The Power Of N

Chapter 7: No Name

Chapter 7: No Name

"Holly!"

"What happened?!" Dorian and Artemis asked as they rush in the kitchen.

"Dorian, call the hospital by the telephone in my room. Quick!" N.N. commanded as she checked Holly's pulse. This is worse than I thought.

Dorian rush to the room and Artemis scoop Holly to put her in a couch. Suddenly all windows and doors of the house closed like someone did them without reaching them.

"T.K." N.N. said as she lifts her hand and without reaching Artemis, he moved him to the other side of the living area and a force pinned him in the wall.

"Go now Aizen." A bluish ill-shaped ball appeared to get out of N.N.'s body then it went to Holly and lifts her in the midair and it seems like the bluish ball or Aizen as N.N. called it seems like strangling Holly.

"Stop!" Artemis shouts at her but it echoes back at him. Why? His body may be pinned and lifted from the floor but he can still sway his feet. He tried to kick but it bounces back and a somewhat like water forms in his place. No, it's not water...it's a force field.

He can't hear what N.N. says but he can lip-read: Stop it.

Then a black ill-shaped ball slowly gets out of Holly's systems. The same black entity they fight in the hospital when they face Clarence Rodriguez.

It's there the entire time?!

"I'm tired."

"Still exhausted."

That bastard is taking Holly's life force!

"Kill it Aizen!" N.N. shouts then Aizen let go of Holly's body and it feel but landed gracefully at the couch as N.N. contradict the force of gravity on her falling.

Energy by energy and it sparks electricity that is how the fight ensues when two entities scratch themselves with one another. They have been fighting around the house, chasing each other at the kitchen leaving broken glass, going to the living and circling around the chairs making it stumble.

Artemis noticed that the black entity is now bigger than he last saw it. N.N. noticed that Aizen was having a trouble to finish the other entity. So N.N. uses another of her T.K. abilities, mind-communicating.

The black entity didn't also get her life force. It's more than that. Artemis heard N.N.'s voice inside his head, surprised but not freaked out.

Aizen go all out to finish the entity by getting all energy he can at the power supplies of the house so it causes the place a black out. But after a minute lights go back and the fight is finish, leaving a mess that three people can't exactly explain what happened.

"Aizen, use Dorian's body for a while." N.N. said ass the blue ball went upstairs. Force field around Artemis is also gone then he was suddenly moved to seat in the chair and pinned up again.

"So, who the hell are you really?" N.N. asked. No more the nice and friendly girl they met on the school before.

"You are what we're looking for, N.N. or you prefer patient 19427?" Artemis said thinking that intimidating her would put him in the upper hand.

"You're from D.P.A.!" She immediately gets a knife from the kitchen using her T.K. That is when Butler comes in and charge at N.N. who is pointing the knife at Artemis' throat.

Butler tackles N.N. and grabs both of her hands so she can't do anything. That is when they heard a gun cackle behind Butler. Dorian is holding Butler's Sig Sauer and aims it in his head and ready to shoot.

"Don't move Butler." Artemis warns as he saw Dorian's eyes are white. He was possessed by Aiden.

N.N. points again the knife at Artemis' neck using her powers.

"I already warned D.P.A. yet they still send you. Perhaps they need some teaching." The knife continues to advance.

"We're not from D.P.A." Butler shouts as he saw the tip of the knife is at the neck of his principal and currently drawing small portion of blood.

"Aizen." Dorian fell down as Aizen gets out of his body but this time possessing Butler. Butler let go of N.N.'s hand then N.N. go to Holly's side.

"She's pretty messed up."

"Don't hurt her." Artemis warned. The tip of knife was near in his throat this time.

"That's not for you to decide. If you're not telling the truth all of you will die here." N.N. glares at Artemis, cold as ice, more powerful than his. That shook his confidence a little that in such time that he forgets if they're telling the truth or not.

Aizen gets out of Butler's body immediately. No harm has been done. N.N. put the knife back to the kitchen, showing her powers again while she tilts Artemis head slowly for Aizen to have a good reach on his neck so it can be healed.

"Sorry." N.N. said to Artemis.

"You shouldn't have done that." Butler scolds her.

"I'm sorry Big Foot. I'm just protecting myself. And I still don't know who you are." She said back as Butler fixed another chair and put Dorian there.

"It's Butler." N.N. ignores it.

"I'm not asking the same question again." She speaks to Artemis.

"We are investigating what happened to St. Laureth Asylum."

"Why?"

"The residents near the area felt a massive earthquake like and felt aftershocks. However, that turbulence was felt almost in all part of the underground. That is exactly we want to know. Those entities, are they some signs of bigger problems than mass killing?" Artemis said.

"Are you some kind of scientist? And by the way, congratulations on finding me... Let's go back to your question. The answer is Yes... Those entities are mostly the spirits that are trapped in a parallel place. D.P.A. staffs called it the Rift. But for ordinary and sane people that would be purgatory. Those spirits are guilt-ridden, have unfinished business, bound to that place by anger and rage. They are dangerous."

"At least we're sure it's human spirit." Butler said.

"Who said about human spirit? Those entities are everything."

"Everything?"

"Everything, from animals to humans, all of them had feelings. Up to the notorious psychotic pixie you knew." N.N. stared at Artemis coolly.

"I know who you truly are, Master Fowl." She said as she gives him a cold smirk.