15 Death in the Strip Club

Inside the Mansion, Natasha lay on the bed facing the ceiling. She was alone in the house, Reaper had gone to take care of business while the housekeeper was and the time was ticking approaching the evening hours. And soon the moon could be seen shining above the horizon, and the sound of the crickets could be heard from outside the window. She knew it was time.

Natasha rose to her feet and walked into the bathroom. She took a soothing bubble bath and applied a face mask, placing cucumbers on her eyes.

After spending some time in the bath, she was the soap off her body. She stepped out of the bathroom with a towel around her body.

She walked to dressing to the table to dry her hair. She felt a presence behind her. She didn't need to guess who it was to know. Turning off the hair dryer, she turned around and found Reaper standing behind her, his golden eyes stared at her.

"You are ba...." Natasha was not able to finish her words because her lip had been sealed by Reaper. She was so shocked that she did not reach for a few seconds with her eyes wide open. Subconsciously, she kissed back.

He did not pull away even after seconds had passed and instead, his body started to change to its true form all the while still sealing her lips with his. Dark energy seeped out of him and encompasses the room blocking all the light from penetrating in. The Darkness turned into dark smoke and crawled up on her skin before sinking inside her body.

By the time he pulled away from her, Natasha looked dazed, she did not even react when the towel was tied around fell to the ground and she stood naked. She continued to blink her eyes as if trying to clear her vision. She then felt him lift her chin with his boney fingers, he made her part her lips. more black smoke left Reaper and entered her mouth.

Natasha felt weak and found it difficult to stand and nearly collapsed on the floor if he had not caught her. Picking her up, he took to the bed and placed her on it. After some minutes were passed, Natasha sat upright, her eyes moved to look up at Reaper who still stood next to her bed. "What was that?" She asked.

"I have become part of you," He said and came over to her, he stretched his finger and touched her forehead. Natasha felt something change inside of her but she was not sure what it was that had changed. "You will know what to do and how to do it when the time is right."

"Are there any side effects?" She asked. He stared at her for a moment before he answered.

"It only has side effects, I am death, darkness," He said and Natasha looked at him waiting for more. "It will awaken the darkness within you. Manifesting your darkest desires and the urge to kill and more." He explained, taking back his human form.

"Like how I feel attracted to you right now?"Or how I am shamelessly asking you this.

Natasha asked with a small frown and finished saying the rest in her mind. Reaper just stared at her without doing or saying anything. "You should have warned me before doing that." She said already knowing the answer. She sighed and stood up from the bed and walked toward her closet, "Do you think it is the right time to start?"

"Natasha, you are asking me, if it's the right time to kill a creature?" He asked walking I'm her direction. "Never ask me that."

"I just wanted to be sure," Natasha said. She lulled the closet door and started rummaging through it not bothered that she was standing naked in front of him. She wondered if it was because of what he had done, making himself a part of her. "Will you come with me?"

"No." Came his curt reply.

"How do I find someone whose whereabouts I am unknown to? Does it work the same as knowing where to go?" Natasha asked. She had taken out and black dress to wear.

"It is," Reaper replied to her. She nodes and wears the dress with some black boots. She packs her hair in a ponytail, she then looks at her appearance in the mirror, or and stepped out of the closet with a purple cloak.

"Wish me luck," Natasha said picking up the hourglass that was placed on the drawer beside the bed and wearing the cloak. Placing her palms above and below the hourglass, she gave one blast look at Reaper, receiving a nod from him, she turned the hand on the hourglass and disappeared from the room.

Natasha reappeared outside of a building and as she had expected, it was the house of then whom she had come for. The place she was right was a strip club. Natasha covers her hair with the hood and disappeared from there once again.

Inside the club, a man dressed in a suit was seated in a private booth drinking wine, the lights were dimly lit and music could be heard playing loudly in the air. He sat as he watch the stripers perform.

A stripper walked in through the glass door ready to serve the man who had ordered her service for the night. The man's eyes shone on seeing the woman, he sat lazily as he waited for her to come closer.

Before she could close the door and properly step inside she stopped and looked behind the man. A cloaked figure stood there behind blending well with shadows in a way she wouldn't have noticed if the figure had not moved stretching its hand in a stop sign and waving at her to leave and go back. She turned around and left hastily with fear marred on her face.

The man frowned as he watched the woman run out like the room was on fire.

A hand suddenly grabbed his neck from behind and had him jolting off the seat and turning around so abruptly that his neck made a cracking sound. His eyes went wide in shock on seeing the cloaked figure standing behind where he sat. For a moment he forgot to breathe. "Who... What... Are you?" He stuttered.

He saw the figure pull down the hood that covered most of its face and other food Natasha was without a scar on her as they had thought. Seeing her, he got furious. She should have been dead, he was they went she went missing and without a trace and now she appears before him. "Quite an act you have put up, too bad you won't be able to leave the place alive." He said and pulled out a gun from the inner pocket of his suit.

Firing a shot at her, she disappeared before the bullet could reach her and appeared behind with a dagger in her hand and stabbing his heart with one swift moment of her hand.

He gasped for air at the sudden pain that shot through him. Natasha twisted the dagger earning an agonizing scream from him. "Say hello to Reaper for me." She whispered into his ears and pulled the dagger out with great force causing him to cough out blood.

He started on his feet and fell on the floor between the glass table and the couch he sat on earlier clutching his hand on his chest as if they could stop the bleeding. "I will give to you I little of what you did to my parents, you ungrateful scum.

"Plea... Plea... Please. " He stuttered with more blood pouring out of his mouth and chest.

A sweet smile appeared on Natasha's face as she took slow steps towards him. "Did any of listen to them? To their pleas for mine?" She asked and crouched in front of him. "I will similarly kill you," she said before she raised the dagger and stabbed it into one of his eyes.

A heart-wrenching scream erupted from him but it did not go beyond the walls of the booth and was cancelled by the blaring music in the club. She. Gouged out the eye and did the same to the other all the while making sure he was alive enough to scream. When he tried to fight her off, she stabbed his hands and legs.

She watched as blood rushed out of his mouth and eyes with a satisfied expression.

She then used the dagger to chop off his neck and placed it on the table blood smeared all over it and the floor and silencing the screams coming from him. Searching his pockets, she took out his phone and used his fingerprint to unlock it then took a photo of him and sent it to a number that she typed in.

Dropping the phone on the table next to the head, she disappeared leaving only the dead man inside.

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