CHAPTER 6 : DISCOVERING THE HIDDEN II

Chapter 6

Discovering The Hidden

Khloe's home

Basement

Khloe made her way down to her basement where Maria, Pete and I were. 

"I dozed them off!" She informed, rubbing her hands on the top of the silver handrails as she bounced down the stairs making her brunette hair swing forward. She didn't seem so cheerful after all.

"Khloe," I called.

"A....Are we going to talk about wha...what happened...back there?!" I stammered, trying to detail a bit with my hands which of course didn't make any progress in my speech. 

"There is nothing to talk about, I realised I am a siphoner, I siphoned your powers, and now it's developing." She grinned ironically. "That's all, you see, nothing to talk about." She added before she slammed her palm on her jean. Maria and Pete looked away with obvious mifset of not interfering.

"So, why are we here!" She asked, glancing up at the ceiling and over to me.

"Training." "John decided to pull this off, so we can understand our powers more." Maria replied, smiling cheerfully before adjusting the wrist area of her turtle neck.

"Training?!" Khloe repeated with no certain expression to read from her face. The corners of her eyes crinkled like she was intrigued by the word. 

Pete who sat by the corner where boxes were starched up had nothing to contribute at the moment.

She furrowed her brows before nodding in agreement. "Okay!" "Alright! I'm in." She finally spoke up.

I'm first! Maria overshadowed with her voice and cheerfulness. "What can she do exactly?" Khloe who walked over to me, whispered into my ears.

"From what I saw earlier, Mind Control!" I replied Khloe's question. 

"A mind controlling wit...." Khloe folded her arms before making a reply which I cut into.

"Don't say it." I whispered loudly.

"Shut it guys!" Maria yelled in frustration.

She walked over to Pete, looked deeply into his eyes for some moment. I felt tensed for some seconds before I saw, as Pete's iris rolled over. Some sort of white smoke in a part figure of Maria emitted fron her body and into Pete's. He stood up from the stack of boxes he sat on, carried a few and moved to the top right side of the basement, the side opposite to him precisely. His iris rolled back down and the smoke left his body.

Maria suddenly took a few forceful steps back after the white smoke hit her, letting Pete regained consciousness. He looked forward and backward over three times before finally deciding to speak up.

"Did I just...." 

"Congrats, I played with your mind." Maria gave a lopsided grin. 

"What else do you think he can do?" I whispered to Khloe, in reference to Pete. 

"I literally have no idea, but I could say, astra projection is a possible ability." Khloe replied stolidly.

"Pete!" "Your powers can be extremely verse especially when they start to grow, time travel can be a possibility but for now, you are to teleport from where you currently are to the stairs." I made clear. The look on his face seemed not fine, it quoted quizzicality,...strange..

"Any problems?" I raised my voice with my ears all open.

"Pete stood still, darting over the room." "I hear voices." "Slavery!" "Pain!" "It doesnt seem like ear...!" Without completing his sentence, he jumped into the  air and vanished within the twinkle of an eye.

My eyes widened in awe, Maria stood in shock and Khloe and I stared at each other as confusion filled the room.

Light fades.

"Slavery, pain, doesn't look like earth," "does that even make any sense to you?" Asked Khloe.

"I cant make anything out of it other than the fact that if he heard something not from earth, that means there might be a possibility of having dimensions, realms...who knows." I detailed walking from corner to corner. "contradicting to that, it is possibly that his powers are developing already."

"I am lost in this conversation, where exactly is he?" Maria asked. Her forehead creased, leading her brows to snap together. 

"He sensed someone was in danger, he said I didnt seem like earth." I replied instantly, pressing my lips together. "Perhaps, he is in another realm." "Unfortuntaley for us, if he isnt, then he is probably stuck in a wall, or worst, dead."

My reply caused Khloe's fingers to quiver as well as her eyes which twinkled in fear. Maria's heart clenched before she gulped heavily. 

Light fades

Contradictorily, what Khloe and I briefed could possibly end up to be the only explanation to Pete's way about. And it all could be true. Maybe he actually was in another realm. 

Third Person Narrative

From the perspective of the traveler, Pete, he saw only how far his eyes let him see. And it was limited to his surrounding. From his view, at a hill, he looked down and saw a number of square like buildings made of steel lined up vertically to a certain point, the vanishing point to be precise, where it seemed to be just dots detailing the buildings, however a few weren't square. Not just buildings, there were guards, clothed in a metal armor. Catching a glimpse at the sky, it seemed strange and unusual. The light clouds were stuck above what happened to be a force field some feet above ground level. Looking forward from Pete's perspective, there were a number of tall buildings before the bright sun that fashioned its light rays towards Pete. On the left side of the cloud seemed to be another planet, or dimension, intersecting with the world Pete happened to be in.

Speaking of light, light sparks from the shockers that the guards closer to him held caught the attention of Pete. Turning over, he looked down and he saw more armored guards given the order of torment on people like him. Humans to be precise. Worst, he saw the face of a man, of the fathering age, his eyes filled with tears. His back, lashes with weird weapons that caused him to groan. His eyes fell upon Pete's. The tears from his eyes suddenly dropped. Pete took a step back, glancing over to another direction. 

"Ahh." The voice of a lady was heard groaning in pain. The sweat on her face dropped to the floor and her eyes, flooded with tears. 

"Please let me see my daughter one last time." She pleaded. 

"Daughter?!" Pete whispered to himself, knitting his brows.

Two other guards walked in and took off the masked metal helmet they had over their head. Pete got drowned in confusion as soon as he saw the faces behind the mask, they were John and Khloe. If not anything, this must have been an alternate reality. 

"Leave the others, take Claire." John ordered the other guards.

"Claire?" "Claire Margaret?" Pete stammered. His forehead creased and his brows rose. He tried to take a step to see clearer where they were heading but things got a turn of event as Pete slipped all the way down the forty feet steep hill, catching the attention of John and Khloe and other guards.

Light fades

After a maximum time of about fifteen seconds, Pete finally got to a leveled surface. He ducked and rolled over, happened to come out with no injury but still, he got into something worst.

"He's Human!" John smiled happily as he walked up to Pete with his helmet placed between his left rib and left arm. 

"Marvaritte will be so proud of us!" "Get him." John yelled, ordering the guards.

Pete glanced at Claire before he sleekly drew out a weird weapon from the pocket of John.

"John if this is you, please stop this," "I don't want to do this." Pete pleaded. Not knowing that who he spoke to wasn't actually the John he knew. 

Pete observed the movements and gestures of other guards around him and he saw as they all had their right hand, slowly moving to their pockets with intentions to take out a weapon and fire.

Pete being observative realised that the person standing before him has brown hair, where as John's hair was white. "You..you aren't John!" Pete whispered before blowing off the head of John. Followed by the other guards around and lastly Khloe. Luckily for him, he had fast reflexes as seen. After he did that, he realised that he saw no blood, all that was seen were wires, from the throat to the blown off head.

He hastoly went through the pockets of each guard, searching for the key to the handcuffs that Claire and the other five beside her were kept put with. He found it in John's pocket and hastily took off the handcuffs of those he was close to. "Hold hands." He said hastily. 

The sound of what seemed to be a motor cycle was heard. More guards were arriving, suddenly the sound of gun shots were heard. Pete took a deep breath and vanished. Fortunately he saved a few, Claire among and the rest, were stuck there, the man he saw earlier included.

He appeared right into the basement and caught the attention of Khloe, Maria and John who were on their devices, computers and phones, trying to technologically track down Pete. 

First Person Narrative

John

"Pete!" Maria called out in excitement.

"Who are all these people?!" Asked Khloe, who slowly stood up. Pete stared daggers at Khloe and John for a reason they knew not.

Three out of the five, suddenly fell down dead. "No..no..no" Pete pleaded. "Please stay alive." It wasn't long enough before he realised that they were all shot. Claire included. Claire gushed out blood, as she fell to her knees, with her left arm wrapped around her bleeding stomach.

"John, do something!" Pete pleaded having his palm over her bloody abdomen. 

"Help Claire." Pete said out loud. The name Claire got me in shock. *Claire Johnathan, Margaret's mum.* I said to myself. 

The basement's door knot suddenly got twisted. Margaret came right in, storming down the stairs. I instantly snapped my finger and Margaret fell asleep. The intention was letting her not meet her mum in such condition.

Like we weren't confused enough, a bright white light illuminated from a corner of the room. I had my hand over my eyes, waiting for the light to fade off and also trying to see clearly.

As the light went out, I saw a lady in a white robe which had a golden button at the left shoulder. She looked like a goddess with her long straightened brown hair that grew across and below her waist.

"Hello John!" She said peacefully in a calm voice. She walked to me and rubbed her soft palm on my face with a wide smile of happiness. I was beckoned by her voice until I wondered how she got in here, and more, how she knew my name. 

Light fades.

"Bestowed with the mission to restore your power, you have to find seven people, four found, two not found, and one found....but dead." The lady said as she walked around John. 

"If she is dead, you cannot bring back your power, you cannot take on the evil that is rising." "Be grateful that I found you as fast as I could." The lady added and I heard  a cough. Claire gushed out the blood that was in her mouth before panting heavily. 

"What are you?!" I asked the lady that went around me. Khloe stared in awe, not knowing what to say. 

"Call me... the bridge between the living and the dead, Hilda!" She replied. Claire took a huge grasp of air and sat upright. I turned back to hear more from her but she was gone.

Maria's phone buzzed from the depth of her pause. It was a message from her dad asking of her way about. She put the phone back into her pause that instant. I snapped, waking Margaret up.

"You...you saved me!" Claire turned to Pete. "Maggie!!!" She yelled before she moved over to her daughter. They shared a tight hug and Claire kissed her on the forehead. "The King!" She whispered with her bloody palm on Margaret's cheeks.

"Upstairs!" I interfered with their conversation.

"I thought I killed you!" Pete stared at Khloe and I before letting out a sigh of relieve.

His statement left me in awe. And I just realised we had no idea of what happened when Pete vanished.

Light fades.

After moments of unseen detailing, the scene kicked off with Pete saying; 

"He called a name "Marvaritte." Pete went ahead with his details. 

"Trust me, what ever you saw there wasn't me. I will never hurt any of you!" I assured him.

"She is the ruler of the pocket dimension, Marvaritte." Claire said.

They abduct humans, extract their minds and make replicas of them with that shard they have. "You weren't abducted but they have your replica. Claire stared at Khloe and I. 

When your power was separated into shards, it sent shock waves in multiple dimensions and realms. "When I got mine...," she started off by manifesting the ability to slice through things and heal them as she did to her palm. 

"...it manifested immediately, as a biologist I had to find what turned out to be in my cells." "I left home, home to be precise, Eregdrix, the hidden land. The one King Butt rules over." "I wanted him to protect my daughter from any threats, I knew something would come for me, knowing I had such power." "That night, I arrived at a lab in Chicago, "Biological Rhythm Research," where I got kidnapped and taken into a portal and smoosh! I was out of earth, out of Eregdrix."

"They figured out the power in me and traced it to you." She added.

"We have to act faster, there are a lot of threats out there. " "We do not have time on our side!" "I'm going to find the last two, get ready to summon the angel!" Khloe said to me, after hearing all that Claire had to say. 

"Pete, stay with Claire, Margaret and Butt." Don't let him kill my friend. If he wakes, tell him he has to be on our side." "Please." "Maria and I are coming with you." I said sternly giving Khloe no chance to argue.

Sight sinks into the ground as Azazel was seen again on a throne with his legs crossed as he watched their every action through a display mirror before him. 

To Be Continued 

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