Queen Luana: There I'm back! I had to wait and awful long time but now I'm back! Phew… I got a little banned you know… But anyway, I'm leaving that behind me. From now on, I'll be a good fanfic-writer. (puppy eyes)
Part VII
Zino's vengeance
Luana couldn't get her thought off her vision. She was so scared something awful was going to happen next day at school, she couldn't even sleep. She kept rolling around in her bed until finally her mother clipped the light on and sat down next to her. "What's bothering you, honey?" she whispered motherly and stroke her daughter's hair away from her sweaty face. Luana sniffed. "I wish I wasn't a mutant… I wish I would just be normal, so I wouldn't have any visions about the future, cause I don't want to see it." "Luana darling, you never hated them, you always liked them!" her mother spoke and Luana glared at her. "Well not anymore!" she said and tears started rolling down her cheeks. "I hate them and I want them to stop!" She cried against her mother's night gown and recalled the slashing of the chains, Jentl's crying. She couldn't die.
Jentl wasn't sleeping peacefully either. The thought of Zino facing his parents kept her wide awake. And then Luana being so mysterious… She rolled over yet again and curled up to a little ball, trying to get some sleep, forcing her eyes shut. She was about to wander off into the wonderful world of sleep when: "You have a phonecall, Jentl. It's Carlos Zino…" "Damn it, how often have I told you to accept!" Jentl cried and kicked off her sheets. She waited for Zino's face to appear but the screen only showed static. "Zino?" she asked. "J-Jentl… would you… would you mind coming over… for a sec?" "Zino, what happened to your phone, the screen's static." Silence. "Please?" Zino begged and Jentl nodded. "Yeah, hang on I'll be right there. Hang up."
She quickly pulled on her jeans and shirt. "00756," she said as she pulled on her sneakers. "Alarm disabled." She went to the garage, without turning on any lights, making sure her parents wouldn't wake up. "Open garage," she said and the gate opened. She stepped onto her scooter and shot into the night. The streets were deserted and the street lights faintly illuminated the road before her. All this time, worry was crossing her mind. What happened? Zino would never ask her to come over in the middle of the night… Something was awfully wrong. Then she remembered Luana's vision about the cops.
Zino's front door was open, to Jentl's surprise, and she stepped in, fully on her guard. "Zino? Mr. Carlos?" She shuffled through the hall silently. It was very dark and she was afraid to be caught by Zino's parents. "Lights on." She let go a little scream when she heard Zino's voice coming barely two feet away from her. In a flash, the room was filled with a warm light and she saw Zino standing there, completely covered in blood. His shirt was soaking with it and his dead eyes gave his face a gloomy radiance.She clapped her hands in front of her mouth. "Oh my God, Zino!" She clasped his shoulders. "Is that your blood?" He only looked at her face hazily. "Zino, talk to me," she pleaded. Then she saw the puddles of blood on the ground, leading away from Zino, behind the couch.
Trembling and afraid of what she would find she let go of him, and walked over to the black leather couch. Her scream woke the entire neighbourhood. She watched the dead bodies of his parents with horror, shaking and trying her very best not to puke. Their blood oozed down onto the carpet and it was hard to say that just an hour or something ago these things had been people. "You know what makes it so scary…" She looked at her friend, at least who she had seen as her friend. A dark smile spread on his face. "Watching them dying felt so good…" Jentl nodded slowly. "Okay… Zino…" She took a couple of deep breaths. "You should… we should get you out of here, no, we should call Luana and Siska." He nodded like a little boy would listen to his mother. "Okay." "Just go… go freshen up a bit…" He nodded again and slowly went upstairs, leaving a trail of blood behind.
Jentl stepped away from the battlefield and sank down against a wall. With trembling hands she reached for her pocket and called her two friends. They arrived about ten minutes later. "Jentl, what's going on?" Siska cried and then saw the blood on the wooden floor. "Is… is Zino…" "No," Jentl whispered and pulled her friend away. "It's best if you don't look." "Jentl, what's going on!" Siska cried as Luana made her entrance. "Is it…" she started and Jentl cut her off: "Yes." Luana spotted the blood on the floor and turned pale. "Don't tell me he…" Jentl nodded as she still tried to hold Siska, who was desperate to see what was hidden behind the couch.
Zino came down the stairs, wearing clean clothes and clear from any blood, except for a little spark on his forehead. Jentl refused to picture how he could've slaughtered them, making the blood splutter up so high… "Hey Gote," he said casually. Nobody spoke a word and he turned to Luana. "Don't tell me you didn't know this was gonna happen." She swallowed. "I knew you were going to get arrested but, this…" In the far distance, they could hear sirens approaching. "I had no choise," Zino muttered. "They'll understand, right?" He watched them in rotation. None of them was able to say something in return. "I had to do it," he said, tears bruning in his eyes. "I had no choice!" The sirens came closer, they could not be much further away than two blocks. Of course, they knew what thought was behind this masacre, but the truth was that he had killed his parents. And it wasn't out of direct protection and certainly not by stabbing them repeatedly.
"Guys." Panic was now spreading on his face. "They'll understand, right? They… They wouldn't sent me to jail, right?" Siska started crying. Jentl held her head high. "We'll do our very best to talk you out of this, Zino." He breathed in fastly. "I can't breathe…" "Jesus, Zino!" Jentl cried as he sank onto the ground, hyperventilating. "Luana, you see a bag or something?" she said as she crouched next to him. After searching through some drawers she did find one and handed it over. "Here, breathe," Jentl said, covering Zino's mouth with it. "Easy, just breathe…"
They heard the police car stopping in front of Zino's house and a second or two later, three cops ran inside. "What happened here?" a rather old man asked the four kids sitting on the ground, Zino slowly calming down. The two others ran into the living room. "Jesus Christ!" one of them cried. He stared at the corpses in the couch. Jentl gently rubbed Zino's back. "It'll be okay," she whispered. "Everything will be okay…" Luana had pulled Siska into a comforting hug, but she was still sobbing loudly. One of the cops pulled out a small device they all knew too well. A small crime-scanner. Zino let out a sob and Jentl wrapped an arm around his neck, while a small laser emerged from the little machine and scanned the dead bodies. "And, what does it say?" another cop asked. The one scanning swallowed and stood up. "It was the boy."
Zino burts into tears and Jentl pulled him close aginst her, soothing him and cradling him as if he were her child. The three cops watched him and then one crouched. "Right." He took Zino at his arm. "Come on, kid, stand up." Zino clasped Jentl's arm tightly and she stood up with him. "It's gonna be okay, Zino. I promise you." She wringed herself loose from his grip and turned to one of the other cops. "You can't hurt him. He had a good reason to do it!" she said but the man shook his head. "You're talking to the wrong guy, sweety. He's going to court, we'll see what we'll do with him there. G'night." The three girls watched them helping Zino into the car, crying Zino, and drove off. The first raindrops poured down on the streets.
Queen Luana: Poor Zino. Hey, wanna know why I added that hyperventilating thing? Because this schoolyear already three girls in my class have started hyperventilating! It's just getting scary! Please review, guys. Thanx.