Over and Over
MMLS
Chapter 1
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I walked around Torrington. I had only been here for a day and wasn't familiar with the place. It was dark out and I wondered for about the 50th time why I was out so late. I shivered. I had left my sweater up in my dorm room. Bad idea. The temperature was dropping since we were nearing winter. A cloud moved in front of the moon and everything became darker.
The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end. I turned around but nothing was there. I shifted uncomfortably. I was near a bunch of trees and the nearest door was around the side of the building. 'Its just my nerves.' I thought. I'm an avid horror movie watcher and have a greatly over active imagination. A sudden blood curdling cry sounded through the air.
"Definitely not my imagination." I said aloud. I heard loud wing beats somewhere in the sky. "Crud. Crud. Crud." I whispered. I tried to move but was frozen to the spot. I heard someone nearby.
"I'm serious Di, I'm not playing a joke." They said.
"Martin, you really expect me to believe that?" Another voice said.
"Whose that?" The first person said.
'Does he mean me?' I wondered. I heard another wing beat directly over head. I looked up and saw a flipping scary looking creature. It had a reptilians body, a horses head, bat wings, and a long, forked tail. The wings angled down and it dove towards me. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't move.
"Look out!" The first person yelled. Something hit my side knocking me over and hitting me out of the creatures way. "Are you okay?" They asked. I looked up. The person that had saved me had blond hair that stuck up in the front, and chocolate colored brown eyes. He looked kind of cute too.
"Yeah. I'm okay." I said. The creature reminded me of something I'd read of before. But what was it. "If you don't mind me asking, who are you?"
"Martin Mystery." He said. "Who are you?"
"I'm Sea." I say. "Jersey Devil." I say as the creature clicks.
"What did you just call me?"
"I didn't call you anything." I was suddenly very aware he was lying on top of me. I could feel hard packed muscle through his shirt. "Um, do you mind getting off me and I'll tell you what I meant."
Martin climbed off of me and I stood up. "The Jersey Devil. Its a creature that has terrorized New Jersey ever since 1753. The myth goes that a woman got pregnant with her 13th kid. She complained to her friends and relatives that the devil could take this one, and the devil did. The last known sighting was in 1993..." I trailed off. "Sorry." I say, I could tell I had confused them.
"Its alright." A girl said walking over. "Hi, I'm Diana Lombard." She had light brown hair with two little clips and green eyes.
"Sea." I say.
"How do you know so much about that creature?" Martin asked.
There was another blood curdling cry. "I'll tell you, but inside." I said. I leaned down and grabbed a stick. "Better to be prepared then dead." I muttered remembering something my dad used to say a lot. He was dead. So was my mom. I lived with my aunt for awhile but she eventually got sick of taking care of me and sent me here.
We got inside the building. "Okay, I know so much about the creature because my dad went around hunting them. He always got me to research the creatures." I answered. Just then the watch on Martin wrist went off.
"Cool. Listen, we got to go. Stay inside and try not to get hurt." Martin told me.
"Never." I muttered. They ran off. I turned around. The question that I had in my mind was why the hell the Jersey Devil was up here in Torrington. I decided to find out. And maybe capture it. I exited the building and started for my car. My dad had it filled with hunting stuff. There weren't any guns cause I took those out and left them in my aunt's basement. There was a room down there hidden behind a whole bunch of junk. Thats where I put them. I ran to my car. I could feel it up in the air. Its beady little eyes looking for something it can carry away and eat. I reached my car and fumbled for the keys in my pocket.
"What are you doing?" Martin asked. I turned around and saw Martin standing behind me. I turned back to my car and opened the door. I ignored him and reached under the front seat.
"Wheres that lever." I wondered. I found it and pulled it towards me. A click sounded through the air.
"I ask again, what are you doing?"
"I'm going after the devil." I answer. The back seat has a secret compartment and it popped open. "Alright. Hrm, lets see. No known weakness. I guess the net launcher could work. Won't be able to fly..." I pull out the net launcher. It was small but the net inside was huge.
"I told you to stay inside."
"And I don't listen to anyone." I said. I looked through the scope for the silhouette of the creature. "Look out. This could go bad fast. You'll get hurt." I waved him back. "You don't have the right training."
"I do too." Martin said.
"There it is." I started to pull the trigger.
"See. I'm..." He stepped in front of me as I pulled the trigger. The net launched out and he was sent flying onto the ground stuck under the net. "What was that for?" He asked. I saw something lying on the ground beside him. I picked it up.
"Agent Martin Mystery. I told you to stay back." I studied it. "Whats this "Center" thing?"
"Hey, give that back." He complained. I took the net off of him.
"You owe me. I could've had that thing down and caught by now." I watched the silhouette soar away. "Now, what is the Center?"
"Martin!" Diana yelled.
"Over here." Martin yelled back. I stuffed the net back into the launcher really sloppily.
"Are you going to tell me?" I asked. I put it back in its place.
"The Center is a paranormal group that protects the world from monsters. I'm one of the paranormal investigators that helps keep the world safe."
I looked at him oddly. "Sure." I say sarcastically.
"U watch activated. X-rod selected."
I heard a whistling sound and jumped out the way just as a net hit right where I had been standing."What the..." There was another and I wasn't quick enough to jump out of the way. A net wrapped around me. I didn't struggle.
"I'm telling the truth." He said snatching his ID back. I wriggled out of the net.
"Okay, wheres your proof? Hm?"
"Sea? What are you doing here?" Diana asked.
"Hunting." I answered stepping out of the net. "Don't tell me you work for the Center too." I say.
"You told her!" Diana exclaimed. "MOM's gonna have our heads."
"No she won't. She'll just erase her memory." Martin said.
I looked at him. "No way is someone erasing my memory." I said. I couldn't find anything else that could fight the Jersey devil. "Now, go run along. Its time for the master I fight." I say. I was full of myself at times, sure. But why shouldn't I be?
"Were working with you." Martin said. "Then I'll prove to you I'm not lying."
"Whatever." I said. I walked away over to where I had been attacked. Maybe there was a clue or something as to why it was up here and not down in the states.
"So, how did you get all that stuff?" Martin asked running to my side.
"My dad." I answer.
"How did he get it?"
"Good question." I said. I stopped talking. It hurt when I talked about my dad. My mom died when I was young so I didn't miss her as much. I decided to change my train of thought so I wouldn't start tearing up. We reached the site that the Devil had attacked me at. There was a large dent where the Jersey Devil had hit the wall. I rubbed the back of my head thinking about what I would've been like if Martin hadn't've saved me. "Hey, thanks."
"What for?"
"For saving me. If you hadn't. I'd be a just a mess to clean up." I answered. I gave him a one armed hug. Then I went to the dent in the wall. There was a little bit of blood on the wall. Obviously it had hurt its self.
"Slime scan selected." I turned around and saw Martin holding his watch. His hair and clothes flapped around and he grabbed the thing that appeared in a blue bubble like thing over his watch.
'Maybe he's telling the truth.' I thought. "Its blood." I told him. "Jersey Devil blood. Probably a little human." I said. He looked at me. "What?"
Martin's POV
"Look out!" I yelled. I dove at the girl knocking her out of the path of the creature. "Are you okay?" I asked her. She had long black hair and eyes that were a nice green color. She was pretty cute.
"Yeah. I'm okay." She said. "If you don't mind me asking, who are you?"
"Martin Mystery." I answered. "Who are you?"
"I'm Sea." She says. "Jersey Devil."
"What did you just call me?"
"I didn't call you anything. Um, do you mind getting off me and I'll tell you what I meant."
I got off of her. "The Jersey Devil. Its a creature that has terrorized New Jersey ever since 1753. The myth goes that a woman got pregnant with her 13th kid. She complained to her friends and relatives that the devil could take this one, and the devil did. The last known sighting was in 1993..." she trailed off. "Sorry."
"Its alright." Diana said walking over. "Hi, I'm Diana Lombard."
"Sea." I say.
"How do you know so much about that creature?" I asked. I thought I was alone here in being into the paranormal.
There was another blood curdling cry. "I'll tell you, but inside." She said. She leaned down and grabbed a stick. "Better to be prepared then dead." She muttered.
We got inside the building. "Okay, I know so much about the creature because my dad went around hunting them. He always got me to research the creatures." She answered. Just then my U watch went off.
"Cool. Listen, we got to go. Stay inside and try not to get hurt." I told her. I ran off before she could answer. "In there." I told Diana. We opened the janitors closet and jumped into the blue portal. We landed on the platform. I put my hand on the print reader.
"Martin Mystery. Clear. Diana Lombard. Clear." Then we stood there and the body scan scanned us.
"Hey Martin." Billy said.
"Heya Billy." I said. The platform stopped and we walked into the elevator. Up we went to MOM's office. The doors slid open. MOM was sitting behind her desk working on a puzzle block.
"Oh, hello agents. Your mission today is at Torrington Academy. A paranormal creature has attacked a student."
"Sea?" I wondered aloud.
"Who?"
"Just a girl he saved today." Diana said. She looked at me oddly.
"What?" I asked. I skirted around to where MOM was sitting. She was still playing with the weird block thing. I grabbed it from her and started twisting it randomly. The top popped open and a bunch of tiny alien space crafts came out. They shot little lasers at us.
"Martin! That wasn't a toy!" MOM yelled at me. I put the cube down as Billy opened a portal. I basically dove through not wanting MOM to hurt me.
I saw someone heading for their car. I ran over to them. It was Sea. "What are you doing?" I asked her. She turned around and looked at me for a second then turned back to her car.
"Wheres that lever." She said aloud. A click sounded through the air as she pulled it.
"I ask again, what are you doing?"
"I'm going after the devil." She answers. The backseat popped open. "Alright. Hrm, lets see. No known weakness. I guess the net launcher could work. Won't be able to fly..." She pulls out a little gun thing.
"I told you to stay inside." I said scolding her.
"And I don't listen to anyone." She said. "Look out. This could go bad fast. You'll get hurt." She waved me back. "You don't have the right training."
"I do too." I said glaring at the back of her head.
"There it is." She said pointing the gun at the sky.
"See. I'm..." I started pulling out my ID. The thing fired and I found myself flying through the air. "What was that for?" I asked. She walked over to me and grabbed my ID off the ground.
"Agent Martin Mystery. I told you to stay back. Whats this "Center" thing?"
"Hey, give that back." I said. She got the net off me.
"You owe me. I could've had that thing down and caught by now. Now, what is the Center?"
"Martin!" Diana yelled.
"Over here." I yelled back. Sea stuffed the net back into the launcher.
"Are you going to tell me?" Sher asked her back to me.
"The Center is a paranormal group that protects the world from monsters. I'm one of the paranormal investigators that helps keep the world safe." I said. I rubbed the back of my head. I had hit the ground pretty hard.
She looked at me oddly. "Suuuure." She said sarcastically.
"U watch activated. X-rod selected."
She jumped out of the way of the net I had just fired at her."What the..." I shot another and she couldn't get out of the way fast enough. She stood still as it wrapped around her.
"I'm telling the truth." I said snatching my ID back. She wriggled out of the net.
"Okay, wheres your proof? Hm?"
"Sea? What are you doing here?" Diana asked.
"Hunting." She answered stepping out of the net. "Don't tell me you work for the Center too."
"You told her!" Diana exclaimed. "MOM's gonna have our heads."
"No she won't. She'll just erase her memory." I said. I tapped my head and stuck my tongue out at her.
Sea looked at me. "No way is someone erasing my memory." She said. "Now, go run along. Its time for the master I fight."She says.
"Were working with you." I said. "Then I'll prove to you I'm not lying."
"Whatever." She said. We walked away over to where she had been attacked.
"So, how did you get all that stuff?" I asked running to her side.
"My dad." She answers.
"How did he get it?"
"Good question." She said. We reached the site that the Devil had attacked her at. There was a large dent where the Jersey Devil had hit the wall. She rubbed the back of her head. "Hey, thanks."
"What for?"
"For saving me. If you hadn't. I'd be a just a mess to clean up." She answered. She gave me a one armed hug. Then she went to the dent in the wall.
'What was that?' I wondered. 'Did she not know who I was around here?' I shook my head. 'Most likely not. I should help. I'm leading this. Not her.'
"Slime scan selected."
"Its blood." She told me. "Jersey Devil blood. Probably a little human." I looked at her. "What?"
Sea's POV
"Nothing." Martin answered. He walked over to the dent and took some of the blood on a weird triangle like thing. He put it in a tube on the side test tube and it started making noises. I walked over to him and looked over his shoulder. Or at least tried to. He was pretty tall.
"It looks like your right." Martin said. "Why is there traces of human in it though. And how did you know?"
"Research. It says it was born into a human family but the mom didn't want the child and said the devil could take it. It did and, well, you see how it is now." I said. He looked at me oddly again. "What? I like paranormal stuff."
"I do too..." Martin says. He looks away from me. I bit my lip. I knew it. He actually was telling the truth.
"Guys, you've got to stop ditching me." Diana said.
"Sorry." I said. "I'm used to working alone."
"Looks like Sea's right." Martin said. "What else do you know about it?" He asked me.
"Um, I know the sightings. But thats it. It hasn't been seen for so long because the lights and growth of the town has supposedly driven it into hiding. Thats all." I said. "I could catch it with the net launcher. I just need to fix the net launcher."
"Okay." Martin said.
"Its back in my car." I looked at Martin. "This time don't get in the way of it."
"I won't." he said sticking his arms up. "Although I could do the same thing."
"That net isn't big enough."
"Guys." Diana said her voice scared.
"What?" We asked turning around.
"That!" She pointed up at a silhouette in the sky. It was soaring down really fast at us.
"DUCK!" I yelled. Diana dove to the side and I tried to. But yet again I was frozen.
'Unfreeze.' I told myself. It was coming closer. 'Unfreeze unfreeze unfreeze.' I couldn't move. 'Crud Crud Crud.' It hit me hard in the chest. We flew back and I hit a tree with a loud crack. That should have knocked me out. But it did the opposite. I unfroze.
"Sea!" Someone yelled. I didn't know who it was, nor did I care. I needed to kill this thing. I slammed my hands into its chest. "SEA!" Someone yelled again. I stopped and tried to find the source of the voice. My vision cleared and I saw Martin hauling the creature off of me. There were two burn marks on its chest in the shape of my hands. My head throbbed and my vision was starting to darken.
I brought my hand to the back of my head and felt something wet. I brought my hands up to my face and saw something red. "Blood." I murmured. I felt it run down my back. I didn't feel any pain. I stood up and tried to take a step I fell to my knees. I saw Martin capture the devil in a net then I heard the sound of chopper blades. My vision blurred and darkness consumed me.
Beep, beep, beep.
'Ugh, go away.' I groaned in my head. Beep, beep, beep. 'Ugh.' I opened my eyes. I was in a hospital room. A drip was attached to my arm. The back of my head throbbed. I sat up and instantly wished I hadn't as blood rushed down in front of my eyes.
"Shes alive." Someone said. I looked towards the voice and saw Martin.
"What are you doing here?" I asked. It was an honest question. I didn't know him all that well and hardly expected him to be here.
"I'm here because I want to be." He answered.
"Okay?" I say.
"And because this is the Center. Not a hospital."
"Why am I at the Center?"
"I'll answer that." Someone said walking in. She was tall, had short black hair, and green eyes. She was pretty tall and had on a pure white suit.