The Hats in Mysteries.

First Mission.

“Drink it or die…” were the smirking threat from Mister Sevin.

 In the eyes of the four boys, the colorless liquid assembled on the table, right in front of them, shone in their pupil, “What is it for?” asked Jin.

“I don’t know and I don’t care about it” replied Sevin walking away “I did all what was necessary for me to receive. By the way about the liquid, if you wish to survive on your new journey with the WIC company, take those or else there will be no chance” he stopped by the door, caught the handle and said turning back “take them and then it’s farewell” he stood there, waiting by the door for the boys to take the last drink “go ahead what’s the wait for?”

The four boys Jin, Jet, Jan and Joe took the small bottles into their palm, one for each, together they popped up the caps and all gulped it at one time.

The bottle liquid, on the four’s hands, were only the measurement of two table spoon inside five inch glass bottle.

Once the liquid entered their throat, it began to burn their neck as thou a swollen sore has caught up. A sharp pain of energy draining, caught the bodies of the four boys, throwing them on their knees while suffering in deep agony. They felt their legs and arms were going lifeless a thou the organs would fall apart from the main body at any minute. Their sight went blur to dizziness, giving a vibration in their heads that lost their mind and brain from the surroundings.

Just then, a boy among them dropped on the floor, his box fell opened with all stuffs scattered away around the area. His eye lids fell heavy unable to carry them open, his breath went slow, exhaling and inhaling with pressure of breathing pumping from his lungs making scraping sounds from his mouth. He began to soak in sweats as darkness covered up his sight.

“Wh… Why.. is this? What is going on? I feel so pain and dark inside me? What was that thing?” his palm stretched out into the air for some aid, begging for support but, in the middle of a small light, the darkness covered his vision, the arm dropped on the floor lifeless and the boy lost his conscious from the world.

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“When I drank the liquid, it was tasteless, no scent or fragrances from that thing. Whatever it was, it burnt me from inside as thou you take in a whole gulp of hot tea that just got off from the stove a second ago. It was horrible. I never tasted such thing in my life. I felt my organs burning. Everything inside me felt like they were a blaze and the pain was so intense.

On the other hand, just like how Mister Sevin, the Reaper warned us about surviving in the journey with WIC was to take the liquid, it was the right choice after all. It was just as he said, my life was secured by it, we did make the right choice. Sadly, the Reaper left us with lots of unanswered questions and mysteries all those needed to be crossed maze to maze…….. Nothing was explained well from him. From that spot onwards, nothing was called normal for us…..”

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In side darkness, a voice called out loud “he’s breathing! Keep going!” the voice seemed anxious, in eager of doing something faster “he’s moving! It’s good! Let’s stop it and give him some air”.

The darkness divided into two, opening up a sight that was viewing a wooden roof in a blurry state. A boy stepped by looking down at him and called “Hey wake up! You alright, Joe”.

The boy was laying on the floor flat and around him his friends. Surprisingly, Jin was busy wrapping bandage around his arm.

“Arm? Why was he doing that?” thought Joe looking up at him.

“There done!” he stood up and walked away.

Followed him by Jan who came down asking in worries “you okay?”

“Yeah I guess” replied Joe as he shook by slight pain on his shoulder. Jet and Jan helped Joe sit up while he remained still to regain his memories. After swallowing that strange liquid, Joe was the one who collapsed on the floor unlike his friends who managed to digest the suffering from that bottle and ran up to check on him. It was obvious due to the wounds of the gun shot Joe was not able to bare two shot at a time. His mind lost the balance of patience.

On the other hand, the surprising question was how did they manage to get a bandage and take out the bullet from the shoulder?

At worse, was that shot still inside him?

 Joe quickly shifted his sight to his each sides, turned to the three friends who were sitting behind him. His shirt’s four buttons were opened from the neck top to the chest with his right arm out and the weird thing, he was all bandaged from his neck till the whole upper body.

“Explain me this will ya?”he asked while stroking his injured shoulder signaling it.

All three looked at each other then, Jet spoke up explaining that the bullet is still inside you and it hasn’t been removed. But, thanks to the bandage that is wrapped around your body, that bullet will be resting on it’s spot until, they find a way to get out of the recent situation.

“So I will be needing to attend a hospital after we get out of here? That should be interesting” he smiled and then asked “but, wait where did this bandage come from?”

“From your stuffs on the floor” replied Jin handing over Joe’s box. He confessed him saying when we checked on you while your wound was still bleeding we needed something to cover it up. Luckily, there was a bandage roll inside your box that came out handy.

“You can say it was from the WIC themselves”.

“I see” nodded Joe agreeing “speaking about WIC we must shift on to it and check what really is going on around us”.

All stood up and Jet said “Joe you need to get prepared as well. Take your box out, we will be waiting outside with our files that the Reaper gave us THE HATS”.

“Alright, I will join you all soon” nodded the boy.

All the boys left their boxes behind in the classroom and went out in three while Joe had to prepare.

Standing outside in the empty dark corridor, the three boys waited with their files on their hands and the gentlemen item on their side.

Few minutes later, Joe joined up in his new outfit. Similarly, to the other three friends, Joe’s suit was in red orange complete suit, his coat was longer than his knees and opened wide from the waist like a dome even when all the buttons were closed. With red designing around his cuffs collar folding and  the end borders of the coat, his shoulders had a loose clothing hanging down over his arm and furry collar around his neck by the coat. A coat belt tied around his waist from the back, and just like his friends he wore whitish orange gloves, orange color shoes and an orange top hat on his head similar to his title ‘The Hats’

“It suits ya” said Jin smiling and his friend thanked him.

All the four lad seem like gentleman standing together in a respectful standing pose in the dark corridor. Joe said, “There are lots of things to discover, solve and understand around us. But, first of all we must finish the main topic. The Reaper spoke before departing us into nowhere”.

“Which one?” asked Jan while the other two understood him. The orange hat lad picked out an object showing all, “What this file contains in it, we must seek it.”

Jan nodded and all did the same. Standing together in a circle, the four hats in Js looked at their files. The top writing written “WIC”  written in Vivaldi writing style on their files. As they opened it an unexpectedly sentences awaited them which frown the lads. Written in a Vladimir writing style, there the sentences went,

 [MISSION 1: Hunt down the Werewolf in the darkness and stop the Summoning person].