Witches of the Elements - Book 11: Blue Sapphire

Episode 9: Pulse Radar

Episode 9: Pulse Radar

            When the last bell rang, the school day was over which caused a hoard of kids rushing out of their classes. They packed what they needed and headed home. Angela caught up with Travis and walked with him from the parking lot.

            “Can you believe that my brother manage to get a weekend spot at Club Truth-or-DARE?”

            “DJing on the ones and twos! He will be able to show off his music skills to an actual audience,” said Travis. “By the way, how did the twins do?”

            “Jenna and Zac are tracking them down as we speak. They weren’t that bad and I felt that this experience was a good way of adjusting to not only our time, but also Earth’s past. Granted, high school not the best place in the world. Oh and before I forget, Trista texted me and wanted us to wait for her,” added Angela.

            “She did borrow my Spanish book, didn’t she?” thought Travis to himself.

            Angela heard something fall and looked back and saw a brown leather bound notebook on the ground. While she picked it up, Travis checked the rest of his stuff, realizing that his notebook fell out.

            “Wait!” he said loudly, but Angela had opened it. Inside contained drawings some color, some black and grays, and—

            “Whoa! Is that Jenna?” Angela asked curiously after checking out the sketch. Travis tried getting the notebook back from her by reaching for it, but Angela kept pressing her back against him. Moving the notebook away from his hand, till he finally managed to grab it. When he placed it back in his sidepack, he began to blush from embarrassment.

            “Did you draw those?” she asked excitedly.

            “You weren’t supposed to see them…but yeah,” Travis said reluctantly.

            “Travis! They’re really good. Seriously, you should have your works showing at the school’s art show,” Angela encouraged.

            “Umm, no thanks. This is more of a…private thing I do on the side,” he rejected.

            “Just think about it. Even though I’m more of a science gal, we need people like you to represent the arts well and that they can kick some academic ass too,” she continued.

            “Fine. When you put it like that, I’ll think about it,” he submitted.

            “Awesome!” said Angela in agreement. They both raised their right hands and high-fived each other.

            From contact, it generated an electric grid, similar to a magnetic sonar field. The pulse swept a crossed the parking lot, highlighting nearby energy matter.

            “Whoa! What was that? What just happened?” Travis asked.

            “Maybe…some type of Pulse Radar,” Angela guessed.

            “Pulse what?” he questioned.

            “It reminded me of an electric eel of how water plus electricity work together. Eels are able to pick up on their prey,” Angela explained. Suddenly, they felt the grid starting to change, as if ripples appearing in a calm stream of water. This change alerted them, feeling a strange energy matter entering the grid that was strong. This energy matter stood out from the rest.

            “Did you feel that?” Angela asked.

            “Yeah, but I don’t sense anything around us. This makes me question if they’re being cloaked. As if the person is hiding their presence from us or something,” said Travis.

            They decided to test out this new power for a second time and high-fived again, which triggered another Pulse Radar. Together using a sixth sense, they were able to send a signal that follow the location of this energy matter and upon finding it, they both knew it was a child, over weight, and only two lots over from them. The intruder’s gender was female, but age-wise seem to be within the hundreds. It wasn’t long before the child suddenly looked up and knew they were there, disconnecting their electromagnetic link.

            “We can’t let them escape,” warned Angela.

            “I’m doming the area, brace yourself,” he said. Travis held out his hand up in the air and spell casted, “Dimensional Rift!” A huge black dome began to enlarge itself from where Travis was standing on outward.

            “What by the gods is that?” asked Hylis. Her eyes glanced out of the window when she saw a dome covering the parking lot.

            “…that’s the Dimensional Rift? You know,” said Zac puzzled.

            “You taught him. Well not you, but you. As in the Leo from the future that never was. He taught Travis that spell,” Jenna explained to them. “The spell will allow a battle to continue without alarming or putting humans in danger.” Hylis placed her hand up to freeze time,

            “You never told me about a spell like that?”

            “That’s because I don’t know of a spell like that,” Leo told her. Hylis placed her hand down, unfreezing them.

            The tracked intruder decided to leave behind a present before materializing out of the area, right before the entire parking lot was dome. With regular humans unable to see what’s going on, the only people inside the dome parking lot was Travis and Angela, but that began to change. Multiple teleportation beams began to appear before them; with each, beamed a galactic creation called the Toma [Toe-Ma]. These Tomas had on black skinny armor, but had a headpiece that covered their entire face. It was dome-shaped with seven circular dents around the top of it.