Chapter 11

I began walking along the wall looking for some way of getting over it… Unfortunately I made it pretty impenetrable.

"Sigh, there must be some way…!" I then remembered the trees I had planted on the other side of the house, they were so out the way I didn't bother cutting them so they grew over the wall.

"Hm, thought my laziness would come in handy some day." I laughed to my self as I ran round the back. Amy followed me quietly, she was still wary of other traps that could be hidden around us.

I finally got there and, sure enough, there were large branches poking over the walls of my house, low enough for Amy to grab onto.

"I'm not sureAlastair…?" Amy said cautiously. This number of my friends was way too important, not only could he hide us, he could protect, care for and maybe even… allow us to talk to each other…

"That thought and that thought alone drove me to do anything within my power to do what I had to, to get to him.

"Ok, hop upAlastair!" Amy said reaching out a hand towards me. I jumped onto her arm and climbed onto her shoulders and braced myself. She then jumped up and grabbed onto the lowest branch, she then lifted herself up and walked slowly across it. She was strong and well balanced… There was no doubt about that.

"Yes!" She said as she jumped off the branch onto the floor below, inside the wall.

"Right, wait here!" I said to her signalling her to wait where she was. She gave me a look of confusion so I sat on the ground and pointed to her, hoping she would realise that I was asking her to sit tight. The main reason I wanted her to stay there was because who knows what traps they could have set in my house.

"Oh… but…?" I quickly shook my head and ran off before she could argue,

"My best tac-tic" I laughed to myself. I got to the front door and then thought,

"Oh… How the hell am I going to open this thing…?" Just then the door creaked slightly, causing me to come to the conclusion that it was already open.

"Damn… They have been here…!" I cursed to myself as I pushed open the door. I ran into the living room keeping my eyes open, obviously for anything unusual, but there wasn't. I then got to my cupboard for my TV stuff and opened it, using my teeth to grip onto the handle and my legs to push. It opened easily enough to my happiness. I then went straight to the back and pressed a loose brick.

For some reason my ears would keep pricking every so often, as if something caught their attention for a split second, but I ignored it. I pushed my head through and grabbed the folder with my and then jumped out of the cupboard. Then it struck me again.

'Tick, tock, tick, tock…' It was my clock, why would that interest me, I decided to go and investigate, still with the folder in my mouth. It was just against the stair case which was in front of the front door. I looked at it and turned my head. It was a large digital grandfather's clock… Then I remembered…

"Oh, no…!" I had never turned the clock on this morning. For some reason I can't go to sleep with the constant 'tick, tocking' of the clock so I turn it off but due to my transformation I never turned it back on. I scrambled a bit on the slippery surface of my floor and flew out the open door.

"Run!" I shouted while running towards Amy, she just gave me another confused look. As I got to her I launched up to her shoulders which was her cue to get climbing again. But I think my panicked expression told her she needed to hurry. She got to the branch and without walking along she just jumped past the wall and landed on her feet, me on the other hand fell off her shoulder and landed in a heap on the floor, humouring Amy.

Suddenly an explosion sounded and we saw a huge fireball rise from where my house was situated. I jumped to my feet and ran to the gate, still with the folder in my mouth... but I soon dropped it as my mouth fell wide open as I gazed upon my completely destroyed house...

"I... I, uh... Can't believe it... How could they... How dare they!" I began to regret more and more my decision to stop Amy from taking their lives. Amy came from behind me and looked on at my burning house...

"I'm... So sorry Alastair..." I shook my head as I began to feel tears beginning to form in my eyes.

"Everything... everything of mine was gone... My car... My home... Everything but Amy" I looked up at her and she noticed my sad expression. She picked me up and squeezed me tightly allowing me to let some of my sadness out in the form of tears...

After a few minutes I refused to cry any more and get on with what we had to do. I jumped down and held the folder in my mouth signalling Amy to take it. She took it and began to open the front page, a number, an address and a code was situated on the first page, it all had to do with Ryu... Even the code which would come in handy later on.

"Hmm, I guess this is where we want to go...?" She said pointing to the address. I nodded and began walking down the road.

"Oh wait a sec!" I remembered that Ryu said that I had to ring him before I went to his place. I signalled Amy to put the folder down and so she did and I pointed to the phone number.

"Oh you want me to ring him first!" Amy asked, I nodded happily. "Ok...?" I think she was slightly nervous, of course I never mentioned him to Amy either... Maybe I shouldn't have done this after all. Amy dialled the number and then put it on speakerphone, so I could here as well.

"Hello Alastair..." The voice said, I just nodded to her to talk.

"Uhh, this isn't Alastair..." Amy said nervously.

"What! How can you have this number then!" He really wasn't happy.

"Look Ryu!" She read the name I had written at the top obviously.

"How do you know my name!" He said even angrier.

"Look, Alastair gave me this number for a reason and I want to know why!" Now I knew this would get his attention.

"Huh... But... But didn't he tell you anything...?" He instantly began sounding concerned.

"Sigh... No... He can't tell me anything now..." Suddenly there was a long pause.

"Ok, there is a large black car with the number plate reading 'URRYU 123', get in it, no questions asked.

"Wait what!" Amy said shocked at his sudden outburst.

"Look I gave Alastair that number in case of something 'bad' happening, if he has given the number to you that must mean you're in danger too... And what exactly did you mean when you said 'He can't tell you anything now...',"

"I'll tell you when I see you in person!" She said very suspitiously.

"Good call, people could be tapped into the line..." He started leaving the suspicious end of the spectrum to sounding slightly paranoid...

Suddenly a car, reading all the exact characteristics Ryu had described, drove up beside us. It had fully blacked out windows, we couldn't even see the driver.

"Ok, it's here now." Amy said in a slightly lighter mood, guess she was happy that she didn't have to walk to his house, or whatever he lived in... He never said. He hung up without saying another word so Amy guessed he was getting ready for our arrival, or Amy's at least.

Amy picked me up, into her arms and the back door opened on its own accord, which obviously startled us.

"Huh... Weird...?" Amy mumbled to her self. She slipped into the seat and the door sealed, I say sealed rather than shut because it sounded like it had an air lock or something as it closed. Amy put her belt on and lay me on her lap.

"Don't worry, I'm sure everything will turn out fine..." She said in a reassuring tone. For once, since this morning I actually felt relaxed enough to... Actually relax.