Legend of Ghouls

Chapter Nine ~ Surrender

The Cyber team permanently banned the website from all viewers and working on going into a deep dive on this investigation on the IP address that came from a location in the town where the killer flocks invaded into homes and abducted the men and boys. The state still on lockdown because swat team were still on the search for the missing male victims. Three of the male victims found alive under a stone cave of the river near by Cloquet. Cyber team hired a male decoy to interact with the flock. One of the killer flocks named KitKat Rea who worked with Elettra. Kitkat Rea tried to escape from the decoy when swat team used the net to prevent her from flying. She detained in a jumpsuit in the interrogation room in the maximum-security ward for questioning. She admitted that she helped Elettra create the Boy Toyz website for their ways to lure men into abduction.

“Anyone who is associated with Elettra will be facing prison time. Did you know about that? Were you forced into her mess? Did you randomly join in your own way?” Sexy Bae asked as she flickered with her metal whip.

“Why do you care?” KitKat smirked.

“WHERE THE HELL IS ELETTRA LOCATED? YOU SHOULD DAMN KNOW WHERE YOU FLOCKS ARE HIDING THEM?” Sexy Bae slammed her fist on the table loud enough that it made KitKat twitch.

“If I tell you, don’t be surprised when men change their minds about you.” KitKat laughed.

“You don’t scare me. It is either you tell us where our citizens are, or I do this!” Sexy Bae grabbed her by the hair; body slammed her faced down and poked the taser on her neck. KitKat urinated herself shaking in the jumpsuit. “HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF THAT WAS YOUR FATHER? HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF THAT WAS YOUR BROTHER? HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF THAT WAS YOUR SON? GRANDFATHERS? HUSBANDS? FIANCÉS? BOYFRIENDS? THEY HAVE FAMILIES! THEY COULD BE OUR LOVED ONES! DON’T FORCE MY HAND TO USE THAT GODDAMN TASER ON YOUR NECK! ANSWER MY f*****g QUESTION NOW!” She uncorked.

“…she has them in Cloquet Valley forest … in metal cages hanging on trees…” KitKat stuttered in tears dripping on the floor.

“Thank you for the information. Carry on.” Sexy Bae moved her back on the chair and walked out the door as it slammed loud to hurt KitKat’s ears.

Another day back to work, I pulled overtime hours in the slaughter department harvesting deer organs and moving rolling totes of carcasses as our supervisor Egypt decided to jump in to help with blood draining, and Miza jumped to use the decapitation machine because we were short staff. Dragon also had to stay late in the retail department because they lost two people that morning. Hercules was struggling to focus on work. Egypt offered if he wanted to leave early but he chose to stay and kept on going on the deer hanging after unloaded from the farm trucks. Coworkers asked us why they have not seen Seika at work for a while and all we could do was not give them answer and responded, “We don’t know.” answer. We could not give out personal details to anyone with all due respect for our household. At the end of the day, I came out of the doors stinky and sweaty as he parked his truck for me to hop in to drive back home.

“Ready for a hot shower again, honey?” Dragon asked.

“Oh yes, honey. It has been a long week.” I said stretched my arms.

“I found out Seika is no longer working at the plant anymore.” He said as he lit his cigarette.

“That would not surprise me. All I can say I hope she heals and work through her issues.” I said.

“Me too. Hercules informed me that he will not come back for couple months until Seika proves to him that she can change. She can only see their son on weekends.” He said as he put out his cigarette and dropped into the ashtray cup.

Moira parked her black car in the garage. Both of us came out of the truck. Dragon opened the front door as both of us heard bunch of teenagers in the living room laughing and tossing soda cans across the room. Someone threw an empty cookie box at Dragon as he jumped, and box landed on the floor. Moira just came back in from the garage as three of us walked into Draven and his friends watching something very inappropriate on our television, playing games on their phones, cussing, and vaping. Draven had some type of Hentai playing on television. His friends were blurting the N word too many times in her house as Moira clinched her fists and slammed her car keys on top of the stand.

“Boys! Where are your parents? What school do you kids go to?” Moira asked as she snatched the remote off the coffee table and paused.

“Uhh… who are you?” The kid smirked with a dumb question.

“First, I’m his family who is taking care of Draven! Second, this is my house! I have cameras outside and inside of my house! I will use video evidence to show this to your parents and police officers! I will not allow underage minors in my home watching adult movies, using derogatory slurs, and vaping in my house! I will ask again! Where are your parents? What school do you boys come from?” Moira asked as she took her phone out of her purse.

“N**** Who asked you?” The second kid back talked and laughed. “Yo mama is a freak!” Third kid blurted out with his middle finger up.

“WHAO! Do not ever disrespect our leaders in our household! If we were your parents, we would shove bars of soap in your mouths for using that N word and flipping others off! That was extremely uncalled for!” Dragon verbally confronted the teenagers.

“You should be ashamed of yourselves! You have disrespected the wrong people here!” I stepped in and verbally confronted them as both of us showed our ghoul side to them.

“LEAVE OR I WILL CALL THE TRIBAL POLICE OF AOGIRI TREE FOR TRESPASSING!” Moira uncorked on the kids as she showed her ghoul side and pointed them the door. The boys were in shock as they jumped off the couch and ran out the door yelling like a bunch of scared cats. Draven stood next to the coffee table shaking that he saw her super pissed.

“You!” Moira pulled Draven by the ear and dragged him into the kitchen. “You think it’s funny, huh?” She grabbed the wooden spoon, whooped his ass, and dragged him back to the living room with roll of trash bags and cleaning supplies slammed in front of him.

“When your done cleaning the living room, you will be cleaning EVERYTHING in this house until supper! After dinner, you are washing ALL the dishes alone with no help from anyone! You are going straight to bed with no electronics! Do you understand me?!” Moira yelled at him in the living room as she snatched his phone and remote from the floor, banned the Hentai off the channel, and slammed the remote back on the coffee table as she kept his phone in her pocket. “Very disrespectful punk asses.” Moira mumbled under her breath as she heard someone sneezing in the coat closet. Dragon opened the door and found Donny hiding behind the winter apparel with sound cancelling headphones on.

“Are you okay, buddy? Did those wrong choice of friends of his hurt you?” Moira asked as she gently took his hand and lift him up out of the closet as she saw a small bruise on his forehead. He removed his headphones and paused his iPod.

“Cousin Seika grabbed a wine bottle from the cabinet and never came back upstairs to check on us this morning. Draven snuck his friends in the house. They were smoking stinky vapes, threw an empty can on my head, watching yucky videos of naked people on TV, and called me hurtful names. They kept saying the racist word again playing Grand Theft Auto on their phones.” Donny said.

“We are sorry they did that to you. Kaye is still out of town for on mission with the Hollow Guard. When Kaye comes home, she is not going to be happy with Draven and Seika. I will be talking with law enforcement to find those kids parents. They are not allowed to be out during the state emergency passed curfew anyway. First, I need to go downstairs, deal with Seika, and drive to the police station with video evidence of the damn kids. Dragon and Viola, please keep an eye on the boys.” Moira said as she was about to run downstairs until she saw Shae was outside waiting for someone to let her back in the house. Moira opened the door and let Shae warm up under the fleece blankets. Moira warmed up Shae’s food in the dog bowl and refilled her second bowl with fresh water. I grabbed an ice pack from the freezer and placed it on Donny’s forehead and Dragon kept an eye on Draven like a hawk made sure that he was not slacking. We heard Moira stomping her feet on the basement staircase and slammed the door open downstairs to Seika’s room. Dragon passed me the sound cancellation headphones for Donny to put back on his ears.

“I have the feeling Moira might give her another ear beating again.” Dragon whispered into my ear.

“Give me the bottle! Get out of bed now!” Moira snatched the wine out of her hands and pulled the blanket off the bed.

“What now…” Seika slurred as she sat up on the bed.

“Do not ‘what’ me! I can tell your buzzed because you are choosing not to take responsibility?! Are you pulling the same bullshit our biological mother did to us?! Why?!” Moira slammed the bottle on top of the dresser and waiting for answers.

“I don’t care anymore… I want my son back… I want my boyfriend back…” Seika slurred with her eyes almost half closed as Moira slapped her across the face.

“Quit trying to fall asleep on me! You have been kicked out of the Night watch team and banned from doing missions! You got fired from the factory! You lost parental rights! You lost a good man! Now you are about to lose your family and friends in this house because of your actions today! You were supposed to keep an eye on Draven and Donny and take care of my wolf while everyone is working and traveling on missions to save lives of our human and ghoul families! WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A f*****g CRISIS SEIKA! Dragon, Viola, and I came home to Draven invited mean nasty teenagers watching f*****g porn in my house, playing GTA on their phones, underage smoking, trashed our home, cussing out racial words, and bullying Donny today! Donny suffered all day hiding in the closet to get away from Draven and his trashy friends! Now I must go to the police officers to file report on those underage minors and hopefully have them find their parents! I hope you sober up tonight when everyone is home!” Moira snapped as she took the bottle, ran back upstairs, and slammed the door.

“Ouch…” Seika rubbed her face carelessly.

“Sorry for all the yelling, Donny. Viola and Dragon are going to take care of you boys. They will keep an eye on Draven for you. I gotta drive to the tribal police station. I will be right back.” Moira hugged him as she grabbed her purse and keys and walked out the door. We heard Ezra come into the house with paperwork and computer case of equipment.

“Jeez! What happened to our living room?” Ezra was shocked.

“Well… Let us just say someone downstairs decided to be the irresponsible adult in this household. Moira just left to go report the teenagers to the police. It was an unbelievably unpleasant day.” I stated without details.

“Fair enough. Kaye said that she will be home late tonight. We received news from our TSC members. Hopefully, we can discuss it tonight about our final mission about the Elettra case and missing citizens.” Ezra informed us.

“Sounds like great news. I hope tonight should be okay.” Dragon said.

“Boring…” Draven rolled his eyes as he kept scrubbing the food and soda off the carpet.

“Hey! Keep your nose out of the adult conversations and focus on cleaning, pal.” Dragon smacked Draven upside the head. “Don’t mind him, brother.”

“Perhaps, I can take this somewhere?” He asked.

“No worries, brother. We can wait until everyone is home.” I said as I closed the wine bottle that Moira took from Seika and hide it back in the fridge.

“Sounds like a good idea.” Dragon said eyeing on Draven scrubbing the carpet.

“That is understandable. I need to take my belongings to my room, charge my items for work, and relax.” Ezra said

“Sounds good, man.” Dragon said as Seika slowly came out of the basement with tears in her eyes to the bathroom. I did not make any eye contact with her. Dragon could not even speak to her or look at her. Both of us decided not to interact with her. We stood in silence until she went back downstairs to her room. Donny kept listening to his audiobook while coloring in his sketchbook.

Two hours later, I got into the mood of cooking dinner. I made separate dishes for the two kids. Moira taught me how to make Mado’s best curry for Donny which is his mother’s favorite meal. I learned the curry recipe. I fed the kids first before I finished cooking our meals. All the meals cooked successfully as Dragon helped me carry the meat to the table. Everyone arrived home safe from their jobs. Seika never came back upstairs to join us for dinner. It was all right to Moira because she was not in the mood to talk to her sister.

“Thank you for cooking for us, Vi.” Kaye said as her and Moira raised their glasses.

“You are welcome. I am glad I was able to cook tonight.” I said as I sipped on my drink.

“I found out that they were able to force answers out of the killer flock who tried to abduct a male decoy.” Moira said.

“Good. So, what is next?” Dragon asked as he cut up his meat.

“We might have an upcoming final mission to defeat the Queen of Flocks. Viola, are you comfortable telling us?” Moira asked.

“I will be facing Elettra one on one.” I said as I took a bite of my meat.

“Sis. Are you going to need back up?” Ezra asked with worry.

“No needs to worry. I will be right by her side through this mission.” Dragon said as he held my hand tight on the table.

“Good. Remember for your safety, you will need more back up.” Moira said as she cutting up her meat.

“Agreed.” Dragon thanked her.

“I won't let anyone down.” I said to them as he kissed my forehead.

“We know you will not let anyone down. Just promise us not to get yourself hurt again. Claire is watching us.” Moira smiled and winked at us as both of us smiled.

We spent the rest of dinner talking about our mission. Moira stopped me from trying to take the dishes to the kitchen and told both of us to go take our showers and relax. Draven still on servitude for hours until his bedtime. Moira picked up Ben & Jerry’s ice cream for Donny and let him watch his favorite shows on Boomerang. Draven spent hours washing all the dishes, hand drying, putting them away properly, scrubbing the counters, wiping the table, sweeping, and moping the floor. He went straight to bed. Moira took away his PlayStation console, laptop, and phone. She searched the room to make sure that he was not hiding anything then she shut the door. Donny chosen to sleep in the guest room instead of sleeping in the same room. Seika barley came out of the basement. Probably did not want to face her.

Dragon woke up early to drive to the Aogiri Tree’s town store to pick up cigarettes and more Anteiku coffee for our household. The cashier rung up the items as he bought the items and bowed a thank you to the cashier. He stepped out of the store walking to the parking lot until he heard someone cat calling him. He stopped to turn to the direction as some random blonde woman kept starring up and down at him and throwing kissing gestures. Dragon felt uncomfortable in that situation. He felt creeped out by the woman as she stood next to the public mailbox trying to come close to him.

“I wanna hop on that sexy man like you. You know, you be more handsome if you give me a smile. You can always give me your number. I hope your wife or girlfriend do not mind sharing.” Blonde woman started licking her lips. She tried to touch him as he put his hand up to show his ring.

“YO! Don’t you see what is on my finger? I’M ENGAGED! You be more pretty if you back off and have self respect. Take your sloppy seconds elsewhere. I don’t know you. Leave me alone.” Dragon called her out in front of the store.

“Whatever. You're boring and stupid anyway. I’m just here for some dick.” Blonde woman threw attitude.

“Oh, you did not disrespect me in public. Your damn lucky my fiancé is at home sleeping. She would have ripped your head off and devoured all your organs into chop suey for dinner!” Dragon confronted the rude blonde woman.

“I bet I can do better than your nerdy fiancé! Ew, she sounds like a freak.” Rude blonde woman laughed.

“I normally don’t throw insults, but I have time. Your gross, fake, and stupid like the Kardashians. Your perfume is stinky like a rotten insecure dusty female. You look like a hot mess who enjoys living in dumpsters.” Dragon threw it back at her.

“And you’re a douchbag! Why do you men always reject me?!” Rude blonde woman pouted.

“Your ugly like Amber Heard who shits on beds like you're not potty trained or something. Type of females who cannot handle rejection. I guess mommy and daddy did not raise you right. Why are still standing here? What are the words for NO you do not understand?! WOOF! WOOF!” Dragon showed his ghoul side, threw the wrath at her by burning her ego until the rude woman finally fled away.

“This is why I hate men! Wait until I tell the girls about you on my OnlyFans chat!” Rude blonde woman cried and scrammed away.

Dragon shrugged his shoulders as he hopped into his truck and drove back home. I woke up to his text message. I answered the phone as I read everything, he told me what happened at the store as I got the best laugh this morning. He arrived home with a smile on his face with coffee and cigarettes as he opened the new bag and started the coffee pot.

“Good morning, Dragon. Thank you for brewing coffee for us. How are you doing?” Moira asked as she let Shae outside.

“I am good today. I stood up for myself from a rude blonde woman who tried to seduce me. I was not sure if I should suspect that person, but she seemed human who tried to find ways to troll strangers in the neighborhood.” Dragon said.

“That does not surprise me. It must be the same blonde woman who tried to pull that same behaviors by gawking at other men at our town store. I believe Hinami mentioned to Miza about the blonde woman who tried to harass Ayato at the store few months ago.” Moira mentioned as Kaye came out in a bathrobe.

“She’s just a neighborhood hooker who wants to troll men for attention. If you see her again, just keep walking by ignoring her. It is not worth getting yourself in trouble if she were to try anything for a reaction.” Kaye suggested as she poured herself coffee.

“Understood. I will be careful next time.” Dragon said as he came upstairs to check on me.

Both of us relax outside to watch Shae run around chasing rabbits and squirrels. I saw the sun pointing at the lake streaming in front of our yard as Shae ran into the water to catch jumping fish. She jumped out of the water holding the fish with her mouth and dropped it on the porch for the stray calico cat to eat. We usually see cats roaming around the yard from time to time. Sometimes we feed the cats left over meals that we could barely finish to avoid letting leftovers go to waste. A sound of a thump and broken branches scattered the cats away. The cats jumped off the trees, hissed at the air, and ran to safety. Someone fell off from one of the trees. It was a male flock with long dark hair as he crisscrossed on the ground with his hands up. Everyone came out of the house with Shae barking at the man with his hands up.

“I surrender. Please do not shoot.” The male flock spoke as our weapons pointed at him.

“Weapons and kagunes down for a moment!” Moira said with her hand up at us.

“May I ask for your name?” I asked the long hair man.

“Viola. Before I give you my name, I want you know something important. Please don’t be upset. You must believe me.” The man said.

“Okay. How did you know my name?” I asked the man.

“I am your father. I was abducted by Taker's name Richter Hakujin eight years ago.” He answered as my brother, and I dropped our spare weapons. Dragon felt shocked for a moment.

“Honey, I think we should talk to your mother about this man.” Dragon became skeptical.

“It’s okay, honey. I think we should hear him out before jumping into conclusions. Mother has not spoke to us since the Winter war three years ago. Something odd about her. I would like answers.” I said.

“Sounds fair, honey.” Dragon agreed.

“Sir, would you like to come inside to sit down for coffee and talk with us?” Moira asked.

“Before we let you in the house, do you have any flocks following you?” Kaye asked for verification.

“No ma’am. I am not part of their games. I escaped from the Sawyer years ago.” Father answered clearly.

“Thank you for your honesty. You may come into our home.” Moira said to him as Shae leads the way back to the door.