Merged Soul: Reincarnated in a Dark World

A couple of military cars were packed symmetrically, their heavy presence changed the entire Atmosphere in the mansion and soldiers armed to the teeth with dark camouflage uniforms, thick black boots, fingerless gloves strengthened with thick moldable rubber melded to their knuckles and black exquisite T3 powered guns locked firmly on their steady hands, the image of the shining sun was vividly printed to their vests.

They surrounded the vicinity whilst investigations were going on and the entire acreage, locked down, not even a fly flew by undetected.

They knew the malefactors were long gone but they needed to find a clue, a little clue would change the entire situation as searching for a rogue hunter who was also teleporter, was a wild goose chase if the organization he was working for is Unknown.

A long exotic white car drove through the driveway, when it reached the front of the mansion, a servant who stood, waiting for his arrival like always, rushed towards the door, but before he could feel the cold black handle, the door opened and Luke stepped out of the vehicle with a hard face.

He marched into the mansion and sought for Vera, she quickly arrived at his study room and walked in.

It was elegantly decorated with a well made oak shelf, stacked with books of different sizes, they slightly lean to one side, the brown table gleamed softly like it has been coated with oil, three comfortable armrest chairs were in the room, with one at the other side of the desk and was already occupied, the other two were before her.

Unlike other parts of the building the study was pretty dark with the only source of light from a lamp, the light shone one side of his face with the other hidden in darkness.

His sharp gaze tore through her facade, she felt like he already knew everything and she was right.

His solemn voice echoed,"sit" his heavy voice brought her out of her daze, from his tone he must have known about yesterday and that was disastrous news for her.

When she found out Derek had been kidnapped, she panicked and called Luke directly.

A few minutes later military vehicles and teleporters had arrived, everyone was questioned, the system was checked and they found out about the fight which caused the soldiers to label Vera as a suspect.

Her body trembled as she slowly sat, Luke rested his elbow on the table and supported his chin with his folded fingers.

"You almost killed him," Luke said with a deep gaze focused squarely on Vera's face.

"I never intended to, I was just trying to stop him from leaving" Vera muttered with a tiny voice and her head lowered.

"Stop him from leaving!, Vera he was already dead!, and you watched them hit him till he went down, you did nothing, in fact you graced it, I saw it...." He dropped a device on the table and a screen came out and showed Vera watching, with a beautiful smile on her lips.

Vera was shocked, where the hell was that cam located, she thought she knew the locations of all the cams in the mansion.

Luke stared at the shocked look on her face and slammed his hand on the table, his abrupt actions shocked Vera and she stared at him with shaking pupils.

Luke sighed, he was completely disappointed in Vera.

"I gave you the authority to command those men when there was an emergency, and we are not here, but you used it for something like this, you saw how they continued to hit him and you!... I want to know the reason you did that and I want to hear it now!!" he yelled.

Vera trembled, she felt suffocated by his explosive commanding aura, this was the aura Luke gained from commanding tens of thousands soldiers.

This was the first time she had seen Luke angry and it terrified her, their current position and power had gotten deep into her head.

"I'm sorry.... he hurt... Angel and... I wanted to make him pay.... but I didn't mean to kill him,"Vera explained with an incoherent voice.

"You've disappointed me Vera, forget about my personal feelings, do you know what he means to the stronghold or to the entire humanity.... Do you know that you caused the death of four men, what am I going to say to their families, what!!. They were beta soldiers, what are you going to do when the government comes knocking? You know such top soldiers are specially nurtured and bred to defend against the night beasts, the monsters that you are so afraid of.." Luke's anger kept rising and he banged on the table the second time, if it wasn't made from a good wood it would have broken by now, although Luke doesn't train much, he was at the ace rank.

He adjusted his glasses "if it wasn't for Derek's abilities, he would have been a cold corpse, you caused such a disaster because of such stupid reason, how was Angel expecting someone who just lost everything to be sane at that moment. He was bound to behave differently, the cuffs made him an easy target if he wasn't cuffed he could have defended himself, ha!.... You would answer them without my help, I don't care if you're imprisoned" Luke growled and stomped out of the room.

The loud sound of the door sealed her fate as Vera slumped to the ground with tears streaming down her cheeks, she didn't mean for any of this, but there was no escape, the door opened and a man entered.

On his way outside, his mind was running at hyper speed, from the call he got from the 4th military base, something was stolen and it turned out to be Derek's dagger, he was about to secure the mansion but they were way faster than him, they must have figured out Derek's uniqueness, he needed to find Derek but no clue had been found, these people were professionals, even with all the machines, there was no damn clue.

He came out of the mansion and a young man walked towards him "we found nothing sir".

"Nothing, no figure recognition, foot prints, fingerprints, shadows!!, You found nothing!!. They are teleporters, they don't vanish, they teleport through short distances and no cam got them, we've got a missing person and the thief who stole from the 4th base wasn't also found, what the hell are you doing, find me something or you're suspended!" Luke yelled and moved to his car, he entered and slammed the door.

"To the 4th base" his deep voice made the driver tremble a little before he started the vehicle and then left the mansion, on their way, Luke stared through the windows.

The organization behind this couldn't be a small one, they had messed with both the military and the Crawfords, which fool would do that if he wasn't sure of his strength. ｂｅ𝚍𝚗ｏｖｅ𝚕．𝚗𝚎𝚝

He didn't know who took Derek and he felt angst, things were going to get bad in the coming days, the peaceful days in the stronghold were coming to an unfortunate end.

However, he had a huge problem, how was he going to explain to Angel that her aunt Vera was an indirect cause of Derek's disappearance.

His thoughts were disrupted by his blinking watch, he waved his arms and his wife appeared.

"What happened to Derek?" she questioned with anxiety. Seeing her worried look, Luke felt tied but he had to tell her.

"he's gone, he was taken by two teleporters, I suspect they are hired hunters".

"What! How could this happen, you better find him, Luke" Jasmine yelled with anger and disconnected.

Luke was stunned, why was she angry at him, wasn't it Vera's fault.

A message appeared on the screen and it was from Jasmine, Luke read it and nodded, he was thankful for her reminder as he had forgotten.

He called a different line and a man wearing an executive suit appeared, he greeted "good day sir".

Luke's day was anything but good, he hid his emotions and nodded "i want everything at the mansion concealed, nothing gets to the media" he ordered.

"I understand sir", the man nodded and disconnected.

He turned back and faced a group of people in black suits, I want all information about any leakage, nothing get to the public" he said with a calm voice, the respectful tone he had when he talked to Luke was gone, his voice was now brimming with authority,

They nodded and got to work.

••••

In a huge white room, a semi unconscious black haired man was held in a star shaped position as four huge white machines held his limbs, he was suspended vertically with few people in white, looking at him with crazy enthralled eyes.

"We brought him in one piece so pay up" a man whose face was covered in black hood said with a smirk.

They got such huge money for such an easy job, with this amount they would enjoy for a long time at the safe hold, he fantasized about the soft bodies of those expensive women which were no longer out of his reach.... It was going to be a long lovely vacation .

A short man smiled and raised the black box he was holding since he came to this room, he stared at a tiny glass spot and a clicking sound was heard as the box opened, he brought out a black card and gave it to the hooded man "it's untraceable".

The hooded man smiled and nudged his Friend, they both walked out of the room and the sound of the door sealing shut was the last thing Derek heard as he finally fell unconscious