Heroes: Another Story - Page 2

July 1, 2008, 9:00 PM

Hope ya enjoy the new chapter people!

Chapter 2: The realization.

“If the world’s people truly understood their potential, would their be
peace? Or would wars take over our world once more? Will death and
destruction be wrought by those with abilities? Or will they bring the world
together in a bid to create a “utopia” for say.” Mark Gainsborough lectured
his class, even in the cool air-conditioned room which held him and his
large class of 50 people the atmosphere was unbelievably hot. Here was a
man, wise beyond his years talking about humans having “special abilities”.
Yet, despite this absurdness the entire class hung to his every word. As
Mark began to open his mouth to speak the bell went off loudly signalling
the end of class.

“I expect that paper due next week people! No slip ups this time!” Mark
chuckled before turning to his desk and putting his folders and books into
his backpack.

“Mr. Gainsborough I presume?” A male’s voice sounded behind him as the
entire class left.

“If you want to ask a question about my work then could you please
arrange an appointment next time?” Mark said smiling at the man, the man
tall, he had short brown hair and green eyes, he wore a brown leather
tweed jacket and brown pants. If Mark could trust his senses, which he
normally did, then he would have to guess the man was a professor from
another university or maybe an accountant. “Alas, appointments are no
fun so I welcome you to my room Mr…?”

“Harriet, Ocelot Harriet.” The man smiled and put his hand forward, Mark
shaked the mans hand wearily and smiled politefully back. “I’ve heard a lot
about your work Mr. Gainsborough…”

“Call me Mark, all my students call me it.” Mark said without even realising.
Ocelot smiled and nodded his head.

“Very well then, I’ve heard a lot about your work Mark, and me and my
company would like to offer you a job.”

“Not interested, I like to teach, it’s my calling.”

“But what if I were to say that it meant you could further your work
beyond any limit you could ever think of?” Ocelot told Mark.

“I’m listening…”

“My company specializes in the research of these special people, we study
them and gain useful information on them and how there abilities become
real, it would be an amazing experience for you.”

“Where would I have to work?” Mark asked him, still unsure as to whether
he should work for him or not.

“London, in England.”

“Put me on the next plane there and I’m game. California was getting too
hot any way, time to go back to wet ol’ England.”

~~~~~~~~~

Sirens wailed as Faith was escorted safely to the ambulance by her
friends. Police scoured the grounds searching for the mysterious man but
it appeared that he had completely disappeared. As Faith sat down and
had a blanket wrapped around her she couldn’t stop thinking about how
she made the man fall out of window. She was given a cup of cocoa and
sipped it quietly, concentrating hard on what happened.

She remembered that she concentrated on the man and threw her hands
forward and wondered if she would be able to do it again. She spun her
head round and spotted her target, a glass on the drivers side of the
ambulance. She glared at it and concentrated hard on it, willing it to
move. As she concentrated she felt a stabbing pain in her hand on her
thighs, she looked down and gasped in pain, she had broken the cup in her
hands instead and had cut her hand and spilt burning hot cocoa down her.
An woman noticed and quickly ran over to her.

The paramedic smiled at Faith as she cleaned her wound and wrapped it in
cloth whilst getting her a cool damn towel for her legs. “Don’t worry about
it.” The woman said as Faith apologised. “You’ve been through a very
traumatic experience, your nerves did that, not you.”

Faith stood up and walked around the area for a few minutes to think, she
immediately found herself in a familiar place. The auditorium where her
professor had been murdered. She ducked under the crime tape and knelt
next to the spot where she saw her professors body.

“Was this him too?” Faith said aloud to herself, “Why did he try to kill me?
What’s so special about me?” Even though she knew the answer to it she
still had to say it. “How did he know I had a power before I even knew?”
Faith paced the room and spun round as she heard a loud bang. She
quickly ducked to the ground and slid underneath bench

“Do you think it’s him?” A man asked, he looked like a regular man except
for a long scar on the right side of his face.

“It’s the same MO but why would he go for a 21 year old woman? Most of
his victim have been in their 40’s or 50’s.” A young woman with blonde hair
said to the looming man.

“Well he’s a nut job, he somehow rips out their insides without even
making a scratch, does it really matter that they’re old or young?” The
man took out a cigarette and lit it, he pulled a long drag on it before
releasing it into the air.

“I guess so. You really gotta quit smoking’.” The woman said to her
partner.

“Tell ya what, I’ll quit smoking the day we get this guy. Deal?”

“You got it, Faith heard the pair shake hands before leaving the
auditorium. As thy left Faith finally began to cry, she realised just how
close she had come to being like her professor.

~~~~~~~~~~

The clouds flew past Rene as he soared through them with ease. He
laughed loudly as he spun round and gathered speed, he began to fall, he
threw his hand forward, trying to grab onto something even though
nothing was there. He spun away from the sky and looked to the ground.
As he fell and fell he couldn’t help but think of the impending death that
would soon be with him. As the ground came into view Fildensuddenly
appeared.

Rene woke up, he threw himself forward and found himself drenched with
sweat. He brushed his hair out of his face and soon discovered what woke him, to his side of his bed his mobile had begun to ring, he grabbed it quickly and flipped it open without seeing who it was.

“Hello?” Rene asked annoyed at the time the person was calling at.

“Hey Rene, it’s Fil. I’ve got some bad news mate.” Filden said from the
other end of the line. Rene recognised the tone and closed his eyes.

“I’ll be there in an hour.” He immediately hung up and called for a taxi, as
he sat down his phone immediately began to ring once more. “54
Evergreen Avenue please.”

He answered his mobile as the driver nodded and entered the mid day
traffic. “Hey Rene! It’s Lewis! Heard what happened at uni yet?”

“Hey Lewis. No I haven’t, what’s happened?” Rene said closing his eyes
and leaning back.

“Professor Hamilton got whacked man!” Lewis shouted down the line.

“The philosophy professor? And stop speaking like an American, you’re
English, you only went there for a few months.” Rene said smiling to
himself.

“I know, I know. Anyways, that’s not even half of it. Some girl got
attacked later than night, they said it mighta been the same guy!” Lewis
laughed loudly.

“Hey, that’s not something to laugh at, she coulda been killed.” Rene said
before hanging up. He quickly arrived at the mansion and found his brother
waiting outside for him.

“Where’s mum?” Rene asked as he hugged Filden.

“In the living room, she’s not crying but it just seems as though she
doesn’t care anymore.” Filden said, a small tear sliding down his face.
Rene knew he had to be the strong one, Filden always seemed to get on
better with their Dad.

“And where’s he?” Rene asked

“They’ve taken him to the morgue, the funeral should be soon. Fancy
going to our usual spot?”

“Yeah sure, haven’t been there in ages… We’ll raise a glass to dad yeah?”

“Absolutely.” Filden smirked as he took out a big bottle of whisky and two glasses.

~~~~~~~

A man stood in the middle of the small town. His head was bowed in
concentration and his arms placed firmly at his sides. The man realised
where he was and looked up.

“Hm, America. Not been here for a while.” Julius Aurelius said as he began
to walk forward into the nearest spot of shade. Julius was a tall man of
6”2 and had long dark hair and kind brown eyes. He wore a long black coat
over a red shirt and black jeans. He grabbed a newspaper from a bench
and found the date. “21st July, 2008. Ahh, my present time then.”

Julius began to walk forwards but immediately stopped as he spotted
something. A young girl was running very fast towards the road whilst a
lorry was speeding along it. The girl had reached the road and the lorry
was about to hit the girl as everything stopped. A splash of water clung
to the air from a waitress’ dropping her tray, a girl playing jump-rope was
stuck in mid-air with the rope just above her head.

Julius walked towards the girl and smiled as he picked her up and walked
towards the street. Everything began again and Julius placed the girl onto
the pavement.

“You should be more careful young lady.” Julius remarked as the girl
realised she had almost died. “Always watch the road, or next time there
may be no one to save you.”

“Thank you mister…” The girl said before walking off, scared out of her
head.

“These Americans are never careful enough these days.” Julius said as he
bowed his head and disappeared.

~~~~~~~

“Come on baby, work for me please?” A young man whispered as he put
his hand on a security console and willed it open, the console buzzed
before opening the door, allowing the boy to gain access. “Atta girl.” The
boy was 5”9 and had long light hair and grey-ish eyes. The boy’s name
was Zenan, he was 17 years of age and could talk to machines.

Zenan quickly closed the door and turned around as several men banged
on the door in anger.

“LET US IN YOU LITTLE DICK!” One of the men shouted. Zenan poked his
tongue out before turning around and walking upstairs, he quickly found himself on the roof and relaxed slightly as the cool breeze pushed past
him.

“Man, that sure was lucky.” Zenan said to himself as he put his backpack
on the ground and glanced at the money he had “stolen” from the ATM
machine. “If those guys had gotten me I’d probably be in a cell by now.”

“Up the fire escape! He can’t get down any other way!” Someone shouted
from down on the ground.

“Guess I’m off again…” Zenan said as he jumped off the building and onto
the small platform the massive crane had as a rest stop. He quickly found
the electrical box and opened it. He touched the system inside and willed
it to start working. The crane quickly started and began to move the
crane. Zenan climbed upwards and walked along the railings till he could
jump onto another building. He ran down the fire escape and legged it
back home. As he rounded the corner he felt someone grab hold of him
from behind.

“We’ve been looking for you Mr. Aora.” Said the familiar voice of Ocelot
Harriet.

“How did you… sneak up on me?” Zenan demanded as he gained his
breath.

“That doesn’t matter right now, what does matter is what we want from
you.”

“Which is?”

“You see I’ve just gotten back from America and I really want to go to
bed so really you have no choice, but I guess it’s polite to ask.”

“Just tell me what you want then!”

“We want you to work for us.”

“Pfft, what’s the pay?” Zenan demanded, it always came down to money
for him.

“Plenty for you to live the high-life.” Ocelot said, letting go of Zenan and
stepping back.

“You got yourself a deal, what do you want me to do?”

“Break into a barracks.”

~~~~~~~~

“Hey Fil, can I talk to you about something?” Rene asked as he sipped his
whisky, they were sitting on the edge of a forest and as watching the
sky.

“You can speak to me about anything bro’” Filden told his little brother.

“Well I keep having these dreams, it’s like I’m flying, sometimes I’m even
falling and ever once in a while you’re in them.” Rene told Filden. He stood
up and cracked his back

“Dreams are dreams Rene, get over them.”

“But that’s the thing Fil. I think I can fly.”

“Ha haa!” Filden burst out laughing, “Fine, if you think you can fly, go
jump off the clock tower and see what happens.”

“I think I should start with something just a bit smaller.”

“You can’t be serious. They’re dreams Rene. GET. OVER. THEM.”

“For god’s sake, you wouldn’t understand.” Rene shouted storming off.

“RENE WATCH OUT!” Filden shouted as Rene toppled over the small cliff
next to them. Rene began to fall, as he fell he couldn’t stop thinking about
how much of an idiot he was to forget there was a cliff there. As he fell
he saw something in the corner of his eye, Filden flew at top speed
towards Rene, He grabbed him around his waist and tried to fly upwards
but wasn’t strong enough. They spun out of control. They fell towards the
ground but at the last minute Rene suddenly began to fly as well, this
slowed their descent but didn’t stop them. As they hit the ground Rene
smashed his head against something, knocking him straight out cold.

~~~~~~~~~

Zeria Iiyasei was a kind person, she liked to help anyone and everyone.
She was normally a kind person but at the moment she was having a bit of
an argument.

“What do you mean I haven’t paid the damn rent! I gave you a check
yesterday!” Zeria screamed at her landlord.

“It bounced, get your stuff and get the hell out.” The man growled
deeply.

Zeria glared at the man. She was 5”6 and had dark red hair, her eyes
were dark but she was still quite good-looking. “My check didn’t bounce…”
She growled deeply, “My bank account has money. You’re just trying to
play me for a fool.”

“Believe me sweetheart, I don’t like to play around like that.” Zeria glared
at the man. “Of course, there are other ways to pay your debt.” The man
stepped forward so he was close to Zeria.

“Get the fuck away from me!” She shouted pushing him backwards
extremely powerful, he crashed into the wall and created a large crack.

“Crazy bitch!” The man shouted. “Get the hell out now!”

Zeria spun round on her heels and stormed into her apartment, as she
walked by she glanced into the mirror. Her reflection was different from
how she was. The reflections arms were crossed whilst Zeria’s arms were
at her side. Zeria had a scared look on her face whilst the reflection had a
smug smile.

“Leave me alone!” Zeria shouted, punching the mirror and shattering it..

July 1, 2008, 11:19 PM

hey where am i? i mean this second chapter was awesome, but i couldn't find me anywhere in it.

July 1, 2008, 11:27 PM

O_O Zeria punched a mirror. Woooow. XD AWESOME, DANNY! *silence...then attacks* GIMMEH MOAR!

July 1, 2008, 11:38 PM

Heeey nice. Your a good writer. I like my character; Ocelot Harriet.

July 2, 2008, 11:11 AM

Good chapter, I can't wait to see what happens next.

July 2, 2008, 8:49 PM

Great chapter Rene, can't wait for the next one!

July 9, 2008, 7:17 PM

Chapter 3: Power

“What… happened?” Rene asked as he woke up in his old bedroom. Filden was sat
next to him, leaning back on his chair casually with a beer in his hand.

“Don’t cha remember?” Filden asked with a huge grin on his face.

“No… I don’t remember much…” Rene said, leaning forward and rubbing his head.

“We flew Rene! We flew!” Filden shouted smiling.

Suddenly, everything that had happened re-entered his mind. “We really did!” Rene
jumped up and got out the bed. “We really did!”

Filden walked behind Rene and slapped on the back cheerfully. “Guess I had better
tell you something huh?”

“What?” Rene asked confused, he turned round slowly and leaned against the wall.

“I’ve been able to fly for around 6 months now.” Filden said, slowly rising from the
ground. As Filden floated, Rene also began to float.

“Wha-?!” Rene exclaimed as he began to move around the room, defying gravity with
each little movement. Filden smirked.

“You’ll get used to it bro’” He said laughing slightly. “Flying was a bit dodgy at first,
but I quickly learnt how to control it.”

“How!?” Rene shouted as his head hit the ceiling and he began to spin around

“Just relax your mind, release your attachment to gravity.” Filden said laying back
and giggling at Rene smacking his head against the ceiling. “Anyways, I gotta go
somewhere so I’ll see you in a bit.” He nimbly landed and Rene swore at him as he
walked out the room. Rene heard Filden walk down the stairs. Rene stayed there for
several seconds, he sighed and as he did so he fell to the ground. He slammed his
face into the floor and remained there for several minutes groaning in pain.

“Damn… That hurt like hell…” Rene groaned as he sat up. He stretched his back for
several minutes and found his mobile. He flipped it open and gasped as he saw the
time. It was 2:03 pm. Rene sighed as he dialled his landlords number. It rang for a
few seconds before being disconnected from the other end.

“Guess the guy’s chucked me out then…” Rene sighed slightly. As he looked round his
old room he smiled. “I wonder if I can move into resident housing…”

~~~~~~~

“Hey. You feelin’ okay Faith?” Faith’s best friend Clara asked her gently. Faith’s face
was streaked with tears, ruining her light make up.

“Of course not!” Faith choked through her sobs, “I was almost killed in case you
hadn’t noticed!” She sobbed a little more and hugged Clara tightly.

“Don’t worry, everything will be fine. I promise.” Clara whispered into Faith’s ear. She
stood up sadly and walked to Faith’s door. “There’s a policemen just down the hall if
you need help. Okay?” Faith only nodded, Clara left the room and closed the door
behind her leaving Faith in the dark. Faith felt her way to her bed and got under the
covers. As she looked up to the ceiling, knowing she wouldn’t go to sleep, her
thoughts once again turned to how she managed to defend herself from that man.
Faith rolled over to her side and looked towards her door.

After a few hours she finally gave in, she’d never get to sleep like this. She sat up
and threw her legs over the side of the bed, she found her lamp and switched it on.
She stretched her arms and cracked her neck before focusing her sight. She paced
her room for a few minutes before grabbing her laptop and turning it on.

“C’mon you bloody thing…” Faith hissed under her breath as the laptop lit up and
started to load. She tapped in her password and quickly found AOL. She logged on
and went onto Google. “Right then… I’m on, now what do I bloody search…”

She typed in random things at first, for instance, for some unknown reason she typed
“How to exact revenge on an ex’s penis, voodoo style” She giggled slightly at the
results before typing in a new search.

She then typed in “Special Powers” and sighed when all she got was super hero
comics and the like.

She leaned on her elbow and sighed. She decided to attempt to use her newly
acquired power once more. She placed a can of coke on her desk and sat down. She
slowly put her hand forward and concentrated strongly on the can. She concentrated
with all her might and gasped loudly as the can slowly inched it’s way into her hand.
She concentrated on the tab of the can and managed to pull it with her mind,
causing it to open the can. She sipped the coke and smiled widely as she finally
managed to get it. For the next few hours she repeated this exercise, over and over
again, until she was finally sure she had mastered moving small light things.

“Yes!” Faith shouted loudly. She threw her arms into the air and cheered.

Someone knocked at the door. “Excuse me, miss. Is everything okay in there?”

“Yes! Everything’s fine!” Faith assumed it was the police officer.

“I’m just down the hall if you need anything. Okay?” The policeman said before
walking back down the hallway. Faith looked at the time and realised it was 3:00 am.
She sighed.

“I wonder if any book stores are open…”Faith asked herself. She opened her door and
walked down the hallway.

“Uhh isn’t it a bit late to go out miss?” The policeman asked as Faith rounded the
corner.

“Yeah, but I really want to go to the book shop.” Faith told the man, he was in plain
clothes but you could tell he was police from just the way he acted. He was all high
and mighty and seemed to have a strong sense of justice.

“I’m sorry, but I’m under strict orders not to let you out for unnecessary things that
could risk your life.”

“Oh c’mon. He won’t come after twice!” Faith told him, even though she wasn’t so
sure herself.

“Sorry, but I’m going to have to escort you to your room.” The policeman said
walking towards her. She huffed in annoyance and spun on her heels.

“Fine, whatever.” She said annoyed, she walked back into her room and heard the
policeman set his chair next to the door and sit down.

“Prick… Making me stay in here…” She paced her room for a few minutes before
getting an evil grin on her face. She walked to her window and opened it as quietly
as she could. Outside Faith’s window was a large oak tree with lots of strong, thick
branches. She tested the branch closest to her window and smiled as it didn’t even
nudge it. She placed her other foot on it and balanced herself carefully. She walked
along the branch with both arms stretch out to her side and carefully made her way
towards the main tree.

After about 10 minutes of strenuous climbing she found herself near the ground and
nimbly jumped down. She quickly hailed a taxi and giggled as the car drove away from
the university. She quickly got to her favourite book store and asked the taxi man to
wait, as she closed the taxi door, she heard the engine rev and drive off. She swore
loudly and entered the bookstore.

“Tch, whatta prick huh?” The book store clerk said to Faith as she walked in. “How
ya doin’ Faithy?”

“Hiya Kaz, how’s business been?” Faith asked her friend.

“Pretty slow, you’re pretty much our number one customer.” Kaz told her, his eyes
not once leaving the book he was reading. From the first look, many people wouldn’t
think Kaz was a book lover, mainly because people who wear jeans and The
Carpenters shirts usually prefer music over books. He had short-ish black hair and
handsome brown eyes. Faith had been on a few dates with him but only as friends.

“Too bad huh, you wouldn’t have any books on… well special powers I suppose would
ya?” Faith asked unconvincingly

“I think you’re meant to be in a comic book store for that Faith.”

“I’m being serious, like in real life.” Faith smiled.

“Well… take a look on this months special feature, I don’t like the looks of it but it
might spark your interest…”

Faith smiled and turned around to look at it.

“Modern Evolution and abilities” By Mark Gainsborough

~~~~~~~~

“So he is here now hmm?” Julius said to himself as he picked up the newspaper from
the stand, time was frozen as he read the newspaper. On the front page was a
picture of a crime scene leaked to the press. In the paragraph below it read:

On the 21st of May, a Manchester university professor was slaughtered by an
unknown suspect. Professor John Hamilton, a respected physics expert was found in
his own auditorium at approximately 8:12 am with his entire insides ripped from his
body from a single puncture wound found at the bottom of his back.

“It is too late for me to go back in time and stop the murder. Guess I must go to
Manchester…” Julius sighed. “If I can pick up his trail then maybe I can stop him
before anyone else is murdered…” He then noticed another paragraph below:

A student of Professor Hamilton was also attacked later that night, she managed to
evade her attacker and it is suspected that it is the same man who attacked
Hamilton. Police have yet to pick up any leads on the attacker.

“If she managed to save herself than that means he will come after her again!” Julius
shouted throwing the newspaper down and closing his eyes. “I cannot let another
person die because of him.”

He then teleported. He opened his eyes and smiled as he found himself in Piccadilly
Gardens.

“When we next meet, you shall be struck down… Saix.”

~~~~~~~~

“So this is the company huh?” Mark Gainsborough said as he walked through the large
door into Primatech Paper Company. “I hadn’t realised advanced evolution which
gives ordinary humans special abilities had anything to do with… paper.” He turned
towards Ocelot and smirked.

“Primatech is just a cover-up, trust me when I say the real fun begins several levels
down.” Ocelot took out an ID tag and passed it to Mark as he knocked loudly on a
steel door just in front of him.

“What’s this for?” Mark asked looking at the tag.

“You don’t want to be shot now do you?” Ocelot told him sinisterly. The door swung
open and Ocelot walked in, Mark clipped the tag to his chest and walked in behind
Ocelot.

“What exactly do you do here then?” Mark asked the man he had met barely a day
ago.

“Did you not understand what I said on the plane?” Ocelot asked the professor.

“ ‘We strive to understand and protect those who are special’ didn’t really fill in the
big gap in my mind.” Mark said to Ocelot sarcastically. Ocelot smirked slightly but hid
it from Mark.

“True, I suppose. Fine then, we at the company discover these who have abilities
and bring them to one of our many bases. We test them to discover what power they
have and how they use it, and in some special cases, if we deem their ability to be
too powerful that it will risk many lives we… detain them.”

“You detain them!? You mean keep them prisoner right? That’s against the law!
Surely someone would stop you?”

“Would you want someone who has the ability to drain life from around him in your
society?”

“Someone can do that?”

“Why of course, he’s called Billy. He’s 5 years and has the gob the size of a whale…”

“I guess you don’t like him huh?”

“He’s my cousin.” Mark’s jaw dropped.

“Y-your cousin!? Why on earth would you keep a small child, family even, here!?”

“He is too dangerous, that is why we have called you here.” They finally reached
another door and Ocelot opened it. “You say that there is a way to negate these
“abilities”, we need you to find a way to get rid of them.”

The lab was humungous, it was Mark’s idea of heaven.

“Wish me luck…”

~~~~~~~~

“Rargh!” Zeria shouted as she threw the large heavy plasma TV against the wall. Her
rage was just uncontrollable, but at the same time she knew it wasn’t her. “Get the
hell out of me!”