Invincible

Chapter Four: /Rage/

*August 3rd, 2093, 9:34am*

I woke up to the sound of Dylan crying. Tears streaming down her face, she held a crumpled piece of paper in her hand. Alex would have been comforting her by now. I looked around to see if I could spot him. Alex was nowhere in sight. Trix had apparently woken up before her, as she was not in the bed.

"Come on. You gotta stand up, Dylan," I said helping her up and comforting her. "Let me read it."

She handed me the note. She was crying on my shoulder as I read it. So Alex had decided to run off because he is a little "depressed." He is such an idiot. I went back to trying to comfort Dylan.

*August 3rd, 2093, 9:57am*

After I calmed her down a bit, Dylan and I heard an explosion. Orange and red filled our view as we both looked out the window. The Artemis house was on fire.

I told Dylan to stay there, and I ran for the door of the Outhouse, trying to get to them as fast as I possibly could. Dang it, I thought, why couldn't my power be super speed?

As I approached the house, I saw flames pouring out of the windows of the house. The Artemis Family and Trix were standing away from the house, the majority of them panicking and crying. As I was running, I locked eyes with Isabeth.

"CALEB!" she yelled, clutching her tablet. She started to quickly motion towards herself. I ran as quickly as I could towards her. "VINCE IS STILL IN THERE!"

My heart cracked. I almost stopped in my tracks as I heard that terrible news, but I kept running. I ran straight for the house. I was going in.

Fire crackled around me as I ran through the flames. I knew I wouldn't​ get burned, but the heat still hurt me. My clothes, however, were burning to pieces. I ran upstairs towards Vince's room.

Vince's bedroom door was wide open. The flame hadn't reached the his room yet but the smoke had. Vince, standing on his dresser and crying, was coughing his lungs out. Vince looked at me, fear in his eyes.

"CAYWUB," he shouted. I rushed over to him and picked him up. I looked out the window. The two story jump was enough for me to handle but Vince couldn't make that.

Flames had reached the stairs. There was only one way out now. I started jumping on the fire-weakened floor, trying to break it. Cracks started to form in the floorboards. The floor broke and Vince and I fell through.

Vince and I landed on the kitchen countertop. I felt something snap out of place and then back into place when Vince landed on top of me.  I pulled myself together and shielded Vince as much as I could from the fire. While Vince was coughing and crying in my arms, I was running through the flames with only anger in my mind. Rage flowing through my body, all my energy went into running.

"It'll be okay," I managed to say. Even though the commonly used phrase didn't convince me at all, it seemed to inspire Vince to hang on tighter. When we finally reached the front door, I rammed my own body into the two front doors. Without my powers, I easily could have broken an arm in the process, but I just felt excruciating pain and kept going. One of the doors flung open as I made impact.

The glorious familiarity of sunlight washed over Vince and I as we finally fell onto the ground far away from the burning house. Mr. and Mrs. Artemis ran to Vince as we laid on the ground, the both of us coughing. I sprawled myself out on the grass like a child. Though rage still pumped through me like blood, I was more calm now that Vince and everyone else was safe. Whoever did this was going to pay. A lot.