Beast Soul

Noah walked up to the agent, who was breathing softly and lying on the ground. With the wounds he had on his body, Noah was almost sure that he wouldn't even be able to move a single muscle.

"You're… you're just.." Agent Edgerton began to murmur softly as he saw the figure of Noah approaching. He looked the young man right in the eye and said, "You're.. just a kid.."

Noah's eyes widened with surprise, and he quickly touched his face, and realized that his mask had broken and fallen down.

'Sh*t!' He almost cursed out loud. He hadn't noticed it because he was in the middle of having a serious discussion with his alter-ego, but the mask had fallen off from his face, presumably during or after the loud explosion, which catapulted them both into the air.

'How on earth could I make such a big mistake?!' Noah didn't know how to right this wrong. After all, the enemy whom he had been battling against for quite some time now had seen his face. And Noah wanted to let him live as well, which made things even more complicated. 

"You know what you have to do now, right?" The doppelganger Noah asked, and the original Noah shook his head. "No, no, no… there's got to be another way. I can figure this out."

"There isn't time for choosing another way, Noah." The doppelganger Noah began to urge him on, trying to get him to choose quicker, which made the original Noah quite annoyed. "Don't push me to make a decision. I need to think properly, and you're only making it worse. You don't know if there's another way! You haven't given it enough thought!"

Agent Edgerton slightly tilted his head and looked at Noah, who seemed to be in the middle of having a conversation with himself, and he blinked his eyes a few times. 

'Ah, I can't move, huh…' Agent Edgerton found out that except for his eyelids, he couldn't move most of his body parts properly. He was severely injured by both the fall that happened a few minutes ago as well as the explosion that led to the fall.

'I can't believe that all this time, I have been fighting a kid,' Agent Edgerton wanted to laugh as loudly as he could, but since he was too injured to do any such movements, he simply stuck to laughing in his mind. 'All of that military and secret service training, to fight a child..' Agent Edgerton felt like it was all a dream, but he could tell that it was very real. Too real to be a dream.

'Now that I think about it, even the Mayor's kid was transformed into a monster, so I probably should've considered the turning of children into monsters as a possibility,' Agent Edgerton thought about it a bit more, and the whole situation was starting to sound less crazy. 

He gazed at the young man who was arguing with himself once again and let out an extremely silent and soft sigh. The kid didn't even seem to be eighteen from the looks of it. And yet, here he was, fighting a killer agent working for the government. He didn't even care too much about the talking to himself part. Agent Edgerton was one of the very few people who had actually come into contact with monsters, and so the talking to himself part was the least of worries. 

And as far as Agent Edgerton was concerned, any human who is actually a dangerous monster in disguise is probably one of the few people who can make talking to themselves look sensible.

He closed his eyes, and began whispering to himself, which caught the attention of Noah, who stopped his arguing and walked over to the Agent who was lying on the ground and asking, "Did you say something?"

"I'm.. I'm sorry…" The agent whispered softly. He knew that he was just a kid. He knew that what he was doing wasn't right. But Agent Edgerton had no choice. No, that wasn't the truth. He did have a choice. He just chose the difficult one. That was what he had signed up to do, and that was what he shall be doing. 

Click!

Before Noah could ask him any questions, Agent Edgerton immediately bit down his teeth, and the doppelgänger Noah shouted, "Look out!"

BOOM!

A loud and devastating explosion took place right as the doppelganger finished speaking. A flash of fear and anxiousness flickered through his body right before Noah was flung backwards, and the whole cliff lit up like fireworks right before the loud explosive noise echoed throughout the atmosphere, causing the earth to shake violently.

Whoosh!

Noah flew into the air and fell down the cliff as dust, blood and flesh particles filled the air surrounding him. 

WHAM!

But right before he could lose contact with the cliff, Noah immediately stretched out his hand and grabbed onto the side of the cliff, which was covered in rocks and dirt.

BAM!

Noah's hand gripped onto a large piece of rock that was protruding outwards from the side of the cliff and hung onto it as he grit his teeth. 

"Damn it, damn it, damn it!" He yelled out with great anger and hatred in his voice, as his speed slowly began slowing down, stopping just after a few seconds. He was, as of right now, hanging on the side of a cliff. 

"Didn't I tell you that this was going to happen?!" The doppelganger Noah, who was the one in control, yelled out at the original Noah, frustrated that they were caught up in such a situation. 

"I tried to do the right thing! We should've been more careful, but I still believe that I made the right decision by not killing him!" The original Noah acknowledged that he was naive for allowing the situation to escalate to this point, but reiterated that he was right in his decision to spare the enemy's life. 

"Are you seriously saying that right now?!" The doppelganger Noah wanted to scream as loud as he could right now, but given how much energy was wasted while fighting his enemy, Noah had to make sure that he conserved the remaining energy in his body. "At least this can't get any worse.." Noah mumbled under his breath, but right as he said that..

Crack! Crack! Crack!

A loud cracking noise echoed throughout the atmosphere and dust began to fly all over the place, making Noah widen his eyes in surprise. 

Cracks were beginning to form on the more protruding part of the cliff, and the earth was even shaking a bit. Noah stared at some of the cracks, which were only branching off into newer cracks and increasing in number as time went on, which made Noah sweat. 

The cliff was about to separate into two pieces!

"I think you jinxed it man.." The original Noah whispered softly under his breath as he gulped down his saliva, and the doppelganger Noah bit his lips in frustration. "Oh, you have got to be f*cking kidding me right now!" 

BRRR!

The loud cracking sound continued, and all of a sudden, an enormous crack appeared right in the middle of the ground, dividing the cliffside into two sections, and the part next to the gorge began to tremble violently as it slowly began to slip away from the other section, moving downwards.

"F*ck! F*ck! F*ck! F*ck!" Noah cursed right before tilting his head back and looking below him. He was at a great height, right above a river that was flowing under him. If this section of the cliffside really did fall down, then the part where Noah was gripping on would be first to hit the water.

Meaning, he had to move from this location as quickly as he could!

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New World City Police Station.

The Commissioner's Office.

"Well then, Commissioner.." Special Agent Alan said as he exited out of the Commissioner's office, followed by Commissioner Bridge. "We'll have a discussion when Agent Edgerton returns."

"We definitely will, Agent Alan.." Commissioner Bridge responded with a smile and extended his hand for a handshake, and Special Agent Alan Fischer accepted it.

Right then!

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Right when the handshake was initiated, Agent Alan's watch began to ring, and the whole screen turned to red, which made the Commissioner raise his eyebrows in confusion, intrigued by the gadget.

Special Agent Alan on the other hand, seemed to have a grave expression on his face as he saw the red coloured screen of his watch, and he immediately tapped the crown and twisted it slightly, which made the screen show an alert sign while spelling out Agent Edgerton's full name on it. 

"Oh my god!" Agent Alan whispered softly under his breath as his eyes widened. "What is the matter, Agent Alan?" Commissioner Bridge couldn't take it anymore and asked. He wanted answers. "Is there something wrong?"

"Yes, there is!" Agent Alan replied with a serious expression. "Something has gone terribly wrong!"