Sakura's Journey Chapter 9 Capture
An other simple boring day at school. My powers had finally stabilized. All that was left for me to gain was the ability to slenderwalk, and that wasn't something you gained on your own. My dad had told me it was the one power that needed to be thought to the child by the parent. An adopted slender in a family of humans will never learn to slenderwalk. I spent most of the day thinking over and over about all this. Only 2 weeks ago, I doubted I even had any powers at all. I thought I was just meant to be an ordinary human. Now, I had woken up that morning, 2 feet taller than normal and without a face. My dad said it was normal for slenders who were just gaining their powers to change in their sleep. It was still a pretty big shock for me though...
I sat at the complete back of the math classroom, eyeing the clock impatiently. It was only about 15 minutes until the school day was over, then I could go meet up with Daemon and we'd go to the little park with the ducks that was close to school. I thanked the fact I was alone in the back, it gave me an oportunity to let my tendrills out a bit, although I had to be careful. I figured out how to extend them solid all the way, so they didn't just phase through the materials of my shirt and stick out. Instead, they were wrapped around my waist, underneath my shirt. The strange warm but cool sensation felt pretty good against my skin and it also felt good to have them out. Otherwise, I felt like I always had a slight pressure on my back, like if I always had my backpack on. The bell finally rang, snapping me from my thoughts. I quickly, and stealthily, retracted the shadowy apendages into my back, got up and left.
I came across Daemon in the hallway, he was drinking at the water fountain. Without a sound, I made my way over to him. "Waddap Mon?" He chocked on his water and turned around before he started laughing. "Hey Kura. I'm actually surprised you never did that joke before!" He looked me in the eyes, looking happy, but I could sense his uneasiness. It would make sense, he had witnessed my first transformation after all. I understand why that would be troubling. We walked out of the school and on to Angie's car. She drove us to the park. Me and Daemon were mostly silent along the way, only breifly exchanging words on how our individual classes went. His mom looked somewhat sad at the obvious tension between the two of us, but I sensed it in his aura that he still cared very deeply for me. A malicious grin suddently spread it's self across my face. I extended a single dark tendrill as he was turned towards the window and, in silence, flicked the hood of his sweather over his head. By the time he turned, the appendage was gone. "Kura..." He gave me a death glare and I couldn't help but giggle.
When we finally got there, Angie took some bread out of the trunk and gave it to us. "Now don't wander off too far, ok?" I nearly jumped back in shock when, among the bread in the bag, a black mass started to move. "Squible! What are you doing here?" The squirrel munched on his little piece of bread, looking pretty proud of himself. I scooped him up and placed him on my shoulder, where he didn't hesitate to curl up in the curled strands of hair. Me and Daemon raced towards the pond. After a couple dozen minutes of feeding the birds, me and Daemon decided to play hide and seek, to make up for what happened last time we tried to play. It was my turn to count. I promised I would be fair and not use my powers to find him. I heard his footsteps behind me as he slowly walked away and I counted. Finally reaching 50, I turned around. "Ready or not, here I come!" Instantly, something felt...wrong... Maybe it was just the ominious grey clouds and the slowly falling leaves, but it seemed as though something bad was going to happen. I ignored the feeling though and began to search. Squible's ears were perked up and he looked around us nervously, his tail flicking about.
I reached a clearing and stopped dead in my tracks. Daemon was here all right...being held back by a rather tall and bulky man dressed in black. No sooner was I out of the bushes that more of them emerged and surrounded us. I couldn't sense their auras, I couldn't find their minds. I then noticed they all had odd metallic devices on their heads. I began to freak out and tried to get away, but an other one of the men caught me and clamped a hand over my mouth. He was wearing thick leather gloves, so bitting him to get free was out of the question. Squible leapt off me and ran towards the man holding Daemon and sank his little fangs into the man's leg. He let out a yelp and fell backwards, giving Daemon enough time to shout. "HELP!" But a hand soon covered his mouth again. My eyes were open wide, my mind was racing. I did the first thing I could think of, releasing my tendrills and trying to fend them off. "Oh no you don't freakshow, you're ours now." Two more men joined him and pinned my tendrills at my sides. They pinched them in a way that hurt with a sharp electrical pain. Tears came to my eyes. We were bound in heavy ropes. I was tossed in the back of a white van, Daemon as well. That's when I noticed the men holding Squible by the tail, ready to throw him. The little squirrel was writhing and squeeling in confusion, fear and pain.
I was now enraged. I kept calm, being bound in ropes and all, but my mind was nowhere near calm. All the men fell to the ground, clutching their heads. I ripped through the rag that kept me from talking and screamed. "PUT HIM DOWN!" The men, still holding their heads, looked at each other in shock. One of them, seemingly the leader finally yelled despite the pain. "Give her the squirrel! Now!" Squible was tossed against me and I calmed down. The leader looked obviously perplexed, and somewhat scared. Whatever devices those were on their heads that blocked me from their minds, I had managed to break through them. As the door was shut and the men began to retreat into the vehicle, I felt a familiar presence from outside. Angie. I focused as hard as I could to try to comunicate to her, to tell her to stay put. I felt a slight tension in her aura, so I guess she got the message to hide. I heard the sound of an engine coming to life and the van started to drive away. In the darkness, I let out a single sighed sentance, hoping to brighten the mood up even a little to keep Daemon okay. "When will we ever get to play hide and seek uninterrupted?
(Angie's P.O.V.)
I watched as my son and my best friend's daughter were taken away by these strange men. I wanted to run at them. I wanted to fight. I wanted to leap out of my hiding space from behind this tree and charge at the vehicle while they were disstracted. I have to say, I was impressed by the little slender. She knocked all of those men back with her mind alone, all the while, they were wearing weird devices which seemed to have the purpose of blocking her powers. I finally decided to stay behind when I felt a presence against my mind. Tom had come into contact with my mind before, so I knew it was a slender's contact. I felt all the horrible worry, anxiety and fear. I knew it was Sakura. What surprised me though, was that she wasn't asking for help. She wanted me to stay put. The feeling that was the strongest was a feeling of concern. Not one for her, but for me. Still, my son was in there! My 12 year old only child... I placed a hand on my stomach. For now. He'd never even know...never even know he was going to be a big brother. No! I had to save him. I could save him... But not alone.
That's when I understood Sakura's logic. If I rushed in there, I'd be captured too, or killed. I didn't know who these people were, what they were capable of or what they wanted, but if I escaped, at least I could tell what happened. We had a chance of finding them... If I had jumped out and went after them, we'd all be gone. I sat there by that tree for an other good 10 minutes before I finally got up. I felt a horrible emptiness through all of me. My mind couldn't accept that this had happened. This had to be a nightmare, right? But I knew it wasn't... I drove towards the Oakson house.
Sarah was outside. She went to me to greet me, but paused when she saw the kids weren't there. There was a flash in her eyes and I knew she was speaking to Tom. He appeared by our side in an instant. Silence. Nobody spoke, just stared for a bit, then I fell to the ground and burst into tears.
AN: Finally did this chapter! Omg... I'm sorry I haven't uploaded in a while...so i'll reward all of you with a special! I'll try to write 2 more chapters tonight! Right now I have to go do dishes though, so... And ya...finally introducing multiple points of view. Johnny is gonna be a major character later in the story and the POV will alternate between him and Sakura, sometimes going to Angie or Sarah, maybe Tom but Idk... So ya...Angie is pregnant =o And her big boy got kidnapped...WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE WANT?! Keep reading to find out more!
