Creatures of Unknown Worlds

Chapter IV - Benjamin

It was about a week after I picked up that old camera, and I was busier than ever. Keep in mind, the business was new— very new. Jasper was still in school, so some of the time I didn't have him to keep me occupied. I was also supposed to be in school. I was (still am, it literally cannot change) a high school dropout. Except I was help back a few times. I was pretty young when I started this shit compared to other 'villains'.

I was fifteen when Taylor went missing. It's high time I told anyone reading this what happened. Taylor was kidnapped and killed about a month or so after I told him of my undying love. After that, I sort of... isolated myself from Regina and Jo. They were my only two friends, had been since Elementary. I still regret not speaking to them. They could've helped me... could have stopped my from doing everything that I did. But they couldn't.

Now, you may be wondering if I'd ever found our anti-hero, and the answer is: no. I got so sidetracked with business and shit like that, I totally forgot about trying to find this new friend(or enemy). So sidetracked, I relocated my shit to the other side of Canada. I went from Atikokan to Orillia.

I looked around the one of the many rooms of my brand-new building. I had bought it a little under a month before, and I was very happy to be back in business. I was a man with a great, some would even say perfect, reputation. But I had bad intentions. Very bad intentions. I was really just a terrorist in disguise. People would praise me for being their saviour because I'd put a stop to the destruction of small towns, but no one knew the bad guys were hired by me. I'd send agents out to gather information, and they'd go and bring it back.

Truthfully, I was a monster. If someone found out my secret, I'd hire an assassin to kill them. The only people who knew it were my clients and employees. I'm over that now—obviously, I'm telling the world now— but back then... well, I was honestly so blinded by wanting to find Taylor that I was evil. Back then, I also didn't know that only one family knew my secret.

I sat across from a newly hired assassin, David Tuffin.

"You got 'is address?" David asked me.

"Yes, sir." I answered, sliding a note card to David and giving the new address of an old enemy I'd had since 1998. I hoped David wouldn't fail like the other 13 assassins I'd hired to captivate this specific person.

"You've been a great help, my friend. When you return, bring me back my enemy. I want him alive." I told the assassin.

"Yes'ir. I will not fail." David reassured. "But only... only if you give me my half of the deal."

One thing about me: I loved cheating out of deals. David didn't know that. No one who'd made a deal with me and won would survive to tell the tale.

"You'll get your half when you succeed and bring me the enemy, Mr. Tuffin." I said through my teeth. "You shouldn't take too long though. Toronto's only about an hour away."

"Do I have a deadline?" David asked.

"Next week, 4 o' clock sharp." I informed. "Got that?"

David nodded and got up from his seat. "Yes, sir. I won't let you down."

David left the room. Once I was sure he left the building, I did the same. I went to a nearby security office and when I found one of my employees, I whispered "Code 214" and left.

The employee pulled out her phone and sent a message to my enemy. The message was once just a threat, but now it was warning. It read:

Professor Benjamin Willoughby has your location and is coming for you. You will suffer as you watch your family die and then you will give him answers.

When I got out into the street, I was greeted with two very familiar faces: the two girls in the video I had watched about a week ago. They were holding hands while walking, and they recognized me almost immediately.

"Oh. My. God." Regina said and put her free hand on her mouth; Jo did the same.

"Ben?" Jo said.

I awkwardly put my hand behind my head. "Yeah. Uh, hi... Jo. And Regina."

"Where the hell have you been man?" Regina asked. She was the shorter one of the two.

"Don't— uh, saving people, saving towns and cities... the usual." I said. Then I remembered the anti-hero. "I have to run some errands now. I will see you both possibly later?"

"Maybe meet us at the café? Cause we'll be doing some work there and drinking coffee!" Regina said.

"Yeah. Yeah, sure. I'll be there later."