By the time time Lesia manged to get into the extremely over crowded car park she was met with a giant black void with purple outlines. It was massive , on a whole other scaled compared to normal gates. The only other gate this size in history was Gate A. Gate A left multiple costal cities in ruin. It was an early tragedy and took thousand's of lifes.
Lesia , Michikiel, Josiah and Jessie all slowly got out the car. There faces wore lots of emotions. They all looked to have aged 10 years in that moment. Lesia was the first to recompose herself before heading to the large crowd. She pushed her way to the front, the others following a few steps behind. She pushed and squeezed through tiny gaps before they finally reached the front. There were douzens of police and awakened scattered everywhere. Tests were run to check the grade and power rating of the Gate. The information was disclosed but there were many famous awakened hero's from the Uk preparing to enter.
Josh and Jess tried getting the attention of one of the police. They couldn't be entirely sure that there parents were here. Infact they were praying in this moment that they weren't here. It'd be better that they were lost , then be in a place that was known as the living equivalent of death.
" HEY , OFFICER!" Both Jess and Josh were shouting. Fortunately someone from beyond the crowd and behind the police tape noticed us.
It was a young man seeming to be a little older than Lesia. He had golden hair which opposed there whole families darker hair. Infact he looked to be soft. He was quite tall and his eyes were an emerald green. They looked like gems.
Josh hurried him over and spoke in a rude tone.
" HEY , yehh i see you there. Do you know if 2 people in there 40's are here. A dark brunette haired women with blue eyes and a tallish man with jet black hair and eyes entered here. Their surname is Hemsworth. There our parents we think they are here."
Mich added onto his speach.
" Pfft think?. They're reckless . If they were here they probably already entered."
Jess then also added something on.
" Hey we can pray you know. So pessimistic."
They all tried to keep a tough front but it was obvious and sad to look at there poor attempts of acting strong.
The other man just stood there dazed. He looked a little shocked and also amused by such an outburst made by random people. He though to himself and questioned if he knew them or if they were just clueless people themselves.
Leaia took her turn to then speak. It was a different topic and she sounded very much serious and also sarcastic.
"Ahh, I see so the radio track was pre-recorded." Lesia caught on pretty quickly, although she didn't know what Mr Jones looked like in detail, she had seen a few ads when passing billboards in the town shop's she passed by a few days ago.
" Josh. You should really learn to speak nicely to people. " Lesia then began to dig at Josiah's little habit. He did not like this. He started to open his mouth. Luckily Lesia shut his mouth and spoke first.
" Im sorry Sir Jones but we are a little stressed how about you tell us if our family is here or in there." She nodded her head towards the gate and spoke in a tone that was only antagonizing if you listened very carefully.
" Put our souls at ease , we don't want to worry about pur parents if there safe and sound."
Mr Jone's expression was intense, he still was a little amused by the group of chaotic people before him. He favoured this bunch of people even if he only just met them. He sigh softly. He then looked up and stared directly into the girl's bitch black souless eyes and then looked back down again checking his paper. Scanning for names. Luck was really not on the side of these people.
"Im ever so sorry , but the Hemsworth parent's have indeed entered the gate. You'll have to wait here for the people to come back. I will even personally retrieve them for you. How does that sound? Reassuring enough. Having on of America's S-Rank save their parents. Pretty special feat. Don't you think?."
He spoke with a grin on his face , Lesia could tell he would be a nuisance even if he was a hero. She didn't trust him one bit.
" No , I don't think it's fair for us to wait , you could come back empty handed. If your such a hero then take us with you , Im sure you can protect a few civilian's can't you? If our parents are dead in there I would atleast like to have piece of mind. Im sure my siblings would agree."
It was the most Lesia had spoken in a long time , but after everybody realising this person was a national hero , the didn't dare speak nor utter a word. The only person to chime in was Josiah.
"Yehh I agree." he spoke for the others , and it was the most he was going to speak. The others slowly nodded.
"No can do I'm afraid."
"I think its a reasonable request."
" What if you get hurt?, I don't want to have such a record on me."
" Are you afraid of responsibility?"
" Your quite the persistent type aren't you?"
"No not normally, but if you'd just help out some helpless civilians im sure i could miraculously stop being so annoying."
This was a trick Josh would use to piss of Lesia constantly, she never thought she'd see the day where she was the one using it against another person. But then again she also didn't think she'd need to argue with an S-Rank awakened hero either.
"Ok find but , you are responsible for your own lives not me. I may be able to protect you but if you stray to far then I won't even try to help you out , it'll be ruled as your own fault for not listening."
" Ok deal." Lesia effortlessly agreed to the deal but before she came over the police tap she checked if everyone was ok with coming or if anyone wanted to stay behind.
Nobody objected and they were all coming along. They may consistently fight but they wouldn't want to not be there if one of them got hurt. So they went together.
***
The 4 young adults sat on a bench listening to the briefing being given to the team of 100 awakened. The information given out was information still unknown to the public and the more they listened the more they started to regret there choice.
The person briefing was a high ranking Awakened management offical and he spoke in long monologue's
"The gate today is an S-Rank gate , although they are all devastating this one is more so. The power levels and ratings read , along with the size of the Gate are all pointing to one thing. A repeat of gate A. However it isn't called gate A. This one is called Gate B it is believed to be equally as bad and we have little preparation time. We must clear this ASAP. We have gathered a group of 100 hunters all kept within the guidelines of B-S rank. As a group you may be unfamiliar with each other but please avoid conflict. This is a short notice group as previously stated because we had lack of time. We could be in there for days or possibly weeks. So please be civil about this. Understood?"
Everyone looked around and nodded slowly. You could see that everybody here was extremely nervous. The last Gate like this was located in North Asia in the hidden parts of Russia. It wasn't until beasts travelled across see to the closest country that people realised what hand happened and that a gate of massive scale had burst. The whole west and north of Russia was in destruction and is now deemed as uninhabitable. Not like it was very habitable before but now it was virtually impossible.
Once the briefing was over everybody gathered as a group. The small cohort of 4 were given looks of confusion by the group of extremely qualified people. Their thoughts were understood.
Why were some defensively civilian entering a gate of such level. It was the closest thing to concerning but they couldn't do anything about it. Team leader Jones had already verified it was ok.