Chapter 5
The First Battle
That night had a bright and golden full
moon and rays of silver light slipped from the sky on to the road. I lived in
the city center. Along the road, there are plenty grocery stores and
supermarkets. The road was still staffed with people and cars even though it
was 20:10 at night. Athena’s home was about one kilometer away from mine and we
lived on the same street. I entered her housing estate and called her. She came
down and led me to her house.
Hi, As!
Hi!
What’s up?
Close the doors,
windows and curtains.
Eh, OK.
Turn on the lights.
So what’s
happening?
Athena, fetch your
phone. I sent you a video by QQ just now.
Athena opened the video and watched. She
said nothing but I saw terror in her eyes. She finished watching the video and
fell onto my leaps. I patted her slowly but then I heard our phones ringing.
She got up and we checked. It was a message form the app. The message was from
a person who called himself the inventor. It said : “ I know you are monitoring
my whole plan. And I want to mention, your Brian is caught. Go to the Central
Park if you don’t want to lose him.”
I saw Athena frowning. Tears was rolling in
her eyes. Her body was shaking. I hugged her and told her to calm down. I
thought it may be the person’s chick. Maybe Brian was alright. I phoned Brian.
No one answered the call. I could only hear the sound “ Doo”. I heard Athena
burst out crying. I sighed and phoned Alan and Emma. They told me that they
received the message from the person too, and were about to call me and Athena.
I told them to come to the cafe near the park and wait for us. I turned back to
Athena and told her to get dressed. Two minutes later, we were on our way to
the café. We didn’t talked on our way. Athena just walked in front of me. I
couldn’t see her face, but a can know that it was pale.
We went into the café fifteen minutes
later. Alan and Emma were already there. We sat down to discuss the message.
But our phone ranged at the same time. It was another message form the person.
“ Come here before 20:30, or your Brian will be killed.” I sweated. It was
20:20, there was a few time left. We even didn’t have the time to discuss our
plan. We received another message from him. It was a map. It told where they
were. I stood up and said : “ Let’s go.” “ But,” “Shut up Emma! We have to go!
Brian himself and his power are both important to us. We have to save him.”
They followed. We hurried to the park and found Brian. He was tied on a broken
street lamp in a dark and wet corner of two old buildings. Athena ran to untie
him, but was pulled away by me. Then we heard two hands clapping. A man wearing
a black jumper and a black mask appeared from the dark.
“Welcome.” The man said.
Alan shouted : “Stand back!”
“Al! Shut up!” Emma whispered.
“I know that your
power aren’t useful when fighting with another person. Except for that little
boy. Your name is Alan. You can own the same power and weapon as your enemy
does when you are in danger, right? You can be a great threat to me. How about
killing you first?”
The man reached out a gun and pointed at
Alan. Alan used his power and got a gun. He pointed it to the men. The man
smiled but quickly turned to Emma and shot. “Emma!”
I shouted and pushed her away. Then my wrist hurt a little. I looked down
and saw a tiny needle stuck into my skin instead of a bullet.
“As!”
“It is the medical
that can make you weak.” The men laughed. “You’ll
feel dizzy and weak in three minutes.”
“What a...” Alan burst out
shouting.
I felt uncomfortable in a few seconds. I
clutched my fists tightly to keep my head clear. I walked closer to the man.
Alan followed with the gun in his hands. Emma stood closer too. Alan shot at
the man from the right. The man tried to hide but I dashed from his back and
hit him with my whole strength on his back. He fell down facing the ground. I
stepped on his back and made him stay there. He grinned and reached his hand in
his pocket to fetch his phone. Alan spied his action and shot onto his arm. The
man dropped his phone accidently. I hit on his back for another few times and
Alan picked up his phone and went to untie Brian. The man grinned again and
something shiny and sharp flew from his left hand. “Watch out, As!” Emma
shouted and quickly picked up a red block and threw at the me. I stood backward
and saw the red block dropped onto the man’s back. On the block was a silver
knife. I picked up the block and got the knife out. I dig it into the man’s
shoulder. Blood splashed from the cut and flew onto my face. “Unacceptable!” I
growled, “Who sent you here?” “Ha,” “Tell me!” I took out the knife and more
blood splashed onto my face. The man howled and said : “There is no way to let
you know this!” I was about to cut the knife into his another shoulder when suddenly
my head was hit by something and I fell down. “Ray!” I heard Alan, Emma and
Athena shouting. “Surprise!” “What are you doing here?” “It’s simple. They told
me if I help them to kill all of you, then Helena can be sent back to my side.
I got Brian out and that man tied him up and sent messages to you.” “Idiot!” I
heard Athena shouting. “Don’t move! Athena!” Alan shouted. But Athena ran
forward quickly toward Ray but was knocked down easily. Alan shouted : “Emma!
Athena! Get Brian and go! Now!” I saw Athena got up and ran to untie Brian
together with Brian. Ray shot at Emma and Athena from the back and they fell
down. “What are you doing to them?” I heard Alan cried. “Don’t worry, they will
just be quiet for an hour.” Then I saw Alan running and they began fighting
with each other.
I tried to get up but that man got up
earlier and picked up the knife on the ground and raised it high. He seemed
like he was about to kill me. I quickly kicked the part between his two legs.
The man dropped the knife and lied on the ground with pain. I cut into his
heart immediately. Then I felt painful on my right arm. It was a bullet. A real
one. “NOOOO!!!!!!!! As!!!” “I didn’t want to kill you before. I just want them
to handle you. But since you killed that man, then, you are done for. Without
him, I can’t get Helena back.” “Boom!” I heard the sound of a gun. “Oh, no. I
hope it was not Alan, dead.” I got up holding my arm. I found a hand in front
of me. “Are you OK?” I found it was Alan. “Thanks goodness! You are still alive!”
I grabbed his hand and stood up. “Sorry, As. I didn’t protect you.” “That’s
OK.” We saw the man and Ray, already dead. A second later, there remains
vanished. “Shall we call the police?” “No. The police are nuts. They can do
nothing.” “Yeah, anyway, I’ll call the ambulance. At least the doctors are a
little wiser than us at curing patients!”
Alan called the ambulance. They arrived
five minutes later and took us to the nearest hospital. The doctors said we are
alright. Brian, Athena and Emma just need to rest for three days before going
back to school. They say I am very lucky. The bullet only hurt a little part of
my muscle. They did a small operation on me that night and told me to come back
to the hospital after a week.
( To be continued )
Astrid
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