Time is Running Out [Karuso]

[Matthieu Ghautier]

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[davak]

-A few weeks back-

Wayne, that was his name. Karusos new prey, field agent of low rank who the bone boy had been stalking for a few days now and he knew he was finally closing in on his target. But it seemed not just he was on to something his prey was about to have a breakthrough with his case it seemed. Karuso´s white hair were tamed by a black heavy hood attached to a black jacket, under it he was wearing a white sleeves shirt with the black skull on it, ironic right? A skull on the shirt and he was nick named bone boy. Anyway, the sun was starting to set in the big city, the light slowly retreating as darkness engulfed all, Karuso had just watched Wayne’s car park close to some poor housing grounds, the area they were in was ghetto like and full of the kind of people nobody wants to spent time with … except maybe the hookers. Not him but people who needed it. Wayne? No, the man seemed here for business and after he disappeared in the alley way Karuso took a few quick steps and followed him slowly and carefully.

The field agent was now under his line of sight again, Davak perched down and stared at the scene that unfolded in front of him. Wayne had pulled his gun on three people, a tall man of middle age and two youngsters a boy and a girl roughly fourteen years old. ``You crazy freaks get on the floor right now or I´m a blow your brains out!!!´´ It was clear that the DNCS agent was under a lot of pressure and it seemed that he was simultaneously very angry at the group of mutants, they had to be otherwise he wouldn’t be doing this, make sense? Karuso took a closer look at the three, the man hadn’t shaved in a while but had a kind face with short army like dark hair, the girl was blonde and obviously extremely scared, while the boy with the light brown hair and the blue eyes seemed extremely frustrated. The boy swiftly moved his hands up in the air and formed some kind of ice crystal out of nowhere, he was about to launch it at the agent when he pulled the trigger,``Nooo´´ shouted the dark haired man as he threw himself in front of the bullet, an all too familiar sound for Karuso echoed through the alley as the bullet hit its target and dug itself into his flesh.

The girl shrieked at cried loudly as she sank to the floor near the man who was bleeding out of the wound in his shoulder, while the boy seemed to be in shock, time to end this were Karusos thought as he broke his wrist, ohh god the pain, it was incredible soooo much pain it made him feel alive, and at the same time he nearly screamed from it. Than the thinner of his two front arm bones extend out of his skin which gave him two throne like weapons coming out of under his wrist, it was an extremely simple technique compared to what else he had up his sleeve, he took a leap out of the corner and charged at the man, he turned around just in time to have a sharp throne like bone stab through his heart, blood flew out of the wound down his black suit, the man lifted his gun hand a desperate attempt to shoot his killer, but Karuso was so much faster, he changed the form of the bone that had extend from his free hand to be sword like sharp at the side instead of being throne like and only sharp at the end, then with one quick flick of his wrist he sliced off the hand of the filed agent, cut clean. He quickly moved to the side so he wouldn’t get any of the red substance on him as it came sprouting out like in one of those fancy water fountains, when the man’s heart beat finally came to an end the entire scene was filled with blood.

He let the body drop in a puddle of its own blood, speaking his last word to the man `` Rest in peace´´ even though he hated them, they all deserved a few last words. Then he looked up to the three mutants, the blond girl was doing something with her hands that had started to glow blue, it seemed she had healing ability that she was putting to good use as she healed the wound of the shot man, meanwhile the boy was holding the man hands and told him ``I am sorry sensei I didn’t know what happed there was so much anger in me, I am so sorry´´ Sensei huh, it explained something, it seemed that he older man was teaching the two how to use the power or ``gifts´´ as his father like to say, Karuso came closer to the three and the man without looking at him spoke ``You saved us stranger, I can’t thank you enough, it was brave of you´´ Karuso simply nodded it seemed the man was in a lot of pain, the man continued ``Listen I don’t mean to sound rude but what are you doing here?´´ Karuso let his bones melt back into their original form and replied `` I was hunting down this DNCS agent, it was a mere coincidence that I picked today to kill him, but a lucky one indeed´´ The man laughed as much as a man could laugh when a bullet was being pulled out of his shoulder but he continued on ``Listen, if you wouldn’t mind could you help us get back home, little Matt will show you the way I can’t walk by myself at the moment´´ Karuso agreed immediately and he grabbed the man’s arms and pulled him up then wrapped his arm around his upper body to secure him, the boy who was Matt walked in front of them and the girl was at their side still healing their teacher.

Half an hour later they reached a safe house or so, and it was packed with around thirty mutants, they were a small community who helped new mutants train their ability, some who belonged to the first generation of Mutated and thus extremely powerful belonged to this group and they had a near perfect control of the gift, they had many questions and he spent the night answering them all before leaving early in the morning after a few beer and snacks, they told him more than once he was always welcomed back at their safe house and that he should take care of himself.

And so it came that the mutant community heard of Karuso,
Karuso the bone boy who hunted DNCS agents.


-Today-

Karuso was quickly making his way through the alleys once again, he had received a call from Jacob the man’s life he had saved a few weeks prior to his call, and he had informed him that a certain someone was asking for him, Karuso wasn’t quite sure what whoever ever it was wanted from him but he was soon to find out. Jake had given him the man’s phone number and he had send him a text to meet him in a few minutes down by the river, it was easily reachable from the alley if one knew their way around it and Karuso quite frankly didn’t, it took him quite some time to get there, but he reached prior to his companion, and so sat down on a bench and waited.