Beast Soul

Inside a multistorey building, New World City.

"Ah, now this is what I needed…" Augustus Harriet exhaled as he slowly dipped his foot inside the large jacuzzi. He immersed his whole body inside the jacuzzi and looked at the large glass panel that gave him a wonderful view of the city. 

"Your champagne, sir…" A maid approached Augustus from the side and knelt in front of him as she stretched out her hand which contained a silver platter with a glass of champagne placed on top of it. 

"Ah, yes! I forgot about that!" Augustus said while flashing an innocent smile on his face and grabbed the champagne glass, and the maid retreated back and exited through the entrance, leaving Augustus alone to relax inside the jacuzzi.

"And now, everything is finally perfect!" Augustus waved his arms around as he spoke, as though he was conducting an orchestra. 

BZZZ! BZZZ!

Right then, his phone, which was placed right next to the jacuzzi began to vibrate, and a frown appeared on Augustus' face. He glanced at the phone for a few seconds before leaning over and grabbing it.

"You better have a good reason for calling me…" He said as he placed the phone next to his ear, and not long afterwards, his facial expression changed from a frown to a look filled with surprise. 

"Did he now?" Augustus whispered softly as he took a sip out of the champagne glass. 

"Yeah, no I got it. Thanks." Augustus said as he hung up the call. He then stared at the city through the glass panel before letting out a long and heavy sigh.

Snap!

He snapped his fingers, and all of a sudden, the door to the room opened, and multiple men wearing black coats entered through the entrance. 

All of them stopped right in front of Augustus, who was getting out of the jacuzzi and was about to put on some clothes.

"Get the car ready," Augustus ordered the men in black without even looking at them, and the men nodded their heads.

"Where to, sir?" One of the men stepped forward and asked, and Augustus smiled, "To the school, of course!"

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"This is getting ridiculous.." Harold mumbled under his breath as the group of boys watched Mr. Carrick heading towards his car through the window in the hallway. "Are you sure that he's a monster?"

"Didn't we have this conversation already? No, I'm not sure!" Max rolled his eyes as he continued to observe their Physics teacher driving away in his old white sedan.

"Well, then.. how on earth is watching the old man when he's in school going to help us figure out whether he's a monster or not?" Harold asked, and the other three boys looked at each other.

"Ah, for f*ck's sake. I just gave you guys an idea, didn't I.." Harold said as he let out a long sigh. "Don't do this guys. What if he turns out to be just a normal dude?"

"You know what? Normally, I would think that." Alphonso said as he patted Harold's shoulder. "But when someone's weird spider-s*nse thingy says that a guy is trouble, I'm going to assume that he's probably not a normal person."

"Come on, guys.." Alphonso waved his hands at the rest of the boys. "We should probably follow him."

Max turned to look at Gerald and Harold for a split second before walking towards Alphonso. 

"Gerald, come on…" Harold shifted his gaze towards Gerald and raised his eyebrows. "There's got to be another way of doing this, right?"

"I don't know anymore, man.." Gerald shrugged his shoulders. "At this point, after everything that we've been through… I don't think that we really can waste time finding other ways of doing our job."

Gerald too walked upto Alphonso, who stared at Harold and clicked his tongue. "Come on man! I thought you wanted to be a superhero. This is our job!"

"Stalking a middle-aged man is not what being a superhero is." Harold said bluntly. "We're invading people's privacies."

"He's not a human being, so it doesn't count." Alphonso said while waving his arms dismissively.

"And I told you, we don't know that for sure!" Harold said with a frustrated expression on his face, and Alphonso rolled his eyes. "Oh my god! Why do you have to be such a whiny b*tch? It's not like we're doing it with bad intentions. If he's a normal person, then good! We'll move on, and he won't even know that we were observing him!"

"Oh yeah, call me a whiny b*tch for trying to be reasonable…" Harold snorted as he spoke with a sarcastic tone, and he waved his hands in the air as he turned around and walked away. "You know what? You guys do your creepy stalker thingy, and I'll do my own thing. Just call me if he really does turn out to be a monster, alright?"

"Harold! Harold, come on!" Gerald clicked his tongue and called out to him with an expression of disappointment, but Harold simply gave him the middle finger without turning around.

"Why'd you do that?" Gerald asked, and Alphonso shrugged his shoulders. "What? I didn't do anything! That was all him." He replied with a nonchalant expression. "If he doesn't want to come, then fine. We'll just follow Mr. Carrick on our own."

Alphonso then began walking towards the stairs, and Max and Gerald looked at each other, unsure of what to do before following Alphonso.

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"So, you've met this kid before?" Nelson asked Dax, as the two stood in front of the old and abandoned school building with their henchmen standing right behind them. 

"F*ck no! You think I go out and meet every single guy who beats up one of the heads?" Dax replied with a snort, right before he clenched his fists. "Although, in this case, I probably should've gotten involved a bit earlier."

"You don't say?" Nelson replied with a snort of his own, and he twisted the rings on his finger, making sure that the spikes on them pointed outwards. 

"Can I just ask, why the f*ck did you bring the whole cavalry?" Dax pointed his finger back at the young men whom Nelson had brought with him. "We're here to beat up a single kid. Not to take down a f*cking crime syndicate."

"Oh, wow, I'm glad you told me that now, because I totally wouldn't have guessed that.." Nelson said with a sarcastic tone, and Dax clicked his tongue. "Why the f*ck are you such a large pain in the a**?"

"Let's just skip the unwanted questions for now and get this over with, shall we?" Nelson said at last, and Dax nodded his head. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with you."

BAM!

The two kicked the door open and walked in, and the henchmen followed them close behind.

The group reached the entrance to the gymnasium and stepped into the room, where two young men were waiting for them.

"Are you the King?" Noah looked at Nelson, who was standing next to Dax. "I'm afraid the King doesn't have time to meet you, Noah Pemberton." Nelson said as he put on a pair of black gloves to cover his spike rings with an innocent smile on his face. "So you're just going to have to be content with us." Adrian couldn't help but feel a chill run up his spine as he listened to Nelson's words.

"Ah, and here I thought I was about to meet the King. That's a shame.." Noah replied as he let out a sigh of disappointment, but his expression was soon replaced by a calm one. 'What's this feeling?' A sense of nervousness enveloped Nelson as he watched Noah. Was he feeling scared? 

"Oh well," Noah whispered his words softly, but for some unknown reason, everyone could hear him. "I can always make him take some time off."His eyes flashed for a split second, and the room felt cold.

Whoosh!

All of a sudden, Noah rushed forward, and his insane speed caught the two men completely off guard.

"What the f*ck?" Nelson, who was completely taken aback by how quick Noah was, immediately raised both his fists up and assumed a battle stance.

'What the-? How quick is this kid?' Nelson thought that he would not end up underestimating the young man, but even with all the thinking that he did, he couldn't believe that he still ended up underestimating him!

Whoosh!

Before he could even blink, Noah appeared right in front of Nelson, who instantly swung his fists in response with a panic-stricken expression on his face, aiming right for Noah's abdomen.

"Too slow!" But before his punch could connect with his opponent's body, Noah had already swung his fist, which was so quick that it collided with Nelson's cheeks before his fist could even find it's target, and Nelson could only watch helplessly as he fell down onto the ground and his vision darkened.

He had fainted!