Confrontation (4)

I looked at him and said "Negotiate? You? With me? HAHA, you realize that you have no leverage to negotiate? You are in an unknown location, with someone you shouldn't have messed with!"

Bob calmly said "I'm the brain behind every operation ever we made, I can work for you and be very useful to you. I know that you value more the intelligent people more than the dumb ones"

I looked at him and said "Yes, what you say is an absolute right. But you know what I value more than intelligence? Loyalty and the idea of you working for me is as direct employee disgust me as much as walking on dog shit bare feet." I made a long pause and saw his anxious gesture that he tried to hide and said "But I have my uses for you, now wait a minute while I relax"

I closed my eyes and rested on the free chair next to the door and activated and entered with him.

I decided to change it to the scenery of his worst nightmare while I just watched from the distance. I invoked a cute vampire doctor just for the amusement, but the reality was harsher than what I imagined. I only imagine the sentence "cute vampire doctor" but not her personality. She was seriously doing her work while completely ignoring me and only reporting medical stuff that I told her to translate it to me to common words. She sighed and said "The patient is currently getting more anxious but not in critical levels yet"

What I'm doing? I made a double glass room where inside are the worst nightmares of the victim, while I watch outside. I made a sci-fi looking device that could remotely verify the current health of the target while nothing connected to him. Is a good idea that if I think something it can become reality. I curiously asked a question to the doctor "Do you have a name? What is your name?"

She looked at me and quickly had her eyes focused on the screens while she's saying "Obviously I have a name, anything you create with life here has a name. You just didn't bother to ask anyone about it. My name is Juliet, yes, from the novel so shut your mouth."

I was with my mouth wide open, not only the things I "create" here remains after I leave, but they have a past and remembers it...What if I'm not actually creating them but actually summoning them? Shit, I have so much to explore but I have to concentrate on the task at hand.

I calm my self before saying "Ok Juliet, please monitor the status of the patient and inform me when is near reaching critical levels please"

She nodded and I invoked Hades, he was happily hopping like a cute toddler happy to see me. I patted his head and we began to play poker. I really like playing the game, I didn't have too many opportunities lately. I find it relaxing and challenging enough.

After 2 hours of playing with the cute Hades Juliet voice sounded behind me and said: "The patient is close reaching critical levels, I recommend stopping the nightmare world for at least 10 minutes to stabilize the patient."

I waved my palm and the nightmare world stopped and in its place was a blank looking room with a guy tied on a steel chair. It wasn't actually steel since the chair on the real world that he was tied was from wood. So only the skin outside looked and felt like steel but was actually hard as wood.

The guy in question was Bob, totally messed up. Crying and with his eyes red and muttering low words like an insane person would do. I calmly opened a piece of the blank world as I made my grand appearance! But Bob didn't even look at my direction.

I grumble and called him an idiot good for nothing while approaching. And said to him "Now you were saying that you wanted to negotiate, cool cool cool. I'm listening."

He looked at me with horror and screamed away calling me devil while trying to make a distance from me. Jesus, is this the generic response? Well, nothing more original like facing me and cursing...

Juliet called me from my earphone and told me "Patient at the limit of breaking, please be more careful."

Shit, this fucking coward, only 2 hours of constant worst nightmares and he is already done for.

I waved my hand and a calm scenery appeared and changed my appearance as a giant Trent looking person with birds and all other cute fluffy animals near me. I looked like a medieval Disney princess. Also, I untied him, and he immediately fleed behind a rock near the river.

I waited on my place for a few minutes while Juliet told me her current condition until I heard "Patient has stabilized, but not a permanent fix, only a temporal one."

I stood at my place and transmitted my voice across the whole serene place. "Little human, I have an offer to make, sorry to have startled you. Those nightmares were just a condition to meet me! The god of mercy and repent! You need to reach the bottom to meet me, and only those who are worthy can make a deal with me."

I paused for a little bit while sensing him breathing more relaxing a cautiously approaching. I then continued and said "I'm here because you are currently in a dangerous situation, and while you made quite a sum of evil deeds you repent from the bottom of your hearth. So I'm here to make a proposal to you"

He seems interested and approached a little more and asked "What kind of proposal?"

I smiled and made my roots make a wood table and a chair, while one squirrel took a piece of bark from me and carried it to the hand of Bob who watched said bark transformed in a mighty and strong wooden pen.

I looked at the distance and said "A long time ago a mercenary was in dire need of help, I didn't help anyone but nature itself. But I watched him doing various kind of shady thing on the woods, So when I looked I was surprised to see him bathed in blood protecting a newborn infant from his partners in crime. I heard him said 'I'm not a good fella but I can't kill someone that isn't even responsible yet for any actions whatsoever. I can kill innocent people with no problem but this is a baby for FUCK SAKE!' He fought with all 4 of their companions ultimately going on the brink of death. While he was dying he somehow detected my presence and took his ancient looking medal, tangle the blanket of the baby with it and throw it with all his strength left to my direction. I panicked and grabbed with one of my trees nearby the kid before he fell and absorbed to the earth to keep him safe. The mercenary smile and said with his dying words 'Keep him safe from all harm, and this strong medallion is yours'. I kept my word and after his partners in crime, sleep to continue the search another day I killed them. The child resulted to be the kid of a mighty king, King Arthur!"

Now Bob was beside me listening like a curious kid and excited about hearing the real history of the mighty King Arthur! I smiled and said, "And the mighty medallion who have a strong blessing of good luck is here!" I extended my hand to show it to him and suspended on the air like a magician.

His eyes were glowing and tried to grab it, only to have his hand pass through the object. He looked at me confused and I quickly said "Only the ones that sign this wood tablet can inhere the medallion and have extremely good luck while wearing it. After you sign it you will become the successor of King Arthur, since you reach the bottom and repented from your sins being reborn as an infant!"

He quickly went to the wood tablet and saw a contract that said a couple of lines that respects the nature bla bla, work for the mighty of the country bla bla bla, be a righteous king bla bla, and saw the majestic King Arthur name and his eyes shone and finally he quickly signed it.

He greedily looked at the medallion and grabbed it, and put on his neck trying to feel the changes. Only to feel to necklace shrinking and shrinking and began to choke it. There isn't a really choking, he began to breathe really slowly on reality, making it appear as he couldn't breathe properly on my world.

I then transformed into an evil looking Trent and said "Are you really stupid or what? You don't even read the full document before signing it! Oh, do you think that they were no more words written? Check again I didn't change anything."

He nervously walked towards the wood tablet while grabbing the necklace to try to stop the shrinking effect. And checked again. He saw his signature and a couple more of the Arthus Knights like Lancelot. But in between the signs were tiny letters like number 8 that were fading away and with the help of the wood texture were really inconspicuous looking. You had to really carefully examine the tablet to see it. So he read the following:

" I declare that I would solely focus on helping save the Polar Bears for extinction, every one that I save I will have a good 1 second of the best feeling ever. For every major change, I will have the proper rewards of seconds of good feeling. All the same with the worst feeling ever. You will not remember anything from here. But every year you will have the same amount of days of nightmares for each of polar bears killed in your territory. Your territory will expand to 5 hectares every year until it encompasses all the North Pole."

The same rules as the last ones but helping the polar bears. But from someone living all his life on the city to send him to the north pole to save huge bears that would kill you the instant they saw you is not a good feeling. Besides, he would lose the practice of the thing that he loved to do, lockpicking and scamming people. Nerves get worse in extreme cold, is the worst nightmare for a lockpicker. Looking at his hand gradually getting clumsier ultimately being unable to even open his own fucking door, that is really a true hell for someone proud of his own skills.

I chose the polar bears because I liked those fellas, and besides, I could later put a base of operation there under the pretense of keeping the polar bears safe. If you are big enough like "GreenWave" nobody thinks for a second you are doing something illegal or morally wrong, is the perfect cover.

I dissolved the world and walked out of the room and said to Lee:

"Release all of them, on the outskirts of the city. And help me get Emily tomorrow, I have a couple of activities planned."

Before I walked out I made Matt forget about this meeting and went into the van with all the boys.