Monorail Thieves

Chapter 7

"No," Carmine yelled and backed away from Willis, "no, no no no no! My father's dead! He looked nothing like you! You call yourself a man? Ha! You're just the shadow of one, I would never want a man like you to be my father!". Willis took a step forward, somehow he had gotten loose of his bonds. "No!" Carmine yelled at him and he grabbed the gun lying on the floor, "I'll--I'll shoot you, don't think I won't!". Willis kept walking. Carmine put his finger on the trigger, "don't think I won't you foolish shadow!", but Willis walked on. Carmine shot. The world slowed around him and his mind went blank, he couldn't move. Time had now stopped. He looked at Willis and saw him still walking towards him, he stopped and picked the bullet out of the air and put it on the ground.

He leaned in close to his ear and whispered, "listen to me, son," he said, "you are in the greatest danger of your life and I don't care if you want to call me 'daddy' or not. You will listen to me, understand,". Carmine couldn't even reply to that. As Willis walked away, time lapsed again and Carmine started to move again. Willis walked to the center of the room.

"Sit," he told them, they all sat. Willis cupped his hands around his mouth and blew. A white mist came spilling from his mouth and started to create pictures in the air then they started to move. The pictures portayed a house, Aaron's house. Hooded figures surrounded the house, many of which held candles and some torches.

"What the heck is that?" Aaron asked.

"This," Willis said, " is what is currently happening outside your house."

Aaron turned and looked throught the window, sure enough there were people in black cloaks holding candles and torches walking towards the house.

"You did this!" screamed Morgan and she dove at Willis, Aaron caught her with his telepathy.

"No," he said, "even if this is his fault, we won't fight now not here, the fights out there!". Morgan looked at him with big eyes, "Ok," was all she said.

Carmine stood in disbelief, what should he do? Calling the cops would be a joke because no one would believe this story, he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Do your old man proud," Willis said.

"Why aren't you going to fight with us?" Carmine asked.

"Because I have a little girl with me who needs my protection."

"Give her to Morgan, I don't want her fighting so they could just run out the back, ok?"

"Fine," Willis huffed, "Adrianna, go with the nice girl and try not to annoy her too much, we don't want anything happening to you two. Understand." Adrianna nodded, "good. Now go."

Morgan grabbed Adrianna and ran with her out through the back door, good thing Morgan still had a gun with her incase they got caught.

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Carmine went into Aaron's room where he saw him gathering stuff from his closet. Aaron grabbed his bible, iPod, and a baseball bat. "You need anything?" Aaron asked.

"No, I got time on my side," Carmine said. Aaron forced a weak smile. *sniff sniff* "Do you smell smoke?" Carmine said. Aaron sniffed the air and sprinted down stairs, then popped back into the room.

"There's five of them lighting the living room on fire!!". Aaron grabbed the glass of water on his bed and telepathically made the water multiply itself and then put it into an orb and carried it down the stairs, there was a splash and a sizzle and a lot of grunting and screaming. Carmine dashed downstairs and saw Aaron propped against the wall with a black eye, bloody lip, a few gashes and a gushing nose. The men in hooded cloaks were all taking punches at him and Carmine heard every single one, each one a sickening crack. Aaron's eyes rolled in Carmine's direction and then he fell to the ground in a heap. Tears sprang to Carmine's eyes. "Hey you," he yelled, "yeah, you with the hair!"

All the men in cloaks turned around and faced him, *Crud* Carmine thought. They charged him and he tried to slow time, it didn't slow fast enough. One of the men cracked him across the head and another grabbed the lamp and slammed it over his head. Carmine tumbled to the ground and started to black out. He watched one grab a gun from his pocket and aim it at Carmine. *So this is what the end feels like* Carmine thought to himself. All he saw was a black shadow jump from no where and tackle the man.

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Willis threw himself at the assailants, his body crashing into their's. He grabbed the one with the gun and hurled him through the window and bear hugged the other four with an enveloping shadow, squeezing and squeezing until they disinigrated into dust. He let go of the shadow and then ran to Carmine and Aaron and picked them up and then ran outside into the front of the lawn and into the fray.

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Aaron in the meanwhile was having an out-of-body experience. He saw everything that happened and was horrified. He ran out to the lawn and saw the ten others awaiting them. He mustered up all his strength and conjured a purple ball of energy from his hands. He flung it at the arsons and it exploded in a firery mass explosion, igniting them all in purple flames. He ran over to them and punched them all in their pee-pee and bubbles and then ran back into the house, where he did not see his body. He caught a glimpse of Willis running with his body and Carmine slung over his shoulder and out the back door. Aaron stepped back and took a soaring leap over the house and shot through the air. He looked down and saw Adrianna and Morgan waving at them and screaming and pointing to the bushes. Aaron zoomed down and saw two dead bodies, obviously shot. He choked, they were his parents. He flew even faster down and connected with his body which threw him off of Willis' shoulder and into Morgan. He got up from the tumble and ran over to his parents, they were dead, both dead.