"Sorry, we have to crash your party. We are the White Clan, and we are here to crash your party, so sit your asses down before we annihilate all of you!"
"Anonymous, you said the same thing twice." The cameras were turned off after they entered the room.
"Shut it, Steel." He looked at the other member, "Anyway, like I said. Don't mo-?!" Before he could finish talking, an arrow was fired at him.
A huge buff man jumped toward the arrow, protecting him by grabbing it.
"Anonymous, pay attention."
Anonymous was a little annoyed, "I can't believe I have to say this. Thank you, Steel."
Anonymous is a tall man whom people need to look up to see his eyes. However, they can't see his eyes because a white fox mask with red dots hides them. He wears a black glove on his right hand, and in the center is a gem that appears to be a whiteish color. On his back, it's a case for his sniper rifle.
Excalibur fired another arrow at Anonymous, and Steel split it in half with one hand.
"Let me handle him. You should do what we're here for."
Anonymous moved, "Thank you, I guess."
The second thank you from him made Steel uncomfortable, so he laughed.
"What's getting into you? Never say 'thank you' to me again; it makes my skin crawl to hear it from you."
Anonymous laughed, "Well, I don't like to say it to you, too." He saw Excilabur about recharging his arrow, "Fight him before he kills you." Anonymous went away.
Steel wears a torn tuxedo, exposing his six-pack to impress the ladies. He fails all the time. Women don't like him, and he doesn't know why. However, there was one female who wanted him, but not for romantic reasons. He wears sunglasses both inside and outside because his eyes are very sensitive to light.
Steel looks at Excalibur, "You are the famous S-ranked archer, Excalibur? I want to test my strength against a strong opponent."
The archer shook his head, "Then you should know it would not be easy to defeat me."
Steel grinned, "I have fought many people like you who are confident of being strong, but I always snapped them like twigs! I will do the same thing I did to them, Excalibur!"
His muscles got beefier, stronger, and charged at the bowman. He threw his fists one after another at Excalibur, but he dodged them both. Second, the punch, the S-ranker avoids it by doing a backflip.
After landing, he got a clear shot at Anonymous, firing at him. Steel saw this block in the arrow's way by jumping into it.
"You are fighting me, not him."
He removed the arrow from his beefy body without flinching, snapping it in half. Excalibur fired multiple arrows at Steel by taking them out of the purple pouch.
The archer's arrows were getting wasted because they weren't wounding Steel. He needs a different plan to defeat the White Clan's Pantheon[1] without endlessly firing his arrows until they are wasted.
Steel slowly approached Excalibur.
"You said it's not easy to defeat you? But you're the one who's having a harder time." He swings his punches at the right, "I don't like people like you who are too confident in their strength." Excalibur blocks the attack with his bow, "There was one person who backed up her claims of me not beating her, and she wasn't endlessly blocking me like you." The archer ran farther away, firing his arrows. Steel grabs it, snapping it in two.
"It's embarrassing for you when she fights me head-on without avoiding me by being lower rank than you, Excalibur." Every time Steel gets closer, the bowman keeps his distance from him.
***
Anonymous grabbed the host's collar, trying to learn about the president of the Nine-Hour Show.
"Please release me! I have a family at home!" The man was crying.
Anonymous looked at the host, "Okay," he said, and then dropped him to the floor. The host ran away, but before he could go any further, "Thunderclap!" He was stopped.
His limbs ceased in motion, falling to the floor. "What did you do to me?" He stared at Anonymous.
"I didn't do that." He pointed behind the man, "She did." A woman became visible in the host's eyes.
"Tsk!" Anonymous was annoyed, "You're late, Diamond."
Her blue eyes were the prettiest to look at, seeing the ocean in them, and her lush blond hair made her look different.
She shot back, "You expect me to immobilize people, and you dare to say I am late?!"
Anonymous put his hands on his face, "I thought you were watching the screaming cartoon of Japan again."
Diamond laughed and shook her head in disappointment, "Wow, did you think I was watching anime right now?"
Anonymous changed the subject, "Diamond, let's do what we are here for." Grabbed the host's collar, "Tell me where the president is?" He told them, dragging him toward the room.
***
Steel was getting irritated by the archer's avoidance of him. He stops and takes a deep breath, and yells, "Gorrlia Style: Gorllia Strength." As he spoke those words, the Flow transformed his right and left hands into the power of the animal.
He surprised Excalibur by closing the distance between them quickly. The Pantheon punched the right arm, breaking like a tree twig.
Steel was disappointed by how easy it was, "Wow, that fucking easy! If this is how S-rankers are, then I can climb up to S-rank." He proceeded to break Excalibur's left arm after seeing him trying to grab an arrow. The pallet fell to the floor because the arm broke.
Steel looked at the eyes of the archer, "How disappointing!" Snapping Excalibur's neck and throwing him to the floor.
He was annoyed by how easily disappointing it was to defeat an S-ranker. He shook his head. He turned around, unsatisfied, and went to help others.
Steel stopped when he heard a sound behind him. "What's going on?" He was curious about the sound that echoed around the room. Excalibur's body was glitching, shouting, "Error, Error," countlessly. Then suddenly, an arrow hit Steel's shoulder. The body disappeared after.
"Oh, you may not be as disappointing as I expected." The White Clan Elite member was happy.
Excalibur laughed, "Did you expect you were fighting a weakling?" He takes an arrow from his pouch and puts it in his bow. "I will show you the power of an S-ranker!"
Steel took another arrow in his shoulder without flinching.
"You're too cocky when you're hiding from me instead of facing me." Steel took out the projectiles and destroyed them.
"Wow, you are a dumb terrorist! What do you think an archer is? A warrior who fights on the front lines? Don't make me laugh."
Steel became angry when Excalibur called him 'dumb' and yelled, "Hey, I am not stupid, you fool!" He yelled. "I hate people like you who underestimate my smarts because of my muscles!"
'Wow, he's madder at me calling him dumb instead of calling him a terrorist.'
The archer claps slowly, "You didn't even know until the glitches happened that it was a clone. You wouldn't even know who I am when I create many of my clones."
Excalibur thought and continued, "Let's play a game. How many clones can you kill before you run out of Flow or my bow, King Arthur[2] runs out of arrows?"
The regular needle, about to be fired, transformed into a clone arrow upon release, becoming Excalibur's clone. He rapidly created fakes of himself by shooting many arrows. Each one of them has real bows and projectiles, which they shot at Steel.
The man with the six-pack and muscles closed his eyes and said, "Bat Style: Echolocation!"
His ears developed the ability of a bat, the sounds of arrows inching near him. Quickly, he grabbed all of them and snapped them. He wasn't done; there were still clones alive, which they used to fire arrows rapidly.
He focused, then he heard the sound of what he was looking for. Steel opened his eyes. 'Cheetah Style: Cheetha's Speed'
Now Steel could run as fast as a cheetah, dropping down to his all fours, and dashed toward the real Excalibur, killing the clones as he went.
After Steel was nearby, he jumped toward the archer, switching his speed to gorilla strength, throwing a punch. However, the bowman blocks the attack with his bow.
The Pantheon saw this coming, so he dropped to the ground and threw an uppercut, landing the attack. Excalibur's jaw got destroyed!
He looked down on the archer, "Look who is the stupid one now?!" Steel knew he was the real one by seeing that he wasn't glitching from getting hurt.
"Any last words before I kill you?!"
Excalibur didn't say anything, only smiled, making Steel mad, "Is this funny to you?"
The archer whispered something to Steel's ear, then, from behind, a dagger stabbed him through the wounds of the arrows made. He dropped to the ground, "You mother fucker!"
Lots of blood fell from the gash, forming a puddle.
Excalibur looked at the face of the man who saved him and wanted to talk, but the man stopped him.
"Be careful, Cali. You should not talk when your jaw is broken."
The man who stabbed Steel is Excalibur's father figure and teacher, S-ranked investigator Merlin.
"My name is Merlin, you White Clan fuckers should remember that name and this face." He circled his face, "Every waking moment of your lives!"
'Why's he so familiar?' He thought, 'Don't worry about that, Steel, you should escape.' He takes out a big red controller from his pocket, presses the red button, and he vanishes.
To be continued.
[1] Elite members of the White Clan are the strongest individuals in the group. They take direct orders from their boss.
[2] A legendary bow that turns any regular arrows into Flow-infused arrows of the wielder's choosing.