Ambrose

Sometimes life gives you hard fights, this time is one of those times for me, I hope god is with me and helps me with this choice

"There are people in line sir, please tell me what you want, an omelet with cheese or eggs with bacon?"

God, why are you giving me your toughest battles?

"O-Omelet please..."

I said defeated, I then took my food and sat on a table alone, I started eating, it was very tasty

"Do you have room for another?"

Ambrose asked me as she sat down with her own food

"Aren't you supposed to eat in the VIP session?"

I asked ironically

"I wouldn't call that VIP but no, I can eat wherever I like and today I decided to sit next to you, our golden boy"

Ambrose said with a smile

"Stop calling me that, everyone calls me by this nickname and it's very annoying, just call me Johan"

Ambrose slightly laughed at what I said

"Okay I thought you would like that nickname but I guess not"

Ambrose said with a calm expression on her face

"What is it that you wanted to ask me? Do you have another mission for me?"

"Mission? No silly, I just wanted to eat with you, that's all, until you go to America so you can attend this meeting you won't be attending any other mission"

Ambrose said as she ate her eggs with bacon

"Well thank you!"

I said as I started eating my food too

For some time it was quite peaceful, we both ate silently, and as soon as I finished my food I asked her

"Can you explain the thing I saw banging on my room's window?"

This question caught Ambrose by surprise

"I told you whoever would knock on your window is crazy, well not exactly that, inside this facility we have people that we use as an experiment, we inject monster DNA that we never have experimented on inside of them and we wait to see the results, and the person you saw yesterday tried to escape, that's all, I hope he didn't scare you"

Ambrose told me with a smile

"Isn't that unethical?"

"They are death-row inmates Johan, they were bound to die anyway, we simply are using them for a better cause, that is, most of them also come from the soviet union and they are Nazis, prisoners"

Ambrose further explained

"I didn't know Nazis still existed today"

Ambrose left out a small laugh

"We have many pre-Nazis and Neo-Nazis allies you know! And also Nazis in Germany haven't completely disappeared"

I guess there are a lot of things I don't know of

"Since we are done now do you mind coming with me to my office? I have something I want to talk to you about, privately!"

Ambrose said as she got up, I couldn't refuse so I also got up and followed her

While I walked I noticed something odd... Almost everyone in the cafeteria at the time was eating eggs with bacon...

"Oh, one more thing! Did you paint the painting on the corridor?"

I asked Ambrose

"I'm surprised you noticed that, so what do you think? Did it look like a mirror?"

Her question was weird...

"Not really, to be honest, it kind of disturbed me, the angels and the blank background... it's just not my type of drawing but I can't deny the talent"

"You sure have your way with words"

Ambrose said as she smiled, I don't like this

This building's whole vibe is weird, is like I'm in a cage and that brainwashed thing Nicolas told me before is really starting to freak me out now, for some reason I always feel tense inside of here, it's like I could get attacked at any moment by anyone, sadly I can't get away because I belong to the OWF

"Here we go! This is my little office! Do you like it?"

Ambrose said as she did a rotation with her hands high up

"It looks fancy, too fancy for me"

I told her as I inspected another big painting she had behind her desk, looking at its description it said that it was "The number of the beast is 666" by William Blake, "to decide" that was the meaning of this painting

"That's the original painting! I spent a lot of money to buy it but it is one of the most interesting drawings I have ever seen, and I like the meaning of it very much so that's another reason I chose to buy it!"

Ambrose told me as she saw me staring intensely at it

"It appears you like creepy drawings..."

Ambrose laughed

"It's not creepy, it's just alarming..."

She said as she grabbed a bottle of wine that was inside a cabinet, she then poured two bottles of wine

"Have some! It's a very tasty wine made from the finest grapes from France"

Ambrose said as she shook her bottle the same way rich people do it

"Are you sure? I'm under-aged you know"

"Does anything else we do seem "legal" to you?"

Ambrose asked me with a smile, I guess she has a point

"Thank you!"

I said before drinking the wine...

It was not wine...

This shit was not wine!

I feel my throat closing up, I feel my stomach burning and my vision going red, I can't breathe now, I also see Ambrose looking at me as she sat on top of the desk

Did she poison me?

I can see blood coming out of my mouth, my eyes feel bloody too, I guess I'm dying...

…

"I can't believe it actually worked!"

I heard very faintly

"Look! He is up"

I heard another voice saying that, the voice was a bit clearer

"Shut the hell up!"

I said as I tried to get up, these voices were making my brain make a ringing noise so that's why I said that

Once I got up I saw that Nicolas and Ambrose were standing still, watching me get up

"You didn't kill me?"

I asked Ambrose

"Kill you? That was the complete opposite of dying! I gave you your REAL life to you, and now you are rebirthed as a superior human being, a DNA-mixed human"

Ambrose told me as she approached me

"What do you mean?"

"Why don't you go to the bathroom and look at yourself in the mirror?"

Ambrose told me as she guided me to her office's bathroom

Once I saw myself in the mirror I was left speechless, my hair had turned into a dark bluish color, it was almost indistinguishable from black hair, and my eyes were grey, the same grey color Ambrose's eyes are, OH, and one more thing, I now have fangs, not long like a vampire's but longer than normal

"What happened to me?"

"This "wine" you drank was monster's blood, I didn't tell you that since you would have drank it if I told you, plus this DNA is almost 100% pure monster DNA so many humans can't even handle it but thanks to your high-level monster sensitivity of yours you were able to handle the side effect of consuming the monster's DNA"

Ambrose explained to me as she exited the bathroom

"So that means I have an ability like the others, right? If yes then what can I do?"

Ambrose looked at Nicolas and thought for a second

"This is a top-tier secret but I don't mind sharing it with you two, I know that you two won't spoil the beans. Your powers come from a high-level monster that we managed to harm, this monster's ability is ERASE, this ability is very destructive but requires a lot of energy. How do we know that? When we fought the monster it didn't fight back for a length of time but once it did it wiped out almost all of the attack units..."

"Then why give this power to me? I could erase you right here, right now"

Nicolas quickly used a tentacle to choke me as soon as I said that

"Stop that Nicolas! His powers haven't developed yet so he can't do anything, yet..."

Nicolas stopped as soon as Ambrose told him that

"Even if you got this power kid, both I and Ambrose can take you out in a flash, so don't get your brain over your head because you learned you have a powerful ability, that's what the last person in my division did and what do you think happened to him?"

"Probably killed, I don't care..."

I said as I walked to the exit of the room

"He didn't die, I murdered him..."

Nicolas's words made my body shiver, I then left the room with no more words to be said

…

The day to go back to America quickly came, during this time me and Nicole spent time training in martial arts, mostly kick-boxing, in my opinion, the most useful skill to know when you are fighting monsters

As these days passed me and Nicole also were allowed to go out for tea and stuff and we did, we were close in age so we could easily relate and relax with each other

"Wait for a bit! I still haven't packed some clothes I want!"

Nicole told me from inside her room, she told me to come and get her before going to the airport so that's what I did

"All ready! We are good to go" Nicole said

The two of us then left the building, Nicolas was waiting for us outside

"You sure took your sweet time, a taxi should be coming for us in some minutes"

Nicolas said as he anxiously watched his watch, I'm not sure if he is certain about that taxi...

"There he is!"

Nicole said as she pointed at a lonely taxi, we went to them, and turns out Nicole was right

"To where?"

The driver asked

"The airport, and make it fast, I will tip you more if you do!" Nicolas said

Some taxis purposely delay or take extra turns to make people pay more so I assume that's why Nicolas told him that

The taxi ride was hasty and silent

"Are you scared?"

I asked Nicole

"Scared of what?"

"Americans, they looked trapped in their own world, more trapped than I or you, trapped in a world of fake and while in reality, they are in the same catastrophic position as the rest of the world is, I'm scared of becoming that, institutionalized like an ant"

"You will be fine! I will make sure you will"

Nicole said as she patted my head, she is like the big sister I never had...

"Here we are, as promised! Fast and I even took some extra shortcuts"

The driver said with a smile, Nicolas gave him 50 pounds and left

"The plane will be here in twenty minutes so make sure to move fast!"

Nicolas said as he walked fast, we followed him

Before we knew it we went through security and then entered the plane

"I will sit in the window seat!" Nicole said as she slid into the seat

"I don't care, I will probably sleep"

I said as I sat next to her, Nicolas sat next to me, and shortly after the plane departed

And we were officially headed to our important mission in America...