Setting
Traffic is still a problem during business hours, but the paving of new lanes of traffic and the progress of construction on damaged buildings has made it much easier to travel through the area.
The area is still home to many businesses, banks, and various cafes and coffeehouses to serve the businessman on the go.
Past business hours the makeup of the business district becomes more shady, biker gangs of all kinds using the quiet area to ride around and sometimes harass people enjoying the late-night scene.
When the other woman emerged, Nikita looked to her, then continued on inside.
"If they fail?" One of them asked, "If they fail I hope Jacob gives them a quick death. Painless. Not very messy."
"Lochlyn has some high expectations." she said, somewhat under her breath, but loudly enough that Charlie might hear. "There's a small problem though."
"I don't want you to chicken out now."
"Guess we can just hope that they don't remember me."
"Might do some typical mafia shit to my hands."
The woman tugged on her shirt, not quite sure she liked it. "Maybe they couldn't pin too much on you, just got out of prison?"
"Come on. We can take the public transport." she murmured, still deep in thought.
A quick tap of a button and the elevator began it's descent down to the lobby. Lochlyn watching the numbers carefully, waiting for the moment he could climb into his mobile office and conduct his other business.
As the elevator neared the lobby Lochlyn's white limousine pulled up in front of the Jupiter Corporation building and waited for the man himself.
The elevators doors finally opened and out stepped the unusually quiet businessman and his bodyguards. "Mr. Haley, a detective showed up for you." The security guard at the lobby's main security desk told Lochlyn. He grabbed a business card and was soon stepping out from behind his desk, "Charlotte Munroe." The security guard said as he approached the man, holding the card out.
"My ride is waiting." Lochlyn said, gesturing outside.
"Target in sight. Is everyone in position?" said the woman fluidly into her mic, which pressed against the corner of her lips.
"Aave, present, in position." came the first reply, the steady voice of another woman, the banshee, who stood in an alley with her pistol and swords.
"Dog, present. Ready," came the third, a rough man's voice. He walked down the sidewalk, no weapons but his claws and teeth.
"Monique. Ready." The elf. On a separate gargoyle, with a bow and a chainsaw.
"Alright. We're not letting this bad boy out of our sight." Jaeda readied her sniper rifle, which held one of the vials, which loaded the ammo with the Immortal Killing serum.
"Dog. You first." said the lead, Jaeda.
It was immediate, the change. He had become to accustomed to it over the years that the pain barely registered. He grew three times his height and bulk, sprouted fur, a snout, deadly claws, sharp teeth.
And he raced straight for Lochlyn.
"What's that?" One of Lochlyn's bodyguard's asked, "We've got to go. Back upstairs." The other said, pushing Lochlyn back towrds the elevator's.
Lochlyn would have rather stayed and fought, but he had an appearance to keep up. His men could surely handle a beast until the police force showed up, right?
They were going to try, security guards drawing their pistols and taking up positions in the lobby between Dog and Lochlyn. They hoped they were enough.
"He's going inside!" said Jaeda. "Don't lose sight of him. Aave! You can get in easy ahead of us. If you can get him outside, do so!"
The Banshee nodded and quickly made her way across the street as Dog caused a very large commotion, picking up the limousine to chuck at the security guards.
The woman's whole being became ethereal as she slipped through the wall at the side. Very calmly and casually, she slipped on a mask and made her way down the halls toward Lochlyn.
While the security was preoccupied with Dog, and with attempting not to die, Lochlyn kept on towards the elevators with his bodyguards.
But there was Aave, she was coming straight towards him. "We'll handle this." One of Lochlyn's bodyguards said, both men drawing their batons and pistols simultaneously.
"Come on!" One of the men shouted as they raised their weapons and opened fire.
Aave had quickly slid behind a wall as the men drew their guns. She slipped her own pistol from her hip, waiting for her ability to recharge. She did not have to get to Lochlyn fast, so she was willing to wait. No hurry, but no mistakes. She could not kill these human men, being a Supernatural, but she could maim them as she pleased.
"After all this gunfire the cops should be on their way. You're going to prison if we don't kill you first, girl." One of the bodyguards said loudly.
"Give up." Lochlyn said, his words echoing down the hall and eventually down Aave's ear canals. "You can't win." He said to her. His words attempting to act as the virus they were.
Planting the seeds of doubt in Aave's head and hoping she would allow them to sprout up. "You and those who you came with will only die if you continue. Surrender." Lochlyn said.
"-Aave, are you there? Report. We have a mission to do." said Jaeda. "Ondonae and myself are on the top floor. Aave? Reply!"
The Banshee stared straight ahead, her head against the wall. It may have been helpless, but when did that stop her? It wasn't as if she could do anything else. It was more helpless to defy Hatyara, at this point. Like Dog, she was a slave.
And slaves didn't have a choice.
So Aave stood up, rounded the wall, and aimed for the kneecaps of the men shooting at her.
"You won't win against me." Lochlyn told Aave, "As we speak my people are sending security footage to the police force." That was only half true, the cameras were recording and the footage would go to the police. But it wasn't being sent to them as things happened.
The wail of sirens caught Lochlyn's ear, prompting him to gesture back towards the lobby. "You hear that? It's them. If you surrender, agree to turn over those who conspire with you I'll give you work. I'll kep you out of prison." Lochlyn told Aave.
"Join the side that'll win this battle."
She shot at Lochlyn, despite knowing they would not do a thing. Meanwhile, Jaeda and Monique were rushing down the stairs.
Aave just had to hold out and shoot. "I'm not strong. I have no other purpose. Giving up is not an option. I am not doing this in hope. To hope is to dream. To hope is to be free."
She walked around Lochlyn, keeping her distance as she emptied her gun.
"You call your own shots, sadly..." Lochlyn began, "I have to kill you for your lack of ability to call the right shot." Lochlyn told the woman, charging towards her quickly to try grabbing her throat.
THe police were just arriving, Charlotte, the detective that had visited earlier, arriving on the scene as well. They had probably come across Dog fighting the remnants of the security force, they need a littl extra support if he turned on them.
Jaeda and Monique had flipped on their masks, as well, which resembled fearsome beasts that one would see in Aslund's forests. The white-haired slayer flipped the rifle from her back and took careful aim at Lochlyn.
"...gotcha."
Without any further hesitation, she pulled the trigger.
A bullet? No, it was stronger than a normal bullet. It felt different.
Lochlyn's hands began to shake, his eyes moving down towards them to watch. "Smart." He said to himself, shaking hands moving to grab his suit and jacket. With one quick motion the man tore the clothing from his body.
Beneath the clothing was a man with an imposing physique. But it was only to be expected from a man so tall, right? It was different, the man's veins began to show through his skin. Each time his heart beat one could almost see it through said veins.
"You've made things harder for me." Lochlyn said loudly, his English accent disappearing for one much closer to Norwegian or Icelandic. Close to the accent one usually heard from Vikings.
"And for you."