Chapter 5: A New Evil

Tyler sat in a chair, shocked at Dustin's story. But how could he not believe it. He'd turned his own dog to chocolate, and the others might have abilities as well. It was freaking him out a bit.
"It's hard to take in, and I am still not sure about everything, but," Dustin was interrupted by the door suddenly opening up. Standing in the front door was Lan, dressed as he was when Dustin saw him yesterday.
"Hello all. My name is Landon, Lan for short. Pleasure to meet you all." Lan gave his hand out to shake, everyone stayed where they were. "Well, tough crowd I see. Dustin, tell them I don't bite."
"Lan, what are you doing here?" Dustin asked.
'Call it divine intervention. I was growing bored. So, I made the experiment more exciting."
"What are you talking about?" Ryan asked.
"Kids these days, they need to watch more TV." Lan closed the door. Zach rushed for the door and opened it, but Lan was gone. Zach was about to go after him.
"Stop, it's no use to try and follow. He gave us a clue to something." Dustin said as he looked for the remote.
"Here it is." Tyler said as he turned the TV on. On the TV there was nothing out of the ordinary.
"Try the local channels, maybe the news can tell us something." Ryan said. Tyler tried channel 10. They looked in shock.

On the TV screen they saw the TV anchors looking grim.
"We have shocking footage from the Tuttle Shopping Mall." Said the male news anchor.
"We suggest anyone with young children turn the channel." The female news anchor warned.
"Ok Tyler, you've got to leave." Ryan said jokingly. Tyler blew it off.
On the screen it was a home video camera, very shaky. In the video they heard screaming.
"The camera is moving around too much to see anything." Dustin said, trying to put all the fast movements together, and then the camera stopped.
"That's much better." Zach said, when through the video they heard a blood curling scream and the camera fall to the ground, the lens cracked. From the side, they could see a red liquid slowly flowing onto the screen. They all turned away for a quick moment.
"What happened?" Tyler asked. Then a small dark shape walked in front of the camera. No one could quite see what it was, but they all heard a laugh. A laugh that seemed a little familiar, but was cold, showing no remorse for the life that was taken.
"I think we know what to do." Dustin said, getting up.
"Leave it to the guys with guns." Ryan said, taking the remote form Tyler, changing the channel.
"That laugh, I swear I know it, but where from." Zach said, perplexed.
"Come on, we need to stop whatever that is." Dustin said, heading for the door. He looked behind himself to see the others, not moving. "What's wrong?"
"What's wrong? We could die! Did you see what happened to the cameraman." Ryan said.
"I can't forget that. But I can't forget what Lan said." Dustin thought back to Lan saying 'Don't screw up, or your world will pay.'. Dustin knew he could not sit by and do nothing.
"Dustin, even if we did go, what could we do, we don't have powers, or we don't know what they are." Zach said.
"Except mine." Tyler said.
"Can you even do it again, intentionally?" Ryan asked. Tyler sulked in his chair. "See, we have nothing."
"I don't care. I am going. People are dying! When I am supposed to be the one to stop whatever is happening, I am not going to stand around and let it happen." Dustin opened the door. "Who is coming with me!"
"I will." Zach stood up. Zach always thought himself a hero of sorts in this kind of situation, and now he was ready to prove it. He has an unyielding confidence that he knew could drive him to victory. Ryan stood up.
"Your right, we have to do something." Ryan walked over to the door. Ryan didn't like what he was doing, but he knew it was the right thing. He knew that he had to stand up and fight, enough though he hated confrontations.
They all looked at Tyler, who still sat in his chair. He slowly got up.
"Whatever that is, let's turn it into Chocolate."