Chapter 22: bank robbery disaster.
“Where the hell are they?” Helious was kneeling behind a flipped over office desk. Around him countless shards of glass formed a translucent layer over the glossy orange floor. He was in the main lobby of Buchai bank surrounded by shattered windows and broken furniture. He was facing the bank counter where the glass dividers had been shattered and a massive simmering hole had torn through the various walls. The hole lead straight into the vault room where his surviving enemy lurked.
All around Helious there were police officers taking cover behind anything they could find and far ahead inside the vault the screams and cries of various hostages could be heard.
Helious had come here expecting an easy win but he quickly found out things wouldn’t be so simple. Upon confronting the two super resonators he discovered that they possessed the ability to make him suffer intense hallucinations, far more intense than that of any type of class three resonator he knew of. Initially Helious had run in guns blazing but suddenly found himself in the midst of sexual intercourse with a voluptuous succubus. This hallucination persisted for about three seconds before he felt a piercing pain in his neck and he suddenly returned to reality. He then discovered that one of the super resonators a tall male in his early twenties with red hair had cut about an eighth of the way into his neck. It became clear that the man had intended to decapitate him but the blade failed to go through due to Helious’s extremely strong Azurai body. Helious immediately attacked and spun around slicing the red haired man’s head off with a swift hand motion. The man’s partner a woman screamed bloody murder and lunged at Helious who quickly retreated back out of the vault unsure of the woman’s capabilities. The woman fell to the side of her dead companion and held his body before yelling that she’d kill the hostages if anyone moved. Helious then received another intense hallucination, one of him dying horribly with his organs being devoured from the inside by various insects. After a few seconds of this went by, he suddenly snapped out of it seeing that the woman had been shot by one of the police officers who had caught her off guard. Helious took the opportunity to run into one of the bank’s office rooms where he used the message writer to send a request for help to the shang rokai job collection room. The woman screamed out for Helious to return to where he was visible. He quickly followed her instructions fearing for the captives and this left Helious at his current position unable to do anything except wait for one of the other Azurai to show up. It had already been half an hour since he sent the request and the woman had grown increasingly unhinged. Helious wondered what the hell was taking so long, he knew that shang rokai where stingy with the jobs they did but this was unbelievable.
Outside of Buchai bank along the red bricked Main Street of Buchai city that shimmered in the sun, the crowd that had formed five days ago was at its peak. Everywhere a person looked, news reporters and ambulances could be seen in the ocean of heads, waiting for the situation to be resolved. Amidst the numerous cries of the onlookers a winged figure descended before the entrance of Buchai bank. This young man had long black hair, relatively pale skin with an olive undertone and a distinct coronation rosette on his right cheek. This was none other than Okimodo who had come to lend a helping hand.
Okimodo glanced around at the police officers lining the bank’s grand arching entrance who all glanced back at him before nodding for him to continue inside. As the police officers cleared the way Okimodo shape shifted into a fly to avoid being noticed until he found Helious. He weaved his way through the lime stone lobby of the destroyed bank observing the destruction as he went along. He spotted Helious kneeling behind a table and quietly landed on his ear where he began to whisper.
“It’s me Okimodo.” Okimodo’s fly antenna moved as if they were a pair of lips.
Helious jolted with fright before whining immediately. “What the hell took you so long Okimodo?”
“WHO THE FUCK IS OKIMODO?!!” The surviving super resonator yelled from within the vault. “SHOW YOURSELF NOW OR ELSE I’LL KILL A HOSTAGE!”
“Shit!” Helious felt like a real dumbass. Now that the woman knew of Okimodo’s presence he had lost the element of surprise.
“OKIMODO, SHOW YOURSELF NOW!” The woman’s voice cracked maniacally.
Okimodo returned to his human form before immediately activating spectrum dash. As time slowed around him he moved swiftly and elegantly towards the woman who was clueless. When he reached her he quickly tore off her arm that was holding a gun before deactivating spectrem dash. After time returned to normal the woman let out a shriek before clutching her severed hand on the floor. Okimodo quickly kicked it out of her grasp before raising his leg higher until it was practically vertical. He looked down at the class three resonator underneath him and said in a flat tone. “You asked for me?”
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His leg then shot down pulverising her skull and crushing her upper body in to mince meat. Blood splattered everywhere adding to the blood that had already accumulated from her partner. The hostages who were all cowering in the corner froze in terror.
“Fuck I forgot I’m waring my Bennington elevens.” Okimodo cursed as he observed his shoes. “Now I’ve got blood all over them.”
As the hostages all fled to the outside Okimodo wondered on whether or not he had enough time to go back to the clan palace and hand in the job request.
“Huh that was over quick.” Helious heaved a sigh of relief as he watched the hostages reach safety.
Okimodo appeared beside him suddenly having moved at an undetectable speed. “You could have killed them easily by yourself. Why did you call us for help? Did you just want to spend some quality time with your old buddy?”
“I didn’t know what kind of abilities that super resonator had.” Helious patted his chest in a defensive manner.
“Neither did I.” Okimodo laughed. “But I still went in for the kill when I saw the opportunity. Even if you don’t know what abilities another resonator has, there are still other signs you can look out for. Such as the overwhelming amount of fear that woman was emanating. Just that alone gave away the fact that she didn’t have a trump card.”
“Don’t start lecturing me.” Helious laughed mockingly. “I’m normally the one lecturing you.”
“Looks like those days are coming to an end.” Okimodo said leaning in towards him with a sly smile.
“It’s not over just yet.” A dark and raspy voice came from the vault behind them along with a sickeningly evil aura.
A cold chill ran down the spine of both youths as they quickly looked back to see who was talking.
Within the vault the blood of the two resonators began to bubble violently as it churned and mixed together forming into a humanoid figure that stood well over six feet tall.
“I guess I should have expected that it wouldn’t be so simple.” Helious immediately became nervous as he observed the entity emerging before him.
Beside him Okimodo simply watched on with a stone faced expression.
The humanoid figure began to condense into a more compact form gaining the appearance of a blonde haired man that was naked. The man had bulging yellow eyes that appeared as if they could pop out at any moment and his physique was very scrawny being shorter in height than the two Azurai boys.
In the dim light of the vault the man spoke ominously. “To think that the two of them were so stubborn and refused to die until now. But that’s fine now I have two strong Azurai bodies to choose from.”
“Okimodo I get it now.” Helious’s expression became grim as he spoke. “There is an infamous demonic super resonator from the Zanzi blood demon school by the name of Ediki Chikoon. It is said he moves from country to country robbing various banks before disappearing. None of the authorities were successful in capturing him and there were even times he outsmarted super resonators much stronger than himself. It is said that his main method of robbery is to transform himself into blood and infiltrate the bodies of other people and gradually influence them into committing the crime. Once the person is killed by the authorities he would quickly reveal himself and slaughter everyone present before stealing the money and absorbing it into himself. After that was done he would often enter the body of a random corpse before escaping after it’s taken to the morgue.”
“So you’re sure this is that guy?” Okimodo asked while keeping his eyes locked on the naked man in the vault. “If he is, then I’m sure I can get a lot of prestige if I kill him.”
“You need to relax.” Helious snapped at him. “He’s a class four, that’s one class ahead of us.”
“So?” Okimodo shrugged.
“Don’t you think you should pay more attention to me?” The naked man laughed maniacally before he leaned forward and vomited out a river of blood that quickly rushed forward.
Okimodo stepped forward and extended his hand before waving it around in a ritualistic manner. The blood suddenly stopped before reversing back towards the vault’s interior.
“Oh that’s right.” The naked man stroked his chin. “I forgot that you guys can manipulate water. That’s gonna complicate things.”
He raised his right hand and the river of blood froze before dispersing into millions of droplets.
“Crap!” Okimodo quickly activated spectrum dash before jumping far away as a never ending stream of blood bullets tore through the bank and through the wall.
Helious who had dodged at the last second turned to look out the bank entrance in horror, fearing the worst for the crowd outside.
A golden glow lit up outside of the bank as the numerous blood bullets were deflected off of a proto atom barrier.
“You’re finally here officer Jupika of the anti resonator squad.”
In the middle of the crowd surrounding the bank’s entrance, a tall brunette woman made her way forward stepping through the proto atom barrier and entering into the bank. As she walked forward countless blood bullets were incinerated as soon as they neared her.
“Come out and face justice Ediki Chikoon!” The woman roared as her hair waved behind her like a war flag.
Upon hearing the authoritative voice both of the Azurai boy’s fixed their eyes on the woman standing near the entrance.
“That’s an anti resonator officer.” Helious was overcome with intrigue at the sight of her.
On the opposite side of the room Okimodo had just finished making an even more in depth observation. “She has a fat ass.”
End of chapter 22.