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Preview: Sentinels Vol. 2 #1 - Faith no more Part 2

Just to remind you guys that I have not forgotten about the series here's a preview of what goes down in the next chapter!
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Tonya’s ride home was full of discontent. Raymond tried cheering her up the only way he knew how: being ironically unfunny, but it didn’t work. She kept silent for the entire ride, her mind lost in deep thought. The situation was getting out of her control, she didn’t like that. The car came to a complete stop at the outside of her neighborhood. 

She looked up to a horrible sight. Several large pitch-black pillar of smoke arising through the sky and heat she could feel through the insulated car. Each and every stark white house now doused in raging hues of orange, yellow and deep red and they were torn asunder. Lawns once green and tendered engulfed completely in raging flames. Even a couple street lamps had fallen over and fire hydrants had burst ironically to no effect.

“My god!” Ray exclaimed as he hopped out to assess the situation better. Tonya was just awestruck, she got out beside Ray. Inside that neighborhood was her home, a place that, throughout years of prejudice for being a Reaver, she could at least be safe enough to lay her head.

Standing in the street of the doomed neighborhood was a silhouette of a man in a long trench coat. His armed were nonchalantly tucked in the pockets and he simply observed the carnage as Drones ran from their homes helplessly burning to the ground in screams of agony. The screams nor ear splitting crackle of the inferno didn’t faze him even a bit. He turned behind as if on cue to face Tonya. Even from a distance, the look on his face that was easy to read: a smug, evil smile. His eye gave a red glint that frightened her.

“You seem surprised.” Rufio’s voice calmly stated from in front of them. He had suddenly appeared in front of Ray’s car within the blink of an eye. His skin had grown even paler and his pupils had taken on a deep red hue. And he had two small horns adorn his forehead like a growing calf. “I told you exactly what would happen, Tonya. Look at them die, Tonya. All because of you.” He pointed to dozens of Drones who had no idea today would be their last day on this cruel Earth as they died writhing in flames.

Raymond pulled his gun and held it close to Rufio’s head. “You… sick–”

“Bastard?” Rufio finished his sentence for him. “Honestly, Raymond you’re more predictable than everyone makes you out to be.”

“Then you know what’s coming next.” He said confidently.

“The death of your wife and son.” Rufio replied coldly. He turned to Ray with an intimidating stare directly to his eyes. “I’ll bleed them both, slowly, as cry out for you to save them. How does that sound, Raymond? I can make it happen the second you pull that trigger.”

Ray couldn’t react and was visibly shaken. He wanted to do nothing more than squeeze the trigger and put a hot shell in between this cold heartless bastard’s eyes, but he feared for his family. His hands shook with uncertainty.

“Think that bullet would kill me? Would you bet Heather and little Tommy’s life on it?”

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