Wolves of Valor

Chapter 17: The Future Threats Arise.

Sonny would be sitting on a mat inside the den as he sipped some tea before asking, "So. . . You're telling me I have more than just a demon and some fire? Cool!" He would smile largely, happy about this news as Skyler looked at him, she was sitting across from him, "Didn't Demon tell you all this?" She asked, it would make sense that she knew of Demon considering Sonny has told her basically everything. The boy would simply shrug and sip his tea some more, "I don't remember, I've been too focused on training." He would confess lightly as Skyler lightly shook her head, "Well, I ain't reminding you, you'll have to discover them on your own." She would say, and although it may seem rude or inconsiderate to some people, her reasoning for this was clear, true strength comes from those who discover it on their own, not be walked through it.
Sonny just nodded in agreement, "Alright fine, but hey, at least I defeated that other dude, along with Glitch." He would smile, setting his cup down, now finished with it and Skyler would go to get more.

Elra shook her head as she looked down, she was still trying to get Sonny to understand the danger he put himself in. "They were just the beginning.. and that knife guy isn't dead. . Only escaped." She would explain as Sonny frowned a bit annoyed, "Wait, really?" It was clear he was disappointed with that news as Elra followed up, "Yeah. . . He got away in the smoke and you have a higher bounty now, meaning more like him are gonna come to fight you as well for that bounty. . ." She continued to warn and as should be expected by now, Sonny simply shrugged it off with a careless, "Oh well." At this point, Sonny was confident he could take a stand in the darker side of life, he had the strength and power to start climbing up the mountain of the Omegaverse but of course this response frustrated Elra significantly, "Oh well? Oh well!?! Do you realize the danger you're in?!" She'd question as she looked at him, annoyance in her eyes, "Not really?" Sonny would question, this wasn't him being stubborn, he knew he was strong. "Apparently not! You're life is in danger, people are after you trying to kill you!" Elra would yell out at him as she made yet another attempt to make him cautious as Sonny shook his head and looked her in the eyes, "Well then I'll say what I said before, I'll just defeat them as they come." He would try to reassure as Elra pinched the bridge of her nose, "It's not simple like that. . ." She'd say almost defeated at the stopping of the boy.
Skyler would walk back with a teapot in her mouth as she'd refill their cups and set it down before speaking, "Maybe consider her words Sonny, you need to be more prepared and cautious now, Glitch was one of many extremely powerful beings and he wasn't close to being the strongest." She'd say as Elra nodded in agreement as Sonny looked to them, "Look, I'm training as hard as I can, I will deal with them as they come. I promise you that." He would say in a more serious tone as they both just looked to him, ". . ."

Meanwhile in the Underworld

The toxic winds of the Underworld would blow through one of the cities as it would show the door of a bar and Vero entering through said door followed by a ding of the bell above it. "Give me a glass of whiskey, I don't care how strong." He'd say with his more raspy but deep like voice, the voice of a man who sounds like they've smoked since they were ten.
"You shouldn't smoke so much, it messes with your voice and disrupts this environment, not that I could care, haha!" The bartender would say, his voice had a hint of static in it but also a very charismatic flare to it, it also sounded some what deep but not as deep as Vero's voice. He stood preparing a glass of whiskey in his slick black and crimson steam punk like suit and tie as he had a welcoming smile with his eyes and irises that looked like static on a television and his pale skin matching his brushed but partially messy black hair, soon handing Vero his glass that he asked for.
Vero taking the glass glared at him, "Ceno, don't push your luck, I could easily take you out, even with your crazy powers." He'd say sipping his drink while putting out his cigarette in the ash tray and Ceno just smiled sadistically, this mysterious man clearly not a weakly in this corrupted realm just looked to Vero, "Now now, don't be so cocky my Smokey friend, I myself could stand a grand chance against your little tricks." He would mock as he kept his static filled irises on Vero who glared back now challenged, "Oh, you wanna test that punk?" He said with a growl like sound to his voice and Ceno would set his hands on the counter and tilt his head growing a demonic look in his eyes and his smile growing large enough to where blood would roll down his mouth from the smile tearing his lips and blood even coming from his eyes. "Why not, VeRo. . . ." The voice became demonic and echoey with some a static hum to it.

Fortunately before the two could cause s fight in the middle of town, a voice spoke up, "How about you two kids stop barking at each other and continuing to ruin my peace before I take you both out." A confidently sounding man would say in a smooth yet cocky voice while dress in a dark crimson overcoat with a large fluffy lighter red feather collar and smaller red feather cuffs, a dark grey shirt and black shorts, while wearing sandals, and his partially short but messy crimson hair with a black outline on it, while wearing red sunglasses with black lenses but all you could see was the shine of his glass as most of his face was covered by a shadow due to the lighting, if anyone knew better they'd say he came from the beach. This being was simply leaning back on the couch in front of his table with his head resting on the palms of his hand with his arms stretched back and his left leg crossed over his right resting on his table.
Vero seeing this man knew instantly who it was as he glared at him, "Cardinal. . ." He'd say while squinting at him and the man smiled back, "That's "The Cardinal" to you, but I'll take Cardinal as well. Vero." He would say, completely contradicting himself but it seemed to be on purpose.
Vero simply shook his head lightly, ignoring the contradicting statement, "Your true identity is hidden." He would reveal as Cardinal smiled, "For a reason."
Vero would keep and eye on him, "Named on the wanted paper as "The Cardinal" due to your red and black outfit, not to mention the large bounty on your head, what are you doing here?" He would question as Cardinal turned it back on Vero, "I could ask you the same, mr. Hunter." He would mock and Vero sipped his glass, "I'm here asking for a bounty on-" He would start explaining before being interrupted by Cardinal who answered for him, "Sonny." Hearing this, Vero became a bit surprised and looked over, "You know huh?" To this, Cardinal laughed lightly, "How can I not? Not surprising either considering he's big news due to the fact that he killed Glitch single handedly." He'd say as he threw a knife stabbing Sonnys wanted poster into the counter with the blade straight through Sonnys face and Vero nodded at this news, "I suppose you have no idea where he's at do you?" He would question and Cardinal would smile, "Nope." He would answer and put his hands back behind his head once again.
Ceno would just clean the counter eavesdropping casually on the entire conversation.

Vero would think before looking over, "Hm. . . Take him down if you see him and you'll be rewarded by getting paid for his bounty and having yours lessened." Perhaps he could have someone like Cardinal go and kill Sonny before he became a high criminal, Vero was a bounty hunter and therefore had the ability to revoke or lessen bounties but Cardinal could care less on that information as he simply laughed loudly, "Ha! I'd do it even without your bribe, and with how high my bounty is, you'd think I want it lowered? How cute." He'd keep his evil looking smile on his face, taunting and practically spitting on Veros offer as the bounty hunter just sighed annoyed and sipped his drink and Cardinal would glance at the wanted poster and a bigger smile would grow on his face. He'd get up leaning forward making his face now visible to the light, it was quite handsome, not a hair on his chin and his skin was surprisingly smooth looking, and also a bit pale. Cardinal would leave his seat walking out of the bar with his hands in his pockets before Vero would notice the wanted poster stabbed in his table, and with closer inspection, saw that it was Cardinals with a bounty of four hundred eighty million soul coins, Vero looked deeply at it before sighing and sipping his whiskey.

Later on Greios would be seen limping while covered in burns and cuts while slowly healing. Cardinal would simply be strolling before having Greios walk into Cardinal. He'd slowly look at up at his face only to see Cardinal smiling menacingly down at him and Greios would dash back raising his hands in front of his face before Cardinal would wave his hand in front of him resulting in the bruised psycho to explode into a pile tiny cut up pieces and blood as Cardinal would continue on his way after walking over the pile to add to the disrespect and vanish in the city chuckling slightly.

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Sorry for the lack of posts, just got my wisdom teeth done last Wednesday and I was just recovering, hope y'all understand, thank you for your patience!