Chapter 38: Chapter 38 - Mass Hunting (2)
Lily stayed on the ceiling of the tunnel for a while, listening in on the conversation they had below.
They weren't speaking about anything particularly important. It was mainly small talk between the young girl, who was seemingly called Cara as her name— or maybe a nickname of some sort— and the lady wearing the odd hat, whom Clara called Dreamer.
Hearing the name that she called the lady made Lily remember one of the mutants in the Marvel Comics she had encountered before while browsing.
It was a very minor memory, which was why she didn't instantly think of it— after all, she only read about it once or twice at most— and she usually wouldn't even remember it. Still, thanks to her increase in mental capabilities, her memories were much better than before.
Beautiful Dreamer, she was a Morlock that had some sort of confrontation against the Power family in one of the comics.
Lily never read all the comics or actively kept up with them, only reading the few she came across or trendy ones, so she didn't know much about what happened in that particular comic.
But she did remember a bit about the lady's powers; she could alter memories.
It was a handy ability, but it also had its limitations; one of those was going to be very helpful to Lily in dealing with her.
And that was the fact that it took time to do. She couldn't instantly alter someone's memories— she had to carefully craft the new memories with her mind.
That way, Lily could deal with her quickly before she had time to mess with her mind.
As for the other lady, Lily knew nothing about her.
She rarely spoke, her personality didn't seem the best, and the other two mainly conversed among themselves without even mentioning her name or anything.
So Lily had no idea what her name or abilities were, which may prove to be dangerous when she attacked them.
However, even if she didn't know their powers, she would still attack them because it was necessary for her plan.
It would simply be a waste to not devour them. Especially so for Dreamer, who had an ability that could prove to be very useful for her.
But she didn't act rashly because of this revelation— she spent a little more time listening in, just a few more minutes.
"Poser and Matchstick said that they met the X-Men!"
Spoke the young girl to Dreamer as they were conversing. Lily could hear the excitement and jealousy in her voice.
"X-Men? Where did they meet them?"
Replied Dreamer as she was curious about the story.
"I don't know. But they did say they met them."
"I see. Do you want to meet them?"
Dreamer asked the girl, but she didn't even need to ask to know the answer was going to be a yes.
"Of course, they are so cool. I can't believe more people don't know about them. They are heroes!"
Ah, her innocents made Lily even more reprehensive to kill her, but she didn't allow her lingering emotions to get in the way of her growth. Instead, she began to act, crawling above the group slowly and softly.
"When is she coming?"
Spoke the other lady that had been quiet all this time.
Dreamer turned to look at her before glancing down the tunnel path and looking back.
"I'm not sure. She should be here by now."
She replied while shaking her head.
They were naturally talking about the old lady from before— even Lily could figure out that much— they most likely had plans to meet up for something, but that wasn't going to happen.
Now that the old lady was late, she was starting to get impatient and antsy, so Lily decided to act.
Just like with the old lady, she dropped down from the ceiling and crashed directly onto the lady whom she knew nothing about.
She didn't want to take the risk of her power being dangerous, so she had to get rid of her first in a surprise attack. Plus, this way, the other two would be confused and stunned for a while, allowing her to act.
And she was right— when the girl suddenly dropped from above and came crashing down onto their comrades— breaking her back and killing her in the process— they were both stunned and horrified.
Especially Cara, who was still young and hadn't seen something so graphic up close before.
"What the hell!?"
She screamed in shock as Lily dropped on top of the dead woman's corpse before turning to look at them.
Lily didn't give them time to reorganize themselves before acting, her nails extending out like blades as she swung at the young girl's neck, slicing it.
She tried her best to make it as quick and as painless as she could because while she may have been a murderer, she didn't want to be a heartless one.
The girl died before Dreamer could even react, and by the time she realized that both her allies were dead, the realization that she was next had already dawned on her.
"Ah!"
She screamed in surprise and horror before Lily swung her hand at her face, gouging her claws into her left eye and killing her instantly.
She did this for two reasons, the first was that she wanted to kill her quickly and easily before she had the time to mess with her mind, and the second was the fact that she wanted to preserve as much blood as she possibly could from her.
Stabbing through her eye would leave only one wound that she could block from bleeding out, which she did with a piece of the woman's clothing.
She didn't want to risk not gaining enough information to make her ability.
'Three more down.'
She thought to herself as she retracted her nails and looked down at the bodies around her.
'Was it this easy to kill mutants?'
No, it wasn't, they were just weak, and she knew that.
Not to mention she wasn't weak by any means, compared to the higher or even street-level heroes; sure, she was weak, but those that dwelled in the sewers were much weaker than she currently was.
At least most of them were; she still had to be wary of the leaders and hidden abnormalities.
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ZeroX0666 For anyone wondering, the mutants in this chapter are called;
Carapace
Beautiful Dreamer
Lightning Bug
They appeared in some of the comics, but there wasn't a lot of information about them.
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Chapter 39: Chapter 39 - Mass Hunting (3)
Standing in the middle of the three dead bodies, Lily called for her worm, which was nearby, and ordered it to do the same for them as she did for the old lady before.
She now had more food added to her list to eat later, but she didn't plan to stop yet; four was not enough.
With the bodies being taken care of, she returned to crawling along the ceiling of the tunnels in search of prey, her scouts already alerting her of two mutants that were a distance away from her, but they were the closes ones to her.
She quickly made her way over to them, taking much longer than she did to reach the ones before, nearly 15 minutes of running at her top speed on all four to reach the location.
Only stopping when she noticed two people within the distance, a female and what she could only assume was a male.
She assumed it because he didn't look very human.
Observing from the shadows, she was able to finally understand just how abnormal some of the Morlock mutants looked and why they had to hide in the tunnels to avoid people.
The female of the pair looked normal; she had blond hair and blue eyes, something you would expect from any regular girl in a coffee shop, the male on the other hand.
He had skin that was covered in boils that looked like they were ready to burst at a moment's notice, his hands only had four fingers, but as if making up for that, he had a third extra hand that came out of his chest.
He didn't have any hair; he was completely bald, and his head was covered in what looked like burn scars from chemical spills.
The oddest part was when Lily got closer to observe them from above; she was able to notice the man had four eyes, two were glowing red, and the other two looked relatively normal.
His mouth looked freakish; he had chelicerae, like that of a spider, except it was made out of flesh like a regular mouth would be.
He was odd to look at, to say the least, and that was coming from Lily, someone that literally ate people.
After observing the two for a few moments, Lily realized that they didn't seem to have anything to do with each other and that they were just talking in the middle of the tunnels after meeting up by chance.
This was interesting information because Lily knew that the Morlocks had different factions within them; she just didn't know which factions currently existed.
So this was confirmation that the different groups rarely interacted with each other outside of chance encounters and the leaders.
She watched them talk for a bit before deciding to jump down on the male while he wasn't paying attention to her.
She decided to go for him because his mutation clearly had something to do with his physical body, and she didn't want to take the risk that he might be able to counter her if she instead focused on the girl.
However, it seemed like she had guessed wrong this time because while killing the man was straightforward and confused the girl for a second, she quickly reacted.
A blast of energy came crashing into Lily.
She didn't have time to avoid the impact from the blast because of how close the girl was, but she was able to lessen the damage she took by blocking it with her arms.
Surprisingly it wasn't very powerful. It couldn't break any of her bones or even injure her, but it was strong enough to push her back and away from the girl.
Although it didn't push her very far, merely a few feet away.
"Who are you?!"
Yelled the girl with an angry yet panicked voice, her hands held out before, ready to defend against anything Lily would try to do.
"I'm just passing through; he looked like a threat, so I acted without thinking."
Lily replied to the girl as she backed up slightly, showing that she wasn't trying to be hostile.
Naturally, that didn't work. The girl was still on guard against her and simply spat back with her own words.
"So you attack before speaking? And now you try to play innocent."
Well, it was a fun conversation, but Lily really didn't need to have it.
The only reason she didn't do anything yet was because she was wary of the blast the girl did; she wasn't sure if she could make it stronger, which made her wary of acting.
But the girl's focus and guard towards her did lower her attention to the area around her, specifically below her.
"I'm not very innocent. I'm sorry."
Lily said as the worm burst out from below the girl and bit her leg off, causing the girl to fall to the ground in pain, screams bursting out of her as if they were trying to get free.
Acting quickly, Lily dashed forward and sliced the girl's head off, killing her in the process, but the girl had been quite loud in the tunnels with her piercing scream.
Thankful it only had one person nearby, and they were quite a distance away.
'That was far too messy; I didn't expect her to be able to do something like that. I really do wish I had a way to tell what abilities they had.'
She said to herself as she looked down at the mess around her.
With a soft sigh, she ordered her worm to deal with them, herself quickly jumping back to the ceiling to move from this area in case the yelling drew attention.
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200+ Power
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