174 The Coming Storm (2/2)

But once he showed how dangerous these people could be, he would then be in charge of a country wide unit, something he could have never dreamed about while a member of the FBI before.

That was the only reason he had taken this job.

Therefore, he was going to be there so that when they got these two handed to them on a silver platter, he would be the new face of the department.

He could only hope that they would cause more trouble and violence in the meantime. In fact, the louder, the better. If they resisted arrest, that would sweeten the pot even more, making it international news worthy.

He had heard the stories from overseas already. Many places were making seperate units like the U.S. and a good number of them were military based. It seemed like only the United States had the funding and the means to simply use internal services to begin the department, which made things much easier for him. Military would have been impossible to control, but civilan forces were much more easily manipulated.

No he just needed to go meet with this Brian kid and get everything he could out of him.

Things were looking up for Agent Wallace.

...

As these things were happening, something else was going on in the basement training rooms of the Hearn Company.

Malene and Vivi were standing in front of the group of about twenty people as Kennedy rattled off a list of names that neither of them would remember. Malene was just awe struck that Kennedy had recruited so many different people who had abilities since she rarely ever came down here. In fact, most of the time when she visited with Kennedy, it was in her office. Malene had different interests that kept her behind a computer screen while Kennedy was the one that handled these sorts of matters. Each girl was good at what they did and needed eachother for that. Malene did comunication on a large scale, reaching across the country and nations while Kennedy was getting people together in person to create a personal army.

Vivi wasn't as amazed at Kennedy, but was more so amazed at how strong these people were getting. They were obviously far from newbies and Vivi could tell they had fought actual creatures before, although something still seemed off to her about them.

It was like, they had the taste of blood, but they didn't produce an aura of it.

That could only mean that although they have killed creatures before, they hadn't been worried about living or dying at the same time. Since this was Kennedy's business, Vivi chose to keep silent.

After she finished reading their names, she turned to look at Vivi, as though seeking her opinion, something that Vivi didn't miss out on.

”What did you want to ask?” Vivi questioned.

”What do you think?” Kennedy asked with a smile, which caused an almost audible reaction from the room, something that would never happen otherwise. Their leader, their goddess, had actually asked someone else's opinion. On top of that, it seemed like she was asking a girl who was much younger than herself, one that even looked somewhat weak.

They had no way to keep their surprise inside.

Normally Kennedy would be mad about this, but she let it slide this time. Besides finding out things about Laz and getting the information about the next levels, there was another reason she had invited Vivi here and didn't mind if Malene tagged along. Having both the girls here would cause these fighters of hers to relax their guards.

”They are... ok.” It was the best answer that Vivi could give. If she compared them to Laz, they would be nothing more that shiny pieces of stone, fun to look at, but useless otherwise. He could kill all of them before they would even have a chance to resist.

”Only ok?” Kennedy had expected some reaction from Vivi, but this was even worse than she had anticipated. Both Vivi and Kennedy heard mumblings from the group after Vivi had given her evaluation and Kennedy had hoped they could at least learn something from this.

”Have they seen live combat?” Vivi asked.

”Yes, they each have killed at least ten low level beasts and at least two on the same level as themselves.” Kennedy answered.

”How many died?”

”None...”

”Why not?

”Why would I let them die? Do you know how hard it was to find them in the first place and convince them to come here, train and help me.”

”And that's the problem. How many of them would have failed and died the first couple of fights they had? Five? Maybe Ten? If you want them to be useful, it means that they have to understand that it is either life or death when they fight. Without that, they will simply show cowardness and run the first time their lives are actually threatened.”

Nodding her head, Kennedy understood. She was still thinking along the lines of how things are and not training her people for how things are going to be.

With a sharp glint in her eye, Kennedy turned back to the crowd who was looking on, somewhat nerviously. Especially those that would have died the first fight had things happened the way they should have been allowed to.

Every single person knew that when you got that look, they were about to undergo something hellish which might kill them.