Chapter 5
Discovering The Hidden
First Person Narrative
John
I was awoken by the rays of sunlight fashioning itself directly to my eyes from the open curtain of the room I was in. The bright light made me squint tightly. I couldn't even tell if it was morning or noon. I took my leg down and about to stand, I felt a pang on my chest which cleared as sudden as it came. I exited the room and made my way to the living room where Maria, Khloe and Pete were. I stared at Maria as her pink lips touched the apple in her palm and she took a bite out of it. I snorted at her before looking around in search for nothing specific actually.
Khloe walked up to me. She was the helping hand I needed. She held to make sure I didn't stumble and fall. It felt like I lost my stamina.
"Pete, this is John, the one I told you about, John, meet Pete." Khloe gestured with her hands in an air slice horizontal motion.
"Hey John!" Maria said as she took another bite out of the apple.
"Hi!" I said to Pete, and Maria. I looked away, turned over and moved back into the room I came from. I just realised Raphael wasn't present. Speaking of Raphael, I drowned myself in thought over what happened hours ago. I was conscious but I didn't fight it. It felt like the demon took hold of my mind.
I, who was going through my bag of coats, heard the footsteps of someone coming right into the room. I tilted and looked at Khloe who stood at the door.
"Hey K!" I called, rolled my eyes downwards, with no extra expression. I continued with the searching for the best suitable coat I could use for the day.
"John!" Don't take this on yourself. I get it, we all have our bad sides." Her words got me paused. I took a deep breath in, faced up and blinked trice before turning to her.
"I was going to fight Raphael, someone I saw in my dream, someone I dont know...what if he decided to kill me then..who knows?" "I let the demon get to me, why else do you and that angel believe this is my destiny., that this is why I have powers, to fight off demons and evil wanderers from hell and all that" I asked slowly. I felt my tone change and the little frown that made its way to my brows.
"I'm sorry!" I said to Khloe. "I didn't mean to ...." I couldn't even complete the sentence. I took the coat that my hand touched at the moment and I walked out. I couldn't get my head straight as it seemed.
"Where are you going to?!" Khloe asked. "John!" She called. "Stop taking this hard on yourself." She added as she walked behind me.
"Khloe do you even understand what this is." "I was alive, I was conscious, I was awake." "I watched as I did all those things." I yelled at her. I saw the shock she got from the sudden and unexpected yell I gave her. Glancing at Maria and Pete who starred at us, I had to just shut it. "I'm going to find the rest of us!" I added before exiting the door and banging it hard. I was pretty sure the sound sent shock to every other person there.
Just as I exited Khloe's house, I turned to the right side of the road and it was blocked by some yellow police ribbon. Cars stacked like an accident scene. I had no interest in what the case may be, I..I just walked straight up ahead trying to track someone else, hoping to find someone else with part of my power, and that, I didnt know how to do alone.
Light fades.
Walking the almost empty street I never knew Venezuela had, I drowned myself in thoughts the more. I recapped images of what happened, from the demon, to Raphael, to me realising I caused all of this and to the teary eyes of Khloe when I yelled at her.
As I blamed myself for all of this, I didn't even realise I was on the street. The loud horn of a driver and his yells brought me back to my reality. Still going up ahead, I realised the sudden change of weather. Every where became humid. Still didn't stop me from, where ever I walked towards. And it was at that moment a note fell right before me. I was about to ignore it but it seemed so beckoning.
I looked around to know if anyone had flung this or misplaced it but all I saw were the green thick trees at both sides of a narrow thin road. On the right were closed shops and buildings lined all the way up.
Not knowing how to react about it, I picked the paper up. I opened it, peering at my surrounding once again to confirm if someone had misplaced this. Surprisingly I think it was for me. I saw the name of one of the seven of us "King Butt", and a map drawn from my current position to a certain destination. These two points were marked with red ink. The strangest of all things was that, the map pointed towards a thin lane, in between trees. And what I saw was strange. There was no visible lane between the trees. At least not yet.
Light fades.
"Guys, we can't just sit here and do nothing." Said Khloe who was by the dinning side of the living room.
"What exactly are we to do?" Maria asked as she gulped in a whole glass of coffee.
"Didn't you just finish having apples now?" Pete who laid on the couch asked curiously. Part of his face was covered by his light blonde hair.
"Uhhh, "Aren't you suppose to be delivering pizza right now?" Maria backfired with her eyes wide open and a wide smile that made her squint her eyes. She rolled her eyes over rudely after getting no reply.
"Guys!" Khloe yelled.
"I see something." Khloe added. She got the attention of the two as they wondered what exactly she saw. Pete sat upright and turned over to Khloe.
"What...exactly...are you seeing?" Asked Pete.
"It seems like a hidden land, I see a forcefield." Khloe added. Taking a glimpse inside her head, she saw a narrow road that led to an empty vast land. The force field went down and she saw a whole civilization of hidden humans. The first thing she came in contact with was the palace of a King, "The palace of the King Butt!" Written boldly over the brick exterior walls and layers of the building.
Light fades.
"So I can teleport, she can control minds" Pete said addressing him self and Maria. Khloe grinned ironicalky and uncontrollably at the part where Pete said Maria could Mind control although it was the ability the spark gave her, not her main powers, still Khloe had to keep the fact that Maria is a witch, secret.
"...and you can siphon literally anything raw, thoughts, powers and also see through worlds?" "John, right, that's the name?" "He has a strange power that varies from anything usual to unusual?" Asked Pete. Seems like it is what Khloe had told them already that he was repeating.
"This makes up a team." Pete added.
"Hold my hand!" Khloe ordered. Pete took grip of Khloe's hand and she siphoned everything she saw to Pete. Pete took a huge grasp of air before he held Maria's hand and they all vanished into thin air.
First Person Narrative
John
I looked around again to clarify if I was seeing things. It was that moment, I saw a girl. She looked like she was of age fourteen, maybe fifteen, with rare light blue eyes. She stared right at me. All she had on was a blue dress. As I was about to cross over to the other side of the street, the girl ran into the forest and it seemed like she got absorbed by it. I saw the trees wobble and I realised it was an illusion. Surprisingly, There was actually a path there.
I ran into it as well and I saw the thin and narrow road with nothing by the sides, which I saw earlier and on the map. I saw the girl as well, running. I was surprised for the fact that she had no guardian with her. The thought of her being a supernatural like I was, overshadowed the guardian thought which I had.
I raised a finger and the concreted narrow road swallowed her feet. I stooped to her height and smiled at her. "Let's try this again, shall we?!" "I am John."
Light fades.
"So you are Margaret Jonathan, Daughter of Claire Johnathan. You are telling me your mother was captured by some creatures from out of earth and after that..." I said walking forward and backward. Trying to piece the story together.
"I came to the King after that!" "My mum was a friend of his." "Look, I just want to help." She said in a soft voice. I looked at her and saw the pain and loneliness in her eyes. I lifted a finger and set her feet free. "I will help you find your mum." I promised. As usual I felt the blood rolling down again.
"You're bleeding!" She asked.
"Oh! It's nothing", "just a bit of ketchup." I framed.
She raised her feet to my height, held me by the neck and tilted my head downwards. She opened her palm and I squinted due to a white light that almost blinded me, which emitted from her palm.
"I'm fifteen, not stupid!" She said, replying the ketchup lie.
"I couldn't heal you but it will slow the bleeding down a bit." Margaret added with a smile.
"You have powers?" I asked curiously. I was intrigued by that action she pulled off to a stranger like me.
"Why did you heal me?" I asked again, not even waiting for her to respond.
"I just trust you", "that map, you are trying to find the King." She asked. "Keep up." She added as she walked before me.
Scene Changes
"Are you sure we are at the right place?" Maria asked Khloe as the three stared at the vast open land that stretched over five hundred kilometers to the left and the right respectively.
"Yes, this is what I saw in my vision." "There is a force field, a camouflage or something like that." Khloe added.
"Where exactly are we?" Pete asked as he swivelled, probably trying to find a clue.
"Where ever we are at, I'm damn sure we aren't in Venezuela anymore." Khloe admitted in awe.
Light fades.
Khloe walked some miles away from the other two trying to find out something.
"Guys!" She called out loud. "I think I found something." She added.
The two came running to her. They stood behind her awaiting for her to identify what she found out. She touched the air and it wobbled before it took in her 'pointing' finger.
"What is that?" Pete squinted trying to take a clearer look.
I'm going in! Khloe without hesitation jumped into the wobbly illusion. Maria and Pete had no choice but to do as Khloe did. Things didn't turn out quite well. The three ended up inside a whole kingdom and were engulfed by the guards who stood guarding the way they came through.
Light fades.
The three were carried in a golden carriage to some place, probably to the King. Everything within and around them as they saw was unlike earth. They had all sort of jewelries at finger tips, the food sellers were dressed in golden robes and linens and the shops seen, could be the building of a wealthy earth person, but with an extra spray of gold. The floor the horse trembled upon was concreted. As Khloe studied, she realised they had all but not cars. Nothing technological. Maria who sat beside Pete with her hands tied, tilted her eyes at the guard beside her and at Pete. Pete on the other hand starred daggers at Khloe for the obvious reason of leading them to their end.
They stepped down from the carriage, after the horse stopped, and the gaurds sent the horse away along with the rider. When they got down, they looked around and they realised they crossed a bridge with golden protectors/sides and a glassy floor. It was unusual. "Who will build a bridge with glass." Maria asked as she whirled round and round staring high up to the bright cloud with no sign of a sun. The three looked forward after crossing over and they saw a twist like type of building, made of shards of glass. "Well...seems technological to me!" Pete whispered.
"Is this the Cayan Tower in Dubai?" Maria asked Khloe.
Khloe stared daggers at her before reminding her that they weren't in earth.
"Move!" The guards pushed Pete and the girls as well.
Maria widened her eyes in awe and dragged the side of her lips down. "They speak English." She whispered.
They walked into the palace. Literally there was a lot to see. A lot that could take over five thousand words to describe. Starting from the diamonds, scattered around the door that they stood before to other internal decoration that they made with earth's rarest and most expensive materials. The most noticeable was gold, it was literally, every thing in the palace, along side candles, placed on golden candle holders that were above us.
The guards opened up the door and of the main palace and the guards that stood before the door, lined up in a vertical position all the way to the throne parted way for Khloe, Maria and Pete.
"Who do you seek and how did you get pass the barrier?" A wild voice asked. A man dressed in a red cloth with golden straps of ribbons lined over the neck and the wrist with a red belt and a blue strap of ribbon lined from the right shoulder to the left side of the waist walked forward as the guards parted ways.
"He seems to be the one in power because his dressing style differed from other guards." Pete whispered to Khloe, referring to the guards who were in a plane grey and light brown attire.
"I seek the King!" Khloe responded.
"I am Khl..." Before Khloe could say her name and introduce the other two to the man standing before them, Another voice interrupted. A man walked out from a misty room beside the throne that was places high up before them. His head was endowed with a golden crown with shards of 'Taafeite' and more diamonds.
"Okay, I think in have seen enough diamonds here today." Pete whispered.
"Like you own one!" Maria savaged, not even bothering to glance at Pete who stared daggers at her.
"From looking at you, I already know who you are, when you were born and when you shall die, the family name is "Dave" isn't it." "Another thing I may know is your friend is on the way." "Guards, arrest them." "This land must remain secreted." "Proceed to death by my further notice." The King said before turning over and walked out along side the commander.
With the presence of around over twenty guards bestowed with the duty the arrest and kill order, the three had no other choice but to fight for what they wanted. But Khloe saw it on a different view, but not for long.
"Stop please! Just hold on." Khloe yelled with the intention to get the attention of the King once more.
"Okay guys, just drop the weapon." She realised that the King will probably not be on their side. Deciding to negotiate with the guards with a bait of them never setting foot into the hidden land, Khloe still didn't get the chance of leaving. At least not anytime soon.
She slowly walked in circles, as well as Pete and Maria who stood at two different positions, turning round and round, inside the circumferential engulfment formed with by the weaponed guards whom each possessed a shard edged spear with a pointy tip that reflected light at the sight of the sun rays fashioned towards it.
She had her hands stretched forward in surrender, still slowly turning. Her eyes rolled over, catching glimpse of each and every of the guards around her and their moves.
"Alright! I've had enough of this!" Khloe whispered to Maria before She kicked off a spear that a guard before her possessed.
"I don't want anyone to get hurt." "Just hear me out!" Khloe pleaded wryly with a doleful face expressing her plea. Here eyes knocking over and across the faces of the guards.
"Congrats Khloe." You piss off the guard before you beg them." Pete mocked.
"Get them!" One of the guards yelled. His yell was accompanied by the bass screams of other guards who stretched their weapons towards the three.
"Pete get us out of here!" Maria whispered with hope that Pete was the only alternative of them surviving the task given to them by the angel.
"I can't feel my powers, moreover I don't even have grip of it!" Pete replied Maria, with his face upright and trying to be as sensitive as he could be.
Without further delay or hesitation, Khloe slipped below the level of the spare the guards surrounded them with. She slipped out of the circle and kicked the leg of one of the ten men guards surrounding them. She stabbed the spear deep into the palm of the unfortunate guard who laid and yelled helplessly on the floor as the spear was pushed deeper into his palm and pierced the tip of the concreted floor.
Khloe stood up, facing opposite to the guards and the other two who were still surrounded.
"Khloe! Look out!" Maria yelled at the top of her little pitch voice.
Unfortunately, insensitive Khloe got stabbed, for the second time, in the sensitive skin, lying around the shoulder and arm pit by the tip of the spare of an unidentified guard.
"Khloe!" Maria called, as she tried to fight and get to Khloe who fell to her knee with one arm, going freely, almost paralyzed. Pete grabbed Maria by the waist, trying to with strain her from getting into something worst.
Pete had a sudden face expression. His eyes widened up and his lips spread apart. He left grip of Maria. It was at that moment, Khloe yelled out loud.
The ear deafening sound of her pain blasted Maria, Pete and the guards away before the guards suddenly got into flames.
"Khloe!" I yelled.
She tilted her neck to the left, where I stood precisely and I saw the pain in her half opened eyes. I was left in awe like everyone else as I didn't expect such emission of power from her. Questions raised in my mind, how did she find here and how exactly did she get to display such ability. The only explanation to that was her powers were developing.
Light fades.
I withdrew the spear that hung by the side of her shoulder and Margaret healed her instantly.
"Ahh!" She groaned. The sudden sweat on her stressed looking face was unexpected. I took out a handkerchief from the left pocket of my coat and handled it over to her.
Bravo! The King walked out of the dark with extra guards behind him, clapping loudly. I could hear the jubilation in his crook strong British voice that filled the enviroment. "We could have set you going after learning about you," he started off, staring at Khloe. "But your friend decided to show up." "Guards, arrest them and kill by sunset."
"There is no sun here though." Maria whispered as she stared up at the bright clouds.
"Just breathe and try to teleport again!" I said to Pete, before walking forward to the King. I gave him an eye contact, of what he was to do as soon as I yell his name. He stood along side Maria and Khloe making sure he had body contact with the two of them. Margaret as well, who Maria held hands with.
I walked up to the King, stood before him with my hands behind me. "Killing us will lead to war between earth and your realm," I said. I walked beside him and whispered to his tiny ears "possibly, Heaven will sweep your realm and leave nothing behind." "But you wouldn't want that will you." "Pete!" I yelled.
"Good bye!" I smiled villainously, turned Butt over and made him watch his guards run towards us before Pete held my hand and we vanished into thin air.
Light Fades
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