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Chapter 4
It was different waking up and walking around the house now. It seemed so empty. Its been this way for just about a week now. After the explosion in town I got used to the idea that she wasn't home. I wanted to tell my self she was fine and over with a friend for awhile. It was best not to go outside after that anyway. But now I know where she is and it haunts me everyday.
Either way I couldn't do anything. How long did Scarlet say I needed to take it easy for? I have yet to go back to the academy. I don't think it'll be the best idea. For most of the day everyday I'm on my own. Scarlet and everyone else go to the academy and here I am at home. Lately I haven't been sleeping thinking about that night. The night I had the chance to kill him. The night I got shot. Things have been so different since then. I can't fight anymore. The town seems to be under attack with no real motive at all. The explosion that went off in town made everything seem out of place. I don't really know what happened to Ivory.
Every morning I would lay in my bed and stare at the ceiling. The only thought in my head was Dominic. What was he doing back here? Is he after Ivory again? No, if he was why would he hurt her? He was just one big complication on my life that I didn't need. Fuck! I need to focus. I need to get out of this house! I have to know why that explosion happened and if Dominic is connected to it. First, lets go see where that damned explosion came from. There was so much chaos afterwards that I didn't really get to see what happened. While most of the weapons and meisters are at the academy I should be able to get pretty close to the explosion zone.
I don't give myself enough time to think about it before I rush out the door. From this point on I don't care about the consequences. If it gets me anywhere close to killing him, I'll take my chances.
I run all over town and I don't see anything. No clues or anything. It's almost like the explosion never happened! I make my way to the center of town. I haven't been here that many times but its seems a bit off here. The air seems foggy here and I have a feeling that I'm not alone. Damn, I wish I could sense souls like Scarlet. Luckily I have great hearing. I listen and hear footsteps. Who ever is out there isn't quiet. The footsteps stop for awhile then they start to get closer and closer and faster. Who ever it is they know I'm here, meaning it could be Dominic. I'm not taking any chances of it not being him so I transform into Sin once the footsteps get even closer. I can hear better in this form anyways. I start to hear two sets of footsteps. Did Dominic bring someone with him? Or is it just two idiots who got lost?
I stand and wait a bit longer for them to get closer to me if its really him he won't expect to see Sin. I can tell that the footsteps are coming from behind me. They get closer, they should be able to see me by now. Their charging towards me. I wait a bit longer then at the perfect moment I transform and Sin takes my place. Right after I transform the footsteps stop. I turn around and see that the two people I heard coming my way was Cresent and Grey. Why the fuck are these two running around? I transform back to normal.
"Woah dude! How'd you do that?" Crescent said with wide eyes.
"Can you teach me?" Grey spoke to me as if its just a trick.
"What are you two dumbasses doing out here anyways?" These two just don't know where their place is.
"We could ask you the same thing" Crescent steps forward towards me.
"I swear, one of these days you are going to push me over the edge" I can't deal with them right now, I have to focus. I brush past them, hoping they'll just go back to whatever idiot idea they were trying to pull off.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Grey shouts at me. Like I care what he has to say.
"None of your business. Now buzz off kid." I can't have them be in danger because of me. They really are cool guys but I can't do that to them. Besides I want to be the one to kill Dominic if he ever decides to show his face around here again.
I decide to give them one last show. I transform into Sin and bolt off deeper into the center of the city. I can feel their awestruck stares as I leave their sight. I make it to exact center and its even more foggier here. Even while I'm Sin my senses are dulled. Its not long before I hear footsteps again. Their moving fast like last time. The only difference is that these are heavier and sloppier, like they are in a hurry. I take my stance and get ready to see who it is for myself. Thats when a figure appears. Its to far away to see who it is. The footsteps are getting too close to belong to it. I listen closer. The footsteps are coming from the other direction. The figure doesn't seem to be getting closer.
I take my focus off the figure and back to the footsteps from before. I turn around and see once again Crescent. Grey must be in weapon form. What are they doing following me? Damn! I need to focus, why is that so difficult for me to do?
"What the hell are you two doing?" I transform back into regular form. I need them to leave, or at least have a good reason.
"We want to help you out with whatever it is you're doing." What makes these two think I'm up to something? Did I say something about what I was doing? Whatever I let Crescent talk. That was my first mistake. I had to get them to leave. I already had enough to deal with.
"What makes you think I'm up to something?" If I just leave again they'll just follow me again.
"Evans, I'm not that stupid you bolted off deeper into the city in the opposite direction of the academy" Crescent doesn't give up.
"Well that's debatable." I need to get them to stop thinking about where I'm going. I take a few steps forward.
"Evans!" I stop dead in my tracks. "Does any of this have to deal with what happened to Ivory?" What does Crescent know about what happened to her?
"Evans we know shes hurt. We were there." Grey transforms out of his weapon form.
"I don't think you understand." What is this? What is going on? I can't leave now I need to know just what they know about that night.
"Evans I think we do." Grey steps forward away from Crescent. What is he doing? Is he trying to make me believe them? At this point I need to listen to what they have to say because all I can think is that they were apart of it. If they were what side were they on? I can't let that bother me right now this is my only chance to figure out what happened here Thursday and see if it involved Dominic in any way.
"What are you two not telling me?" I hope this will get me enough information out of them.
"Evans we didn't hurt her okay. We tried to get him ourselves. At first he would take his attention off of Ivory and he aimed for us. I'm not sure what happened but when Ivory moved to cover Jett he took his attention off of us and straight to her. I'm not sure why but it looked as though he was mad at her for something. Now that I think about it, he wasn't really focused on her until she moved in front of Jett. He wanted to talked to her but he never shot at her until she tried to protect Jett."
"Wait… Dominic didn't hurt Ivory until Jett was involved?" I was starting to get angry.
"That's what it seems like, Dominic only wanted to talk to her before she protected Jett. Then all hell broke loose and none of our attacks helped, I don't remember much after that." Crescent said walking to Grey. If I'm hearing them right, Dominic is too much for us to handle and he has his sights set on Jett. Ivory got hurt because Dominic wanted Jett, but why would he want him?
"I gotta go talk to Ivory, thanks guys." I transform into Sin and run towards our house. I hope Ivory is home. She's been gone since the explosion and I don't know if I want her around Jett right now. God, it's already dark! I really let time slip away from me. I run as fast as I can, I have to find Ivory, now. All I can think about is Ivory. If she gets hurt because I trusted Jett too much I don't know how I could face her. Shit! Why can't I run faster?! I need to get to Ivory, I was stupid and trusted him. I knew his past and yet here I am trusting this guy. People don't change. I just knew it!
Okay, I gotta calm down. I'm almost to the house, I can see it from here. I transform back and walk up to the front of the house. I can make out two figures. Thank god, she's home, but who is the other person? I freeze on the spot. It's Jett. What is he doing?! I need to get closer. I sneak as quietly as I can to the nearest bush and watch. I can't trust Ivory to be alone with him. I don't know what he'll do. Wait, what are they doing right now?! A-are they?! I'm gonna kill that bastard! The last time that happened my sister was hurt so badly. I don't want that to happen to her again, especially not because of this prick! Shit! I need to focus. I need to beat some sense into him.
I storm out from behind the bushes, ready to do whatever I need to get the idea through Jett's head that Ivory is off limits. I will not let her get hurt because of him. Not again. I run right into Jett knocking him down making him slam his head against one of the stairs. I start to throw punches at him. He blocks most of them, and tries to get me off from on top of him. He then throws a punch of his own. This get me off him and he gets up and makes his way on the porch. I get myself up.
"You! You BASTARD!" I charge after him once again. "How could you?" I throw punches between sentences. "This is all because of you! You're the reason shes hurt! HE WAS AFTER YOU NOT HER!" I raise my fist the air. Not to long after I start to swing it around to Jett's face its stopped. I look back and see Scarlet holding onto my arm. She stood right behind me. I stand in shock.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Once again Scarlet blows up on me. I stand there not sure what to do. She lets go of my arm and I lower my fist. "Just look at yourself Evans. You really need to start getting yourself together. Just look at you! You almost hit your own sister!" I don't know what shes talking about. I look over to Jett and sure enough Ivory stood right there in front of him. I think back and if I throw that punch I would have hit Ivory. No! I fall to my knees. I can't believe I almost hit her. What would I have done with myself? No! I can't stay here. I need to leave before I hurt her.
I take off running back into the center of the city. I don't bother to change into Sin, I want to feel the pain from running. I run until I can't stop, until my legs give out and I am back on my knees. I hear running and heavy breathing coming behind me. I need to be alone, why can't I think straight?! I look over my shoulder and I see Scarlet running after me. I can't do this! She finally reaches me and sits in front of me.
"Are you okay?" Scarlet looks at me and gives off a small, weak smile.
"HOW COULD I BE OKAY?!" I can't take myself right now. I can't handle the idea of what I almost did.
"Hey, I know you didn't mean to. You were caught up in the middle of everything and didn't notice Ivory step in front of Jett. The point is you didn't hit her, okay?" Scarlet tries to comfort me but I don't think she understands how I feel.
"Scarlet? How is it that you're so sure?" Its always been like this. Scarlet has always been so understandable. She has always had my back in times like this. How is she always so sure?
"Huh?" Scarlet gives up on her smile and shows no emotion out of shock and looks down. "I'm not." I look at her. What does she mean? She looks up at me. "Evans I'm never sure. I just try to keep you from falling apart. I know if I was like this right now you would do whatever you could to help me. You've always had my back. Its my turn now."
Scarlet was right. I've always had her back, ever since I met her. It's been two years since I met her. I'd always heard stories about her, she was the girl who lost everything in a fire and was taken in by the academy, but I'd never met her. One day, while Ivory and I were playing outside I had heard screams coming from a nearby alleyway. Ivory had heard it too and we both ran to where it was coming from. We looked over into the alley and all we saw was a group of gang members. We made a plan; Ivory would go in as Lyria and distract them, once she had their attention I would attack them by surprise as Sin. This plan never failed us. Everything was going smoothly until Lyria got too close to one of the gang members. They felt threatened and began to surround her. I had to do something so I ran in and told Ivory to transform. She knew what I meant, she transformed back to normal and I turned into scythe-form. Ivory fought them for a few minutes before most of them ran off. I saw that they had stolen some things off of the victim. I told Ivory to go watch the entrance to make sure none of them were coming. I ran towards the red-haired victim. She was barely conscious and her injuries were severe. Whatever those gang members had done to her had worked because I could tell she was barely holding on.
She had told me her name was Scarlet, I immediately recognized the name. I wondered why they would steal from her because from all of the stories I had heard she had nothing gang members would be interested in. She looked at me in awe, she asked me if I actually became the scythe. I had nodded and she smiled but then she slipped under and lost consciousness. She was bleeding badly and I needed to get her back to the academy. Unfortunately, Ivory saw more gang members coming and we had to fend them off ourselves. This time Ivory transformed into her silver sword. I remember one gang members face in particular. He was the one who had stolen the most from Scarlet so he probably had done the most damage when it came to her injuries. That gang member was named Jett. The very same Jett that Ivory is partners with. While we were fighting off the rest he just stood there. Watching us.
The more I remember that day I realize that he didn't do anything, he just stood there. I'm not sure what he really did but he just stood there! He had gotten what he needed and watched us like we were entertainment for him. Scarlet was unconscious, I was trying keep gang members from getting to her, and all he did was watch. He watched Ivory and I struggle and never once helped us. If Ivory was ever in a tough situation and Jett could get out, would he abandon her? Is he only in this for himself and the rest is for entertainment? Who is Jett anyways? One day he was a mugger, then the next day he was my sisters partner. I need to learn more about him before I can trust him with my sister's life again.
"Come on, you're not going to spend all night down there, are you?" I looked back up at Scarlet. By now she had stood up and was holding her hand out to me.
"No, but I'm not sure if I can face Ivory right now." I took her hand and stood up.
"You're going to have to face her eventually. It's better if you talk about it sooner than later. Go back home Evans, I'll see you tomorrow." I knew she was right. I looked in the direction where I came from then back to Scarlet but she had already disappeared. I chuckled and started walking home.
When I got home everything was dark. It seemed that Jett had left and Ivory was in her room. I walked upstairs and knocked on her door lightly. There was no answer so I gently pushed the door open. She was already asleep. She looked so peaceful. I wish she could be like that all the time, but she has to deal with Dominic and now Jett. I don't know how to protect her anymore. It seems like Dominic is after Jett based on what Crescent said, but she won't let me protect her from her own partner. I just have to wait and see what happens, no matter how much it kills me.
Im really really sorry once again for these being so long.
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