B.E.A.S.T. Story: Long Day, No Break

Chapter 5 Target Insight!

Not long later, Ezekiel stood in front of an alleyway, leaning up against a wall, looking into his smoky Hawk Familiar eyes again. Commanding it to peel off its main course and to order it to Phantom follow. The alley Ezekiel was standing beside was where the hooded target he followed walked through. As Ezekiel lose focus from his Familiar, he peak down the alleyway which was messy with trash lying against the walls, the smell like a dump a little and the lights wasn't affected at all, but was able to see this suspect. The hooded person was leaning against a wall and looking down, keeping his hood up.

"Got you now." Ezekiel mutters to himself.

"Ok Im here!" Said Shay, standing above a low brick wall, looking down at Ezekiel. "Let me just jump down and-.... MEEEELLLLOOOOWWW!!!"

As Shay was about to jump down, the edge of the brick wall she was standing on broke off, Causing Shay to slip off and fall to the ground hard. She meowed loudly in pain.

"Shhh!!!" Ezekiel shush her, with a finger on his lips. He quickly looked around the alleyway and saw the person still going by his business, and he sighed in relief. Ezekiel turned around, walked over to Shay, and kneeled down to her level. "Are you okay, Inspector?"

"Yep, I'm fine, thanks." Chuckled Shay as she stood up off the ground unhurt. "Isn't the first time getting slipped off a wall."

"Maybe you should watch where you're going, and you wouldn't fall over so many." Smirks Ezekiel, teasing her a bit.

"Oh, piss off."

The two of them started to chuckle and smile at each other for about half a minute. Then, they both focused back on the mission as they looked down the alleyway at the Hooded person.

"Is this guy our target?" Shay whips into Ezekiel's ear, standing up tall as far as she can.

"Not sure but stay on your guard in case he is" Whippers Ezekiel back. "I tried to look for an angle to see his face from here. But he be standing there behind that bin for a while."

"I See. Well, we got this thug in our sight, so let's bring him down," Hiss Shay, in a ready-for-action position, to pounce and tear him apart if she had to. "Give me my bag? I going to shift into a K9 or something bigger to pounces this Dealer."

"Sorry, but you gave it to Phantom back in the car, remember?" said Ezekiel, getting his pipe in his mouth and ready for combat.

"Oh god dammit!" Growled Shay, as she kicked a rock with her paw. She gritted his teeth, totally forgot she gave it to Phantom and then took a grumpy sigh. Hrrr... well, I guess domestic ginger cat will had to do."

Ezekiel chuckles a little, then brings his hand out to scratch Shay behind her ear to make her feel better. Shay loses her grumpy mood in an insisted and lean her head closer wanting more scratches on that spot. Then Ezekiel picks her up and cradle her around his arms as he pats her softly on her head.

"Listen." Ezekiel said, leaning his head closer to Shay as he quietly walked slowly and carefully towards the suspect. "I am going to try acting as someone who is addicted to drugs. You be like a annoyed cat who just wanna go back to sleep."

"Sounds good!" said Shay with her cat smile, looking at Ezekiel above. She felt awe in his nice cradling arms and purred a little, enjoying his thumbs rubbing her back like a massage.

Ezekiel smiled at her and looked up, facing towards his target. His gait changes, as does his demeanour, and walking into a jittery like, and his eyes shift around to look more like an addicted person. As he looks at the person putting up an arrogant look on and Shay makes a moody tired cat face and Moaning loudly, making it look real.

"Hey..... hey, you got something for me." Ezekiel said with a different accent, shaking his voice as he looked at the person and stroked the cat with a shaky hand. "I heard that you have some good—..."

"What the hell you want!" Yelled the person, turning his head around to face whoever was behind him. The person turns out to be an old homeless man who was Scavenging through the bins for food. "This bin and everything in it is Mine! And I am not shaving any of IT! So Scram!"

The old man hissed at Ezekiel and then returned to search the bins, tossing rubbish on the ground. Ezekiel and Shay frowned, disappointed to see that their target all along wasn't the person they were looking for. Ezekiel sighed deeply, straightening himself up out of his acting poses, pulling out his wallet, a hundred-dollar note from his pocket, with Shay still in his arms, and tossed the old geezer.
The Old man turned back at Ezekiel to yell at him again, but he was surprised and lost for words when he saw the dollar bill thrown into his direction. He quickly dropped what he pick up from the bin and snatch the note before it hit the ground.

"My mistake. Have a great night." Ezekiel mutters, turns around and walks away.

"I-I-I....wh-...wha-...I-...Thank you!" Said the old man, nearly lost in words.

Ezekiel said nothing and continued walking out of the alleyway as the Old Man started laughing joyfully and talking to himself about getting new shoes.
As they walked out of the alleyway, Shay looked up and saw Ezekiel frustrated and muttering to himself. He was a little on edge as he tightened his grip around Shay.

"God dammit! I really thought that was him!" Ezekiel Bickering to himself and kicked a tin can on the floor.

"Well, it was worth a shot following him." Said Shay, looking up at Ezekiel trying to make him feel better. "Besides, at least we helped someone today get a nice meal, and he even thanked you for it."

"That might be true." Said Ezekiel waking out of the alleyway. "But the dealer is still at large! Every second we waste time, the more changes the victim gets away for another day affected people with an unknown drug and possibly die!"

"But remember, only ten percent of the people died from this drug." Pointed out Shay. "Phantom said so when he read the reports, back in the car."

"But still..." Ezekiel stood heavily, cooling himself down, knowing that having a short tantrum was not going to solve anything. "Speaking about Phantom. Lets see he has better luck on his target." He stop walking, standing in front of the alleyway between the two market stands and puts a finger in his earphone "Phantom copy? My lead was a bust, and I'm heading to you now. What your locations?"

Ezekiel waited for a moment for Phantom to replied, but didn't say anything. "Phantom? How's your pursuit going?"

Still nothing coming from the earphones but a soft buzzing noise humming through the earphones. Ezekiel tried contacting Phantom a number of times while holding Shay in his right arm. But Phantom wasn't responding, and Ezekiel started to feel anxiety through the blood. "Phantom, do you copy? Phantom. Phantom? Ph-...."

"PHANTOM!!! PICK UP YOUR COMMS!!!" Shay Yelled so loud that it caused loud, scattered feedback into Ezekiel's Earphones.

"Ah F###! Shay!" Shouted Ezekiel, looking down at Shay, pressing his hand against the earphone and head.

"Sorry." Said Shay, holding a chuckled.