CARRIE: Atonement 2
Fire Heart
Chapter 1
2100 hours, Somewhere in the Sierra Nevada Mountains:
A team of Commandos armed with assault rifles and other standard military gear made their way silently through a dense wooded area.
"Lt. Wilkes," said a voice in the ear piece of the lead officer, "do you have eyes on target yet?!
"Negative!" Replied the Soldier in a whisper, "Thermal scans indicate that the prime target is not too far ahead, Sir!" the soldier replied
"Sir," said the soldier wearing the infrared camera, " The target just disappeared from my thermal imaging screen!"
"What?!" said Lt. Wilkes, "check your equipment again!" while the soldier hurried to comply with the order, behind the men's position, a small human shaped shadow could be seen emerging from the flowing waters of a nearby creek.
Just after the little shadow stepped onto the shore there was a fierce hissing sound as the top layer of water from the creek flashed into steam. The Commandos found themselves enveloped in the steam and it was like walking through a hot fog bank, they couldn't see anything.
They were trying to get their bearings and adapt to this change of events. When all of a sudden, their guns started exploding from the inside out. Then a fire ignited it shot around them in a ring like it was living thing and they found themselves surrounded!
they tried to get out of this ring of fire but, in every direction that they turned the fire intensified in size and heat! Finally, just as it seemed the men were lost in this most horrific trap, bright lights came on from a nearby collection of jeeps, revealing that they were actually in a small clearing. A tall man in a fancy uniform turned to the small shadow. Who had been standing back in the shadows of the trees.
"That's enough," he said. The fire was gone instantly. The little shadowy form stepped into the light as the water that was dripping off it converted into to steam and vaporized leaving the little form, now revealed by the light to be a nine-year-old girl completely dry! The girl had closely cropped strawberry blonde hair and brown eyes.
"General Pike," said a Soldier in a lab coat who was standing next to the General, "Her improvement is extraordinary!" she beat her last time in defeating that commando unit!"
"Excellent!" said the General looking extremely pleased, "Our little project is going far better than I dared dream!"
Just then the general's aide, Corporal Farkas came running up. He was a skinny clumsy looking guy in his mid-twenties with stringy blonde hair. In one hand he carried a clip board for the general and in the other an assault rifle that he picked up.
"General Pike, Sir," he said in a nasally voice, "I was listening to the scanner, the forest service is headed this way. somebody reported seeing the fire!"
The general swore under his breath, "Alright," he said, "No time for anymore tests right now everybody pack up we're leaving!"
As the General turned to continue his conversation with his head scientist, everybody began packing up things as fast as they could. Except for the girl, she just stood there in front of the Generals truck.
Farkas ran over and started picking the remnants of several of the weapons that had been destroyed. He found a pistol that had been dropped, the grip was warped slightly from the heat, and as he picked it up, then gun went off. The bullet grazed the girl's shoulder causing her to cry out. The first sound she had made since her appearance in the clearing.
Rage flashed in her eyes. Fear grew in Farkas's eyes. He could already feel the heat around him intensifying.
"No, No," he cried backing away from her, "I'm sorry, it was an accident!"
A split second the air around him exploded in a blindingly bright fire ball that blew him backwards into a smoldering heap! Another soldier put him out completely with a fire extinguisher, and they carried him to the medical unit.
The general just shrugged.
"She's getting better at controlling her temper!" he said, "this one's alive!"
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Atwater, Florida the next day:
A tall athletic woman with dark hair walked toward the Phoenix investigations office! In her hand was a newspaper article about how a Jace Pierson and his unnamed partner had foiled a smuggling operation.
Four Men had been busted trying to smuggle stolen jewels out of the country! But they had been ambushed and the dock. Their getaway boat was sunk, and they were found tied up on the dock and raving about this Pierson guy and his partner making things happen with their eyes.
The police had dismissed these ravings as nothing more than these guys trying to set up and temporary insanity plea.
This woman, however, wasn't like the police. In fact, she believed in psionic powers. She walked into the Detective agency and found her way into the office. Jace was sitting at his desk cleaning the junk mail out of his inbox.
He looked up when the lady walked in.
"Are You Jace Pierson?" She asked
He nodded, "Yes I am," he said, motioning her to a chair, "What can I do for you?!"
"Well," she said Sitting down, "I'm here because of something my sister showed me." She pulled out a cell phone and handed it to Jace. He took it and found that here was a video loaded and ready to play.
It showed a lady, that Jace assumed was her sister, tutoring a strawberry blond girl of about nine years old! the young girl seemed to get frustrated by the trouble she was having with the math problem she was working on. Anger flashed in the girl's eyes and the table cloth burst into flames.
"Whoa!" said Jace. As he watched, several people with military haircuts came rushing in, put the fire out, and take the girl out of the room.
"My sister was afraid of what might happen if they found out that she took this video, but she wants to help this girl! I came to you because a year and a half ago I had an experience which convinced me of the existence of psycho-kinetic powers. And when I read the article about that smuggling bust of yours and the suspects story I thought you and your partner might just be the ones to help this girl.
Just then the door opened, and Carrie walked in.
"Oh, I'm sorry," she said, as she walked around to stand next to Jace "I didn't know someone was here!"
When Carrie saw the lady's face they both stopped short. Carrie spoke in a Voice Barely above a whisper!
"Ms. Desjardin!"
TBC…..Well there It is the first chapter of my Sequel, please, please, let me know what you think!