Chapter 7 – First Attack
"Are you seeking for Justice? Hire an Witcher."
Graffiti on wall of Faculty of Law, University of Oxenfurt
Kelly felt, like the time lost its speed, again. He observed tranquilizing dart flying to him. Once he moved, dart hit his schoolbag. Kelly decided to use it.
"Keep me fast, please," said to Miriam and sent invisible variant of Astral Projection to that car. He fainted and all his weight remained on her shoulders.
"Gotcha!" said man with rifle.
He was not in a woge, but Kelly any way somehow recognized, he is an Schakal. Second villain was an Skalenzahne. Kelly tried to find in their car something small and hard to use it for to bang attackers to heads. He found something, when trying to move it, he remembered the sentence in book 'To handle or move with objects is for astral projection extremely exhausting.' It was undeniable truth.
Kelly heard clicking and recognized, object he found was hand grenade and he just pulled the pin.
–Ooops! – he thought.
He quickly returned to his body and gathered his wits.
"What's up, Kelly?" asked a bit frightened Miriam.
"Down!" answered Kelly and snatched her down.
BOOOM! Explosion was earsplitting, shrapnel fragments flew too close to them, to let Kelly be calm.
"F*ck the shit!" cussed Kelly.
"What was it?" Miriam was scared for a good reason.
"Hand grenade," answered Kelly. "School security tends to ignore anything in more, then fifty yards from building, usually see no evil, hear no evil, but explosion of hand grenade could hardly e ignored. Better let's move before somebody starts to investigate it."
He made a look for car. Nobody could survive such an explosion, the roof was opened like a blossom, car windows were shattered into small fragments, even for such a distance was visible blood.
Kelly tried to clean from clothes the dirt from pavement.
"Stop it!" said Miriam and made again some gesticulation. "This cleaning spell I also invented. What happened?"
"Bus is here in two three minutes," said Kelly. "Better wait before being inside. Is it possible to make that your Bubble of Silence in bus?"
"Yea, of course," Miriam was proud of quality of her spells.
When they came to bus stop, it was empty.
"Nice, we'll not need to explain anything too soon," noted Kelly.
He recognized tranquilizing dart stick into something in his schoolbag. He will probably need a new textbook…
Once in bus seats, Miriam made that spell.
"What was that?"
Kelly showed her tranquilizing dart.
"Don't touch it. Some of these narcotics can easily penetrate skin," said Kelly, pulled an plastic bag, that usually police use for evidence, packed dart into and hide it in his schoolbag. "Somebody tried to kidnap me or you. I sent there my Astral Projection and tried to neutralize them. By accident I pulled the pin of grenade in their car."
Miriam started to laugh.
"You can be pretty destructive even unwillingly."
"Fine. Is it possible to use phone in your Bubble of Silence?"
"Didn't try yet, just try it."
Kelly called to his father:
"What's up, Kelly?" asked Nick. "There are two bodies in car destructed by grenade close to your school."
"Could you refuse that case?" asked Kelly.
"Maybe, but why?"
"I did it. I'll explain more at home."
"Crap!" Nick gulped. "Will be at home soon."
Next phone call was to Adalind.
"Mum, could you take Cathy and hurry home?"
"Yea, what happened?"
"We are under attack!"
"OK."
Elizabeth could be a problem, but Kelly would need her to explain something to Miriam and something to him.
"Elizabeth, take Diana and hurry home, it's emergency alert!"
Kelly was sure, that this impudence will have ugly results, but he decided not to left time to argue.
Aunt Trubel had voice mail, so Kelly said only: "If you are still in town, come home."
Well, the storm is gathering, time to prepare for real problems…
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The only reason they did not run from bus stop was Kelly's careful reconnaissance of surroundings. Adalind's car met them on half way.
"Come in!" ordered Kelly's mom. "Nick told me something."
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Atmosphere in kitchen was nervous. Kelly explained incident with tranquilizing dart and with hand grenade.
"This is serious," said Hank, who came with Nick. "Even Pogue and Meecham could find it suspicious, that explosion was near to your school and in car was tranquilizing rifle."
"So we must agree on what to tell them. I don't want to risk their life, nor of anybody of us," said Kelly. "Gun. My kingdom for a gun," he paraphrased Richard the Third.
"You have no kingdom for trade and metal detector in your school entry is still a problem," answered Nick with false smile. "And no, I will not go to your school director to explain him, that you need a special dispensation to allow you a gun in school."
"Dad, you know, that it would be easiest solution of problem," Kelly tried to argue and Miriam laughed a bit.
"Kelly, you are underage, nobody in western culture would let you lay about with gun," she smiled.
"There is combat magic, you could use," said Elizabeth with knowing smile…
TO BE CONTINUED...