Hide And Seek ( Alex Goot Elle Fowler Sam Tsui )

Chapter 1.

And partners were what the boy and girl remained as for the next decade and even longer. Crimes still reigned the countries, many different forces had tried to stop it, but to no avail. The country was still in a dire state, with people still attempting to kill one another. Food was now coming in from South-East Asia, but in little amounts.

Alex and Elle were now sixteen, and one of the more notorious pairs of fighters in their city. Following their first success at the age of three, the pair kept on doing what they did. Killing off people, fighting for food. They got what they wanted almost every time, whether it was food, or killing off certain people which posed as too high of a threat to them. They worked together well, hence their continuous success.

People called them the Nightmare Pair but did not actually know of their actual names. Alex even heard some people say that they were probably brother and sister. Little did they know that they only met, because they were desperate and hungry young children, chancing upon one another on the journey to get food. Kids who turned into allies through the years.

" Do we still have the beef we got about two nights ago?" Alex asked. He was in a white tank top which he had found a while back, along with black pants with pockets covering almost ever inch of fabric. The pants were bought by exchanging their food in the black market. The tank top was stolen from some random dead person they came across.

Elle poked her head out from the kitchen, her blond hair held in a tight ponytail. She was dressed in all leather, and already in her lace up boots. The usual.

" Yeah, a little. Probably only enough for one more meal," she answered, showing him the puny piece of meat which she dangled from her fingers.

Alex looked at the tiny piece of meat as he took out his guns to clean. Over the years, the pair had nicked tons of guns from their victims, and had been getting their bullets from the black market. Elle's first gun was still working with them, and it never left her side, strapped to her waist. 

Some people called what they did cruel. They had murdered so many people in the past decade, but none of this bothered Alex as much. This was a cruel world in which they lived in now, if they did not choose to fight, the only option left was to die. To be honest, now that he was one of the top people in the Los Angeles food web, he did not really mind living here.

" Should we go to the black market for food or kill some human for it?" Alex asked, wiping the dirt off one of his knives. The blood stains might make it rust, he did not want that to happen. They did not kill people for fun, unlike some others. They only executed those who had been causing immense trouble for the people in their city.

" I'm in need of hunting down some prey today so we'll see who looted from the country's store of food and trying to get away with it," Elle decided.

Alex kept his guns aside, and took out his entire collection of swords and knives. All of these stuff had been accumulated from the black market alone. Alex begun to sharpen them. He had a personal liking for his swords and knives. He liked them sharp, so that they would pierce his victims quickly, ending their lives with only one jab. Maybe some might think of him as a sadist. Alex did not really care. He was alive, that was all that mattered.

" Remember we have the Assassin's meeting today," Elle told him, as she started a small fire under the wok to cook the meat. Without electricity, she had to start it with friction.

Alex sighed, continuing to sharpen his weapons. Assassin's meetings were held weekly between exclusive people, and daily if a crisis happened in their city. It was the collection of the best teenage killers in Los Angeles, and Elle and Alex were proud to be called a part of them, and they took their role in those meeting pretty seriously.