Bab 2: 2. Different ways of War
Ken POV
All I could do was stand and watch as Lola and Aroura drove off; as I glanced to my left I could feel Peter's worry matching mine. I'm not sure what gave me an uneasy feeling about them going alone but the feeling was prominent in my head and in my heart.
"Do you feel it too?" I asked Peter.
"Uneasy." Peter simply said and turned to go inside the house as the girls fell out of our site.
I stayed outside staring at the road I'm not sure why I knew they wouldn't be back soon, but I just kept staring at the road. All of a sudden a crow flew down and nearly hit me; I ducked and stayed crotched down. The crow landed in front of me just out of my reach. I looked at him and he seemed to be looking at me. Then as the crow began to walk around I noticed it had three legs. That's odd, I tried to get closer to it and I finally was close enofe to reach out and touch him. The second my fingers touched his slick black feathers he burst into flames all except one jet black feather left in my hand, and a small note that lay on the ground surrounded by ashes where the three legged crow one stood. I picked up the note and saw only a blank piece of paper.
"Ken" I could hear someone calling me
"I'll be right there," I quickly called back to the house, I shoved the feather and blank paper into my jacket pockets still unsure on if I was going to say anything about the three legged crow or the paper it let to anyone. I knew I would tell Lola but I could feel she wasn't going to be back for a while.
I went inside of what has now become my house; it seems strange how quickly my life changed after being shot on Halloween. Although I always felt uneasy with my parent being that I was adopted, I always thought maybe that was natural, although Peter seems to have a very close bond to his adopted mother. Maybe it was the church I didn't feel comfortable with, that would make sense now that I have a better understanding of it. Or maybe because I am Asian, it's so funny because I don't know my lineage at all I was adopted as a baby and my adoptive parents said they knew nothing of where I came from. That is probably true the Goodie Group Church gave me to my parent. I hurry to my room and put the feather and paper in my baby book one of the only keepsakes I really felt I needed to take with me.
"Hurry, Ethan is waiting for us." Peter poked his head into our room
"OK," I said exacerbated it seems like all we do is train; I would love some quite time to sit and read.
That's funny War doesn't want to fight, maybe I just see more ways to war than everyone else. But I followed Peter and meet Ethan at the obstacle course. I look at both of them; they are both taller and broader than I am really I look quite small in comparison.
"Are we really going to race again?" I ask
"What you worried you might lose the WAR." Peter says and laughs histarically, he thinks he's funny and I have been enduring his horrendous puns for weeks.
"No," I say with a straight face I just thought you would have grown tired of losing is all." I say( I would love to have some time to look over that paper) I think to myself.
"Go" Ethan yells then sprints ahead
While Ethan is quite fast he is no match for Peter or myself so each day he has been coming up with new ways to try and beat us each one dirtier than the last. Eric and I look at each other and begin running. It takes only moments for us to catch up to Ethan and he looks annoyed at that fact. Ethan reaches into his jacket pocket and throws something on the ground as soon as whatever it was hits there is a pop and a bunch of smoke.
"New low Ethan." Peter tells and kicks his running into high gear jumping high log obstacles like they are cracks on the sidewalk.
If I'm telling the truth things like this are why I can always win, Ethan and Peter like to compete with each other so I can easily sneak by them while they are distracted with each other, just like always I have passed them without them even noticing. I'm just about to finish when I hear thunder and a bright lightning bolt hits just to my left. And just like in a movie the rain just starts to come down like buckets of water being dumped from the sky.
"You three need to hurry inside." I can hear Eve yelling to us
I'm more than happy to be going inside but as I look back Ethan and Peter have started a new race to see who gets back to the house first. They are both soaked and just as it looks like Ethan is ahead Peter grabs his feet and trips him causing Ethan to splash into the mud. I reach the door and don't wait around for them; they could be out there like that for another 20 minutes or more. I hurry to my room and get dry clothes on hoping I'll have a few minutes alone with the paper.
Lola's POV
"Is everything ready now?" Aroura asks me
I nod "Yes" the next second rain starts pounding the roof; I hope this hotel is made well.
"We can't go anywhere with the rain like this." Aroura says sounding discouraged.
"We can just get locations, and check them out once the rain dies down." I told her, Aroura nodded her head in agreement.
We begin to say the spells I have kind of found and slightly made up, I have been told by other keeper family's magic wielders that sometimes adding your own spin to things can help wield more exact results, and when it comes to something so different as finding horseman of the apocalypse being exact might be just what we need.
The rain is still pouring down and my pendulum has started swinging around madly. I feel a bit frustrated because this is all it does at home with Ken and Peter near maybe they don't interfere as much and maybe we didn't have to leave the house. Maybe this is just not the way to find the remaining two horsemen.
"Look," Aroura exclaims just as I'm about to give up.
I look down and my pendulum isn't pointed at the map like I was going for, it is pointed at the wall.
Aroura and I exchange a look then without saying a word Aroura runs out of the room into the pouring rain with no shoes on, I just chase after her. The rain is so hard and cold it stings every time it touches my skin. And it's so cold, it's December and with it being this cold I'm really surprised it's not snowing. I look up and Aroura is at the door of the neighboring room, she looks frozen about to knock.
"Are you ok?" I ask her though the chattering of my teeth
"I'm nerves, and I just realized I don't know what to say." Still unmoving Aroura just stares at the door.
"I'll help." I declare and grabeArouras hand using it to knock loudly on the door, Aroura shoots me an angry glare and we wait.
Then Aroura knocks even louder than before, we wait in the freezing rain but still nothing. We were standing under a small awning with the rain still soaking us and I think the prospect of what might be behind the door froze me more than the rain.
"We need to get back inside before we freeze" I tell Aroura she nods and we go back into our room to warm up. We change out of our wet cloths and crank up the heater, then we both get under the covers of the single queen bed.
"That was stupid of me." Aroura says quietly "I just got over excited and thought we had found another horseman."
I put my arm around my big sister and try my best to comfort her. She is always the one to formulate a plan and to think ahead. It is pretty unlike her to charge ahead without thinking.
"It's ok and when the rain finally stops we can check out that room again, there has to be a reason we were pointed in that direction." I point to the wall were my pendulum had pointed me and gasped. "Aroura look." I point to my pendulum that is floting and still pointed in the same spot.
"We must have been so cold we didn't notice it." Aroura says and get out of the bed to examine it further.
I follow her and we both get as close to the pendulum as we can without touching it.
"It kind of looks like the tip of the crystal is in the wall." Aroura noticed and mover her face even closer.
I too put my face closer and it really did look as though it was in the wall and even more than that it looked as if the crystal was turning. I reached my hand to the crystal I couldn't help myself it's like it asked me to.
Aroura gasped and then yelled "No" but her objection was too late and I had already tuched the end of the crystal. It began spinning even more rapidly. We just stood there watching as it drilled into the wall faster and faster.
Aroura looked me in the eyes and said "I'm starting to worry about what's on the other side of the wall."
Status Power Mingguan
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