Chapter 2

Rocky and Cece spent most of the afternoon in the mall. Rocky was pleasantly surprised when her headaches didn't return. Just as she and Cece had arrived back at Cece's apartment a gunman jumped out of an alcove. He shoved a snub nosed revolver in their faces.

"Don't move, don't move!" he said, "give me your money and jewelry!"

"Okay, Okay," said the frightened girls, "Just don't shoot." They began to hand over their valuables. Just then the elevator opened and Cece's mother stepped off in her full uniform.

She reached for her gun but the mugger saw her before she could get the drop on him. He knocked Rocky down, grabbed Cece and pressed the barrel of the gun to her head.

"Drop the gun, Cop," he snapped, "I swear I'll kill her, drop the gun!"

Georgia slowly lowered her gun to the ground. Rocky lay on the ground where she had landed. Her eyes started to glow. Suddenly the gunman gave a painful yelp and dropped the gun. The handle of the gun was smoking.

Cece rammed her fist into the mugger's groin as hard as she could and ran. Georgia jumped on the man and snapped the handcuffs on him while he was still lying on the ground in the fetal position groaning in pain.

A few minutes later Rock and Cece were sitting in Cece's apartment Cece was still a little shaken and who could blame her. Rocky was sitting there with her arm around Cece. They both watched as Georgia finished talking to officers that had responded. Finally the other officer left and Georgia came over to the girls.

"Well," she said, "Apparently our assailant was the notorious North Street Marauder; the cops have been after him for weeks. The one thing that mystifies the cops is that our friend had a burn on the palm of his right hand and the gun handle was still warm to the touch. Something caused the gun butt to burn his hand that's why he dropped it!"

"Well it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!" said Cece in a voice dripping with sarcasm.

Rocky shifted uncomfortably. She was pretty sure she was responsible for the gun's hot-flash. She hoped that she didn't look as nervous as she felt.

"What's Cece going to think when she finds out about all of this?" echoed through her brain.

Rocky stayed with Cece for the next hour. Finally she went back to her own home. When she saw what time it was she realized that she only had an hour until she was supposed to meet Zachariah at Crusty's. She took a shower, put on a red dress and black boots. Then with a few final touches she was ready.

Rocky walked into Crusty's and looked around. She was glad that Zach had picked 6pm for their meeting because that was after Deuce's shift was over.

She spotted Zachariah in a booth in the back of the restaurant. She walked over and slid into the booth across the table from him. He was wearing a dark blue button up shirt black pants and black shoes. He flashed a smile.

"You didn't have to get all dressed up." He said

"Neither did you," she replied.

"Touché." He said.

Rocky took a deep breath and proceeded to spill the beans about what had just happened. The attempted robbery and everything all came spilling out. Jason, instead of looking upset with her, looked impressed.

"Hmm," he said, "I only know of one other Wielder who exhibited that much control and accuracy that soon after his emergence."

"Really," Said Rocky, "Who?"

"Me," said Zachariah pointing to himself, "It means that you may be more powerful than I first thought!"

"Oh boy," said Rocky lowering her head into one of her hands, "As if I wasn't nervous enough as it is, not only am I a Wielder I'm an unusually powerful one."

Zachariah took her hand in both of his.

"It's okay Rocky," he said, "Don't be frightened, I'll be with you every step of the way." Rocky began to smile again. Just then the waiter showed up to take their order. As Zach let go of Rocky's hand and turned to speak to the waiter, a look of annoyance flashed across her face, and neither one of them noticed a certain blonde girl who had been watching them from across the restaurant get up and leave.

Zachariah ordered them a pizza. While they were waiting for it they began to talk in quiet tones to makes sure that they weren't overheard.

"I know I can make things get hot," said Rocky, "But what else can I do?"

"All sorts of things," said Zach, "for one thing not only can you make things heat up you call also cool them down." Zachariah looked one of the glasses of water that was on the table between them. His eyes began to glow and the water turned to a solid block of ice, but back into liquid.

"There are a lot of other things that you can do that I don't dare demonstrate here." Zachariah said with a smile.

Meanwhile…

The blonde AKA Tinka arrived at Cece's apartment. Ty, and Deuce were there playing video games with Flynn. Cece who had pretty much recovered from her ordeal was sitting on the couch texting.

Just as Tinka arrived Cece grunted in frustration.

"Why isn't Rocky Answering." She snapped, "this is the third time I've texted her."

"Well," said Tinka, "it's kind of hard to text and hold hands with a dark-haired god."

"WHAT?!" Three voices said in Unison. Ty and Deuce jump up from there video game and in the process Deuce dropped the controller he was using on Ty's foot. Ty hollered, grabbed his foot and gave Deuce a dirty look.

"Sorry," said Deuce. Ty's attention went back to Tinka.

"What did you say, Tinka," he said his eyes narrowing.

"Rocky's at Crusty's with a guy." Tinka said

"No way," said Cece "is he cute? Do you think that's why she's not answering my texts?"

"Let me put it this way," said Tinka, "If I was sharing a booth with that guy I wouldn't be too happy if I was interrupted either."

No sooner had Tinka said that that Ty, Deuce, and Cece practically dove out the doorway and headed for Crusty's.

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