Emblem (editing)

Ch.4~Phase One

Today is the day. They were finally going to go through with the plan. But today will only be the first part of the well thought out, double checked, indestructible, perfect plan. 

Alessandro will be keeping watch and will be waiting. He is all knowing and all powerful. Nothing will stop him and he has no humanity of his own. He does not care about human life,; he barely cares about his accomplices lives. This has to be perfect. He has one shot.

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As the kids show up to the school entrance around 7:00 in the morning the six devious artists are inside waiting to make their move.

Greg is one floor above watching the kids pile up outside the door and keeping count. There are supposed be around 60 kids showing up. As the crowd grows bigger Greg gives the go-ahead to let them in. From inside the office Ermanno unlocks the front doors and the group come spilling into the hallway. Half way down the hallway to the right is the big meeting room where there are supposed to be papers with the students' names alphabetically listed with a room number to go take the test. There are four doors, two on each side on opposite ends of the room and then the big main door that everyone came in from the main hallway. They all  file into the large room. 

There are no tables out, no papers in sight, not even on the walls, to tell them where to go. Then all at once every door closes and at the front of the room stand six dark figures.

Everyone is murmuring. They think they've seen them before, maybe they had bio with that kid and they've seen that one drawing in the park outside school. 

"Shut up!" Gio shouted. "You are all going to cooperate and listen to our instructions. There is no ACT test and you will not be going home or getting help." He explained.

The crowd started murmuring again. Everyone was absolutely confused. Some students were still half asleep and now they are figuring out that they are being kidnapped. Some thought it was a joke, some kind of prank. 

"We don't want to have to hurt you, but if don't do as we say-" He threw something across the room causing a huge boom and everyone shut up again. He threw a huge sword almost like a machete into the floor so it was half sticking out. "We might have to take to those measures." He finished his sentence.

Everyone started freaking out. Who wouldn't? They tried scrambling away from the giant piece of metal in the floor. One boy tried running to one of the doors and once he reached it Ero was already there in front of him. He stopped, confused. He wasn't there a second ago, he was running towards the doors and in the blink of an eye he was standing there, with no emotion on his face. Ero stepped forwards and pushed on the boys chest causing him to stumble backwards with the rest of the crowd. As they looked around each door was guarded with one of the six kidnappers. 

Gio spoke again getting all their attention. "Get out anything you need to now because you will be staying here for the rest of the day under our watch until I say we can go." He smiled an uncaring smile to the group. "Now sit down." He walked forward to grab his machete and everyone sat in terror. 

Each person took turns watching the group. Ermanno was sitting on one end of the meeting room whittling a chair leg out of boredom. Most people stared at him. Some girls cried. Some rocked back and forth out of fear. The others were in another room setting up for the next phase in their plan. 

It was around lunch time for the humans. Someone finally had the courage to say anything.

"Who are you?" A guy asked from the edge of the crowd. Ermanno stopped carving and looked at him like he just spat at him. 

"That's for me to know and for you to never find out." He said as he kept cutting pieces off the end of the leg making a sharp point. 

"Tell me who you are and what we are doing here of I'm calling the cops." The boy demanded. 

Ermanno chuckled a laugh and stood up. In a second he was like a blur in space and then the next second he was sitting in front of the boy who threatened him. Ermanno was big, he knew how to control his power knowing that he was the strongest one here. He pointed the stake he had carved at the boy's neck and held out his hand curling his fingers twice indicating that he wanted his phone. He gave it to Ermanno without hesitation, but he wouldn't let him off that easy. He pushed the sharp piece of wood against the boy's neck. 

"You ever try to threaten or negotiate with me again, you'll be sorry."

"What the hell are you doing?" Clement said as she walked in taking her shift for watching the group. "We are supposed to keep them alive" She reminded him as she grabbed him and pulled him away. 

He smiled down at her. "I was just scaring him, putting him in his place." Then he took another glance at the boy and walked out of the room. 

Clement walked over to a chair and sat down. She watched them and they watched her. Then a girl sitting near the boy that had just confronted Ermanno asked Clement, "What do you want with us?"

Clement tilted her head in a way that a sad puppy would, making fun of how terrified the girl sounded when she asked the question. "You can't know what we are going to do with you, sorry."

"Then who are you, what are you because no one can move as fast as he did." In one swift moment Clement was at the girl's side. "Like that?" She asked. The girl just stared. It was physically impossible to do that. There was no explanation. "Are you some kind of weird breed of ninjas or assassins or something?"

"No, we are much deadlier." 

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The plan has started. My plan is in effect and I will finally get what I want. I will see my future army in a week and finally be ready. No one will stop me. I am the strongest and longest living immortal.

                                      Sincerely Alessandro