Chapter 31- Replace Not Destroy
DAMON~
The one at the top, The strongest, the one who led the pack, That was who I was supposed to be and in more ways than one, I had failed.
I had spent the entirety of the day walking through the residential areas of Howlcreek in a hoodie and joggers to avoid anyone noticing me and what I had seen had further pushed what Carlos had talked about to the limelight, the way lowranks were being treated was fucked up and I had done nothing about it for so long, Every word Carlos said, everything I had tried to deny it’s existence thrown back at my face.
Past every alley, down every street, it showed its ugly head, the system was broken, and imperfect, it needed a remedy but the more I saw, the more I realized there was nothing I could do. I had been looking at the pack through rose-colored glasses and ignoring anything that might have shattered my perception of what I thought the pack was, a perfect utopia that I and my father had spent our lives preserving. Right in front of me, a man stood in front of a little boy who held onto a grocery bag.
"You stole that from me!" The large man barked.
"I didn’t, I swear." The boy pleaded with tears in his eyes.
"You low-rank thief!" the man shouted as he raised his hand to strike the boy, as his hand went down to hit the boy I felt my body move on its own but before I could reach the man I saw someone else quickly pick the boy up and move out of the man’s reach, I stood still watching as the strange person put down the boy and turn back to the man.
"Step back." the man warned calmly, I remembered that voice, the person who stepped forward.
"You bastard!" The man shouted as he swung down his large fist to hit the person, he didn’t move and as the man’s fist hit him there was no sign of impact, instead, the person just looked back at the man and slapped him across his face sending him flying into a wall beside them, the man no longer moved, he had been knocked out, Without the man blocking my view I was able to see the person much more clearly.