Workplace

Kyle and Carmen are going into the main room, where the team members are chilling on the couch, or are sitting on their computers, analysing the areas where the next attacks or invades are occurring or will be happening. Kyle shows the monitors and they explain to Carmen what they are used for.

"This one helps us to look after "creatures" who have emerged from the second dimension." says Kyle, pointing at the monitor displaying the map where Team 4 is having the area occupied, a list of creatures who broke into this world, a small window with a list displaying the creatures eliminated and captured. "The other one displays the available people of the squads." he points at the monitor where the members of this team are shown on duty.

Carmen notices in the window that only two people are not available today. And those two are the ones she did not have a moment to talk with.

"The one over there shows the cameras around our region." he points to the monitor displaying at least seventy-nine cameras all around the region Team 4 have. All hidden and at different angles. "And the last one. It is used only to communicate with us via holograms."

"Holograms?" asks Carmen, amazed. "You people. What kind of technology do you have?"

"Advanced," says Kyle. "It is like what people in the first world describe as futuristic and convenient, some entities from the second dimension describe this technology as something common."

"Wow…"

"I was like that at first, but now. I started to get used to this type of technology," says Kyle, looking at Carmen. " In this room we mostly either relax or we discuss the strategy for attacking, if it is discussing the case against a ferocious enemy who cannot be beaten by a single Hunter. And this is rarely happening because we mostly get a mission and run outside the base after the bounty."

Carmen and Kyle are leaving this room because nothing more special than the couch, monitors and a refrigerator with cold drinks and ice cream ( more mostly belongs to Alexia's owner, who is using its owner since she is the " owner" of this building). They are going to the elevator, which is open, meaning, it remained there for almost six minutes. Kyle and Carmen are entering the elevator. Kyle presses the button, which shows a drawing of a dumbbell. He looks at Carmen.

"Now we will be going to the Training Room, where most of our team members are training or improving our fighting abilities, stamina, strength and everything else important. This room also has a swimming pool, mostly for us to relax rather than for swimming contests. Even though we live in Brighton, we rarely get to encounter a marine individual."

"This is neat looking" said Carmen, after she left the elevator when it arrived at the training floor and she looked at all the equipment there. She sees three treadmills, three sets of dumbbells, lots of equipment for improving physical strength, a few punching bags and dummies for fighting skills. "Where is the swimming pool?"

"Over there" he pointed at a door with a sign of a stickman swimming. "That room, however, is being cleaned because someone has decided to throw a party and has succumbed."

"Succumbs?"

"Nevermind," says Kyle. "Let's show you the dining room."

"You actually get to eat here?"

"Yes," says Kyle, going to the elevator. "How about we eat something there and I will show you the rest of the rooms?"

"Sounds nice." says Carmen, a bit shy, and she walks after Kyle. She feels like she has butterflies in her stomach.

They get to the floor where the Cafeteria is supposed to be, but unlucky for them, the Cafeteria is closed. Kyle saw a worker of the Cafeteria, who was half-human-half-worm with twelve eyes and a humanoid mouth, dressed as a chef at any normal cafeteria in a business building, and asked him.

"What is going on here?"

"A malfunction at a stove," responds the chef to Kyle. "The crystal explodes in the oven and now we have to buy spares. And those will come… probably next week, or next month… But in the worst case, ten years later." he sees Carmen, and he decides to ask her. "New members of this team?"

"Y-Yeah…" responds Carmen, a bit overwhelmed by the creature's appearance who is supposed to be the chef.

These two teenagers continue to walk on the entire base for at least thirty more minutes. At that time, Carmen had seen the entire planned building of this base. She had seen the floor where the rooms of her team leader were located, together with Alexia's room, and a guy named Louis.

"Who is that guy?" asked Camren when she saw the door of the room with a tag with the name "Louis".

"It is a valuable team member. He gets us some important intel and is a good combatant. When it is Saturday and Sunday."

"When is it not?"

"He is going after girls all around the country. Don't worry, the man doesn't go after teenagers." he said, and then he saw a worried look on Carmen's face, which wasn't exactly a worried look, more like a confused.

After they visited that floor, they went to visit the fourth floor, a floor dedicated to sore items used to capture and combat, and a small interrogation room, which was rarely used because Kyle said to Carmen.

"We rarely use this room because most of the things we capture are not able to talk or the ones who can, are immediately neutralised."

"Isn't it dangerous to have creatures questioned near weapons who can be used by your team?" asks Carmen, feeling a little scared.

"Don't worry. The room can only be opened by us, members of Team 4. You. Cannot open the room at the moment."

"Why?"

"You are not prepared, plus, you have a Vewolf inside a creature. Not even Lucian or Alexia know its full nature, and they are the oldest members of this team."

"How old are they?"

"Lucian is about three hundred years old, while Alexia is one hundred fifty," he says, casually to Carmen.

"What?" asks Carmen, surprised.

"Ghosts and Vampires are immortals. Don't you know that?"

"Y-Yes, I do." says Carmen to Kyle.

They continue the tour to the last floor, minus five, which is a storage floor where they store important documents such as books and files with things about individuals from the first and second Dimensions. And there is a room where the servers are stored and vigorously working in order to help the team achieve the alerts of any attacks in their region.

The tour ended there.

Camren and Kyle are heading to the elevator, and they are going up, to the first floor, where they will be encountering something totally unexpected.

***

Meanwhile, in a dark room, somewhere on a United Kingdom island, lightened by only one lamp, in the middle of a square stone table, where four people are sitting in each corner, all having at their side paper where they have notes.

"Team 4 has achieved a new member?" asks an old man with a blonde beard and three eyes. "And who is that member, Navy?"

A man with dark hair, a beard, a long wooden staff on his back, and wearing light clothes for him to move freely, he looked at that old man with a neutral face and responded to the question he was asked. That person is the leader of Team 4, and his name is Navy, short for Navytakiran Trannavytakia.

"The new member's name is Carmen. She has been caught having a Vewolf virus inside her, and she chooses to join our team, rather than be sent away, or have her entire memories deleted." says the Navy to that man. "For now, my reports said her virus is going at a normal speed of evolution."

"A Vewolf, huh?" asks a woman with dark hair next to Navy. "You caught something rare."

"It is rare," says another man to the woman, one who is wearing sunglasses and a hat. "But not as rare as an orange gremlin with fire."

"That doesn't count as a member, Ulric," says the woman.

"It does. Navy has caught a member, and he used it to fill the gap in his team members' count."

" It was her decision, Ulric," says Navy.

"Ulric," says the elder man with the yellow beard. "You should keep your mouth shut." he looks at the Navy. "And you… You have to be careful around individuals like these, especially since the spirit that posses the body is one of a teenager." he looks at a file. "The girl has a limit of three weeks Navy. If the girl cannot control the spirit's sudden transformations, we will have to eradicate the spirit from her, and you will be punished accordingly for the thing you have done."

"I know," says the Navy. "And for this, I will accept any punishment if things go south. But, I have a hunch this girl will be able to help us get more information about the Vewolf species. We might even be able to track their origins."

"That would be sweet," says the man named Ulric. "I would like to know a way to track them down, and hunt them. It would be sweet to have a Vewolf head displayed as a trophy in my living room."

"Ulric," says the girl. "Not every individual is a trophy for you."

"It isn't my fault they were in the front of my crossbow." says the man, pointing with his left hand at the crossbow tied on his back.

No one said anything. It is not their first time they have met the stupidity and craziest personality of Hunter Ulric, who is the leader of Team Two of the United Kingdom. He is a talented crossbow user, but a person who acts reckless and sadistic towards any attack, but his power, is the one who made him be feared by any prey from the second dimension who dared to step into the bounds of Team 2-controlled areas.

Anyway, after a few seconds, a girl looks at him and asks him.

"What is the girl like?"

"The one who gets the Vewolf?" asks the Navy to be sure they are still talking about Carmen.

That woman shook her head in approval. The navy looks at the people at the table, and he says to them.

"She is a teenage girl who used to be an ordinary teenager, and is now one who might be able to help us crack the code of the Vewolf species."

"Are you sure she is the one?" asks the same woman.

"She might be the twelfth person infested so far in the history of our secret "job" to protect the balance between the two worlds, but, she has something that not many hosts of Vewolf have. Pure blood, young and a history with her family who were crossing paths with one hunter."

"Who is that hunter?" asks Ulric, curious.

"Have you ever heard about… Al?"

Everyone in that room was standing there, not breathing. They couldn't comprehend the thing they had heard was coming out of the Navy's mouth. That person's name, "Al", is considered to be a frightened hunter in Europe. How can the family of that girl know about Al? And who exactly is the person named Al?