Control 11

Chapter: Strangers.

Shalimar sprang off towards the figure, and as expected, the figure took off. A small smirk came to her mouth as she felt her feral side sparkle up for the challenge of a hunt.

Brennan felt his heart start to hammer in his chest as she flew away from him, into the trees after the fleeing figure. "SHAL. NO. COME BACK!"

She didn't. He looked towards the cave, and felt an overflow of fear when the flashes from before, never came. Before he could stop him self his mind made a small laugh as it spoke, 'we're being split up! No, we cant split up'. He thought about chasing after Shal, and quickly dropped the plan to shatter on the ground. There was no chance he would catch her, especially since she had a few minutes ahead of him. He would rather hunt down Adam than go running off in the woods alone. The dream wavered into his minds eyes, and he struggled to push it back.

He moved wearily to the cave entrance, and looked deep into the darkness. Adam was nowhere to be seen. He felt a thick trickle of sweat coat his forehead and he quickly wiped it away.
"...Adam..."

No answer. He raised his voice and called into the cave, but again got no answer. He denied the thought that Adam would have gotten past him and Shal, while staring at the stranger, nor jumped off the cliffs edge. He felt the familiar crackling under his skin, and a brainstorm hit. He sparked his hand up, and started to venture into the cave.

Jesse and Emma were bored when once again; they had been left with near nothing to do. Jesse had blushed at the mention of it from Emma, and quickly tried to hide it. When he realised he was only making his cheek grow redder, he got up, saying he was going to get them some thing to eat.

He opened the fridge and chose to make him and Em some of his best sandwiches. It was a mixture of foods, but it always filled him and he had no doubt Emma wouldn't turn it down.

He looked up as he realised it was starting to get dark. The sunset early on this island, and he didn't think it strange considering the woods blocked out most of the light.

As he looked to the window, he dropped the ham he'd been holding, when a dark figure stood in front of the window, its face nearly pressed against the glass, but still concealed.

He jumped when he heard Emma suddenly scream and with out another thought, bolted back into the living room. She was standing behind the couch, while looking at the window opposite her. Jesse knew surprisingly that there would be some one there.

He went to Emma and gripped her hand. The figure behind the window took them both in with its glare.

Jesse swallowed hard, trying to make his voice sound strong.

"Who are you? And what do you want here?"

The figure didn't talk, but its hand slowly lifted to tap on the bottom of the window. Jesse didn't understand, until Emma tapped his arm viciously. "Jesse, the window isn't locked".

They both watched as the figure made a motion with its hand, before the lock gave a screech before falling into place. Emma and Jesse both stared at the figure in confusion.

Slowly, the male shape turned away from them and started, back into the shadows of the woods. When he'd vanished, Emma and Jesse both let out a sigh.

Emma sagged against Jesse, "Jess... when he tapped on the mirror, I heard him talk... in my mind. And when the lock was in place, he said we needed to keep safe". She seemed to strain in just remembering and Jesse hugged her tight to him. "Its ok, he's gone now. How do you even know he was human?"

Emma gave a shake, "... I felt his emotions, it was not to harm us, but to protect us". Jesse gave her a confused look, but kept her in his embrace. If any thing was to happen to her while in his arms, he knew he would throw him self in front of the worst of it.

Shalimar raced through the woods, tracking the running figure that had been watching her and most of all, Brennan. She knew it hadn't noticed her looking until Brennan had turned at her mentioning. That was the fleeing figures mistake. She had saw how it had glared at Brennan, and she felt a spark of anger. If this thing was dangerous, they needed to face it before it bit them in the butt later.

Shalimar was right on his tale, and smiled when she heard heavy breathing, caused by too much running... and panic.

She was quiet enjoying making him suffer. Making him waste all of his energy in trying to get away from her.

With a grunt, the figure in front of her tripped, and landed hard. He slid a few feet with the help of mud, and then tried to scramble back up onto his feet. But Shalimar was already on him during his first mistake. She slammed into his back, and he almost dropped back down while trying to clutch at his back. Shalimar had hold of the back of his cloak, and pulled away the hood to reveal his face.
He wasn't exactly young, around his mid 30's, late 30's. He had dazzling blue eyes that held knowledge, and short brown hair, with a shade of blond in. He gave her an annoyed look, but she passed his looks aside, along with the thought he may be a fight. He was easy enough to catch.

"Ok. Lets start simple, who are you?"

The man seemed to give up trying to shrug off her hand, "My name is Steve Gwatt". He didn't look like he was resisting her any more and that was weird. Normally, people would fight and fight until they realised she just wasn't letting them go with out her finding out details about them.

He looked up at her, as she made sure to tighten her grip on his hood, to show she still had control over him. "I suppose you want to know what I'm doing out here... on an abandoned Island. Well... I suppose I could tell you, but then I would just be wasting your time. Your friends are in danger so if I were you, I would run as fast as I could, back to that cave, because your friend are about to get a nasty surprise".

Shal considered what he was saying, and judging by the look on his face, he wasn't lying. Another thing to back that up was his heart had not skipped a beat... it would, if he'd been lying.

She held onto him a bit longer before giving his hood a sharp jerk, and flew away on shoes that just may have had wings attached to them.

Brennan wondered down the never-ending cave, letting his hand trail along the wall for at least some comfort. Any thought he had of Adam going this deep voluntarily had changed when he found an almost impossible trail to follow. Two small lines that just lingered on the floor, like some thing had been dragged. That put him on full alert.

He kept glancing over his shoulder every time he heard the impact of a droplet of water in water. The noise made him feel even more on edge, since there was a near none existent repeat of noise. He followed the trial, hoping that he would turn a corner only to find Adam had trailed his feet to find a way back... but with no light... Brennan doubted it.

He crouched down to examine the floor where the trail had suddenly ended, with his ball of light in hand. He looked up the walls, and was meet with more sketched images.

Constantly, the droplets of water hit water, and started to send his mind into a panic. He knew in a cave like this, the noise would be amplified, but it sounded... too near.

After a few moments of considering on which way to go, he chose to take the way that led right, since the straight walk he'd had before had suddenly cut off into two ways, left and right.

As he stepped into the right path, a cold chill enveloped the air, and he considered going back to choose left.

' No. Just stick with my choice and hope I find him'. He sighed as he realised he was talking to him self. The noise echoed back to him, and when he drew a new breath, it felt like small needles that made his lungs numb were stabbing at his lungs.

A thud dropped suddenly behind him, but before any chance of turning could be made, Brennan needed to make his body react to him. His legs were like stone and wouldn't budge, and his while body constantly refused to take his command any more. But never the less, commanding strong arms swung around him, and breath was lost in an instant.

He was lifted up, and squeezed back against some ones broad chest. Knowing it was a man, he was glad he wouldn't regret doing what he had in mind. Conjuring up as much energy as he could, he sent the energy to converse over him, and spread into the attacker.

Brennan was still held in the arms of thick muscle, and when he knew the jolt of energy had hit, he tugged with his hands, and that was his mistake. The attacker gave a growl of annoyance into his back, and the muscular arms flexed as they squeeze even tighter.

After a few more seconds of struggling, and trying to heave his body out of the giants gasp, he started to feel his head getting heavier, and his body. '... No... I can't let this happen... Shal... Adam... I can't leave Adam in here. And Shal's probable going to come running straight into a trap... just like I did".

With a gasp for breath, which was rewarded with next to nothing, Brennan threw his feet towards the floor, sending the attacker flying over him and to land on the floor in front of him.

Brennan instantly sagged to the ground as cold oxygen hit his lungs, and tried to release the strain on his lungs that had been deprived of oxygen, seconds ago.

A ruffle signalled to Brennan the unwanted company, was back on his feet and ready to finish what he started. ' Well I'm not so easy to put down as you may think buddy'.

He waited to hear the ruffle of feet of the floor, and waited to the last moment before sending an arc of energy directly into the attackers chest, and was satisfied when a howl of agony rippled through the air, and a thud followed... but no ruffling of feet or any thing else, followed after that.

Shalimar was in front of the cave in a few minutes, and panting for breath. Now that her mind was on the drill for looking for her two missing teammates, she allowed her feral side to help guide her to them. Adam's scent was very faint; almost a wafer in the air, but Brennan's was more resent, but still distant. Both scents led into the cave, and that was where she went.

Well, will Shal find Brennan?
Who were the mysterious men?

What happened to Adam?

What will happen to Jesse and Emma?

So many questions so much time to answer them.

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