sewer mission

After the training event the group took a week off to heal from what happened.

While max and the others were doing their thing Miguel told him that Jason wants him to be on a mission with him.

He told him that Jason wanted him to come along because he wanted to make a good impression on him.

Max didn't have anything against ryu and Jason it would be pretty petty to just snap at him because he's stronger than him.

Max's wasn't planning on becoming the strongest exorcist his priority is to become strong to protect him family and friends.

And Miguel that someone else from the back up division was joining them.

He didn't mind since backup exorcist were still viewed as valuable assets.

Max learned a lot of things from the shadow ability when he did some research.

Apparently his black arms aren't a shadow related there more like an extra limb.

But how the shadow ability works is that it's tied to the user's shadow and some spirit animals can have this shadow ability too.

So max put together that his father must have been a shadow user and his mom had the ability to drain energy.

Guess those good for nothing backs stabbed gave him something but he wasn't going to say thanks.

Currently max was in the basketball arena and he was playing with Peter while the others were doing their own thing.

Peter: so jason wants to take you on a mission with him?

He passed the ball toward max who caught it and started to bounce it.

Max: yeah is like a mix of apology and making a good impression on me and the others.

He lined up his shot and threw the ball at the hoop but it missed and Peter caught it.

Peter: well at least you will probably learn a thing or two while you are working with him.

He bounces the ball and lined his shot and threw it and made it through the hoop leaving max to bitterly take the ball.

Max: what caught my attention more is that this my first time working with someone from the backup division.

Peter: oh yeah I wonder if they get the same treatment as us.

Max: no from what Miguel told me is that unlike us that exorcist from the backup division live in their own places unlike us who live in a dormitory.

Peter: really?

Max: yeah that's what Miguel told me.

He lined up his shot and this time he landed it.

Max: about time.

Peter: well tomorrow we'll be getting back to work.

Max: yeah.

They continued playing a few rounds and Peter kicked his ass at basketball.

The next day max received an address by Miguel and he was walking to the location by an under pass.

He took a seat and put on his earbuds and started to jam to some music to kill some time.

Moline inside of max's subconscious she was jamming out to the music but she stopped because she sensed someone with spiritual energy coming.

Moline: bro eyes up.

He heard her words and he opened his eyes to a boy with blue hair and he recognized him.

Max: it's you! You're the guy I helped.

Mako: and you were the one who healed me.

Max: you're mako right? Your an exorcist?

Mako: yeah I am. I managed to get into the backup division.

Max: wow how'd you been?

Mako: alright for the most part. Sophia saved my ass from some lost souls and I ask her to give me some pointers.

Mako sat by max who is still a bit surprised to see someone that he didn't expect to meet again.

Max: so you've been on missions?

Mako: yeah with other back up members but this my first with an in training exorcist. but then again I'm also a rookie.

Max: nice. So what do you think of Jason?

Mako: he's an okay guy a lot of people see me as emo and Jason was the among the ones who told me to not care about what other thinks.

Max: what about Sonia?

Mako: well her too I was basically on the bottom of the barrel and when I remembered that you help me I decided to put some effort. so I joined the oni delinquents to do that Sonia could probably teach a a thing or two and she was alright.

Max: as a teacher or a leader.

Mako: leader. Definitely leader

Max: heh figure I've only known her for a few weeks and she can be a bit of a mess.

Somewhere else.

Sonia: I feel like someone insulted me.

Back to the 2.

Max: so what's your ability?

Mako didn't answer but instead he put his hand on the ground and his hand sunk in it like touching a big water balloon.

Max: so you can soften the ground.

Mako: not just that.

Max felt his feet stuck in something and he look down and saw that his feet were sunk into the ground.

Max: how the hell?

Mako: yeah I can do that too.

Mako softened the ground and max got his feet out.

Max: it's solid one minute and the next it felt like a soft balloon water.

Mako: yup that's my abilities however it works on solid matter not on organic beings.

Max: figured.

Mako: I can also do this.

Mako put his hand into the ground and got out a liquified stone and dirt and molded it into the Statue of Liberty.

Max: so can also molded it?

Mako: yup I can basically control solidity and manipulate it to my liking like for example.

The Statue of Liberty suddenly became solid and started to form wave at max and jumped into the ground breaking to pieces and turned back into a liquified state and sink into the ground.

Max: you could be really powerful in the future.

Mako: probably. Maybe not. Who knows Sophia is teaching me how to not screw things up and I don't want to let her down.

Max: don't beat yourself up you'll-

A honk was heard and they saw Jason inside of a cap.

He told them to get inside and they did and after the driver started to drive them into their mission's location.

Jason told them that they were going to go into the sewers because some scouts reported sights of a panther looking lost soul that kidnapped a little girl.

The mission is to find the panther and if the panther isn't a lost soul and it's a spirit and its a non hostile then ask it to bring in the girl.

They got dropped off at the location and they got into the sewer tunnel to get inside and sewer line.

They got to looking around by having void sniffing out the target.

They continued on for a while and they found nothing and void didn't find anything yet but they still had time.

Currently they were in a tunnel with two tunnels to the sides.

They heard a noise they followed the sound When they got there they saw two cultists fighting a panther that was bitting one of them however they saw that the panther was injured.

The bitten cultists used it's ability to make a water tendril to get the panther off of them and when it was on the ground they pierced it in the chest letting a cry of pain.

Cultist 1: this damn mutt is feisty. Too bad that it didn't decide to tell us where our target is.

Cultist 2: let's just kill it we will look for our target later.

The 3 heard the conversation and it looks like that the panther was being hunted down by these cultists Jason noticed that they were wearing yellow robes so that means that they might be part of the same cult.

Mako decided to do this quietly.

He put on a mask and walked into the wall and sunk into it leaving the two boy with black hair confused.

In mako's point of view he was inside a water like system inside the wall since he can manipulate the solidity of matter he learned that he can enter it like a diver entering inside water.

So mako is literally swimming through the wall and thanks to his special mask he doesn't need to worry about suffocating.

But now it was to get to work.

He took out two pistols and he used his sense to feel for the cultist's presence.

He got a mark and he softened the wall enough to get his guns through.

He doubled check if he got the right angle and when he was sure he put spiritual energy inside his guns and fired two shots.

The cultist didn't have time to dodge the bullets that pierced through their hearts killing them instantly.

The two black haired boys were surprised by the gunshots and the cultist's dead bodies.

They got out of their hiding spot and went to investigate.

Mako got out of the wall and walked over to the group.

Max: not gonna lie that was actually kinda terrifying.

Mako: yeah I figured it would be a pain in the ass to fight these guys since we could probably do a lot of damage to the place.

Jason: more importantly I got some identification on these guys. Jake terryson and Jessica melody.

Max: you know these guys?

Jason: No that's their identification says. I'll get their phones and wallets as evidence and give it to Miguel and the investigation department.

Max looked over at the panther who was breathing heavily and he saw it bleeding out.

He got closer to it and he made sure not to look hostile to not scare it.

The panther saw max getting closer and he was expecting him to try to kill him but instead he saw worry in his eyes and body language.

He still wasn't sure if he was friendly or not but a voice inside his head sounded out.

Voice: you can trust him Nero he isn't one of them and he wants to help you.

The panther named Nero listen to the voice and he decided to trust its judgment but his guard was still up.

Max saw that the panther was being hostile and he took that as a go ahead.

Black matter danced around his arm along with green healing energy.

He put his hand into Nero's chest and healed the panther's wounds.

When he was done the panther was getting up but it was still weary of max and the others.

Max: if you can understand me. We came here to make sure that you didn't do anything to anyone so I would like it if you could return the girl.

Nero was now tense if these people were after his friend then-

Voice: it's okay they mean no harm. Bring them here.

Nero was surprised that she wanted to see these people but he knew that she wasn't stupid.

He looked at max's eyes again and saw that he didn't look hostile at all.

He decided to trust his friend and walked over to a part of the sewer and looked back at the group.

Max and the others saw it walking away and they got the hint that it wanted to follow them.

Jason: should we follow it?

Mako: it doesn't seem hostile.

The group decided to follow the panther and they kept going until they were stopped by a wall

they saw the panther cloaking its with spiritual energy and phase through the wall.

The 3 followed suit by cloaking their bodies in spiritual energy to pass through the wall like the panther.

When they did max saw a talisman that had the energy signature of his mom.

They continued to follow the panther and they stopped because they saw an underground civilization.

And max and mako sensed that there was a lot of pure souls all around.

Max: holy.

Mako: shit.

Jason: I wasn't expecting you guys to come here early.

Max: you know of this area?

Jason: yeah this place is basically like a safe place for pure souls and funny enough this is were fedi and ren live.

Mako: this is just amazing and bizarre.

Jason saw the panther looking back at them he guessed that it was telling them to hurry up.

Jason: come on you'll get a better sight than up here.

The group followed the panther to the underground civilization and this was gonna a new experience in another type of civilization.