What Would Happen?

Part 7:Discovery

There was a long pause of silence before he could answer. Everyone became aware of what was going on after this moment.

"W-what do you mean? I don't even know--" Coulson stammered.

"Alright. I am tired of being quiet. Coulson, I'm pretty sure by now that we all know you're hiding something." Ethan interrupted.

"Yes. I was suspecting something at first as well but l tried throwing that idea in the trash." I said."Veronica's actions gave me a reality check."

"Wait. Please explain." Amber demanded.

"Ahh... I see." Leyna mumbled. "Earlier when he was supposedly sleeping for an hour, I started dozing off but then I noticed his finger twitched." Leyna said.

"Yes. Haven't you guys noticed how the 'growing accessory' grew extremely slow compared to the other victims? Marissa, I believe you had the longest time to observe one of the victims. So, surely, you too would've noticed it." Ethan said in a somewhat stern voice.

"Y-yes. I too noticed this. Earlier, when Barry and Ashton were interrogating him, Veronica and I shared with each other the strange things we've noticed. Such as how the mysterious blue metal would grow and all of what you just mentioned." I stammered.

"Tche...!" Ashton bit his lip. "Dammit! Why didn't we notice! No, why didn't I notice!"

"Ashton, it's not your fault." Barry comforted Ashton. "Amber, too, was clueless."

Amber gave Barry the death stare but she didn't kick off his head because she saw that he was trying to comfort Ashton. As Barry patted Ashton's back, there was a subtle rustling noise near Coulson. I quickly ran over toward Coulson, since I could finally run without a goddamn bullet in my ankle (yay)! I couldn't see very clearly because I didn't have my precious glasses on. I ruffled through my shirt pocket and quickly grabbed the spectacles. I put them on and the first thing I see is Coulson taking out a bomb from the back of his shirt. Since I was behind him, I motioned my hand telling everyone to get back and run but Leyna just shouted out "DAYUM! Look at the flick 'a dat wrist!"

Coulson, of course, raised his arm and was about to throw the bomb. Though I felt weak, I used every last drop of energy to put a shield around Coulson. But there was something off about my vortex of ice, as if it had a factor other than ice. I looked up to see Amber making her own vortex around mine using a gush of wind.

"Ice alone won't do. Besides, you're tired. Stop overworking yourself. You're pale, you have eye bags and earlier you got shot. Take a small nap and please leave it to your trusty friend." Amber gently smiled.

I dropped to the ground without any control over my muscles. 'It kinda made me happy seeing her smile so purely. There I go again, doing everything by myself and making the others worry. And here I am worrying over my friends worrying about me. I'm sure if this keeps up, I'll have wrinkles.' I thought. After that, everything turned black. I couldn't open my eyes or move a muscle. But while I was asleep, I had a dream. More like a nightmare, really. A tall man in front of my friends and I started forcing us to kneel down and do something that looked like a Satanic ritual. Different colored lights came out of us, like mine wad light blue for ice, leyna's red for fire, Ethan's green for healing; you get it, right? And I didn't want to see anymore of my beautiful figure being tortured along with my friends so I tried forcing myself to wake up but it didn't work too well until....... I heard "Marissa! Hello?! Hurry up and wake your lazy weeaboo ass up! Ughh! Can you hear me, Satan's daughter?"

I jumped right up from the sound of Ashton's voice yelling at me. Not only because he called me Satan's daughter but he also called me a weeb. Just gotta clarify, I'm not a weeb nor am I an otaku. I just watvh lots of anime and read lotsof manga. Get your terms right, Ashtral-- or Ashton. He'd kill me if I said that. But I will not inform anybody on this. And that's including the dream.

I finally opened my eyes trying to stay calm. I immediately got up, despite knowing that I would get a headache.

"Where in the world is Coulson?! How long was I out?!" I loudly screamed. Leyna simply pointed to the spot behind me, a burnt area with spattered blood. I stared at the ground for quite the while and looked back at everyone else. They all seemed quiet but Ashton was a bit restless.

"So. Care to explain what happened?" I bluntly asked.

"A split second before Coulson threw the bomb..." Veronica's voice trailed off.

" Umm.. We made the barrier and only then he threw the bomb. But as he was burning to death, he screamed the words 'you won't get anything from me now'" Amber muttered.

"So it was a sacrificial kill!" I said.

"Yup." Barry said. Ethan got up and said "We should probably relocate. He may have put a tracker somewhere here, marking this area for his men and boss to find us."

Slowly but quietly, we all got up and resumed our mission. Moving forward, ready to face death, the only thing we kept in our minds was destroying the despicable man who started this and go back to the students we always were.