Tokyo

Part 9: Shes awake

Four years later (Violet is 19 - about to turn 20)
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I crouch down on the rooftop.

"Vi, shouldn't you be home relaxing? It's your birthday." I hear in my earpiece.

"No," I say back.

The cold wind blowing my short hair around. My phone buzzes in my pocket.

It reads

12:00 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VIOLET.

I clear all the birthday messages.
And I stare at my screen. The lit screen of my phone's background is a picture of me and my mom. On the last Christmas, we had together. I take a deep breath in and out. The low sound of the alarm goes off in the earpiece.

"I got this one," I say

"Come in Vi you need a break." I hear the person on the other line said.

"Nah, it's my job," I say back cutting the connection. I stand from the edge of the building. Ans jump. I make a violet ring around me and I disappear in the night sky. I show up in a small alley. A young boy lay on the ground in front of me. Pale from the blood loss. I'm too late. I hear the silent and slow footsteps of the siren behind me.  I catch there face as they run at me.

"invisibility, that's cheating," I say making my hand heat as it scrambled and thrashes around to get away from my grasp. It's body soon stops moving, it falls limp.

"Damn I don't know how you do that violet." I hear Liam say as he puts his hand on my shoulder.

"They aren't human anymore. Once they drink from the human body, instead of being presented with the essences of another they become a siren. Not human." I say to him.

"Wanna come over?" I ask him.

"eh sure why not," he says back
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We walk up the stairs up to my small appointment in the complex. I look at the door.

"It's been opened," I say holding my arm to block Liam.

"How can you tell?" He asks

I point to the glowing light from my kitchen coming from the bottoms of the door.

We changed back into normal clothes and took off our masks, but I still have one thing.
I take out one of my earrings on my left ear and I click the little diamond and it transforms into a small handheld knife.

Liam takes off his silver chain necklace - that was given to him by his mother before she passed, it was modified to create a weapon when heated - and holds it in his palm heating it with his body heat. The sliver melts and it flows around his hand, it forms a small blade.
Armed we walk threw the doors of my appointment and nobody is there. Quick and quiet we check every door in the apartment. Nothing. Then I look out the window a man jumps threw it shattering the glass cutting my arm deep. Liam pulls me back.

"Miss me, sweetheart?" The man says

"No," I say recognizing the voice.

How could I forget? All of the memories I was trying to forget rush back into my head, and I shut down. My mind loses its focus.

"VIOLET GET OUT OF THERE!" I heard someone scream.

I feel a hand wrap around my body and pull me away.

I get slammed against the ground and I see Rey and Liam jump in. I scramble to my feet and a blade flies at me and I catch it... by the blade. It cut the palm of my hand. But I have the knife. I look at it for a split second and I knew that he was trying to kill me right then and there. I flip it around in my hand and I walk toward them. I pass Liam and Rey, and they just watch. They do nothing to stop what's about to happen. My body starts to smoke and glitch. I look a malfunctioning in a video game. I walk closer and closer to him and he doesn't move. I move closer and closer and soon I am almost on top of him and I stab the knife into his stomach. He will not die from a knife to his stomach, but I don't care. It just felt good to stab him where my mother stabbed herself.

I back away and he looks down at his gut. And he starts to walk backward and he jumps out of my window.  But before he could jump I grab the knife.

"What the hell is wrong with him," Rey asks

"I don't know but I want to follow him," I say

I walk slowly down the stairs and see the trait of black blood. I follow it. And then it comes to an ally way and I walk down it. I still have the gold knife and I walk down the ally. My left-hand catches fire and I can see down the ally way. Liam and Rey still follow close behind. Then suddenly I feel someone grab me from behind and twist around to look at Liam and Rey.
'Well shit' I think

If you put your arms down you could live a little bit longer.

I drop my hands. Big mistake. He puts my right arm to the back of my body. And somehow it goes numb. And all I hear were two words.
"Bye violet." And a searing pain runs down my body and the pain was unbearable and all I could do what screams in agony. I fell to the ground and blacked out. I feel my body gets picked up and taken away.
I wake you to a bright light shining in my face.

"She's awake!" I hear Liam yell.

I blink my eyes and look at the white bed I lay in.

I lift I'm my right arm and it feels different. I look down at it.

It's medal. It looks just like my other one but it's a silver color. I lift the arm and I work just like my other one. I look at my hand and flex my fingers and clench my hand into a fist. I look at the palm of my hand as see the metal is white and it's placed around my hand to look like a lotus flower. It's not painted so that the symbol of the assassins will never fade away.
The door opens and the nurse that was sitting on my bed gets up and leaves. Rey walks in.

"Violet, how do you like it? It's the newest model, most advanced tech we have."

"It's a little weird, but I think I'll get used to it," I say back

"Good, but to make sure we are going to need you to kill a siren. Tonight. Or else you will be taken off the board and killed."

I look at him. And I nod.

The board is what we use to keep track of assassins and when we die or we just physically can no do our job anymore we get to take off the board. But if we can't work anymore we get killed because we hold many of the government's secrets. We know how things work here. And they can not let that information get out to the public.

"It's made out of solid titanium and gold. It'll allow you to let your power flow threw this arm and it will catch fire. Good news we made it fireproof. But the bad thing is we could not get it to allow you to use your telekinetic ability's through it." He says

"That's fine I guess," I say
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I walk back up to my apartment and I grab my uniform and walk to the bathroom.  I look at the mirror and I lift up my left hand and run my fingers along with the medal. I can't feel it. I take off my old clothes and pick up the pants - black ripped jeans - and I put them on, I pick up the hoodie and put it on. The hoodie is black with a white lotus flower on the back. I brush my brown hair behind my ear and I walk out of my room. I walk to my bed and grab my mask. I look down at it. And the one-sided eye patch. I put the mask on and it attaches to my face. I walk up to my window and look down. Then I jump. I land perfectly on the ground and I hear the alarm in my earpiece go off. I smile and run to the address of the siren.

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Hello, thank you so much for reading this! I really appreciate it. Also, I'm sorry for the long break between the last chapter and this one. It took a long time to get out of my little writers block. So, I appreciate you sticking around!

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