Soul Lovers

Fragments.

The wind whistling at the dead of the night in the woods around the battle ground between Jared and the Expats filled with craters, fallen trees and debris. Dante zoomed to the top of a towering tree, standing he surveyed his surroundings then spotted glowing figures at the scene. A male glowing in sapphire while a female glowing in lemon from the way they glow probably an inhumane then he noticed a little teenaged girl with them glowing in amber with one other male near her in chocolate glow.

He hunched, brushing off his ginger hair to the side of his face.

“Looks like there was a fight here most likely Jared was at the middle of it. Hmm. Let me take a look closer.” He said then silently zoomed to where the glowing beings were with great speed without them knowing, he checked the craters, the fallen trees, the dead little red bed on the ground slightly far from the incident he sped back at that moment he spotted a small orange bag on the floor stuck beneath a huge trunk of tree.

"Sorry we eventually called you here with us, how are you now feeling?" one of the male guard in sapphire glow asked the little teenaged girl who was known to be Lola, she'd smiled at the question not completely healed from the pain but yet managed to nod while she stared at the ground.

"It seems to me the day the kid known as the unlucky followed them to hunt that's the day everything turned upside down. What was the chief elder thinking by allowing such kid to follow you lovely guys, Lola? Ugh! this annoys me everytime I think of it. Let's just throw him out from the village and see if the Imperial will one day turn their face to us," the female in lemon glow continued, "the state in which the village is right now— things are getting really bad if not for the village is vividly engaged in trading with neighbor hood villages we would have fallen long ago. Ugh!"

"Why complaining now. if you want to leave the village. Go on, no one is forcing you to stay." the male in sapphire glow answered, "and stop blaming the kid for our misfortune to the imperial."

"Seriously, you don't know the imperial no longer send food and goods to us this was due to the fact that the kid and his Grandma are living with us."

"Gosh... stop pissing me off and continuing searching for any leads to where they might've taken the youth leader and the boy."

The Female hissed as she carried on her search.

— Dante carried the huge truck of tree effortlessly then took the small orange bag afterwards he placed the huge trunk gently back to its position, the male in chocolate glow swiftly looked at the direction, the others glanced at him.

“What’s wrong, what do you see?” the male in sapphire asked anxiously while Lola was looking around. The guard who thought he saw something, shook his head.

“It seems to me that trunk of tree just moved a moment ago.” He said, the guards and Lola looked at the huge trunk.

“The trunk? How possible.” the female in lemon glow said, walking to the other side searching for more clues from the fight days ago. "You might've felt sleepy since you were on watch throughout the day."

—As long as I vibrate my body with my speed when standing still no one can see me. He said to himself while he searched the small orange bag also vibrating it then he brought out few papers from it.

Drawings?! What is this doing in a place like this? he reasoned, glancing over more and more drawings on the papers.

“Lola are you sure they talked about selling them?!” the female guard in lemon glow asked.

Dante turned his face towards them.

Lola nodded at the female guard direction.

"What in the world did they do to deserve this? I will say it again it was because of the unlucky boy!"

— Hm? Selling them off… Was Jared not alone? Dante asked himself, a paper suddenly caught his eyes, “Wait a minute, this drawing. This are... am taking this with me.” He said softly, folded it, dropped the small orange bag behind Lola and zoomed back to the towering tree.

I need to meet the person who drew this. He may be among the people the Beasts captured or the other way round. He thought.

He sensed someone below him.

“They are here.” He said while he zoomed to the ground.

Gage along side with three red-caped royal guards walked to Dante.

“Know anything yet?” Gage asked while he folded his arms. Dante nodded.

“I believe Jared was not alone, he was captured with some other beings, which I don’t know how and when. I'm sure the beings captured with him are probably Inhumanes.”

“Hm. Interesting. Inhumanes, the capturing of Jared. I still not believe such stories. It took the whole Divine humanes to finally took him down, which beast could forcefully captured him and why?” Gage questioned. “But. If they came in pack, he might not have a chance. We all know how tough life is right now at the Beast Kingdom as for me after capturing Jared selling him off will be a good idea to make hundred beings abnormally rich, the distinct scar on his face and maybe his armour is a good chance they knew who he was.” He said then he looked behind Dante.

“Inhumanes, let’s interrogate them, and if they don’t talk, we'll kill them.”

He signaled the Royal guards in red capes to capture them, Dante zoomed to their front.

“Wait a minute. As you can see they are also the victim here. Why can’t we just gently go there and asked them?” Dante appealed, Gage stared at them for awhile then he sighed. “Even no need. I heard from them, they took Jared off to sell him.”

“To sell him! A Divine humane!” Gage fumed as the earth rumbled heavily.

The Royal guards in red capes staggered while Dante walked to Gage unshaken.

“Gage. Don’t blow our cover. Think. You said it yourself earlier that selling him off is the best idea they could think of.” Dante said, Gage looked at the Royal guards in red capes as they staggered then he stopped the ground from shaking raising one finger.

Dante smiled.

“So where do you think, they might have taken him?”

“I know a place where the Aurora clan did trade, follow me.” Gage said as he walked away.

Dante smiled.

“Now he thinks.” He said as he followed Gage with the Royal guards.

Meanwhile Lola and the glowing guards where stunned by the sudden earthquake they experienced a moment ago.

“What just happened?” the male guard in chocolate glow asked while he stood up, went to Lola laying on the floor, she slowly turned her face on seeing Peirce's bag.

“Huh? Peirce’s bag.” She gasped, took it and jerkily stood up.

-

At the city of bounty hunters, in Frankenstein's laboratory, Peirce was firmly clamped on his head, his wrists as well as his ankles on a inclined metallic bed.

He slowly opened his eyes.

“You sure wake up faster than I expected.” Frankenstein stated, holding two test tubes on both hands filled with colorless substance. "And it makes my research faster."

Peirce rolled his eyes to Frankenstein.

“What are you doing to me?” He inquired in a throaty tone.

Frankenstein poured the colorless substance into another, which suddenly changed it’s color into black liquid. Frankenstein looked at it and shook his head, not expecting the kind of result he had in his hands then he stared at Peirce.

“If you ask me… to be in accordance of putting spirituality and technology together as one.” Frankenstein said, pouring the black substance into a basin. “Have you ever think, why our world is like this? How every kind with their abilities to do one thing or the other or in making life easier or better, Peirce?”

Peirce rolled his eyes to the huge incandescent light at the upper limit of the room.

He’d knew he was taken from the filled tube and now strapped on a long erected metallic bed.

“Don’t know too deep about life because you will be confuse of so many things it breaths out.” Peirce said.

Frankenstein put down the test tubes into the basin.

“Hm. You might be right, but not everyone believe that, including me. Beings in this world of ours takes different journey seeking fulfillment and happiness. Mine is no different.”

“Is this mine?” Peirce asked.

Frankenstein nodded then took the strange screen from the table, he stared at it.

“Yes this is yours, where you are is leading you to where you will be going next. That I believe.” Frankenstein put down the strange screen, walked to Peirce. “As far as I have experimented on many kinds of beings all over the world, yours is truly fascinating. The more I experiment the more stranger it becomes.” Peirce smiled, Frankenstein looked to him, “Was it funny?”

Peirce shook his head, “You sounded just like my grandma with the way you talk earlier.”

“Hm?”

“Just that she is more calmer and a better person than you.”

“Comparing me to an inhumane! Ha! Behold, don’t look down on me.” Frankenstein said as he removed is coat.

Peirce widened his eyes at the sight of the person in front of him.

Revealing upper half of Frankenstein's body glowing black and the sides from his ribcage down was hairy in silver fur just like he was in a beast mode with both arms and neck marked like the Nymphs.

“Look at what I have achieved in going too deep! What I need now is in you, something I have never seen before inside any other being but you, something-something I know will be the greatest Vigor I have ever acquired!” Frankenstein expressed as he pointed to Peirce, then he exhaled and wore back is lab coat. “Never tell people your plans show them your result.” He said then placed a tape on Peirce’s mouth and turned to leave. “I will be back, good bye for now.” He left, locking the door behind him while Peirce just looked in awe then he clenched his fist thinking once again how unlucky his life was.