XTRAVAGANZA

Chapter 4: Wait Time

The man in the blue grayed colored hoodie walked into the main plaza of the building. Looking around, if there was one emotion that would be on his face behind his mask, it would be joy.

Suddenly, the quiet halls of the building are filled with the sounds of footsteps. Stepping out of a hall is X. He looked at the masked man in fear and curiosity.

The masked man pointed to the X shape on his mask before turning his finger, pointing at the X shaped scar on X's face.

Before X could say anything, the masked man raised his gun up at X, pulling the trigger.

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X suddenly woke up, breathing heavily. He screamed, punching the wall next to his blow up mattress.

His pupils were shrunk and he had a look of distain and disgust on his face. "God damnit..." he said, pressing his forehead against the wall.

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He was at the club the twins worked at, he had nothing else going on in his day and so decided to visit their workplace.

A tall woman with short blonde hair walked up to the table he was sitting at. "Hey there sugar. Can I get ya anything?" She asked, ruffling up his thick white hair. "Just some whisky is fine" he said, grabbing one of her wrists and moving his hand off of his head. "Sure thing sweetie" the woman said, walking off to go fetch his drink.

X sat there at the table, his eyes drawn down to the ground, suddenly, he felt a tap on his shoulder. Looking up, he saw it was the tall blonde woman again with his drink. "Here you go honey, anything else I can get you?" She asked, placing his glass onto the table infront of him. "Nah, I'm good. Thank you" he said, as the woman began walking away.

As X sipped on his drink, Raelynn and Lila came over and sat down at his table. "Enjoying the club?" Lila asked, looking over at him. "It's fine just...not really my style of places to be. But, I got nothing else to do so might as well stay." He said, taking another sip of whisky.

"That's because you aren't having any fun" Raelynn said, grabbing the whisky from him. "Instead of staying at this table and drinking alone like a depressed man in his 40's, you should be enjoying yourself. Maybe take a girl home for the night or something."

X slowly glared at her from across the table. "I'll pass" he said, in a more colder tone as he slowly as he snatched the whisky glass back from her.

Raelynn sighed, glancing over at him. "You're kinda depressing." She said, resting her head on her hand, which was resting on the table using her elbow. "Anyways, me and Lila better get back to work" she slowly got back up, giving X a small wave before heading over to one of the various stages in the center of the building.

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X eventually left the club, the sun having set now and the only thing illuminating the streets being the street lights combined with the lights shining from the various buildings.

As X slowly walked down the street, he was suddenly pulled into an alley. It as a black haired man with a bandana covering the lower part of his face. The man held a knife up to X's neck.

X at first just stared into the man's eyes with a look of distain on his face. Slowly, he moved his eyes to the man's right shoulder, seeing he had the same symbol on it as the thug that was harassing the twins had.

"If you're gonna kill me, be quick with it" X said, holding his hands up. The thug spoke in a muffled voice. "You the one who hired the twins" Each word the thug said, his knife drew closer to X's neck. "Yeah, what about it?" X asked, glancing down at the knife that was slowly pressing against his neck. "If you're tryna get the out of their debt, it ain't gonna work. I was just sent here to kill 'ya" The thug said, pressing his knife into X's neck harder, slowly drawing blood.

X winced in pain slightly. But quickly, he grabbed the thugs wrist, pushing him back against the wall of the alley, opposite of his. "If you wanna kill me it's gonna take more than that. I'm not a particular fan of death" X said, glaring at the thug.

Slowly, the man regained his composure, lunging at X with the knife in his hand. X quickly grabbed the mana wrist with one of his hands, the other one grabbing the knife by the blade. Quickly, X yanked the knife out of the man's hand, cutting his own from the blade of the knife.

The thug quickly charged X again who responded by grabbing the side of the man's face and slamming it into one of the alley walls and jamming the knife into his neck.

The thug gripped onto the handle of the knife, trying to pull it out of his neck. A small grin began to form on X's face as moved away the man's hands from the knife, jamming it deeper into his neck.

He watched pridefully as the man collapsed against the alley wall, sliding down it onto the ground.

X looked at his body, grinning for ear to ear. He looked up into the dark sky, laughing like a madman.

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A short brown hair woman walked into an officer with a tray in her hand. Grabbing a glass of wine for the tray, she set it down onto the desk inside the room.

A white colored hand reached out, grabbing the glass. The mans body was illuminated by the computer screen in front of him, watching a playback of X killing the thug in the alley through a security cameras point of view.

The man had pure, actual white, skin. He had four arms and a smooth head with three mouths and a singular red eye in the middle of it. "It appears this X fellow is more trouble than I thought." The man said in a smooth yet somehow at the same time, gravely voice. "We're gonna have to send someone a little more...experienced"