Built to Slaughter

REUNITED

RAYO GRIFFIN WOOLRIDGE

The next day went by and I found myself swiftly jumping on top of trees while holding a huge bag that contains the body of my victim yesterday.

I'm on the way to the association. From my home it was an hour's ride to the base. Our main base was hidden deep inside the woods. Father set up a few mines surrounding the base and the jungle that’s why I’ve been jumping around in trees for precaution, if you happen to accidentally step on those mines you have to say goodbye to your life.

I've been hopping in trees around for hours now, and I’m starting to think that I'm lost.

But I was wrong, after hopping in a few trees I finally caught the glimpse of our base, I jumped down from the tree and I landed perfectly on the ground. I brushed off some dirt on my shoulders and straightened my suit before walking over to the base.

At first look, it's just a normal modern house, but when you get inside, a man is waiting in the living room (who is technically a robot that will kill if you tell him the wrong passcode), when you passed the test the BCA will give you a card that contains the passcode which is 'Geen Genade' meaning no mercy. If you gave the right passcode the robot will give you access to the elevator which is located in the bathroom the elevator then will take you to the underground base.

After seem like an eternity the elevator door opened and I was met by a huge metal door.

"Huh this is new" I mumbled to myself as I dropped the bag onto the floor, I looked around, it was all black, then I notice a rectangle-shaped on the floor that looks like a pressure plate, I stepped on it and immediately a red light scanned my body up and down, when it finished scanning the light turned green, the huge door is slowly opening. Soon the door is wide open I was met by people walking and chattering around, others stop in their tracks to check who got in and when they saw me I can hear gasps and mumbling from the crowd, all eyes are on me now.

As soon as I stepped inside I was greeted warmly by everyone, others even hugged me, shake my hand and others were a little bit shocked

“Welcome back Rayo!”

“Good to see you man”

After greeting anyone I knew, I went to the main desk to ask for my father.

“Hi what can I do for you?” The woman at the desk questioned her tone was a little bit strict.

“Hey, can I talk to Mr. Woolridge?” I politely asked the woman, I have never seen that face before maybe he is a new recruit. Last year I heard that father recruited 200 people.

She typed something on her computer and then she sternly looked at me

“Please state your name Mr.?”

“Mr. Woolridge” I cleared my throat “but you can call me Rayo because Mr. Woolridge makes me feel old”

I can see her froze In her spot

“Oh my god, my apologies sir” She apologized as she dropped her strict act, I can see the embarrassment on her face “I didn’t know sorry I am just new here and I certainly didn’t see you around here before so I figure you are new, so I am very sorry”

“It’s fine don’t worry about it, this is the first time I showed my face here again” I informed her “It’s been three years”

I can see her listening carefully and nodded.

“So yeah my father, I mean boss, is he free?”

“Yes sir actually he ordered us to cancel all of his meetings and calls for today because he is waiting for his son which turns out to be you, so go take a left and walk straight, at the end of the room you will see a big door”

“Yes ma’am, got it”

“And oh you should go easy on the newbie, they might s**t their pants” she giggled and I finally waved her goodbye.

I followed her instructions walking straight until I was met by a large wooden door that has a 'DASHIELL WOOLRIDGE' which is my father’s name carved on a metal plate hanging on his door.

I just stood there staring at the wooden door for a minute; I was a bit nervous about talking to my father again after ignoring him completely for a few years. With one last deep breath, I knocked at the door gently.

“Come in” I heard my dad shouted at the other side.

I slowly opened the door and there he was, my dad, sitting at his table flickering some papers, reading glasses hanging on his nose. He was wearing a casual white polo shirt and pants, he now has a goatee and it suits him, his Smokey grey hair was perfectly gelled, his blue eyes was still as bright as I remembered.

He stopped all of what he is doing and looked up at me. We just stood there and stared at each other, there was an awkward tension filling the air so I started to bring the body bag that I was holding and place it on the table I also put the document on top of the bag.

“Uhm h-hey d-dad“ I stuttered, goddamnit why am I so nervous “So yeah I finished my task and I thought

to come by to drop this, the body so you don’t have to come visi---

I was caught off guard by my father who was now hugging me to death, I was so nervous I didn’t even notice that he stood up. I hugged him back finally the atmosphere is at peace.

“It’s great to see you son I’ve missed you, you’ve grown so much , you are much taller than me now,” My father said in a soft voice with affection “I am very sorry my son for what happened last time”

“Me too dad I’ve missed you,” I said giving him a sad smile, I finally pulled away from him “it’s okay dad I’m already over it, I should really be the one that needs to apologize for, acting stubbornly for, ignoring you for years I am very sorry dad”

“It’s alright son I understand, I can’t blame you for that” he patted my shoulders and he started to walk away to sit on one of his couch patting the sofa next to him motioning for me to come to sit with him, and I obeyed immediately

“So, tell me everything, what did change your mind?”

“Nothing, it’s just the decision I made, I’ve been wanting to come back for the past few years but I didn’t have any courage to face the field again after you know... but then suddenly it came to me that I need to take a step forward again“ I explained to him “And I’m very happy that I made that decision, I had a lot of fun yesterday I missed it”

“Look at my boy all grown up, you became matured,” He said I looked at his eyes I can see that he was very proud of me “I’m glad you made that decision Rayo, I’m very happy that you are back”

We talked for hours about some random kinds of stuff and mostly about me, I was getting bored but I really missed my dad I don’t want to ruin the moment since I haven’t addressed him for years, we used to be so close but now there is like an invisible wall between us.

“So enough about me” I chuckled “What about you? How’s the company doing?

“Ahh nothing much new,” Dad tells me “We just got lots of new high-tech things that our special people invented just for us, like a smoke bomb that is deadly it’s very helpful for you guys because if you are surrounded by the enemies you can just throw this and color red smoke will come out, killing all of the enemies in just seconds and of course a special mask for the smoke grenade holders, and some stuff that you will see later because I forgot about it”

“That’s because you are getting old” I teased

"pshhh I never aged,” he said annoyed knowing that he was getting older and older

“Things are a bit different here without you Rayo, it’s a bit hard, to be honest” He admitted sighing deeply “Without you and Max it’s hard to keep the company going”

“But why? I thought Max was in the field again?” I curiously asked

“Yeah but he came back to the field just a month ago he didn’t tell you? he was doing paper works too for the past few years”

“No, he didn’t mention it to me” I shrugged

Maybe he had a reason

“And what about those 200 people you recruited?” I suddenly remembered what Max said

“Uhhh” My dad looked away from me

“Dad what did you do?”

“The half of them were wiped out,” He said with a sense of guilt

“What!!” I said in a small panicked voice

“It’s becaus---“

“You know what, I don’t even want to know it’s just going to boil my anger” I cut him off dismissing the topic, I don’t want to hear more of our people dying because of my dad’s careless decisions.

“Sorry”

“Anyways l can’t wait to use those cool things our people made”

“So I’ll be going to go now and meet Max” I stood up and waved him goodbye while walking out of his office “And dad if you need me I’ll be at the training room”

“He’s at the special training room to by the way” I can hear my dad shouted

“Thank you!!”

-

The special training room is only accessible for the high-class assassins; there are three training rooms, The Newbie room, the intermediate room, and lastly the special high-class room.

Our special training room is equipped with top-tier machines and weapons and of course a combat area where we can fight one another to improve our skills.

And for the training room for newbies, they only have like what I have in my house, just some dummies and a shooting range, there is a ring too where newbies will practice and challenge themselves with an intelligent fighting robot. In the newbie training ground, they are not allowed to fight with each other only at the top classes. When you passed the robot test your rank will immediately go up and you can train in the intermediate room.

Lastly the intermediate room it’s the same as a newbie but in the intermediate room this is where the hard training starts, they will hurt you badly or even break your bones and burn your skin, they will tear every piece of innocence that’s left in your soul. And when you passed the intermediate room you will be awarded as an exclusive member of society giving you a special card and your rank will go higher too of course and you can be in the special training room with the other high classes.

The training rooms are a part of the test, if you can’t survive the training then better go pack your bags.

Entering the special training room, only a few people are around like 15 people to be exact, there were only a few faces I recognize and the rest are fresh faces.

The others were using the top-tier machine guns that I have never seen before damn, they are firing at a watermelon angrily and some are blasting laser guns at each other but they have a vest on.

On the other side of the room, I can see people gathering around in the combat area, they are watching a fight.

I walked over to the crowd finding my way to the front, bumping into a lot of people on the way and I was getting glares from others.

Funny them they don’t know who I really am, but I can’t blame them I haven’t been here in years.

When I got to the front row I can finally see who is fighting and I was shocked to see Maxwell getting beat up by someone who I don’t recognize maybe he is new, a 5'8 man who has a broad square body, I was assuming he was around my age, he has a neutral expression. He has ash blonde hair that is messy, his nose a bit broken and dripping blood, muscles in his arms are tense.

"Mr. Maxwell Grayson you've gotten weak" He spoke while looking down at my friend

"Not as weak as you" Maxwell fired back but he got punched again and then he collapsed to the floor.

Poor Max

"So who is next?" His voice dripping with confidence as he scanned the crowd looking if someone wants to try but nobody did. "Who wants to try me?"

Pshh they feared this man? he doesn't look like a threat at all to me.

"I will" I spoke up and his head whipped in my direction and others looked at me too.

I removed my suit and ties, leaving me in just a short. in the corner of my eye, I can see the guy moving Maxwell's body to the side

Before walking into the mats I look around to see if someone I knew was watching, and then I saw them, Jeremy, Don, and Ashley my other friends too, I can see them looking at me in shock and I just winked at them and they never said a word to anyone since nobody knows me this will be a perfect comeback.

"What is your name newbie?" He taunted, we both circle around the mats.

I was just laughing inside at how blunt this boy was.

"Less talk more fighting" I lifted my hands up motioning for him to come at me. I can see his eyes flash a shade darker.

He takes a threatening step forward, but I jumped back immediately on guard as I watch his every moves like a hawk.

Finally made my decision within a split second, I ran towards him, I was so fast that he didn't even know how to react, I threw my right fist out in a curved punch at his temple making him groan in pain for a second. Turning ninety degrees to the side, he tried to bring his right forearm up to counter the blow, but I immediately stepped back because if I didn't I would be in trouble, his forearm only meeting air, I smirked at him.

"You are just fast but I'm much stronger than you" He growled, his lips twitching up. he was getting frustrated, the confidence in his eyes earlier vanished.

I hate talkative people in fights it just a waste of time, So I took another step forward and bolted at him with my foot outstretched, I kicked him hard in the stomach making him stumbled backward while holding his stomach in pain. then I took advantage of his weakness, I strike his neck making him jump backward coughing and spluttering and finally for my last move I swing a fistful at his face making him land hard on the mats, I heard him hissed under his breath and wincing in pain.

I looked around and people are starting to gather around watching interestingly I can hear some muttering too and others looked impressed, I even saw max who is already awake watching the fight, he looked at me and mouthed 'good job tell him who is the boss' then I started to focus again my enemy who was trying to get back on his feet. but I kicked his feet again making him fall again, hitting his face on the floor this time, he cried out in pain.

"Try not to stand up again"

I walked behind him flipping him around, I can see his nose we're completely broken, I gave him a devilish smile, then I sat on top of him pinning his arms by using only my one hand, he tried to struggle but he can't because he's too weak, I can feel him shudder under me as I took out my dagger at my back, I throw it in the air, it spun around, I waited patiently it to come down when the dagger fell down I can see the boy closing his eyes and looking away anticipating that the dagger will fell at his heart, but I expertly caught it before it hit his chest, I saw him opening his one eye looking at the hovering dagger that I am holding right before his chest.

"RAYOOOOO" A voice boomed out all of the sudden that made everyone jump in fear except for me.

We all looked in the direction from where the voice comes from and I saw it was my father.

I got back on my feet, I gave my enemy a last look before reaching up to wipe the sweat off my forehead and hiding my dagger at my back again, I took my suit from the floor and wore it as fast as I could, and I cleaned my self up for bit because I want to show a decent face when meeting my father not a half naked sweaty guy.

"Yes, father you summoned me?" I answered showing myself at him, I can hear gasps from the crowd and some jaws were dropped.

I smirked at the reaction of the people.

"Back to torture some kids again?" Father question, I can see he is quite amused

"Just some" I shrugged, the room was quiet

"Team listen up!, I want you to meet my son Rayo Griffin Woolridge, well you don't know him, only a certain people does, that's because he quitted three years ago, he was the best top assassins we have in here, and now he is back, I want you to show him some respect because he will be the future leader of this association" My father proudly announced I waved at them my keeping my face neutral but I was smiling so hard inside.

"I have a new task for you will you be up for it?"

"Yes of course father"

"Right let's go discuss this in my office"

"You are all dismissed" My father shouted

After that, me and my father left the training room

Leaving a lot of people in shocked.

A very interesting day. .