The Predator

Chapter 4

Meanwhile in the Anchorage police station, the detective and Airborne are alone together in the former's room after the latter had just gotten his call with Lytra ended abruptly.
"She hung up on you?", The detective asked Airborne.
"Hm, yup." Airborne said after taking a bit to check his phone.
"Guess that confirms our suspicions, that she's indeed the unidentified girl in the picture.", The detective said in relief and leaned on his chair.
"Well that was easier than I thought it'd be...", Airborne said with a mildly shocked tone.
"She's fourteen, basically a child. She's reckless and brash so the fact that she racked up a triple digit body count over the course of five years is both astonishing and terrifying.", The detective admitted.

"You know when she first showed up in 2008, she became the talk of the city. A vigilant woman with a thirst for criminal blood and a strong sense of vengeance? The police force mostly considered her a hero, someone that could have brought the city back to the light, and relinquish the city's title as the only dead zone in Alaska.", The detective recalled and looked up to the ceiling as if he was daydreaming.
"To think that the 'woman' we had looked up to back then was just a nine year old GMH...", The detective said and sighed.
"Well, she is pretty tall for her age...Wait if you all used to look up to her, why were your buddies upset with her last night?", Airborne asked, and sat down on the floor.
"You can say they lost faith on her over the years. Especially when I allied myself with her four years ago, she started making visits to the station and she'd always treat the cops like underlings. When you see your local hero giving you aggressive looks and shoves you out of her way if she's in her best mood, you'd probably act the same.", The detective said.

"I did do some looking around back then that helps us find the rest of the children in the picture.", The detective said and brought out a folder from under his table.
"Oh? What's this?", Airborne asked, intrigued upon looking at the folder.
"I asked different cities and hero organizations if they had records for an adult woman that had fit the Predator's appearance. Although I got a sent a handful of records for people that fit her description in terms of height and eye color, none of them resembled her eyes and hairstyle. However when I managed to find a picture a witness took of her stalking a pickpocket months ago, I sent the picture to different organizations and asked them to match the exact shape of her eyes and hair. I got one perfect match, Lytra Sharde. A fourteen year old student in R Academy in Greystone City, Washington state. I didn't believe it at first because of how far Washington was from Anchorage, and thought maybe the Predator only mimicked this girl's appearance.", The Detective described and brought out a picture of Lytra without her battle mask and in a casual outfit munching on a stick of grilled fish in school and put it beside the picture of her masked in her Predator outfit following a pickpocket.

"That's a bit amusing.", Airborne said referring to the contrast between the two pictures.
"And besides Lytra, there's four other children with the last name of Sharde.", The Detective continued.
"Sharde? As in Xenos 'Ultimatum' Sharde?", Airborne asked, failing to hear the Detective mentioning Lytra's last name earlier, in disbelief.
"Yes, three of the children in the picture are his sons and daughter according to what their guardian said, Cyrus, Alexa, and Dusk.", The detective then showed pictures of each children as he called their names.
"Dusk is the blonde child on the picture, and the oldest of all the children. Alexa and Cyrus are twins and younger by two years.", The detective said, while pointing to their pictures.
"Wait, I remember their guardian...His name is Exo. He used to go on missions with Roger in 2005, and I even saw him myself fighting in the steel factory when we tried executing The Usurper just days ago.", Airborne recalled upon analyzing the grey skinned teen on the picture.
"What? This Exo was there when Roger had died?", The detective asked in interest.
"Yes. He was the only one out of the entire squad that managed to hurt The Usurper, using some kind of glowing sword. Although last time I saw him, he sustained a mortal wound on his chest from one of the Usurper's magic attacks, and teleported away...", Airborne recalled.