The Wizard

Chapter 8 part 3

Igor began to spin around his own body, looking for Eduarda and feeling that the ground was taken from his feet when he saw that his bride had disappeared. He took a deep breath to lower the adrenaline that had formed and tried to calm down. He went to where she fell, on the edge of the street and looked around again, but she left no traces, as if she had evaporated.

Considering that the street had been empty after the shooting, the fiancee must have been far away. He began to walk slowly, trying to identify where she had run, looking for some energy flow, but the task was complicated a little because he needed to keep his concentration on two things: his protection and her location.

A few seconds later, two cars turned the nearest corner and blocked the street. The police got out of their pistols in hand, using the cars as shields and one of them shouted through a megaphone:

"Police. Drop the weapons and put your hands on your head."

Igor turned to the side and kept his personal barrier active, showing his bare hands as if saying that he was not involved in the shooting. Then, ignoring the authorities, he continued to walk in search of a sign of her, still without success. From the third street, which forked with the one of the accident that caused, came another car with the sirens screaming, climbing the sidewalk and advancing on him. Igor did not waste time and just raised his hand in the direction of the car that stopped with a very violent impact, as if it had collided with an invisible concrete wall. The front of the vehicle was destroyed, but the police had only minor injuries. As they got out and crouched, protected by the doors and pointing their guns, the policemen of the first wave fired at the wizard, who continued to think where he should start looking for Eduarda. The weapons, with the incessant shots, bothered him a little because of the noise and Igor made a sign with his hand. The police, bewildered and frightened, discovered that they had snakes in their hands instead of revolvers. Screaming, they threw them to the ground and ran away from that madness.

The young man did the math and calculated that Eduarda would have, at most, a six hundred meter lead, if she had run in a straight line, but, even so, that distance implied an area of respect. Several citizens filmed everything with their phones and, despite the urgency and anguish he felt to save Eduarda, he managed to smile when he imagined what they would think when they discovered that the images would be impossible to distinguish. Going back to thinking about his fiancee, he concluded that the best way to find her was by air, since the sight would reach much further.

Having made the decision, he did not care what the others would say or do and just let himself rise, floating like a balloon in front of the astonished look of all the passers-by. He went up and flew in wider circles, forming a spiral. About two hundred meters high he stopped the ascent and began to look for his bride, at first in the direction that he thought was the best choice for her. He found out in a short time that he was wrong and his concern became much greater because, every minute that passed, the size of the area to be searched increased and the risk of Samuel catching her.

He went back to flying in circles that widened gradually and, in another direction, he saw in the distance a person walking with great difficulty, clutching his abdomen. Despite the distance, it seemed to be Eduarda and he was very scared to think that she might have been shot. He made a quick dive and flew across to meet her face to face and not give her a huge scare.

He landed on the corner with his heart jumping and the adrenaline loose, approaching almost running. It was indeed Eduarda, who was so bad that she did not react to seeing him, fainting in his arms.

With great care, Igor picked up the girl in his lap and transported himself to his apartment, depositing the body on the bed. He checked the vital signs and was frightened, because her life was hanging by a thread and was draining with excessive speed.