The Dark Angels' Infamy

In a seedy bar in one of the seedier parts of Lower Mistral, Callum had entered after running all the way from the Dark Angels' base on the outskirts of Mistral. Upon barging in, he was met with the stares of the regular denizens of this bar. At first they gave him this quizzical look of confusion wondering what drunken fool could be so brazen to enter their bar like an idiot. Which quickly turned to a look of recognition, that then became another look of confusion laced with worry as they the look abject terror on his face.

Ignoring everyone, Callum went straight to the bartender and demanded to know where Paul was. The bartender was momentarily taken aback by Callum's terror stricken behavior, but told him that Paul was in the back having a meeting, which Callum promptly ignored and barged in on this meeting.

"Boss! We are so fucked man! We are thoroughly and completely fucked man!" Shouted Callum as he barged in.

"Callum, what the fuck are you doing?! Can't you see that I am busy here!" Shouted Paul Harpy as he advanced on Callum to punish for this flagrant act of disrespect.

"Everyone is dead!" Shouted Callum back that caused Paul Harpy to stop dead in his tracks and look at Callum incredulously.

"Explain yourself Callum! What do you mean 'everyone is dead'?" Said Paul Harpy with a dangerous tone in his voice. At this, everyone else in the bar got up from their seats and went for their weapons.

"Those Dark Angels, they killed everyone! And now they are coming for us!" Said Callum.

*BANG!*

Grabbing a gun from one his underlings that was standing next to him, Paul Harpy intentionally shot right next to Callum's head to get his attention.

"Good, now that I have your attention Callum, start from the beginning." Said Paul Harpy with a dangerously calm tone.

"And you give me any of this cowardly drivel Callum, I will toss you downstairs and make someone else my lieutenant. Got that?" Said Paul Harpy to which Callum nodded vigorously.

And so, Callum told them the story from the moment they walked into the Dark Angels' base all the way up until they let him go to deliver them their message.

"So, if it is war those whoresons want, then I will gladly give them war." Said Paul Harpy.

"Are you insane Paul?! Did you not listen when I told you that they killed Bullin and Milosh like it was nothing! They broke through their auras as if they were made of wet paper and slaughtered them! We need to get out of here and run!" Shouted Callum in desperate fear as he got up and made for the door.

At the door, he was stopped by two thugs that grabbed him and hauled him back to Paul Harpy, all the while Callum was screaming that they were all going to die and that they had to run before it was too late. With a single nod, Paul Harpy had condemned him and those thugs hauled him to a trapdoor that was hidden underneath a carpet. All the while, Callum knowing what was coming for him was desperately fighting back against his restraints and shouting that they were all making a huge mistake, to no avail. When the trapdoor was opened, it revealed a dark well from where bestial growls and roars came from. With a last heave, Callum was thrown into this well. It didn't take long before his screams of torment and pain came from the well as he was obviously being torn apart by whatever was down there. Pretty soon, all that could be heard where the sound of crunching bones and tearing flesh.

"Does anyone else have something they want to say?" Said Paul Harpy looking everyone there in the eye as they avoided eye contact with him.

"Then pack your shit! We are gonna go to those Dark Angels and we will show them why we are the most feared in Mistral!" He declared to the entire crowd who then responded with a resounding bellow of battle for they were going to war.

It was at this moment that an ominous whistling sound resounded throughout the bar that not even their cries of battle could drown out. Very soon, everyone fell quiet and as one, they all turned to a dark corner of the bar where a lone table stood. And at that table sat a figure, hooded to conceal his features, pouring some liquor into a mug and with his mouth moving in pace with the ominous whistle.

(A.N.: for those who have seen the movie Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, it is the same ominous whistle that the Big Wolf does.)

Pretty soon, everyone started whispering to each other about the new figure in their midst with the phrases 'who is that?' and 'how did he get in here?' being most prominent. Taking charge of the situation, Paul Harpy hefted his massive shotgun/battleax, the Cleaver, on his shoulder and advanced on this figure.

"Who the fuck are you and how did you get in my bar!" Demanded Paul Harpy from this strange figure who simply kept whistling the ominous tune.

As Paul Harpy got to within a few paces of this figure, the figure's head suddenly came up and for a split second, Paul Harpy briefly made eye contact with a blood red eye that had three comma swirls in it. And the moment he did, he stood still, his body paralyzed and no longer under his control. And all the while, the ominous whistle continued. When the whistle stopped, the hooded figure rose up and took of his hood and revealed himself to be Mesa.

"Who I am, is the one you have been looking for Paul." Said Mesa as he came up to Paul and gently slapped him in the face, who himself was looking at him furiously but unable to move anything beyond his facial muscles.

As was expected, the Harpy Gang did not take this lying down and they immediately aimed their weapons at Mesa demanding to know what he had done to Paul Harpy. A few of them even advanced on him, weapons drawn and ready to fight. With a single twitch of his fingers, they all lost control of their bodies. But unlike Paul Harpy who had lost control of his whole body, his thugs simply lost control of everything below the neck. And it showed when they started shouting about how they had lost control of their bodies and they couldn't move anymore.

"Silence."

And this one utterance was like a hammer strike to the forehead, silencing them all with the immeasurable force of will that Mesa possessed. Walking around the bar, Mesa purposely walked in a calm and gentle way around everyone and giving each of them a look that deeply unnerved them and they turned their faces away from him.

Walking over to the bar, Mesa calmly fazed through the bar itself, much to their amazement and shock, and grabbed a bottle of the finest liquor he found there. And with the same calmness, he poured himself a glass and downed it. Only then did he finally address the utterly silent bar and all the eyes that were locked on him.

"I had resolved myself to stay out of the underworld politics of this city, but things did not turn out that way." Said Mesa calmly to the fearful faces that looked at him that started to become incredulous.

"I know exactly who each and every one of you is and I know all of the despicable things that you have done. This gang is nothing but a collection of murderers, rapists, slavers and child molesters." Said Mesa, spitting out the last words with undisguised disgust.

"You had always assumed that you were untouchable, because you were the Harpy Gang, the most vicious bastard around. So sure of yourselves you were that you were convinced that not even the kingdom itself would move on you, which they wouldn't if you kept yourselves to Lower Mistral."

"But." Said Mesa and whole demeanor changed to go from calm nonchalance to dead seriousness.

"You have made the fatal mistake by coming to my house and demanding that I abase myself by showing you lowlifes obeisance. That was your fatal mistake and that is why your entire gang will be eradicated by me tonight." And this declaration was the straw that broke the camel's back as the Harpy Gang's fear had reached its crescendo and they all started to beg for mercy and swearing that they would better themselves from this day onwards.

Mesa simply ignored them and continued on: "But be gladdened, for whilst in live you have caused nothing pain and misery to all those around you, in death you will serve me. And by extension, the people of Remnant. For you see, I will put you through excruciating amounts of pain and ensure that you experience the maximum amount of fear, hatred and rage. And when you will inevitably die, I will ensure that your corpses still exude those intense emotions and then use your corpses to lure in the Grimm so that I can kill them."

And thus he started. Grabbing a pair of cutting pliers from under the bar, Mesa lazily walked up to a thug and all the while, summoning a flame in his hand to heat up the tools till they were red hot. To ensure maximum fear, he had everyone face him and ensured that couldn't look away. When the first thug was begging for his life and swearing that he would never harm anyone ever again, Mesa replied with.

"What about all those Faunus children you kidnapped and whose parents you had murdered in front of their eyes, huh? Did you show them any mercy when they begged you, or did enjoy you power over them and sate your disgusting predilections on them before you sold them off to a life of unending agony."

When the thug was silent, Mesa grabbed his hand and with the red hot cutting pliers cut off his digits, eliciting a scream of intense agony and torment. Of course, before he had entered the bar, Mesa had set a barrier that ensured that no sound would escape. And like that, he put every one of the Harpy Gang through agonizing torment and slowly killed them. Those Harpy Gang members that were not present there were located by one of the eight other shadow clones out there and they too underwent the same agony. And when all was said and done and all the bodies were safely stored inside his Inventory, he would torch down every single establishment that the Harpy Gang owned. And to ensure no repeat of this, he left behind the winged sword emblem of the Dark Angels at every crime.

As for Paul Harpy. Mesa did not kill him. He left him behind on the doorstep of their main rival, the Spider Gang, blind and deaf and his mind shattered beyond any hope of recovery. The only thing that Paul Harpy could do was mutter the same thing over and over again.

"He is the devil."

And thus the rumors of how the Dark Angels had eradicated the entire Harpy Gang in one night had spread like wildfire throughout Lower Mistral and everyone knew that the picking a fight with Dark Angels was a one-way ticket to destruction.

The other effect this had was to ensure that those who wanted the Dark Angels' service, were now totally convinced of their martial prowess and this showed when not even a week later, a representative of the Shnee Dust Company came to their base and hired them to eradicate a Grimm infestation near one of their dust mines, located approximately 500 miles (804 km) south of Mistral in a valley. So after the representative was very much cowered by being in the presence of Lion El'Jonson, he was told to leave the payment, contact information and the job details by the door and that they would contact him when they were done.

Since Jasmine was currently with a shadow clone clearing an island of a Grimm infestation, it was decided that Mesa and Ophis would go to and clear this mine and the surrounding of the Grimm. And along the way, he contacted Ran and Shaw to come and join them in this purge.