The Extra Wants Control

Atop a mansion's roof, miles away from the smoldering wreckage of the fight in the city, Neveah's body materialized suddenly with a lightning strike, that blew away the roof's tiles.

"Tsk," he clicked his tongue, surveying the area. "No one is here anymore." This was the very spot where his shadow soldier had vanished suddenly without warning, " and it's final memories aren't even helpful, it was ambushed. Sighhh."

" Anyway I got it." He said with a smile. He flexed his hand and watched dark-red lightning crackling on his finger tips. "Lightning," he said with a satisfied smile.

" Heh... I can't wait to meet Axl again." He said with an ominous sadistic smirk.

"Also that cautious thief, Fred and this Kai character seem related, what a strange coincidence and from the looks of it they are important considering Fred was about to be kidnapped maybe even killed. I still want

ALOT from those two... so I didn't like the way someone tried to interfere with my plans... I'll find out who it is later." He thought.

Then he suddenly felt something like a prickling sensation. It was a gaze, brief... very brief but someone powerful looked at him. It was gone before he could pinpoint the direction and location it came from.

A slow smile spread across his face. "Haahhh," he chuckled, cold and devoid of humor. " Tsk... maybe I shouldn't have shown a reaction and wait till I can pinpoint them. So... They're watching me.

But is it a warning? An invitation? Or a challenge? Or a declaration? They are basically telling me they can do whatever they want since they are stronger right? I'll find you though."

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A chuckle echoed through the dark room, "Heh... He noticed me. I guess we finally found the prince. He's quite perceptive... I'll let him play around for a while then I'll..." Said a feminine voice but before she could finish, A figure materialized before her. The man's head was shrouded in a hood of darkness, wore a simple outfit of a short sleeved shirt, shorts, and sandals.

"Yo! Did you get the vampire prince yet?" he asked.

The woman raised an eyebrow. "You… How did you get in the vampire continent?"

"I have my ways but I'm not here… atleast not yet," he said cryptically

"How's the progress with getting the prince?"

"I'm working on it," the woman replied.

"Work faster," he ordered. "We need him and complete this mission before the tournament is over… by the way how's the prince?"

"A monster," she conceded.

"Well he's Queeny's cub afterall, No surprise there." the man chuckled but he wasn't amused.

The woman then inquired. "Do you know who is his father?"

"No," he admitted.

"But I would love to know…" he said with the same unamused chuckle.

"Anyway, get the prince. You shouldn't have any problems you have 'that'." He tapped his chest with a finger before his body fell to the ground and turned into a blob of black goo that sank harmlessly into the floor.

The woman watched the goo dissipate. "Tsk, disgusting," she said, clicking her tongue in disapproval.

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An amused smirk formed on Neveah's lips as he sort and went through the memories gotten from his shadow soldiers.

The shadow soldiers couldn't speak but Neveah could view their memories, technically they were just recordings but Nev called them memories.

"Heh.... So a commoner-class vampire is going to become the new fourth Count, is he?" he chuckled.

"Interesting. These 'commoner bunch' are better than the nobles.I think I should visit the brothers again..." He jumped to the sky and lightning hit his body and he was gone again, in the clouds a red streak was seen moving.

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Fred, his face etched with concern, hovered Kai.

"Kai," Fred called, "about that masked man..."

"What about him?" Kai asked.

"He… he saved the commoners, I asked around and there were a couple unaffected by the charm... He didn't attack them, not at all! It was them who attacked him. He safely handle the situation without killing many people only the perpetrators."

Disbelief, that was what Kai . "Are you sure?" he asked.

Fred nodded vigorously. "Absolutely! He's not that bad even... Even when we went to rob him he let us go unharmed." He said about his earlier interaction with the black masked man, of-course he watered down the details but that wasn't important right now.

Kai's mind raced, piecing together the memories of the fight, he was the one that attack the black masked man without reason, from the black mask's point of view it was self defense a brutal one though, Kai's body shivered.

The masked figure's lack of any attempt to harm them… well atleast not fatally. It all started to make some kind of sense.

With a desperate need for answers. Kai with his now healed injuries thanks to a potion, he started to walk towards where Fred was painted red.

He was followed by Fred and then saw a corpse there... Well it wasn't a whole corpse, only the lower body was left. It had black pants with a red flower...

And that made Kai piece together a lot of things... The man who was killed, maybe he was tailing Fred, wasn't some random bystander.

He was a member of a small, ostracized group – deserters who disapproved of Kai and his employer's methods. They were commoners but they believed in a different path...

"Did they want to use him as leverage on me, Either to lure Fred out or… well, kill him to hurt me." Thought Kai.

The revelation struck Kai. He had been so focused on his own little information and ignorance, so blinded by rage, that he had completely misread the situation. The masked figure, far from being an enemy, he was their weird savior.

Shame washed over him. The black masked man saved the Commoners, saved his brother and even spared his life... But he did give him a brutal beating.

" I think we should be even... He even used me to learn lightning magic." Thought Kai.