Chapter 13

Disguise

The devilish smile of that little kid casted a shadow on their gloomy faces. Although he was just doing his job Nick couldn’t help but question his motives.

‘‘No! This shouldn’t happen. Why would our activity be suspicious?’’

‘‘When do I start. Blowing a bar up and having a fight with 4 people and a headhunter, going to the Town Hall and having a fight with representative Glegmore, going on a ship and having another fight with the headhunter and a mysterious unidentified figure. And on your even more recent activity, putting it simply, we suspect you of organizing the destruction of the city of Locu. If you need even more evidence I can give you every suspicion I am allowed to mention.’’

It is true Nick’s recent activity has been very extraordinary-coming out of nowhere and starting a beef everywhere he goes, however, that on itself is not enough to arrest him. Other than that he is a Sole so arresting him would be quite controversial and he will probably end up free anyway. For now, the proposal of arrest may just be a threat to scare off any intentions they think Nick might be willing to proceed with.

‘‘You will now be escorted to the house you’ll be staying at. Soon after that, we will send officers to monitor you. Just a little tip-be careful of the two gangs roaming the city, if you are attacked make sure to call for help. Good luck!’’

‘‘I’m looking forward to seeing what this brat will think of.’’

‘‘Nick, we should go.’’

As Nick was fixating his deadly gaze upon the little chief, he was stopped by the soft voice of Emily.

Going out of the room, again through that creaking door they were sent off with an evil ‘‘See you lateeeer, huhu!’’.

In front of the room, there were four policemen waiting for them.

‘‘Let us escort you.’’

Going down the stairs they only saw empty rooms. The hardly working officers were now gone, it seemed…unusual. Taking notice of this Nick asked the policemen that were escorting them.

‘‘Why are all the rooms empty?’’

‘‘I’m sure they’re probably on some emergency mission or something. Nothing could’ve entered this building, it is just too secure.’’

‘‘This is strange, where could’ve they gone?’’

‘‘Hm, what could the emergency be? I wonder. By the way… Hey, police officer are we far away from our destination?’’

Thora, along with everyone else, was questioning the purpose of this. Her head got worked up so to forget about it she asked this question.

‘‘Good question. Relatively speaking it’s not so far away, relative to the size of the city of course. I’d say about a kilometer.’’

As they were walking down the streets Nick’s attention was drifted towards the otherworldly looking plants which were absorbing the super bright light the sun was emitting at the time.

The stone roads they were walking upon were ever so slightly broken at places.

Trees casting a shadow from place to place gave everything a calmer look, benches that were scattered around were all almost filled. Not many people went out at this time of day, those that did stayed in the shadows. While it is the brightest time of day it is also a time when the gangs attack.

Whenever there is a crowded place and it is this time of day the gangs are known to attack, causing chaos.

However, that seemed to be the only instance that they would coordinate an attack for.

Groups of 10 or even 20 people didn’t catch their eye.

The two gangs roaming Grasvel are the Uprising and the Ultimate Control gang. Although the Uprising one is a lot bigger the Ultimate Control still pose a severe threat to the well being of the citizens of Grasvel.

There is no information about cultists in Grasvel, however one was caught and killed one year ago.

Our heroes, escorted by the policemen, were walking down the streets when they finally spotted some of those good for nothing cops lying on a bench.

‘‘Ay you! What are you doing lying around here?’’

‘‘Oh sorry we were just really bored back at the police station, you know how it is.’’

They stood up and went to greet the officers escorting our fellows.

They also went to escort them as well.

Walking a few hundred meters they stood silent.

The sun was blazing the ground with its deadly beams of light, hot, calm wind was blowing their hair around, brushing Emily’s gorgeous silvery-blue hair on Nick’s face.

The mood was lightening as they were forgetting the disaster that was Locu.

No one was around them, they were all alone, or at least that’s what they thought.

The police officers that they found on the bench took off the blue hats that they were wearing.

Watching that one couldn’t help but wonder what was going on.

They threw them away and launched gazes upon the policemen that were set out to escort our heroes.

Within seconds their throats filled up with blood as they started chocking on it and they dropped dead on the ground. Their eyes turned lifeles. Even more shock to Nick and his friends. What is it this time?

This is an unusual spell.

While most magic users can do element bending spells, along with some others like gravity pull and super strength, this spell is a rare case. The power to wield it is given to 1 in fifty thousand or so. They are able to control some of the blood flowing in a person’s vanes. A known few that have this power are the leaders of the Uprising and the Ultimate Control gangs.

Those are two rivaling gangs, why would they ever team up?

Emily, Thora, and Nick started shouting for help as they prepared for battle.

Out of trees, out of bushes and out of nowhere hundreds of gangsters popped out and started heading for our heroes.

Some of them managed to land some hits, though only tearing their sleeves.

Thora and Emily put up a shield barrier and started running and calling for help along with Nick.

Though it is only a matter of time until they are caught…