The Turn: Chapter Thirty-Two

The Turn

Chapter Thirty-Two

~Clash of the Titans – Part 3~

Two Years Before The Turn

Deontay stepped out of the car. He looked around as Vicky walked around the car. Both he and she were at a different airstrip than the ones the others were headed to. It was never really part of the plan to steal a commercial jet. A helicopter would do nicely.

He looked over the edge at the facility below. Deontay looked over at Vicky. She looked a little nervous but she always looked nervous when she was about to do a mission.

“You ready?” Deontay asked.

Vicky smiled, “I guess.”

“Let’s go!” Deontay said as he jumped down.

Vicky followed. She slid down the side of the steep hill. There was a fence around the facility and Vicky brought out a pair of bold cutters from her bag. She cut an opening for the two of them to get though.

Deontay led the way to one of the smaller buildings. They broke in and grabbed basic disguises which included a hat and a jacket with the company’s logo on the front.  They walked out casually with Vicky carrying the duffle bag.

They walked into a hangar. Deontay smiled at the medium sized helicopter.

“This should be about right,” he nodded.

“Go find the car thing. We need to get it out in the open,” Vicky stated.

Deontay looked at her, “Car thing? You sure you know how to fly this thing?”

“Like you know what the car thing is called,” Vicky stated.

“Yeah, but I’m not the one flying the helicopter,” Deontay muttered as he walked away.

While Deontay was away, Vicky walked around the craft going through a checklist in her mind. When he came back with the car they pulled the helicopter out of the hangar. Vicky then hopped in and went through the various checks before they could take to the skys.

“Hey, what are you two doing?” a man asked as he walked toward them.

Deontay climbed into the helicopter, “I think that’s out cue.”

The blades started spinning slowly and the man started running at them. Deontay threw a quarter on the ground. When the quarter struck the ground, it shifted causing the man to lose his balance. Vicky used her wind powers and forced the wind through the blades faster. Eventually they took off.

Deontay smiled, “Let’s go pick up the others.”

Hina crashed through the gate. She crisscrossed through planes trying to slow the vehicle behind them down. Ice suddenly coated the pavement in front of her. With no traction, she quickly felt the jeep slide. The jeep fishtailed and ended up facing the other way.

“Naru!” she looked quickly over her shoulder.

“It isn’t me!” Naru cried.

Hina groaned in frustration and put the car in reverse. Naru melted the ice and they gained traction again. They drove in reverse swerving through the tarmac. Hina’s hand started to glow. She placed it in front of her, palm out. A wave of purple shot forward from her hand.

“Get down!” Fang commanded.

The force hit their car. The wind shield shattered raining glass on those inside. Alister got out one of his automatic weapons and fired on the jeep. Lumin narrowed his eyes.

Ice shot up from the ground and struck the driver’s side of the jeep. The jeep tipped over and flipped onto its hood. Angered, Hina crawled out and got to her feet. Her face was scratched and dirtied. Hina’s arms glowed an ominous purple. She shouted in anger and frustration and struck the ground with her fists.

The wave of energy flipped the car. Penelope suddenly appeared as the car spun in midair. She grabbed Fang and Alister as she touched Blue and Arisa with her feet. In a flash, she teleported them out of the car just before it crashed to the ground and burst into flame.

“Where in da world ‘ave you been?” Alister asked the sprawled Penelope.

“Lying low like any normal human would do after almost dying in a multicar pileup,” Penelope pushed her glasses up her nose.

“Well, her timing couldn’t have been better,” Fang dusted himself off.

Penelope looked at Fang, “Oh, and Shadow told me to tell you that the Tower’s coming soon to clean things up.”

“Let’s get this over with,” Fang muttered, “I’m getting too old for this.”

“You do have a few more white hairs than usual,” Alister observed.

Fang brought out his gun and aimed it at the red head. He glared at Alister, his finger hovering over the trigger.

“But hey! You don’t look a day over forty!” Alister tried to mend the situation.

Fang’s jaw clenched and he narrowed his eyes.

“Thirty?” Alister said seeing that the age didn’t go over well.

Fang tightened his grip on the trigger.

Alister backed away, “Okay, okay, how ‘bout twenty-five? That’s the best I can do! I mean you don’t have any wrinkles! That’s a good thing, right?”

Fang heard something in the distance. It sounded like the blades of a helicopter. He glared at Alister one last time and walked toward the two kids he came for. Alister breathed a sigh of release.  He wasn’t sure what had distracted Fang but he was very grateful for it.

“You idiot,” Lumin muttered as he walked passed Alister. “Never mention Fang’s age if you have a desire to live.”

Alister looked up at him, “How old is he anyway?”

There was a gunshot and Alister crouched down and darted behind Lumin. Lumin rolled his eyes and looked at Arisa and Penelope.

“Would you keep an eye on her for me?” Lumin asked.

“Sure thing,” Penelope smiled.

Lumin grabbed Alister by his collar and dragged him after Fang, “Come on. Let’s go.”

Fang fired his weapon again at Hina. He wasn’t trying to kill her but to maim her in some way. Hina threw an arm to one side creating a force field that deflected the bullet. Fang fired three more but the result was the same. None of the bullets touched her.

“Alister!” Fang looked over his shoulder.

He paused when he saw Lumin trying to push Alister out of his shadow. Fang sighed and rolled his eyes. Lumin managed it somehow and Alister was left in Fang’s line of sight.

Alister loaded and fired his machine gun that was slung over his shoulder. Hina took a defensive stance. She threw one arm to one side and deflected some bullets then she used her other arm in the same manner. Hina was quick and fluid with her movements.

Fang raised his gun and fired. He watched as she defended against Alister’s attack. Fang saw a small point of weakness. Hina heard the shot but she was caught in deflecting the others. An ice wall suddenly appeared and protected Hina.

Hina looked behind her and saw her brother. She smiled and he smiled back. Naru’s legs collapsed and he fell to the ground. Hina ran over to him. By then the helicopter that Fang heard was upon them.

“Lumin,” Fang stated.

The door to the helicopter opened and Deontay appeared with a machine gun and fired on the opposing team below. A barrier of ice protected the three men.

“That’s not gettin’ through,” Deontay stated before setting down his weapon, “I’m gonna go have some fun.”

Before Vicky could say no, he had already jumped out of the helicopter. Deontay pulled his arm back in preparation of a mighty punch and struck the barrier. Fang jumped backwards as ice shards fell. Deontay hit the ground creating a large crater forty feet in diameter. Lumin fell into the sudden crater while Alister jumped back using his powers of wind to say longer in the air. Hina grabbed her brother and held onto them as they fell in as well.

Fang stood on the edge. The air around him grew hard to move through, like there was a force keeping him from moving. He looked up at the helicopter. Fang looked behind him at Penelope. She looked at scene trying to take everything in. Penelope caught eye of Fang and he looked at the helicopter.

Penelope looked at Arisa, “I’ll be back.”

She disappeared and reappeared inside the helicopter. Penelope covered Vicky’s eyes.

“Get off me!” Vicky shouted.

Fang was freed and looked at Alister, “Take down the chopper!”

Alister nodded as the ground shook under their feet. Spikes shot from the earth. Fang dove out of the way in time.

“Lumin!” Fang yelled.

I know, I know.

Lumin got to his feet and ran at Deontay. Deontay clapped his hand together and the ground opened up in front of Lumin. Unconcerned, Lumin formed an orb in his hand and threw it at Deontay. When the orb struck Deontays arm it turned to ice and spread up to the length of his arm. Lumin jumped over the gap. Water washed up from the gap and washed over Deontay. When the water subsided, Deontay was encased in ice, except for his head.

The wind started to spin in a circle around the helicopter. Alarms were beeping like crazy. Vicky was still trying to get Penelope’s hands off her eyes to see what was happening. Penelope suddenly disappeared and Vicky could see again. She gasped when she saw the ground in a way that one wasn’t supposed to in a helicopter.

Vicky got out of the seat and ran for the opened door. She jumped out moments before the helicopter crashed to the ground. Vicky cried in pain when she landed on her hands and feet. She was about to get up when she heard a click.

“I wouldn’t try anything if I were you,” Alister sated as he aimed a gun at her.

Vicky sighed and raised her hands. She saw the Tower coming in the distance. They failed. Again.

The Turn: Chapter Thirty-One

The Turn

Chapter Thirty-One

~Clash of the Titans – Part 2~

Two Years Before The Turn

Zara was shaking. She couldn’t help it. Her breathing came out broken. All she could here was a piercing ringing in her ears. Her head was against the nape of Chaud’s neck. His arms were still around her protectively. Other than that, it was hard to tell if he was even alive.

Shocked, Zara looked around. There was an overturned pickup truck feet from her face. The wind blew smoke and white feathers into her eyes. There was the creaking sound of metal settling.

“Cha-ud,” Zara’s voice came out raspy and her throat was dry.

There was no answer. Zara closed her eyes.

“Chaud,” she tried to say more clearly.

“Mmm,” Chaud moaned, “I’m here.”

A wave of release washed over Zara. Every tense muscle in her body relaxed. Chaud coughed, a trickle of blood flowed down the side of his mouth.

He groaned in pain, “I think I broke a few ribs.”

Zara could almost laugh, “Sorry. I’d get up if I could. My body doesn’t seem to be working.”

Chaud smiled, “Then don’t. There’s no hurry. In our condition, we’d need a miracle to get to the airport.”

A breeze from above blew white feathers everywhere. Chaud looked up at the helicopter hovering overhead.

“Chaud?” Zara opened her eyes.

“Yeah,” Chaud answered.

Zara sighed, “I’m so tired.”

“Go ahead and rest then,” Chaud advised.

“You sure?” Zara’s eyes slowly became heavy.

Chaud coughed and closed his eyes, “I think we’ll be just fine.”

Shadow walked through the wreck. We whistled a tune as he walked around as if he were looking for something. He ended his tune suddenly when he saw something. With a smile he walked over to what had interested him.

Raven kicked open a car door and walked out. There was no telling how she ended up waking up in the back seat of a car. Once the convertible flipped, it felt like the rules of physics took over hard. She held her stomach in pain. Raven swore as she leaned against the car.

“Well, well,” Shadow walked up to her and smiled, “Good to see you alive and kicking.”

“What in the world were you thinking?!” Raven snapped at him.

Shadow decided to play dumb, “What on earth are you talking about?”

“You killed them! Who knows how many others you killed in the process! Ow!” Raven gripped her side.

“Here, let me look at that,” Shadow walked up to her.

Raven hit his hand away, “You’ve almost killed me once today! I’m not about to try my luck!”

Shadow went for her wound anyway, “Keep still. I do this for Fang all the time. And besides, those two are fine. A few broken bones maybe but they are just fine.”

“Oh? And how do you know?” Raven glared at him.

“I just came from where they landed,” Shadow smiled, “The boy was holding her pretty tightly. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say there might be something between those two.”

“You left them?” Raven wasn’t going to let Shadow get away with the fact he almost killed their target, “What if they go through shock and die? I hope Fang has you head for this stunt.”

“That should do it,” Shadow said as he pulled away from her wound.

Raven was fuming, “Have you been listening?”

“Those feathers really are beautiful,” Shadow stated, “It might take a while for his wings to heal though.”

“Wha-?!” Raven looked down at her wound.

Shadow had wrapped her wound with a piece of cloth and pinned it with one of the feathers that were blowing around. Raven looked up at Shadow. He held another feather and was twirling it underneath his nose. Slowly he looked up as the wind started to pick up and smiled. The helicopter hovered overhead and a Tower Med-Flight decloaked and hovered in the air.

“Well, here comes the cavalry,” he stated.

Raven boiled over, “Are you freaking INSANE!?”

Fang swerved to the right. The glass on the right side of the windshield cracked. Arisa squeaked and drew closer to Lumin. Fang swore under his breath. The kid with the sniper was good at his aim. Fang was even having trouble looking into the future. His good vision was the only think keeping the people in the car alive at this point. Fang looked at Alister as he popped back in to reload his weapons. He glanced ahead and sighed.

“We ain’t going to stop ‘em before the airport, are we?” Alister commented.

“Just get back out there,” Fang muttered. He looked over his shoulder, “Arisa, I need you now.”

Arisa looked unsure but did as she was told. She rolled down the window and made her way onto the roof. Lumin sat still. His concern was still too obvious on his face.

Can I please be out there with her?

Even if Lumin had resumed talking there were moments when his words were on his face. Fang had always been the best at reading Lumin, after Arisa that is.

“Stay low,” Fang permitted, “I’ll need you later.”

Lumin nodded and opened the window.

Naru reloaded his gun and watched the goings on in the other car.

“How much ammo do we have left?” Hina asked.

Naru barely looked down, “I’m on my last clip. There’s enough of everything else though.”

“We need to save that for when we’re on the airstrip,” Hina was talking more to herself than to her brother, “Time?”

“36-50,” Naru aimed.

“36-51,” Hina counted, “Thanks. Keep them busy.”

Alister fired a hand gun that he carried. Naru fired a single shot. Naru’s bullet struck the Alister’s lead bullet causing it to tilt a certain way. That caused a chain reaction that stopped all of Alister’s bullets but Naru’s sailed through the chaos without trouble. Alister gripped the side of his face. He looked at his hand and glared at the boy.

Alister slid back into the car, “Do ya see what ‘e did to me?”

Fang glanced. A thin, straight line of blood lined his face. The bulled had grazed him.

“Be glad he missed,” Fang stated.

Alister smiled, “He didn’t miss. I’m gonna teach ‘at kid not ta mess wid me!”

Fang held him down, “Let Arisa do it.”

Alister looked at him, “But—”

Fang glared at him. Alister sat and crossed his arms. Up above, Arisa climbed up onto the roof of the car. She stayed on her hands and knees. Her hair, it was tied into two long ponytails, blew back in the wind.

Naru sat up a bit with curiosity. If they think that sending out a girl was going to make him stop firing at them, they were sorely mistaken. He decided to fire a warning shot.

Though the bullet was nowhere near her, Arisa ducked down with her hands above her head. She opened one eye and looked ahead. When she felt safe again she sat up. She brought a finger to her lips and blew. A stream of fire careened toward the small jeep.

Hina’s eyes widened as she looked in the rear view mirror. She swerved to the left. The sudden movement threw Naru down on the back seat.

“Chaud was right when he said that they won’t hesitate to use their powers,” Hina muttered.

“No problem,” Naru got up.

The two cars were side by side with a lane between them.

Arisa waved at Naru and smiled. She brought her finger to her lips again and blew. Naru looked quickly at the man sitting out the window. The fire blew toward him. Naru put his palm out and crated a water barrier.

However, the barrier didn’t hold. It vanished as fast as Naru had put it up. He ducked down instead as the flames passed overhead. Naru sighed. It was never fun going against someone with your type or powers. At that point it was about who was the most skilled.

Naru grabbed a water bottle from one of the bags and opened it. He manipulated it out of the bottle and stood again. The water wrapped around his arm as he pointed at the opposing car. Lumin twisted his hand and made the water turn back to Naru. The water ended up taking the form of an orb.

Arisa was getting ready to attack again when Naru formed a needle out of ice. He threw it through the orb. It was practically invisible as it slid through the orb. Naru was so fast that Lumin could barely to his movement.

“Aah!” Arisa cried.

An ice needle struck her in the arm. Lumin threw his hand out and the orb grew spikes. Naru did the same and a fanged snake lunched at Lumin. Hina looked over her shoulder and turned left. Naru fell back and the orb was broke. She drove through the railing and kept driving.

“What the heck was that!?” Naru asked.

“We don’t have time for your ego battle! We’re almost there!” Hina yelled back.

“Fine,” Naru looked back at the car.

They drove toward the gated airport tarmac. Lumin looked up at Arisa and helped her back inside.

“It hurts,” Arisa complained.

“Hold on,” Fang stated.

He followed Hina, crashing through the railing. There was no way they were about to get away from him. Once on the scent, a wolf doesn’t stop hunting his prey.

The Turn: Chapter Thirty

The Turn

Chapter Thirty

~Clash of the Titans – Part 1~

Two Years Before The Turn

Chaud drove on the highway, easily going twenty above the speed limit. Hina and Naru were right behind them. Zara sat in the back seat keeping an eye out. She was nervous. This was a hurried plan that they had put together. But it was all they had so it had to work. They had to make it work or they would be dragged back to the Island in shame.

“You alright?” Chaud asked.

Zara looked at him, “I’m fine.”

Chaud looked in the rear view mirror, “You don’t look like it.”

“I said I’m fine,” Zara huffed, “Just focus on driving.”

Chaud didn’t say anything more. He looked ahead at the road. There were three lanes. He sighed. As he drove in the center lane there were two semi-trucks on either side that he would have to needle his way through. He looked in his rear view mirror again and saw Hina driving the jeep behind him. Chaud accelerated to get though the situation as fast as he could.

Hina shook her head and looked at the speedometer, “How much do you think his car insurance is charging him?”

“Well considering it’s Chaud we’re talking about…probably every penny they can make stick,” Naru stated.

“Be careful,” Hina said into her ear piece, “We wouldn’t want you two to get squished.”

“Yeah,” Zara looked at Chaud, “or I’ll kill you myself.”

Chaud looked over his shoulder, “You can’t do that! We’d already be dead so you can’t kill me again!”

“Oh, I can and I will if you don’t keep your eyes on the road!” Zara shouted at him above the sound of the semi-truck’s tires.

Chaud shot his gaze forward and kept quiet. Zara tried to sit comfortably in the back seat. She looked at one of the trucks. It looked like it was delivering supplies to a popular grocery store. There wasn’t anything really interesting about the design but for some reason Zara stared at it. She narrowed her eyes as if to see something just beyond her vision. Zara sat up and looked closer.

“Hey, Chaud,” she started.

Something shot out of the side of the truck and arched over the car and disappeared into the opposite truck. A dagger nearly struck Chaud and lodged in the shoulder of his seat. He swerved between the two trucks. The tires rubbed together temporarily causing spoke to rise. Chaud swore as he tried to straighten the car’s path.

“What the heck was that!?” Chaud shouted

“That’s what we would want to know!” Hina called.

Zara raised her submachine gun, “I think we’re in for a bit of resistance.”

Naru grabbed a box from the back seat and opened it. He started constructing a long ranged sniper rifle. Hina glanced in to the rear view mirror.

“Hey, bro, we’ve got company,” she stated.

Naru looked at her a moment, “You only noticed now?”

“Sorry,” Hina muttered.

Naru set up the sniper rifle and looked through the scope. He pulled off the scope and tossed it on the floor.

“I don’t see why they have scopes,” Naru sighed, “It really impairs one’s vision.”

“Your vision,” Hina stated, “It usually helps everybody else’s.”

Naru looked again and saw Raven running up the road, “What are our parameters here?”

Zara looked back, “Aim for the limbs. Kill only if necessary. If we get caught I don’t want to be accused of killing off the best Black team the Tower has.”

“Got it,” Naru said just before firing.

Raven drew her sword and deflected the bullet. She darted to one side behind a civilian car keeping the car between her and Naru’s aim. Penelope appeared on top of another car. Naru shifted his weapon and fired again. Penelope dodged clumsily by stepping backwards. Naru fired at her again, she teleported to another vehicle. While Naru was supposedly distracted with Penelope, Raven ran past the car she was hiding behind and charged at the jeep.

Hina saw her from her the left side mirror, “I see you.”

She set her cruise control and leaned out of the car. Hina’s arm started to glow a hazy purple. She threw her hand in front of her creating a huge shockwave. The wave traveled on the ground. Raven jumped over the initial wave. While Raven was in the air Hina created another blast. Without anything to defend herself, Raven was knocked out of the air. She crashed into an oncoming car.

“Ha, ha! Didn’t see that coming, did ya!” Hina said triumphantly.

“I had everything covered,” Naru looked at his sister.

Hina rolled her eyes, “Yeah, but I took care of it first.”

A competitive spark was in both of their eyes. Right at that moment the score was Hina 1 : Naru 0.

Shadow jumped out of the side of the truck again. Zara took her submachine gun and shot at him as he sailed above the back seat. Three daggers nearly struck Zara as she lay with her back on the seat. Shadow disappeared into the side of the opposite truck.

“Did you get him?” Chaud asked.

“Just drive faster!” Zara called back.

“Fine!” Chaud stepped on the gas and sped up.

Zara whipped blood off her face. The blood wasn’t her’s, “And, yeah, I got him.”

They had pulled out in front of the two trucks. For a moment, Zara though they were out of the worst of it. When she looked back she saw Shadow standing on top of one of the trucks. A smile stretched across his face as he licked the blood that trickled down his arm from a wound. He threw a dagger at the car.

“Chaud!” Zara called.

As Chaud turned the dagger struck the front tire. The car flipped front first. At that moment, time seemed to go on at a sluggish pace.

Zara was thrown like a catapult. She felt herself falling through space with the pavement still rushing below her. A numb feeling took hold of her and she couldn’t think. Chaud jumped from the car. He turned his body so he faced her. Zara landed into him.

“I’ve got you,” Chaud said and put his arms around her.

Zara closed her eyes. Time seemed to catch up with itself. Chaud’s wings spread opened and folded around Zara as both he and she struck the ground. Zara screamed as the car crashed just in front of them and the semi’s tried to avoid a collision.

One of the semi-trucks tried to break and the trailer started to slide to one side. It passed over Chaud and Zara, missing them by less than an inch. As that happened, the road became deadly.

Hina swerved toward the shoulder of the road. She grazed the railing trying to avoid the tail end of the trailer and to avoid a crash. Naru looked behind him to see what was going on ahead. When he did a bullet passed his level of vision. Naru ducked down and looked at where the bullet came from.

“I said not to kill them!” Fang called up from the driver’s seat, “We’re supposed to bring them back in one piece not a dozen!”

Alister was more than half way out of the car window, “Yeah, yeah, I just wanted his attention! You should be telling Shadow that!”

Lumin shot his hand out as a car ahead of them flew into the air. An ice barrier deflected the car and shattered. There was a loud crash behind the car. Arisa looked out the back window.

“Blue,” she called him by his old name.

Lumin pulled her close to him, “It’s alright.”

Naru looked back at his sister, “Get off the road!”

“What the heck do you think I’m doing!?” Hina called back.

She broke through the railing and drifted on the loose gravel. Naru looked at the series of explosions as car hit truck. Hina tried to make her way back to the road. The car that was firing at them made it through the same gap they did just before a truck slammed into them.

“Get down!” Naru shouted.

The jeep was fired upon. Hina tried her best to avoid getting shot and still be able to drive. She smashed into the railing again when it was clear and drove faster. The other car followed them closely.

“Get them off my tail!” Hina yelled at her brother.

“What about Zara and Chaud!?” Naru questioned as he reloaded his sniper rifle.

Hina’s shoulders fell, “There’s no way they could’ve made it.”

Naru raised his weapon. There was a cold and calculating look in his eye. A coiled snake was always dangerous to the person who stepped on it.

NO CIVILIANS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS CHAPTER.

IT SHOULD ALSO BE MENTIONED THAT IF YOU ARE NOT A MUTANT WITH SUPPER POWERS THAT YOU SHOULD WEAR A SEAT BELT.

THANK YOU.