{ Chapter 4: First Kill }

In Mexico

There is a woman from North Carolina who is being restrained by ropes and has duct tape covering her mouth as her muffled screams are audible behind a black van that is traveling towards the estate. While he and the driver were both sitting next to each other, the boss noticed something up ahead. A lifeless figure, serving as the gate's guardian, was lying in front of them. As they continued to drive, more men perish from gunshots or stabbings in various body areas.

The apprehended lady froze as she peered through the window. The vehicle comes to a stop in front of the house, creating a tense moment. The lone man with the gun is pacing back and forth in front of the door, seemingly anxious and heavily perspiring. The driver and the boss both draw their weapons at the same moment.

"Quédate aquí (Stay here)." the boss said in Spanish.

The boss opened the door, got out of the car, and closed it, leaving the driver ready for anything. The driver nodded. The terrified man pointed to the door and the boss approached him.

"E-Ella me dijo que esperara afuera (S-She told me to wait outside)." he stuttered.

He narrowed his eyes.

"Vamos (Let's go)." he said.

After that, the two entered the building and saw only another deceased man who had been stabbed in the chest and head. There are many dead bodies visible, and they passed him. Even as they saw the handcuffs and ropes being cut or removed, they realized the people they had abducted were no longer there. As the two continued on, they became aware of the gunshots coming from the walls behind the men.

The man next to the boss seems shaky and has a seized breath. Unfazed, the boss inhaled sharply for a moment before removing his hat and setting it on the hangar. The terrified man led the way downstairs, and the boss gestured to him to continue. Beside a bloodied, lifeless man, there were gunshot wounds on the wall. This murderer is very skilled at killing targets quickly and efficiently.

Eventually, they made their way to their target, walking along the hallway on the right while dead corpses were lying on the left. A woman in a black combat suit sat down in front of them; her bodysuit had been stained with blood for a while, and she had a mask covering her face and glass goggles covering her eyes. Her flowing purple hair looked clean and free of bloodstains, giving her an intimidating appearance.

(A/N: Art not mine. This is MHA OC. This is how Danika's bodysuit looks like.)

That's Danika, occupied with cleaning her swords, as a man stands next her, threatening to shoot her.

The boss came up to her first, followed closely behind by a terrified man who was hesitant to get close to her. Danika continues to clean, not even looking up to acknowledge their presence.

"They wouldn't let me in so..." she said, with a breathing sigh. "You should've let me in."

The boss turned to his men and glared.

"¿Por qué ustedes dos siguen respirando? (Why are you two still breathing?)" he asked them in Spanish again.

"Nosotros llegamos mas tarde (We arrived after)..." the man started.

The boss sneered at him to stop talking, which he did still pointing a gun at Danika. He turned to the woman that doesn't pay them no mind.

"Así que me aseguro de entenderlo. Tu viniste aqui. Solo. A esta mansión, en México (So I make sure I understand. You came here. Alone. To this mansion, in Mexico)." the boss said, trying to understand what is going on. "¿Para? (For?)"

"You." she replied.

"¿Sabes quién soy entonces? (You know who I am then?)"

"I know what you are." Danika said, finally finished her cleaning before facing the boss.

"Sin embargo, viniste de todos modos. ¿Porque? (Yet you came anyway. Why?)"

"You destroyed the lives of innocent people who did you no harm. Even something that wasn't really yours was taken. I'm here to take it back. I'm coming to get revenge on those whose lives you have stolen." Danika explained, glaring at him coldly. "Tales began to circulate that you abducted individuals from Mexico, the United States, North Carolina, and other places, killed them, and then exposed their corpses for public viewing. You've been doing that purely for amusement and to instill terror in the hearts of others. That makes me feel sick."

The boss was taken aback that she was so knowledgeable and began to feel uneasy, but he forced himself to remain composed and assertive.

"¿Cómo me encontraste? (How did you find me?)" the boss asked, crossing his arms. "Nadie nunca lo ha hecho (No one ever has)."

The man that was also guarding Danika glanced at her. Danika said nothing, but kept glaring.

"Okay. Okay." the boss breathed nervously and angrily. "Aquí estás. Excepto que te faltan unos metros... de lo que viniste a buscar (Here you are. Except you're a few meters short... of what you came for)."

Danika stared at him before speaking back to him in the same language as his.

"Todos terminamos donde se supone que debemos estar (We all end up where we're supposed to be)." she said before speaking English. "Which means... your man to my left, finger on the trigger but he's a foot too close, which renders your man to my right dead already. He just doesn't know it yet. I feel sorry for his family."

The boss stared at her, getting a bad feeling about this.

"Nine seconds." Danika said.

She looks down at her watch and starts the stopwatch, making it beep.

"That's what you have to decide your fate. Nine seconds."

Danika turns to face the boss after glancing back down at her watch. She then takes hold of the man's wrist who was carrying a gun to her left, pulls the trigger on the man to her right, and instantly kills him. She maintains her firm grip on the man brandishing a gun and moves his wrist once more while the gun fires repeatedly, hitting the terrified man who let the boss in and murdering him. The man screams in agony as Danika turns to face him and stabs him in the eye with his own revolver. The boss fires at her. Danika instantly shifts his body to act as her shield as the bullets strike his back. The boss then falls to the ground with a painful cry as she shoots him through the skull where the man's eye was stabbed.

She let go of the man and turned to face the boss, cleaning a little stain of blood off her mask. She took her own gun out and moved cautiously toward the boss, who was trying to crawl away. She shoots him in the butt with a click of her gun, causing him to yell and momentarily halt moving. The boss then continued to crawl, clinging to life. Then, halting at the stairs, he carefully sat up while clutching his wounds.

Danika gave him a glare as she clicked her gun again, waiting to shoot until she killed him by hitting him in the right eye. The boss turned limp, and a stain of blood was left on the wall as his body fell to the ground. She twirled her gun and inserted it into her hip-position gun hoister. At that point, Danika left the mansion, the staircase, and the hallway. When she spots the driver, he opens fire on her right away. After dodging the gunfire, she swings her sword in his direction and stabs him through the windshield. At the sight of the now deceased male, the trapped woman let out a stifled cry. Danika quietly approaches the woman, who looks to be struggling to escape her bonds, after spotting her in the van.

After calming her down and carefully taking the duck tape out of her lips, Danika cuts the ropes that are binding her. The woman lets out a sigh and massages her arm that was constricted by the rope.

"Go get the automobile, then go find your family. Inform the police about this occurrence, the kidnapping, and the mafia in general. But don't reveal my identity to them. You're safe now." Danika said.

Danika handed the woman the keys, and she scurried to the car and drove off, saying nothing but nodding to her and thanking her for the save. Taking out her phone, Danika dials the number. When she presses it up against her ear, she first hears it ring before hearing Blitz's voice.

"Sir, finished the job. All the men, including their boss are dead."

"Whoa, shit! Already?! That's great! I'll have Loona open the portal right away!" Blitz said through the phone, sounding shocked and surprised.

The portal opens as Loona casts a spell from the book, swiftly returning to her owl form while still in her bodysuit. Danika passes through and returns to the main office.

"I just got a text message from our client. They said that they're happy that those bastards are dead and didn't expect there to be a lot of kill in one day." Loona informed them, looking at her phone. "Oh, and we just got a good amount of pay."

"Wow! Looks like your training really paid off!" Blitz grinned. "You're officially my favorite!"

"Thanks, Blitz. I couldn't have done it without your guys' help." Danika said, feeling shy.

"How does it feel to be killing those bitches?" Millie asked.

"It was... satisfying and... good. It's justified." Danika said.

"Really? Well, that's great." Moxxie said, surprised that she's unfazed with her first kill.

"Danika Nightingale, welcome to the IMP!" Blitz happily said, bringing out a hand.

Danika accepts, and they exchange handshakes. She sensed that now was an excellent time for change.

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They've been able to kill all those individuals from above anytime a client tells them who they want dead, ever since they hired her. Danika replaced Moxxie in Blitz's image after she killed them flawlessly and without error, earning her the title of official employee of the month. Since Millie and Blitz came up with the assassination name since she became quite well-known after her slaying, she is also known by the name Deadly Night Shade. They're currently taking a break from the slaughter, and Danika notices Loona merely staring at her phone while scanning the area.

She seems uninterested in talking to Danika, despite the fact that Danika has been wanting to for some time. Danika has been attempting to figure out how to get her to talk to her. She taps her fingers and looks at the grimoire. That book appears to have belonged to her father Stolas, and Blitz took it from him. When she questioned why he did it, he told her she didn't want to know. Blitz suddenly summoned her over, and that was her moment.

"Yo, Dan! We got another client calling you!"

Nodding, Danika walked over and took his phone and answered.

"Deadly Night Shade here."

"...."

Her face darkens once again as she listened to what the client has to say.

"I see. I will get onto it right away. Don't you worry. They will soon... expire."

That was when she hung up. She glances back at Loona and begins to approach her as she gets an idea. Loona looks up from her phone at Danika, sensing her approach.

"Oh, hey. What do you want?" she asked rather rudely.

"Would you like to come with me to a human world?"

Loona raised her eyebrow, not expecting that.

"Why? Can't you take care of the killing yourself?"

"I can. Just thought I'd get to know you, and maybe see your skills. I only get to see my boss and my coworkers' action, but I never get to see yours. Plus, you look a little bored and I thought giving you some thrills." Danika explained, surprising Loona.

She has never been invited to join them on a mission, on a hangout, or for anything else. When Loona heard it from Danika, she was at a loss for words.

"Uh... Sure? I don't think Blitz will allow me to go."

Danika glances at Blitz, who's busy playing with his ponies.

"Let's do this without him noticing."

Loona raises her eyebrow.

"Come on. It'll be fun."

She gave in and took out a grimoire, sighing. Loona opened a portal, and before it could vanish, she and Danika dashed through it with a book, leaving Blitz, Moxxie, and Millie alone.

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In Boston

After landing in an alleyway, Danika and Loona saw spray-painted walls and rubbish. It's wonderful that nobody saw them because it's a dark night. Danika turns into a human being, takes off a mask and goggles, and puts on an enormous hoodie to hide her bodysuit and avoid giving herself away. She turned around and was taken aback to discover Loona encircled by blue sparkles that vanished, revealing her in her human form as well.

She is greatly similar to her hellhound form, albeit now she takes on the appearance of a goth teenager. Her eye colors are inverted, as she has white sclera with red irises and has a visible belly button which she lacks in hellhound form. She shrinks down from her demon form, appearing to be of average height compared to most humans in this form and somewhat slimmer than normal.

She retains the same outfit as before, but with the addition of black thigh-high socks and high-top sneakers and black lipstick. Her choker also loses the spikes, and in place of her torn right ear, she now has two earrings on each ear. Her head is shaved on the right side.

"So, what are we doing here for?" Loona asked, pocketing the book.

Snapping herself out of her trance, she shows her a file for Loona to read.

"We need to search for a rapist. The main leader. Apparently, she was taken into a hotel for some business only for her to get sexually assaulted and raped before taking her to the taxi." Danika explained. "She was so scared and sad that she committed suicide for letting it happen to her and for disappointing her parents. Now she wants him dead for what he did to her."

"Yikes." Loona frowned.

"I know. It's disgusting." Danika scowled. "We need a ride."

Searching around, they spotted a taxi. Danika and Loona heads towards the car and sees a key inside and opens the doors for them to get inside. Danika starts an engine.

"You know how to drive?" Loona asked.

"Once. But I think I got it." Danika said, fixing the mirror. "You're a wolf, right? You think you can pick up a scent?"

"Yes. I can."

Loona picked up the picture of that rapist man and sniffed it. Her eyes glows red and she growls.

"Got it. Head over there."

Danika nods and cautiously pulls out of the parallel parking into a street. They were able to identify a large, upscale hotel appropriate for affluent guests quickly since they could see a guard stationed outside the entrance. They paused as they were ready to go when they saw a man assisting a woman who appeared to be intoxicated as she approached them.

"Just, other foot. Right there." the man said, opening the car door for her.

Danika narrowed her eyes to see the woman appearing to be in pain as she whines.

"Come on. You got it. Easy there. Easy." the man assured her, helping her sit down in a backseat. "One step. Keep going. Alright. There you go."

Loona sniffs the air and growls quietly because she doesn't like the smell coming from a man and a lady. Danika recognized what was happening when she saw Loona make a hand signal that made her blood boil. The woman in back of them whimpers and gasps in agony. After the woman was fully inside, the man shut the door and knocked on a window to get close to Danika and Loona. Loona closes her eyes and rolls down the window. The man gives her a $20 dollar after taking it out.

"Could you two just help her get in her apartment?" he asked, looking at them.

Loona and Danika said nothing but just stare at him blankly.

"Thanks." he said, not needing to hear their reply before heading back inside the hotel.

Danika rolls the window back up and leaves with a woman in the car. Danika looks up from the mirror to see the woman flinch and close her eyes while taking a breath. Danika and Loona halted at a red light, still staring at the woman. They saw that she was breathing and moaning like she had been beaten up, and that her clothes were tattered and disorganized. Her hair is disheveled, her lipstick is smudged, and her breathing was rapid. Danika and Loona exchange glares as they nod, knowing exactly who they are aiming for.

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Inside the hotel, some of the men were using cocaine in the living room while the others were drinking and playing cards. They turned to face the door, then at each other, upon hearing a knock.

"Stop cheating, bro."

The main leader gets up and heads towards the door. He opens it and sees Danika and Loona.

"How you doing? I'm the driver you called to take home your girlfriend. This is Loona, my guide driver." Danika explained.

"Not a girlfriend, ma'am. Just an intern." The leader said.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Danika apologized, acting innocent.

"Sorry to cut this short, but the credit card was invalid." Loona said.

The leader turns to the man that brought a raped woman to their car and glares.

"Shithead. Let you hang with us because your daddy's a client... and you f*ck up the first thing."

Another man smacked the man's head down from behind for messing up. The leader turns to the ladies.

"Come in."

Danika and Loona walks inside as the leader heads back to the table and takes out a black credit card and hands it to Loona.

"There you go." he said.

Loona and Danika look down at the card.

"Wow. I heard about these, but never seen one before." Danika said, acting in awe.

"Yeah, well, now you have." he replied.

"Yeah." Loona nodded.

"Look, pay yourself whatever and uh, give yourself a nice tip, huh?"

"Thank you. Thank you." Danika said, facing him. "You're not gonna ask us if she got home okay?"

The leader scoffed.

"She get home okay?" he asked sarcastically, not sounding like he care.

"No." Danika replied. "Took her to Mass General. They're pumping her stomach as we speak."

"What's her name?" The leader asked.

"You don't know, do you?" Loona asked, raising her eyebrow.

The leader said nothing, and Danika knew she and Loona are going to punish them.

"Okay. This is the point where usually I'd give you a chance to do the right thing." Danika stated coldly. "But not tonight. Tonight I'm gonna need your cameras, cell phones, anything you might have used to record what you did to her."

"You better listen to what she says." Loona said.

The boss and his men exchanged quiet glances, raising tensions in everything around them. After giving the two women a quick glance, the leader turned to the door. Time slows down as Danika glances up at the glass window, reflecting the leader, and then watches as another man sets down the can on the glass table. Smelling the air, Loona also notices a pack of tablets on the glass table. Money is being counted and cards are being stacked. As they drop onto the table, Danika sees cocaine spilling out of the little bottle before it's scooped up for the other man to sniff in. Then everything returned to normal and there was a click from the door, locked.

Danika looks at Loona, who nods and exposes her sharp teeth while holding onto the card tightly. Danika glances down at her watch and presses the beep to begin a stopwatch. The leader glared as he walked toward Danika.

"You knocked on the wrong door tonight, ladies." he said before throwing a punch.

However, Loona was fast, grabbing hold of his arm and striking him on the head with a credit card he had given her, sending sprays of blood to the floor as the card fell. She was charged by another man. Loona, still clutching his arm, shattered his arm as it attempted to strike her, then used her claws to stab him through the heart, causing him to fall to the ground, lifeless. Loona shook her palm free of the blood.

The man nearly reached Loona, but Danika dived under the blow, punching him in the gut and grabbing his arm from behind before tossing him to the ground and forcing him to kneel with his arm out. He yells as she then breaks his shoulder with a terrible crunch.

Another came charging at her, but she gave him a straight kick to the groin. He cried out in agony and dropped to his knees, but Loona managed to grab him by the face and partially twist his neck. Then she let him fall to the floor, and he clutched his sore neck. Another man rose from the couch and Danika went over to greet him.

"Come here." she said calmly, gesturing him to come at her.

He doesn't hesitate to strike her but she quickly struck him across the face and chest. She then punched him several times in the face as he collapsed, slamming his face against the couch before hitting the floor. The man who led the raped woman in the taxi winced at the carnage, and Loona growled and glared down at the men. Danika glanced at her watch and stopped it, indicating that they had subdued the men while killing one for 29 seconds.

Danika and Loona then approached the last man.

"Get up." Danika ordered.

The scared hesitated to listen until Loona gets annoyed.

"Get up!"

The man eventually listened as he slowly got up from the couch, sniffing.

"Oh, what? You're crying? Don't start crying now, you wimp!" Loona glared, making him flinch.

"Give me your phone." Danika said, unfazed with his crying.

The man shakily handed her his phone. She checks it for a moment before speaking.

"Right or left?" she asked.

"I don't know what you mean." the man whimpered, still crying.

"Handed. You right- or left-handed?" Danika asked again.

"Right." he answered.

"Call 911." she said, handing him his phone by his right hand. "Tell them the truth about what happened here at night. Your daddy's money's not gonna save you this time, you understand?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"You know her name?"

The crying man shook his head.

"No."

Danika glares at him and answers for him.

"Her name is Amy. Give Loona your left hand."

Danika gave Loona a nod while the man remained motionless. Loona sank her claws slowly into his cheeks, causing him to whimper as she gave him a hard grip and held him close.

"Give her your left hand."

With a sniff, he held out his left hand and Loona held his fingers with both of her hands.

"Don't tell them about us and just say they got into a fight. You understand?" Danika said firmly.

"Yes, ma'am." he said.

"Not for us, though. For who?"

"For Amy."

"That's right. For who?"

"For Amy."

"For who?"

"For Am..."

With a quick move, Loona cracked his fingers as they bent back. He yelled in pain and fell back onto the couch, holding his hand.

"You better remember this. Don't waste your time being around bad eggs like them. Get a life." Danika said before she and Loona started walking away.

"Fuck." he whimpered.

They then left the hotel as they closed the door. Mission accomplished.

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"You know, for a rookie that just started working with us, you're a pretty good fighter." Loona said as they head toward the taxi.

"You're not so bad yourself. You were amazing. I mean, scratching the leader's head with a card? I didn't see that one coming." Danika said, starting the engine.

"Thanks." Loona said with a small smile.

"Hey, I know we just finished our mission, but you wanna do some shopping in this human world? Like hanging out as friends?"

"Friends?" Loona raised her eyebrow.

"Yeah. You're pretty cool, and I like to be your friend." Danika said with a closed eye smile.

Loona was shocked.

"Really? You really want to be my friend?"

"Well, yeah. To be honest, I never had any friends in my life. Most of them just use me as their cleaner or something."

With a moment of silence, Loona smiles.

"Sure. Why not? I could use a little company besides Blitz, Millie, and Moxxie."

Their friendship is beginning to take shape as Danika smiles back and gladly takes her to the stores that she is familiar with.

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A/N: The two fight scenes takes place from the movies Equalizer 2 and 3. Denzel Washington is so cool and badass! I'm really inspired by his kills and his fighting moves!

https://youtu.be/v6UJnFdsS8E

https://youtu.be/fPMJVy0fPIY

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