Soul Eater: Angels of Death 2

Chapter 3

            The robed figure leaned in against the hovercraft as it tore down the road leading away from Death City. "Corvus," appeared in the figures head, it belonged to Sapphire. "Don't you think we should have taken another pair with us?"

            "Why?" Corvus asked tilting his head down toward his hip. He had a cylindrical object hanging off of his belt mostly obscured by his robe. Under the robe was a scratched, metallic colored chest plate. His head was covered by a helmet that covered his entire head. It was round with six slits around the area of his eyes, he was looking through the middle two slits. Thankful he couldn't feel the strong wind in his eyes. In the tip of the cylindrical object Corvus could see the reflection of his partners face. She seemed concerned.

            "We aren't sure how many people will be with this guy," She explained, "he could have a whole gang with him, the Knights Templar are known for being well armed." Corvus seemed to be going faster and faster as the speeder traveled down the road.

            "It's nothing we can't handle," Corvus was confident in his abilities and his partner. After a few hours the speeder had arrived in California and Corvus could smell the ocean. They were approaching a dock close to the border between Mexico and the US. Before the two had even passed the gate Corvus could see lights. It was roughly midnight by the time they had gotten to the dock. "That look out of place to you?" Corvus slowed the speeder down to stop just off the road. He dismounted and led the floating vehicle off toward the edge of the fence. He powered down the vehicle and it gently floated to the ground.

            "Yea," Sapphire agreed, "What are these guys loading on a dock this late at night?"

            "We'll find out soon," Corvus told her as he knelt down and then jumped, clearing the tall fence easily. He landed silently on the other side of the fence, his long cloak floating up.

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            One of the workers below Corvus was carrying a crate toward a panel van. Corvus instantly  noticed that the worker was not alone from his perch on a tall crane above the shipyard. A large man with several tattoos was carrying another crate and placed it into the panel van alongside the previous one. Corvus recognized another man as the person from the bounty that had brought him here in the first place. He was smoking a cigarette and giving orders between drags.

            "Hurry up man," The smoker said, waving his cigarette for emphasis at the van, "I gotta move this stuff tonight before they find out we brought it over." Corvus began to scan toward the warehouse where the two workers were headed back to. He noticed a man with an AK-47 standing near the door way.

            "The two carriers," Corvus said, "Think they're armed too?"

            "Most likely," Sapphire was scanning too, she had returned to her human form and was knelt on the crane next to Corvus. "How do you plan to take him?"

            "Well I could take him out from here with a wrist blade," Corvus motioned to a small device on the right gauntlet of his armor, "But then all you'd get is the soul and I'd be left with a dead end for finding the leaders of this cartel."

            "So we're going hands on?" Sapphire asked, Corvus tapped a few small keys on the device mounted to his wrist armor. Suddenly the vision from his helmet switched, first to night vision and then again to normal but with a minor change. Reddish auras were hovering around the workers below.

            "Oh yea," Corvus looked over to his partner, she was glowing with a purple aura, "targets are all confirmed with kishin egg auras." His hand reached out and she took it with a node. In a small flash of purple light she had transformed into a small cylindrical object with a gold ring around the tip and an opening. Corvus leaned slightly forward and prepared to fall onto his pray.