Retaliation: the beginning

Chapter 27: "Finding the seer."

Clay received a text from Kimberly saying that they were at the school cafeteria; she sends him a report of their location every two hours and waits for him to report his back, sometimes he can't tell her where he is to avoid all the questions he knows he can't answer so he just says he's out for a walk, and Kimberly being the nosy one between his children texts back one of those kissy faces.

Clay thought it was cute.

"Who's that?" Isaac asked ruining his moment.

"Nothing."

"Doesn't look like 'nothing', you're smiling like an idiot." Isaac sounded annoyed and amused at the same time.

"It's nothing that concerns you." He said while looking for his phone charger.

"Alright. Fine. Not my business." Isaac mumbled making the other sigh; he knew exactly how to get under a man's skin. "But, when this woman gets your heart broken, don't come crying to me."

That earns him a snort from Clay.

They made it to green land by lunch to check on the case involving the Seer Clay had mentioned.

"So what's this Seer thing about? She sees stuff? Can she see us?" Isaac chuckled satisfied with his joke.

It was a good joke.

He noticed how Clay hadn't been laughing the entire drive at any of his jokes and he decided to indulge him by asking him about stuff and act like he didn't have a clue. "So, is she psychic?"

Clay eyed him suspiciously for a bit but clearly decided he'd rather be a geek and grabbed the small notebook he'd been keeping in his jacket pocket. "Uhm no, something like it." His eyes light up as he searched out the stuff he was about to show him. "She claimed to have seen the murders and could describe exactly how they had happened. Thing is, she was seeing them as they were happening. No premonitions, nothing."

"And the murders?"

"both teenagers."

"So this demon's got a thing for teenagers, huh." Isaac couldn't help but grin.

Clay didn't seem amused at all. "It's not just teenagers Harper, it seems like she spread a rumor about you."

"Oh, I didn't realize I was that famous."

"Do you ever take things seriously?" Clay gaped and Isaac found the angriest expression he had seen on his face in ages.

"Jee relax alright, I hear you."

Clay shook his head as if realizing he was over reacting, or that Isaac wasn't worth this argument's effort.

He longed for the normalcy they had what seemed ages ago.

"Let's just go see her." He finally said.

Isaac snorted. "See her."

Clay just rolled his eyes. In one ear out the other.

They both stepped out of the car at the same time; the air has cleared, leaving just the warming sun. It was still quite early and the air even felt fresh and clean.

Isaac took a deep breath and enjoyed the smell for a second before turning over and seeing Clay eyeing him seriously.

"What?"

"I hope you remember the protocol."

He sighed "Yeah yeah, you go in first and I watch your back." Before Isaac could sputter his annoyance, he was pushed down into the ground by Clay's giant arm.

"Dude, seriously!" Isaac said muffled by Clay's sleeve.

Clay shushed him and pointed towards the green house ahead. There was a man in a suit circling the place.

"He doesn't look like a farmer." Clay whispered. "You follow him; I'll go check the green house okay?"

"You sure? I mean," Isaac didn't quit know where that clingy part was coming from, but he didn't want to be separated right now.

"Just go! Now!" Clay raised his voice as if he was speaking to a child and quietly closed the door.

When Clay neared the green house, the sound of chanting broke through, the closer he got, the more it sounded familiar to him. He could hear the Latin clearly as he approached through the door.

"What the hell?" he wondered out loud, the green house was empty. However he could still hear the chanting as if he was in the middle of it. He tried to make out the words when he heard a loud bang and his car's alarm going on.

Running back to the car he caught a demon making his way to Isaac who lay on top of the hood, back against the wind shield.

"Harper!"

"Althasar-" He didn't get to finish his sentence as he crumpled to the floor. But he didn't need to, Clay nodded with a flicker of his arm tried to kill the demon several times, but his attacks didn't achieve more than just to slow him down. The demon grinned viciously and threw a fire strike at the huntsman, but he hadn't reckoned with the other who recovered from his previous attack.

Isaac pulled a small chain from his sleeve hitting the demon in the shoulder but he had barely made it a few feet towards him, when the demon shimmered away leaving his dagger behind.

They both look at each other, at the dagger, and back at each other.

Isaac shrugged "Well that was a good exercise."

"Just pick up your chains, Harper." Clay replies dryly seizing the dagger from the grass "we're scarying for the demon."

Isaac rolled his eyes "Bossy much?" he teased but Clay seemed to be kind of distracted.

"Got something?" He carefully put a hand on his shoulder, startling him.

"Quiet, I knew I heard something." Clay needed a moment to focus on his surroundings again, but then he shook his head resolutely. "Underground."

"No wonder the demon was keeping an eye out." Isaac interjected "The green house was just a distraction of what's underneath. Somebody hired a really shittie security guard."

"Probably the seer," Clay nodded "Let's find out."