Chapter Ten
"Oh shoot." Linda cursed, suddenly stopping on her tracks. "I almost forgot. I promised Diane Simons from biology that I'd meet her at the school parking lot after the try outs."
"You guys working on that class project already? But it's not due 'til next, next week." Lucy uttered in surprise.
"I know. But you know Diane, she's work, work, and more work." She reminded.
"What about your celebration?" Dick interjected, his face turning crestfallen, frightened that the pizza treat at Fazolli's he had planned for Lucy and Linda may be put on hold. "I mean our celebration. I got in the football team, you got in the squad? C'mon."
Linda furrowed her eyebrows at him.
"WE are going to celebrate Malverne." She retorted with a smile. She took a few steps backwards preparing to leave and finished. "I just need to give some of my notes to Diane and then we'll celebrate like there's no tomorrow."
Ones more Dick Malverne's face brightened at the sound of that.
"We're just gonna wait for you outside, Lyn." Said Lucy as she pulled Dick by the right arm.
"Ok." She swung her blue duffel bag over her shoulder and started jogging to the opposite direction heading for the Leesburg High parking lot.
It'd be easier if she would use her super speed to get there, but she reckoned it wouldn't be safe. Someone might see her use her gift.
Linda was wearing her baby blue sweat shirt together with the matching jogging pants and running shoes. She looked like an athlete with her hair swept up in a pony tail.
She reckoned she would probably get in trouble if the principal would see her jogging at the halls.
"Danvers." Called out a dark haired guy as she passed by at the lockers. "Congratulations."
"Thanks." She replied, continuing to jog.
When she exited the left wing of the building, where the parking lot was located, the warm rays of the sun greeted her. With the use of her hand, she shielded her eyes from the harsh brightness as she began searching for Diane Simons, her lab partner.
The parking lot that can contain at least a hundred cars seemed deserted at this time. Only about 8 to 10 cars are parked apart from each other.
Linda was looking for Diane's car. It was a red old beetle type car which was handed down to Diane by her sister.
She walked around, praying that she would soon spot Diane somewhere, waiting for her. Unfortunately, there was no red beetle car in sight. Diane probably left minutes ago.
Linda pivoted and began strolling back inside the building. She would just give Diane a call later and apologize. She imagined that Diane would go all demonically possessed on her.
The bracelet. She suddenly remembered. She kept it inside her duffel bag before the squad try outs. She stopped, unzipped her bag and rummaged inside that thing until she finally got what she was looking for.
Linda held the silver band, eye level, and watched it sparkled and shined as the sun's rays reflected on it.
Staring at the carvings on the bracelet she realized that it was making sense. She was somehow beginning to understand some of the encryptions. At the bottom of the band she was able to decipher some characters.
"Last Children. Krypton. Rule. Third Planet."
Linda felt her heart pound. It made sense inside her head.
Rulers. Kal-El and herself. Is this a prophecy that they're both bound to rule earth? As King and Queen?
She shook the frightening thoughts away, placing the band on her left wrist.
Again, she walked heading for the entrance of the building. She wiped the beads of sweat that formed on her forehead. If she's right about this, Zaltar and her parents must be telling them, Kal El and herself, of their destiny.
"No." Murmured Linda.
If one day, she would meet Kal El, she would not tell him of their fate. God knows what he will do or think if he finds out!
Kryptonian men are known to have that 'follow' your path/destiny syndrome. They're not really the type who defies orders or what they are told.
Linda tried her best to convince herself that maybe she was wrong with the translation. At this point she's still pretty rusty when it comes to Kryptonian writing 101.
She will try again later. She promised.
Before she could enter the building, Linda heard a vehicle's roaring engine from somewhere, what followed was a loud scream that shattered the air.
Linda is certain that there was something wrong, so she turned and ran to where the scream was coming from.
A black van was parked a few feet away from the exit of the lot. The engine is still running and she spotted Fred Paphakolis from her history class at the driver's seat.
His eyes seemed empty and his face was just blank. The second he saw Linda coming towards the van, he attempted to get out and leave. With her super speed she was able to stop him from getting away. With a mild punch she knocked him unconscious.
It was time to check the commotion happening at the back.
To Linda's absolute shock, she witnessed how Harold Fierce and Keith Duffy were trying to load an unconscious Lena Thorul at the back of the black van.
"Men." She said shaking her head in disbelief. "Whatever happened to chocolates? Flowers? Sweet words and kisses?"
Harold and Keith saw Linda standing a few feet away from them. Keith was supporting Lena's upper body while Harold held her legs.
Linda noticed how expressionless and empty their eyes are, just like Fred.
"What? You decided to skip that part of the chase and move forward to the honeymoon?" Mocked Linda, arms crossed over her chest. "Boys, that is soooo wrong."
Both guys calmly placed Lena down on the ground for them to be able to attack Linda.
Harold clenched his fist, he threw a solid punch into the air, aiming for Linda's face. Unfortunately, she was too fast for him. She easily ducked the punch. Keith also did the same thing, but this time Linda got hold of his fist with just only one hand, when he tried to punch her.
His zombie like façade changed when Linda tightened her grip on his fist. Pain.
Without warning, she felt something wooden hit her at the back. It was Harold. He was holding to an end of what used to be a full baseball bat. The bat shattered into tiny toothpick size pieces when it hit Linda's back.
Linda smacked Keith at the face and he fell down. She then twirled to face Harold, still holding on to the handle of the bat.
When Linda raised her left arm to punch Harold, she was distracted by her silver bracelet. It was glowing for some reason. Her eyes focused on the glowing thing.
It was enough time for Harold to bury his fist in her stomach. He followed that with a blow in her face. That last punch sent Linda staggering backwards. Shock registered in her face.
From among the three guys, Harold was the strong one. He was able to hurt her. Make her feel pain. Heck, she reckoned he could even kill her.
Harold rushed and threw punches at her ones more. She was able to block a couple of the punches but some of them connected at her face and her upper body. She groaned in agony.
Ones more she staggered in pain and disbelief. Only the meteor mutated people of this town can do this to her. All three guys looked normal to Linda. Usually a good sign for her that someone's mutated is when their eyes let out that strange greenish glow.
But Fred, Keith and Harold don't have that.
Linda could no longer take the abuse. She ran for Harold, her fist making contact with mostly his façade. She twirled before executing a roundhouse kick.
And then Linda elbowed him in the face. This time it was Harold who reeled to his back.
That exact moment, Lena was beginning to regain consciousness. Lying on the ground, she moaned. She slowly fluttered open her eyes but could not see anything immediately. Although she heard some sort of commotion. Lena heard people fighting. A man and a woman.
She heard the clashing of the fists meeting with skin. There was bone crunching kicks involved too. The most evident of all the noises would be the groaning of the female as she punched and kicked her opponent.
Linda fell flat on her back when Harold got the chance to smash her face against his knee. She was dazed when she realized that she was lying next to Lena.
What even got her scared is the fact that Lena's starting to wake up.
Harold brought down his right foot hard to the ground, attempting to crush Linda's midsection. She was able to roll away from that attack.
She reckoned it's high time to end this fight before Lena wakes up and see her fighting this guy. How can she ever explain to her that she single handedly took down these three, 6' foot something, muscular jocks?
"Harold you're cute." Linda struggled to say as he wrapped his muscular arms around her body to prevent her from moving or delivering attacks.
She rammed her forehead to his forehead and that made him loose his grip on her.
Linda ducked at the arc of his punch after that. She took a few steps backwards to create some space between them.
"And I like you." She added in the sweetest tone. Linda closed her right hand around Harold's thick neck to stop him from striking. "Really."
With her other hand she finally decked him unconscious.
"But not that much." She finished.
Lena was already sitting when Harold slumped on the parking lot floor. She was rubbing her eyes, trying to get a better look of her surroundings. Luckily, she didn't see all of the action.
When her sight cleared, a familiar face was slouched next to her. At first she thought it was an angel.
"Am I dead?" Lena thought.
And then the 'angel' talked and Lena's whole 'I'm In heaven' illusion was shattered.
"Are you ok?" Linda's façade was full of concern.
"It's that Danvers girl." She murmured, trying to get up from the ground. Linda of course helped her.
"I'm ok." Lena uttered pushing her hands away, as if to say she doesn't need her help to get up. Lena's back in her bratty mode again.
"Are you sure?" Linda mumbled. "Maybe I should get you-."
"I said I'm ok!" Lena interjected, not even allowing her to finish her sentence. Her voice was firm and tough as she raked long strands of her crimson hair away from her face.
With one hand on her hips, she massaged her throbbing forehead. The chemical from the towel Harold covered her nose with, must've caused her to fall asleep for a short while.
"What the hell happened here?" Lena retorted, staring at the unconscious bodies at the lot.
She continued to massage her forehead as she shot her sight to Linda for some answers.
Danvers had that deer-in-headlights look that characterized a guilty person who doesn't have the slightest idea on how to explain everything.
"Uh." She let out the meaningless sound. "I don't know?"
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Only after 10 minutes, the police were at the scene already. Asking the people present about the 'attempted' kidnapping of Lena Thorul. The sad thing is, no one really saw what happened.
Linda was now being questioned by a police officer. But instead of getting terribly worried, she's got a nice big smile on her face. How can you be worried when you're just talking to your Father.
"Yup." She said proudly. "I saved the life of Elizabeth Thorul's daughter. Yup. That's me."
Officer Danvers' used to his daughter acting this way whenever she has done something good. And the truth is, he's really proud of her.
"Now Lyn, what did really happen here?" He spoke softly, cautious that no one else would hear him. "Mutated High school students out for revenge?"
"No. I don't think so." Linda muttered looking at Fred, Harold and Keith's direction. They were by now being loaded at the back of the police van, handcuffed. "They're not mutated dad."
"They sounded perfectly normal when I talked to them earlier." Mr. Danvers agreed, eyes also fixed on the three boys. "They said they don't have any memories of what happened."
He sighed.
Linda opened her right hand, and in her palm were 3 tiny shards of what seemed like glass at first.
But as you stare at them longer, the shards give out an odd shimmer.
"I found these in their forehead. I got the biggest one from Harold." She revealed, careful to her environment. "It was almost imbedded in their skin."
"You think these things caused the boys to act differently?" Her father inquired, confusion was pretty obvious in his voice.
"I have a feeling that these things gave them power." Linda confided to her father who was just listening. "And that power caused them to lose control."
It's as if a bright light bulb glowed above her head when she began to remember something. Something from her past that resulted in her world's destruction.
"The Omegahedron." She said under her breath.
"The Omega-what?" Fred asked her again.
As faces of her real parents, Zor El, Allura and her mentor Zaltar flashed before her together with the destruction of Argo City, tears threatened to fall from her blue eyes.
"The Omeg-." Before she can explain it to him, a police officer in training showed up.
It was Ashley Morgan. His expression says 'freaked out' when he called out Mr. Danvers.
"Sir I think you may want to look at what we found at the back lot." Ashley spoke out the words with a hint of distress in his voice.
"Honey, we'll talk about this later." Her father said to Linda. He began walking for the back lot together with Ashley. Another police officer joined them.
"We found a dead body inside the dumpster, sir. Caucasian, female, dark hair, five foot four." Ashley continued pouring out the information they got. "We found her ID. The name's Diane Simons, she's a freshman here in Leesburg High."
Linda heard everything loud and clear, although they were several feet away from where she stood. She couldn't believe it. Diane's dead.
"We already contacted her parents." Added Ashley.
"What's the cause of death Morgan?" Asked Officer Danvers shaking his head in complete disbelief. It seems like every night somebody turns up dead in Leesburg. When will this stop?
"The same as the previous case we handled, Sir." He confessed. "Eyes were torn out of their sockets."
Linda felt her knees wobbled with fear. Whoever is doing this is at it again. Harvesting eyes from unsuspecting victims. What does 'it' want with their eyes? Collection? Food?
A hand touched Linda on her right shoulder. Alarm bells rang inside her head, so she grabbed the hand and prepared to flip whoever it was, aikido style.
"Linda!" Called Lucy Lane, shocked how her best friend held her hand so tightly. She was standing next to Dick Malverne who had the same bewildered look.
"Gawd Lucy!" Linda let out with complete relief that it's not some mutated person, out to get her eyes and stuff. She was also relieved that she didn't apply that much pressure to her grip that'd probably cause Lucy's hand bones to break.
"Give me a heart attack, why don't you!" She continued.
"Sorry. I didn't know you were having a moment there." Lucy apologized snatching back her hand.
"A moment?" She questioned, furrowing her eyebrows.
"You know." Explained her best friend. "Everything around you freezes- deep in you thoughts-flashback moments."
"Oh yeah." Mumbled Linda.
"We heard what happened. Are you ok?" Dick joined in with the conversation. Concern was evident on his façade for Linda's safety.
She nodded in reply.
"I think you should be asking Lena Thorul that question. Not me." Linda commented as they began walking away.
"I saw her earlier, before their driver picked her up." Dick uttered, moving to Linda's left side. "She looked spooked."
"I'd also looked spooked if guys from my high school tried to kidnap me." Lucy expressed right away.
"Poor Lena." Muttered Linda to her friends, feeling sorry for the girl she just saved. "Her moms not even here to console her."
"That's Elizabeth Thorul for you." Lane responded, tucking a few strands of hair behind her ear. "Always away from home for business. No wonder her daughter's all-."
"How did you do it?" Dick quickly interrupted Lucy. He was talking to Linda.
Linda stopped and furrowed her eyebrows.
"How did I do what?"
"Stop those guys from kidnapping Lena?" He expounded with curiosity in his blue eyes.
"Yeah." Lucy joined in. "How did you do it?"
Linda just stared at her friends. She was racking her brains for some logical answers or in this case lie so they would be satisfied.
"With my irresistible charm?" She tried joking about it. Praying that Dick and Lucy would just laugh and forget they ever asked her that question.
"No really." Dick prodded his tone serious. "How did you stop them?"
"Well you see I'm an alien from this planet called Krypton and actually that planet exploded and everyone thought nobody survived the tragedy and that only Kal El, my cousin was the sole survivor. But our city, Argo, floated away on a chunk of rock safely after the explosion. To cut the long story short, Argo city also exploded and I think it's because of me and my real parents sent me here to earth to find Kal El and this Omegahedron thing, which I think is causing some of the local kids to have super powers. Oh and by the way I have super speed and I'm invulnerable."
That was the reply Linda wanted to give Dick and Lucy. They'd think she's crazy so she went with the logical explanation.
"Taekwando." She said calmly. "My dad taught me the art of kicking ass when I was a kid."
"Yeah. Your dad's got a black belt for taekwando, right?" Lucy agreed, to Linda's utter easement.
Dick still had that unsatisfied look on his face.
"You remember that time in grade school?" Lucy inquired to Dick. "We had that thing where you bring one of your parents to class and you show everyone your favorite bonding activity?"
Linda was praying he'd recall.
"Wait," Dick pressed his lips together. "I think I'm starting to remember. Was that the time you flipped your father to the floor during your demo?"
His lips were curving into a grin when he asked the question. The priceless look of pain on Mr. Danvers' face when Linda swiftly flipped him over was the thing that registered in Dick Malverne's memory.
"Yeah." Linda answered, a little embarrassed.
All three of them broke out laughing.
Linda glanced over at Dick, who immediately turned red when she noticed he was looking at her. He was thinking how beautiful she is when she laughed like that. Oddly, she was thinking of the exact same thing for him. They just laughed it off. Pretending the moment didn't occur.
They proceeded to walk out of the police swarmed parking lot, heading for that pizza place Dick told them about. "For a moment, I was thinking you're really some sort of a super powered chick from another planet." Dick said between laughter.
Lucy continued to laugh. That wonderful smile on Linda's face vanished temporarily when Dick said those words. Lucy and Dick noticed that she stopped laughing so they looked at her.
Not wanting her friends to suspect, she pretended to laugh out loud ones more. Dick and Lucy joined her.
"Gawd Malverne, you've been reading waaaaaaaay too many comic books." Lucy pointed out.
"Oh shoot." Linda cursed, suddenly stopping on her tracks. "I almost forgot. I promised Diane Simons from biology that I'd meet her at the school parking lot after the try outs."
"You guys working on that class project already? But it's not due 'til next, next week." Lucy uttered in surprise.
"I know. But you know Diane, she's work, work, and more work." She reminded.
"What about your celebration?" Dick interjected, his face turning crestfallen, frightened that the pizza treat at Fazolli's he had planned for Lucy and Linda may be put on hold. "I mean our celebration. I got in the football team, you got in the squad? C'mon."
Linda furrowed her eyebrows at him.
"WE are going to celebrate Malverne." She retorted with a smile. She took a few steps backwards preparing to leave and finished. "I just need to give some of my notes to Diane and then we'll celebrate like there's no tomorrow."
Ones more Dick Malverne's face brightened at the sound of that.
"We're just gonna wait for you outside, Lyn." Said Lucy as she pulled Dick by the right arm.
"Ok." She swung her blue duffel bag over her shoulder and started jogging to the opposite direction heading for the Leesburg High parking lot.
It'd be easier if she would use her super speed to get there, but she reckoned it wouldn't be safe. Someone might see her use her gift.
Linda was wearing her baby blue sweat shirt together with the matching jogging pants and running shoes. She looked like an athlete with her hair swept up in a pony tail.
She reckoned she would probably get in trouble if the principal would see her jogging at the halls.
"Danvers." Called out a dark haired guy as she passed by at the lockers. "Congratulations."
"Thanks." She replied, continuing to jog.
When she exited the left wing of the building, where the parking lot was located, the warm rays of the sun greeted her. With the use of her hand, she shielded her eyes from the harsh brightness as she began searching for Diane Simons, her lab partner.
The parking lot that can contain at least a hundred cars seemed deserted at this time. Only about 8 to 10 cars are parked apart from each other.
Linda was looking for Diane's car. It was a red old beetle type car which was handed down to Diane by her sister.
She walked around, praying that she would soon spot Diane somewhere, waiting for her. Unfortunately, there was no red beetle car in sight. Diane probably left minutes ago.
Linda pivoted and began strolling back inside the building. She would just give Diane a call later and apologize. She imagined that Diane would go all demonically possessed on her.
The bracelet. She suddenly remembered. She kept it inside her duffel bag before the squad try outs. She stopped, unzipped her bag and rummaged inside that thing until she finally got what she was looking for.
Linda held the silver band, eye level, and watched it sparkled and shined as the sun's rays reflected on it.
Staring at the carvings on the bracelet she realized that it was making sense. She was somehow beginning to understand some of the encryptions. At the bottom of the band she was able to decipher some characters.
"Last Children. Krypton. Rule. Third Planet."
Linda felt her heart pound. It made sense inside her head.
Rulers. Kal-El and herself. Is this a prophecy that they're both bound to rule earth? As King and Queen?
She shook the frightening thoughts away, placing the band on her left wrist.
Again, she walked heading for the entrance of the building. She wiped the beads of sweat that formed on her forehead. If she's right about this, Zaltar and her parents must be telling them, Kal El and herself, of their destiny.
"No." Murmured Linda.
If one day, she would meet Kal El, she would not tell him of their fate. God knows what he will do or think if he finds out!
Kryptonian men are known to have that 'follow' your path/destiny syndrome. They're not really the type who defies orders or what they are told.
Linda tried her best to convince herself that maybe she was wrong with the translation. At this point she's still pretty rusty when it comes to Kryptonian writing 101.
She will try again later. She promised.
Before she could enter the building, Linda heard a vehicle's roaring engine from somewhere, what followed was a loud scream that shattered the air.
Linda is certain that there was something wrong, so she turned and ran to where the scream was coming from.
A black van was parked a few feet away from the exit of the lot. The engine is still running and she spotted Fred Paphakolis from her history class at the driver's seat.
His eyes seemed empty and his face was just blank. The second he saw Linda coming towards the van, he attempted to get out and leave. With her super speed she was able to stop him from getting away. With a mild punch she knocked him unconscious.
It was time to check the commotion happening at the back.
To Linda's absolute shock, she witnessed how Harold Fierce and Keith Duffy were trying to load an unconscious Lena Thorul at the back of the black van.
"Men." She said shaking her head in disbelief. "Whatever happened to chocolates? Flowers? Sweet words and kisses?"
Harold and Keith saw Linda standing a few feet away from them. Keith was supporting Lena's upper body while Harold held her legs.
Linda noticed how expressionless and empty their eyes are, just like Fred.
"What? You decided to skip that part of the chase and move forward to the honeymoon?" Mocked Linda, arms crossed over her chest. "Boys, that is soooo wrong."
Both guys calmly placed Lena down on the ground for them to be able to attack Linda.
Harold clenched his fist, he threw a solid punch into the air, aiming for Linda's face. Unfortunately, she was too fast for him. She easily ducked the punch. Keith also did the same thing, but this time Linda got hold of his fist with just only one hand, when he tried to punch her.
His zombie like façade changed when Linda tightened her grip on his fist. Pain.
Without warning, she felt something wooden hit her at the back. It was Harold. He was holding to an end of what used to be a full baseball bat. The bat shattered into tiny toothpick size pieces when it hit Linda's back.
Linda smacked Keith at the face and he fell down. She then twirled to face Harold, still holding on to the handle of the bat.
When Linda raised her left arm to punch Harold, she was distracted by her silver bracelet. It was glowing for some reason. Her eyes focused on the glowing thing.
It was enough time for Harold to bury his fist in her stomach. He followed that with a blow in her face. That last punch sent Linda staggering backwards. Shock registered in her face.
From among the three guys, Harold was the strong one. He was able to hurt her. Make her feel pain. Heck, she reckoned he could even kill her.
Harold rushed and threw punches at her ones more. She was able to block a couple of the punches but some of them connected at her face and her upper body. She groaned in agony.
Ones more she staggered in pain and disbelief. Only the meteor mutated people of this town can do this to her. All three guys looked normal to Linda. Usually a good sign for her that someone's mutated is when their eyes let out that strange greenish glow.
But Fred, Keith and Harold don't have that.
Linda could no longer take the abuse. She ran for Harold, her fist making contact with mostly his façade. She twirled before executing a roundhouse kick.
And then Linda elbowed him in the face. This time it was Harold who reeled to his back.
That exact moment, Lena was beginning to regain consciousness. Lying on the ground, she moaned. She slowly fluttered open her eyes but could not see anything immediately. Although she heard some sort of commotion. Lena heard people fighting. A man and a woman.
She heard the clashing of the fists meeting with skin. There was bone crunching kicks involved too. The most evident of all the noises would be the groaning of the female as she punched and kicked her opponent.
Linda fell flat on her back when Harold got the chance to smash her face against his knee. She was dazed when she realized that she was lying next to Lena.
What even got her scared is the fact that Lena's starting to wake up.
Harold brought down his right foot hard to the ground, attempting to crush Linda's midsection. She was able to roll away from that attack.
She reckoned it's high time to end this fight before Lena wakes up and see her fighting this guy. How can she ever explain to her that she single handedly took down these three, 6' foot something, muscular jocks?
"Harold you're cute." Linda struggled to say as he wrapped his muscular arms around her body to prevent her from moving or delivering attacks.
She rammed her forehead to his forehead and that made him loose his grip on her.
Linda ducked at the arc of his punch after that. She took a few steps backwards to create some space between them.
"And I like you." She added in the sweetest tone. Linda closed her right hand around Harold's thick neck to stop him from striking. "Really."
With her other hand she finally decked him unconscious.
"But not that much." She finished.
Lena was already sitting when Harold slumped on the parking lot floor. She was rubbing her eyes, trying to get a better look of her surroundings. Luckily, she didn't see all of the action.
When her sight cleared, a familiar face was slouched next to her. At first she thought it was an angel.
"Am I dead?" Lena thought.
And then the 'angel' talked and Lena's whole 'I'm In heaven' illusion was shattered.
"Are you ok?" Linda's façade was full of concern.
"It's that Danvers girl." She murmured, trying to get up from the ground. Linda of course helped her.
"I'm ok." Lena uttered pushing her hands away, as if to say she doesn't need her help to get up. Lena's back in her bratty mode again.
"Are you sure?" Linda mumbled. "Maybe I should get you-."
"I said I'm ok!" Lena interjected, not even allowing her to finish her sentence. Her voice was firm and tough as she raked long strands of her crimson hair away from her face.
With one hand on her hips, she massaged her throbbing forehead. The chemical from the towel Harold covered her nose with, must've caused her to fall asleep for a short while.
"What the hell happened here?" Lena retorted, staring at the unconscious bodies at the lot.
She continued to massage her forehead as she shot her sight to Linda for some answers.
Danvers had that deer-in-headlights look that characterized a guilty person who doesn't have the slightest idea on how to explain everything.
"Uh." She let out the meaningless sound. "I don't know?"
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Only after 10 minutes, the police were at the scene already. Asking the people present about the 'attempted' kidnapping of Lena Thorul. The sad thing is, no one really saw what happened.
Linda was now being questioned by a police officer. But instead of getting terribly worried, she's got a nice big smile on her face. How can you be worried when you're just talking to your Father.
"Yup." She said proudly. "I saved the life of Elizabeth Thorul's daughter. Yup. That's me."
Officer Danvers' used to his daughter acting this way whenever she has done something good. And the truth is, he's really proud of her.
"Now Lyn, what did really happen here?" He spoke softly, cautious that no one else would hear him. "Mutated High school students out for revenge?"
"No. I don't think so." Linda muttered looking at Fred, Harold and Keith's direction. They were by now being loaded at the back of the police van, handcuffed. "They're not mutated dad."
"They sounded perfectly normal when I talked to them earlier." Mr. Danvers agreed, eyes also fixed on the three boys. "They said they don't have any memories of what happened."
He sighed.
Linda opened her right hand, and in her palm were 3 tiny shards of what seemed like glass at first.
But as you stare at them longer, the shards give out an odd shimmer.
"I found these in their forehead. I got the biggest one from Harold." She revealed, careful to her environment. "It was almost imbedded in their skin."
"You think these things caused the boys to act differently?" Her father inquired, confusion was pretty obvious in his voice.
"I have a feeling that these things gave them power." Linda confided to her father who was just listening. "And that power caused them to lose control."
It's as if a bright light bulb glowed above her head when she began to remember something. Something from her past that resulted in her world's destruction.
"The Omegahedron." She said under her breath.
"The Omega-what?" Fred asked her again.
As faces of her real parents, Zor El, Allura and her mentor Zaltar flashed before her together with the destruction of Argo City, tears threatened to fall from her blue eyes.
"The Omeg-." Before she can explain it to him, a police officer in training showed up.
It was Ashley Morgan. His expression says 'freaked out' when he called out Mr. Danvers.
"Sir I think you may want to look at what we found at the back lot." Ashley spoke out the words with a hint of distress in his voice.
"Honey, we'll talk about this later." Her father said to Linda. He began walking for the back lot together with Ashley. Another police officer joined them.
"We found a dead body inside the dumpster, sir. Caucasian, female, dark hair, five foot four." Ashley continued pouring out the information they got. "We found her ID. The name's Diane Simons, she's a freshman here in Leesburg High."
Linda heard everything loud and clear, although they were several feet away from where she stood. She couldn't believe it. Diane's dead.
"We already contacted her parents." Added Ashley.
"What's the cause of death Morgan?" Asked Officer Danvers shaking his head in complete disbelief. It seems like every night somebody turns up dead in Leesburg. When will this stop?
"The same as the previous case we handled, Sir." He confessed. "Eyes were torn out of their sockets."
Linda felt her knees wobbled with fear. Whoever is doing this is at it again. Harvesting eyes from unsuspecting victims. What does 'it' want with their eyes? Collection? Food?
A hand touched Linda on her right shoulder. Alarm bells rang inside her head, so she grabbed the hand and prepared to flip whoever it was, aikido style.
"Linda!" Called Lucy Lane, shocked how her best friend held her hand so tightly. She was standing next to Dick Malverne who had the same bewildered look.
"Gawd Lucy!" Linda let out with complete relief that it's not some mutated person, out to get her eyes and stuff. She was also relieved that she didn't apply that much pressure to her grip that'd probably cause Lucy's hand bones to break.
"Give me a heart attack, why don't you!" She continued.
"Sorry. I didn't know you were having a moment there." Lucy apologized snatching back her hand.
"A moment?" She questioned, furrowing her eyebrows.
"You know." Explained her best friend. "Everything around you freezes- deep in you thoughts-flashback moments."
"Oh yeah." Mumbled Linda.
"We heard what happened. Are you ok?" Dick joined in with the conversation. Concern was evident on his façade for Linda's safety.
She nodded in reply.
"I think you should be asking Lena Thorul that question. Not me." Linda commented as they began walking away.
"I saw her earlier, before their driver picked her up." Dick uttered, moving to Linda's left side. "She looked spooked."
"I'd also looked spooked if guys from my high school tried to kidnap me." Lucy expressed right away.
"Poor Lena." Muttered Linda to her friends, feeling sorry for the girl she just saved. "Her moms not even here to console her."
"That's Elizabeth Thorul for you." Lane responded, tucking a few strands of hair behind her ear. "Always away from home for business. No wonder her daughter's all-."
"How did you do it?" Dick quickly interrupted Lucy. He was talking to Linda.
Linda stopped and furrowed her eyebrows.
"How did I do what?"
"Stop those guys from kidnapping Lena?" He expounded with curiosity in his blue eyes.
"Yeah." Lucy joined in. "How did you do it?"
Linda just stared at her friends. She was racking her brains for some logical answers or in this case lie so they would be satisfied.
"With my irresistible charm?" She tried joking about it. Praying that Dick and Lucy would just laugh and forget they ever asked her that question.
"No really." Dick prodded his tone serious. "How did you stop them?"
"Well you see I'm an alien from this planet called Krypton and actually that planet exploded and everyone thought nobody survived the tragedy and that only Kal El, my cousin was the sole survivor. But our city, Argo, floated away on a chunk of rock safely after the explosion. To cut the long story short, Argo city also exploded and I think it's because of me and my real parents sent me here to earth to find Kal El and this Omegahedron thing, which I think is causing some of the local kids to have super powers. Oh and by the way I have super speed and I'm invulnerable."
That was the reply Linda wanted to give Dick and Lucy. They'd think she's crazy so she went with the logical explanation.
"Taekwando." She said calmly. "My dad taught me the art of kicking ass when I was a kid."
"Yeah. Your dad's got a black belt for taekwando, right?" Lucy agreed, to Linda's utter easement.
Dick still had that unsatisfied look on his face.
"You remember that time in grade school?" Lucy inquired to Dick. "We had that thing where you bring one of your parents to class and you show everyone your favorite bonding activity?"
Linda was praying he'd recall.
"Wait," Dick pressed his lips together. "I think I'm starting to remember. Was that the time you flipped your father to the floor during your demo?"
His lips were curving into a grin when he asked the question. The priceless look of pain on Mr. Danvers' face when Linda swiftly flipped him over was the thing that registered in Dick Malverne's memory.
"Yeah." Linda answered, a little embarrassed.
All three of them broke out laughing.
Linda glanced over at Dick, who immediately turned red when she noticed he was looking at her. He was thinking how beautiful she is when she laughed like that. Oddly, she was thinking of the exact same thing for him. They just laughed it off. Pretending the moment didn't occur.
They proceeded to walk out of the police swarmed parking lot, heading for that pizza place Dick told them about. "For a moment, I was thinking you're really some sort of a super powered chick from another planet." Dick said between laughter.
Lucy continued to laugh. That wonderful smile on Linda's face vanished temporarily when Dick said those words. Lucy and Dick noticed that she stopped laughing so they looked at her.
Not wanting her friends to suspect, she pretended to laugh out loud ones more. Dick and Lucy joined her.
"Gawd Malverne, you've been reading waaaaaaaay too many comic books." Lucy pointed out.