Crowley was a reliable Altered in the Howlers. Kai was over the moon when he heard the news that they would have a talented AFA teacher come to join the group. He hadn’t joined the Howlers officially but still had helped grow the Howlers' strength to what it was.
It was safe to say that without Crowley, the Howlers wouldn’t have lasted as long as they had. Although Kai hadn’t spoken to Crowley much, he was pleased when he officially decided to help with the defense of Slough.
Fighting side by side, Kai was happy to have someone on the same wavelength as him, and now he was witnessing his last moments. He didn’t even see where the opponent had come from.
A loud bang with an intense amount of heat was all that Kai was able to witness. When the flames died down, he could see a powerful man standing there. Two large swords had been pulled out, and their edges were covered in blood.
“Greed, do you think I can’t handle this by myself?” Glutton complained. “And you took one out by surprise, the bird man. He was annoying, and you didn’t even get to experience his annoyance.”
Kai couldn’t believe it, a strong ally of theirs, another one was taken out. He blamed himself partly for what had happened to Austin, and now there was another one.
Immediately, Kai’s body had transformed back into his Wolf form. He started to run ahead, on top of the broken cars, down the side of the streets. Glutton was unable to keep up with his target, and Greed wasn’t ready for something like this.
He hadn’t expected his opponent to be so fast. As Kai continued to sprint though, he ran right around Greed who was heating up his two swords ready for another clash. Instead, Kai had gone behind him, and with his mouth, gently bit the body of Crowley.
In his mouth, he gently flung him to his back as he ran quickly back to the barrier of vehicles that had been made.
“Do whatever you can to patch him up; I don’t care if you say it’s useless, we need to make sure he’s alright!” Kai shouted at the civilians that were there, and they quickly nodded, taking him off his hands.
Turning back around and jumping back over the barrier of vehicles, Kai was looking at the situation. Some of the Howlers members had fallen, killed by the squad, and in front of him were two powerful members of the Phoenix Gang.
‘We’ve been going about this the wrong way; right now, there is only one thing that we can do.’
Kai then brought out his phone there and then and held down the record button, a voice message that was to be sent out to everyone in the group.
“This is a message for everyone to hear and abide by. I know it hurts seeing what our town is going through, I know we want to fight back and win this fight. Right now, everyone is fighting with the intent to win.”
“But I’m giving you all an order right now. Give up on winning. Give up on winning; the only thing that we need to do right now is survive, just survive, that is the one order, survive and wait and we will win this!”
The message had ended, and Kai was looking up at the two in front of him. The message to survive. Don’t waste energy attacking, don’t waste energy trying to win, but just surviving, if they did that, then something would come out of it.
In Burnham food street, Olivia had listened to the message, it played out well and loud.
‘I guess they're struggling at the other areas, and it’s the same for us as well. Does that mean Kai is relying on the others in the forest, or is he relying on something else to happen.’
The opponent they were facing was extremely difficult, and Olivia didn’t know, even with their help and powers, whether or not they could win this.
“You heard the order, everyone survive!” Olivia shouted.
At the same time in the hospital, Marie was on the back of the large Gil. He was in his Anubis form having completely transformed. She tried to shock him as she placed both hands on his body, but it was doing nothing, as she flipped herself off and landed back at the hospital reception.
“In this giant form, he has great strength and durability… he was a real pain to fight the last time. I need him to transform into his smaller form to defeat him but then he’s too fast!” Xin thought.
That was until the message had played in her pocket, giving her the order out loud.
“I’m sorry. I don’t think I can do that Kai; I’m not really the type that can last long in a fight, and If I lose, then all of the people at the hospital will suffer.
“I have to win this, what’s the point of being in the top fifty in the AFC, if I can’t take down one gangster!” Xin shouted.
“Haha, this is the real world of fighting, not some fake fighting in a cage with all cameras everywhere. Let’s rumble!” Gil said as he charged forward ready to rugby tackle Xin away.
Three different areas of Slough were facing off in a big battle. Doing what they could to pull through this. Nearly all of them realizing that they were unable to win the fight, and Gary was still locked away in prison.
A change in the direction of wind was needed for the Howlers.
“Time is ticking, at midnight, we join in,” Sin said.
The sun was rising hard, and there wasn't a doubt in Sin's mind that they would get through this.
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