ColorBlind (Book #2 of S.H.A.D.E.) ✔

Cleanse

3-4 more chapters left of this story! Thank you for sticking around guys, you make writing fun :)

26.

Sneaking past Indigo is impossible.

I grab two walkie talkies -- proppimg one up on a nearby table and pocketing the other-- and am inching towards the door when he says, "Ebony... please don't."

I sigh, turning to face him. Onyx is snoring heavily on a beat up sofa some feet away, completely oblivious to the situation. "I'm going alone. You can't stop me."

"You'll need help," he said, getting up off the chair he was dosing off in. "How can you fight them all alone? And do you even know where to find Gold?"

Dammit. I hadn't thought that far...

"Listen, Indigo," I say, straightening my stance, "I will be going alone. You can't tell me that you or Onyx would survive if you went. After Scarlet--" my voice breaks involuntarily, so I clear my throat, "--after Scarlet, I told myself that was the last person I will lose to them, and with Copper almost dying-- you're not going, and that's that."

"Then why are you going? Think of Copper, what will he do if you get yourself killed?"

"I am the only one who can do this. I have... I have power, Indigo, that needs to be used to fight for those who can't fight for themselves. That needs to be used to protect, to send a message."

He arches a brow at me, surprised at my answer. "What message is that?"

"That human beings will no longer be the playthings of Demons or Psychics, or Gods, or whatever else wishes to control them. I am going to protect them. That's who I am now, who I choose to be."

Indigo goes to argue some more, but closes his mouth, adjusting his glasses. "I want to tell you not to go... but I believe you. You are, as far as I know, the only one to be able to fight this. And because of that, I'll follow you anywhere you go."

I smile, "Thank you, but not this time. Copper needs you here, and Onyx is worn down."

"Aren't you tired, Ebony?" Indigo asks me gently.

I don't know why, but his question gives me the sudden urge to cry. Yes, I'm very tired, but there is no time to rest.

"I have to go," I say, "so will you tell me where to find Gold?"

Indigo stares at me, debating on letting me go probably, but finally lets out a defeated breath, walking over to a cabinet to grab a pen and paper. He writes down directions before handing the slip to me. "Be careful."

I nod, pocketing the paper and taking the car keys. Without another word, I walk out into the night. The sky is lightening, the stars pale in the sky, shrouded by thin tree branches.

When I reach the car, I pop the trunk open. Micheal Benson is sleeping inside, drenched in sweat.

Whenever I start to feel bad about our treatment towards him, I flashback to him blowing Iris' face off, and any pity I might be feeling is swiftly tossed away.

I kick the bumper, shaking the car and jarring the man awake. "Hey, wakey wakey."

"Please... please let me go," he begs in a frail voice.

"No can do," I intone, "if I let you go, you'd keep hurting people."

"You're hurting me," he says in exasperation.

I think back to when I called Copper out on being just like a Demon. This is probably how he felt... and it's not a good feeling.

"You see," Benson laughs at the confliction on my face, "you want to be a hero, but the world doesn't work like a movie, girl. I wanted to be a hero too, but even then, you have to hurt some people to keep other people safe... isn't that the truth? In being a hero, you become a monster."