Beast Soul

"Oh, Jason! To think you were married! How could you lie to me?" Victoria Hutchinson screamed at the top of her lungs as he grabbed the ancient chinese vase and threw it at Jason Vargas, who ducked his head in order to avoid the fast approaching projectile.

BAM!

The vase narrowly missed Jason's forehead and collided with the wall behind him, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. 

"Jesus, Victoria! Do you know how much that vase cost?" Jason screamed in anger and frustration as he pointed at the broken pieces of the vase that was lying on the floor.

"Did it cost more than my broken heart, Jason?" Victoria whispered softly as a single drop of tear slid down from her eyes, causing Jason to bite his lips in response, unable to respond.

"Oh, this is getting spicy!" Max's mother, Mrs. Aniston said as he stretched her hand onto the table and grabbed the bag of chips, opened it and shoved a handful of chips into her mouth, munching it down without removing his gaze from the television.

She was watching her favourite soap opera, 'Devilish Love', of which she was an enormous fan. 

"I cannot believe that Jason was hiding such a secret! Oh, the twists in this series are insane." Mrs. Aniston said as she grabbed another chip and downed it. She then tilted her head and yelled loudly, "Polly! Come here, quickly! You're missing the best part!"

"I'm coming, I'm coming!" Polly Baker said as she rushed to the sofa, carrying two cups of carbonated drinks in her hands as he arrived, and placed them on the table. "I really can't believe that your television is not working anymore. I mean, it was working fine when I came to your house three days ago."

"Yeah, I have no idea either." Mrs. Aniston shook her head, her gaze still stuck on the television in front of her. "I would've asked Max to take a look at it, but I didn't want to make him late for school." She said as she shrugged her shoulders. "And I definitely wasn't going to miss this week's episode of 'Devilish Love'."

"Wait, did you just say that Max went to school?" Polly turned to look at Mrs. Aniston, who nodded her head right before pointing at the television. "Oh, oh, oh! I think they're going to break up! Oh my god!"

"Um, Laura?" Polly whispered softly, and Mrs. Aniston replied, "Yeah?" 

"There's no school today," She said in a weak and flustered voice, and Mrs. Aniston, who was watching the soap opera with interest, immediately turned her head towards Polly, her happy and excited expression now replaced with that of a serious and anxious one. "What did you say, Polly?"

"There's no school today, Laura," Polly repeated her words. "It was all over the news today. Didn't you hear?"

Mrs. Aniston didn't answer. Her eyes were now wider than ever, and her gaze was on the hardwood floor below her feet. 

"How on earth could you betray me?!" The loud and angry voice of Victoria Hutchinson echoed throughout the silent room.

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"F*ck! F*ck! F*ck!" Detective Lewis Fitzgerald cursed out loud as he pulled back and rushed through the blockage of vehicles, dashing over to the other side of the road and jumping over the rail. He then continued running into the woods, disappearing from the view of the woman in the van, who was watching him with a confused expression.

Swoosh!

Detective Lewis was dashing through the woods, trying to get to the Marley market district. He pulled out his phone and called Detective Harry.

"Do you come across these kinds of monsters often, Agent Edgerton?" Detective Harry asked. He had been assigned by the Commissioner to help out Special Agent Richard Edgerton in whatever way he could. 

"Often enough, I guess." Agent Edgerton said as he shrugged his shoulders. His face remained motionless except for opening his mouth to speak, with even his expressions remaining the same. It was as though he was a robot.

The two men drove through Rudyard Street, making their way towards the Marley market district. 

"You seem pretty nonchalant and calm about it." Detective Harry raised his eyebrows as he spoke. His eyes were still on the road. 

"I guess I do." Agent Edgerton replied almost instantly. "Most people, the people who don't know me, tell me that all the time." 

"Well, in their defence, your job is to defeat and terminate what are essentially extraterrestrial mutants." Detective Harry let out a short chuckle as he peeked a glance at the indifferent Edgerton. "So I'd say that their worries are understandable."

".... I guess you're right," Agent Edgerton nodded his head, but he still remained emotionless. Harry couldn't get a read on him no matter how hard he tried.

"But still, don't you feel even a tiny bit scared when you're fighting these creatures?" Detective Harry wanted to continue his talk, and so he posed another question to Agent Edgerton. "I mean, these aren't normal living beings. They're things that you're supposed to only see in your dreams, and you're telling me that you are not scared of fighting those terrifying demonic creatures?"

"... I was initially scared, to be honest." After a few seconds of silence, Agent Edgerton responded. "The first time I fought a monster, I was deathly pale. In fact, I can still remember my hands trembling like crazy." He said as he stared at his palms.

Detective Harry squinted his eyes, but he didn't interrupt Edgerton's words. 

"But nevertheless, I fought with the creature. After all, I had to. And to my surprise, I actually won." He breathed out, and turned his gaze towards the detective. "It was only after I finished fighting did I realize that although these creatures were terrifying, they were just animals in the end. They might have a few tricks up their sleeves, but that is it."

He suddenly snapped his fingers, which almost made Detective Harry flinch.

"In my opinion, humans are far tougher opponents." Edgerton leaned back. "Of course, that is unless these creatures start to think."

Ring! Ring!

Harry's phone began to ring. He picked it up and brought it close to his face."Detective Lewis," He said to Edgerton, who squinted his eyes. 

"Hello?" Harry answered, and Lewis screamed into the phone. "It's a dragon! It's a f*cking dragon!"

"Lewis? What did you say?" Harry said loudly into the phone, and before Lewis could respond, Agent Edgerton leaned forward and said, "A dragon." He looked at Harry. "He said there's a dragon." Edgerton then leaned back and looked at the backseat, where his equipment was kept, and grabbed what looked like a giant futuristic rifle.

"Lewis, where are you right now?" Harry yelled loudly into the phone, and Lewis replied, "I'm heading towards the Marley market district. I'm pretty sure that the dragon went towards the district. How long will it take for you to get here?"

"We're taking the Gargeran route, so we'll be there in ten to five minutes." Harry responded and he immediately stepped on the gas pedal, making his car go even faster.

"Got it," said Detective Lewis. "I'll wait near the district to keep an eye on what the hell is actually happening."

"Alright," Detective Harry replied. "And be careful, Lewis."

With that, he hung up the phone, and looked over to Agent Edgerton, who had the giant rifle strapped on to his back. 

"I have a score to settle with the dragon," He said as he patted his rifle. 

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"Wolfe!" Noah, who had survived the beast's attack, got up from the floor and yelled out with a relieved expression.

GRRRRR!

The dragonoid creature growled at the spider beast, which was lying on the ground and trying to get up from the floor. 

Swoosh!

With a loud roar, Wolfe swung his wings and shot towards the spider beast, slamming straight onto the creature before it could get up from the rubble and causing it to crash down onto the ground once again.

BOOM!

The impact of the attack was so tremendous that the spider beast was flung back up into the air right after striking the ground, and Wolfe immediately leapt up once again and swung his sharp claws at the spider beast, striking it's chest.

GRRRRRAR!

The spider beast roared in pain, but Wolfe struck down onto the creature's chest once again using his powerful paws, and slammed it down to the ground with a loud noise.

BAM!

The spider beast tried to escape by moving erratically, but Wolfe had pressed his foot down onto the spider beast's chest, making it unable to make any large movements.

GRRRR!

Wolfe roared loudly before opening his mouth, revealing his sharp tooth to the creature to see, before biting down onto the spider beast's neck and pulling on it with a tremendous amount of force.

Splat! Splat! Splat!

The spider beast's neck began to rip open like paper and a green mucus-like substance began to leak out right before it's head was completely ripped away from its body!