Stories of Primateria. Part 2. Mercury (ENG)

Years have passed since they last saw each others. The Primateria trio scattered around once one of them disappeared suddenly. On a quest to find the missing brother from the trio, a man with long dark blue hair was walking around the beach of a small town near the sea. He had sent some people out to scout any information about the missing brother. He sighed deeply when it was almost midnight and he was walking towards his hotel when one of the people he had sent out was running to him.

‘’Did you find him?’’ The man asked.

‘’Yes!’’ The person nodded, panting a bit.

‘’Where is he?’’ The man asked.

‘’He is a teacher in the Puppeteer’s class in the King of the Hill Preschool. He has been teaching there for several years now and the kids love him.’’ The person said.

‘’Good to hear.’’ The man hummed.

‘’Now please release my family!’’ The person begged.

‘’I will release them after your knowledge is confirmed.’’ The man said and started walking away.

‘King of the Hill Preschool? Bwah. What a name.’ He thought in his mind and chuckled, stepping on a sandcastle on the sand and kept walking.

On the next morning, he woke up early, did his morning routine, and left for breakfast in the hotel restaurant. He saw a kid on the other side of the servings table staring at him.

‘’What you staring at?’’ He asked.

‘’Why do you have a crown in your head?’’ The kid asked.

‘’Because I do.’’ The man answered simply.

‘’It looks dumb.’’ The kid said.

A moment later the man left the restaurant with a tasty croissant, screams echoing behind him, as a kid with a knife on his throat was laying on the floor, bleeding dry quickly as his mother was screaming and crying.

The man checked out from the hotel, walking towards the preschool that was located on a hill.

‘’I see where that stupid name comes from.’’ He said to himself and walked near the edge, seeing the yard full of kids.

He sighed deep and hard.

‘’Of course…’ He mumbled a few of the kids walked to him.

‘’Stop stalking or we will tell someone!’’ One of the girls in the group said.

‘’I am not stalking.’’ The man said.

‘’I am looking for someone.’’

‘’And who might that be?’’ The girl asked.

‘’None of your business.’’ The man hissed.

‘’It might be, pedophile!’’ The girl said.

‘’Listen here, brat. Shut up and dance for me.’’ He said.

The girl’s eyes went foggy and she started to dance.

The kids looked at her and two of them ran off quickly.

The man watched the girl dance, as the other kids tried to get her to stop, but nothing helped. She just danced, as the two kids came back with a man with ginger hair and a blue jacket.

‘’Hey!’’ He shouted, the man focusing eyes on him.

‘’Oh look what the cat dragged in.’’ The man smirked and leaned back to a tree he was standing under, eyeing the teacher the kids had brought back.

‘Bingo.’ He thought.

‘’P-please Mr. Grales! Help her!’’ Begged one of the kids.

‘’Who are you? What do you want with her?’’ The teacher asked, his tone cold, but his eyes warm to the children.

‘What an idiot you have made yourself…’ He sighed in his mind.

‘’Name’s Weston. I am looking for my lost brother and my sources tell that he is somewhere in this stupid shit of a school.’’ The man shrugged.

‘’Who is your brother?’’ The teacher asked.

‘’Well, we used to call him Maxette.’’ Weston shrugged.

The man stared at Weston and hissed, as he looked at the dancing girl, who stopped dancing and fell but was still breathing.

‘’Stupid bitch.’’ Weston said and put his two fingers next to his eye, the girl starting to scream.

The teacher stared at her as she started to twitch and tremble, his eyes and ears bleeding.

‘’Stop!’’ He shouted, but the man didn’t turn his glance.

The next thing Weston felt was his arm lowering itself from his forehead, he stared at the man.

‘’Who are you?’’ He asked, as the teacher did not answer, as he just moved his fingers.

The next thing Weston knew was that his finger was a fist and was made to punch his face a few times before his body fell down and barely missed a rock, but he acted as he had fainted.

He listened to the kids run away with the teacher. He got up and looked after them.

‘’Well Maxette, you truly saved me after I almost killed that girl… Soft-hearted as always.’ He mumbled as he saw the police vehicles coming as well as an ambulance in the distance.

‘’Come with us.’’ The police officer said, walking to Weston and handcuffing him.

‘’Let me go when we get to the car.’’ Weston sighed, leaving the scene as he was taken to the car.

He took his phone.

‘’Release the prisoners.’’ He sent a message and started walking around until he saw a car drive by the apartment building he was walking nearby at.

‘Maxette!’ He thought and walked to the doors, but the man tried to walk past.

‘’So my sources were right.’’ Weston hummed.

‘’I don’t know what you mean.’’ The man hissed.

‘’Aww come on Maxette. I know it’s you!’’ Weston whined.

‘’Stop calling me that. You put my work at risk!’’ Maxette hissed.

‘’But I see you still have that kick!’’ Weston said and smacked his ass, but his hand was being caught.

‘’Stop.’’ Maxette said.

‘’What do you even want?’’

‘’I and Merly are being threatened and we would love to have someone who can help. Aka you, Maxette. Let the Pri-‘’

‘’No. No Primateria Trio. Not ever again. Last time we did something, I lost god knows how long portion of my memories!’’ Maxette said, pushing Weston to the side and walking to the stairway, walking to an elevator and pressing a button, walking in as the doors opened.

‘’You can’t say no forever,’’ Weston growled.

‘’I can, princess,’’ Maxette said. ‘’I have a job now and people who actually like me. I don’t intend to ruin it.’’ He said and left up the elevator.

‘’This won’t end here,’’ Weston growled and left the building.

He walked past a bunch of homeless people, so annoyed he made a few of them kill themselves, then saw a familiar, but emptily angry-looking man with long white hair.

‘’Westex, stop killing people.’’ He said.

‘’Nice to see you too, Merly.’’ Weston said.

‘’I heard what happened. You truly believed he’d come with you if you kill a kid?’’ The man asked.

‘’Well, no, but…’’ Weston sighed.

‘’He used his powers on me!’’ He said.

‘’Well, you used yours on someone dear to him. A CHILD.’’ Merly sighed.

‘’Shush.’’ Weston said and the duo started walking.