CHAPTER 3: SHADOWS OF THE NIGHT
A quiet night… Midnight… The young lady was sleeping peacefully, maybe one of the few nights when she had a peaceful sleep. Suddenly she felt something cold on her forehead an opened her eyes… The Phantom was pointing a gun at her head and shot…
She jumped out of bed looking at the clock… Five minutes to midnight and she was all alone in the room, but she knew it was not a dream that she had and that she must hurry. She ran to the fire escape but instead of going down in the street, she went up to the rooftop. She couldn't explain what was happening to her… Two years ago she woke up in a hospital, without any memory of her past. They told her it was a miracle that she was the only survivor of such a dreadful accident, but she had no idea what they were talking about… She kept trying to remember but all she could get into her mind were fragments of images that made no sense…
Her life was very complicated since then. For some reason it seemed that everyone wanted to kill her since she woke up. If she was still alive by now it was because for some strange reason she could foresee what will happen to her and she could get away before getting hurt… She found she could do some amazing things, but now she had no time to remember all this, she had to run for her life, as she knew it was hard to escape alive from a meeting with the Phantom.
She ran hard towards the edge of the rooftop and closed her eyes while taking a giant leap to the neighboring one. At landing she stopped to look back.
"How on earth did I do that?" she wondered. She saw the silhouette of the Phantom approaching the edge. She continued running, jumping more and more rooftops, then taking a jump down and into the park.
She stopped a while to draw her breath… Someone touched her on the shoulder… she wanted to scream…
"Don't scream, he'll hear you!"
"Castor, you've scared me" she said.
"What? How did you know my name? Who are you?" Castor asked, very surprised that the girl he wanted to save that night knew him by the name…
"How did I know your name? Good question… I just did… You look so familiar…" she said, then she suddenly pushed Castor away from her telling him to run for his life…
Castor listened to her and he ran. Behind he heard a gunshot. He stopped to look back and saw the girl fall, she had been shot in the stomach… He was surprised to see that the Phantom wouldn't chase him, and just went away… Castor continued his run to get his brother Pollux there to help him figure out what had happened.
When they returned, they found the girl laying down, with her hands on the wound. There was no blood around. They removed her hands and were shocked to see that the wound was healed. They felt her pulse… she was alive, she was just sleeping.
Castor and Pollux decided that they should get her out of the Matrix that night… They felt that they might have accomplished their mission. The twins brought the car round and put the girl on the back seat. They drove away to the hotel, the old hotel, to the safest place they knew, to the gate for their way home… They were anxious that she woke up so she could answer all their questions…