a switch blade prepared to get a move on and shank Derek, whilst Thug #1 sprinted to his car and drove away.
Derek showed off a tiny bit, dipping and dodging thug #2's inexpert swings and attempts at shanking him with no effort at all.
"Alright, I need to goo!" Derek emphasized before he launched himself backwards and transformed into smoke, he flew off after Thug #1's way.
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Thug #1 hurried at full speed to drop off the kidnapped victim in the back as soon as he could, or it was literally his head.
He drove through the Aeron-Haven night traffic so confidently and skilled, the only thing he feared was the vigilante he hated stopping him like last time, he saw no sign of him but still kept going full speed ahead.
"This is a nice ride, man." Derek whispered in the back seat of the thug's car.
The Thug got startled and didn't pay any attention to the road and swirved as he tried to hit the brakes.
"How in the hell did you get back there??" Thug #1 asked ferociously, too baffled about it.
"I think following the saying practice makes perfect helped me, I still can't believe just two years ago I would've had to run over rooftops to catch you." Derek chuckled at his own joke and replied calm and casually.
The Thug's face displayed what he was feeling towards Derek and his jokes.
"See, I heard a man in the trunk but usually when someone's in a trunk, they don't wanna be, would ya mind opening it for me, buddy?" Derek asked but the Thug knew he didn't have a choice and he was smart enough to realize he was no match for Mist-kid.
He popped open the trunk for Derek to check out what was inside and what was inside was a face familiar to both the Thug and Derek, Anthony arvin, with his feet and arms tied and a gag in his mouth.
Derek helped him out the trunk and untied him, but he was also bruised and beaten, really roughed up.
As soon as Anthony was out of his trunk and on his feet, The thug zoomed off, to where?
Derek had some theories about that...
"Hey, get back here asshole!" Anthony angrily and frustratingly yelled out when he realized he zoomed away, Derek placed his hand on his shoulder and nodded, "There should be someone approaching any minute... I think." Derek told him.
Derek and Anthony waited for a moment where they stood then Derek looked when something caught his eye, a large pile of Ash was moving on it's own.
The ash made it's way over to the two then it transformed into the man who tried to shank Derek earlier.
"So far, we've been looking for you, did ya know That?" Diggory calmly informed Derek.
Diggory was a young man, he looked around Derek's age and even looked like him but he had longer jet black hair, rings around his eyes that looked like eye liner and he stood around 5'10 or so.
"That's the police's "pursuer" aka a corrupt bounty hunter, he and some others were sent to get me, so that thug could take me somewhere to off me." Anthony informed Derek, he was too afraid.
"Corrupt-- Ugh!" Derek yelled irked and fed up with all the corruption, "I don't have time for this, I need to follow my leads, C'mon so we can get this over with, I got an investigation to get back to!!" Derek commanded him, impatiently and annoyed.
Diggory did get upset thinking Derek's impatience was underestimation and ran at him full speed, attempting to shank him with the same skills as before, before he left earlier.
Just like earlier, Derek dodged every slash with Zero effort put in, he dodged left, he dodged right, Diggory slashed vertical, he slashed North, east, South and west, but he never touched Derek once, after a while of embarrassing him, Derek kicked the knives out of his grip then flipped him over his shoulder.
"What are you, like 16, and you're killing people?" Derek asked as he restrained Diggory on the floor, and gave a chuckle.
"Man, I'm not talking to you, I'm gonna get you back later!" Diggory screamed out before Derek fell to the ground when Diggory's body suddenly turned into a pile of ash and slid away.
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"Aren't you going to follow him, Mist-kid?" Anthony asked coming into frame.
"Nah, he's just a scaredy kid, there's something too familiar about him though." Derek replied as he stared off into the direction the ash kid went with his arms crossed, he was far gone by that point.
"So uhhh, what are we going to do?" Anthony asked with a smile on his face, the thought of him working with Mist-kid made him feel too eager and thrilled.
Derek scowled instead of smiled.
|TO BE CONTINUED!|