Iridescent Outshine

Chapter Four

Bastien finally caught his breath and started to breathe somehow normally. He was still wheezing. The beating from Harold must have fractured a rib or two.

"Now," Harold said. "Tell us everything."

"About what?" Bastien asked.

Harold sighs. "First, do you know who the Iridescent Unicorn is?"

Bastien hesitates for a bit and then finally answers. "Yeah, I work with him."

"Him? What's his name?"

"I call him Olivier."

"Explain the nature of your work?"

"We work as assassins for the group Fogbow Spectrum."

Harold and Edgar look at each other.

"What does this group do?" Harold asked.

"I don't know and I really don't care. If Olivier gets an assignment from them, he'll either assign it to me or this other or do it himself."

"What do you know about the recent journalist that went missing?" Edgar interjected.

Bastien thinks to himself. "I heard something about that from Olivier. He was mad at Soleil for almost getting Fogbow exposed." He shrugs. "I think Olivier must have assassinated the journalist. He was gone a few days ago."

Harold puts his right hand on his chin. "And were you lying about seeing the Unicorn at the center of town?"

Bastien stays quiet.

"Well?" Harold said and lightly kicked Bastien below the knee.

"Yeah! We knew you guys were coming, so I tried to lure you here so I could kill you myself."

Harold smirks. "Didn't work as intended, huh? Well, where can we find the Unicorn or Olivier as you call him?"

Bastien shakes his head. "You don't! He finds you."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Edgar asked.

"It means that I don't ever contact him! Whenever he needs me, he'll come find me."

"How often does that happen?" Harold asked.

"I don't know! How often do people want other people assassinated?" Bastien countered with his own question.

"And last thing, what does Olivier look like?"

Bastien takes a very deep breath. "Yellow eyes! He's the only one in town that I have ever seen that has that eye color."

"See? That wasn't so hard. You could have answered us earlier to save yourself the beating." Harold said and turned to Edgar. "Let's get out of here!"

Stella and Cecilia had chosen a restaurant not far from the place where they had encountered Bastien. The place serves only lamb as the protein of choice.

While eating, Cecilia couldn't help but notice that someone kept eyeballing her and her daughter.

She leans closer to Stella and whispers. "Hey, Lily. Is it just me or is that guy over there keeps looking at us?"

Stella glances around the room as she chews her food. "What guy, Mom?!"

Cecilia softly sighs and shakes her head. "Not so loud, dear."

"Oh, what guy?" Stella lowered her voice to almost nothing.

"Yellow eyes and blonde hair. You can't miss him. He's the only one with yellow eyes around here."

Stella finally makes eye contact with the guy with yellow eyes. His age seems to be about mid-twenties. He wears a white buttoned collared shirt, black dress pants, and black dress shoes. The table is at the corner. After swallowing his food, he smiles and waves to Stella.

"I think he likes me, Mom." Stella whispered as she leaned to her mom.

"Better not let Harold find out." Cecilia said. She grins to herself after a few seconds. "Know what? Let's tell Harold so that guy doesn't make a move on you!"

Stella frowns. "Why are you enjoying this?"

The guy with the yellow eyes stands up slowly and slowly walks over to their table.

"Uh-oh!" Stella leaned closer to her mom. "I think he's coming this way."

Cecilia swallows her food and looks up. As soon as she did, the yellow-eyed guy pulled out an empty chair and sat down at their table.

"Hi, ladies!" the yellow-eyed guy smiled. "I can't help but notice your beauty from afar."

Cecilia laughs. "Oh, my daughter's already taken."

"By whom?!" Stella asked.

The yellow-eyed guy shakes his head slowly. "Oh, no! I apologize for the miscommunication, but I was talking about you, my dear!"

Stella frowns. "Heh?!"

Cecilia's eyes brighten in surprise. "Me?!"

"Yeah, her!?" Stella said. "You know how old she is?"

Cecilia quickly pokes her daughter in the hip and smiles. "Please excuse her!"

"Ow, Mom!"

"I'm flattered but I'm married. Glad to know that I'm still a milf. Hihi!"

"Well," said the guy with yellow eyes. "It was nice knowing you then! I'll be off!"

The yellow-eyed guy stands up, tucks the chair back under the table, and leaves the restaurant.

Stella confusingly watches as he leaves. "Doesn't he mean nice to meet you and not nice knowing you? That's something you say when someone dies or something."

The yellow-eyed guy walks out the restaurant and into a building not too far. It was about two or three buildings apart. He enters and it looks like a place of carpentry.

"Jules!" the yellow-eyed guy called out.

Another guy whose name is Jules comes walking up to the yellow-eyed guy. He wears a white buttoned shirt with blue tie, black dress pants and black dress shoes. Dark blonde, blue eyes, five feet ten inches.

"What's up, Olivier?" asked Jules.

"The Rainbow Girl and her mom are in that restaurant down the street. The Leaf Wolf and his partner had already taken out Bastien. Tonight, you and I are gonna take them out in their sleep."