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Chapter 47 : Shadow Mission-Mystery Victim

___________Team Leo_____________
Leo and Alec found themselves at the top of a snowy mountain, looking around, Alec could see a town settlement in the distance.
"What exactly are we supposed to be looking out for?" Alec asked.
"The reports didn't specify what exactly was seen, it just said big and scary, apparently it was seen by a group of teens with low description skills" Leo replied.
"Ouch, go easy on them" Alec said.
"We need to find a place to set up camp " Leo said.
They made their way down the mountain as Leo had an issue with making camp high in the mountains so Alec suggested they walk to the settlement close by.
When they got to the town, they made their way to the security headquarters where the report was sent from.
"Good evening sir, we are here from Blue River Academy concerning the sightings of unknown creatures" Leo said.
"Right, the head officer will be with you shortly" The receptionist replied.
Five minutes later, a man came to them, seemingly in his late 40s and evidently visited the bar far too often as his belly bounced around with each step he took.
"Welcome soldiers, please this way to my office" The man said.
Waiting for them were five teenagers, three guys and two girls.
"I believe these are are the teenagers that saw the creatures" Leo said.
"Yes, these are David, Tristan, Duke, Fila and Ariel, they were out past curfew when they sighted the unknown creatures" The man said
"We still had fifteen minutes left, Mr Mayfield" The girl named Fila said.
"You had been told to return to your homes but disobeyed" Mr Mayfield said.
"Can you excuse us? we would like to speak to them alone" Leo requested.
"Of course" Mr. Mayfield replied before stepping out.
"We can sense you standing in front of the door" Alec said.
"He's gone now" Alec said.
"Okay, I need as much detail as you can give me about what you saw" Leo said.
"Well, it was humanoid, too Big to be a human though" Tristan said.
"It changed" Fila said.
"What?" David asked.
"Shush David, remember she saw it first" Ariel said.
"Care to elaborate Fila?" Leo asked.
"It was initially the size of a man but as it saw us, it was like it grew in size, it was then I called my friends attention to it" Fila explained.
"No one's going to believe your werewolf story Fila, don't make us look weird" David whispered.
"I believe you" Alec said stunning David.
"Could you give us some more details?" Alec asked.
"Well, i managed to make out a tail and snout but that's all" Fila replied.
"That's should do, thank you for your time, Alec see them to their homes and take a look around then meet me back here after an hour" Leo said.
"Okay, the man's coming back by the way" Alec replied. 
The unsuspecting Mr Mayfield leaned against the door in an attempt to eavesdrop but fell flat on his face when the door was opened.
Leo and the rest just walked past him. While Alec was walking the teenagers home, he couldn't help but stare at Fila, not because she beautiful but because she looked familiar like someone he knew but he couldn't quite place the face.
"What's it like being a mage?" David asked.
"Quit asking dump questions David" Duke said.
"It's not dumb, I'm just curious" David retorted.
"It would be the same as how we feel being born Primals, Normal" Fila said.
"Well, he hasn't said anything yet" David said.
"She's right, it feels normal, I'm not sure what you were expecting me to say" Alec finally said.
"Oh, but it's so awesome to be able to control elements" David said.
"Forgive our friend, he's not exactly the smartest in the group" Ariel said.
"Hey, cut that out. Good here's where I get off" David said as he waved goodbye before heading to a house on the right.
One by one, the others left for their homes till just Fila was left.
"Your place seems pretty far from the others" Alec said.
"Yeah, whenever we have plans, I have to leave my place extra early" Fila chuckled.
"I hope your parents aren't too worried that you got called to the security office?" Alec asked.
"No, there aren't really around" Fila replied with a low tone.
"ooh I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable" Alec said.
"Don't be, I never knew them, I got separated from my brother over ten years back, since then I have been moving from one place to another for work and the rest" Fila explained.
"Oh I'm sorry to hear about that but that means you probably live alone" Alec said.
"Yeah, though I have a pet cloud antelope, Blue" Fila replied.
"That makes you the most likely target if whatever you saw out there, tracks you and your friends back to your homes" Alec said.
"I'm not afraid of some beast, Blue and I have faced off worse" Fila said.
"I should probably inform my colleague. Leo, one of the teenagers lives alone" Alec said through his Smartwatch.
"Check the area around the house, if she doesn't want you to stay come back here" Leo replied.
"Well, we are here" Fila said.
It was a small apartment with a garage.
"Nice, I will take a look around" Alec said.
A few minutes later, Alec came back to the entrance.
"Nothing, I wish Angelo or Brandon was here, they would be able to sense if anyone was hiding around" Alec sighed.
"Did you find anything?" Fila asked coming out of the house with a bottle of water.
"No, are you sure you don't want me to stick around?" Alec asked.
"Yeah, your friend will probably need your help more than I do, you know what, i see any signs of danger, I will send Blue to come find you" Fila said.
"Fair enough where's Blue anyways?" Alec replied.
"Blue, come here girl, someone wants to meet you" Fila called out.
Soon, the wind picked up and a huge but slender beast appeared before him, it had white fur all over itself body except the area around it's eyes and ankles which were blue, she had a saddle strapped to her back.
"Nice ride, she's beautiful" Alec complemented.
"Yeah, it's dark you should get going before your friend thinks something happened to you" Fila said handing him the bottle of water.
He wanted goodbye before heading back to the security centre to meet up with Leo.
"Do you find anything?" Leo asked.
"No, you?" Alec replied.
"Fila was accurate in her assumptions to an extent, it's not a normal wild beast and it isn't a werewolf either" Leo replied.
"What could it be then?" Alec asked.
"Probably some kind of beast man, I can't be sure but if I should take Fila's description into consideration, it would be a wolf beast man" Leo replied.
"So how do we track it?" Alec asked.
"We can't track it now, we are already at a disadvantage, luckily beastmen hardly move in groups so if we are lucky, it's just one" Leo replied.
"Luck has never really been on my side" Alec said.
"Asking the head officer to send officers to guard the teenagers homes wouldn't be fair, they wouldn't stand a chance against one" Leo said.
"So what do we do?" Alec asked.
"I will watch the there teenagers living closer to the security office you watch the last two, you do seem to have taken an interest in that Fila girl" Leo replied.
"I'm pretty sure it's not what you are thinking and she lives farther away from here than the others" Alec replied.
"But don't worry, I will figure something out" Alec said after some thought.
Alec showed Leo where the first three teenagers lived before making his way to the fourth house which belonged to Ariel.
Standing on the roof, he looked in the direction of Fila's house, other than the lights, he couldn't see anything else.
A few hours past and nothing happened, Leo and Alec spoke every few minutes to confirm each other's status.
It was now two hours past midnight, one could hear the night orchestra of the night critters, suddenly the sound of something breaking could be heard in a distance.
Looking ahead, Alec noticed the light at Fila's house had gone out.
"Leo, the lights at Fila's house just went out" Alec said.
"Check it out but be careful" came Leo's response.
"Okay" Alec said.
He leaped down Ariel's roof and dashed off to Fila's house but, halfway there he bumped into blue who appeared really frightened.
"Take me to her" Alex said. 
He followed Blue past Fila's house into the woods nearby.
They kept running till they got to the edge of the forest, Alec came to an abrupt halt when they arrived at the edge of a cliff, the closest land was far away but on it, Alec could see a huge figure carrying something on it's back.
"Oh no" Alec said.
Blue was about to leap over when Alec stopped her.
"I know you can probably make it over but there's someone we need to carry along of we are going to save her" Alec said.
She bent beckoning Alec to get on her saddle before galloping back into town.
Leo whom Alec was coming to get had already arrived at Fila's home along with Ariel and David.
"We can still save her but we have to go now" Alec said to Leo.
"We want to help" David said.
"Go back to the security office and alert Mr Mayfield, the rest of you stay close together somewhere safe" Leo replied as he got on Blue.
Alec and Leo held on tight as Blue galloped at full speed through the forest, Leo noticed the edge of the cliff but, seeing as Alec was calm, he assumed they would be okay.
As they got to the edge, Blue pushed off the ground with all her strength, Leaping into the sky, when it seemed like they were coming back down, Blue would leap off a cloud in the sky amd she was just as fast in air as she was on the ground.
"I guess that's why she's called a cloud antelope" Leo said.
Soon they could see the beast man carrying Fila sprinting towards the snowy mountains.
Blue began descending and ran faster than before, the beast man noticed someone following it and so ran faster as well.
Alec shot fireballs ahead of the beast man successfully slowing it down.
Leo conjured up wind cyclones to disrupt it movement.
The teamwork was effective in slowing down the beast man till they caught up with it.
The beast man placed Fila on the floor next to it before turning to face the three individuals blocking it's path.
It growled at them while unhooking a battle axe from his waist cloth.
"Careful, they are amazingly agile and intelligent, not to mention skillful" Leo said.
They surrounded the beast man, no one instigating am attack, the beast man growled uneasily.
"Oh come on" Alec said throwing a fire ball at the beastman causing it to jump in Leo's direction and with that, the battle began.
Unknown to the beastman, Leo and Alec were distracting it long enough for Blue to get Fila far away and with them gone, the boys went all out.
Wind blades and fire balls were shot at the beastman when a distance away and switched to weapons when they were within a striking distance.
The fight was progressing well until the beastman grabbed Alec by the wrist and slammed him into Leo sending them flying off while running in the direction Blue took Fila.
"No" Alec said with gritted teeth.
Springing back on their feet, they gave chase but on foot the beastman was far faster than them.
Blue stay at the edge of the cliff with Fila waiting for Alec and Leo to return, she noticed the beastman running towards them with Alec and Leo far behind it.
Taking a charging stance, she sped towards the beastman, it didn't waver at the sight of the charging beast believing it could avoid her, as they got close, it tried leaping over Blue she seemed to anticipate the manoeuver as she took leaped into the air ramming into the beastman, it flew back towards Leo and Alec who were ready to finish it off.
Sensing it's demise was close at hand, it let out an ear piercing howl, Alec pulled it closer with a flaming whio while Leo went straight in for the kill by slicing it's head clean off it's body.
"We need to get to Blue now!!!" Leo said.
Though confused, Alec did as he was told and they ran as fast as they could towards Blue, the carried Fila to sit on her then Blue moved back to get some running space, a spear came out of nowhere piercing into the ground right next to Blue's feet startling her.
"Ouch" Leo groaned as he fell off a startled Blue.
"It's alright, you weren't hit, easy there, Leo come on" Alec said.
Looking behind them, Leo could see a group of four beastmen charging towards them, hurrying to his feet, he got on Blue who instantly started running, Leo faced the enemies deflecting every spear and arrow shot at them.
They managed to make to the other side but the angry beastmen didn't stop running after them.
"Alec, we are going to have to shoot them down" Leo said knowing what the beastmen planned in doing.
With a stomp to the ground, they leaped into the sky, going higher than Blue.
"Yikes" Alec said as he readied himself to attack.
Immediately, they got a clear view, they shot the enemy with different skills, they got all but one who was coming down on them with a war hammer but Blue leaped towards him knocking him into the crack.
"Let's get back to the town, I have called for back up, we might have to temporarily evacuate the town till they get here" Leo said.
They arrived at the town with Fila bringing relief to the worried inhabitants, some ships flew past them and one landed in the town.
Fila woke up a few minutes later, with a severe headache, thankfully she only had slight bruises and a cut on her forehead.
They waited for a long four hours before the other ships returned signifying that they were okay.
After a few more sweeps, there were no signs of more enemies showing up.
"I guess I should have let you stay over" Fila said to Alec.
"Yeah, but it's alright, you are fine, the beastmen have been taken care off and there's nothing else to worry about" Alec replied.
"Alec, we need to head to the security office, they will need help setting up the security protocols" Leo said.
"Well, I gotta go, bye" Alex said.
"Bye" Fila replied.
After setting up the security protocols, they got some well deserved rest and a meal.
The next day, a ship arrived to take them to the closest teleportation station.

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