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cras pópuli - Tomorrow people
Chapter 6: The wrong hands
She was standing outside, waiting for the eclipse to end. As she constantly looked at her watch she noticed that the eclipse was the longest ever, three hours had passed and the moon was still in front of the sun. She ran into the house and dialled a number. Soon someone answered
"Hallo" a male voice said.
"Dewald, it's me, Irene. We have a problem" she said
"Let me guess it has something to do with the eclipse" Dewald said
"Yes, I think it's time" Irene answered
"Must I get the brothers ready?" Dewald asked
"Yes, meet me at the Castle in less than hour." Irene said and hung up the phone. She placed the phone back in her pocket and transported herself some miles away from the Castle.
From far she could see a fight, with her night vision she could make out who was fighting who. She gasped when she noticed a man floating above the fight. As she looked to the Castle doors that opened up, she heard footsteps behind her "We are here" a male voice said standing next to her, she looked at him
"Well, the Lux Veritatis is also here." She said pointing to the doors of the castle, two figures came out. Dewald looked and saw the two.
"Kurtis" he said
"Yes, and I think he has rebuilt his order." She said
"Those warriors fighting the Nephilims" Dewald laughed "He should've come to us."
"He's not gonna do that, Dewald. He's just like his father" She said.
"That women next to him" Dewald pointed out "Isn't that the famous adventurer, Lara Croft."
Irene looked again and sighed "it looks like her" she answered "Kurtis did pick the best fighter. She can kick ass."
"Must we go and help" Dewald asked
"Yes, we must this battle is going nowhere." She answered
Dewald turned to the people behind him and said "You heard the Master, we must stop this battle now" he said and with that they started walking up to the Castle.
Kurtis and Lara had exited the building; Lara looked around for Karel as Kurtis looked in the distance. He noticed a crowd of people heading their way. "Lara" Kurtis said and Lara looked at what he looked at
"Who are they?" she asked
"They are the cras pópuli" Kurtis answered and looked at Lara
"And they are?" Lara asked.
"They are like the Lux Veritatis but they have more abilities than we have." Kurtis answered.
The group stopped inches away from them, Irene and Dewald was in front of the group. "Kurtis, this war has gone on too long" Irene said stepping closer to him
"We have the Shard" Lara said
"Irene, we can use all the help we can get." Kurtis said
"So you want us to help" Dewald said. Irene placed her hand up in front of him, to silence him.
"We will fight and keep them away from you two, just go kill that bastard" Irene said and pointed up. Kurtis and Lara looked up and saw Karel floating above the war. They looked back at Irene and nodded to her. "Very well" Irene said and turned around to face her order. "We will fight these creatures until the very last one falls." She said
"Let's fight" Dewald said and ran off, with a group behind him. Irene looked at Kurtis and Lara.
"We will have your back now go" she said and followed the group.
Kurtis turned to Lara, and embraced her. She hugged him back and wondered why he just did that then she heard him whisper in her ear. "Lara, I love you" and she looked him in his blue eyes "I love you too, Kurtis." He broke the embrace and looked at her arm that at the symbol on it. "For now you will have half of my powers" he said and she looked at him
"Let's do this then" she said and then walked off in Karel's direction, killing Nephilims in their way.
When they arrived Karel came down to face them "So Kurtis Trent is back after his little girlfriend saved his life" Karel said with sarcasm
"You're going down" Lara said and threw an energy bolt at him, he didn't see it come and it hit him hard, making him fall to the ground. He quickly got up and ran up to her but Kurtis jumped him and threw him back. Wielding his Chirugai, Kurtis sent it toward Karel but somehow Karel managed to control it and threw it to the ground. He then attacked Kurtis while Lara turned her attention to a Nephilim who wanted to stab her. She made the creature fly backward and then she focused back on Karel, he was busy fighting Kurtis, slamming fists at each other, She saw the Chirugai and she wielded it, which was only lying a few meters away from her. She quickly made it spin and stabbed Karel in his back, but she was then taken by surprise. She expected him to scream in pain and fall but he did nothing, he turned around smiling devilishly at her. Then he hit Lara and she fell to the ground. After throwing the Chirugai away, he took the Shard out of her pocket.
Kurtis was lying on the ground in so much pain but saw Karel with the shard in his hand "no" Kurtis screamed trying to get up.
"We finally have the shard, it's over mortal, indeed it is over for your kind" he said to Lara who tried to get up as she stared at him. He then attempted to destroy the shard, the only powerful weapon that could kill him.
His try was unsuccessful as Irene hit him on the head, making him drop the shard. Karel turned to face her. Irene looked at him in rage and pushed him to the ground hard with a powerful force but it never touched him. He had turned her energy and threw it back to her, sending her flying backward.
Kurtis tried to run towards Lara in order to help her but he was prevented by an invisible force. Lara immediately stood up and ran to find the shard as Kurtis tried to get out of the force field. He looked at Karel in anger as he used his own powers to break the field but it was no use. Karel then threw Kurtis to the ground, so hard that he couldn't get up.
Lara searched for the shard, trying to avoid the dead soldiers of both sides that had fallen to the ground. The violent fight between the two sides incommoded Lara's task, but she finally found the shard. The only soldiers that weren't falling were the cras pópuli's. She didn't understand what was going on with that order but she had the shard and she could end Karel's life.
As Lara got up, a hand grabbed her throat and picked her up from the ground. She dropped the shard again, trying to free herself from the hands that were holding her. "Let her go, I have what I want." Karel said behind the man who had picked up Lara. Lara fell to the ground after he let her throat go. She breathed heavily as she looked up in sadness to see that the shard was in the wrong hands. Karel stood in front of her, Kurtis and Irene were on the ground unconscious just a few steps away from Karel, full of blood and wounds. Things weren't going well for them.
