Chapter 4:
(Ethan's house – Guest room – 5:00 a.m.)
Jesus opened his eyes and looked around the room. It was fairly large. The walls were a light blue with a black stripe going through the middle. There was a desk on the far side of the room, a single queen bed took up most of the room and a full bathroom to the right of the bed.
He looked to the left and saw Karol peacefully asleep. That's when he noticed that she was hugging his arm. He moved so that he was lying on his side and wrapped his arms around her waist. She smiled in her sleep and moved closer to him. Jesus smiled before he closed his eyes. He opened his eyes and looked out the window to see the sun was barely coming out. He felt Karol turn in his arms and face the opposite wall.
"Okay Karol, as much as I like these early mornings with you, we have to get up and wake the others," he said. He removed his arm from her waist and got out of bed in only his black pajama pants and white shirt. Karol groaned before she grabbed his arm and pulled him back into bed with him on top of her. She opened her eyes and looked at him. "It's five in the morning. We can wait an hour or two before we wake them. Besides I haven't seen you in two weeks. And why is there a different aura around you?"
"What are you talking about? There isn't anything wrong with me," he said, looking away from her.
"Jesus, please look at me," she said, worry filling her voice. Slowly, he turned his head until he was looking her in the eyes. He sighed, before getting off her and sitting on the bed side. Karol sat up in bed, letting the blanket slide off her and revealing a sleeveless black top and looked at him with concern in her eyes. He stood up and grabbed the hem of his shirt and took it off revealing his scarred back.
"You already know about the since you caused about half of them and also about the seal on my wrist," he said pointing at his right wrist. At first nothing happened, but when he made a fist, black markings that looked like barbed-wire appeared on his wrist. "During my trip here, I ran into a very powerful person. He was so powerful that he defeated me in under a minute. Before I lost consciousness he told me that he worked for the same person we're trying to take down. When I woke up, I noticed something different about me. Apparently he put a seal on me." He turned and showed the same type of seal that was around his wrist, except that this one was over his heart.
"I've tried everything I can to break it but nothing works. It's just like this one," he pointed to his wrist. "It seals away half of whatever power I have."
So you're at like twenty-five percent power for a while right? What so bad about it, "said Karol
Jesus grabbed her arm and pulled her up. The covers fell off her legs revealing plain red pajama pants. She stumbled before gaining her balance. She looked up into his eyes before looking away, knowing what was coming next. Jesus had gone completely stiff, small surges of electricity coming from him. She jumped back until her back was against the wall.
They stayed like that for ten minutes before Jesus loosened up.
"Sorry, those have been happening a lot lately."
"How often?"
"About once a week, ever since the fight."
"That's not normal, even for us."
"I know what it is; I just don't like what's going to happen."
"Well don't keep me in the dark. What is it?"
"Its energy back up. Since my body is so used to letting go of such large amounts of energy, it's basically storing up all the energy I don't use. And it's so much that, if it isn't released soon, then my body will basically burn up."
Karol's eyes widened at the news but then softened when looked at the seal on his wrist. She walked over to him and took his hand in hers. "So what's the problem I have the key to the first seal and if my math is right it will bring your power up to like half of its original level." She brought his hand up to her mouth and let out a soft breath. The seal started to turn around his wrist faster and then stopped and slowly started to fade away. "When the seal was put on you by your dad, he said that only a maiden's breath can lift it. From old English a maiden's breath is roughly translated to a close friend of the opposite gender." She smiled at him and went over to the black duffel bag near the desk. She opened it and took out a simple grey shirt and black skin tight shorts.
"Let me change and then we can go and wake up the others okay, "she said heading over to the bathroom. "Why don't you change too?"
Jesus looked wrist where Karol had breath on it, then smirked. He mimicked Karol's actions and got out a red shirt with the word fulmen on the back and dark-blue shorts. He was about to put on his shirt when Karol came out of the bathroom tying her hair in a pony-tail. She went over to the bed, grabbed her phone, put on her black converse and left without saying another word.
Jesus watched her leave and when she had closed the door behind her he entered the bathroom. He looked himself in the mirror before letting out a frustrating sigh. He put his hands on the sides of the sink and looked down. He turned on the water and splashed some on his face. When he looked up he saw that his eyes were glowing bright red. He started to breath heavily before his eyes returned to their natural color. He cursed under his breath before he exited the bathroom, put on his black vans, grabbed his cell phone and exited the guest room.