章 6: The explosion

After his adventure in the dreamscape he decided to take a break to rest mentally that fight was by far his hardest yet another fact was that until he could make a better and more personalized Rakuyo he would stick with his arcane great sword

But for now he wanted to simply stay in reality once he got up from his bed he grabbed a special pair of black glasses ( think daredevils from the Netflix show also those who haven't watched it should especially with him being in a certain movie ) put them on and all the creatures that where in his vision disappeared without a trace bringing some normalcy to Damien's vision though he could still ''feel '' them

The gang was gone by the time he woke up he decided to help around the bar today " hey old man where did the others head out " Vander gave Damien a shrug not knowing Damien sighed and could only hope they didn't cause anymore trouble oh how wrong and foolish he was for thinking such things

( for added affect I recommend playing Dark F**king spirt from the Wrath of man soundtrack it's what i listened to while writing this )

Especially when he began hearing whispers of an explosion from the upper city hearing this dread began to mount in Damien so much to the point everyone in the bar could feel it emanating from him he began to tap his finger in a craze trying to distract himself from this horrible feeling

His mind began to wander to his family which where currently out ' what if they where injured or WORSE their bodies twisted and mangled ... NO they are all strong enough to deal with it but what if…..' his own mind continued to wander in many different directions until "DAMIEN " it was Vander screaming at him Damine snapped out of it and looked to find himself with a broken bottle in hand shards piercing his flesh but yet he felt no pain " ah it seemed I broke a glass sorry I'll be needing a moment to clean myself " was all Damien said as he left back to the living quarters not fully realizing how much he terrified the patrons and Vander himself with his entire being at that point once in the room he brought out alcohol and a medical box and he began to emotionlessly take each glass shard out

His cat ears twitched as he herd the gang arrived and he quickened his bandaging then they all arrived all had been very obviously pissed and in a fight wordlessly he then got up and directed them to sit all of them looked at his bandaged hand yet with a forceful aura got them to take a seat and he began to fix them up the room filled with an loud silence" Come on then what the hell happened up there " said Damien as he bandaged Vi " we got a tip… from little man apparently a topsider came down asking for odd parts in benzo's shop" then Milo cut in " AND we had gotten a good haul until the jinx decided to act up forcing us to leave and then tossed our loot into the river after getting cornered by some goons we ran into " Damine glared at Milo then he looked at Powder who shrunk down a couple sizes hearing Milo " don't be so harsh on her " he spoke as he continued the treatment

Then large heavy footsteps could be herd coming down the stairs and once Vander opened the door he signalled for Damien " it's gonna be trouble that's for sure not entirely sure how much though " spoke Damien " thankfully they lost the loot which means no traces that could return to them " Vander nods and then says " you all were way over your head your gonna have to lay low for awhile until I can clean up this mess " with that court is adjourned and Damien leaves to attend to the bar

And all is good in the bar until the enforcers arrive Vander at this point had joined him everyone was on edge when they came in the captain was respectful while the second in command was far more ruthless and hateful of all the bottom dwellers " it's been awhile huh Vander it's a shame we have had to meet under such circumstances " said the captain Damien then picked up two shot glasses " drink you two " the captain gave a knowing look on Damien while the lieutenant gave a look of disgust but in the end both shook their head " very well then " Damien said as he returned the glasses " the council is becoming restless Vander we need to know where they are so we don't get a repeat of last time " spoke the captain sombrely Damien felt his mind return to the bloodbath of that day " I'm sorry but they've gone under our radar " said Damien just as Vander opened his mouth this caused everyone to look at Damien then the lieutenant got up and grabbed Damien " WE KNOW YOUR HIDING THEM" he said Damien looked at the lieutenant then he grabbed his arms and slowly but surely began to twist them

A look of surprise came over the Lieutenant as he felt himself get overpowered by a child then Vander and the captain spilt them up the enforcers then began to leave with the captain leaving a mail canister all the patrons looked at Vander some began to protest about the enforcers

Meanwhile with the enforcers " who the hell was that kid " said the lieutenant as he rubbed his arms the Captain frowned " you hear the story of the bloodied child " she said the lieutenant nodded " yeah who didn't it was all over the news a child single handed killed over 3 dozen of our men in a single night " the Captain then said " well that boy was the bloodied child " the lieutenant became confused " then why haven't we arrested him yet?" The captain laughs " you think some haven't tried they all disappeared overnight that's when we burned the bloodied child file to protect ourselves from him besides he'd probably tear down the prison anyway " the lieutenant then asked " are we sure that the prison wouldn't hold him " the captain laughed " the entire prison would be nothing but a joke first he'd kill his fellow inmates then he'd kill the guards and burn the entire place down at least that's what was said in a personal note of his left to us after the last disappearance before we burned the file "