Sorry for such a long delay on my chapter. I had a lot going on with school, writers block and… well maybe I should tell you to prevent it from happening to anyone else. The past month has been hell. First of all my friend Joey Lauzon died in car crash. Him and one of his friends died instantly. The driver died two days later in the hospital which would be better then waking up from the coma he was in to find out he was going to jail for second degree murder. Joey-16 was drunk when he died. Same with the other two he was with. His funeral was awful as well. Was I started I couldn't stop crying.
And my friend, sixteen as well, was supposed to have her baby over March break. Well she did have her baby but it died at birth. And the father didn't even stay with her for the nine months she was pregnant. She's in a group thing because of what happened. Because of these two events that happened over the past three weeks I am telling every one that is actually reading this don't drink and drive and condoms don't necessarily work all the time.
Now sorry for the delay and read the chapter that isn't necessarily good.
"You sure you're ok?" Max asked.
"Yeah." Matt said forcing his feet to move under him. But his exhaustion was over powering him. He then fell sideways but was caught by Max. "I'm fine." He stubbornly stated.
"Yeah sure you are." Max said hoisting one of Matt's arms over his shoulders to help him stand. "Just lean on me, k?"
"Whatever." Matt said but, none-the-less, he did as he was told. Matt didn't want to admit it but he did need the help to get back home. The fight took a lot out of him and he was still drenched in the werewolf's blood.
Matt looked down at his shirt then he looked over to Max's. The blood was coming off on Max's white shirt. "Now you're turning red." Matt said.
"Huh?" Max looked down at Matt who was looking at his shirt. He saw the red stain and said, "Don't worry about it. I'll clean it when we get back." It was a fare walk back. It was dark and they went slow. By this time not a soul stood in the streets. At least not in this part.
When they did get back to the apartment they went straight to Matt's place. They didn't have to worry about the door being locked because, at the time, the door was lying on the floor. "My dad's going to kill me." Matt said. Max said nothing. He knew that this could cause a lot of trouble for there part.
Max helped Matt sit at the table. Matt rested. Max got him a drink and they sat for a few. After a few minutes Max said, "Matt, you better get cleaned up ok. I have to get your friends. I told them to hide." Matt nodded and stood up. He forced himself into the washroom where Max had laid out clothing for him when they first got back.
Max walked out of Matt's place with only a glance at the wooden door that lay on the floor.
The Lobby, well… was small. It had a desk. Blue carpet and that a couch that matched the carpet. One fan light was all it took to light up the place with a yellow kind of light. A wooden door was slightly cracked. It was beside the desk. One person was behind the desk. He wears a black suit. He was asleep. Typical. Max thought as he walked through the glass door to the lobby and saw the person. He looked at the couch in which Tai sat. Izzy wasn't there.
When Max walked into the room Tai stood up. He looked at the other boy waiting for him to speak. To say trouble is over and your friend is fine… or to say the apocalypse is coming and your friend is…Tai shook his head to stop his mind from wondering to negative thoughts. "How's Matt? Is he ok? What's going on?" A snore came from the sleeping man. Both boys looked towards him to see if he was still asleep. He was then they looked back to each other. "You have to tell me something." Tai said in a lower voice.
"I know." Said Max. "But first is first. Where's your other friend? You know the red head.
Tai rolled his eyes. "Yeah I know. He went through that door to see something. Don't know what though?" Tai said, pointing towards the cracked door.
"Well let's find out." Max walked towards the door. When he got to it he took a quick glance at the guy behind the desk and opened the door when seeing the guy wasn't about to wake up. Then both Max and Tai walked into the hall and slowly shut the door. The two walked down a small hall that had a purplish white wall paper. At the end of the hall was a light that, obviously, came from a TV. When they got to the end Max looked around the corner to see the only one in this room was Izzy. And with that Max and Tai walked in with out a worry of being caught.
The room was bigger then the last one they were in. There were no windows or doors in this room and had the same wallpapering as the hallway. The floors were wood and it had a couch with a blanket sloppily thrown over it. A small TV with bad reception played in front of the couch in which Izzy sat.
"Hey Izzy. What you watching?" Izzy jumped a bit at first. He wasn't expecting for anyone to come into the room but he recognized the voice and immediately calmed down.
"Shhh." Izzy hushed as he paid close attention to the TV. Max and Tai moved towards the couch and sat down to see what Izzy was so determined to watch. It was the news. It said, "… An unexplained Phenomenon occurred over an hour ago. An anonymous citizen had released a tape recording of this incident.
"Recording"
Every thing starts out fuzzy. The tape recorder is being moved around. "Do you have it?" A feminine voice says. "Here. Here." Says a male voice. Everything goes dark for a moment then the vision clears up. You see a motion picture taken from an apartment window. It's dark outside. All accept a blue bubble. In side the bubble is a boy that can't be recognized from the distance. Another man that s dressed in black is there too. "What's going on down there?" Asked the female. "Try focusing the film," the male said. "It's as focused as it's going to get." Then seen on the tape is a small flash of blue in between the two people. Then static fills the screen. The picture clears for a moment. "What happened?" Asked the male. "Its battery's low." Then you see a third person walk up to the side of the blue bubble. Then static take's the screen.
"End of Recording"
"Unfortunately, that's all we have of…"
Max looked into space as he blocked out the rest of the news. "That was Matt, Black and me." Max states. Tai and Izzy looks towards Max. "Shit." Then Max stands up and walked out. Izzy was the next to fallow. Tai stood up and turned off the TV before fallowing. Max walked down the hall and opened the door roughly. The guy behind the desk was woken up roughly and saw Max leave through the glass doors with out a glance in his directions. Then Izzy walks out from the door and the man stands up. "Hey kid. You shouldn't have been in there." Izzy ignores him and walks out. Then Tai jogged out from the hall and past the desk. "Hey. You shouldn't have been there either." Tai left the small Lobby to go up to Matt's apartment. "I should really get a different job." Said the guy.
"Could they tell who we are?" Asked Matt as he finished putting on his shirt in the washroom after his shower.
"No. But none the less we have to be more careful. If they found out…"
"Hey if they didn't see our faces then what's the problem?" Matt asked as he walked out of the washroom. "Only a few people will know it's us. And that would be Massar and Darien. And when Massar finds out Darien will be in more trouble then I'll be when dad sees our apartment. By the way, we have other problems."
"First of all, when Massar sees the video, he'll see how hopeless our situation was. He'll know someone helped us so that means that Mack will get screwed over for this. Massar has a way of getting what he wants. Then we have the obvious problem."
Matt looked at Max for a moment before saying, "Damb."
"Exactly. So first we have to…"
A cough interrupted there conversation. The two boys looked towards Tai and Izzy. Izzy was obviously dying to get a few questions out of the way. Tai, the one that coughed, then said, "I think you owe us an explanation."
"No." Matt stated. "This doesn't involve you."
"Yes it does if you believe it or not."
"No it doesn't. Tai mind your own business." Tai walked right in front of Matt and looked into Matt's eyes.
"Not until you say what's going on. I've been wanting to know what has happened over the year that you were gone. At first I couldn't' wait to find out. Same with the rest of us but then you wouldn't say anything. So after a while I decided not to question you anymore. That I wanted nothing more then for things to back to the way they were. So I tried to forget it and act as if nothing happened. Act as if you weren't missing at all during that past year. Do you know how long it took me to talk Izzy out of questioning you?... but now? I can't. I can't watch you endanger your self and say nothing. Do nothing." Matt grabbed Matt's shoulders with his hands and said, "You have to tell us. You owe us that."
"Matt. It does involve them now." Max said. "We have to tell them." Matt lowered his eyes to the floor in defeat. Tai let go of Matt and dropped his hands to his side. Izzy took a step forward in anticipation.
"It's a long story… Take a seat." Matt instructed. They walked over to the couch and sat down. Izzy on one end Tai on the other. Matt in the middle and Max on a chair beside the couch.
It was silent for a moment. Matt didn't want to speak nor did not know where to start. He kept his eyes low trying to concentrate on what had first happened to him. Finally Matt started. He told Tai and Izzy of Massar and of the society. He told them of him being hurt… beaten for his, what Massar called, 'disobedience' 'disregard of instructions' and others. He told them of Max and his first meeting. Then of the planning they had made and finally of there grand escape.
Matt told them of who Darien was. He said that Darien was a guy that worked for Massar. That Darien really believed in what Massar had planned and that Massar. Darien was strong and Massar's top man. In rank, the only one higher then Darien is Massar. "Darien is dangerous. He has short dark hair and is always wearing a suit. He says it makes him look more 'intellectual' or some shit like that. But if you see him on the streets turn the other way. He's bad news. Trust me with that." When he saw Tai and Izzy nod he continued.
He told them of there journey across Japan. He said how they worked for food and shelter and never stayed in the same place for more then four days. He said that he had to fight for his life at times and then he said…
He said that there was a girl they met on they're travel. "Her name was Crystal. She was nice and funny and smart… the problem isn't that though… the problem's 'she was'." He then tilted his head back against the back of the couch and closed his eyes as if preparing to live through the experienced. "We met one night on a back road. She was lost. So were we. We helped each other to find a street called Gushi or Gashi or Ghwansha or something like that. I can't remember anymore but it doesn't really matter." Matt chuckled solemnly to himself. He said that it was that night when they befriended Crystal. He told the two boys that He and Chrystal became close that they talked a lot and it got the two to know each other. And it wasn't just that she was a good friend but she was a bad girl. She was the one who talked Max and himself into that bar over by Mt. Fuji. She begged and bribed them to go. Max said it wouldn't be smart to get drunk since they were planning on catching a train the next day to leave. But when she said that she would pay for the drinks the two boys jumped at the offer.
That night no one really got drunk, mainly because she didn't have as much money as she thought, but because, at least they say, they were taking in the consideration that they had to get up early the next day. But all three of them new it was bull.
When the bar closed they left. They were going to this small vacant house. The house was empty but had all its furniture in it. Max said that the owners must be on vacation. Crystal was by her self. She was stayed at the house with the two. She has run away from home and said that the reason was better left unsaid so they didn't question her.
"Anyways," Matt continued, "On our way we ran into someone that she recognized. It was her brother. He was twenty two and lived on his own. She saw him before he saw her so she quickly pulled us into an alley that we were close too. When he was passing by she said that he looked sad and now started to regret leaving home despite her problems. I nodded. I would have told her that I would have given up anything to go home but then I'd have to tell her the whole story. Max and I were not ready too.
"We decided to walk the back roads instead. Unfortunately we soon found out that it wasn't such a good idea. We then were attacked by Darien and some other magic users. . We really did. Our first objection was to run but that didn't go as plan when we turned around and some one else was there. Crystal asked us what was going on but we didn't answer. It didn't seem important at the time.
"When Max and I started to fight back… well, let's say she was a little more then surprised." Matt said that they had fought to get a way but it didn't help. They were overpowered in no time at all. When they had the two boys they finally took notice of Crystal. "They said Crystal saw too much. That she was 'insignificant' to the 'ultimate plan' and that she had to go."
"They didn't?" Izzy questioned even though he already knew the answer.
Matt nodded. "They killed her. Everything got fuzzy after that. I really can't remember what happened but Max said I flipped and that my magic, the magic Massar gave to me, completely unleashed from the card and it took the lives of all of the guys there except for Darien. Darien was too strong but Max said that he barely got out of there. I must have passed out after that because I remember waking up in a motel room over in Okinawa. It was that event that made us oath to never make friends until this thing gets solved. Which is why we couldn't tell you guys.
"In fact, it wasn't my chose to come here. Back to this city. It was about a month later and we were running low on cash. So we decided to walk to the next city, which was Obiada (sp?) and the last place we were was just a farm that was placed in the middle of no where. The people that lived at the farm didn't want us to stay for a second night. Personally, I didn't want to stay there either. The place smelled like manure and the guy kept complaining about teens and there music.
"So when we came here we found an old abandoned store that we could stay at. Max was out to by some food because I demanded that we shouldn't go knocking on doors asking to work for food in this city. I didn't tell him why but he found out why soon enough anyways.
"And you know what happened after that… until Black came." Matt then told them of the fight between him and black and Max trying to help. But then he had to tell them about Mack. and he told them of what Black said to him about his visions and Massar's plan. And how Mack saved them
"And that's pretty much everything that you need to know." Matt raised his head and opened his eyes to see what his friends thought. He looked at both of them. There expressions were a bit of amazement. Neither boy said anything so Matt decided to press into their thoughts to find out what they were thinking, "So… What you think? Do you even believe me."
"Yeah. At lease I believe you. Tai?" Matt looked towards Tai.
"Wow. I cant' believe how much happened over such a short time. I mean a year's pretty long. a year and… six months? That's pretty long but not for all that too happen. Hey man. If you need me to do anything. You know help. I'm up for it." Tai said.
Matt smirked at his friend. "Thanks Tai but I don't need help."
"Yeah right Matt. It was me that got you jailed, remember?"
"Matt?" Matt then turned to the silent redhead and waited for Izzy to continue. "I thought your house was bugged. Doesn't' that mean what you just said was said to the police to… or did you not know that your house was bugged. Tai was told and he told me but do you know."
Matt nodded. "Yeah I know. But there is this thing that can cause the video tapes or whatever they have in hear to not work properly. The police only think that they're hearing/seeing the present."
"Ok."
A thud was then heard at the door as they heard the sound of Mr. Ishida coming through the used-to-be door. "MATT!!"
A/N: I hate this chapter but I can't delay updating anymore so here it is. I promise that the next chapter will be much better.