Fragments of a Past

Chapter two

Footsteps echo trough a dark hallway. Two people in black cloaks walk in silence, they both enter the room at the end of the hallway. The room is dark and cold, a gust of wild blowing from somewhere from inside the room. Five more hooded people are inside the room, all surrounding one person with their hood down. They're looking at a table with small fragments, trying to sort trough them. They notice the two walking into the room, they look up at them.
- Did you find any more? They asked the two.
- Sadly, no, one of the people said with their head down.
They walk towards the two of them, not breaking eye contact. They stop right in front of the person that spoke, they both stand there in silence.
All of a sudden, they pull out a knife on the hooded person, they tense up at the sight of the knife.
- What did I say about not doing what you're suppose to, they say in a hushed voice.
The hooded person nods their head slowly, the other person stands next to them with their head down.
- Well if you don't get at least one of those FUCKING fragments, I will be the last thing you see, they say, slowly dragging the knife over the hooded persons neck.
They put their knife back in their pocket, turns around and walks away back to the table.
The other five stand still with their heads down, hoping not to anger them more.
- We're getting closer to the prophecy, the true end, they say, swiping their hand over the fragments. -They're getting closer to knowing, their true form.

*Splash*
- DAMN IT!! Hiisi yells when the fish he just caught escaped the hook from his fishing line.
He sits down on a rock and pouts in anger.
- Hey it's not that bad! Hella says who's sitting behind Hiisi. You'll catch another one!
Hiisi looks back at her, his eyes narrow. Hella shrugs, giggling a little as well.
Hiisi turns around to look at his fishing line.
He takes the hook out of the water and sees the fish had taken the worm from the hook as well. He sighs in frustration and puts his fishing line behind him. He stands up and looks down at the water, it looks cold and is quite deep. Hella is looking at him confused, trying to understand what her friend is thinking.
- Ah fuck it, Hiisi says and jumps head first into the water.
Hella stands up to see if she can see Hiisi underneath the water but the water is too cloudy and dark. Half a minute goes by, nothing. Then all of a sudden Hiisi jumps up from the water, holding two fish.
- Got the bastard... and his friend, Hiisi says catching his breath.
Hella stands in silence, chocked at what just happened in front of her.
- Well... I guess that works too, she says with a smile.
Hiisi gets up from the water, puts the two fish in a bucket half filled with water and tries to get some of the water out of his clothes. He looks up at Hella who's still standing there.
- Not. A. Single. Word... he says, staring at her.
Hella bursts into laughter, flings her head back and almost falls to the ground.
- I haha I'm sorry it's just- bhahahaha! Hella laughs, she finally falls to the ground, lays down and continues laughing.
Hiisi just continues to dry his clothes, twisting them, a waterfall of water falling out of them.

Someone comes out from behind the bushes and trees, it's Kone.
- What's going on over here? Kone asks.
- Fishing, Hiisi says, trying to dry his hair now.
- Umm... ok haha, Kone responds laughing a little.
Hella has stopped laughing but remained on the ground. Kone walks over to Hella and lays down beside her. They both look up at the sky, not saying a word.

Hiisi decides he can't get any more dry than he already is and lays down beside the two.
They all lay there, looking up at the clouds, slowly crossing the blue sky.
Minutes pass, none of them talk, they're just taking in the sweet autumn feeling.
They all hear footsteps, Mana emerges from the bushes. He stops right in his tracks when he sees them, looking at them with a confused but judging look.
- What are you three even doing? He asks walking over to them.
- We've given up on life, Hiisi says in a monotone voice, continuing to look up at the sky.
- Haha I guess you can see it that way, Kone laughs.
- Have any of you heard anything from Mr. Lordi? Mana asks. I haven't heard from him in like two weeks.
Hella sits up and looks at Mana.
- Wait he hasn't contacted you? Hella asks worried.
- No, I've been trying to get a hold of him, Mana responds. I've even tried some of my other contacts to try and find him but they couldn't either.
Both Kone and Hiisu sit up, look at each other for a moment and then look up at Mana.
- I haven't seen him, Hiisi says.
- I also tried to contact him, but to no avail, Kone says.
Mana sighs and sits down beside them.
- I just really hope he's ok, Hella says, picking at the grass.
- We all hope so, Hiisi responds.
They all look out at the ocean in front of them, waves slowly coming in, a light breeze hitting them, this time of year is quite beautiful.

- Breaking news! Another ruin burning has happened, this is now the 10th one in the span of 3 months...
Mr. Lordi sits at his computer, his tv is on with the news. He's typing away at the computer furiously, all of his concentration on the screen. News report after news report, ruin burning report after ruin burning report.
He pulls out a drawer from his desk and takes out a few news papers. These news papers are really old, so old the paper's gone yellow from age. The pages brittle, even just a small swift motion can break it in half. He carefully flips trough one of them, he eventually finds the page he's looking for.
This has happened before.
A news report about ruin burnings, it says it's the 3rd one that year. He puts the news paper to the side and starts to look trough another one, he flips trough it, page after page. He stops at one page.
It says that they had caught the guy behind the ruin burnings, but the rest of the group weren't.
'How could I have been so ignorant?!' He thinks to himself face palming. He checks the reports on his computer, and then looks back at the news paper. It's all the same, but this time it's way worse.
He puts back the news papers into the drawer and sits down on his computer chair. He doesn't know what to do anymore, it's almost impossible to track them down because of how advanced they are, but he can't just sit here and do nothing.
He stands up from the chair, gets his lighter and a cigarette. He walks outside on his porch and lights the cigarette, he takes a whiff of the cigarette and sighs.
It's all planned precisely, and he knows exactly who's behind all of this.
He just needs to know where they'll strike next.