Here's another lovely chapter for you guys :) And this may be the second last one after all...not sure however :/ Anyways enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot.
"ALLEN!"
Barry shot up from slumping over to see his co-workers looking at him horrified and concerned. His boss on the other hand looked down-right annoyed.
"Did you not hear what I was telling you right now?" Captain Singh asked.
"Sorry..." Barry winced.
He pinched his arm in order to shake off the sleepiness that had over-come him. After the hospital trip he only got a half an hour of sleep in before having to be roused by Cisco who was warning him of a grocery store robbery. Only after taking care of the three robbers did Barry get some sleep; very restless sleep.
"As I was saying..." Singh continued, "Thanks to the only surviving witness of these rash murders we now have a description of the suspect. There has been a city wide alert of this man."
He held up a picture of the suspect. Unfortunately they had been unable to find out the man's name.
"And what if we find squat?" one of the cops asked.
"We'll find him..." Singh bobbed his head while setting the picture down, "Joe informed me that the Flash is also contributing to the search effort."
Mummers started up and Barry really wanted to leave at this point. He felt uncomfortable when people talked about his alter ego.
"That's enough..." Singh sighed after a while," Now about the preparations for the party that someone- and I won't mention who- talked me into... Any ideas Ry-"
He cut himself off when he noticed someone was missing. It just so happened to be that very man who nearly took a siesta while standing.
"Where the hell did Allen go?"
"Guess he hates parties..." snickered a cop named Raymond.
Unnoticed outside the window a red blur was heading in the direction of S.T.A.R Labs. It just so happened that the picture of the suspect had disappeared from the Captain's desk with a messy note left behind explaining that it borrowed. The tell tale lightning bolt symbol written at the bottom told who had taken it.
"You actually managed to finally find out what this creepy guy looks like?" Cisco asked.
He held the picture at-far as if it were a dead rat and frowned.
"I really don't think it was worth staying up five hours in a hospital to get..." Barry muttered, "Or potentially getting fired for taking it from the police station...even though I did leave a note from the 'Flash'."
Iris elbowed him hard in the ribs, "Oh come on...you still got ten hours of sleep in."
He sighed response and started pacing anxiously as Cisco started typing in commands into the computer. He really wanted to find whoever this guy was; on account that he could strike again and then wake whoever it was he was trying to raise.
"And what did he mean by Beowulf's sword?" Barry thought to himself.
Catlin seeing him looking irritated asked, "Ok what are you thinking about now?"
He waved her concern off with his hand and said, "Nothing...just something that the girl Veronica told me about what the man said."
He really needed to work on controlling his emotions on his face.
"Which was?" Iris asked.
"According to the witness she said that the man said that her blood was the key to unlocking 'Beowulf's sword'," Barry sighed.
"But Beowulf is just a myth," Catlin said logically.
"Um...maybe not..." Barry said uneasily.
He walked over to the table and rested his hands on the chair to steady himself.
"What makes you say that?" Iris asked.
At this point he really wanted to tape his mouth shut.
"Alright..." Barry swallowed hard before explaining wishing the whole time he never brought the supposedly made-up sword to light, "A few months before the singularity Oli-erm...I mean the Arrow and I traveled to Detroit to confront a potential Meta-Human-"
"Whom you never got her phone number off of..." Cisco grumbled while still typing.
"-Who displayed powers that we had never seen before in a Meta..." Barry continued.
"Which were?" Iris asked raising an eyebrow.
Barry sighed before answering, "Let's just say super-speed, super-strength, invisibility, wall-climbing and flight were some of them."
Cisco grinned, "I wish I could have seen that!"
"And your point is?" Catlin asked ignoring her friend's comment.
"The point is she got all her powers out of necklace around her neck," Barry answered, "An Anansi totem to be more specific. Or at least I think it was one."
He was not really good at remembering artifacts but he did managed to remember enough of the details of the necklace to look it up online.
"What is an Anansi totem?" Iris asked.
"In African myth it was a necklace given to the tribes by the god Anansi that allowed them to receive the powers of any animal..." Barry swallowed hard before answering," And myths are supposedly made up right? Then how come this necklace was able to do the things that was said in the myth when the story was supposedly made up?"
No one had a logical answer for that one.
"Which means that it is possible Beowulf's sword is real..." he concluded, "Which means magic is real to...and I am still having a hard time wrapping that around my head."
His piece said he went right back to pacing back and forth.
"So maybe I should build some gun that detects magic..." Cisco said sarcastically while half-joking.
"Like what...energy spikes?" Catlin snorted.
Cisco shrugged, "Don't ask me...I haven't gotten my magician's license yet..."
Before Catlin could bop her friend on the head the power went out. Barry glanced up and frowned. Something did not seem right.
"Guys?" he asked walking to stand behind his friends at the computer desk.
"Don't know dude...even the high tech security system is out..." Cisco cursed.
He started typing a command into the computer. Barry was too busy watching him that when he caught a flicker of motion of the corner of his eye he reacted too late. The last thing he could recall before something heavy hit him in that back of his head was Iris screaming. And then all he could remember was darkness.
I KNOW, I KNOW, I KNOW! DO NOT KILL ME! This chapter is short but the next one (and the last one) will be longer. I had to cut it off here otherwise it wouldn't make any sense!