The Knights of Grimm - Act 2 - Captured

Chapter 49 - Axzura's Rage

Neptune

The blue haired huntsman grips onto a brick that sticks out from the building above where Fury has entered. He can feel the heat of his flames from up there, making him sweat as a reaction. He looks up and his eyes widen when he sees Watts stood above and pointing his two revolvers at him. He fires the revolvers over and over again at him, and Neptune swings out of the way and catches onto another brick, moving round the building to avoid Watts' gunfire. "You seem to be just as persistent as your friends, boy!" Watts yells with anger, stepping around the rooftop, looking at where Salem is, seeing the rest of his enemies have reached the Statue, beginning their assault. He grits his teeth out of anger, and then he looks for Neptune.

He looks over the edge to find Neptune, but he cannot see him. He narrows his eyes when he looks, until Neptune suddenly jumps upwards and kicks him in the head, making him stagger backwards. Neptune lands and he aims his rifle at Watts as he stands there, holding both of his Revolvers in his hands, transforming them into their blade form. Watts smirks as he stands there, and Neptune paces back and forth as he watches his every move. "Not letting you get away this time, Watts." Neptune snarls as he stares at the man. Watts spins his blades through his fingers as paces back and forth on the rooftop above where Fury is facing Kassius, Ren and Sun.

Watts stares at him, and then a sinister smirk appears on his face. He begins to piece it all together, he knows that his parents were in that village when he destroyed it with the Dam, but he never realised that he was in fact there as well. "You were there...weren't you?" Watts questions him as he stands there. Neptune raises an eyebrow with confusion when he watches him, because he knows that Watts is doing this to lower his guard. So he plays along, but stays ready for any kind of rush attack that he is planning with this discussion.

"Where?" Neptune responds as he paces with him, they circle one another on the rooftop of the building.

"That Village, west of Mistral where the Dam blew." Watts adds as he watches him, and Neptune's eyes widen and he grits his teeth. He can see it flashing in his eyes again, how his parents plummeted into the rushing waters of the dam that exploded.

"What has that got to do with anything?" Neptune questions with angered eyes as he watches the villainous man who patrols him with those blades extended by his legs. The light from the huge spotlights inside of the cave glimmer off the sharp curved blades. Watts provides a cruel smile under that moustache that makes Neptune even more enraged when he glares at the man.

"Did you ever wonder how the Dam exploded?" Watts asks him as he walks around him, his trench coat blows in the breeze from the cracks in the cave that reveal some sunlight from the surface. Neptune narrows his eyes with anger as he stares at the scientist that circles him.

"No and I don't intend to dwell on it." Neptune states as he scowls at the man, but Watts does not seem to care. He seems to have an urge to bolster that cruel ego of his even further by revealing the truth to the boy. Whether or not that is a good idea to piss off a Huntsman like Neptune is a good idea or not is up to him.

"Well – I believe that you deserve an answer." Watts tells him. He walks around as if he was giving a speech to a bunch of students about something, further adding to how little he really cared about all the souls who lost their lives in that flood. "You see...we attempted to destroy Mistral many times before. Once by corrupting their finances, but some good people of Atlas decided they could help the poor souls out by lending some lien to them. Another method? We tried the same strategy we used on Beacon; send in some students undercover...but that failed as well, because the Huntsmen there were not as thick as they were in Beacon." He continues to explain and Neptune keeps his teeth gritted as Watts speaks to him with that cunning smile on his face. Watts then stops as he turns to Neptune on his heel, smiling at the boy as he turns.