The Automated King

Night Hunter

 The dawn was nearly crossing to its end. The delicious smell of dinner oozing out from the resident’s ventilation shaft, aroused the mind and body of the poor passerby. Reginald has the same urge as the ordinary Malian, as He has to chew food for his sustenance.

“My stomach is growling, but I have no extra change to buy edibles to fill the space.”

The night-crawler is on the prowl. A bunch of prostitutes, beggar, and the security labors have started to venture the main street. One of them, a clerk-on-duty to promote her workplace, approached Reginald in her sly face of a saleswoman.

“Room service on discount! Vacant quarters for the exhausted travelers, all on the best quality! Turn this way, sir. It’s half-price for newcomers.”

“Sorry, you are not. I have no interest in having friends at a time like this.”

The clerk is looking at Reginald in a confused gaze. She then shrugged her shoulder and move along to the other innocent bystanders on her sight. However, it is not so long for Reginald to have another set of intrusion, as a prostitute is staring at him intensively. She is looked a lot like a cow, covered in naughty outfit across her alluring physique of a seductive creature.

“Wanna enjoy the city, sir? you seemed strong and durable, let’s have some fun tonight.”

Reginald glared back in tenacity to the lady as his response to the obstruction that he has to face.

“Kyaaa, He is harassing me!! Help!!”

 “Damn it!!”

Tuning in to the cry of the cow lady, the guardsmen were marching in a hurry towards her direction. Following her hand gesture, They then proceed to follow Reginald in attempt to arrest him accordingly. To avoid such nuisance occurring in such bad luck, Reginald is trying to muster his finest sprint. However, his power was depleted already, allowing the two guardsmen to capture him without any sort of valid resistance to his end.

“You are under arrest, human!! Don’t dare to annoy a lady in the dusk, or you’ll pay the price!”

The brawn prowess of a rhino molds the fear in Reginald’s guts, propelled his mouth to latch an immense load of regurgitation to the road.

“Hwack.....”

“What are you doing, Rhasa?! Don't pinch his stomach too hard!”

“I don’t know, Terra! I don’t pry on his belly, I swear!”

Reginald is sensing an off-guard sentiment layered up on the both goons. For the lessened strength of the confinement, He then utilized the glimpse of a moment to lay a great escapade of the night.

“Hey!! Don’t you dare to run under my jurisdiction!”

One of the rhino guardsman stomp the pathways by his thumping velocity. He started the run in a slow pace, but gradually reached the top acceleration to capture the escapee in a short time. The running speed of the engine-in-famine Reginald can’t overpower the might of the rhino guardsman, whose eventually cutting short in distance of them both.

“Go, Terra, Go! Go, Terra, Go!”

The curious mob, in abrupt of such tumultuous event, overwhelmed the roadside and cheering the guardsman in delight. A cluster of them even threw down a gamble to the accidental contestant.

“Shoot.... haah....haahh... He would tackle me to the death by those horn.. Oh, I’ve never prompt myself to do this. What if I....”

Reginald inhaled in maximum capacity, filling his lungs into the brim of its space with loads of air.

“HAAAAAAA!!! YAHOOO!!!!”

He discharged all of the air to his rear, blowing the extensive force of momentum to the back. As the immediate result, the gale output is uplifting his body, propelling him forward in an excessive pace.

“Whoaa!!! This is so intense!! What's those things coming out of his mouth?”

The two rhino guardsmen hold firm to the ground, relied upon their muscle against the sudden hurricane. In the wake of the harsh wind and blaring voice of the shout, several of the innocent crowd were blew up by the sudden blast.

“He is insane!! Our captain wouldn’t be so happy to learn of this new threat.”

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Reginald’s abilities to outmatch the sturdy might of a rhinoceros brought him to get off from their tail in an instant. However, the next nuisance were emerged in front of him, as he doesn’t adept much on controlling this newfound liberation of his power.

“Oh man, How am I gonna land on my feet? This is too fast!! Aaaaa...”

In the situation that he has to solve, his fuzzy eyesight caught a glimpse of two mysterious figure pouncing across the roof. They worn an identical costume, shadow-black colored vest and a mask with similar saturation, a convenient mark of a burglar of the movie.

“Hey, is that the mysterious magician? Ah, I need to follow them ASAP.”

He inhaled yet another pack of air to the lungs, then spewing a stream of wind to the ground, shifting him upwards subsequently as the wake of his efforts.

“ It's working!!”

Out of his luck, the fence on his back says otherwise. He has to collide with the enclosure on his full body, broke down the wall behind it in advance.

“Oww.... Man, my spine....”

He then searching his surroundings in delve scrutiny, peeking over the roof of the many houses within his horizon.

“Gotcha! That’s my prey. The main issue is, How to catch them all?”

He started to inhale once more while chasing the shady character in a rush.

“Fooooohh!”

The exertion of his blast of wind is launching his helpless posture to the rooftop.

“Haha, so convenient.”

He is stepping up on the roof in a tip-toe dash. He added a single wind blow each time he has to fend off obstructions, alongside an acute-pressured gale for simple roof-jumping.

“I’m starting to get used with this odd power, haha! Oops... did they hear that? Nope.”

Both of the suspicious characters stopping by the mysterious chimney. The roof beneath them is far and wide, posed an enormous building down below.

“Hmm, this wooden infrastructure was meant for some high-class members of royals, I guess. The previous rooftop didn’t boast this much authority and domination like this one.”

He is attempting to kick the wooden terrain underneath. The knockback is cracking down some of the branches, but without no follow-up crash afterwards.

“This terrain is a worse condition for me and my talent. I couldn’t shout too loud, or else the dried-up logs and lumber would be the pitfall to me.”

After being idled for some time, the two suspicious personality started to jump into the wide opening of the chimney.

“Are they just letting themselves in? A full time robbery, huh.”

Reginald bolstering several minutes of time before bouncing down to the unsupervised fireplace.

“Hup!! Hold it..... They might be down there at this point. Hmmm.... what’s with this reek?”

A stretch under his bottom, a stranger’s hand make headway upon the fire. The gradual process eventually ignited the flame on the pile of lumber to rise up.

“Crap!! Someone’s setting me on fire! Oh right, I have this in my arsenal to rely upon.”

 (cough...cough....)

He is attempting to inhale the gas and using it at his disposal, but failed miserably.

“Argh, the smoke is choking my throat!”

By his remaining effort, he tried to climb up and getting out from the funnel. The flow of fume shadowed his motion to break out, as he spring off the gap in pride.

“Ugh, plenty of luck for me this time. I could be dead by now if I hopped down right away back then.”

Reginald is conveying his vision to the surroundings. On his search towards the gap, his eyes averted to the lonely tower off the northern side. On its peak, a ventilation shaft was left wide open.

“Those hole would be my call. Hey-ho!!”

He is treading down the prone rooftop, asserts his pace in watchful sensibility. A short, but brisk walk to the lookout made Reginald reaching his blank target in no time.

“Okay, now what? Ah, I have to mount this observation post. I wonder who’s on guard for this unfortunate shift.”

He then proceed to inspect the wall, looking for a spot to put his hand upon.

“I could leap right on that crevice for the start, since it is quite deep enough to latch my hand. The following step would be..... that hole, It seems approachable to grasp. What about those nice protruding brick over there? Heh, nice plot for me to the crisis.”

Per his casual ploy to climb over the wall, He started it all by clasping the solitary crevice to set forth.

“Hand in tight..... jump!!”

He successfully scratch his domineering grip to the unfaithful hole.

“Sorry for the obscenity, Mr. Pit, but I have to send myself over the wall in haste.” 

He traversed the big, but shallow wall-crater to the left, in the direction for climbing up a tightly-knit formation of vulnerable white brick by the upper side of the wall.

“This is too artificial to be called natural.”

The final clutch is a walk in the park to Reginald, as he treading up the wall with ease to the susceptible aperture on the top of the observation post.

“Hmph, easy peasy papaya squeezy. Excuse me!! Anyone on board? Nah, it’s a vacant space to heinous crime like I do.”

The empty room was filled with nothing but the lighted-up candle that amassed the stone tile. It was decorated with spacious ornament and painted symbols throughout the wall, crafted a sense of holiness amid the tense situation of his own hands.

“Hmm, I suppose this chamber was meant to be a sacred, off-site room. It’s weird, though, how could this post be so big and spacey?”

Reginald is charging towards the small patch down the floor to find a course to get out.

“This might be my way to go.”

Over his chance to steer clear from the scene, Reginald happened to overheard an intense conversation occurring underneath.

“You can’t do anything to me, scoundrel!! The guards will find you all dead by now.”

“Hahaha! What did she say? Guards? In total reverse, my dear, your humble aides are resting so deep in their slumber.”

“She must be pissed so much in her pants by now. Gross and putrid for a royal daughter to boot!”

“Boo-hoo, sulky lady. What are you gonna do? It’s no way for you to settle the score on this one. You’re going with us, immediately.”

“HELP!! SOMEBODY, BEAT THIS ROGUE FOR ME!!”

The conversation of the three-pronged compromise conducted the symphony of hatred on Reginald’s head. As his methods to ease off the tumult downstairs, he barged to the scene by the huge latch of white trap-doors below.

“Oh, man, the door is humongous!! Wait, you bastard!”

Reginald is hopping down from the ceiling and standing in front of the perilous woman. As he went downstairs, three person were on the spot. A striking lady elephant with her tunic and the two perpetrators of the post is on the scene.

 “You are too brave for saving this lady and facing the two of us...... Hey, it’s you!!”

 “Ah, dang it. Fritz has beaten him up before. What should we do, Rizo?”

“Made him squeal again, surely. Launch the bolt, George!”

“Ho-ho, what do I have here? You both apparently familiar to me.”

The strong blast propelled out from George’s crossbow, pierced Reginald’s right shoulder slightly up the collar bone.

“Why are you missing the shot, George? It’s wasting an ammo, you dumbo!”

“To intimidate him, obviously.”

George’s smug brought Rizo into seamless grin.

“See? You better yield and flee. Nothin’ to see here, smarthead.”

Reginald doesn’t seem to budge with their taunt.

“Well said, Mr. Acquaintances. Taste my wrath!!”

Reginald is drawing a lot of breath to his chest.

“KABOOMM!!!”

After the loud bang of his mouth, surge of tornado roared in intensity to the unwary combatants, swept them all to the wall in brute impact. The brute stream of wind knocked one of them unconscious.

“Argh!!! You okay, George? Hey, George.... This is hilarious. You might have to muster some guts to trade blows with us, lad.”

“Come on, throw your best shot at me!”

“As you wish.”

Rizo ceased to dust, left everything out of Reginald's sights. A few moments later, a staggering blow of fist resting down Reginald  stomach, made him kneel in excruciating pain in an instant.