Radioactive Water (Louis Tomlinson) BOOK 2

Chapter 5 - What?!

Chapter 5 – What?!

“What are you doing here?!” I added in complete surprise. I did not expect to see Niall here, isn’t he supposed to be God knows where? Not that I was ungrateful seeing him, he saved my life after all.

I shakily sat up and rubbed my temple. My head was killing me, it felt like someone was slamming my head repeatedly against the wall. I looked at the shimmering surface of the lake and nothing looked like something weird had just happened.

What did exactly happen?

“You’re the next one…” Niall whispered under his breath. I wasn’t supposed to hear what he was saying, but I did.

“Next of what?” I muttered, looking at the fair-skinned boy.

“The next of The Five whose powers are unsealed,” he said seriously, sitting down cross-legged. His unnatural bright eyes were focussed on me, absorbing and analysing me. As if he was trying to figure something out.

“The what…?” I said confused, blinking my eyes. Did he just said something about powers? He seriously watched too many movies… “I think you are watching a few too many movies, Niall.” I voiced my thoughts. Niall pursed his lips and looked unamused. I raised my eyebrows when I realized he was speaking the truth, he had never looked so serious about something before.

Normally, Niall was a carefree lad who was always smiling, and he’s rarely serious. Yet, right now, he looked death serious, as if we were in a life-death situation.

“Listen closely, Louis. I’m only going to say this once,” he said in a calm and collected voice, his serious eyes looking at me. I gulped nervously. “The Five are the protectors of the galaxy if you want to put it that way, each one has unbelievable powers. I’m from The Five, just like Liam. And you are too,” he told me.

I raised my eyebrows in disbelief. Yeah, sure… and I’m a flying cow. Niall sighed, clearly realizing I did not believe a word he was saying. “The star tattoo,” he said instead, pointing at the black tattoo on my shoulder. “I have the same one, only on my left wrist.” He added, turning his arm around to show me his own tattoo. “The star tattoo is the symbol of The Five, each point of the star resembles one of The Five.”

I snorted and shook my head in amusement. I have to give it to him, he has a huge imagination. “What is so special about ‘The Five’ then?” I asked him, playing along and doing air quotes around ‘The Five’ or whatever. I grinned at Niall in amusement, who was looking death serious making me chuckle to myself.

Niall glared at me. “This is not a laughing matter, Louis. We don’t know what your powers are, you might accidentally destroy the whole world if you’re not serious enough about this!” He whisper yelled, his blue eyes blazing towards me. I couldn’t hold it in any longer; I laughed and fell down on my back, clutching my stomach. “I can prove to you that this is all real,” he smirked at me, a certain twinkle in his eyes.

I looked at him in amusement. “Yeah, sure. Go ahead,” I waved him off with a roll of my eyes. Niall rolled his eyes and swiftly stood up. Suddenly he disappeared, my eyes widened and I gasped. I jumped up and looked around, only to see Niall standing around twelve feet away from me.