What comes next [Completed]

[Yukki Kazuto]

The room remained silent for a few moments as everyone took in the situation. After about a few minutes of silence, I holstered my weapon. “Look, Reuben. I don’t want to fight you. I’m just going to take what I came for, and we’re all going to walk away from this just fine.” I put both my hands up showing I meant no harm to anyone in the room.


Reuben tensed his arms as I stepped forward. “Yukki, nobody invited you here, and you’re certainly not going to walk away with our things.” I watched his wrists carefully, waiting to see the blades come out. As long as his blades were still put away, I would still have the chance to pull my weapon out.


I took another step forward, slowly. I was now about halfway to Reuben and the sword that was next to him. I didn’t see the flashbangs anywhere, but it’s not like those were the main item sI was after anyway. While I had been hired to acquire all the items, I believed that as long as I recovered the sword, my patron would probably be happy with that. After all, it was his masterpiece, and was the main reason that I had been hired in the first place.


Though, I didn’t expect to be in a hotel room facing Reuben for it…


“Reuben, you know that it doesn’t belong to you, and you have no right to take it and sell it. There are two ways that this can go. Either you can give me the sword, and we can all walk away peacefully. Or, you can deny me the sword, and I come back with the police.” I waited where I was, and lowered my hands back to my sides. I knew how Reuben operated. I had to hope what he was offered for the sword wasn’t enough to outway dealing with the police.


“You stand there and degrade me for this, and you used to do the exact same thing for us! You have no right to criticize Scarlet and my actions! Who are you to walk into our room uninvited, demand to take items in our possession, and threaten us with the police when we don’t willingly give up our items?” Reuben was beginning to get a little hot headed, which was good for me. Or maybe it was bad for me. I wasn’t exactly sure yet.


I took another step towards him. We were now within arm’s reach of each other. “Look, I’m going to level with you here. This isn’t a hunt against you, or because I hate you, or anything like that. I was hired to find the sword, and it’s something I intend to complete. Whether that means taking you out or not is entirely up to you.” I reached out and put my hand down on the sword. He did nothing to stop me, and instead, turned away from me.


“Fine. But I don’t want to see you interfering with my work again.” He said looking out the window. “Oh, and we’re going to be here for awhile in case you want to see Scarlet or something.” I heard a small ding come from the corner. Scarlet held up her PDA for me to see.


“Please come get me when you can. He is horrible to me. He doesn’t do anything physical, but he essentially treats me like a second class citizen.” I placed my hand on Scarlet’s head.


“I’ll come get you kid. Just give me time to set up somewhere.” I walked out of the hotel, carrying the sword in my hand.


Doing my best to avoid the police on the street so that I didn’t have to explain why I was carrying a sword down the street in the middle of the night, I found my way back to the store that the owner had hired me to return the sword to. I knocked on the door, and when the owner opened it, I showed him the item that I had been hired to retrieve.


“Oh, thank you so much for returning my masterpiece to me. It means so much to have it back where it belongs.” I accepted the payment, and didn’t bother suggesting to him that he might want to get a better lock. With any luck he’d lose it again and hire me to track it back down.


I realized after I departed the shop, that I would need a home of some kind. And if the Crimson Militia ever get up off the ground, we were going to need a base of some kind. I summoned the jet ski that had originally let me come back to Costa de Sol after my exploration into the deep sea with the golden coin. Using it to get around, I explored different islands away from Costa de Sol to make a base at.


After spending the rest of the night and most of the day looking across the different islands, I finally found one that would suffice for my purposes. A small island, only about a thousand square feet or so. Beaches around the edge, with it being mostly grassland towards the middle section of the island. No trees to get in the way of what I wanted to create.


I created a building made out of stone bricks, based on the center of the island. The building was two stories, with a single staircase on the inside. Windows dotted around the edges of the building on both floors. When you first walk into the building, you enter on the ground floor, into a large meeting room with an ovular table in the middle and chairs around it. In the middle of the table was a hologram projector, so that images could be displayed to the table.


Also on the bottom floor, branching off of the meeting room, was an armory where weapons could be stored, a room with several bunk beds in it for faction members that need somewhere to stay, a storage room for items such as consumables, potions, and food, and a currently empty room where any upgrades will go when get the ability to create them.


A single staircase leads to the upstairs portion of the base, and it’s up here where it looks less like a faction base and more like a normal home. It has two bedrooms, a kitchen, and an office, all of which are generally forbidden from your average faction member. I hope to oneday get a home somewhere else, and open the top floors up to the rest of the faction, but for now, that’s just not a possibility.


I walked throughout the base I had created, examining everything from the weapon racks I had created to the storage boxes to the hologram projector. I found everything to be in perfect working order. Now it was official.


The Crimson Militia had officially been formed.

Now if only I could convince people to join it…