Chapter 4.

After Ren and Debra left the psychology class, they had to go to two more classes before they'd be done for the day. She took notes from a friend of hers called Max. The next class she and Debra had was micro-biology, and if Ren remembers it correctly, they were going to be dissecting tardigrades today, Tardigrades is the scientific name for water bears a specie of micro-animals.

While Ren and Debra were going to class, Debra noticed a boy wearing a tight fitting shirt with orange tips in his red hair, He had tattoos of silver dragon on his ebony skin, he was sitting on a large statue of hollow earth with a sun in it and staring in their direction. She nudged Ren.

"Hey Ren, isn't that Daniel?"

Ren was going over the notes she borrowed from a friend in psychology class, When she heard what Debra said, she looked up then she smirked when she saw him.

'Well if it isn't Daniel Ross'

Ren thought to herself, when they got close to the statue where Daniel was standing, he kicked off the statue and did a backflip and landed in front of them.

'show off'

Ren and Debra both thought to themselves.

"Hey Ren"

David said to Ren and ignored Debra, He looked at Ren and gave a charming smile, He looked like a model for a face and hair commercial. Ren ignored him and also gave Debra a charming smile, Debra smiled back and looked at Daniel.

"Hey Daniel"

Debra said with a condescending look in her face, They used to be friends, not really close friends but friends and Daniel ruined it when he brought a couple of egotistical boys who had lost to Ren in a martial arts competition and was about to beat her up, But was stopped when Ren's bodyguard appeared and beat them up instead, Ever since then Daniel disappeared and this was the first time they were seeing him after the incident.

Daniel paid no attention to Debra and looked at Ren again this time with a fiery look in his eyes, He looked like he wanted to attack Ren. Ren had a calm look on her face.

Diana was about to say something to Daniel when Ren beat her to it

"You know if you're gonna attack someone, Do it right."

Daniel looked at her like she was a bug.

"Is that right, princess, I seem to remember a certain someone getting rescued before she could beg me on her knees."

Ren smiled and looked at him but beneath that smile was cold lethality, She felt like punching him in his smug face but she held back, she didn't want to stoop to his level.

He smiled and said to her pointedly.

"You should watch yourself Ren before something bad happens"

He hit her shoulder as he walked away while laughing. Ren and Debra looked at his back as he walked away and threw a fuck you gesture at him. He laughed even louder and threw one back at them without turning his head or halting his footsteps.

'Why do i have a bad feeling about what that douchebag told me'

Ren was thinking quite deeply when she felt a tap on her shoulder, she turned her head and hit Diana's head which was too close to her face, They looked at each other and laughed.

"Ow that hurt"

"That's what you get for bringing your head too close to mine"

"Forget about what that fool said, He's a thousand years too early to harm you not mention how he's not strong or smart enough to do anything to you"

Ren nodded her head but she couldn't help but have a bad feeling after listening to what Daniel said.

After classes for the day Ren was about to walk home when Debra stopped her and invited her to come and hang out with some of their friends.

"Come on Ren, you never hang out with us"

A girl with shoulder length hair called out to Ren when Debra stopped her, she looked petite and had a face that people would see and want to protect. A guy with a shaved head who had a certain resemblance to the girl with shoulder length hair put his arm around the girl's shoulders.

"Yeah Ren, Don't you want to hang out with me and my sister and D."

"Sorry guys I have something i really really need to work on, next time i promise"

The girl with short hair shrugged off the guy's arm and walked up to Ren and took her hand.

"You promise?."

"Yes Anna i promise"

Ren said with a smile on her face, she had totally forgotten about what Daniel said to her. she looked at the guy and said.

"I like the new look Alex"

"I know right, it's poetic"

Alex said with his arms wide open, His sister and Debra both rolled their eyes. Ren left them and started working home, she stopped by a roadside stall to get a drink and continued walking home, she was a few meters away from the store that sells pastries when she spotted a car heading straight for her, the car was going very fast and she couldn't spare another thought, she dived right to avoid the incoming vehicle and straight into the path of another vehicle that looked a whole lot like the car she just avoided, there wasn't enough time for her to react and her eyes closed by reflex, she heard a loud bang but she couldn't feel anything, no pain just nothingness, the adrenaline had subsided but she felt around her body first to see if she still had all her body parts, she opened her eyes and saw a female figure in front of her, The figure was wearing a black exo body-suit with red linings on the outside and a black samurai kasa hat with red patterns on it that was gleaming and displayed curves that she could only call perfect, she could see her reflection on it and she looked worse for wear with sweat and tears on her face, she had no idea she was crying.

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The figure turned around to look at her and she looked up to see the figure's face but saw a mask instead, The figure looked at her sitting on the ground and she could have sworn she heard her giggle. The figure walked to the driver side of the car and punched it in and saw a dummy sitting in the driver's seat.

'Remote control'

The figure thought to herself, she looked at Ren who was still on the ground and still clearly in shock then she jumped straight up to the top of a five story building and disappeared. Ren felt arms around her and looked at the face to see that it was Yuki who was trying to help her up, she picked herself up and walked with Yuki to her store away from the eyes of the public that surrounded them, The police were already on their way to the scene of the accident but when they got there all they did was pull the car with the front caved in away and cleaned up, they didn't ask questions, they just came and then they left.

In Yuki's shop, she wrapped a blanket on Ren's shoulders and made her hot tea to calm her nerves, Ren just drank the tea and slept off on the kitchen island, Yuki looked at her with pity in her eyes then there was a pop up in her line of sight showing Ren's current status, she was wearing AR contact lenses, she heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that Ren was alright and then then she walked to her room which was upstairs and the figure who saved Ren was sitting on her couch waiting for her.

"Any leads?"

Yuki asked the figure who stood up after seeing her enter.

"Alpha, we tracked the culprit to a building 3 blocks from here"

The figure said while bowing her head, Yuki looked at her without saying anything.

"He was dead before i got there."

"Who is he?"

Yuki asked the figure, she stood straight and swiped her hand on her wrist. In front of Yuki's eyes appeared a short dossier of the culprit.

Name: Jay Ledge

Aliases: Deez

Age: 29

Affiliations: None

Occupation: Computer Engineer

Sex: Male

Country Of Origin: Nima

"Find out what he has been up to for the past week, the people he came in contact with, online and offline, He must have been killed right after he failed his task, You know what to do"

"Yes Alpha"

The figure left the same way she came.

Yuki walked down the stairs and came to the kitchen where Ren was still sleeping on the kitchen island, She walked up to her and moved her rainbow colored hair that had covered her eye and then Ren woke up with a start like she had a nightmare.

3 mins before Yuki came down the stairs.

Ren opened her eyes on the kitchen island where she was sleeping and saw a face with white hair on her head close to her face, she quickly jumped up and the sit fell and the girl she saw mirrored her movements, she tried to speak but nothing came out from her mouth, she turned her head and looked behind her but what she saw was a huge mirror that stretched in all directions. when she turned her head back to look at the girl, she noticed a similarity between her and the girl and that was the face, The girl's face looked exactly like hers including the eyes except for a slight variation where one of her pupils was white, The girl opened her mouth and inside the girl's mouth was another girl opening her mouth over and over again, it overlapped until it swallowed her, Ren was screaming all through but because she couldn't scream, it was like she was copying the girl. She woke up with a scream