Caretaker
Desert Delays
"Alli! Let's go!" Road shouts in the distance. Named person leaves the fallen exorcist as she lays there in shock. More finders pull out of the building as Matt runs out. They all exit through Road's door.
Time passes, and three days has already gone by. Alli stands outside the Kamelot mansion, where she stares out onto the forest line whilst listening to the town noises. Someone comes up behind her and stands next to her.
"So, what did you think about your first mission?" Matt asks as he leans on the railing.
"All right, I guess, though I did let Libya have the upper hand for a bit there," Alli admits with a sigh.
"How so?"
"I guess I was taken back at how fast she was. Her training must have boosted when I left. Her weapon had excelled as well; there were some moves she played that were quite surprising. She gave me a little scar on my back-" Alli turns around whilst lifting up her hair. She lifts up the bottom part of her shirt to reveal part of what looks to be a very detailed cross insignia.
"Does this get bigger?" Matt asks as he stares at the marking.
"It goes up until my neck. It's quite big, to be honest, though I haven't a clue how it got there. She only shocked me a few times; I only felt one that was a tad more painful than the others. I'm a bit baffled, but that doesn't matter, I destroyed the innocence anyways."
"So, you toyed with Libya before you actually started to get serious?"
"Basically, though I was getting annoyed with her overconfidence."
Mat laughs. "Of course you were."
"Hey! Sheril wants to see you both," Tyki calls from one of the glass doors. The two nod and head straight for the political man's office. As they enter, they notice all of the newspapers and documents that surround Sheril's desk.
"Ah, there you are! I have a mission for you two," he says with a smile. He sifts through his pile of folders and pulls one out. "Here we are! Saudi Arabia, that's where you're going. Innocence reports and exorcist sitings. You know what to do."
The heat rays pierce their skin as the two walk on the sandy ground of the desert. A urban town is not far in the distance, and the duo enter the city unnoticed by the finders surrounding the town entrance.
"Something must be quite important for them to have this place guarded so heavily," Alli mentions to Matt as they walk through the market crowds. He nods in agreement.
"Whatever it is, it must be our potential target for our mission. Let's follow those two," Matt say whilst pointing to the two exorcists in front of us. It appears to be a small boy with greenish-blue hair and a tall man with pointy ears. Alli recognizes Krory, but not the boy. He must be new. . .
They follow the two until they reach a small chapel, that seems to be corroded with finders and crow members. They walk in unnoticed again, and finds a innocence inside a container. They seem to be extracting it from something. Alli glances over to a small stone; the same from her first mission.
"Matt, that was the same stone I destroyed a few days ago. How did they get a new one?" Alli whispers to her companion.
"I don't know, but we need to split to get better perspectives," Matt informs. She nods as she slowly walks towards the stone as he goes opposite. The stone shines a bright green as it slowly escapes through a tube. It turns into a red liquid and drops into another cylinder. The color is blood red; just as Alli's bracelets were. As surprised as Alli is, What catches her eyes is the bow that lays on the ground next to the Red cylinder.
"When will it be done?" the small boy from earlier asks with impatience.
"I have no clue," Krory answers. The stone slowly dissipates into a lifeless object. The container stays there, until Matt suddenly takes it. Alli is a bit taken back, and Krory with the little boy come in. Maybe Alli can see what the boy can do. . .
"Who is that!" the boy shouts.
"That is a Noah, Timothy," Krory says with distaste. Alli never realized how much exorcists hate the Noah.
"I'll be taking this, thank you very much," Matt says with a smile. He suddenly starts running out of the chapel as the two exorcists pursue. Matt forces stone spikes to pop up from the ground to delay the two. It works. "Now would be the time!"
Alli takes that as her signal. She quickly appears by Matt and he throws the cylinder towards her.
She runs like the wind.
The two exorcists divide as Krory stays with Matt. The boy, Timothy, starts to chase after Alli. She's too fast for him. Another person jumps in. They appear to have red hair. They run just as fast as Alli. She continues to hold the cylinder as the person comes closer. Alli tries hard not to trip, but when sand's involved, there's no guarantee. The person then tackles the golden-haired girl to the ground. The cylinder slips from her grip and it slides down a sand dune. Alli quickly kicks the person off and rolls down the dune. She quickly tries to grab it, but the person is quicker. They quickly snatch it before Alli can. They instantly vanish.
"Allison! Did you-" Matt is cut off by the person running into him. They apologize, but quickly realize who it is. They instantly run off to the exorcists with the cylinder. He's baffled at the person.
"Matt! Did you see them too?" Alli asks whilst running up to him. He nods.
"Do you know who she was?" he asks.
"No, but for moment I thought it was Libya. But then I noticed a few scars on her right eye and a weird marking on her neck. Whoever she was, I highly doubt she's human."
"We need to get out of here before they come after us."
"Agreed." They instantly try to conduct an gate. Nothing happens. They try again, but nothing happens. The duo try finding another town with a working telephone. Once they do, Matt tries to contact Sheril.
"Matt! How was it?" Sheril exclaims through the phone. Matt is slightly irritated by his father's voice.
"Terrible, we were doing so well, then we were hijacked by an exorcist," he says with annoyance. "Listen, the gates aren't responding to our calls, what happened?"
"About that. . . the gates aren't working at the moment. Something seems to be blocking them in your area."
"How so? I'm sure we don't have any bugs on us."
"Something is interfering with the connection with your area. You're basically stuck there until you can find out why."
"That's just great. . ." Alli notices Matt anger in his voice. He hangs up the phone and stalks over to Alli. "We need to find a place to stay."
"Why? What's happened?" she asks.
"Something in the area is blocking us from conducting gates. We need to find out what it is," Matt says angrily.
Little did they know, the red-headed girl had placed two tiny objects on their clothes.
Uh oh, they're stuck in the desert heat. Wondering who the red-head was? You'll find out in later chapters. How will they escape the desert? Find out in the next chapter! Review please!
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