It had been a long and eventful day for Austin, so much so that rather than continuing to explore around the city due to him being bored, he had actually decided to willingly head back to the hotel room.
So much had happened in a short amount of time, and who knew what the consequences were for his actions. He was an outsider here, they didn’t have the power they did in Slough. If something like this had occured back home, a simple call to Kai would deal with the issue.
They did have the mayor in their back pocket after all, allowing them to stop something like this before it even reached White Rose to do an investigation. Which was why for the remainder of the day he did practically nothing.
That was until it was the meeting time. He headed down and was sitting on the one of four sofas that were in the hotel lobby. Once again there was no staff behind the bar, nor did there seem to be any guests.
The odd person would come in and out of the entrance, but they would head straight up to their room. There was no one to serve them after all even if they did want a drink.
‘I practically got Gary’s support to do what I want in this city.’ Austin thought back to his phone conversation. ‘But he seemed busy with something. He said if I couldn't deal with it, then he would come and help when he was done with his own business.’
Austin was trying to think what Gary could have possibly gotten up to. He hadn’t heard anything around the city and such, but he couldn't imagine it was worse than the current situation he was in.
Austin actually wanted to explain to Gary just how far everything had already gone, but he knew Gary would then stop what he was doing and rush over. This was Austin’s mess and he wanted to deal with it.
In the middle of his thoughts, footsteps were heard from his right, he ignored them as he thought another person was just coming in. Eventually they sat down on the sofa opposite him.
Austin’s eyes couldn't help but be magnetised towards the person. He was looking at their long slender legs which had a pair of black boots. They went up toward the thigh where they wrapped around revealing gentle soft looking skin and a pair of black shorts.
From there, the woman’s midriff was on display, it was well toned, and the skin again was smooth without a single blemish. The woman’s top was all black in colour as well and when his eyes reached the breasts, Austin felt like it was around a handful in the size department.
It actually brought back a certain memory in his head, when he had fallen on the Shadow Fighter, making his face blush a little. Finally his eyes landed on her face. She had perfectly straight black hair that dropped down to the sides, with big eyes.
She didn’t wear a lot of makeup, or any at all from what Austin could tell, but she was beautiful. In his eyes it was the perfect girl.
‘Actually, the perfect girl for me would be one that could take care of herself. With the type of job I'm doing now, I would want one that could fight and that I wouldn't have to look after.’ Austin nodded to himself.
“Big Mask?” The woman said suddenly and nothing else.
Austin opened his eyes, and his ears were feeling slightly itchy.
‘Did she just say "Big Mask", why would a random person just say those words?’
“I thought the way you were looking at me you had already figured it out, you are Big Mask, right?” The woman said once again.
For some reason, Austin looked at the woman's breasts once again, and with his hand, he squished the air a few times, and that was when it clicked in his mind.
“Wait a second, you're …you're the Shadow Fighter!” Austin almost shouted out loud.
The woman crossed her legs and had a dissatisfied look on her face.
“Yes, why don’t you just tell the whole world. Luckily there seems to be no one here.”
Austin never imagined he would be able to see the face of the Shadow Fighter. They had finally revealed themselves to him, when no one else had any idea what they looked like. One thing he had confirmed, which he pretty much knew already, was that the Shadow Fighter was a woman.
“Since we will be doing things seriously from now on, I thought it was important that you know what I look like, and the reason why I also want to take down the Scavengers.” The woman stated.
The sound of a hand dryer was heard coming from just behind where the woman was sitting. The door flapped open as someone exited from the toilet doors and started to walk towards the two.
“Hey Austin, I’m a bit tired so I think I’m going to head up to the room.” The boy said.
The woman turned her head to look at the young boy and when she saw who it was.
“Wait, Vlad!” She shouted. “How… How is he here, wait, when did you find him? Is he staying at this hotel with you, just what is going on?”
Vlad looked at the beauty in front of him, he was staring her up and down and was wondering why someone would know his name. If they did, then surely he would know her as well, right?
The face, it certainly looked recognisable to him, and that’s when it clicked for him as well.
“Wait you're… you're Vere!” He shouted and took a step back. “One of the daughters of the Scavengers' leader!”
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