This is something that I've been writing for the last two years. I've only shared this with family and friends, so im curious to get actual people's input on this. Of course, i am always accepting criticism along with the comments. Please by all means, if you guys think it sucks, Tm not going to get mad; I really want others opinion on the first part of this story. And expect more, a lot more. Thank You! :D
Chapter 1. A hero is -B-o-r-n- Bored.
((imagine that the born is Xed out)
It was a quiet night, unlike most nights. The only sound that was in the air was a computer humming idly and Star scampering around the room. Jaden stretched a bit as he looked up from desktop computer, moving to wipe the sweat off his forehead as he put the cover back onto it. He removed a journal from the table beside him, writing down the specs of the desktop computer as he muttered to himself, “Computer finished, Intel I7, ATI 6200, All versions of StarCraft 2, TF3, M.E. 4, and Kaspersky Antivirus 016 software pre-loaded. Overclocked, and tournament ready… Final price for construction and instalation, 240$”
Jaden scratched his chin a bit, getting up off his knees as he brushed himself off, nodding at his work. “I’ll go ahead and drop this off first thing tomorrow!” He said to himself, turning to look around his apartment as he brushed a hand through his hair. Star meowed at Jaden, crawling up his leg. Jaden smiled at his pet cat, leaning down to gently scratch her behind the ears. "Yeah, i know you're a good cat Star" He said softly before heading to the kitchen to fix himself a quick snack. But before he could do anything else something slammed against his door, nearly causing him to drop the turkey sandwich he had just made.
“What the heck?” Jaden said, setting the sandwich down down on the table as he quickly walked to the door , nearly tripping over his cat as he quickly undid the deadbolt and pulled it open. The entire Denver University basketball team was at his door, four of them pushing his next door neighbor forward; Ozzy landing with a thud in front of him, a feint trickle of blood coming from his nose. Jaden cursed silently to himself, taking a step over his friend to confront the head of the team. “Your friend here caused the sprinklers to go off during practice.” The head of the team said, faintly looking down at Jaden. Jaden was a good six foot four, only about an inch shorter than the head of the team, and wasn’t very intimidated by him. “I think he was doin the rest of us a favor, the smell was driving everyone up the wall!” Jaden said, holding his ground. Dylan Paris frowned at him, before jabbing a finger in his chest. “The next time either of you pull a stunt like that, you’re both goin’ down nerd.” Dylan turned to leave, the rest of the team following him. Jaden was half tempted to yell at him. “It’s GEEK, Noob!”, but he didn’t want to end up like his friend.
Ozzy picked himself up off the ground, leaning against the wall. Jaden turned to face him, sighing as he covered his face with his palm. “Damn it Ozzy, now why did you go and do that?” Jaden said, shaking his head. Ozzy wiped the blood off his lip, rubbing it on his jacket. “You remember that time they threw us in the dumpster? That’s just revenge for that!” Ozzy said, grinning as he stood up from leaning against the wall, limping his way to sit on one of the chairs in the living room. Jaden sighed to himself, covering his face with his palm. “Ozzy….Ozzy Garrison, when the hell are you going to learn?” He said to himself, walking into the living room as he took a seat on one of the other chairs.
“So, is that client of yours computer finished?” Ozzy asked, getting up to move over and inspect the modified computer. “Yep, going to drop it off tomorrow” Jaden said, stretching again as he, cracking his neck to the side “So how’s your job at the music shop?” Ozzy looked at Jaden, sitting on the ground as he continued to look over the computer. “Meh…it’s alright, pay is good, and at least they dont have that one guy's music anymore”
Jaden covered his face with his palm again, questioning to himself how someone that young, Ha! Not to mention with a girlish and terrible voice, could land a spot in the big leagues, only to crash and burn later. “So, how do you think you did in your classes dude?” Ozzy asked, moving back to his chair. “I think that I did pretty well; At least winter break start’s tomorrow.” Jaden said, rolling his shoulders a bit. Ozzy grinned at him, “Yes sir, a few more days and those new releases will be hitting the GameStop. Can’t wait for all those awesome new releases for the summer!”
Jaden nodded at him “Yeah, definitely, can’t wait to get back to playing on a computer instead of building one.” He said, smirking a bit. The two chatted about this and that for a while before Jaden got to his feet. “Yo, I’m going to head out for a lil while to get some air.” He said, moving to grab his jacket from the closet. Ozzy shrugged a bit, before replying “ I best be heading back home anyways” Jaden nodded at him, pulling his jacket on before walking out the door.
Jaden walked out of his dorm, onto the night street of Denver. University Blvd. was a rather nice street in Denver, going right along the side of D.U., and was lined with various shops. He walked down past the Ice-cream shop with his hands in his pockets. His feet crunching under the snow that had started to fall; He and his friend were hoping for a blizzard. Brushing another hand through his black hair, he continued his way down the street as he passed by the other people, not a care in the night.
Jaden sighed to himself, looking up at the Conico station sign, his hands resting in his pockets as he continued down the road to his normal eatery, not a care in the night. That was all about to change.
Chapter 2. A Stranger in the Night.
Jaden started to walk back home to his dorm, stopping by a hotdog place to get his usual order. The “Mustard’s Last Stand” hotdog joint was the best hotdog place in all of Denver, period. Jaden had eaten there most all of the time he was at DU. After his order was given to him, nodding his thanks to the cashier, he started to walk back home with his snack in tow. The night was still quiet, Jaden always enjoyed the quiet peace and tranquility of the night; he never really was a person of the day. He glanced at the window of a closed shop along the side of the sidewalk he was walking on; the same black haired guy stared back at him, before Jaden turned back towards the street again. The night was his land, his kingdom. But that Kingdom, was about to come under siege. Further down the street, he could see something starting to spark. He could hear someone, some guy, shouting something inaudible at the time.
“What in the?!” Jaden thought to himself as he rushed forward, pushing his way past the crowd, to see a very familiar face, right before the other guy plowed his fist straight into said person’s face. Jaden was half tempted to cheer for the stranger that had just socked Dylan Paris a good one, but something seemed off. Jaden turned to the guy next to him, another student from DU “Hey, any idea what’s going on here?” The other student looked over his shoulder at Jaden, rolling his shoulders. “Apparently old “head-up-his-ass-Paris” right there finally pissed off the wrong guy” The guy said, scoffing ,as he smirked. Dylan made an attempt to counter punch the man he had picked a fight with.
The dude that was fighting Paris looked barely older then Jaden, but something seemed off. The Stranger countered with a block, grabbing Dylan by the back of the head, before bringing his knee up as he slammed Dylan’s face down onto it.
Jaden cringed a bit, though he hated Dylan’s guts, this did seem a bit brutal. Dylan slumped forward, his nose bent at an awkward angle and unconscious. The man only wiped the blood off the leg of his pants, before pushing though the crowds, walking away from the scene of the fight. It was about this time that Jaden actually paid attention to the stranger; however he couldn’t see his face because he wore a hood, but he was wearing a leather jacket, but not like the one that most biker gangs wore. He also had some sort of cloth sash that went around his waist, along with two that went just below the knees. The legs of his pants were frayed as he wore what looked like running shoes mixed with hiking boots. But most noticeable thing, were the pair of, what looked like metal guards that he wore that went from his elbows down to his wrists, along with a clear gem that was about midway. Not wanting to suffer the same fate Dylan did, Jaden silently thought to himself. Whoa…did Halloween come late or something?
Though the crowds were starting to die, Jaden was still curious of this stranger, and, pushing though the crowds, started to follow him. Something was up, and Jaden wanted to know what. He followed the man from the shadows, not wanting to be seen. The man turned a corner, Jaden quickly following closely behind. But when he turned the corner, he was met with two yellow eyes, obscured by white hair, all of which was framed by a grey hood. Jaden’s face turning a ghostly white, and he turned and ran for his life.
Jaden ran down the walkway, his chest heaving; looking as if he had seen a ghost. Soon he was back to where he started, though the crowds, and Dylan, had disappeared. He ran the red light, running all the way back to his dorm, threw the door open, quickly shutting it behind him. After taking some time to shove his heart back down his throat, Jaden was in bed, staring up at the ceiling lost in thought. Star was sprawled out on top of him, as asleep as a cat could possibly be.
Outside, Drummond silently stared into his window, his dark yellow eyes narrowed. His white hair hung down in his face as he remained silent for the longest while, before he slowly dissipated, phasing out into the night
Chapter 3. Winter Break
About nine hours after Jaden had finally fallen asleep, he was abruptly awakened by the sound of the doorbell. Jaden groaned as he got up, his cat rolling off of him as he rubbed his eyes. “Coming…one sec” Jaden said, rubbing the sand from his eyes as he walked up to the door, undoing the deadbolt as he pulled it open. “Hey, you the friend of the Garrison fellow?” The man at the door asked, Jaden blinking a few times at him. “For Christ’s sake, what did he do this time?” Jaden half said, his eyes going wide. The man shook his head again, a rather humored look on his face. “Nah, not that. I heard what he did to the basketball team, wanted to come and congratulate him. That Paris fellow is a narcissistic bastard, and deserved a good cleaning, and he got his clock cleaned last night.” Jaden blinked at the guy curiously. “Oh, pardon me. The name’s Clayton, Clayton Val. I'm with the wrestling tean” He said, putting out a hand. “Jaden, Jaden Williams, I'm just the guy that fixes other peoples computer problems” Jaden responded, shaking Clayton’s hand firmly.
“So yeah, you know where Mr. Garrison is off at?” Clayton asked again. “I'm not really sure... Could be anywhere I guess” Jaden replied with a shrug. Clayton shrugged back, glancing around before looking at the desktop without the side. “Nice computer.” Clayton said, looking at the desktop. “Huh?” Jaden said still a bit dazed. looking over his shoulder “Oh yeah, that’s a client’s computer…Mine’s back in my bedroom” Clayton scratched his chin, before asking, “So…you repair computers?” Jaden nodded a bit “Yeah, I fix and upgrade people’s computers, that job was an upgrade” He said, rolling his shoulders again as he tried to get a bit of hair that was sticking up from his head to say down.
Clayton shrugged, “Meh… I was never really was good at working with computers, but if that Ozzy fellow shows up again, let him know that I was looking for him.” Clayton said again, giving Jaden a wave and a nod, before walking out. It took Jaden a moment, more or less from his abrupt waking up, to realize that Clayton was the guy he had talked to last night, the one who was amused with Dylan’s ass getting kicked. Star meowed at the sleepy Jaden, rubbing against his leg a bit. Jaden leaned down to pick his cat up and set her on his shoulder again. “C’mon Star, it’s the first day of winter break. What should we do today?” He asked his cat, Star purred at Jaden as she rubbed her head against his. “Hmm? You think we should just hang out around campus?” Jaden asked his cat, a slight smirk on his face. Star meowed again, before she jumped off his shoulder, over to her food bowl. Jaden shrugged with a slight sigh, “Alright, alright, I’ll feed you.”
About an hour later, Jaden walked out onto the campus. There was the smell of snow in the air, Dark clouds rolling in as the first trances of a possible blizzard started to show….
“Yo Jay!” Ozzy yelled shooting across the quad running up to him. Ozzy jumped, before landing right in front of him, creating a big enough splash of water and slush to cause Jaden to jump backwards to avoid getting wet. “Dang it Oz! What's where your stoming around!” Jaden said, huffing a bit, before adding, "How's it goin anyways?" Ozzy grinned at him, his lip piercings covered in snow, “Doin great man, stuff’s goin down this winter break, and I don’t mean the snow!” Jaden frowned at Ozzy’s crappy joke, before remembering what he was told, before saying, “Oh yeah, Clayton Val sends his regards.” Ozzy blinked at Jaden somewhat confused, “Who, and also, Why?” Jaden rolled his shoulders a bit, before he realized that Ozzy didn't know who that was, and quickly added, “OH yeah, Clayton Val is on the wrestling team, he got a kick out of what you did to the basketball team and Dylan Paris.” Ozzy shot a wicked grin at Jaden, “Did he now? Well i better come up with more creative ways to annoy ol Frenchy then!”
Jaden hadn’t caught that last part of what Ozzy had said; he was busy looking over Oz’s shoulder at the woman behind him. She was a bit shorter then him, give or take a few inches. Her long white hair draped over her slim figure, her black jacket was studded in the shoulders; and she was dressed primarily in black, she was what Jaden would describe as “Goth”. He also noticed the spiked choker around her neck, complement with what he thought was the start of a tattoo at the base of her neck. From the looks of it, some sort of skull like design “Who is she?” Jaden said out loud. Ozzy cocked his head to the side, staring blankly at Jaden for a moment before looking over his own shoulder. “Oh her…I’m not sure to be honest; She’s… strange, to say the least.”
Jaden , with a tinge of curiosity looked back toward her again, ignoring his friends’ rambles. “Perhaps…we should go and talk to her? And your just pissed because you never got a chance to hit on her” Jaden said, snickering to himself. Ozzy nearly slipped on the slush he had kicked up upon hearing that. “Talk to her?! Jaden, she looks like the kind of person that would drop your ass where you stand, are you crazy!?.” It took Ozzy a moment, before adding, “Hey! That was uncalled for!” He frowned at Ozzy, snickering a bit, before saying, “Well that’s all the better reason for us to talk to her, maybe we can get her to drop Dylan’s ass where he stands, maybe even watch as she slits his throat and drains the blood from him; Who knows, she may even turn the blood to a gelatin and eat it!” He said, grinning as he continued to joke.
Ozzy scowled at him, grabbing Jaden by the jacket and pulled him forward, causing Jaden to slide on the slush. “Oz what are you doing!?” Jaden said, before he finally slipped on it, falling on his back and landing with a *SPLAT!*, followed by a rather loud “DAMMIT!”
Ozzy looked down at him, seeming to snicker a bit, “Jaden, she’s out of your league anyways…perhaps not mine, but yours, yeah…” Jaden gritted his teeth, getting up off the ground, as he rolled up his sleeves, “I’ll show you out of my…hey! Where did she go?” Jaden said, looking around for the Goth chick. She had disappeared without a trace. Jaden sighed to himself, covering his face with his palm. “Great, just great Bat Bitter” Ozzy frowned as he jabbed an elbow in to Jaden’s side; He hated be called “Bat Bitter”. Jaden muttered something to himself, before getting up. “Yo, let’s hit the arcade; I hear they got some awesome new games out.” Ozzy shrugged a bit, before replying “Sure, what the heck as long as you’re buying, I paid last time” The two friends nodded at each other, before they walked to Jaden’s apartment to take his car down to the old “D&B”
Pockets empty, and tired as hell, the two made their way home after a good give hours of arcade gaming. The sun was starting to set, He knew it to be only about five, maybe six PM that night. The two friends were heading back to the college in Ozzy’s First Generation Camaro. “Man, great first day of winter break, huh Jay?” Ozzy said, parking on the street outside . “Yeah, definitely dude.” Jaden said, rubbing his face with his wrist, blinking a few times. He had a lingering feeling that he had forgotten to do something this morning. Ozzy stretched for a moment, before he looked up at his friend, “Hey Jay, weren’t you suppose to drop that computer off this morning?”
Jaden nearly stumbled, getting out of the car. “Dammit! I got to go man, I’ll check ya later” Jaden said as he ran back upstairs, threw open the door of his apartment, and practically tramped on Star. He flung the cover over the case, picked it up and slowly placed it down into the carrying bad and rushed out the door again, but this time with more caution, for the safety of both the computer and his cat. “Okay…client lives at 10386. E. University…” He muttered to himself as he headed towards the street his motorcycle was parked on. He thought it was strange, how he wasn’t given a name, just an address, but at that time he became more focused on jabbing the key into the slot, revving up and pulling the helmet over his head.
He slung the carrying bag over his shoulder, pulled up on the choke, and switched gears as he pulled out onto the street. He looked over to the compartment to his side, remembering what he had stowed in there in case he was ever in a car…or in this case, motorcycle jacking situation.
Jaden parked his bike off to the side of the street and walked to the door, reaching out to ring the doorbell. The computer shifted as he buzzed the doorbell again, waiting for the person on the other end to pick up. “Hey, I’m here to…” Before Jaden could finish, the door was already unlocked for him. “Strange? … ” He muttered to himself, the door creaking as he peaked in. It was not what he expected.
Apon his first steps he noticed the room was black, and glanced at a number of strange white markings that covered the wall. There was only, from the looks of it, one room, with something sitting on a pedestal at the wall opposite of him. It looked strange, but what was s even more bizarre was that “Thriller” was playing faintly in the background, from what appeared to be coming from an old electric record player from across the room. The catch was, there wasn’t anywhere in the room for it to be plugged in
Jaden blinked as he quickly walked over to the source of the music just as it got to the “The foulest stench” part. “What in the world?” Jaden said, looking at the old record player, the black record spinning round. The white writing on the wall was almost glowing, as if acting as a source of light. “And grizzly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom. And though you fight, to stay alive, your body starts to shiver; for no mere mortal can resist, the evil of, the Thriller” The song ended with the maniacal laughter. Jaden turned to set the computer down, before nearly jumping out of his skin as he heard something he didn’t expect. “Jaden Williams”. Jaden abruptly turned around to face the record player. “Why did you hurt me?” The voice from the record player said, except the voice of Vincent Price was morphing, sounding a lot darker, and more feminine. Jaden was a bit taken back, slowly walking towards the record player, his curiosity growing.
The voice, growing with intensity spit “Do you remember, Jaden? Do you remember what you did to me?” His heart leapt, now slightly frightened, Jaden quickly pulled the record from the record player. White noise filled the voided room like a gas, slowly leaking from the player. As Jaden turned to leave, the door was no longer there, it had vanished. The room spun; the white writing on the walls churned and morphed. Jaden pounded on the walls, cursing and swearing at the top of his lungs. “I’m going to make you Pay!” the voice yelled screamed, everything faded to darkness.
When he Jaden finally forced his eyes open again, gasping for breath as he stared ; As if by pure randomness, he was back outside, staring at the door. His chest aching his lungs not only quenched air, but burnt at the slightest inhale. He huffed over and over, gripping his chest as he muttered curses over and over to himself. “Hello...is someone there?” He heard from a distance, as he just about jumped out of his skin; although he was relieved to hear that it wasn’t the voice from the record player. “Is someone there? Hello!?” The voice came from the doorbell, one of those fancy ones with an intercom. Jaden snapped back into reality. “Yeah I’m here to drop the computer off, the one you sent to me to get upgraded?” He said, as he still trembled within his fingertips.
There was a silence on the other end for a moment, The deadbolt turned, and the door slowly opened. Jaden blinked, his face turned towards his client, astonished and surprised as he stared at the client. She was shorter, her long white hair framing her face. She entirely black, a studded leather jacket, and a studded choker. “You just going to stand there or are you going to come set it up?.” She said, Jaden snapping back into reality. “Aye, No problem…Umm... I don’t believe I caught your name when you dropped your stuff of…twas a bit busy on another client’s computer …” Jaden stammered, forcing himself to swallow his fear. Fey frowned at him, annoyed with his witless stammering “My name is Fey, Fey Dusk.” Jaden nodded somewhat, adjusting his grip on her computer, feeling as if his fingers were slipping on it. “So…where do you want this piece of artwork?” He asked, feeling as if the computer weighed a thousand pounds
Fey smirked a bit, opening the door enough to let him, and her investment though. Jaden nodded his thanks as he entered in behind her. “These are some top notch items you have in your computer Fey, may i ask where you got them f…” Jaden started, before he looked around her living room. The room practically screamed "Goth" “Heh, Parents were rich, I had good grades, they were…interested in my fascination in Art and Poetry” Fey said, tucking a loose strand of white hair behind one of her ears. Jaden nodded somewhat as he walked over to where he saw her monitor was. He slowly took the desktop one out of the bag, setting it down.
“So this is it huh?” Fey said, somewhat shoving Jaden aside to look at her new computer. Jaden was a bit put off, but like they say, the customer is always right. “Yep, It’s artwork alright” He said, dusting himself off as he moved back to where he was, as he started to plug all the cords in. “So…I take it you’re really into this Goth thing, huh?” He added, as he fished abound behind her desk for the cord that would attach to the monitor. “What where you expecting? Sunshine and daisies?” Fey gagged, a look of serious disgust on her face.
After he was finished with plugging things in, and setting up all the settings for the software in her computer, Jaden got off the ground and stretched a bit. “Well, job’s done Fey” He said, rolling his shoulders. Fey glanced to her computer, then back to him. “Well, I’ll admit, your good company, unlike some other people I know...never really caught your name either” Fey said, subtle curiosity in her voice. Jaden chewed on his lower lip, “Jaden, Jaden Williams.”
Fey’s black lips curled into a coy smile. “Jaden huh? Nice name for a geek like you”, She teased him. She turned towards a black handbag on her desk, fishing out the final price for her computer as she handed the stack of bills to Jaden. “So Jaden, you live alone?” She asked, a bit curious. “Not really, I got my friends as my next door neighbor, and I do have a pet cat that keeps me company.…” He replied. Fey’s eyes lit up slightly as he mentioned his cat, something he hadn’t expected to get a reaction out of her. “Mind if i ask what type of kitty is it?” She asked, expressing her obvious interest. Jaden contained a chuckle, “She’s just a calico kitten.” Fey smirked again, snickering at him. “You’ll have to show me sometime”, she said with another smirk, before gently punching Jaden in the shoulder, causing him to wince slightly.
“Yeah, perhaps, Fey…” He replied as he rubbed his shoulder a bit, unphased at her playfulness. Fey frowned at him. Jaden glanced at her, before asking, “Something up” “Nothing, just not that used to having someone I can talk to without them being an idiot” She replied. Jaden looking back at her curiously “I suppose….yeah…” Before either of the two of them could react, the lights immediately went out. “What the!?” Jaden said, looking around for what had happened. “God damn it! When the hell are they going to fix the generator?” Fey said, reaching out and grabbed Jaden by the front of his jacket, so he wouldn’t fall on his face, or worse, fall on her. The next sound that filled the air was Jaden’s cell phone, the ringtone being the keyboard cat theme. Jaden fished his phone out of his pocket, and held it up to his ear. Fey seemed to snicker slightly at the ringtone.
He hit the call button, only to have a sharp sting of feedback attack his ear. He ripped the phone away from his ear, before slowly holding it up again, only to be met with the inaudible shouting of Ozzy. “OZ! Shut up and tell me what’s going on!” Jaden yelled at his cell, Fey blinked as she looked at Jaden again. “Get outside, now! You’ve got to see this! Just get outside Jay, you won’t believe your eyes at what is going on!” Ozzy yelled into the other line, before hanging up. Jaden muttered again, before he stumbled his way back to the door, opening it. “Where are you going? Jaden!?” Fey called out, following him. Jaden pushed the door open and stood statue on Fey’s open balcony. His body frozen, jaw dropped. “What are you looking a…” Fey started. Her eyes danced, she was in complete awe.
Chapter 4 Contact
The night sky had lit up as a comet was passing over the night sky, almost making night look like day. “Strange…I didn’t remember hearing reports of a comet coming in close with the earth today…” Fey muttered, leaning over the railing to get a better view. Jaden slurred something to himself. “I don’t think that’s a comet…”
The comet disappeared on the horizon, a feint boom reaching their ears, before a wave of sound and shattered glass where heard from the distance. Jaden was blown back slightly as the wind of the shockwave knocked him backwards.
His jaw locked, his ears rung with the screaming sirens of broken alarms. Fey had retreated inside, as one of the windows on the upper floor shattered, showering Jaden in glass. After a few minutes, screaming sirens stopped, only for them to be greeted by a car honking at them. Jaden looked over the railing, down at Ozzy, waving back at them. “Hey Bat Biter, what are you doing out here!?” Jaden yelled down at him, before Clayton got out of shotgun, Jaden shut up immediately “What Do you think, coming to get you! We’re heading out to Eisenhower Park, Ozzy said we should check it out. That freaking shock-wave practically bounced the back of his car like a foot in the air and shook us to the core!!” Clayton called up to them. Jaden sighed, covering his face with his palm. "...Bat, Biter?" Fey asked, a confused look on her face. Jaden looked back t her. "Well..err...you know, Ozzy Osbourn bit the head off the bat, my firend's name is Ozzy, Yada Yada, i got to et going now because they're going to drag me down there yada yada yada..." Jaden said, quickly moving towards the door out.
Fey followed behind him." Well if you three are going, I’m not going to be the sad one to get left behind!” Fey called behind him, apparently deciding that she wanted to go with them. As Jaden exited the apartment, Ozzy had the back seat doors open, his fingers rattling on the door handle for them to hurry up. As Jaden passed by Ozzy, he quickly shot him the “don’t say anything” look, before rushing to his motorcycle.
Fey quickly entered into the Camero, sitting behind the passenger side as she quickly inspected the two strangers she was in the car with. Ozzy, eyebrow raised , looked over his shoulder at Fey. “What’s so amusing metal head?” Fey frowned, glaring at Ozzy, immediately taking note of the two piercing’s that went through his lips, and the one though his ear. “Well aren’t we all fine and dandy this evening!” Ozzy retorted, not fond of being made fun of. “That’s enough out of the both of you!” Clayton commanded from up front, sighing as he looked back out the window. Ozzy shrugged it off, putting the stick shift in reverse, and sped out of the parking lot. Jaden pauses before he pulls into third gear and double-halls it behind the speeding Camaro.
Jaden kept his head down, closely following behind Ozzy’s Car. Driving at this time of night always terrified him. He looked side to side at the various other people about. As he glanced to his left, he caught sight of something, some sort of metal glinting. He looked up, seeing a red light peek above Ozzy’s car. He slowed his bike down, remaining behind the Camaro as he silently counted in his head as he waited for the light to change. He glanced to his left, and then to his right, muttering something to himself. As he glanced to his right, he nearly died of fright. Standing at the street corner, was a man, a man wearing dark clothing, a brown sash around his waist, along with two around the knees of his pants, wearing the same metal guards. His hood was pulled back, his yellow eyes staring at Jaden motionlessly.
Jaden started to freak out, sweating under his helmet. He hated this red light, and how long it was taking to change. The man was less than twenty feet from him, Jaden freaked out more. He glanced to the side again; The man was still there, but when another person was walking by, instead of bumping into the white haired stranger, he phased though him, as if the man were a ghost. But the light turned green, and Jaden gunned it, swerving around Ozzy and the others as he hit the gas; going as fast as the speed limit would allow him to. Jaden sighed a bit, looking back forward as he continued to at his pace. He idly looked to his right, and nearly crashed his bike then and there.
The man sprinting, sprinting along side him. Jaden was going a least forty, fifty miles per hour, and the man next to him looked like he wasn’t even breaking a sweat. His arms outstretched behind him, he looked to his side, his yellow eyes staring directly into Jaden’s dark green ones. "You dont know what you're getting yourself into Williams!" The man said, before he phased out completely. Jaden hit the brakes, though not as hard enough to cause him to flip over the handle bars. The back of his bike lifted a good foot in the air, before slamming back down on the pavement. Jaden was breathing heavily, but the man was nowhere to be seen. He wasn’t in front of him or anywhere at all. Jaden pried his helmet off, his entire head soaked in sweat.
Ozzy and the others had caught up with him, pulling over next to him as Clayton rolled down his window, before saying. “Yo Jay, you okay there man, you look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
Jaden looked back over the others, panting heavily. “Just…got my glove stuck on the gas.” Jaden lied, panting heavily as he tried to shove his heart back down his throat. The others looked at him strangely, before shrugging it off. Clayton rolled up the window, before Ozzy continued on. Jaden looked over his shoulder one last time, before speeding up to catch up with them. It was a long ride, Jaden pulling up next to the car as he pressed on. Had they not seen what he had seen? Was he going mad? Jaden sighed, opening his eyes at the last moment to see the roadblock ahead.
“Ozzy, Tree!” Jaden yelled. Ozzy slammed on the brakes, right before he barely avoided plowing into a fallen tree, only denting the bumper against the trunk. Jaden stopped his bike, but wasn’t as lucky. He had stopped moving, but skidded into the tree, sending the back of his bike up a good five feet, but it fell back down into place, leaving a very shaken up Jaden sitting on the bike. Ozzy cursed under his breath, huffing as he undid his seatbelt and stepped out. Eisenhower Park had changed. The shockwave had blown all the branches and pine needles off of the trees, leaving only “Skeletons” of trees remaining. Ozzy and the others got out of his Camaro to stare in awe at the trees. Jaden looked over his shoulder, having a really bad feeling. He started to reach for the compartment, but at the last moment, decided not to, leaving it be as it was.
Jaden got off his bike, quickly rushing to catch up with the others as they looked around. “What do you think caused this?” Jaden said, looking around eve more. “I Don’t know Jay, a meteor perhaps, that’s what freaking caused the Shockwave!” Ozzy replied, biting his lip to keep himself from snickering as he looked around. “Yeah…well…yeah…” Jaden said, feeling a bit stupid now as he looked around. “Over there!” Fey said, pointing towards a plume of smoke close by. The four of them ran towards it, seeing the smoking crater, along with the shattered remains of what looked like a meteor in a crater, but that wasn’t what everyone had their eyes on.
Standing beside the crater, was a stranger to some, but all too familiar to others. The white haired stranger knelt down beside the crater, studying the remains of it in a silent thought process. He was wearing what looked like a trench coat, but it wasn’t. There was a brown sash around his waist, along with two around his knees. He stood up slowly, turning towards the group, his yellow eyes staring at them from under his white hair.
“You?!” Jaden exclaimed, his surprise soon turning to fear, fear directed towards the man. “W…why the heck do you show up when all this spam hit the fan?!” Jaden added, slowly moving backwards, his hand flexing into a balled fist, before relaxing. The white haired stranger slowly walked towards him, looking Jaden dead in the eyes. “True, I arrived here when…as you said…the “Spam hit the fan”, though I am not the cause of this. All i have done is punished the one who insulted me.” The white haired stranger said, taking a few steps back as he started back towards the crater. Jaden’s fear had turned to anger, his balled into fists. “Bastard! You’ve done nothing but freak the hell out of me s…” Jaden started, was soon cut off.
The next thing Jaden knew, he was on the ground face first, one of his hands twisted behind his back, feeling a muddy boot against the base of his neck. Ozzy and the others backed off as Jaden looked up at them from the ground, the stranger leaning down and whispering into his ear. “That is the one thing, you do not call me”
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