4) FIGHT WITH A MANIPULATOR

Joy and Andres were surprised to see the speaker. 

The speaker was a girl. She hid her face by a mask. Her eyes were not clearly visible because of the black goggles. Her hair were in a single ponytail which was very long. She was wearing black full body suit, covering from neck to her legs. She was wearing black shoes and holding a bright green long staff. 

"Now, who are you?" Asked Joy

"Me? I am nobody! Don't think of me or my name! Think of how you would survive!" Said the girl

"Well! (Takes out his sword) We are no cowards unlike an emotion eater! So we will fight with ease!" Said Andres

"Ease? Really!" 

"Yeah!" 

"Ok then, come! Fight!" Said the girl

"Joy! Listen, I will fight this girl! Don't you interfere in between! Come only if I am not able to fight, but that's not gonna happen!" Said Andres

"Sure!" Said Joy

Joy went back and rested on a tree. 

"Now, let's see!" Said Andres

"Sure! I am itching to see what you got!" 

Andres moved at his top speed and slashed his sword at the girl. 

"Huh!" 

Suddenly, Andres got his first shock. The girl was not there at all. He looked around to see her. 

"YOU!" Shouted Andres

The girl was standing on a pole. 

"Well, you are too slow!" Said the girl

"Slow? Huh! Now see this!" 

Andres moved again at top speed and jumped upto the height of pole and again was about to slash his sword, this time, a large fire was thrown by his sword at the slash. Andres was thinking he won but....

"YO! LOOK HERE!" Said the girl

Andres looked from the top of the pole. The girl was standing below. 

"What?" 

"Huh! This was your speed! I will now show mine!" 

'HOW CAN I FORGOT THAT IT'S A HUMAN MANIPULATED BY EMOTION EATER! THE EATER IS USING THIS GIRL'S BODY AS A PUPPET! I MUST CUT THAT BLACK SPOT AREA BUT WHERE IT IS?' Thought Andres

Andres took too much time in thinking. The girl jumped high to the top of the pole and hit a kick on his face along with a blow by her green staff and then threw something very small at Andres. 

"What's this?" Asked Andres trying to remove the small black thing from his wrist. 

"It is a black substance that will slowly spread on your body and soon it will paralyze your body!" 

"Oh! But if I cut it!" Said Andres

Joy quickly stood up. She realised that either Andres would sacrifice his hand or else the substance will spread and paralyze him. 

"LISTEN ANDRES! Just make sure not to do anything stupid!" Shouted Joy

"YEAH!" Said Andres

The girl was still watching what was happening.

"Ok, I must do this!" Said Andres 

Slowly, he placed his sword almost at the base of the black substance which was still not spread. Suddenly, he cut a bit of his skin with the black substance and threw it away. 

"No! I ONLY HAVE ONE OF IT! DAMN!" Shouted the girl in anger

Andres was having a blood loss. 

"JOY! QUICK!" Shouted Andres

"Well! I think you told me some few minutes ago that I don't interfere in this!" Said Joy looking in other direction 

"I SWEAR! I WILL THROW MY SWORD AT YOU!" Shouted Andres

"Ok fine!" 

Suddenly, Joy took out her shotgun and shot at the girl. The bullet went very silently.

The girl fell down. She was dead. 

"Nice! Do you have any cloth or something?" Asked Andres 

"Take this!" Said Joy and threw a handkerchief at Andres

Andres quickly started to tie the handkerchief around his wrist. 

Meanwhile, Joy went near the dead corpse and took out the bullet and holded it tightly in her right hand.

Suddenly, she started to hear the voice of the dead girl. 

"Well, I was always angry and sad, both at the same time. My parents were no more! I used to assassinate famous people in return of money. I was always skilled in making my own weapons and at shooting!" 

"I must now know where is the emotion eater!" Said Joy and listened further

"I was now getting worse and worse at shooting! One day when I was at my hideout, something was injected into me, and soon, I saw a creature who told me to work for it. I agreed since he gave me huge amounts of money. He always stays at my hideout!" 

"But where is the hideout?" Asked Joy

Suddenly the voice continued.

"My hideout was unknown to everyone. It was an alley. I always covered it with camouflaging clothes so it was never revealed!" 

Joy quickly threw the bullet away into the pouch of her shotgun bag.

"Well, what did you learned from this?" Asked Andres 

"This girl was originally an assassin. She works for the emotion eater. But she never knew that it was controlling her body. Now, the emotion eater is hiding in an alley, but it is camouflaged so we have to find carefully. Let's go! You fine?" 

"YES!" 

They both hid the girl in the bushes and cleared up the blood, and went away from there. 

The emotion eater realised that the girl was dead. So he started to move away from there. 

"WHERE?" Asked Andres and Joy

"Nothing, just moving a bit!" Said the eater

"Well, MOVE IN HELL NOW!" Said Joy

Suddenly, the eater threw something. It was the black spot that was used to manipulate the bodies. 

"This!" Said Joy and Andres in a mocking manner

They both moved away. Andres slashed his sword in air which threw many large fires and Joy also simultaneously shot many bullets at the eater.

Though the bullets were dodged by the eater, he was not able to dodge the fire and got burned at his right hand. 

"AHH! YOU! TAKE THIS!" Said the eater 

He suddenly pulled something by his hand. It was another manipulated body. 

"No way!" Said Joy and Andres is disbelief 

The another manipulated body was a man. But not an ordinary man. He was 7 feet tall, he was wearing a black vest and black shorts. His body was brawny, far more than an ordinary human's. His eyes completely white and he was looking angry. The black spot was on his neck. 

"Haha! This is my favorite one! His name is Zak!" Said the eater controlling the eater by his hands

"What a lame name!" Said Andres and Joy with a disgusted look. 

"WHAT! WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY LAME? THIS NAME IS COOL!" 

"NAH! IT IS NOT COOL!" 

"YOU SILLY TEENS! TAKE THIS!" 

Suddenly the eater manipulated the man. The man threw very strong punch. 

"Quick!" Said Joy

Both of them jumped back to avoid the punch. 

The punch was missed but the impact was unreal. The ground got a 4 feet deep crater. 

"HOW!" Said Joy

"Remember! They are not ordinary!" Said Andres

"Take another then!" 

Soon, the eater manipulated the man to throw another attack. This time the man jumped towards them and was about to punch Joy but Andres came in between and started to stop the man by his sword. 

"ANDRES!" Said Joy in fear

"DON'T THINK OR WORRY ABOUT ME! JUST GO AND MAKE SURE YOU KILL THE EATER SO THAT THIS GUY DIE! I DON'T THINK I CAN EVEN INSERT SWORD OR GET THE CHANCE!" 

Joy quickly ran towards the eater, who was running away from there. 

"STOP! COWARD!" 

"I am! So what!" 

Joy quickly stopped and aimed from her shotgun. The eater was running straight. Joy shot the bullet which got straight into the head of the eater. Soon there was blood losing from the eater's body. He started to disintegrate. The sun was also rising. 

Joy quickly went and picked her bullet up. 

Some people now came in the park jogging. Joy seeing them quickly ran away. 

"Hey! Jack! See how strange it is that nothing is here but I still felt like someone was here!" 

"Yeah! Same for me!" 

Both the men continued to jog. 

Meanwhile Joy was with Andres. Andres told her that the man was no longer here and died. He also told that the man threw his sword away and punched him twice and after that he died. Andres was bleeding by his nose. 

"Hey! Before we go to the airport, listen this bullet and tell what is there in it?" Said Andres

"Oh yeah!" 

Joy quickly holded the bullet tightly. Soon she heard the voice of the eater. 

"I was not a normal boy. Broken and twisted legs, and abnormal hands. My face was also asymmetrical that my face looked very odd. I was always hated and mocked. One day the 'Queen' came and saved me by making me an emotion eater!" 

"More, tell me!" Said Joy 

"Then, she once told me that if I find the boy that she wanted then she will make me the member of the 9 Terror"

"Which boy?" 

"She didn't told me correctly but the only thing she said was that he would be around teenage and he lived in India!" 

"Ok!" 

Soon Joy loosened her grip on the bullet and kept it in her shotgun bag. 

"Well, what did you get from that?" Asked Andres 

"Well, the Queen of the emotion eaters is looking for a boy!" 

"Who?" 

"Don't know, but the information was that he is a teenager living in India!"

"Ok, we must tell this

at the headquarters!" 

"Let's go then!" 

They both hid their weapons and started to move away quietly with their hoods on. The people at the park were meanwhile gathered around a bush. They found a girl lying dead there.