Shattering Humanity-Chapter 119: "...Dat Shit Means A Lot."
Nephilim, Tristan, Bethany, and Silpheed are making their way to their helicopter with Don Laban wearing her all white fit, her Eyelien at 2nd Stage with a grey aura, with a flashing pink aura. She has a new member from her gaggle of chronies walking behind her as protection.
An orange-red haired woman, with an Eyelien in her right eye and she is missing her left eye, but there is a diamond embroidered fitting that goes into the empty eye socket.
They walk onto the helipad where the Blackhawk is quietly sitting.
Don Laban: "Don’t forget Nephi, I put MY balls on the line and told you my daughter’s eye ability. So I expect you to put your balls on the line for me when I need a true soldier and I hope you try youah damned haadest not to FUCK me over, we clear?"
Nephilim nods and holds out a hand to help her on to the copters passenger cabin. She thinks about taking it, but steps up without the General’s assistance.
He keeps the hand out for the Don’s friend and the red head relying on her ’Eyelien’ to have vision, takes the offer with a smile. He helps her up.
They all load up into the chopper.
Don Laban: "Okay, so we’ll take a quick 5 minute chopper ride tah scoop Saku up and I’ll give his soon tah be ex-girlfriend two good reasons tah not even try getting him back. He’s mine now and if she tries pulling that ’...But I saw him first’ or ’I truly love him’ bull shit, I’m breaking her fuggin legs."
As the blades of the helicopter begin to spin, Silpheed is in the pilot’s seat with Nephilim as the copilot. Bethany and Tristan sit with their backs to the cockpit, across from Don Laban and her goon.
Don Laban: "Den, I’ll make sure tah help y’all move out of dah mountains and take control of Hanabi City. ONCE y’all overtrrow those two lames. Plus, as a favor and cuz it’s gangsta as fuck, I’ll pitch in on dose uddahh bums bounties, make the incentive to catch them higher."
Nephilim: "That would be greatly appreciated, Madame Don Laban.
Don Laban: "Howevah!
I want the cute, hardcore, blondie to be brought to me, alive only. I will kill anyone who kills her or anyone who permanently maims her body, so I don’t get dah chance to face her at her peak."
Tristan remembers Shelly and thinks to himself.
Tristan(thinking): *Hold on, Shelly doesn’t have an IceEye and can handle her own as a fighter. Especially in hand to hand combat against any humans using the alien eye to get an edge on her. She’s the perfect argument against the Don’s ideology on IceEye users being the only fighters in the world.*
Tristan: "Shelly! She’s a fighter without an Eyelien! She’s the best fighter out of all the HFF soldiers that will ever come out of the Sister Mountains with or without the help from aliens. She wouldn’t be considered a citizen in Roronora, but she could beat anyone from your picking, and in front of everyone inside that Initiation Arena! Her and Katsu are truly a force to be reckoned with, Madame Don Laban. Don’t take them lightly."
The Don scoffs and looks over at Tristan while she passes her ’blunt’ to her lackey who isn’t paying attention.
Don Laban: "Yo, Hathor."
The woman, Hathor, looks over and grabs the green filled cigarillo. She puffs it while the Don breaks some news to the young family man.
Don Laban: "Just so ya know, ’Triddy’, dat Katsu kid, isn’t as much of an Angel as you probably ’taught’ he was. All he cares about is dat adorable adopted sister of his. He’d sacrifice you for her in a second."
Nephilim doesn’t look back but is listening in. The helicopter lifts off the ground and slowly gains altitude before taking off, North.
Tristan gives the Don a pissed off glare.
Tristan: "Obviously! I would hope he would make that choice. I wouldn’t hate him for doing it either! It’s just like how I know, if it came between him and Stephanie, he would hope I chose her over him. You don’t know anything about Katsu. He’s a true man who has morals."
Don Laban: "Aye, is dare somethin’ wrong wid your face or is dare somethin on mine? Cuz I know you ain’t looking at me like you’re some big tough guy! I bet your cute, tight little wifey tastes real sweet, ’Trid’. I already know what she looks like naked in the shower, so if you don’t want me tah be tempted tah find out what dah soap she washes wid smells like, I’d be careful how you be looking at me. Don’t forget, the safety of your cute family is indefinite, depending on how we aaalll get along."
Tristan grits his teeth and Nephilim looks back without saying anything.
Tristan: "I apologize...Don Laban."
The Don takes her cigarillo back from Hathor.
Don Laban: "Dat’s what I ’taught’.
Tristan: "It’s just...hard to accept my friend was actually fooling me this whole time that I’ve known him. I still don’t fully believe it, but if I ever do end up believing it, I know it’s going to hurt. I’m kinda jealous of you, Don Laban. You seem to have a bunch of people like Hathor here, that you can trust."
He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath
Tristan: "I’m just glad I have Stephanie at the end of the day."
The Don looks at Hathor and then back at Tristan.
Don Lanan: "Aaaanyways, whenever Katsu is alone with my dear Saku, he pulls a complete 180° and shows his true ’cullahs’. Katsu directs all his hate towards Saku. He hates him, just as much as he loves that cutie of his. As for why, he has been very vague, even while talking to himself, but it seems like Katsu might also know the future, even without Rebekah’s ability."
Nephilim is still trying to figure out Don Laban’s eye ability through her incredibly detailed and accurate information she confidently shares.
Like she was actually in the room with the people she’s thinking of and watched the same events those individuals were a part of.
Nephilim(thinking): *It’s definitely not mind reading. There would be no way for her to find out all this information on those young demons that I personally didn’t know of myself. If she doesn’t need to see or meet her target to know everything about them, does that mean she only needs a face or name to know everything about the individual? 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
What would the ability be that allows her to know everything someone has said and done in private but can’t see into the future?Wait, one of the most feared powers of ’God’ is the ’all knowing’. Omnipotence!
THAT’S IT! That’s got to be it!
These Eyeliens give us abilities that are mildly correlated with our personalities and temperaments. An ability that allows a sanguine and choleric mob boss to know everything that has happened and is happening around them, would be nothing but a perfect match.*
Nephilim’s eyes begin growing wide but he immediately returns back to his ’poker face’ as he thinks in excitement. Knowing IF it is past and present omnipotence, she could see his reaction later on, even if she can’t see his face now in the cabin of the helicopter.
Bethany: "So what’s Katsu’s eye ability again? He can out-Alpha any eye user?"
The Don slowly gets up and straddles Bethany, making the usually over sexual member of the group turn bright pink. Don Laban leans into the cockpit so the General can hear her as well.
Don Laban: "That ’blessed’ Anjell Eye has the ability to control Icemen AND it can make humans with an Eyelien lose consciousness just from EyeEngaging with him, if he so chooses to do so. So make sure you avoid eye contact with him. Except! It doesn’t work on my Boo, Saku. While Saku can’t copy Katsu’s power he can copy any uddah ability he sees or any ability that gets used on him. That’s why I was buggin earlier but it’s whatever now, we’re going to grab him and I’m going to break him in as my first man. By the way General, two of your soldiers, plus a small scout team of mine, have been K.I.A. After separate battles with the two split ’Divisions’ that man Daisuki has created."
Tristan: "Wait, Katsu and Shelly actually killed soldiers from the mountains?!"
The Don Laban continues sitting on Bethany’s lap, face to face. She talks to Tristan while EyeEngaging with Bethany.
Don Laban: "Depends on whether you blame him for mentally abusing a man to the point of suicide. The poor weak-minded soldier killed himself in fear of being trapped in Katsu’s ’mind torture prison’ again."
Bethany calms down and grabs the Don’s hips. Hathor gets up but the Don holds her hand up for the lackey to relax, without breaking her EyeEngagement. Hathor sits back down and fixes her hair.
Bethany: "What about Shelly? I may despise her for keeping that valuable cherry boy out of my grasp, but I never saw her as a killer. I always thought she was strong enough to not have to kill to stop an enemy."
The Don Laban puts her arms around Bethany’s neck.
Don Laban: "Well you’ah right about her being strong enough tah not have tah kill her opponent.
Howevah, when she severely damages her enemy and uses her unnatural strength tah send dat enemy 50 yards intah shark infested waters, did she commit murder?Or did she help hungry marine life get a tasty meal of fresh, weak, and tendah meat?"
Tristan looks at the polaroid camera around his neck then out at the city they are leaving. He pops off his 2nd Stage eye and he snaps a photo. The instant picture pops out from the bottom.
Don Laban: "By the way, they call themselves Takamagahara, and if anyone has a broken heart tattoo, they are part of the lil cliche. As for dat sanctuary you’ve been looking for, Nephi. It’s north, along the coastline, that Mina dude calls it ’Shanpooku’ or some shit like that. It’s inside the old tunnel system that connects the ’Sozo County’ to all the world’s continents through underwater traffic tunnels."
The reveal of Sanpaku’s location catches the entire group off guard, other than the lackey who sits silent.
Nephilim looks back at the Don who is now basically giving a lap dance to Bethany.
Nephilim: "Don Laban, that was mighty generous of you to disclose that vital information! Thank you!"
The Don Laban breaks the EyeEngagement with Bethany and looks at Nephilim.
Don Laban: "It’s no prob, Nephi. Like I already told ya, me and you, we ’tink’ alike. Besides, you’ve shown me nuttin but respect and even put your crew in line for my sake.From the two types of families dat I came from, dat shit means a lot. But don’t ever cap and say I never held it down for you."
