20. Metal BROTHERS
15 November 1992,
New York City, USA.
I've been reading books for the last three months, any book related to magic, old newspapers for mysterious sighting, or any mysterious disappearance, I don't know why but it feels like this was not the first time I've witnessed magic, it feels like I've seen this before, I've not even seen Gwen since then, It has been three months since I last saw her, I don't know why but I so badly want to see her, I can't forget that beautiful silky hair, I can't forget those beautiful pink lips, her beautiful milk-white skin, everything was so perfect with her.
"Hey, Stu'" shouted my uncle
"Yeah, joe" I shouted back from my room,
"I'm going to Randi's place, okay pal" shouted my uncle,
"Okay" I shouted back, then I heard house gate opened and then closed.
I picked up one of the books I was reading for finishing it, suddenly I heard the faint pops sound which I haven't heard for last three months, I instantly turned around and saw two men in dark black robes, the very same, who tried to kill me last time, now I'm dead.
"Don't think too much you filth, you don't even know us" said one of the men, the one with yellow teeth and wild black hair, last time I was not able to see them clearly but yeah they look ugly, while holding his wand in front of me, the other man just menacingly laughed, who had this big bulging eyes, with a round face.
"why are you still following me," I said while tightening my fingers around pencil behind my back,
"You remember us" said the one with wild hair shockingly
"I do, would you like to tell me, why are you still want to kill me" I asked, holding pencil firmly,
"because we said so" said the man with long wild black hair and looked directly at me, with a menace in his eyes, So I just threw my pencil at his eyes, Years of knife throwing practice sometime comes handy. The pencil sharpened side was into his left eye, there was blood all over his face, he was shrieking in agony, for removing pencil from his eye he accidentally dropped his wand on floor, the other man total focus was on his partner, so I slowly picked up the pencil from the floor and snapped it in two pieces which got the attention of other man who was surprised at what I did, then threw a curse at me, I just dodged , the second the man threw another curse at me, I grabbed a lamp off my table and threw at his wand hand, he somehow managed to avoid the upcoming lamp, but in meantime, I retrieved my Uncle Joe's pistol from my table drawer, I borrowed it from him without telling him, the man laughed at me, looking at pistol in my hand, so I just shot at his wand hand, He dropped his wand in pain as he lost a thumb now, he was bleeding badly same as his partner, he was also howling because of pain, I instantly picked up his wand from floor, snapped it in two pieces, both of the men were glaring at me now, one with his remaining eye, pressing the other one with his hand, the other holding his hand where his thumb used to be trying to slow down bleeding, I just pointed my gun at both of them, so with a faint pop both of them disappeared, Now I didn't know what to do because if next time they come I'll be dead as they pretty much know, I'm not an easy target, I heard some noises coming from downstairs, I tightened my grip on my pistol, pointed it directly at door, waiting for it to open, it can be uncle Joe but I can't be sure, I heard someone coming upstairs, their footsteps noise was low, he just nervously stood there waiting, waiting, for door to open,the door opened, he was looking directly into bright blue eyes.
"what the hell" said Gwen as she looked at the mess in my room,
"can you help me cleaning this" I replied with a nervous smile
"what" she asked incredulously
"it happened because of two stupid wizards, so you should help me" I replied her, I put the gun on my table and grabbed a water bottle.
"you fought two wizards" she asked still shocked,
"Yeah and I have made sure that next time, they kill me" I replied honestly, "they looked livid when they disappeared"
"What did you do?" she asked,
I explained her everything, she even cleaned all the mess with her wand, all she did was moving her wand in different directions.
"So, now how did you get here" I asked her,
"Actually, I've put a jinx at you, which alerts me if you are in presence of magic" she replied
"As your backup that day, you came right on time" I mocked her
"Hey, I'm sorry, I was not in town" she said "the moment I got alerted I came here"
"Not in town" I said "all you have to do is disappear and reappear on your destination, I don't think that's difficult"
"in reality, I was on a date" she replied "it's really difficult to get out of a date, you try some day"
"Okay" I replied trying to hide hurt in my voice, she is on date, why do i care " can you please tell me, why now they attacked me after three months"
"I don't know much" she replied honestl
"they thought, my memories are erased" I said remembering my conversation
"They knew" she said "oh, they know ministry protocols that's why they attacked you now"
"what protocols" I asked her
"Actually, when we obliviate means erase memory of no-maj means people like you, we have to keep an eye on obliviated no-maj for next few months, I was keeping an eye on you, more like a jinx, so they didn't attack you thinking minister is keepinh eye on you and now as it is around three months, they thought you are now not under ministry surveillance" she explained
"that's a lot to take in, so this no-maj means who can't do magic right" I asked her
"yes" she replied, "now, You will have to be with me for next some days"
"w-what?" I stuttered
"for keeping you safe, it's better if you stay with me until we get rid of metal brothers" she explained
"they are brothers" I asked her, she nodded.
"Hey, I can't leave this place, my uncle Joe, I mean both of them will attack him for getting to me" I said, I wanted to go with her but the things which are happening will only put my uncle in danger.
"Listen, you can't tell him but I can put same jinx on him, I promise next time I'll be here before time" she said,
"next time you can come on time, but I'm already here for him" I said,
"you won't come" she asked, I nodded
after firmly squeezing my hand she disappeared same way as last, leaving her fragrance in the air.
A rat was running in dimly lit shack, it was running on the wooden floor, jumping over holes, the door opened of the shack, two men in dark robes stumbled inside, the moment the rat saw them started running in opposite direction.
"I'm going to kill that filth" said Graham metal, while healing his damaged eye with a spare wand in his hand, which they have stacked in this backup shack.
"I know brother," said Robert metal, looking at his thumb in his palm, "that filth has lost me, my thumb"
"you are crying over a thumb, I'm left with a fucking eye" shouted Graham metal
"I know but our mission is to get that fucking map not killing that shit" exclaimed Robert metal at his brother, "Because of your insistence I went there"
"we have no information for that fucking map and you know that, we needed to kill that shit because we never leave anybody once we tell them that they are dead at least not a fucking filthy No-maj" hissed Graham metal
"You know very well brother, if we get that map we will get gold worth of billion" Robert Metal explained
"Yeah, I know but we can't get hold of that stupid girl either" said Graham metal
"brother, that filth was not obliviated" said Robert metal
"Yeah, I know what about that" replied Graham metal
"you remember, that day what if that girl likes the boy maybe that's why she didn't erase his memories" answered Robert metal
"then we can use filth as bait, after getting our hands on map, we can kill both of them slowly" said Graham metal with a malicious glint in his eyes,
"Accio, Rat" said Robert metal while pointing his wand ahead of him, a rat came flying towards them which, Robert caught with his now thumb less hand, "I'm starving, what about you brother"
I was sitting in my kitchen waiting for my uncle, I can't tell him everything but I'll tell him bits, so he can be prepared for whatever comes his way, he is all I've and I love him. Now, I've got two crazy wizards on my back, who wants nothing more than to kill me, tonight I gave them a reason to kill me horribly. So, now it's apparent that they will try to ambush my Uncle, they are magical all they have to do is swish their wands.
"I'm Home" I heard my Uncle standing at kitchen threshold with packed food, I smiled at him.
After having dinner, my uncle was just watching movie "Another 48 Hrs." , I dropped my self beside him on couch and he started telling me all about the movie, here he calls me a nerd, when he himself is a movie nerd.
"Thanks for dragging me to your knife throwing trainings" I said to my uncle, accepting his lessons were worth learning.
"you were brilliant at it" he said while grining at me "by the way it took you years to accept lessons were worthy of your time"
"yeah, I know and thanks for shooting lessons as well" I said while putting the pistol on table
"you didn't kill someone, did you?" asked my uncle nervously
"No, No I just borrowed it for practicing" I replied,
"I don't remember giving it to you," my uncle questioned with a raised eyebrow
"Yeah, yeah I know, I know" I answered
"You really didn't kill someone" he asked once again
"do I look like a killer" I asked him now
"yeah, you do" he replied
"stop, pissing me off" I said, while glaring at him
"you started it, I mean you have never done something like this, borrowing a gun, admiring throwing knives, I've every right to be suspicious" he said, with a curious look
"now, can we end it, I didn't do anything stupid, I just wanted to sharpen my target" I lied
"Planning for Olympics?" my uncle asked mockingly
"Will you shut up old man" I said still glaring at him
"it hurts" he said with a fake hurting voice.