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Ten

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Jane Madison didn't understand what had just happened. She had never expected that Zula could have been kidnapped like that. She couldn't understand how someone could have come inside this area and decided to kidnap Zula like that. The reason as to what that would happen have been lost to the speedster after all.

The young woman turned toward the phone Zula had left lying down upon the table and took hold of it before making her way toward the basement where the computer was. She was going to hack into this phone and maybe learn where Zula had gone during the time of the day, and see all of her route. Placing the phone upon the small computer, the images appeared around the phone as Madison continued to type upon the keyboard that had appeared in front of her, her green eyes fixed upon the information in front of her.

The path that Zula took was very normal. When she had left the house earlier she had gone straight to her company and stayed there for a few hours before coming back and leaving the phone there…but the camera around the house was all down meaning that someone had hacked into the system and for them to be able to do something like that, they had to have been close to the house…

I have to check the camera from the nearby houses, Madison thought quickly typing and hacking into the city grid, They should be images in one of the camera around here…

Then the image popped on the screen in front of her. Madison was instantly focused upon it. The image was showing the street that is right outside of the house. It was something that she completely understands after all, she pushed the time forward to the last image that she had seen when the camera inside the house went out.

Madison's eyes were instantly fixed when a car approached toward the building, bearing the logo of a Cleaning company and it came to a stop right across the gate where Zula's house was. Madison stared at the vehicle for a few moments as it simply stood there for a few minutes and then the girl's heart jumped into her chest as Zula's familiar car appeared into the camera as well and then entered inside the building.

The door of the van opened and a group stepped out, all of them dressed completely in working outfit but by just looking at them Madison could tell they weren't real workers. The way they were moving and acting, it was the movement of people who were trained to fight and mostly mercenaries from the looks of it.

It was only a few minutes later the men came back but this time they had another person with them and Madison knew that it was Zula. She had seen the clothing in the last images of the camera that was inside the house. They placed Zula inside the vehicle before they drove off and out of the shot. Madison stared at the empty image for a few moments shaking her head.

"I should have been there," she said, "I could have fought against them…I could have helped her…"

Madison stared at the screen again.

If Zula knew how to use her powers, she wouldn't have been taken that easily.

"Zula," a male voice called out from above her.

Madison turned her gaze toward the ceiling above her. She hadn't heard someone entering the house while she was doing her research on how to find Zula. The young girl turned her attention toward the screen in front of her for a few moments before making her way toward the floor above reaching it. The man that was here, turned toward her and Madison find herself recognizing him.

She had seen this man's picture in Zula's stuff before but the woman only told her that he had been a friend before changing the subject. The man then took notice of her and from the look upon his face, he wasn't expecting to see her here.

"W…Who are you?" he asked, "How did you get in here?"

"I'm a friend of Zula from out of town," Madison told him.

Zhou frowned, suspicious.

"Yeah nice try," he said, "I know all of Zula's friends and I don't know you so I'm calling the cops…"

Madison moved in a burst of speed and lightning taking the phone from him and back at her original position before he could blink. Zhou's expression become comical as he stared at her across him his hand still in her air as he was carrying the phone just a second before.

"Wha…What the…How did you…?"

"Look," Madison said, "I can't have you calling the police but Zula is in danger. She was kidnapped a few hours ago and I need your help into finding her."

"Kidnapped?" Zhou said, "Why should I believe you? Why should I believe that you aren't part of that same group who did kidnap her?"

Madison gave him a blank stare.

"If I was, do you think I would have let you see me with how fast I can move?" she asked.

A silence reigned between them.

"Good point," Zhou muttered, "Y…You're a…"

"I know what I am," Madison said, "But I need your help to find Zula."

Zhou stared at her for a few moments.

"Let me see what you got then," he said.

Madison could feel relief coursing through her at that. At least he had decided to trust her for now.

On his side, Zhou was shocked at what he had seen that blonde girl do. He couldn't believe that Zula actually had a friend that was a Freak. Seeing what she had done had thrown him out of the loop for a few moments, completely flabberstated at what had just happened. This girl seems to know Zula and yet, Zhou had never heard the latter speak of her.

At least, he thought she never did.

The speed girl led him downstairs toward Zula's basement where the super computer Zula had down there was on and there were many images upon it. He stared at it, and noticed that it was security footage from right outside of the building.

"You hacked the camera system?" he said.

"It was the only way I could find out who took Zula," the girl answered, "All of the cameras within the house was taken down after Zula got home. I saw who had taken her but I couldn't identify the vehicle they had taken her in."

As she was speaking the girl was going backward on the footage until Zhou find himself staring at the image of a van and two people placing a third one into the van. From the clothes that the third person was wearing, he knew it was Zula for it was the same clothes she was wearing when she had come in this morning.

"This is a John&Daisy Cleaning Company," Zhou said, "I recognize that symbol anywhere. One of my brothers worked for them for a few years. I heard the pay was crap anyway. They have an building right here within the city on Twelve and Hort."

"Then that's where they stole it from," the girl said, "Do you think you can track them from here?"

"I'm not the computer guy alright," Zhou said, "The only way that you can know where that van had gone was to track down it's license plate through the system."

"I see," the girl said quickly typing her fingers blurring across the keyboard quite literally and Zhou find it quite distracting as he gaped at what she was doing.

Like everyone else around the world, he had heard of the rumors about the Freaks that were floating around and he never believed that any of them actually existed in the first place. But now having seen what that girl can do, he is starting to realize that those rumors were actually true.

"Found them," the girl said snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Already?" he said surprised, "How?"

"Since we had no idea as to where we're going to find the actual van," the girl said, "I wrote an algorithm that scanned the city for that exact license plate when it passed by a camera that is within the city and since those people didn't know if we could track them, they didn't bother trying to hide themselves and it all led them straight toward this building on Rustin and Howland."

He stared at her.

"What?"

"You did that just now?" he asked, shocked.

"I work fast," the girl said, "I'm going there and get Zula out."

"You sure you can do this alone?" Zhou asked, "I was in the army you know so I can hold my own in a fight."

"I can handle myself," the girl said before turning away from him and disappearing from sight in a burst of speed and golden lightning, leaving Zhou standing there staring at the spot she was in a second ago.

Wow, he thought.

Meanwhile

Zula stared at the man completely taken aback by the question. She was wondering exactly what was going on and how did that man knew that she was looking into the R-System. It was something that she was just starting to ask about it just a few days ago but for him to be aware of it.

"What…?" she whispered.

"It's a simple question," the man said with a light frown upon his face.

"I don't know what is talking about…," she said.

"Don't lie to me," the man said glaring at her, "I know that you have asked your little friend Zhou to search about it for you. Someone like you isn't really one of the people that I would expect to have the knowledge of something like that."

Zula looked at him, frowning lightly.

"What I want to know is how you manage to get to that information," he said, his eyes meeting hers.

Zula stared at him, not talking at all.

"All I did was come across it as I was reading something off," she said, "I swear I don't know anything about it."

The man frowned.

"You're lying," he said.

"I swear…I'm not," Zula answered her.

The man chuckled, shaking his head.

"Well then, I'm going to get my boys to go and pick up a mutual friend of ours," he said, "Then we'll see how cooperative that you are."

Zula stared at him, her eyes going wide with surprise for a few seconds.

"Mutual friend?"

Then her eyes widened.

"No…not him," she yelled, "Don't you dare touch him."

Without Zula's knowledge the ground around her trembled lightly at her sudden fear for Zhou. These guys had managed to kidnap her without giving her a time to fight back. She didn't know who these people are put she didn't want them to go after her long time friend.

The man, however, barely listened to her as he placed his hand toward is ear so that he could communicate with whoever he had with him.

"Alright go and bring him in," he said.

Then a light frown appeared upon his face.

"Blue team come in," he asked, "Blue team, can you hear me?"

Zula stared at the man in front of her, feeling a light confusion coursing through her as she was staring at the man across her. The man let out a sigh before making his way out of the room leaving her alone and tied up upon the chair. The girl instantly started to wiggle around trying to move her hands from their hold but it was futile.

Suddenly there was gunfire coming from the room beyond where she was and Zula instantly looked up toward the closed door in front of her, feeling confused as to what was happening but then the gunfire suddenly stopped as abruptly as they had started. The girl stayed still, staring straight toward the door in front of her.

Then the door opened and a familiar figure dressed in the familiar red suit thought there was a new addition to the suit. There was a cowl now with two glowing white eyes that seems to shine in the semi darkness that was in front of her.

"Zula."

"Madison…," Zula said, feeling relief at the sight of the other girl, "How did you find me…"

"I'll explain later," the girl in red said as she approached toward her and the girl reached toward her and she started vibrating her hand at super speed so that she could break the chains that were holding her hands.

"What was those gunfire I heard?" Zula asked.

"When I started taking them out," Madison answered her, "One of them saw me and well, you heard what happened next. C'mon, I'm taking you out of here."

The girl picked Zula up and then knowing what was about to happen, Zula placed her head against Madison's form. She heard the sound of the wind howling in her ears as her friend started to run away from the place where she was kept by the strange people.

"We're here," Madison said.

Zula removed her head from where she was leaning it and found that they were standing right in the middle of her living room. She hadn't realized that they had already reached her home. Madison placed her down and then Zula stayed standing there, holding upon Madison's arm so that she could stand. She glanced at the girl beside her noticing the cowl that she was wearing.

The mask then pulled itself off her face revealing the green eyes that she was familiar with.

"What did those guys wanted with you?" she asked.

"They know that I asked Zhou about the R-System," Zula said, "How did they know about that I don't know but…"

"Zula, you're back,"

The girl instantly turned before finding herself engulfed into a hug.

"Zhou?" she said shocked.

"Did you have any idea how worried I was about you?" the young man said to her, "Not answering my calls and hearing that you were kidnapped…"

Zula stepped back from the hug, glancing toward the Madison.

"He knows about me," Madison told her, "I had to ask him for help so that I could find you."

Zhou stared at her.

"You've still got to explain to me exactly what is going on around here," he said, "Because there is no way that this girl is a friend from out of town as she told me."

Zula gave Madison a stare.

"Why did you tell him?" she asked.

"Because hiding it wasn't going to make it go away," Madison answered her with a light shrug of her shoulder, "But even so…why were those people after you?"

"The R-System," Zula said, looking at her, "Whatever it was, that was the reason they kidnapped me. They wanted to know how I came to know about it."

"You mean that thing you asked me to ask around for you?" Zhou said raising his eyebrows, "But I don't understand…why would…"

The man took a deep breath.

"Look, will one of you please explain to me exactly what is going on?" he asked giving her a frown.

Both Zula and Madison stared at each other for a few moments before they both looked at the man across them.

There was a soft groan coming from the girl as she moved from the position she was in. Silver eyes came into light as she gazed around herself for a few seconds wondering where she was for a few moments before everything came back to her again.

"How are you feeling Eve?"

The silver eyes turned toward the new spoke person. There was a woman at the other end of the room dressed in a simple shirt with jeans on. With a groan, the silver eyed girl, pulled herself back up upon the bed and glanced down toward the bandages that was wrapped around her body. She touched it, completely taken by surprise by the sight of the object around her body.

"You know, you scared the crap out of me when I found you lying there in the middle of my apartment with blood all over you," the woman said approaching her with a plate of food, "Here eat."

She took the plate from the woman.

"How long…?"

"You were out for a few days," the woman told her, "Your little show had gathered quite the attention from the press and you have every cop out there gunning for your head, Demon."

The silver eyes looked up toward the woman, and something like annoyance flashed within them. The woman noticed the gaze and simply chortled.

"So, do I even want to know what caused this one?" she asked.

The silver eyes became distant as they were thinking about what had happened that night, when she had faced against the girl who could manipulate shadows around herself. She had been surprised that there was someone out there that was like her…but there shouldn't have been any others. She had made sure of it…

"There…there was another…," she said looking at her friend, "Another like me…"

The woman stared at her.

"Huh?" she said, "Well, they have been rumors about people that can do the things you can do…and there was an incident all over the news earlier today about something happening at the University."

The silver eyes instantly looked at her, "Are you okay…?"

"I didn't go today," her friend smiled, "You don't have to worry about me."

The silver eyed girl let out a sigh of relief as she stood back up upon her feet. She can feel the pain that was coursing through her from the explosion of the grenade that had blown up in her face. That girl was part of the gang, and she was the mysterious Shadow Walker she had been hearing about for the past months since she had first arrived here in Forge City.

She knew about her gang and that girl 's power was dangerous. If she believed that the Demon was dead, then she was going to try to take over the other gangs and even the people of the city won't be safe from the gangs.

"Hey, where do you think you're going?" her friend asked her, "I was barely able to stitch you up and you're already going back out there. You're in no position to move."

"I am going out there Samara," she said turning her gaze at the other girl, "That girl…she is more dangerous than any drug dealers or other crooks I've beaten into submission before. She is like me. I won't allow these criminals to have an advantage like that."

"So what," Samara said, "You're going to get yourself killed out there if you go."

The silver eyed girl turned away from her and making her way toward the window.

"Eve, damn it," Samara yelled after her, "Listen to me, you need your rest. You think going out there and getting yourself killed is going to help anyone?"

The girl, Eve, looked back at her as her eyes bleed into their golden color with the slit running in the middle of the eyes. The two large wings grew from her back as she stared at her.

"I'm not doing this for anyone's sake other than myself," she said.

With that she jumped outward of the apartment building and toward the empty sky around. Samara ran forward to look for her friend but all that she saw were golden feathers dancing lightly in the wind in the distance in front of her.

Samara let out a sigh shaking her head before making her way back toward the inside of her apartment.

Hope you have enjoyed the read.

Next Time: The Demon's Revenge

Jacques0 out.

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