Richen

Chapter nine: Good and evil

 A week after the incident with the meteorite, the girl turned on the TV to relax after her latest experiments. She had been flying all morning and also testing her latest discovery; strange smoke from her hands that would damage when thrown at something. After crashing into the ground, she had also found out that her wound healed in front of her eyes.

 When the TV started she switched channel and stopped on a news channel, a robbery and hostage situation was occurring at the moment in New York at a big bank. The police had problems with the criminal because even if it was just one man, identified as Frank Lane, a notorious felon, he appeared to have withstood two attempts from the S.W.A.T shooting been-bags at him, and also with real bullets. Not only that, Frank appeared to have some sort of strange weapon on him also, because he was shooting black smoke balls on the S.W.A.T when trying to enter the bank, causing them severe damage.

 After moment’s hesitation and reconsidering, the girl tied her shoes and then left the house flying in the direction of the great city of New York.

 So there are more people than myself? The young man thought when watching the news on a TV in a bar in London. He had two days ago returned from France with better control of his new powers. But as he believed in good, and hated when crimes were committed, he decided right there in front of the TV that he would aid the police as much as he could, he didn’t care if the world found out about his secret. So he left the bar in a hurry. With a bang and at high speed he flew towards America.

 Frank Lane had a wonderful time, he did what he liked the most but now he could not be stopped or betrayed. Since entering the bank his joy had reached a level never experienced before. His “power” to shoot smoke filled with damaging energy was his most precious of them all, because with it he could create such wonderful chaos, destruction and even death.

 After several hours Frank thought that this would be enough for one day, after all it was mostly just something to test his powers for real. But when he was about to leave he felt something strange, he couldn’t really tell what it was, but it felt as though something was closing in. He waited for something to happen, and then he first heard the shouts, then the girl come down from the air, like she was flying.

 The girl landed among the terrified police and she walked up to what she thought looked like the officer in charge. She was right, but the officer did not know what to say, so the girl started to speak first, she told him that she was there to help and that they could take any questions after this was taken care of, right now innocent people were in danger in that bank. She took a deep breath thinking that this was clearly a mistake, she was no hero and she would probably be killed in a moment, but she could not walk away, not when she had come this far. So the young bar-working girl from a small town in Texas walked into the bank with a notorious criminal inside.

 When Frank saw this girl entering the bank he was at first a bit stunned, but then felt threatened and so he threw some energy at her, she tried to dodge but his shot was too fast and hit her in the shoulder throwing her backwards into the wall with a loud crash. For a short second he thought that she had died but she stood up and did the same to him although he could stand against it, he only was pushed back a little, but he remained standing. Seeing the shock in the girl’s eyes, he started to talk. With confident Frank mocked the girl for her lack of power but also asking if she too had fell on a meteorite. When she didn’t answer him he shot again at her, but something happened that confused them both, another energy ball crashed into Franks with a loud bang and a powerful airwave pushing both of them flying in opposite direction.

 When the young man landed outside the bank he could feel some sort of power inside it and he rushed towards the door. When closing in he could see two persons inside, the robber and a girl. He prepared himself by creating the smoke and at that time he saw that the robber threw a smoke ball towards the girl, he hastily threw a smoke ball himself aiming at the robbers’. The result was more powerful than he anticipated and he hastily entered the room. He helped the girl to get up, because somehow he could feel that she was good and their eyes met for a few seconds and through that, they could understand each other and they faced the robber together.

 Frank was becoming really angry now and through this anger he could feel that he gained power. At high speed he flew up to the roof, stopped and then started to create a large smoke ball, there was no way they would survive this, he thought. He flew up through the roof and through the opening the young man and girl could see Frank shooting down at the roof above them. The entire roof came crashing down along with the smoke, they covered themselves with their arms and then it went dark.

 But something was wrong, nothing happened, no powerful force hit them and no roof parts fell down upon them. The two humans with these strange new powers looked up and saw a single man in a black cloak with spiky silvery black hair, floating in mid air with a silvery aura flowing around him. He was holding up the entire broken roof and neutralizing Frank’s dark smoke with some strange barrier created from his left hand and under his right hand an unconscious Frank hang. Elite general Ferenghir looked down upon the two terrified humans that he had located and would soon bring back to Shadowria.