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New York City was beautiful, a lot prettier than Newark. I wouldn’t admit that out loud as a native New Jersey Girl, I would be disowned from my family if I wasn’t already. The rain blurred the lights coming from the skyline tonight. Looking like a ruined stained glass painting that got smeared while the paint was still drying. It would have been perfect if it wasn’t so quiet. There should be people out, bustling in the streets even if it's pouring outside. They were all somewhere else in a glass orb with sun and a nice yacht. My ideal vacation honestly. But there was nothing ideal about this situation.
I might work for Big Mama, but that doesn't mean I agree with her. I most definitely don’t agree with this ‘Battle Nexus:New York!!!’ bull shit either. She’s always been theatrical, everything being bigger and better for her patrons at the hotel. This was too far though. Mixing humans with Yoakai pleasure. Of course I’m grateful she actually tried to keep them safe, but the logistics of it all. They’re going to realize they’re trapped and they’re going to flip. There goes keeping the Yoakai race a secret. She was too into her element to accept that. Money and power was all she cared about.
There was a huff of air behind me, startling me out of my train of thought. I turned my head to see a dark figure behind me, clad in armour and a red and white mask, Hitoya. She’s been here way longer than I. I don’t know how long, but long enough for her to be Big Mama's right hand man. A woman of few words, she kept silent most of the time. Except when she needs to tell me I’m doing something wrong or what Big Mama wants from me.
“ What now?” I asked, annoyed. Lately, I’ve been working like a slave. The new prisoner had been my latest project. I’ve been gathering blood samples, hair samples….. Let’s just say a lot of samples, for some secret project that was planned for the future and had just got done this evening. I’ve been ‘relaxing’ in one of the sitting rooms, before going to bed for the first time in two days, not that I was actually going to fall asleep. Something was wrong, not counting imprisoning 8.5 million people, and my gut was letting me hear it.
“They won, the turtles.” Her voice iced over with hatred.
“Damn it.” This was going to bruise Big Mama’s ego. I wasn’t going to hear the end of it when she came back.
“She's going to use him, summoned not too long ago.”
I turned my whole body to her, terrified. “Shadow Fiend?! Are you joking? For those clowns?!” This was going to go wrong, like crash and burn wrong.
“It’s what she’s decided. You’re to relocate to the back up location immediately.” Her voice was annoyed, probably with me insulting Big Mama’s decisions. That’s not what’s pissing me off right now. Shadow Fiend was an absolute brute. He was nothing but muscle and darkness, like some over powered villains in anime. I would definitely be dead if he wasn’t being controlled.
“He’s too powerful. He’s going to destroy the damn city.” That’s what was pissing me off. I’ve seen the aftermath of when he first got out. The shipping yard was absolutely demolished. If he did that, there’s no telling what he would do with this next fight with those turtles. The worst part? Big Mama knew this, how powerful he is. She didn’t need my reports for that either. Yet, she was willing to risk the city and Yokai’s lives for a damn victory.
“That’s not your problem.” She replied back, her shoulders tensing like she wanted to drag me out.. She was always so hard to read with that studpid mask on. What she lacked in emotion, I had plenty.
“It’ll be my problem when I dig myself out of the damn rubble when he brings this place down!” My tail twitched angrily, matching the rest of my body.
“Mona, I don’t have time for your childish behavi-” She froze , steading herself as the building shook under our feet.
Life would be so much easier if people would start realizing I’m right. I couldn’t say that aloud before the floor beneath us opened like a hungry monster. Rubble and darkness surrounded as I let out a scream. Should I pray? Maybe I should have tried to reach out to my family one last time… My mind was going so quick that I didn’t realize that I backed out till it was too late.