Fifth Avenue
Chapter Three

“It isn’t fair” a girl with bright pink hair and matching eyes whined as she swung her legs underneath the table which she was sat on. “I wanted to kill her, if you had let me go instead she would have been gutted like a fish ten minutes before Reaper over there would have finished his evil take over the world speech” the girl giggles and Reaper stormed over to her angrily but was stopped from harming her by a tall and overly skinny woman with messily dyed purple hair.

“We didn’t want her dead Candii” the woman scowled and Candii giggled like a three-year-old “we need her alive, we know what she is, we know what she can be capable of, and only we know or are willing to unlock those powers, I just needed to know if Fifth Avenue had gotten to her yet” the woman says stepping forward with a loud clank as her metal leg hit the hard concrete underneath her “and once we unlock her abilities we will destroy this flawed society and start new, we will take back everything it had ever stolen from us, it won’t be long before Hartley will begin her unlocking process and when she does she will finally be brought to her true home” the woman shows a small grin but it quickly vanishes as the room filled with silence and the woman spun around and eyed off her team.

They were an odd-looking lot, Candii and Tech being the only ones who could actually pass as normal, which was a stretch, as one was a psychopathic nineteen-year-old with hair the same colour as a little girl’s bed room and the other was a sociopathic five-year-old who’s main goal was to destroy the people who stole his brother away.

On the other hand, she had Reaper, who looked like something used as an ornament in a haunted house, and the remains of her team Scratch and Claw were two creatures who surprisingly used to be human, but now looked like two creatures who crawled their way out of Frankenstein’s basement, they had limbs which were assorted from different animals and people, their eyes appeared as two glowing orbs coming from a pit of darkness.

“Okay, fine” Candii sighs “we won’t kill the girl” she nods before adding a silent “yet” to the end of her sentence. Scratch and Claw let out grateful howls of something that was probably supposed to be laughter, making everyone in the room cringe “but if we are going to destroy them we must make sure that Mr. Evil Killer man doesn’t give an end of the world speech, because everyone knows that the speech that screws the baddies in the end” everyone nodded and Reaper scowled evilly towards Candii, his fists clenching together angrily.

“Watch your mouth girl, or one day you’ll wake up and replace my scythe against your throat, I usually try and gobble them up quickly, you know nice and painless like, but for you I can make sure to make it slow and painful” he says, his mouth open showing off his teeth still coated with the dark red blood of his earlier snack.

Candii grabs Reapers face and brings his close to hers, her warm breath fanning his cold cheeks “Don’t make promises you can’t keep big boy” she chuckles and pushes him away “Let’s do it”