As the frail lady cuts her throat, everyone looks in shock and quickly runs over to her as her body hits the ground. The detective grabs the frail woman off the ground and cradles her in his hands like a baby.
"Someone call an ambulance quickly; she's bleeding out, and someone, please get me something to stop the bleeding!" The detective screams with a face of urgency.
The police officers around the detective quickly scattered to help save the frail woman. As the detective speaks, the frail woman continues to bleed from her throat onto the detective's coat. As she bleeds, her eyes start to slowly lose color.
On the sidelines, Kage and Unknown watch helplessly as the frail woman slowly dies in the detective's arms.
"Bro Unknown, did that really just happen?"
"Yeah, it happened so quick, I didn't even see it coming."
"You think we should do something?"
"What can we do? She already cut her throat; the only person that I can think of who can save her is."
Before Unknown could finish his sentence, a familiar voice came from behind the two boys.
"You were about to say my name, right?"
When Kage and Unknown turn to check behind them, they notice a dark-skinned man with short blue hair standing at 6'3 tall, wearing a blue T-shirt, khaki pants, and a lab coat, who is also smoking a cigarette. With his hands in his pockets, the man approaches the elderly woman who is dying while passing Kage and Unknown.
"Hey, isn't that Doctor David?" Kage asks
"Yeah, remember, we called him?"
"I remember, but how badass he looks in that lab coat always surprises me."
As Kage and Unknown talk to each other, David stops walking, turns around, and says something to them.
"Hey, didn't I tell you, kids, just to call me Doc?"
"Oh shit sorry," Both of them scream with a panicked expression.
"Now back to businesses."
Doctor David walks over to the detective with a calm expression.
"Hey, you detective guy, put that woman down on the ground; I'll handle it from here."
"What? Who the hell are you, and why should I do what you say? Do you have some type of paper I can look at?"
"Tch, could you shut up and just listen to me? Put that woman on the ground now before it's too late."
"But how do I know I can trust you when I've never seen you a day in my life?"
"I'm the doctor from Grava Academy; you can just ask those two kids over there. Now hurry up and put that woman on the ground!"
The detective looks over to Kage and Unknown and sees them both shake their heads in agreement.
"Ok, fine, but don't try anything funny."
The detective puts the frail woman on the ground.
Doctor David starts to glow intensely, signaling the activation of level two.
"Now fire manipulation: healing flame!"
Doctor David releases a yellow flame from his hand. The yellow flame flies to the cut on the frail woman's neck.
"Hey, what the hell are you doing? You plan to save her by burning her throat," the detective screams with concern.
"How about, instead of yelling, you take a good look at that flame?"
"huh?"
The detective looks down at the flame and is instantly surprised by what he sees.
"Wait these flames—they're warm; I can even touch them."
"Yeah, they are; you would have noticed if you didn't have a big stick up your ass. Now just make sure you watch my flames closely."
The yellow flames burning on the frail woman's throat start to rebuild her throat from the inside out. The yellow flame completely heals the frail woman's throat. As the yellow flame dissipates, David continues watching the frail woman.
"There we go; now we sit and wait."
Everyone stands around the frail woman and waits in anticipation. The frail woman starts to regain color in her eyes, which leads to the woman regaining consciousness.
"What? Why am I here? Why am I not?"
Doctor David walks over to the frail woman.
"What the hell is wrong with you? Were you really ready to end it all just like that?"
"Shut the hell up! Why did you save me, you fucking asshole?"
"I saved you because human life is not something you can just throw away, even if it is your own."
"I don't give a shit about any of that! My son is dead! I have no reason to go on; now leave me alone!"
The frail woman runs and grabs her bloody knife from the ground.
"I'm done with this life!"
"Oh, you're down with this life? I'm sorry to tell you, but I won't sit here and watch someone throw away their life."
Doctor David walks to the frail woman and punches her in the face.
"What the fuck! Why did you punch me, you—?"
"Would you shut the hell up and listen? I know how you feel. I have a kid of my own, and if I lost her, I would lose my mind as well, but even so, that's no excuse for you to throw your life away!"
"No, I refuse to live a life without my—"
"So do you think your child would want this?"
"huh?"
"Do you think your child would want his mother to cut her life short all because he was too weak to defend himself against some dumb kidnappers?"
The frail woman's face turns into a face of realization and sorrow.
"Umm, I don't—"
"Yeah, go ahead and think about it."
Doctor David walks away from the frail woman to go talk to Kage and Unknown. As he walks away, the frail woman falls to the ground and starts to cry.
"I can't believe I've been such a fool, my son. I'm so sorry."
The detective grabs the frail lady and nicely escorts her into a cop car. Doctor David goes over to Kage and Unknown.
"Sorry for the delay; it seems you two have had a pretty tough battle. I'll go ahead and heal your wounds now."
David shoots a yellow fire out of his hands, and it surrounds both Kage and Unknown. With the fire burning on top of their wounds, their wounds start to heal.
"Wow, I can feel the poison in my system disappearing. Doc, you're as amazing as usual. Thanks!"
After Kage's statement, the yellow flames dissipated, leaving both him and Unknown fully healed.
"Of course, kid, just both of you, for the love of me, avoid getting injuries like this again. This takes up a lot of OGI, you know.
"Yes sir!"
The detective walks up to talk to the group after dealing with the frail woman situation.
"Hey, you said to call you Doc, right?"
"Umm yeah"
"Ok doc I'm sorry for doubting you before. I was just trying to do my job."
"Nah, it's ok. I know you don't know me; it would be dumb for you not to question me."
"Ok, good. Now that is out of the way."
The dectitve looks over to Kage and Unknown.
"I appreciate your boys help in catching Nest. My name is Luthor, and here's my card. Call me if something like this happens again."
Luthor flings a card at Kage, and with his coat flowing in the wind, he walks away.
"He gave me a business card, but I wonder why we would ever need this."
David pulls out a cigarette with a tired expression on his face.
"Okay, my work is done here. I'm going to go take a nap. I did a lot of healing today. Make sure you two stay safe and do well in all your classes."
"Ok, Doc, me and Unknown will make sure to do just that. See you at school!"
As David walks away, Unknown's face turns to a face of realization.
"Oh shit Kage. He just said, Class, right?"
"Yeah, he did; why do you ask?"
"Our project, Kage! It's due tomorrow, and we never found that dendae flower."
Kage's face turns into a face of panic.
"Oh shit, you're right! What do we do?"
"Wait, calm down, Kage. I got an idea."
"Oh, really, let me hear it, and it better be good or Mr.Mink will have our heads."
"My idea is to just use what we learned in that forest as our project."
"Oh yeah, you're right! The level-one techniques. I'm sure if we present those, it will be an instant A++."
"Yeah! I know it's late, but let's go back to your house and prepare for tomorrow."
"Right, let's go."
Kage Unknown finally leaves Grava Forest and goes back to Kage's house to prepare for tomorrow's presentation.
The very next day is a sunny day at Grava Academy. In class one, everyone is here on time, and Mr.Mink stands at the front, ready to give instructions.
"Ok, welcome back to class." I'm happy that all six of you decided to show up on time today. Even Akira made it on time. Now let's get straight into the presentations. I hope you all did good research."
Chapter 11 end