DEATHMARK: THE SHADOW GAME

CHAPTER 4 - The Supporter Faction

The room was empty.

"Riaz"Rhaiz shouted frantically checking out the bathroom, whether it was locked or not.

It wasn't locked but it was empty.

"Riaz, Riaz!!! Answer me!!!"Rhaiz screamed.

He ran towards the balcony to see if she was there.

She wasn't.

Rik was also pretty frantic by that time, he ran towards the balcony but the result was disappointing.

Rhaiz took hold of him by the collar "You know where she is don't you?!"

"I don't know I swear. Hey wait a sec I got a suggestion" Rik said.

"What's that?"Rhaiz asked.

"You live on the third floor only, so it might be possible, that she climbed down the pipe and then went off to see you"Rik said.

"I doubt she can climb down the pipe" Rhaiz said.

"Well truth to be told, she often used to meet me down like this, like climbing down"Rik said.

Rhaiz looked down from the balcony and saw that half of the population of the inner city going towards The Central, the hub of their city.

"What's the time"Rhaiz asked.

"Almost 6:30" Rik answered checking his watch "Why?".

"Since when do we have people waking up this early, and that too in our town."Rhaiz said.

"Yeah, I guess, you're right"Rik said "Let's head to the Central ourselves".

They left the house and headed towards the Central, Rhaiz took out his mobile phone in hope to call Riaz, that if she took her phone with her, He unlocked his phone and called her, the call disconnected and he checked the signal.

There were no bars.

Strange Rhaiz thought This part of the town usually has a good signal.

Pocketing his phone he ran towards the Central which was a ten minute walk from his house, and he reached there in no time. By the time he got there Sam and Lavinia were already there.

"Any sign of Calvin?" Rhaiz asked.

They shook their heads in despair, right on that moment Calvin came running towards them.

"Cirev?"Rhaiz asked.

Calvin shook his head in disappointment and said "No sign of him, but I saw something that might be important for you, follow me".

Calvin ran off towards the exit of the school and Rhaiz followed him, reaching there he saw something familiar that made him freeze him in his tracks.

In the parking lot there was a familiar red colored bicycle which had the familiar words SETX-4550 written on it.

"Yes" He said "This is Riaz's bike".

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Riaz was suffocating.

Being trapped inside a sack was no fun at all, and the hands that carried her were not very caring.

Is it due to the light? she wondered.

The light was the result of the aftereffects of the visit to the museum.

She had recently discovered that she had a special power.