Snippet #2630849

It was a relatively peaceful night in Emperia City, the sounds of busy people still roaming the streets, cars and other vehicles driving past, a very boring and generic setting for this kind of story. It's not even a story, more like a documentation, a tale, thing, whatever-you-want-to-call-it about a couple of people attempting to survive in a complicated alien-like world, forced to live like this because of human ignorance, or was it fear? Depends... Anyway;

A thud of a fairly large human falling to the ground could be heard from the abandoned alleyways of the city, a man dressed formally, kind of like a businessman. However, he was in pain. Blood drained out of his body through a large, deep cut across his abdomen. He tried and tried to scream out for help, but for some reason no sound would leave his mouth, as if it was being held inside, or perhaps silenced into something too quiet for human ears to pick up. He stared forward, his eyes widened with fear as the two assailants stepped closer to him. It wasn't just the fear of death which was branded into the man's brain, it was also the sight of what the two were wearing;
One, obviously male, stood with his hands stuffed into his black trousers, wearing a black waistcoat, white shirt and blue tie. The other, female, wore a fashionable blue and white dress, sweeping low to about halfway down the lower leg. The male had longish brown hair and wore a white mask, showing a stitched up mouth. The female and much longer blue hair and also wore a mask, but this mask was the one which would drive nightmares into one's brain once you see it paired up with her personality. A large smile, that's all, a mask with a massive smile as if there was some kind of enjoyment in what they were doing. She was also holding a sword, casually standing as the blood still dripped from the tip of the blade. A small giggle, slightly muffled by the mask sounded from the girl, quickly to be interrupted with a bored, monotone voice of the other,
"You didn't cut deep enough,"
The girl quickly turned her head to face her companion, raising her hand to her mask to press a single finger against the mouth area, "I guess a miscalculated, teehee~" she replied, her voice was full of enjoyment and seemed a little childish,
"That's not like you, how can you miscalculate killing someone?"
"I'm only human! Everyone makes mistakes,"
"Yeah. Just not you."
The conversation quickly stopped as the masked male quickly turned his glance towards the victim who was attempting to escape by dragging his slowly dying body away from the scene.
"Don't even bother." The masked man spoke out as he wedged his foot underneath the victim and rolled him over to his back, "Sometimes I feel like you 'miscalculated' on purpose."
As he spoke his words, the masked man pulled his hand out of his pocket and crouched down. Quickly and effectively, he hovered one hand over the victim's chest, about one centimeter above. Without any more words, the room fell silent for what seemed minutes, but in reality was milliseconds. Suddenly, a small, pulse like sound was made as a sudden high frequency sound pulse was pushed into the victim's chest. The pulse was strong enough to interrupt the timing of the heartbeats, effectively causing a heart attack as the poor organ tried it's best to get back into rhythm. Only to give up.

The masked man stood back up and placed his hands back into his pockets, "You just wanted to see me use my ability again, didn't you, Eve?" he spoke as he removed his mask, revealing his face. It seemed a bit young with a couple scars on one cheek. His eyes were heterochromic where the left was green and the right was grey.
The girl, Eve, followed the man's actions and removed her mask. Revealing her own older looking face, she wore black mascara and light foundation, not really that much of an effort for most females of our modern age. "I have no idea what you mean, James," she replied, stuttering a little as her light blue eyes drifted to the side.
"Yes you do," James sighed, "You know how volatile my abilities can be, it's a large risk."
"But you kept calm! You're doing well at controlling yourself."
"Whatever, let's get going. I just need to take a picture." he continued speaking as he pulled a small camera from his pocket and took a picture of the crime scene, "We finished this job pretty early, right?"
Eve raised her finger to her bottom lip, pressing against it as she looked upwards, "We need to meet the client in two days to show the proof and receive the second half of our payment." She looked back to James as she placed her sword back into it's sheathe, then moving her hands behind her back and leaning forward slightly, "That means we can go out around the city! It's been a while!"
"What do you mean? We've been going around the city a lot."
"I mean, like, without searching and watching our targets... I wanna find some more cute dresses and maybe we can have some lunch somewhere!" Eve smiled a smile of excitement as James started to walk the journey back to the apartment on the other side of the city, only for her to follow on her hands still behind her back as she was slightly skipping beside him.
"Yeah... I don't see why not." James replied, not really seeming as excited as Eve.