The Wizard

Chapter 4 part 3

The streets of the Agronomia neighborhood, in Porto Alegre, were not a very safe place to walk at night, but a bunch of young people ran screaming until a police car passed and stopped next to them, who surrounded the car begging for help, all talking at the same time. One of the cups got out and approached them, observing.

He noticed that many had various cuts and others had clear signs of drug or alcohol effects. With a roar of order, the policeman told them to shut up, getting immediate result as they were so afraid. The colleague passed a radio, requesting police support and left to help the superior, looking at the group of desperate boys.

"Now you," he pointed to one of them, "tell us what happened."

"A huge monster appeared at the party, sir." The young man replied, still trembling with fright. "When he punched the walls, the room even cracked!"

"That's all we needed," said the other soldier, "a bunch of lunatic drugged. Let's call a bus and put all the elements inside."

As soon as two more cars arrived, the first policeman decided to go to the party place to see what was there, while the students were taken to the police station and the Medical Examiner's Office.

Taking two of the boys, who he put in the back seat of the car, he turned around, going down Bento Gonçalves Avenue even in the opposite direction, since at that time there was no more movement and they were less than two hundred meters from the entrance of the Campus do Vale. With the help of the students, the car approached the place, stopping at the nearest parking lot. They got out of the car, but the boys were not very happy to return to the place. In doubt, the two PMs took the pistols and advanced slowly, with weapons in hand, but everything was silent and they didn't even find the internal security of the university. When they approached the building, they heard footsteps and crouched down, pointing the pistols forward. The sound of the footsteps was strange, irregular and with a mysterious drag, causing nervousness even in the experienced policemen. At the height of the tension, one of the boys who accompanied them got up to run away and tripped, sprawling on the floor a few meters from them. The footsteps stopped and then increased in intensity, while they heard a voice saying:

"Help, please."

The policemen got up and advanced to the corner of the building, one in front and the other covering the partner. As soon as he saw the boy with three girls, two of them supported by him who could barely stand, he sighed with relief and put the pistol in the holster.

"Are you okay?" It was the first question. "Is there anyone else there?"

"No, sir, there is no one else," said the young man, still trembling and tired. "That horrible monster took a colleague in his lap and left with her, but before that, he told me to help the girls."

"Listen, boy, you don't look like a drug addict. What's this talk of a monster?" asked the second policeman. "Collective hallucination?"

"Sir, I don't use drugs or drink. Some colleagues put drugs in the girls' drinks, but I guarantee that the monster was very real. He looked like the Hulk, only not green! And there's more, he didn't seem to be bad, but he scared me so much that I almost peed in my pants. If he was evil, I'm sure he wouldn't tell me to help the girls."

"Call another car to take these along." The first policeman ordered the subordinate. "I'm going to look at the room."

"Yes, sergeant."

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"So, how will I meet my savior?" Eduarda also smiled, but it was too dark to see.

"Soon that will have a very big repercussion and the less they know about us, the better."