With hands, face and hair dyed red, Specter stared at the scene with a weird smile planted on his face. A Corpse of a woman that was dismembered until it was barely recognisable, with a strange dark fog surrounding it, and the man who witnessed it. The feeling of drawing blood felt insatiable to Specter and whilst nervous before at the thought of killing someone he now felt a rush in his blood and couldn't wait to have another taste. Eagerly, he turned to his next victim, the man who was shaking so much in fear that he felt weak and couldn't move. With a wolfish grin, Specter approached him with his hands pointing at the man and the dark fog quickly obeyed his call... Silence. The screams were no more, and by no surprise, the short shriek was heard by some people in the Orphanage and they came rushing out to meet a quick death.
Death after death eventually everyone other than Specter lay lifeless as prey for the dark fog. The adrenaline from the bloodshed came to an end and Specter now, not mercilessly killing people on sight, panicked at first but then began to think calmly and collectively about how to handle the situation. It didn't take long for him to realize that soon someone will come and start asking questions about the missing people in addition to the fact that he could pay the consequences of his action. Sure you can say that he deserved to be punished by death but to Specter, they were all pricks who should've been rotting in hell long ago as they were secretly selling orphans to nobles who paid enough.
The scared orphans came out one by one petrified at what they'd seen, the youngest among them was 12 and the oldest being 16. "They deserved it. Why aren't you happy? These lowlife scum would've sold you off to someone eventually and as orphans, we got to stick together." Specter said with eyes cold giving anyone who stared at them for too long feel lost and trapped in an endless vortex. The orphans were not dumb and knew this fact also. "So we stick together and do what?" asked a messy brown haired boy.
"We'll lead a life not being persecuted by people because of our abilities. To get there...We need to fight for our survival. The strong are the predators and the weak are the prey." Specter replied
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"I guess its better than the life we have now anyway..." A girl added
The rest gave their own opinions or stayed silent and out of the 15 people there, 11 chose to stay and the rest followed which was no surprise as most of them got scared over little insects so for them to kill anyone was a myth. Those who came with Specter were Phoenix and Jinx(Females) and Visage and Freak(Males). No names were ever given to them so they gave each other nicknames and based it on their abilities. Specter for his creepy and terrifying dark fog, Phoenix for her fire which could self-regenerate, Jinx for her curse/unluckiness ability, Visage for his trickery and illusion and Freak for his freakish mutation.
Not bothering to take anything with them but essentials such as money, food and water in a water container, The 5 of them fled the scene with not even a speck of blood on them or the scene thanks to Specter's dark fog devouring the corpses and any other evidence. The Orphanage was located in a town called Meridale wherein not only the wealthy and prosperous lived, many poor and unfortunate people lived in slums, jobless and didn't have their basic needs fulfilled. They planned to leave Meridale and head to the capital city, Eldermoor, by crossing via Hazelburn to get around the forest in between. Hazelburn was a town on the coast which was quite rich as they had restaurants that cooked fine seafood delicacies and also produced some of the best wine in the country so many gourmet nobles came flocking there. Walking to Hazelburn would on average take 5 to 6 days along with the fact that they didn't have the supplies for camping and none of them knew how to hunt pushed them into deciding to steal a carriage. Carriages were a common sight in the Kingdom so finding one was not hard but to find one not guarded by mercenaries was quite difficult and it took them a day to find such a carriage with cheap goods. "Visage will create an illusion and trick the merchant into thinking his items have fallen off. When this happens Freak is going to mutate into anything horrendous and scare the merchant away, if this doesn't work you know what we have to do." Jinx briefed the plan before they executed it.