As Henry falls back, heading right into its wide open mouth, something happens. The creature hears a car horn and looks down to find a car coming towards it at top speed, a few metres away.
It ignored falling Henry and gave full concentration to the approaching car, giving the ground a big blow. The blow causes an earthquake that cracks towards the approaching vehicle.
The cracks move very fast and just before it reached the car, the creature jumped and stomped on the ground, causing the earth just infront of the car to rise up with sheer force and hit it, making it somersault backwards. The creature gets angry at the car and goes towards it to devour anything inside it.
By then, Henry had fallen on the ground from that very high height, almost completely breaking his waist. He falls unconscious and a bit suffocated.
The car lands side ways and the creature impatiently walked towards it. When it got to the car, it single handedly turned it to stand and smashed it from the top, adding to the original damage from the somersaulting.
It started by ripping it off from the top and when it looked inside, to its amazement, it found nothing. It then realized it got tricked.
It turns back and sees someone carry Henry into a car and set off. It groans angrily, but before it could chase them, it heard the police siren from the direction that car was heading.
It groans again and lifted up the almost destroyed car by it, throwing it at the moving car.
It's quite shocking when we see that the driver was a female and not just any random female, Henry's Secretary, Maybell. She looks in the rear mirror and sees the scrap approaching them. She increased the gears and stepped harder on the acceleration.
However, that creature was good at targeting. The more she sped, the more it was approaching them. She quickly calculated that if they continue moving at that very fast pace, it will hit their car. So she quickly stepped on the brakes and started reversing the car.
In less than 5 seconds, it hit a few meters ahead, the exact spot they would have been if they were still moving. She remains adamant, "Bye Hymorra! we'll meet next time." she speaks, looking at it from the rearview mirror and sparks again, sending Henry home.
Meanwhile, the police were rather coming from behind him but the sound was heard in the other direction. A phenomenon we not explaining here.
It quickly ran to the right of the road, into an alley and climbs buildings to escape. Unfortunately, out of anger it left marks on the buildings as it climbed.
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Maybell parks at Henry's house. "Call the Doctor!!" his mother yells as she came out to meet them. Maybell called and informed his mother before they reached.
"Henry!!!" his mother yells when she saw the state of her son, with tears flowing down her cheeks like a waterfall.
"I'm sorry I didn't arrive in time." Maybell apologizes but his mother is lost in grief. A bed is brought and Henry is paced on it. He is then carried inside, upstairs, to his room.
( ## Please don't ask me how they did it lol - Author's Note ## )
"He's badly hurt!" Doctor Hendrix, their family Doctor says after first examining Henry immediately he arrived.
"Are you just going to say that and stare at him!!! Do something!!!" his mother yells.
"Ma'am please call down!" he tries cooling her down.
"I should what!!" she attacks him in words, "My Son is dying and you are saying I should calm down!" she starts approaching him. The Doctor looks at Maybell.
"Miss Klein, Henry's Uncle called." Maybell lied to lure her out of the room. She falls for it and goes out, still sobbing.
"He's a living dead!" the Doctor Maybell who was with him. "Don't tell his mum, but he might not make it. I'll try my best though." the Doctor says and gets to work.
*************** THE NEXT DAY *************
The clock struck 7:30am. Chase wore a T-shirt and jeans and came out to the kitchen.
"Babe! Babe! Hayley!" Chase yells and runs towards his absent-minded wife who was to mistakenly put her hands in the fire. Chase gets there in time and covers her hands with his, taking the burns.
"Are you alright!" he asks her.
"What!!" she asks back, feeling sorry and angry. She slaps him quite hard and then realizes.
"I'm sorry!" she apologizes and runs to the bedroom, crying.
Chase turns off the gas and heads to the bedroom to find his wife forgetting he just got burned. He sees her sitting on the bed.
"I'm sorry!" she apologizes as more tears flow down. He walks up to her and sits besides her.
"Babe, what's going on? You've been quite moody since the day before yesterday!" Chase asks with love.
"I can't do it!" she confides in him.
"Do what? Is someone bullying you? Tell me. Who dares messes with my babe, I'll kick his ass." he asks.
She giggles and replies, "It's not that, it's about the competition."
"What about that?" he asks.
"I tried hard yesterday to at least sketch something I'll use for the indoor competition to choose the team but I couldn't. I spoke to Miss Cranes and she wasn't ready to give up on me. I recommended Britney but she refused to pick her.
Our Boss then called us, we that were chosen from each department but we're five instead of six. She said she had already removed one person and that I'm the leader of the group." Hayley finishes.
"That's great news!" Chase commends.
"It is." Hayley agrees, "But I can't lead them. I don't know anything about being a team leader, fashion and designing and... I don't know. I haven't come up with any ideas and we are going to start practicing today. I don't know what to do!" she adds and another set of fresh tears flow down.
"You know what Babe, you right!" he says and gets her confused. "You don't know anything about being a team leader, fashion and designing and all those stuffs but you know yourself. You are more than a team leader, more than a creative and innovate person.
I know you'll come up with great ideas for them. You just have to be yourself, forget about everything and focus on being what you truly are; your best self and I trust you'll win this for your company." Chase motivates her.
She starts crying again.
"Did I say anything bad? I'm sorry I....." she kisses him on the lips before he could continue.
"Thanks Honey!." She says and smiles. He smiles back knowing he just helped.
It was now he realized he got burnt on his hands.
"Ouch!" he screams a bit in pain.
"Are you okay?" she asks him.
"Just a little burn on my hands." he shows her.
"Well, let's take the pain off!" she says and pushes him on the bed, unzipping his trousers.
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Chase got to work late and sees the media at the company. He clutches to his bag, hiding the burns and turns to escape but the media spots him and start running in his direction.
"He's probably one of the workers." one of them shouts.
"Sir wait! tell us what you know." another shouts as they approach him.
"Sir! how come you are not inside, do you always come late to work?" their support leader asks when they catch up with him.
"Sir! You must probably be coming from Mr. Klein's residence, how is he feeling?"
"Is it true he was really attacked?"
"Is he really dead?"
The questions keep flowing.
"Attacked? Dead?" Chase says softly unfortunately, there was a mic under his breath.
"Sir do you mean you don't know what happened?" another asks.
"Are you really ignorant about what happens in your company?"
"You should have known what happened to Mr. Klein!"
"Such an incompetent worker!" another insults.
"I don't know what you guys are saying but Mr. Klein is perfectly fine, nothing is wrong." Chase replies ignorantly.
"Excuse me! You really don't know?" someone passes this comment.
"You should be fired immediately!" one proposes and they start protesting noisily.
"If you have any questions, ask me!" Ryan speaks from behind them, signalling Chase to run inside.
As the media run back to Ryan, Chase escapes inside and they get blocked by the security before they could reach Ryan.
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Back at the Klein's mansion, another set of the media is packed outside. Maybell is found with Mrs. Klein in her bedroom. Doctor Hendrix enters.
"How is he?" she asks immediately he entered.
The Doctor sighs in regret and Henry's mum starts weeping. "I'm sorry!" the Doctor apologizes.
"Noo!!!" she yells and burst into tears.
"He's up!" the Doctor adds.
"Huh!" she gasps, cleans her tears and starts running to his room while smiling.
When she enters his room, she finds him eating in bed, with bandages all over his body.
"Henry!" she calls his name and runs to hug him, both sobbing.
"Ouch!" he sighs in pain when his mum mistakenly touches a wound.
"Sorry!" she apologizes.
"You scared the hell out of me!" his mother says. "Hendrix nearly gave me a heart attack, he said you were dead." She adds.
"Did I?" Hendrix answers as he entered the room.
"You said you were sorry." his mother says and then smiles, realizing he never said it.
"What's all that noise?" Henry asks.
"Well, as gossiping as the media is, they found out from nowhere and are packed outside. It's even worse at your company." his mum tells him.
"Maybell?" Henry calls when he notices her at the door. She steps forward.
"She saved you!" His mum announces.
"What! She what? Saved me?" Henry couldn't believe it. His mum signals him.
"Thank you!" he tells Maybell and she nods back with a smile.
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Ryan manages to get back into the company. He sees Chase sitting on one of the nearby desks, lost in thought.
"You got to be kidding me Chase, you didn't know?" Ryan says in disappointment. Chase just stares at him, not knowing what to say.
"How the hell did it happen?" Chase asks in a sorrowful tone.
"Stop pretending to be kind!" Ryan rebukes him.
"You expect me to know everything that goes on?" Chase asks in an angry tone. "Henry is like a friend to me, why will I be pretending?" Chase adds.
"Now you are the one getting angry first!" Ryan replies. "Forget it! Find a place and dumb your fake emotions, not infront of me!" Ryan says and storms to his desk.
Chase also gets more angry and sorry and goes to the washroom. He tries Henry's number a few times but it is switched off.
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The other 4 team members just stare at Hayley and her idea she displayed on the screen in awe.
"Hayley! Trust me, I don't like you but good job!" Amber compliments.
"Same over here!" Jayden says shyly.
"Thanks!" Hayley replies them.
Just before Fiona could speak, Miss Cranes enters.
"That was wonderful!" she commends, approaching Hayley to embrace her.
"Thanks Miss Cranes!" Hayley replies.
"You are really smart and... oh my gosh! I don't know what to say." Miss Cranes adds.
"Ahm... were you listening?" Hayley asks out of curiosity as only she, Britney and the other four members were in the room.
"This is my office, I can access it anytime I want." Miss Cranes replies.
"So you were eaves....." Hayley replies but gets cut off by Britney.
"Fiona!! You were to say something!" Britney says.
"Shut up!" Miss Cranes speaks as she returns to her natural state, directing those words to Britney. "Who asked you to speak?" she questions her.
"Sorry!" Britney apologizes. Miss Cranes scorns at her and then smiles back at Hayley who returns a fake smile.
After the meeting, Britney and Hayley are found walking back to their desks.
"Trust me Miss Cranes hates you!" Britney says.
"Brit!" Hayley sighs.
"You know that's the truth and you can't deny it." Britney adds.
"But more to that, she hates you more. You have to be careful, I feel she's planning something bad against you."
They arrive at the main hall which then leads to their department and they mistakenly look at the TV which shows them about Henry's death.
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"His mum will be heartbroken to hear this but, I haven't cured him. I just controlled the bleeding and made him conscious again. He might not live long!"