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A giant of a man walks through the underground tunnels searching for the entrance to his hideout. The massive bald man turns the corner and runs into another smaller man. This man was tall muscular, but lanky. He had a little scruff and had brown piercing eyes. 

"Apollo, good timing, we just got information that is extremely sensitive." The man said handing Apollo a file. 

Apollo nodded and slid the hidden panel on the wall up and punched his code in and stepped back. The hidden door creaked and opened automatically and the two men stepped through. 

"So, before i look through this, what's it about basically?" Apollo said in his deep demanding voice.

"We think that information is about a secret organization that is planning on corrupting numerous economic frailties throughout the world, but we can't be certain. We have someone here with more pertinent information than i can give you." His thick Australian accent said.  

"OK, I'll go through it when i get to my office, i need you to bring me files of the supernatural cabinet and bring me candidates. I have a feeling i know who is behind this current threat. If it is who i think it is, we're gong to need a powerful team." Apollo commented and walked passed the cubicles of the many people in the room. "Oh, and Hercules? Don't get into too much trouble." 

Hercules chuckled and turned toward the archive room, leaving Apollo to ponder the issue in the file. Apollo made it to his sizable office and sat behind his desk pulling out surveillance photos of the apparent warehouse the terrorists were based out of. 

"Too easy..." He muttered to himself.

"What is?" A female voice said and Apollo looked up from the file noticing a young, dark skinned female standing n his doorway.

"Top secret information, What can I do for you Saf?" Apollo asked with a hard face.

Saf was a beautiful woman with dark, copper like skin, and black, silky hair. Her eyes were a rich brown, with her straight jaw outline and slim, but curvy figure, she was certainly an exotic beauty.

"Herc came to me and handed me these files, said to give them to you." She said strutting to his desk, flinging the file on his desk.

"Thanks Saf, I'll let you know if i need anything else." Apollo said getting back to work.

Saf smirked and closed the door when she left. Her and Apollos relationship was complicated. They had dated for a few months and decided that work was more important. They had gotten close to each other, so close in fact they practically read each others thoughts. Apollo thought it was very annoying how Saf would look at him, laugh, then walk away. He never quite understood his attraction to the beautiful woman, she was unusually quiet. Didn't speak much at all. Apollo himself was a very strict man, very disciplined and regal. 

  This group he worked with didn't have a name, they just called it the  'office'. The office was large enough to hold at least fifteen hundred people. A group large enough to infiltrate important government agencies without bringing attention to themselves. Apollo was the department head elite of supernatural beings. The supernatural beings, being werewolves, vampires, hybrids, banshees, kamina, werecats, faeries, doppelgangers, and the list goes on.

    The place the considered headquarters was a grouping of massive caves, with the walls blown out to connect each one with only one entrance. Lights hung down from the rocky ceiling and shined down on the hundreds of individuals below. Each office was closed off by thick glass that proved to be sound proof. Security was extremely tight. Armed guards roamed the cave, and keypads on each individuals office door, along with thumb print software. Motion censored turrets armed the entrance, only allowing those with clearance to enter. Cameras in every corner of the cave kept a close eye on everyone. Trained snipers walked above on the catwalks, along with their armed spotters. The 'office' was a fortress designed to be impenetrable, even against an army of vampires and werewolves. 

Apollo sighed and put the classified file down on his desk. He placed his head in his hand and squinted down at the surveillance photos again and something caught his eye. A shadow with eyes. Apparently this was the only photo they could get of the mysterious creature. Someone had named it the 'Shadow'. It had been confirmed by there trackers and hunters to be the culprit of numerous mysterious and bloody attacks on criminals in the city of Anla.

Apollo reaches for his phone and presses a button. The phone rings for a second.

"Yo?" answered Saf's voice.

"I need you in here, that team i need Herc to assemble, i found one of our members, just have to go get them." 

"You're not saying something. Very suspicious." she said.

"Stop smirking at me through the phone and tell Herc to get his lanky, white, ass in here." Apollo grumbled.

"Fine. Fine. So damn demanding. I actually kinda miss that about you." Saf said sighing.

"We talked about this." Apollo stated writing something down.

"No, you talked, I listened, remember?" Saf said.

"Whatever, we'll talk about this later." Apollo hung the phone up and flipped through more photos.

About five minutes passed and Herc and Saf walked in. Herc in his usual black leather jacket, and Saf in a hooded black outfit.

"Ok, I've come up with several different candidates, but Herc will do the talking, I'll explain why I chose each of these gifted individuals on the chopper, let's roll out." Apollo stood and exited his office and stopped by the tech division."I need your best tech." He told the supervisor.

"Sarah, she's the one you want." the man said glancing at Apollo.

Apollo and his two companions walked down several aisles till they came to the cubicle with Sarah's name on it. 

"Sarah?" Apollo confirmed when she turned her brown haired head around. Her stunning features caught him off guard, because she looked like his sister.

"Can I help you?" She asked in a silky smooth voice.

"Yeah, I need you to investigate the people in this file, and any information you get, you bring directly to me. No one else, understood?" Apollo said handing her the file.

"Sure thing boss man." She said grabbing the file and flipping through it, typing away on her computer.

Apollo then began walking again, the other two right behind him. they walked till they hit the bottom of a large set of stairs that went directly through the roof of the cave. They made it through the double doors and up to the helipad. Apollo slid his massive frame into the co-pilot seat, while Herc got into the pilot seat. Saf sat in the back on the mounted gun. 

"Alright, there are thirteen candidates we need to locate and extract before the night is out. they are in seven different cities along the east coast. this mission is tranqs only, nonlethal. The first is a mage based out of the city of Anla, he's a professional in blending in, you both have been sent a photo of him. His name is Dean. Careful Saf, he's a player. We have two other candidates in the city, one of them is going to be extremely tricky, aparently she's a hybrid werecat and shadowhunter, very dangerous. All i can gather about her is she loves to play hide and seek. Herc that's your mark. Your a hybrid as well, so use your senses on this one. I've got the muscle head. He's a draenii, and a professional cage fighter."

"I thought that species was a peace loving one?" Saf asked loudly over the roar of the blades.

"They are, but this guy didn't support the faith, so he was excommunicated." Apollo answered back.

"We're about to land, Saf tie us down." Herc said as he landed the chopper slowly.

Saf dismounted the gun and grabbed the D-link and hooked it to the floor of the helipad.

"Let's split up and grab our marks, meet back here as soon as possible." Apollo said as he hopped out of the chopper.

"Copy that, comm check." Saf said as she walked away.

"Read you loud and clear Saf." Herc said as he jumped from the roof.

"Copy that." Apollo said jumping across the alley way.

Saf completely vanished into thin air as she flipped over the ledge toward the coast.