The Irangel | Prequel Story |

Chapter 16 ~ Cole Matthews

While Justin looked for ways to knock down the door, Tori was abducting more criminals to turn into irangels, taking whoever she wanted off the streets and forcing them into the cylinders. She abducted three so far. Justin met them when she brought them in the 'bed room' which served as Justin's prison. They were Cole Matthews, Camdren Mueller, and Keith Hearves.

Cole Matthews wore a grey hoodie over a pinkish red plaid Hollister shirt and jeans. He had steel blue eyes and short blond hair. He was younger than Tori, looked like a preppy college student, and had an angry attitude about him. Tori caught him stealing earbuds from an electronics store and took him away in her Bugatti before the theft could be reported.

Camdren Mueller was an Asian criminal. He was loitering around a bad part of town when Tori picked him up. He had been as unwilling as the others. He was known for rape and sexual assault, but the police had been unable to find and arrest him. He had a lean body, short black hair, and a handsome face.

When Tori first met him, Keith Hearves was in possession of drug paraphernalia. She slapped him on the face, burned the drugs in front of him, and locked him in the Bugatti. He looked like a wreck from his withdrawal symptoms and was desperately in need of a shower. Tori had given him a new shirt and jeans, just like she had given everybody else. Keith had sandy hair in between light brown and blond, light brown eyes, was scrawny, and the skinniest of them all.

When they woke up on separate beds in the same room with a surprised Justin standing some distance away, they stared and blinked in confused astonishment at their new bodies. Justin gave them a few moments to adjust to their new situation before shoving Keith into the bathroom, muttering, "Take a shower. You stink. Fucking drug addict."

"Drug addict no more," said Camdren. "He won't have access to that shit no more."

Justin gave him a weird look. "You're Asian, and you talk like a black thug?"

Camdren just shrugged.

"Well, you're still showering next even though you don't smell."

They all made sure to give Cole some space, for he was a very angry guy who got fired up way too easily. After realizing what happened to him, Cole pushed Keith out of the shower and spent the next hour scrubbing vigorously at the sparkles on his skin, but of course, his efforts were in vain. He lashed out at the wall, making his knuckles bleed. He flipped their soup bowls over and tore the bedsheets, throwing a temper tantrum like a child.

Tori came a few times to give them food and water bottles, food being a large plate with fresh cheese and meats on it, a gun in her hand aimed at them every time somebody, usually Cole, tried to attack. When they all tried to team up against her, the unfazed Tori brought them crushing to their knees, astonishing them with her superior strength.

She lifted Cole up by his shirt collar and knocked him flat on the ground, as if she were the Hulk. She swung an arm out at Camdren, catching him across the collarbone above his upper chest, pushing him against the wall, the wall cracking from impact. Keith was easily knocked down on the ground, and Justin held up his hands in surrender, Tori's display of superior strength astonishing and frightening him at the same time. It's like she's a superirangel, he thought. If there was such a thing as a superirangel. How can an irangel possibly become more powerful than what they already are?

Tori's eyes locked onto Justin's for a moment, her unwavering eyes searching impassively into his, then she glanced at the others and made her way out of the room without a word.

Camdren unhinged himself from the wall in shock, his eyes wide and petrified. Keith stayed low on the ground, too afraid to move. Cole groaned as he got up, roughly brushing aside an ache on his shoulder. He looked at the locked door, just staring at it in what seemed like quiet frustration.

Justin kept his eyes on the door, a range of emotions running through him like electricity on a hot wire. Tori didn't say anything during the whole encounter, yet he felt she made a point that terrified everyone. The strength she had was only dreamed about in superhero movies. No real person had that ability. To think that she was more powerful than an irangel shocked Justin immensely. He realized this was a woman who could do literally anything she set her sights on. If she wanted to make dolphins jump on command or make rocks float, he would've believed she could do both.

But superior strength was all Tori was capable of in terms of physical power. Her strength was simply an accidental factor. The lever had to be pressed for a certain amount of time, but Nate had held it for a few minutes longer, causing some of the n-r elements to inflate. Those inflated elements were in relation to her physical strength, thus affecting her physically.

That was why Tori had a severe headache and felt very weak soon after exhibiting such immense strength. She lay on her bed in her separate bedroom, feeling as though she had punched through a hundred walls. She ached everywhere but made no show of it, hiding her winces and trying her best to ignore the pain.

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Music that relates to Cole:

"Incomplete"
by The Anix

"Absolute Zero (The Anix Remix)"
by Version 5

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