Legend of Ghouls

Chapter Six ~ Estranged

Investigators discovered Richter Hakujin’s diary found in the scene of the basement lab in the Sawyer. They confiscated all of the paperwork found. It turned out that there are six female killer flocks and three male killer flocks who were victims of the Sawyer. Those victims are ghouls who were incubated into flocks with the birds. Takers used to clone people for more Takers in battle from the winter war few years ago. That was probably how Pandy cloned himself when he tried to fly away with his family. I murdered his clone. I remember Amon and Akira stopped them on that day. Investigators spent days reading through scattered unorganized documents found in the abandoned hospital. The maximum prison on lock down for a month to repair the rest of the block where Hakujin’s were devoured by the main flock. In the middle pages of the diary, it indicated that Richter was desperate for a grandchild. She paid her grandson Pandy to drug my drink and had me conceived in my sleep. She wrote in her diary that she wanted my ghoul DNA to see if she could procreate into a Sawyer comrade. The surgeons carefully removed the embryo out to be stored in the incubator. When she found out it was a girl, she named it Elettra the Queen of the Flocks. Moira informed me this information in private. I wanted to vomit for not knowing the real truth of why I was forced to get pregnant, had a false abortion, and violated multiple times. I ran outside five miles into the forest and screamed really loud as the birds flew away from the trees. I took five deep breaths as I got onto my knees with my head starring down at the snow. I spent twenty minutes to clear my head. I walked back inside the house and came back into her office.

“How are you feeling after that scream?” Moira asked as she offered me a cigarette.

“I feel better. Sorry, I needed a few minutes to cool down after hearing about all of this.” I said as I accepted the cigarette and lit up by the window.

“No worries. I understand it’s shocking news. The King and Queen would like to ask you something very important at the council meeting. They want to know what you would like us to do with the Queen of the Flocks.” Moira mentioned.

“I wouldn’t give a s**t. Regardless of if we are blood related or not. I know it sounds heartless knowing that it’s a clump of cells. I don’t consider it as my own because it came from a monster who raped and murdered ghoul women and children. I don’t want the bad genes past along. This is my personal opinion about it. If I wanted to have a child, it will be with Dragon because he’s loyal, honest, genuine, respectful, trustworthy, and caring. Dragon is never the type who would do any harm to women and children. If he wasn’t trustworthy, then I wouldn’t have children with him.” I stated to her as I finished my cigarette.

“I’m not against your word. Thank you for helping me understand where you are coming from.” Moira said.

“When is the council meeting?” I asked.

“It will be on the first week of March. I already explained the information to Dragon. He said whatever you decide to do with the Flock, he will never hold it against you.” She said.

“If the thing was a newborn child, then I would consider giving it up for adoption with proper care and lots of therapy. Now it’s a full adult cloned and incubated with my stolen DNA without my consent, I rather have it executed.” I stated clearly.

“Sounds fair.” She said.

I stepped out of her office to sit back in our room, turned on the TV to watch random animes on Crunchy Roll, and placed my coloring books and pencils and sharpies on the bed. Dragon and Hercules came back from taking a drive around town to chat and brought home to go lunch from the café in Shibuya town.

“Afternoon, honey. I heard the news about everything. I bought you freshly cooked red meat and blood chocolates from the café. How are you feeling?” He asked as he placed the food on the folding table.

“I’m feeling better than earlier, honey. I ran outside to go scream and cool down for twenty minutes before I came back inside. How were your guy's travels?” I asked as I started eating my meat.

“The drive was beautiful. Hercules and Seika had another argument again yesterday morning before she left for work. I treated him for nice few hours of a drive and dine today. Hopefully he will be okay.” He said as he sat next to me. “Have you made your decision on the Flock?”

“Don’t hate me. I don’t care if the thing rots in hell.” I stated.

“Fair enough. I can’t blame you. I understand the circumstances, honey.” He said as he held my hand.

My phone notifications popped up as he answered for me and read the emergency alerts. It was a missing persons report of a male ghoul who disappeared last night. Another man went missing at the bar two nights ago in the same area of downtown. The two missing men have wives and children at home. Their families reported them missing. Third alert popped on my phone that a gay man went missing after he left a late-night shift from work last night.

“Oh no, honey.” I said holding his hand tight.

“Four years ago, we’ve rescued missing women and children. Now, men are going missing?” Dragon said in shock as Ezra walked into our room.

“You might want to come downstairs!” Ezra spoke up as both of us stopped and walked down to the living room.

The news channel reported in the city took place near Shibuya town that three men gone missing this week. The owners at the local bar clubs look into security footage’s coming from outdoors that servers saw bird feet lifting the first missing man one block away from the doors. Reporters started to believe that a Killer Flock might be the reason why men are disappearing at night. Investigators came across graffiti on the wall next to the bar with derogatory remarks that said “f**k all men! It’s our turn!” with female symbols around it. The writing looked fresh according to the investigation. The wife contacted the police and found graffiti written on the side of her house with the same “f**k all men! It’s our turn!” With female symbols. The wife bawled her eyes on the officer's shoulder. Cyber team confiscated a website that contained man hate that was created by the Queen of the Flocks who recorded a video of herself torching Pandy’s head as a personal decoration on a Christmas reef. “Good morning, ladies! As you can see, I murder my own deadbeat father to show you how he f****d up a lot of women in the Sawyer. He’s the reason why us women don’t trust men. MY TROPHY OF THE YEAR, RIGHT? HA! I mean you know I didn’t ask to be incubated in some stupid jar if you know what I mean haha! Anywho, women gotta stick together you know. My bitches are taking your husbands away to prove to you that you are being controlled by foolish mankind bull crap. There will be a rally tomorrow night in Twin Cities! Come out and play! You’ll never find me! Hahahaha!” Video shuts off on the website.

Dragon felt really numb watching the video as he ran to the bathroom and puked. Hercules shook in fear and held Seika’s hand, but she didn’t seem to reciprocate to how he felt about it. Dragon came back from the bathroom, hugged me tight, and cried on my shoulder. I hugged him and held him tight. “I won’t let that b***h get away with this.” I said in thought. Kaye and Moira brought in the paperwork.

“Sorry everyone. We are being drafted into another situation again.” Kaye sighed with her head down.

“This is only going to get worse if we don’t take action. I just received new report that is going to shock all of you.” Ezra said as he popped open the screen connected from his laptop to the television.

“Last night, Killer Flocks raided a small town near Cloquet area. They broke into their homes, abducted the men, husbands, boyfriends, fathers, brothers, and teenage boys. Small town police tried everything to put a stop to the madness, but civilians are calling for strong forces like us. The small town is seeking help from the Aogiri Tree Reservation and TSC. Akira Mado and Amon Koutarou and two young boys are traveling from their home to stay with us. For the boy's safety, I will have their room set up upstairs in the guest room with security installed outside of the window. We need to keep an eye on Draven because I know he’s been getting in trouble a lot in school, home, and constantly bullying Donny. Kaye and I might be adopting him after we find the missing civilians and deal with those Killer Flocks.” Moira stated clearly.

“The mission starts tomorrow. We all need to stay together. The Night watchers and Ravens will be patrolling the Aogiri Tree Reservation every night. I believe we might have two new leads of Night Watch team. It will be known until the first week of March. Akira and Amon will be joining us on this mission.” Kaye mentioned.

“It’s devastating to watch the Killer Flocks are spewing hate against good men who had nothing to do with the past.” Hercules said with his head down.

“How can these Killer Flocks live in this kind of mindset of hatred and destruction?” I questioned as I squeezed my hands into fists.

“Killer Flocks are as bad as the Takers. Why do they really hate us male ghouls as they do hate on us good men who not done anything wrong?” Dragon question with an angry tone.

“I am upset as you guys are about this situation. Please hang tight. We will put a stop to this madness.” Ezra said as he shut off his laptop and closed it shut.

“We will not be muzzled again by Takers and Killer Flocks who live on ignorance and hate.” Moira preached with us.

After the meeting, I stepped outside with Shae to watch the sunset as she went digging into the snow and found something shiny. She barked for me to come to the area as I got up off the porch chairs and noticed a necklace that belonged to Seika which I assumed that she must’ve thrown out of the window out of anger. Shae and I came back inside as I walked into open door to give it back to her.

“Sorry to bother you. Did you lose a necklace?” I asked.

“Sort of. Just set it on his table side. I doubt he gives a damn.” Seika said in a grumpy tone as she finished bottle feeding her son and put him back into his crib.

“Okay. If you need to talk, Dragon and I will be upstairs.” I reassured her and quietly walked back upstairs.

“Thanks, I guess.” She said quietly. It wasn’t my business, but I started to noticed Seika acted distant again towards Hercules during the meeting. According to what Dragon has mentioned to me privately, both of them are still not getting along. I seriously hope they can work through those problems together before the mission tomorrow. I agree they both need to seriously get along and keep their problems privately from their jobs and important missions like this one coming soon.

I came back in our room, hook my cloak back on our rack, and hugged my fiancé tight.

“We will stop this madness together, honey. Whatever you do with that Queen of Flock, I will fight with you. I still support your decision.” Dragon kissed my lips and embraced his arms around me.