The Veil Of Darkness

“Please! Please! Let me live. I would never come back here, and I would become your slave, please do not kill me. I will do whatever you want” The assassin said, his body shaking tremendously, his face filled with fear and tears flowing out of his eyes. A few minutes earlier “Damn, where the hell is, he?” a man said. “He should be somewhere here” another one replied. “Hey, don’t you all think the contractor this time is overreacting?” the third person replied. “Why do you think so?” the first man replied. “Well, the target is just one person and he hired 50 of us. I mean even if there were only 5 of us, no one would survive. And yet he sent 50 of us. Isn’t he looking down on us?” the third man replied while waving his hands in the air, his tone filled with a bit of annoyance. “Stop,” the appointed leader of the 50 men said. he surely deserved to be the leader of such vicious people. His body was more than 6 feet tall. He was wearing a skin-tight vest through which his muscles were clearly visible. His body was also full of scars. In short, one look at this man could make normal people wet their pants. One word from him made all 50 of the men to be quiet. This should how much they feared him. “He is here” the leader replied. “Where? I don’t se…..” the second man started to speak but suddenly stopped. The first man looked towards his direction and shouted, “This bastard is dead. We are under atta….” before the first man could complete what he was saying he fell limp to the ground. Everyone got into position. The leader stood in front of them and said in a loud voice, “Show yourself, I the skull crusher demand it”. “You don’t have the qualification to ask me to do anything” a voice came but the direction of the voice was unclear. “I have seen a lot of people like you. You are just all talk, if you are a man then come face me,” the skull crusher said. “Talking about being a man doesn’t suit you.” The voice answered. Before the skull crusher could reply the voice continued “Let me help you became suitable to talk about it”. “What do you mean?” skull crusher asked. “You will know soon enough,” the voice said. and on the cue, the men behind the skull crusher started to fall one after another. Each having a hole in the center of their forehead. After a couple of minutes, only the skull crusher was left alive. A man came out of the shadows and stood in front of the skull crusher. “Now, you are suitable to talk about being a man” the man replied with a smile. Skull crusher didn’t wait for another second and moved to punch the man standing in front of him. “Tch tch tch, you don’t even have any manners,” the man said as he dodged the punch. Skull crusher didn’t stop at that and continued to throw more punches. The man continued to dodge them skillfully. “I am getting bored” the man replied and threw a punch of his own. Both fists met each other and a loud voice of bone-cracking was produced. “What a fool” the skull crusher thought as he was sure that his fists were stronger. But to his astonishment, the man was still standing as if nothing happened. He looked at his hand and saw a couple of bones had come out of his fists, “ahhhhhhhh” the surrounding was filled with his screams. before he could compose himself, he heard another couple of bones breaking. He opened his eyes and saw both legs were broken Present time “I am sorry, I was ignorant, I was, I was….” The bone crusher was crying so hysterically that he couldn’t even complete his words. Never in his life, he had imagined a day would come when he would feel such fear and would cry like this. He was the only one left of the 50 people who were sent on this mission and all of them were not normal by any means. “Let you live? Did you seriously think that I would let you live if you begged? It would be best if you had thought about this before coming after boss”, he said, giving an evil smirk. This made another layer of fear run through a bone crusher, “you are not the one who we were sent to kill?” he asked, even though he was unable to say anything clearly before, this time the fear made him forget all his pain. The man didn’t reply and just smiled. “You are lucky that I am the one you’re facing, after all, I am giving you an easy death,” he said this trying to look as angelic as possible. But he failed miserably. With that, he pointed the gun at the head of the assassin and emptied the whole magazine.   He was standing in front of a large wooden door, he knocked and asked for permission to enter. Just as he had entered, someone asked, “Did you find out who sent them?”  the tone in which the question was asked was calm but fierce. He knew that the boss isn’t in a good mood. He bowed his head and answered, “No, boss! but soon we will, and they will pray that they never came out of their mother`s womb” he replied. “Very well” the boss replied. “Bring the one who sent them here, also, Leo, one more thing, wipe out his family and destroy everything that belongs to him.” He stated nonchalantly waving his hand. “As you wish boss,” Leo said as he turned around to leave the room. As he left the study, he grinned with excitement and fear. It’s been so long since Leo saw boss torture someone. He took out his phone and called someone. “I need you to find that damn person and give me all of his information within 2 hours” he commanded; his voice full of authority. “Yes sir,” the person on the other side replied, and with that, the line was disconnected.   After 2 hours, Leo`s phone rang once again. “Any update?” he asked as calmly as possible. “yes, sir! All of the preparation have been made as well,” the caller replied. “Good, send me the details and prepare the room of hades,” he commanded with a wicked grin. “yes sir,” and the call was disconnected. Leo made his way toward the study of his boss. He knocked once again and waited for permission. “come in,” came a voice from the other side of the door. Leo entered and bowed his head, “We found them,” Leo said. Boss raised his eyes from the book he was reading and replied: “Good, what are you waiting for?”. It was all that Leo needed to hear; Leo quickly left the room and started to walk towards the training grounds. Once he reached there, he called for the elite squad to assemble. Soon 20 people were standing in front of him. “it`s time to hunt boys,” he said and went toward the helicopters followed by the elite squad.