6
Ken found himself in an empty cell. He looked around and saw fish and bubbles. He was in water. He was breathing water. There was no air here. Where was he? He was really scared. He breathed in a lot of water and it seemed to give him no problems. He knew how to swim even deep in the ocean at extreme pressures. He swam to the bars of steel and looked around. It was semi dark in the alley outside. He was in a prison somewhere underwater.
The main door at the end of alleyway opened and a big figure stepped in. He wore a big huge cloak and his face was of a fish. An ugly fish. Ken had never seen such a fish before ever. The big human fish stepped in front of his cell.
"Your training will start tomorrow. There are some tests we need to run on you," the fish hissed.
"Who are you?" Ken asked.
"I am Fish Lord. I am your new master. I will be your trainer for the next two years."
"No. I want to go back to my father. He must be looking for me," Ken shouted.
Fish Lord hissed again. Louder this time. "Forget about your father. You are not seeing him again for a while."
Fish Lord retreated and Ken kept shouting. Then he broke down and cried. His tears mixed and dissolved in the water around him. After crying for a long time, he finally fell asleep.
The next morning he was wakened up by three walking human fishes. These were not as big as Fish Lord but still they were ugly.
"Let's go," they said strictly.
Ken was tired so he obeyed. They took him to a room where a fish with a white coat on was working on some machine. These kind of machines he saw at his doctors. What were they going to do with him? There was a huge mirror in one wall. The rest was machines and water. They tied Ken down on the table in the middle of the room.
"What are you doing to me?" Ken struggled but he was strapped tightly.
"He's 5 years old. Check. He has physical training. Check. Physical health. Check. Mental health. Check. Everything is OK," the doctor mumbled to himself.
He took out a needle and injected in his arm a blue kind of a serum. Suddenly Ken felt like he had no life except him. The only word he knew was Fish Lord. When the doctor nodded, the guys opened his straps and Ken hopped down. The door opened right at that moment and Fish Lord stepped in. He was 7 foot tall and smiling.
Ken went down on his knees with his head down and hands tight in front of him. "Fish Lord. My Lord."
Cory was in his bedroom doing his homework when his phone vibrated. He turned his phone on and he was greeted by a picture of a smiling Rira. The picture was taken from the Halloween Party last night. The Halloween Party which went so wrong. Half of the school believed it was a ghost. Cory looked at Rira and smiled. Even though he was Ren's best friend but he just couldn't be able to tell her about Rira. He checked the message he received. It was from Felicity. She told him that the party was on.
Cory had no idea what kind of a party this was but he was going for Rira only. He knew Rira hanged out with Felicity and the freaks but he thought Rira not a freak. She wasn't a freak. She was unique and lovable. And he had a crush on her. He did occasionally talk to her now and then. They weren't in the same year so he didn't get much chance to talk to her. But he kept himself up to date through Ren. Ren was his best friend and the fact that he had kept this relationship a secret meant a lot to him. Especially keeping a secret from Ren was a mission.
Cory was half English and half Japanese. His mother was from Wales and his father from Japan. His mother had moved back to wales when they decided to move to New York. She didn't like America at all but his father loved it. They had some huge differences but still managed to live with each other for 10 years. It was said that his mother was so beautiful, upon seeing her people would start pouring and reciting poetry. This had tremendous effect on his father. After living with his mother for a long time, his father, Yoshua, started speaking in haiku with her. When he spoke in haiku, his mother used to blush and Cory, aged 8, used to wonder a lot of things. But when the differences grew, his mother left him and this caused a great shock to him. He quit speaking and locked himself in a room for a few days. But when he didn't come out from the room, Cory had to go in and found him on the chair with his eyes closed. Cory was 13 years old by then.
His father opened his eyes and the only words came out of his mouth was in form of haikus but he would rarely speak. Whenever he spoke, he spoke of the future. It was as if he had foreknowledge of the unseen future and the beauty or destruction within it.
As Cory was only 13, social services had to come in and take his father to a care home. Cory was shifted to some other family where he lived for the rest of the years up until now. He lived with his stepdad and stepmother now and he had a step brother who was a wacky nutcase too. He always wore sunglasses and claimed that he saw people's intentions. He could tell if his intentions are good or bad right at that moment. The strange thing was that people didn't comment on his sunglasses. They just listen to him and say thanks or the opposite give a you're-so-weird glance and move on. His name was Sunny and he went to the same school as Cory.
Cory looked at his phone again to check the time. He still had some time to go to the freak party. He decided to finish his homework so he could go to the party without worrying anything. In the next four hours he finished all his homework and grabbed something to eat. Then he put his jeans on and out he went.
It didn't take too long to reach Felicity's home. The air was damp and cold. It was around 11 pm and there were hardly any traffic or people out. It began to drizzle soon as he reached Felicity's home. He pressed the bell and Felicity answered. She was wearing a green dress with a white flower in her hair. Her glasses were on and she looked just like her normal self.
"Come on in," she said inviting him in. Cory stepped inside and felt the chill. It was always cold in Felicity's home. Rumours were that her mother was a witch hence Felicity's interest in witchcraft and magic.
"Make yourself comfortable. There's some orange juice in the hall. Or apple if you like," she said and went away. Cory walked in the hall and saw the freak gang. There were seven people in the room including his brother Sunny. What the hell was he doing there? He was supposed to be at home.
"Yo bro. How you be?" He called with his hand up. He was smaller than Cory and had sunglasses on. Sometimes he would tell you about your intentions out of the blue and other times he would just simply chat to you.
"I'm good but what exactly are you doing here? You were supposed to be in bed at home," Cory said taking him to one side grabbing his elbow.
"I got an invite to this party. That's why I came. It's kinda rude to not come if you are invited. You get me?"
"Yes. I get you and behave yourself here. Don't go on telling others about...your powers." Cory nodded and Sunny understood.
"Don't worry bro. I got this."
Cory let him go and they both walked in the hall again. Cory glanced at the people and his gaze stopped on Rira. She was wearing blue jeans with a white top holding a drink. She looked beautiful. Cory glanced down before advancing. He was thinking of the things to say.
"Hello Cory," Rira said smiling at him. "Surprise to see you here."
"Hi Rira," he said shyly. "I got an invite from Felicity not long ago."
"So you left everything and came here?"
"No," he chuckled nervously. "I had almost finished my homework and had nothing to do. Anyway it's rude to turn down an invite, right?"
Rira smiled. He loved it. He loved to make her smile. He wanted to tell her how much he loved her ever since she shifted here but he couldn't gather courage to say it to her.
"Alright everybody. The Ouija party is going to happen in the next five minutes. I have set everything up in the kitchen which is just next door. Get yourself over there," Felicity announced.
Her house was pretty large. Cory walked in a spacious kitchen with everybody. There was big round table in the middle of the kitchen with a strange looking wooden board placed on it. The table was big enough to have nine people seated around it. Everyone took their seats in. Cory made sure he got the seat to Rira. Sunny was on Cory's left while Rira on the right. Felicity was sitting right in front of Rira across the table.
"OK everybody. My name is Felicity and I am commencing this Ouija session. I will go clockwise speaking everybody's name then I will give the reason for this session and what we are going to achieve from it."
It was like a ritual. Felicity looked like a witch doing her thing. She was good looking and had a long face with black hair. She still had her glasses on. A black frame looked good on her.
She started to name them. "Mat, Grant, Luna, Sunny, Cory, Rira, Colin, Fudge, Becky and Chastity. The reason and the thing we are aiming to achieve from this Ouija session is that we are going to contact an Alien Overlord called Gahumba. He is from a place known as Gahum and we are hoping that he might grace us with his presence."
Cory was a little bit nervous about this as they held hands and the clock struck 12.
Ren was looking at her laptop at the live CCTV of the bar she was keeping an eye on. There had been some developments which needed attention right now rather than tomorrow. For example she had seen three men on a van unloading three boxes of something. That wasn't enough for Ren. Only three boxes in a van. It could be anything. It was around 9 pm. Laura was too busy doing her and Ren's homework too. She usually does all the homework while Ren does her stuff. Ren didn't really like school. Ever since her training, she had just one thing in mind. To get rid of all the criminals. She wasn't a vigilante or some Batgirl. She would kill wherever she needed to. She was trained to kill. Born to kill.
She was just waiting for something. Something so she can go infiltrate that bar right now but she needed some information first. She needed to find out who and how many were in this gang. Only one person could get that information. That freak Chastity. She wasn't in Ren's group or anything. She was a slut who would go out with any boy but she was very useful. Ren usually used her to get information on all the bad people (males only) in the area. Chances are very high that they had slept with Chastity. Probably all of them. Who knows?
Ren didn't interfere with her personal life. If she slept with random people then it was up to her. As long as she is helpful, Ren was happy.
It was around 1 am, after spending five hours looking at this CCTV she saw the bar closed and soon after the same guys took the remaining boxes out of the same van.
"I knew it," Ren mumbled. The guys kept taking the boxes out. The van was full with them. And their body language told her that they were sneaking around and hurrying up to transfer the boxes inside. Ren could gamble her money that those boxes contained fire arms.
She picked up her phone to call Laura. "Laura, I found something. The gang is unloading a van load of boxes and I bet those boxes contain guns."
"Well I just finished our homework. Do you want me to go and check it out?" Laura asked.
"No way. We don't even have any idea how many of them are there in the bar and what kind of guns they have. We really don't want to be entering there just to be greeted by automatics in each hand."
"Then what do we do?"
"We have to find out more information about the gang. I know we were going to do it tomorrow but we have to call Chastity. You get here while I contact Chas," Ren said and put the phone down.
She thought for a moment then rang Chastity's number. Her number went straight to the answer machine. She put the phone down and looked at her cameras. The van was still there. The unloading was done and the gang was in there. She wished she knew how many of them were in there. She could take them all out on her own even if they had automatic rifles. She was trained to move like that. The concern was for Laura. She was still learning and no matter how hard she tried she could never reach where Ren was right now. Ren wanted her to reach this level. She was trying her hardest to train her though. The girl had potential but only Ren knew how much hard her training was in the League of Assassins.
She rang Chastity five times and came to a conclusion that her phone was switched off. It was weird. Having her phone off at 1 am at night. Ren waited for Laura. She wanted to take this slow. Any sudden stupid decision could set them back and potentially in danger. She was the one who thought out her plans 100 times before she acted on it. Just like the Halloween plan. It was a thought out plan. Now this situation came up and Ren wanted time to think and plan this. She needed Laura's input too.
When Laura entered, she was bright red and puffed. "What's up with you?" Ren asked.
"I ran just in case you needed me quick," Laura said in between breaths.
"I need you more than anything in my life," Ren said smiling.
"Business time right now. Tell me about the gang," Laura said looking at the CCTV.
"I tried calling Chastity and her phone is going on answer machine. I have no idea where she is," Ren said.
"Well why don't you find out by that tracking app I told you to install?"
"You are a genius. I forgot all about it," Ren said suddenly full of spark.
"You and forgetting things. Impossible. Just say that you thought that app a piece of BS," Laura laughed.
"10 points on pointing out the truth," Ren said as she opened the app.
"I put a tracker in Chastity's necklace. It should tell us her location if she is wearing it right now," Laura said.
"When did you put that in?" Ren asked.
"Not long ago. I wanted to test this app and needed to find a subject. Luckily Chastity is the best subject we have in this world," Laura said and they both laughed.
They both stared at the laptop as it pinpointed the exact location of Chastity. "Felicity's house."
"What is she doing there?"
"Looks like another freak party in the freak house. She is in the freak gang too, remember?" Ren said getting up.
"Where you going?" Laura asked.
"To Felicity's home. Let's go. I want to talk to Chastity. And I wanna bust this gang tonight. They spend their nights in the bar these days anyway."
When they reached Felicity's home, it was dipped in darkness. Not a single light was on. Ren had brought her bag with her guns and swords inside them just in case they decided to go from right there. Felicity's house was in between the bar and Ren's house.
"Why are the lights off? If they are having a party, the lights should be on," Laura said.
"Let's find out," Ren said stepping on Felicity's driveway right in front of her door. She touched the door knob to open the door. The knob was frozen in place.
"The door knob is frozen," Ren said trying to open it. Finally it cracked open and the door was slammed open. Gusts of ice came from the house and Ren's bare legs froze. She was in her usual shorts.
"What the hell is happening here?" Laura had to shout over the frozen winds.
"Only way to find out." Ren and Laura stepped inside battling the winds. The door closed itself but the winds didn't. They walked against the winds. There they saw some people which they couldn't make out because of the blizzard sitting around a table. There was a huge black hole open in the roof directly on top of the table.
There was an ice tornado on the table and its head was in the black hole. It was sending ice winds around the room. Everything had frozen except for the people.