Blackstar by N P Martin

Author:N P Martin [Martin, N P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DARK WORLD PRESS
Published: 2020-01-24T22:00:00+00:00

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A Blackstar recruiter approached me initially. A guy about Cal’s age dressed in a dark suit, looking like some government type, which is what I thought he was until he explained he represented a private company who was interested in recruiting “capable guys” like me. When I asked him how he could possibly know what I was capable of, he replied that he knew all about me, which immediately made me uncomfortable, not to mention suspicious as hell. Cal had already warned me that the government didn’t take kindly to guys like us running around killing people, even if those “people” weren’t really people half the time. Plus, the hellots had infiltrated the government to the highest levels and used their power and influence to try to stamp out hunters and people like Cal and me as much as they could.

So naturally, I was immediately wary of a man in a suit approaching me and saying he knew everything about me, which as it turned out, he damn near did. He had a folder full of information on me dating back to when I was still a kid living with my mother. It scared me at the time how much this guy had on me, and despite what he said, I was convinced he was a Fed, and that I would soon end up imprisoned at some black site or locked up in an asylum for the rest of my life. I ended up telling the guy to fuck off and leave me alone. He didn’t seem offended by my response, and he even gave me a business card before he left, saying to call him when I was ready to “change my life and do some good in the world.”

When I showed Cal the business card, and he saw the name Blackstar, he sighed and shook his head. “I was worried this might happen,” he said. “Those fuckers approached me in the past too. I hope you’re not thinking of joining them.”

When I asked about the Company, Cal explained that Blackstar was a private corporation that officially (but secretly) did what Cal and I did, which is hunt monsters, but that wasn’t their raison d’ être. The main purpose of the Company was to profit off of the MURKs they hunted in every way that they could, experimenting on the MURKs themselves to develop new technology of all kinds and to track down and steal the many powerful artifacts that existed within the Shadow World. Like every corporation, Cal said, Blackstar existed to make a profit, not to make the world a better place as they claimed.

Despite hearing all of this, I was still intrigued. Truth be told, I was looking to do something more with my life at the time. As much as I appreciated everything Cal had done for me, the idea of spending the rest of my life with him at the scrap yard, putting my life on the line for little to no gain or even recognition, wasn’t very appealing and was less so as time went on.

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