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(Yes, that means Shade is an important character and so far my best villain).\n\nI hope you enjoy reading this story as much as I enjoyed writing it. And remember when I write I don't make my characters do what I want them to do... I go into their minds and think like them. So enough to say is that I explored sides of Duncan and Shade I never thought I'd see... by the way try to find the references in the story hahahaha\n\nDuncan, Tuff, Nigel (Charade) and Shade © dracolicoi","description_bbcode_parsed":"It's been a while since I wrote a story, so I spent some days figuring out how to bring you a new one making some links and conexions for the upcoming finale of the FAI Third phase!
As a matter of fact, I decided that the most recent villain in my repertory should be a key piece in the upcoming events... together with someone else I won't reveal... (Yes, that means Shade is an important character and so far my best villain).
I hope you enjoy reading this story as much as I enjoyed writing it. And remember when I write I don't make my characters do what I want them to do... I go into their minds and think like them. So enough to say is that I explored sides of Duncan and Shade I never thought I'd see... by the way try to find the references in the story hahahaha
Duncan, Tuff, Nigel (Charade) and Shade © dracolicoi","writing":"[center][b]The worthy rival[/b][/center]\n\n“Fifty nine, sixty… Well, it looks everything is up to date” sighed Nigel while closing the laptop and leaning back on the chair.\n\n“Yeah… it’s a three participant competition now for the criminals” giggled Tuff sighing and checking at the security cameras where he could see the naked and tied criminals caged in the bondage circus that struggled unsuccessfully “Having Fury chasing the criminals and demons on one hand and Grant with Eddy, Félix and Pierrot chasing drug and slavelords as well as dimensional beings on the other makes things hard for us”\n\n“Ever since the last attack we lost everything… fortunately the embryos were safe” sighed Duncan standing against the door holding a mug of coffee. It had been like that for at least five consecutive nights “The stupid demon bull stole all those souls and we had to start over to help Mammon…”\n\n“Yeah, didn’t he mentioned other demons trying to get more souls now that his father was sealed AGAIN?” said Nigel sipping coffee too and checking his clock, it was 2:51 am “We should get some rest, tonight’s riot got us only three filthy burglars…”\n\n“At least you’re improving on ‘seizing’ instead of killing” joked Tuff.\n\n“Pretty funny…” growled the ex-criminal “I had my piece of the cake some months in that basement plus all the torment of hell…”\n\n“We know” nodded Duncan.\n\n“W-what the…?!” shouted Tuff suddenly “NOT AGAIN!”\n\n“What?” asked both Nigel and Duncan at the same time.\n\n“The camera 5 fades to black suddenly… it’s been happening the last few hours” stated the young dog “It’s really annoying cuz I’ll have to go and fix it now…”\n\nDuncan chuckled at his husband’s annoyance and walked to the monitors as the German shepherd fixed the utility belt to fix the camera. And it was then that he noticed the fading and something else, the leather leashes and chains holding a 17 years old criminal apprentice were hanging empty.\n\n“Where’s prisoner 43-B?” asked Duncan surprised.\n\n“What?! I tied him correctly as you instructed!” shouted Nigel turning around and rolling the chair to the monitors looking at the now empty cage.\n\n“I should take this too” sighed Tuff without looking at the other two and picking his magnum storing it on the case by his armpit.\n\n“Don’t go darling” said Duncan as he stretched “I’ll take care of it”\n\n“Or we can all go” suggested Nigel “force in the numbers”\n\n“That didn’t helped last time” said Tuff.\n\n“Last time we faced the king of hell” stated Duncan “Nigel is right… let’s go”\n\nThe fennec smiled grabbing his gauntlets and covering his scarred handpaws with them while Duncan picked the old Remington shotgun and walked out of the attic heading the party down to the basement.\n\nThe house was completely dark. They had turned off the lights, not only for the hour but to prevent any curiosity from the neighbors. Last time a 7 years old nearly managed to get her way into the basement. If it wasn’t for Tuff she would have discovered the criminal circus down there. Duncan sighed looking in the shadows and finally found the way through the halls to the ground floor’s main hall. He walked again knowing the layout of the house completely and reached the studio where the secret entrance was hidden. The jackal pulled “Sin and Punishment” in the bookshelf and a side door opened showing a dimmed light passage that lead to a staircase where the sound of moans and excited groans echoed. Duncan entered and finally turned on the lights as the secret door closed behind Nigel who was on the rear of the group.\n\n“Do you hear anything?” whispered Tuff as he went stair after stair down on a safe gunner position. All his life time had taught him how to properly get ready to any relatively controlled situation.\n\n“Some… wet and weird sounds” said Nigel.\n\n“If the bastard managed to break free he should be pawing to release” contained a chuckle the jackal.\n\nBut as they went lower in the staircase, the noises came clear to not be those of a teenager masturbating but… that of an animal eating. Duncan stepped on the basement and looked around trying to find the place where the noises came from. But there was nothing to be seen… that was until a bone rolled to his paws.\n\n“W-What the?!” shouted Duncan as Tuff and Nigel reached him.\n\nThe loud yell made the prisoners to groan and growl in anger to their captor, but also caused something else… in the shadows, near the cage that they were going to check, a pair of glowing red eyes turned to look at them. But… it was only the eyes, at least, until a bloody mouth smiled with the tongue outside.\n\n“Ahhh! Finally you three came… HEY YOU COULDN’T YOU HAVE BROUGHT THEM EARLIER?”\n\n“Who is he talking to?” asked Tuff.\n\n“To the dude writing the story at that office!” replied the shadow.\n\n“Story? What are you talking about?” asked Duncan.\n\n“Ohhh Others blind by the fourth wall” laughed the shadow standing up and revealing the half eaten corpse of the captive that had disappeared, used to be a fox with silver hair and piercings all over the now inexistent face “Anyways, I’ve been looking for…” then, he noticed Nigel “Ohhh! You are the guy from New Orleans!”\n\n“New Orleans?” asked Duncan looking at Nigel.\n\n“I went with Nidhoggson chasing Dusk…” started Nigel “I never mentioned it but…”\n\n“Go on! Introduce me!” bounced excitedly the shadow “You know you waaaant too!”\n\n“That maniac calls himself Shade” said Nigel aiming his palms at him “He… well… we have no idea where he came from but, we do know he killed Dusk.”\n\n“Woah!” shouted Tuff looking at Shade and then at Nigel. The shadow was just standing still playing with his tail, which blended completely with the shadows if it wasn’t for the dim lights over it.\n\n“Don’t take him for good… this guy was also killing civilians on New Orleans” stated Nigel.\n\n“Well, that’s what the word VILLAIN implies” laughed Shade and then… (What the… GIVE ME BACK THE SCRIPT!) “So, you are Duncan Lafey and your little bitch there is Tuff Lafey”\n\n“What? I’m no bitch of…” started Tuff but immediately Duncan shut him.\n\n“Nah, you do are my bitch” laughed Duncan amused by Shade’s sense of humor and still surprised of him taking out of nowhere a set of pages while stretching a little bit. Tuff blushed knowing Duncan was right but he wanted to have a strong presence against an enemy.\n\n“Well, at least you recognize it Duncan hahahahahaha… here, have it back” (Thanks… can I continue?)\n\n“You did dumbass!”\n\n(SHUT UP!)\n\n“Anyways, I came for some… feeding and what better place where you can mock of a naked struggling excited criminal telling him he’ll be free” Shade laughed maniacally causing a shiver in the three hunters.\n\n“Darn you’re sick…”\n\n“Sick-o I’d say fits me better hahaha” Shade merged on the shadows and appeared amongst the other three gropping Tuff’s butt and then tugging his ear.\n\n“ACK! HEY!” whined Tuff looking for his revolver.\n\n“That won’t serve” laughed Shade “I’m a shadow kiddo, bullets will go through me”\n\n“What about magic!” shouted Nigel fiering a blazing flare that scorched Tuff’s hair tip as the dog yipped and the shadow disappeared.\n\n“NIGEL!” roared Duncan.\n\n“I-I’m sorry…” apologized the wizard.\n\n“Hahahaha I smell a HOT-DOG!” laughed Shade again appearing at the top of the stairs “You know… this place gives me a lot of vantage points… why don’t we go outside where things will be more even and I could crush you in a very humiliating way?”\n\nShade’s legs turned into a serpent-like tail as it advanced…\n\n“Serpent? I’m a wolgon like your stupid main fursona idiot!”\n\n(I’m giving an ambient you moron! NOW SHUT UP AND KEEP UP WITH THE SCRIPT!)\n\n“Fine…”\n\nShade moved on the house lurking on every shadow as Duncan, Tuff and Nigel gave chase to him running upstairs and leaving the secret area finding him in the kitchen and then following the shadow to the bedroom.\n\n“Ohhh! Do you use these?” asked Shade to Tuff smelling a set of panties.\n\n“T-that’s private!” blushed heavily the dog.\n\n“I bet Charade does too…”\n\n“I DON’T!” barked the wizard sending another set of flames to the shadow but only managing to burn the piece of cloth he was holding.\n\n“THAT WAS MY FAVORITE!” roared Tuff.\n\n“Darling there are more important things now than lingerie!” urged Duncan looking at Shade move through the wall and then crawl over the window to the roof of the mansion “Damn it… he’s really frisky and sneaky…”\n\n“Tell me” blushed and grunted Tuff looking at the ashes of his favorite underwear.\n\n“You gotta admit the guy knows to have fun” shrugged Charade walking out of the room and heading outside followed by Duncan and Tuff.\n\nThe three ran downstairs and opened the door walking over the grass trying to find Shade, until a lighting revealed him standing on the north tower that acted as a secondary attic, holding tightly with one hand to the metal pole on the top of the building and smirking looking at the trio.\n\n“Well, looks like you REALLY wanted to chase me” snickered Shade.\n\n“Just out of curiosity of why you’re here” said coldly but sarcastically too Duncan.\n\n“Ohhh…” voiced Shade as he faked a surprise expression “I heard over the low place I’ve been that there’s this guy that makes tournaments to enslave people… then I heard he was brutally murdered by that faggot of Nidhoggson…” Shade’s fake expression turned a real amazement one “I heard the wolgon broke a nerve and ended up filling up the pimp with bullets all over the body, and no any bullet… MAGNUM bullets! Pieces and blood everywhere… though honestly I find Beelzebub’s work of art with Fennel much more interesting and refined…”\n\n“Why are you saying that?” asked Charade knowing about both incidents, one from firsthand information.\n\n“Cuz I also heard of a trio of hunters that chased both demons and criminals and enslaved them too as response… and also as punishment” laughed Shade “I found that ridiculously hilarious and ironic! So I decide to come here and make you an offer… I’ve been taking an eye on you three… Hunting like a pack… in perfect coordination… I want to have you by my side…”\n\n“What?! Are you trying to recruit us?!” shouted Tuff.\n\n“Yup… this boney dragon guy approached to me back in New Orleans and said he was forming an army to wipe out all the life on earth… I honestly find that interesting yet boring… who would I torment when there’s no one else alive?” Shade chuckled “I can offer you all… Power, madness, lust… whatever you wish for… Being a good guy is not fun enough, don’t you think? I offer you the greatest of pleasures… the pleasure of BE YOURSELVES AND DO WHATEVER YOU PLEASE!” another lighting impacted the soil illuminating Shade’s shape as the mad shadow wolgon laughed and got ready to continue his speech “Don’t you think being able of do whatever you please is way better than doing what the law says? I bet that demon raccoon that I can see inside your cane would agree with me, Lafey! Being evil is plainly fun! Hearing the cries of children looking how I rip their parents into pieces and then their cries when I beat them to death! Their pleas for me to stop! And then their pleas to die… what I deny them! OH! The power to do what I want… to coat my shadow in the blood of innocent kids and also adults…”\n\n“YOU’RE SICK!” roared furious Duncan to surprise of Charade. The jackal mostly never such kind of emotions, and prove of that was that even Tuff yipped with Duncan’s yells. The jackal’s eyes were nearly popping out of their sockets… the veins of his neck showing even over the fur, his face red in fury “I’d never dare to do that to a kid! The ones that do it… are just freaks that deserve to be killed and destroyed!” Duncan aimed at Shade with his shotgun and snarled “I hate the people like you… I really hate them… and I’ve used Mammon’s power to take revenge on those like you…”\n\n“Ohhh! So it was true! The little princess is helping the good side…” Shade snickered “I see now… I guess that I…”\n\nBut he couldn’t continue as Duncan shoot his weapon and the ammunition rocketed to Shade’s face making a hole on it as the shadow wolgon staggered and lost balance and leaving the safety of the pole releasing his grip and rolling to the front leaving a large stain of black fluids on the roof as it rolled and slammed the ground. Duncan was snarling, looking at the corpse that laid there, lifeless to his eyes. But then it convulsed a bit as the hole in his head was filled with a dark mass of shadows. Shade stood up and leered at Duncan, Tuff and Charade.\n\n“That… FUCKING HURT!” roared the shadow leaving the trio surprised. His head was nearly blown off clean! Yet he was still there, leering at them! “I think you deserve no more of my happy-go-happy personality anymore…” Shade eyes turned from the amused look to a really psychotic and maniac display “I’m GOING TO TEAR YOU! LIMB BY LIMB! AND REJOICE IN YOUR REMAINS! I’LL EAT TUFF IN FRONT OF YOU DUNCAN AND WHEN YOU BEG FOR ME TO FORGIVE YOU… I’M GONNA KILL THOSE THREE UNBORN BABIES YOU HAVE IN YOUR LAB… TEARING THEM LIMB BY LIMB AND FORCE YOU TO EAT THEM!” Shade’s body became covered in white over some parts, marking a clear design resembling a voodoo ritual painting, with bones and a skull over the face “I’LL MAKE YOU CRY AND SUFFER… AND THEN… I WON’T LET YOU DIE…”\n\n“You speak like if I could” laughed Duncan but then Shade grinned.\n\n“Do you think I believe you immortal?” mocked Shade “You might be immune to many mortal weapons and have absolutely no care about illness…” he summoned a pair of shadow blades “But I know that if I behead that puppy bitch of yours he’ll die… and if I do the same to you… you’ll die too…”\n\nDuncan and Tuff gave a step back. How did he knew their weakness… the whole cover for their fear amongst the criminals was that they couldn’t die no matter what… and now, this psycho knew the whole truth?! Who the hell was him?\n\n“I’m going to enjoy this… Mister Lafey…” growled Shade as he crouched and then rocketed against Duncan slamming the jackal against a wall.\n\n“DUNCAN!” shouted Charade but soon he saw Tuff flying towards screaming in surprise.\n\nTuff landed on charade who managed to take a hold of him and stop the violent fly, but both ended up rolling on the ground. Shade looked at them and grinned rushing and fading into the shadows just before appearing again behind charade and piercing his stomach with one of the swords.\n\n“How unlocky you’re not immortal like them…” chuckled Shade as Nigel coughed out blood “But don’t worry… I won’t let you die yet. I still think I’ll have my fun abusing of your body before you beg me to be decapitated”\n\nShade moved Charade and left him bleeding on the ground, unconscious as he pulled Tuff’s hair causing him to scream in pain.\n\n“Leave him alone!” shouted Duncan and aimed a gun at Shade, who took Tuff as living shield.\n\n“Go on, shoot…” smirked Shade and to his surprise he did.\n\nThe bullets impacted on Tuff but the pup didn’t even cared for it, yet Shade felt the burning pain of the bullets in his body. He threw Tuff and looked at the new wounds as they healed. Then he looked at Tuff… he wasn’t even hurt!\n\n“What the fuck?!” roared Shade looking at Duncan “Hey you dude over the PC what happened?!\n\n(Beats me… you try to stay in the role!)\n\n“Shut the fuck up with that stupid act pretending you’re talking to someone else!” roared Duncan as he took the shotgun again and shoot, but Shade made his body change and make a hole exactly the size of the ammo spread avoiding the damage.\n\n“Ohhh so that’ was it… light bullets… that’s why he wasn’t affected…” said Shade looking down a bit but not taking out the sight from Duncan.\n\n“Who are you talking to now?!” roared Duncan.\n\n“No one of your concern…” chuckled Shade as he leaped forward and slashed the weapon cutting it cleanly in two right on Duncan’s handpaws.\n\n“The fuck?!” yelped the jackal throwing the now useless shotgun.\n\nThe jackal tripped down and took the chance to aim with the revolver and shoot at Shade right in the face again. The shadow stumbled back with a muted roar as he held his now inexistent face. Then it respawned again and he growled.\n\n“I’m going to…” yelled Shade placing both his swords crossed on Duncan’s neck but he stopped while Duncan closed the eyes ready to die. But the cut never arrived “You lucky bastard… I have to leave now…” the shadow walked and disintegrated the swords “Oh! And tell that fag in your cane that Legion sends greetings.”\n\nShade sank on the shadows and Duncan panted three times before falling with the back flat on floor. He looked to the left and saw Tuff unconscious but breathing… just like Charade who was bleeding.\n\n“Right… I have save the fennec…” mumbled Duncan as he made a titanic effort to stand up and go heal his second sidekick, not before waking his husband up to get some help with it. And while they were dragging Nigel into the house, the jackal and dog couldn’t stop to think… how did Shade knew about the embryos in the lab… their sons… and what was that ‘Legion’ he mentioned?\n\n","writing_bbcode_parsed":"The worthy rival
“Fifty nine, sixty… Well, it looks everything is up to date” sighed Nigel while closing the laptop and leaning back on the chair.
“Yeah… it’s a three participant competition now for the criminals” giggled Tuff sighing and checking at the security cameras where he could see the naked and tied criminals caged in the bondage circus that struggled unsuccessfully “Having Fury chasing the criminals and demons on one hand and Grant with Eddy, Félix and Pierrot chasing drug and slavelords as well as dimensional beings on the other makes things hard for us”
“Ever since the last attack we lost everything… fortunately the embryos were safe” sighed Duncan standing against the door holding a mug of coffee. It had been like that for at least five consecutive nights “The stupid demon bull stole all those souls and we had to start over to help Mammon…”
“Yeah, didn’t he mentioned other demons trying to get more souls now that his father was sealed AGAIN?” said Nigel sipping coffee too and checking his clock, it was 2:51 am “We should get some rest, tonight’s riot got us only three filthy burglars…”
“At least you’re improving on ‘seizing’ instead of killing” joked Tuff.
“Pretty funny…” growled the ex-criminal “I had my piece of the cake some months in that basement plus all the torment of hell…”
“We know” nodded Duncan.
“W-what the…?!” shouted Tuff suddenly “NOT AGAIN!”
“What?” asked both Nigel and Duncan at the same time.
“The camera 5 fades to black suddenly… it’s been happening the last few hours” stated the young dog “It’s really annoying cuz I’ll have to go and fix it now…”
Duncan chuckled at his husband’s annoyance and walked to the monitors as the German shepherd fixed the utility belt to fix the camera. And it was then that he noticed the fading and something else, the leather leashes and chains holding a 17 years old criminal apprentice were hanging empty.
“Where’s prisoner 43-B?” asked Duncan surprised.
“What?! I tied him correctly as you instructed!” shouted Nigel turning around and rolling the chair to the monitors looking at the now empty cage.
“I should take this too” sighed Tuff without looking at the other two and picking his magnum storing it on the case by his armpit.
“Don’t go darling” said Duncan as he stretched “I’ll take care of it”
“Or we can all go” suggested Nigel “force in the numbers”
“That didn’t helped last time” said Tuff.
“Last time we faced the king of hell” stated Duncan “Nigel is right… let’s go”
The fennec smiled grabbing his gauntlets and covering his scarred handpaws with them while Duncan picked the old Remington shotgun and walked out of the attic heading the party down to the basement.
The house was completely dark. They had turned off the lights, not only for the hour but to prevent any curiosity from the neighbors. Last time a 7 years old nearly managed to get her way into the basement. If it wasn’t for Tuff she would have discovered the criminal circus down there. Duncan sighed looking in the shadows and finally found the way through the halls to the ground floor’s main hall. He walked again knowing the layout of the house completely and reached the studio where the secret entrance was hidden. The jackal pulled “Sin and Punishment” in the bookshelf and a side door opened showing a dimmed light passage that lead to a staircase where the sound of moans and excited groans echoed. Duncan entered and finally turned on the lights as the secret door closed behind Nigel who was on the rear of the group.
“Do you hear anything?” whispered Tuff as he went stair after stair down on a safe gunner position. All his life time had taught him how to properly get ready to any relatively controlled situation.
“Some… wet and weird sounds” said Nigel.
“If the bastard managed to break free he should be pawing to release” contained a chuckle the jackal.
But as they went lower in the staircase, the noises came clear to not be those of a teenager masturbating but… that of an animal eating. Duncan stepped on the basement and looked around trying to find the place where the noises came from. But there was nothing to be seen… that was until a bone rolled to his paws.
“W-What the?!” shouted Duncan as Tuff and Nigel reached him.
The loud yell made the prisoners to groan and growl in anger to their captor, but also caused something else… in the shadows, near the cage that they were going to check, a pair of glowing red eyes turned to look at them. But… it was only the eyes, at least, until a bloody mouth smiled with the tongue outside.
“Ahhh! Finally you three came… HEY YOU COULDN’T YOU HAVE BROUGHT THEM EARLIER?”
“Who is he talking to?” asked Tuff.
“To the dude writing the story at that office!” replied the shadow.
“Story? What are you talking about?” asked Duncan.
“Ohhh Others blind by the fourth wall” laughed the shadow standing up and revealing the half eaten corpse of the captive that had disappeared, used to be a fox with silver hair and piercings all over the now inexistent face “Anyways, I’ve been looking for…” then, he noticed Nigel “Ohhh! You are the guy from New Orleans!”
“New Orleans?” asked Duncan looking at Nigel.
“I went with Nidhoggson chasing Dusk…” started Nigel “I never mentioned it but…”
“Go on! Introduce me!” bounced excitedly the shadow “You know you waaaant too!”
“That maniac calls himself Shade” said Nigel aiming his palms at him “He… well… we have no idea where he came from but, we do know he killed Dusk.”
“Woah!” shouted Tuff looking at Shade and then at Nigel. The shadow was just standing still playing with his tail, which blended completely with the shadows if it wasn’t for the dim lights over it.
“Don’t take him for good… this guy was also killing civilians on New Orleans” stated Nigel.
“Well, that’s what the word VILLAIN implies” laughed Shade and then… (What the… GIVE ME BACK THE SCRIPT!) “So, you are Duncan Lafey and your little bitch there is Tuff Lafey”
“What? I’m no bitch of…” started Tuff but immediately Duncan shut him.
“Nah, you do are my bitch” laughed Duncan amused by Shade’s sense of humor and still surprised of him taking out of nowhere a set of pages while stretching a little bit. Tuff blushed knowing Duncan was right but he wanted to have a strong presence against an enemy.
“Well, at least you recognize it Duncan hahahahahaha… here, have it back” (Thanks… can I continue?)
“You did dumbass!”
(SHUT UP!)
“Anyways, I came for some… feeding and what better place where you can mock of a naked struggling excited criminal telling him he’ll be free” Shade laughed maniacally causing a shiver in the three hunters.
“Darn you’re sick…”
“Sick-o I’d say fits me better hahaha” Shade merged on the shadows and appeared amongst the other three gropping Tuff’s butt and then tugging his ear.
“ACK! HEY!” whined Tuff looking for his revolver.
“That won’t serve” laughed Shade “I’m a shadow kiddo, bullets will go through me”
“What about magic!” shouted Nigel fiering a blazing flare that scorched Tuff’s hair tip as the dog yipped and the shadow disappeared.
“NIGEL!” roared Duncan.
“I-I’m sorry…” apologized the wizard.
“Hahahaha I smell a HOT-DOG!” laughed Shade again appearing at the top of the stairs “You know… this place gives me a lot of vantage points… why don’t we go outside where things will be more even and I could crush you in a very humiliating way?”
Shade’s legs turned into a serpent-like tail as it advanced…
“Serpent? I’m a wolgon like your stupid main fursona idiot!”
(I’m giving an ambient you moron! NOW SHUT UP AND KEEP UP WITH THE SCRIPT!)
“Fine…”
Shade moved on the house lurking on every shadow as Duncan, Tuff and Nigel gave chase to him running upstairs and leaving the secret area finding him in the kitchen and then following the shadow to the bedroom.
“Ohhh! Do you use these?” asked Shade to Tuff smelling a set of panties.
“T-that’s private!” blushed heavily the dog.
“I bet Charade does too…”
“I DON’T!” barked the wizard sending another set of flames to the shadow but only managing to burn the piece of cloth he was holding.
“THAT WAS MY FAVORITE!” roared Tuff.
“Darling there are more important things now than lingerie!” urged Duncan looking at Shade move through the wall and then crawl over the window to the roof of the mansion “Damn it… he’s really frisky and sneaky…”
“Tell me” blushed and grunted Tuff looking at the ashes of his favorite underwear.
“You gotta admit the guy knows to have fun” shrugged Charade walking out of the room and heading outside followed by Duncan and Tuff.
The three ran downstairs and opened the door walking over the grass trying to find Shade, until a lighting revealed him standing on the north tower that acted as a secondary attic, holding tightly with one hand to the metal pole on the top of the building and smirking looking at the trio.
“Well, looks like you REALLY wanted to chase me” snickered Shade.
“Just out of curiosity of why you’re here” said coldly but sarcastically too Duncan.
“Ohhh…” voiced Shade as he faked a surprise expression “I heard over the low place I’ve been that there’s this guy that makes tournaments to enslave people… then I heard he was brutally murdered by that faggot of Nidhoggson…” Shade’s fake expression turned a real amazement one “I heard the wolgon broke a nerve and ended up filling up the pimp with bullets all over the body, and no any bullet… MAGNUM bullets! Pieces and blood everywhere… though honestly I find Beelzebub’s work of art with Fennel much more interesting and refined…”
“Why are you saying that?” asked Charade knowing about both incidents, one from firsthand information.
“Cuz I also heard of a trio of hunters that chased both demons and criminals and enslaved them too as response… and also as punishment” laughed Shade “I found that ridiculously hilarious and ironic! So I decide to come here and make you an offer… I’ve been taking an eye on you three… Hunting like a pack… in perfect coordination… I want to have you by my side…”
“What?! Are you trying to recruit us?!” shouted Tuff.
“Yup… this boney dragon guy approached to me back in New Orleans and said he was forming an army to wipe out all the life on earth… I honestly find that interesting yet boring… who would I torment when there’s no one else alive?” Shade chuckled “I can offer you all… Power, madness, lust… whatever you wish for… Being a good guy is not fun enough, don’t you think? I offer you the greatest of pleasures… the pleasure of BE YOURSELVES AND DO WHATEVER YOU PLEASE!” another lighting impacted the soil illuminating Shade’s shape as the mad shadow wolgon laughed and got ready to continue his speech “Don’t you think being able of do whatever you please is way better than doing what the law says? I bet that demon raccoon that I can see inside your cane would agree with me, Lafey! Being evil is plainly fun! Hearing the cries of children looking how I rip their parents into pieces and then their cries when I beat them to death! Their pleas for me to stop! And then their pleas to die… what I deny them! OH! The power to do what I want… to coat my shadow in the blood of innocent kids and also adults…”
“YOU’RE SICK!” roared furious Duncan to surprise of Charade. The jackal mostly never such kind of emotions, and prove of that was that even Tuff yipped with Duncan’s yells. The jackal’s eyes were nearly popping out of their sockets… the veins of his neck showing even over the fur, his face red in fury “I’d never dare to do that to a kid! The ones that do it… are just freaks that deserve to be killed and destroyed!” Duncan aimed at Shade with his shotgun and snarled “I hate the people like you… I really hate them… and I’ve used Mammon’s power to take revenge on those like you…”
“Ohhh! So it was true! The little princess is helping the good side…” Shade snickered “I see now… I guess that I…”
But he couldn’t continue as Duncan shoot his weapon and the ammunition rocketed to Shade’s face making a hole on it as the shadow wolgon staggered and lost balance and leaving the safety of the pole releasing his grip and rolling to the front leaving a large stain of black fluids on the roof as it rolled and slammed the ground. Duncan was snarling, looking at the corpse that laid there, lifeless to his eyes. But then it convulsed a bit as the hole in his head was filled with a dark mass of shadows. Shade stood up and leered at Duncan, Tuff and Charade.
“That… FUCKING HURT!” roared the shadow leaving the trio surprised. His head was nearly blown off clean! Yet he was still there, leering at them! “I think you deserve no more of my happy-go-happy personality anymore…” Shade eyes turned from the amused look to a really psychotic and maniac display “I’m GOING TO TEAR YOU! LIMB BY LIMB! AND REJOICE IN YOUR REMAINS! I’LL EAT TUFF IN FRONT OF YOU DUNCAN AND WHEN YOU BEG FOR ME TO FORGIVE YOU… I’M GONNA KILL THOSE THREE UNBORN BABIES YOU HAVE IN YOUR LAB… TEARING THEM LIMB BY LIMB AND FORCE YOU TO EAT THEM!” Shade’s body became covered in white over some parts, marking a clear design resembling a voodoo ritual painting, with bones and a skull over the face “I’LL MAKE YOU CRY AND SUFFER… AND THEN… I WON’T LET YOU DIE…”
“You speak like if I could” laughed Duncan but then Shade grinned.
“Do you think I believe you immortal?” mocked Shade “You might be immune to many mortal weapons and have absolutely no care about illness…” he summoned a pair of shadow blades “But I know that if I behead that puppy bitch of yours he’ll die… and if I do the same to you… you’ll die too…”
Duncan and Tuff gave a step back. How did he knew their weakness… the whole cover for their fear amongst the criminals was that they couldn’t die no matter what… and now, this psycho knew the whole truth?! Who the hell was him?
“I’m going to enjoy this… Mister Lafey…” growled Shade as he crouched and then rocketed against Duncan slamming the jackal against a wall.
“DUNCAN!” shouted Charade but soon he saw Tuff flying towards screaming in surprise.
Tuff landed on charade who managed to take a hold of him and stop the violent fly, but both ended up rolling on the ground. Shade looked at them and grinned rushing and fading into the shadows just before appearing again behind charade and piercing his stomach with one of the swords.
“How unlocky you’re not immortal like them…” chuckled Shade as Nigel coughed out blood “But don’t worry… I won’t let you die yet. I still think I’ll have my fun abusing of your body before you beg me to be decapitated”
Shade moved Charade and left him bleeding on the ground, unconscious as he pulled Tuff’s hair causing him to scream in pain.
“Leave him alone!” shouted Duncan and aimed a gun at Shade, who took Tuff as living shield.
“Go on, shoot…” smirked Shade and to his surprise he did.
The bullets impacted on Tuff but the pup didn’t even cared for it, yet Shade felt the burning pain of the bullets in his body. He threw Tuff and looked at the new wounds as they healed. Then he looked at Tuff… he wasn’t even hurt!
“What the fuck?!” roared Shade looking at Duncan “Hey you dude over the PC what happened?!
(Beats me… you try to stay in the role!)
“Shut the fuck up with that stupid act pretending you’re talking to someone else!” roared Duncan as he took the shotgun again and shoot, but Shade made his body change and make a hole exactly the size of the ammo spread avoiding the damage.
“Ohhh so that’ was it… light bullets… that’s why he wasn’t affected…” said Shade looking down a bit but not taking out the sight from Duncan.
“Who are you talking to now?!” roared Duncan.
“No one of your concern…” chuckled Shade as he leaped forward and slashed the weapon cutting it cleanly in two right on Duncan’s handpaws.
“The fuck?!” yelped the jackal throwing the now useless shotgun.
The jackal tripped down and took the chance to aim with the revolver and shoot at Shade right in the face again. The shadow stumbled back with a muted roar as he held his now inexistent face. Then it respawned again and he growled.
“I’m going to…” yelled Shade placing both his swords crossed on Duncan’s neck but he stopped while Duncan closed the eyes ready to die. But the cut never arrived “You lucky bastard… I have to leave now…” the shadow walked and disintegrated the swords “Oh! And tell that fag in your cane that Legion sends greetings.”
Shade sank on the shadows and Duncan panted three times before falling with the back flat on floor. He looked to the left and saw Tuff unconscious but breathing… just like Charade who was bleeding.
“Right… I have save the fennec…” mumbled Duncan as he made a titanic effort to stand up and go heal his second sidekick, not before waking his husband up to get some help with it. And while they were dragging Nigel into the house, the jackal and dog couldn’t stop to think… how did Shade knew about the embryos in the lab… their sons… and what was that ‘Legion’ he mentioned?
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