Chapter 74. A headbutt

A headbutt from a golden labradoodle pup sent the attacker soaring through the air.

“P5 get P6.” K1 ordered instantly.

P6 who was sent flying vanished in thin air and reappeared before K1 and P8 who have yet to make a move. P5 released his grasp on Cobble and teleported back alongside them.

K1 gave the puppy a curious look and turned to P6. “How’re you feeling?”

P6 nodded his head in reply. He glared down the puppy through his hood. He couldn’t believe that a puppy was able to send him flying, no…the puppy didn’t send him flying. It only barked and tried to tackle him. He quickly turned his attention to Gran who was struggling to stand, a smirk on the Chief’s face gave him his answer.

“What happened!? You had it P6!” K2 exclaimed as he looked back. He couldn’t believe that this foolish person here would be so stupid to reveal himself at the last moment only to be blown back by a puppy.

“It wasn’t the dog.” P6 answered. “Gran saw me.”

K1 looked at the group of kids who finally arrived protecting their target and the two brothers. He scanned at all the kids and young adults protecting his target. At a quick glance he knew the kids were insignificant, the only one he didn’t know would cause a problem was the blonde Exotic. Was she the one that gave him this sense of discomfort?

“What’re you kids doing here!?” Cobble exclaimed. However, he couldn’t say anything else as they silently circled to protect him and the two injured people on the ground.

“What do we do now, K1?” K2 asked, he was personally annoyed at this situation, there was so many times that they could have killed the teacher. Yet, right when they were about to kill him, the stupid father and son managed to keep them at bay. He wondered why K1 decided not to participate, things wouldn’t have gotten this problematic otherwise.

“Retreat” K1 thought for a moment before speaking up. “P5, get us out of here.”

P5 took a step forward and nodded his head. A second later the entire group of five disappeared without a trace.

“Group teleportation…” Gran muttered to himself. He tried to think about all the Exotics he’s ever heard of or met that had this ability. There were multiple Exotics that had similar abilities; however, he couldn’t think of one that can specifically teleport an entire group of people. Turned around and looked at the group of kids who disobeyed his command, he couldn’t tell whether or not he was furious or grateful at their arrival. He glanced at the little girl who quickly ran forward past him where the enemies last stood.

Shelly closed her eyes trying to find a trace of energy of where they had gone, however the distance of the teleportation was too far for her energy to reach. She only had a vague feeling that they were on the opposite side of the village, near the entrance of Boulderville…too far away from them to catch up.

“They’re gone.” Shelly commented and walked back.

“Teacher! Pebble! Dad!” Boulder exclaimed loudly as he rushed forward. It was only now, after the danger subsided did Boulder regained control of his feet.

“Check on Marvis.” Gran quickly directed their attention to the teacher.

Boulder ran over to his teacher and kneeled in front of a red hair gentleman whose entire body was a mess. His face was bruised and fractured, his chest caved in, and both of his arms and legs were snapped. The only good news was that he was still breathing.

Tears started streaming down the little boy’s eyes… “teacher…” He quickly looked up and looked around.

“Anyone is anyone here able to help! Please! My teacher is dying!” Boulder started to cry. No one moved or answered his plea, the injuries on Marvis was far too advanced for anyone without any medical and surgical knowledge to help.

“Oof!” Dr. Galil appeared out of nowhere and fell onto the ground directly before them.

“Dr. Galil!” Boulder exclaimed.

“Wh-what’s going on?” Dr. Galil looked around. The last thing he remembered was sitting back at the estate in the living room with Roselyn, Orchid, and the baby talking about his life.

After getting Gran and Boss’ guarantee that no one else would get injured. Dr. Galil quickly left the Festival grounds, he wasn’t much of a party person, and preferred being indoors most of the time. He was only there to help Boss and Gran fool the kids in the beginning anyways. However, what was he looking at now? Gran was barely standing, Cobble had a serious look on his face, and both Pebble and Marvis was on the ground soaking in blood.

“Dr. Galil! Save my teacher!” Boulder cried beside the red-haired critically injured gentleman.

Dr. Galil instantly rushed over and felt the teacher’s pulse… his brows furrowed to a frown. He looked over and felt Pebble’s too, this one caused him to relax a bit.

Sigh

“He’s in critical condition, and we’ll need to stop the bleeding for Pebble.” Dr. Galil spoke up and answered. He calmly spoke up. “I’ll do my best, but these injuries are not light…”

“First, we need to bring him to the medical ro—”

Before Dr. Galil could even finish his sentence, everyone there vanished and reappeared inside the medical room. Flabbergasted everyone who didn’t know about Boss were looking around in surprise.

The three preteens were especially alert after they rushed up only to see robed individuals all disappeared. They had expected those people were back and teleported them together into this place.

However, after stiffening up for almost a minute the kids realized nothing was happening. “Was it Orchid?” They wondered. They turned their attention to the four people lying in bed, two with noticeable injuries and two who were sitting up on the edge of the bed.

Dr. Galil looked around the medical room and furrowed his brows. “I need my equipment.” He muttered. He was expecting whoever teleported him here would be able to teleport his equipment too.

As if the sky gods heard, medical tools fell from ceiling landing on the old doctor, bombarding him and knocking him over.

Dr. Galil quickly recovered and carried the tools, rushing over to the two bloodied bodies before him. He quickly applied medicine and ointment on Pebble to stop the bleeding and had Cobble bandaged his brother up as he focused his attention on the critical condition of the person on the other bed.

“Give me some space… is there anyone with medical knowledge that can assist me…?” Dr. Galil asked. It was a shot in the dark, he was hoping one of the young adults had medical knowledge that could assist him at this time.

“I can…” Gran tried to speak up. However, he couldn’t say more than that as his throat was so hoarse and dry, even breathing was difficult at the moment.

“You need to rest, your throat is severely damaged, your body is also in terrible shape and you are far too exhausted, did you not expect me to notice it?” Dr. Galil replied. He knew Gran was probably his best choice based on military personnel having to learn first aid in war, but he also knew that at glance Gran may look okay, but underneath the Chief’s robes were bloodied bruises from the vicious barrage of K2 on both his front and back.

“There’s no way I’m having you assist me.” Dr. Galil repeated. “Get some rest.”

Shelly stepped up and spoke. “I can assist you.”

Dr. Galil looked at the little girl and couldn’t believe what he had just heard. “This is no time to joke Shelly, you’re only 10. Is there anyone else?” He knew Shelly was a capable Exotic but assisting him in surgery on a grown man where there will be blood, bones and organs exposed. He wasn’t even sure she had medical knowledge or knew anything about the human body to help out. How much could a 10-year-old know?

He turned to the young adults in the room however, there was no response. Gran shook his head sighed as he saw the helplessness in their eyes. As his eyes were getting heavy, he knew he wasn’t going to be awake any longer to help out. The last thought on his mind before his mind went completely blank was. “I need to teach them first aid.”

Seeing that no one else spoke up after some time, Shelly calmly repeated “I can assist you.”

Dr. Galil was in a tough predicament no one else was willing to assist him with the surgery. He knows what this surgery is going to entail, there was no way he wanted to put a child through that sort of situation. However, he also knew that if he were to perform on this alone, the chance of saving Marvis is minimal at best.

He sighed, “I’m going to have to test you. Name all of the tools beside me.”

Shelly calmly responded by naming all the tools beside him and even mentioned what he’s going to have to do during the surgery with each of them.

Dr. Galil was completely amazed as was everyone else who was standing around. They didn’t know if what she had said was true or not but judging by Dr. Galil’s expression they can conclude that she was right. Dr. Galil didn’t ask any more questions as time of was of the essence and quickly got to work.

“Everyone else, leave and don’t’ let anyone else come here until we are done. Shelly, you don’t need to see it, just hand me the tools when I ask for it.”

Dr. Galil decided this was the best option, if she doesn’t look it should be less traumatizing. Shelly didn’t respond as she calmly sat beside Dr. Galil with the first tool in hand.

Everyone else was quickly made their way off. However, they didn’t go too far as they still needed to keep an eye just in case those robed figures show up again.

Cobble returned to the Festival and quickly separated the debris of the collapsing entrance himself. Pebble was bandaged up but wasn’t allowed to move as he was suffering from the blade of the man, the jagged edge of the blade made it easy for insertion, but removing it tore at his flesh.

Cobble quickly informed the audience that both Gran and Pebble were going to look for people to repair the entrance while they can continue to enjoy themselves. Luckily, for Cobble no one exactly knew what happened besides the entrance collapsing so they patiently waited and continued with the remainder of the Festival.

…

P6, how did you get exposed?” K1 looked over and asked the purple hooded figure behind him.

“I don’t know.” P6 shook his head. “All I know was that Gran managed to see me, I think something disrupted my power at the end…maybe there was someone in that group that could reveal us…?”

P6 question caused K1 to furrow his brow as he thought. That ominous feeling, someone definitely could see him! “Yes, I wasn’t mistaken back then when I sensed someone looking this way…now…which of them did it? Was it the blonde Exotic?” K1 was immerse in his own thought.

K1?” K2 looked at his partner beside him who hadn’t said a word for over a minute. “Should we return later and kill the teacher?”

“Mm…it’s fine.” K1 replied. He continued to say “At least, he won’t be an issue for now, we’ve already crippled him.”

“That is true.”

“Teacher? What teacher?” Two silhouettes slowly walked up to the five robed men.

“P6, Are your abilities off?” K2 asked.

“They’ve been on this whole time. Those guys can see us.” P6 replied. He was visibly annoyed, his cloaking powers failed the moment he was about to finish the teacher off and now, two more people were able to see them? What was going on!

“Hi~ who’re you five?” One of the silhouettes walked into view and greeted the robed figures, he was a handsome man whose appearance was in the mid to late 30s his hair was eyes were dark blue and his hair was the same. Wearing a minimal amount of clothes revealing his muscular physique.

None of the robed figures responded.

“Dylan, I think these five don’t want to talk to us.” The handsome blue haired person commented to the person beside him. That person was fully covered from head to toe, only thing distinguishing about him was that he was wearing a leather backpack.

“Mm…” Dylan responded.

“Hey, Dylan just said you five are bad people and that we should beat you up.” The dark blue haired person continued at the five robed figures.

The five robed figures remained silent; they were observing these two walking closer to them.

“Hello~ anyone in there~? By the way Dylan just said you’re all losers whose mommies won’t even acknowledge.”

“Wait, you said what now Dylan? Oh, that’s so messed up! Of course, they’re not dogs, that’s an insult…to dogs!”

The dark blue haired person calmly took another stepped and began to charge at them. Instantly he appeared directly beside P6 and with a quick chop to the neck a purple robed figure was left unconscious, nullifying the cloaking that was up. “Oh my, you five are weak. Stay out of this Dylan, they’re mine~”

“Mm…”

“P5.” K1 spoke up. He quickly caught the hand of the blue haired person going for a second chop to the neck on P8. The moment both hands clashed an enormous amount of energy exploded outwards as both figures exchanged hundreds of blows in seconds before breaking apart. K2 quickly pulled P6 and P8 away during the attack between K1 and the blue haired man.

“Oh?” The blue haired person was surprise at the exchange between him and the green robed figure. “Dylan, I might need your help actually. This vomit colored guy is pretty quick”

“Mm…”

K1 continued to warily look at the blue figure before him who wasn’t even looking at them. He recognized this person and after K2 retrieving P6 and 8 he knew if he were to fight this person alone, there was only a 60% chance that he’d win after a grueling battle. Not kill, but win. He then turned his attention to the leather backpack and the figure calmly standing there, their chances of winning as a group diminished to less than half if that guy gets involved.

“P5, now.” K1 spoke up again, P5 immediately knew what to do as the five robed figures slowly vanished completely from where they were at.

“Oh~ They’re Exotics too? So weak~ I hope babysitting Arthur is more fun than this, if this is just it, I’m going to be bored!”

“Bored eh? Want to fight me?” A mysteriously veiled person slowly walked up.

“Oh…? Jester! What’re you doing here?” The blue haired instantly recognized the person who had shown up.

Jester, the King’s fool, one of several Exotic Elites of King Baroque. In order to be an Elite for the King the minimum requirement for them was to go to enemy countries and singlehandedly bring back a head of the military general. In most countries in order to be a general of an army one would have to be at least Tier 4.

“I’m out here on the King’s order. What do you say, do you two want to fight with me today? I’ll even fight with 1 arm to make it fair.”

“Haha! Hell no! You’re a freak!” The dark blue haired person laughed and continued to ask Jester “Why’re you in Boulderville?”

“Prophecy of a baby, The King wants it.”

“Oh? That strange prophecy about the angel or demon baby?”

“That’s the one.”

“Sounds fun! I’ll help you out with kidnapping the baby! Is it here?” He asked.

“Don’t know, I’m looking for it blindly as it is much more fun this way.” Jester replied.

“Haha! Dylan, want to help Jester?” The blue haired man asked.

“Mm…” Dylan responded.

“Oh, you’re right, we shouldn’t we’ve made a promise with Sammy.” The dark blue haired person replied. He continued, “Sorry Jester, if you have issues with kidnapping a baby, we’ll help you if we’re around! We’ve got other things to do right now.” The dark blue haired man and his quiet partner continued to walk further away.

“Wait how about this, we’ll go this way and if we see the demon angel baby, we’ll kidnap it for you.” The blue haired man proposed.

“Alright.” Jester agreed.

The blue haired person was about to make way towards the entrance of Boulderville further ahead but remembered something the robed figures said. “Oh, by the way, I overheard five weirdos talking about killing a Teacher, apparently they’re going to Zeldova and doing it because he’s a cripple or something. I don’t think it’s who I think it is, but… if it is well~ not our problem.” The blue haired figure finished what he had to say and started sprinting away. His partner followed suit.

Jester calmly looked in the direction where the two were headed and then looked in the opposite direction.

“I guess… I’ll go this way…” Jester slowly walked in the direction of Rouge, peacefully humming a strange tune.