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Terone Test 05 Pt. 02
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Volume Three
Chapter One
"Yes... yes, I know... It's... yes... yes, but we can... of course... alright, I'll call the Cupola... Alright..." Killinger hung up the phone. He was so mad right now, but he knew what he had to do. He picked the phone again. "Meeting in one hour. Call the rest."
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"You all know why we called all of you... right?" asked Killinger.
"Yes, doctor..." said a female voice.
"Then... I must ask you... How... the hell... is Stregson dead?!" he ended up screaming. He calmed down again, "I mean... you were supposed to go with him... and now..."
"I know, but... he did not let us do our work, I mean, he..."
Killinger took the gun he was wearing under his lab coat and pointed to the woman, slower than he did on his younger days. The metal of the weapon shined a little when the central light hanging over the square and long table reflected on it. That room was so dark. Why were they still having meetings there? Just to make people tense and frightened, maybe, though it had worked all of these years.
"Doctor Killinger... maybe you should keep that away and... try to calm down..." Lugma said. She saw how Killinger pointed at her, then. Her heart started beating faster, her hands were sweating and she noticed how her hands started tremble. After a while, he took down the gun.
"Thank you, doctor..." Lugma said. "May I talk?"
"Yes, whatever," said Killinger, sitting again on his chair. Did he even had been sit down since they were there?
"We've found some strange particles all around the bullet wound that Stregson had, and we've been analyzing them on the laboratory. The results have been... well, it's him. Is what we were expecting, though on a more advanced level that we could ever have imagined..."
"So we have to find him..." said another male voice at the right side of Killinger.
"Yes, and fast... this could be all for what we have been waiting for!" said another voice, this time at the left side, next to Lugma.
"I want all of the people under your domains to search for that fucking kid. And his mother. Both of them alive."
"Yes, doctor," said the five people on the table.
"You can go, now. Do as I told, and remember: I want both of them alive."
The chairs moved with a faded sound caused by the rubbers on their legs, and everyone except for Killinger and Lugma left the room. They stood there, quiet, looking at each other.
"This may finally come to an end, Lugma..." he said. Lugma could see some hope on his words.
"Yes... we finally made it."
Chapter Two: Tina
"Chris, for God's sake, c'mon! Just a little bit more! C'mon, babe!"
I was carrying Chris over my shoulders. I had done so for the last mile, I thought, but with our current forces it may have been just a few yards. His right arm was soaked in red, leaving a blood puddle on the floor everywhere we stepped. "If they want to follow us, it won't be that hard, now..." I thought.
He could barely stand on his own feet, and I felt how he seemed heavier every second. With every step, my hope vanished more and more, knowing we would not make it unless we got some help. And it had to be quickly.
"Mom I'm.. I'm so..." I heard Chris saying, but before the last word could be completed, he fainted and we both fell to the ground.
"Chris! C'mon, babe! Do not... Don't do me this! C'mon!" I yelled as I slapped his face over and over again. I noticed how some tears caressed my cheeks and fell, mixing with the dry wolf's blood I had all over my left hand, making it paler and letting it run to find Chris' body at the end of its way.
I raised my sight, looking side to side for someone that I knew I wouldn't find, desperate to save the only thing left in my life that I had truly loved. The lights of the town were still far from us, and only those brave lamps who cared of those who were lost enlightened our way. "Please!! Help! Somebody help us! Please... please..."
My voice decreased with every word, losing any hope I could have had until then. This was it? It's how it all ended? Did I kill the boy I once promised to take care of? My cry, my tears, my feelings confirmed what I had been trying to deny: this was all my fault... I was the one who started it all...
"T... Tina? Is it you?" a female voice said behind me. I quickly got up on my feet and grabbed my knife, already covered in blood. Leaving Chris at my back to protect him, I pointed it to the shadows where the voice came from, safe from the weak light we had on our side.
"Who is it? Do not come any closer! I swear if you come closer... Who the fuck are you?!" My hand trembled as I tried to calm myself.
"Tina... calm down, it's me... I'm Tasha... Just... just take down the knife... we have to hurry and take care of Chris..."
The silhouette came out from the shadows, and revealed finally. She was covered by a dark coat - fact that didn't help to recognize her in the night - but as soon as her precious and shiny blue eyes touched mines, every fear I had just vanished. My hand relaxed and the knife fell, just as easy as the tears started to fall from my eyes. I lost every force I had left and kneeled, crying and sobbing, as if the wall containing all those feelings had just broken and all of them were left free, now.
I noticed her approaching to me and, softly and silently, she kneeled next to me and made her forehead touch mine, with my head between her hands.
"Don't worry, Tina, he will get well. He is just tired and his body needs to rest. He's okay... Now we have to make one last effort and get home. Will you help me?"
I looked her again on the eyes. Why she had that power on me? I nodded, and then she kissed my lips, caressing my face with her hands. I felt how my forces came back slowly, how my hopes were restored and how my world woke up again from the night that had come suddenly moments ago. She put her forehead again on mine, and winked at me.
"Now, let's go."
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"We are almost there, c'mon Chris, hang on, babe!" We were running as fast as we could, carrying Chris between Tasha and me. We had been passing houses and houses for the last ten minutes, and I thought we would never get to Tasha's house.
"Here we are!" she said, stopping suddenly in front of a house. A very luxurious house.
"You... do you live here?" I said with astonishment in my eyes and my voice.
A metallic door was in front of us. Behind it, a green garden shone with some lights spread through all the nature, as if the universe was green and the stars were there, meaningless, but giving it a sense of order and beauty otherwise nonexistent. At the end of a straight stone floored road there was one of the biggest houses I had ever seen, with symmetric reddish brick walls growing from the wood front door at the center to the sides, as if they were its arms, covered by dark slate tiles at the top.
The metallic door sounded loud as it opened.
"C'mon, Tina, let's go!"
We headed right to the door, hearing the metallic front door closing behind us. She looked for something inside her coat's pockets, and then she grabbed the keys, climbed the few stairs before the door and opened it. She entered the first and, after a second, the lights of the house turned on.
Wooden stairs were in front of me, after a wide entrance hall, separated in two curved arms which went to the upper floor as if they were surrounding an invisible cylinder.
"Put him there!" Tasha told me, pointing to my right on the hall where a wooden double door gave to a big dining room that was already with its lights on. A sofa was on the center of it, with a wooden table in front of it. From the front door, I could not see what was after the wooden table, but I guessed that some kind of elegant furniture with a TV on it. I was not wrong, as I could check when Chris and I entered in.