Chapter Two:
"I want to go home Scott, you have been searching for hours."
"Only a few minutes Cole, calm down, I want to find what they left. Have you no sense of adventure? HAHAHA!" He leapt to the window and nodded, lets go. This is dull."
Cole rubbed his temples and nodded. "Thank god, lets go." He started for the door, yet as he passed through the wooden frame, a sparkle caught his eye, dragging him back into the room.
Scott was to busy talking to notice. He went right out of the door, saying how maybe they could come back later to see if they could find what ever was left behind.
The glisten of light had come from the corner of the room. In plain sight lay a blue stone, nothing unusual, and nothing that would be worth keeping. "Hey Scott, maybe you don't believe that people do kill, but I do. If they catch us, we are dead."
"You worry to much."
Cole knelt beside the stone, lightly brushing it with his fingers. Yet as he touched it, he felt a burning sensation, and then his blood seemed to freeze.
"Hey cool stone you found, look, its changing colors. Hey!" Scott knelt beside his friend, gapping at the stone. "Hey, look at it, it looks just like lime stone now! Before you touched it I thought it was blue, like a crystal!"
"Urg." Cole drew his hand back, breathing hard as he clutched his stomach. "I'm. Scott."
"Heh, come on, lets go Cole."
The boy on the ground doubled over and shivered. "It's cold, so cold."
"Are you ok? It's not cold at all, it's the freaking summer!" Scott snapped, looking at the sky. "My mom is going to be wondering where I am, can we please go now?"
Cole's chest heaved as he shivered, his eyes rolling into the back of his head as he lifted his head, tilting his chin. His mouth fell open as he sat, staring blankly into the clear sky.
"Cole? Stop it man, stop it." Scott warned, backing up. He looked around frantically, as if scared. "Cole? COLE!?"
Cole gasped as he jerked his head back down. "HELL!"
"You scared me half to death, I thought you were dying or something." Scott sighed, throwing a hand over his heart. "Don' do that to me!"
"I-I don't know what just happened Scott. we need to go, now."
"That is what I was telling you!"
Cole ignored his friend, picking up his pace. From the back of his mind he knew something wasn't right.
"Hey Cole, come on, hurry, you can't miss this!" Scott yelled, waving to his friend as he rushed to him. The backpack on his back jerked down his shoulder and he shoved it back on, shaking his head. "Come on!"
Cole shook his head, and moved his hand across his forehead, wiping the dripping sweat off his brow. "I have to finish with the lawn Scott, can't it wait ten minutes?" The boy panted slightly as he looked around. It would take a little more than ten minutes to finish the job, yet he said nothing. "I need to finish before my dad gets home."
"Sure you do, but he doesn't get home until five, and it's three, come on Cole, it will only be a few seconds!"
"Umm, well, as long as it doesn't take that long. But I mean it Scott, I won't stay longer than five minutes." He paused, noticing his friend's backpack. "What is with that? School is out for the summer."
"I just wanted to carry a few things.come on!"
The two started across the lawn, weaving through the woods, and cutting across lawns. It was hot for a summer day, and both boys were wet with their own sweat.
Cold sighed as he leapt across the fence that blocked his way. "So, huff, Scott, what is it that you wanted to show me."
"It's not something, it's someone. kind of."
"Meaning what?"
"You know when we went into that cabin about four weeks ago and you found that weird rock?"
Cole nodded, looking over his shoulder. "Sure, how could I forget that?"
Scott smiled, looking like he was hiding something. "Well, I was out with and guess who I saw."
Cole paused in his tracks, shaking his head. "No, I don't want to see those men again."
"But they are breaking the law, if we can get them on camera, we can tell the police, and then we'll be heroes!"
"What?! You said that this would take but a few minutes, I am not getting near killers again!" He shook his head as Scott unzipped the backpack. "Oh no you don't!" He jerked the article away from his friend and ripped it open. "You didn't."
"Give it back, you have a better idea Cole?! Those men need to be in jail."
"You think you can just use this," Cole demanded, holding up the camera and giving it a shake. "What if they find out you did it, what then?"
"They won't." The boy whispered, lowering his head. "Please Cole, why don't you want to do this?"
"You can't use this stuff in court anyhow, what makes you think that this will fly?"
Scott knelt down, and shrugged. "You really don't want to have anything to do with this, then fine. Go home and mow your freakin' lawn. I'll do this myself."
Cole got to his feet, and tossed the camera to the ground. "Good, fine. later Scott, I'll see you tonight." He then began to walk away, leaving his best friend alone.
"See you later, ha, stupid son of a *****. I'll show him when I take home the medal." He crawled forward a little, and looked down at his camera, seeing dirt on the lens, he began to rub it off, muttering and mumbling to himself. "Thinks that this is a joke, thinks that I am just playing. I'll get these criminals on tape all by myself."
"You will, eh?"
Scott turned around, gapping at what he saw before him. "Ohmigwad!"
"You plan to catch us on tape? You're friend isn't here anymore, and no one is around to help. You were just asking for it, weren't you?" The man hissed, he held a baseball bat with a clenched fist. "You were the little brat in my cabin, weren't you? You have the rock, don't you?!" "I don't know what you are talking about, please. I am just recording some footage for my science fair project."
"About murders I suppose. I have ears boy, I know what I heard, and I know what you are doing here. Trying to play the hero are you?"
Scott shook his head and tried to dash away, but the huge man caught him, and twisted him around to face him. "You will listen to me, and you will do as I say. Don't try running, because it will just make it worse for you. of course if you want to play the deer." The man pulled out a small shotgun and jabbed it into the boy's neck. "I'll be the hunter."
"No! COLE!"
Cole was furious at his friend. "Leading me all the way there just for something as stupid and dangerous as that. Dumb, stupid, ignorant brat. He's so full of it I can't stand him at times." The boy threw his head back as he heard in the distance a sharp cry.
The boy turned around, feeling something in his chest rise up. He began to run back to where he had left his best friend to be an idiot.
"Scott?! Scott?!!" He leapt over the fence and skidded into the woods, tumbling onto the hard surface and scrapping his chin. "Upfh."
There was some type of gurgle that sounded through as the boy slowly shook his head, raising it back up, glancing around, confused almost.
"I suppose this is your idiot friend come to save the day?" Came a husky voice.
"Scott?" The boy whimpered as he blinked, focusing on what stood before him. A large man stood, silver hair whisked back in a tight ponytail. He held Cole' friend by the neck. "SCOTT! Let him go you-"
The man snickered slightly, shaking his own head and looking at Cole with a humored gaze. "May I help you?"
Cole pushed to his feet, nodding with speed. "Let my friend go!"
As if more for his own sake, the man dropped a dazed Scott to the ground. "Burris, do me a favor."
A man who stood a distance away holding a rifle took a small step forward. "Yeah boss?"
"Kill these two, make it look like a hunting accident or something."
"But boss, they are just kids, I don't think that-."
"Do it!"
The man cocked his rifle and nudged it in the air, pointing towards the woods. "You two start walking."
Cole licked his lips, shivering without understanding why he felt so cold. "No."
"Excuse me? You want to live kid? I said move!" Saliva flung through the air as Cole stood his ground.
The man who had been choking Scott grabbed the blonde boy's hair, and flung him up. Scott let out a shriek of pain and clutched where his hair was being held. To his disappointment and great sorrow, a knife was placed at his throat.
"Now kid I want you to think this over, your friend can die one of two ways. by your arrogance, or by my anger.which one. you never know." The man hissed as he narrowed his eyes. "You could be saved on the way in, you never know. why cause an unneeded and such a sudden death?"
Cole shook his head, and brought his hands up, as if on impulse he clenched his fist, then flung his fingers free, revealing the heel of his hand.
The three around him watched in amazement as ice hurled through the air, racing in Scott's and his captive's direction.
Cole gasped in his own shock, seeing the cold objects race to the man, freezing the knife and fist of Scott's captive. "Oh dear God, what is this?"
Scott, who seized the opportunity with great surprise, slid out of the man's grasp and gave his shin a sturdy kick. "Run Cole, run!" He screamed, racing up the hill, and whimpering loudly as bullets whizzed past his head.
Cole nodded, following at an equal speed, not understanding, and not wanting to understand what just happened.
The two boys raced long, and raced far, all the way through town, like two mad men running from some unspoken danger that was chasing them from a close distance. They didn't stop until a good half hour later, when Scott collapsed to the ground, wheezing.
"What the hell was that Cole? What did you do to those men?"
Cole shook his head, shivering from the adrenaline rush he has just experienced. "I don't know. I haven't a faint clue what happened and how I did that. I just was mad and scared about the situation so I. I."
"You saved me butt Cole! You created ice from your bare hands in the middle of the summer!" Scott shouted, waving his hands around. "Do you know what this means?"
The boy before him blinked casually. "I'm a freak."
Scott panted. "You can do what everyone always wants to do you idiot! You can be a superhero, you know, like Batman, like Superman, like The Flash, just like all those other guys! Can you see it?"
"Scott, we don't even know what happened back there, how can you even think about that when we are being pursued by murders who want nothing more than to rip us apart!" He glanced around. "I need to go home, my dad will be back soon."
Scott got to his feet and sighed. "This is awesome, but the question is how did this come to be? Hey I know what it is!"
"What?"
"You touched that-
"He touched the rock. That is they boy who stole my powers." Silver cried out as he slammed a fist into the wall. "I want him and his little friend here! I need that back, and I need some answers on how he learned to use the power!"
"Sir, you can't just kidnap two boys and do them in. The authorities will be on you all the more for that! You know how they act when people involve kids."
"Burris. this is America, unless those kids are well to do and have parent's in high places, no one is going to find out, you got that?"
The smaller man nodded, and cleared out of the room.
"I need that stupid son of a ***** and his friend before anyone else finds his little secret out."
"I want to go home Scott, you have been searching for hours."
"Only a few minutes Cole, calm down, I want to find what they left. Have you no sense of adventure? HAHAHA!" He leapt to the window and nodded, lets go. This is dull."
Cole rubbed his temples and nodded. "Thank god, lets go." He started for the door, yet as he passed through the wooden frame, a sparkle caught his eye, dragging him back into the room.
Scott was to busy talking to notice. He went right out of the door, saying how maybe they could come back later to see if they could find what ever was left behind.
The glisten of light had come from the corner of the room. In plain sight lay a blue stone, nothing unusual, and nothing that would be worth keeping. "Hey Scott, maybe you don't believe that people do kill, but I do. If they catch us, we are dead."
"You worry to much."
Cole knelt beside the stone, lightly brushing it with his fingers. Yet as he touched it, he felt a burning sensation, and then his blood seemed to freeze.
"Hey cool stone you found, look, its changing colors. Hey!" Scott knelt beside his friend, gapping at the stone. "Hey, look at it, it looks just like lime stone now! Before you touched it I thought it was blue, like a crystal!"
"Urg." Cole drew his hand back, breathing hard as he clutched his stomach. "I'm. Scott."
"Heh, come on, lets go Cole."
The boy on the ground doubled over and shivered. "It's cold, so cold."
"Are you ok? It's not cold at all, it's the freaking summer!" Scott snapped, looking at the sky. "My mom is going to be wondering where I am, can we please go now?"
Cole's chest heaved as he shivered, his eyes rolling into the back of his head as he lifted his head, tilting his chin. His mouth fell open as he sat, staring blankly into the clear sky.
"Cole? Stop it man, stop it." Scott warned, backing up. He looked around frantically, as if scared. "Cole? COLE!?"
Cole gasped as he jerked his head back down. "HELL!"
"You scared me half to death, I thought you were dying or something." Scott sighed, throwing a hand over his heart. "Don' do that to me!"
"I-I don't know what just happened Scott. we need to go, now."
"That is what I was telling you!"
Cole ignored his friend, picking up his pace. From the back of his mind he knew something wasn't right.
"Hey Cole, come on, hurry, you can't miss this!" Scott yelled, waving to his friend as he rushed to him. The backpack on his back jerked down his shoulder and he shoved it back on, shaking his head. "Come on!"
Cole shook his head, and moved his hand across his forehead, wiping the dripping sweat off his brow. "I have to finish with the lawn Scott, can't it wait ten minutes?" The boy panted slightly as he looked around. It would take a little more than ten minutes to finish the job, yet he said nothing. "I need to finish before my dad gets home."
"Sure you do, but he doesn't get home until five, and it's three, come on Cole, it will only be a few seconds!"
"Umm, well, as long as it doesn't take that long. But I mean it Scott, I won't stay longer than five minutes." He paused, noticing his friend's backpack. "What is with that? School is out for the summer."
"I just wanted to carry a few things.come on!"
The two started across the lawn, weaving through the woods, and cutting across lawns. It was hot for a summer day, and both boys were wet with their own sweat.
Cold sighed as he leapt across the fence that blocked his way. "So, huff, Scott, what is it that you wanted to show me."
"It's not something, it's someone. kind of."
"Meaning what?"
"You know when we went into that cabin about four weeks ago and you found that weird rock?"
Cole nodded, looking over his shoulder. "Sure, how could I forget that?"
Scott smiled, looking like he was hiding something. "Well, I was out with and guess who I saw."
Cole paused in his tracks, shaking his head. "No, I don't want to see those men again."
"But they are breaking the law, if we can get them on camera, we can tell the police, and then we'll be heroes!"
"What?! You said that this would take but a few minutes, I am not getting near killers again!" He shook his head as Scott unzipped the backpack. "Oh no you don't!" He jerked the article away from his friend and ripped it open. "You didn't."
"Give it back, you have a better idea Cole?! Those men need to be in jail."
"You think you can just use this," Cole demanded, holding up the camera and giving it a shake. "What if they find out you did it, what then?"
"They won't." The boy whispered, lowering his head. "Please Cole, why don't you want to do this?"
"You can't use this stuff in court anyhow, what makes you think that this will fly?"
Scott knelt down, and shrugged. "You really don't want to have anything to do with this, then fine. Go home and mow your freakin' lawn. I'll do this myself."
Cole got to his feet, and tossed the camera to the ground. "Good, fine. later Scott, I'll see you tonight." He then began to walk away, leaving his best friend alone.
"See you later, ha, stupid son of a *****. I'll show him when I take home the medal." He crawled forward a little, and looked down at his camera, seeing dirt on the lens, he began to rub it off, muttering and mumbling to himself. "Thinks that this is a joke, thinks that I am just playing. I'll get these criminals on tape all by myself."
"You will, eh?"
Scott turned around, gapping at what he saw before him. "Ohmigwad!"
"You plan to catch us on tape? You're friend isn't here anymore, and no one is around to help. You were just asking for it, weren't you?" The man hissed, he held a baseball bat with a clenched fist. "You were the little brat in my cabin, weren't you? You have the rock, don't you?!" "I don't know what you are talking about, please. I am just recording some footage for my science fair project."
"About murders I suppose. I have ears boy, I know what I heard, and I know what you are doing here. Trying to play the hero are you?"
Scott shook his head and tried to dash away, but the huge man caught him, and twisted him around to face him. "You will listen to me, and you will do as I say. Don't try running, because it will just make it worse for you. of course if you want to play the deer." The man pulled out a small shotgun and jabbed it into the boy's neck. "I'll be the hunter."
"No! COLE!"
Cole was furious at his friend. "Leading me all the way there just for something as stupid and dangerous as that. Dumb, stupid, ignorant brat. He's so full of it I can't stand him at times." The boy threw his head back as he heard in the distance a sharp cry.
The boy turned around, feeling something in his chest rise up. He began to run back to where he had left his best friend to be an idiot.
"Scott?! Scott?!!" He leapt over the fence and skidded into the woods, tumbling onto the hard surface and scrapping his chin. "Upfh."
There was some type of gurgle that sounded through as the boy slowly shook his head, raising it back up, glancing around, confused almost.
"I suppose this is your idiot friend come to save the day?" Came a husky voice.
"Scott?" The boy whimpered as he blinked, focusing on what stood before him. A large man stood, silver hair whisked back in a tight ponytail. He held Cole' friend by the neck. "SCOTT! Let him go you-"
The man snickered slightly, shaking his own head and looking at Cole with a humored gaze. "May I help you?"
Cole pushed to his feet, nodding with speed. "Let my friend go!"
As if more for his own sake, the man dropped a dazed Scott to the ground. "Burris, do me a favor."
A man who stood a distance away holding a rifle took a small step forward. "Yeah boss?"
"Kill these two, make it look like a hunting accident or something."
"But boss, they are just kids, I don't think that-."
"Do it!"
The man cocked his rifle and nudged it in the air, pointing towards the woods. "You two start walking."
Cole licked his lips, shivering without understanding why he felt so cold. "No."
"Excuse me? You want to live kid? I said move!" Saliva flung through the air as Cole stood his ground.
The man who had been choking Scott grabbed the blonde boy's hair, and flung him up. Scott let out a shriek of pain and clutched where his hair was being held. To his disappointment and great sorrow, a knife was placed at his throat.
"Now kid I want you to think this over, your friend can die one of two ways. by your arrogance, or by my anger.which one. you never know." The man hissed as he narrowed his eyes. "You could be saved on the way in, you never know. why cause an unneeded and such a sudden death?"
Cole shook his head, and brought his hands up, as if on impulse he clenched his fist, then flung his fingers free, revealing the heel of his hand.
The three around him watched in amazement as ice hurled through the air, racing in Scott's and his captive's direction.
Cole gasped in his own shock, seeing the cold objects race to the man, freezing the knife and fist of Scott's captive. "Oh dear God, what is this?"
Scott, who seized the opportunity with great surprise, slid out of the man's grasp and gave his shin a sturdy kick. "Run Cole, run!" He screamed, racing up the hill, and whimpering loudly as bullets whizzed past his head.
Cole nodded, following at an equal speed, not understanding, and not wanting to understand what just happened.
The two boys raced long, and raced far, all the way through town, like two mad men running from some unspoken danger that was chasing them from a close distance. They didn't stop until a good half hour later, when Scott collapsed to the ground, wheezing.
"What the hell was that Cole? What did you do to those men?"
Cole shook his head, shivering from the adrenaline rush he has just experienced. "I don't know. I haven't a faint clue what happened and how I did that. I just was mad and scared about the situation so I. I."
"You saved me butt Cole! You created ice from your bare hands in the middle of the summer!" Scott shouted, waving his hands around. "Do you know what this means?"
The boy before him blinked casually. "I'm a freak."
Scott panted. "You can do what everyone always wants to do you idiot! You can be a superhero, you know, like Batman, like Superman, like The Flash, just like all those other guys! Can you see it?"
"Scott, we don't even know what happened back there, how can you even think about that when we are being pursued by murders who want nothing more than to rip us apart!" He glanced around. "I need to go home, my dad will be back soon."
Scott got to his feet and sighed. "This is awesome, but the question is how did this come to be? Hey I know what it is!"
"What?"
"You touched that-
"He touched the rock. That is they boy who stole my powers." Silver cried out as he slammed a fist into the wall. "I want him and his little friend here! I need that back, and I need some answers on how he learned to use the power!"
"Sir, you can't just kidnap two boys and do them in. The authorities will be on you all the more for that! You know how they act when people involve kids."
"Burris. this is America, unless those kids are well to do and have parent's in high places, no one is going to find out, you got that?"
The smaller man nodded, and cleared out of the room.
"I need that stupid son of a ***** and his friend before anyone else finds his little secret out."
