Fire's Shadow

Child's Play

--------------------Diego-------------------

We walked to the store without incident. Most of the reggies knew us and we just smiled and waved like usual. You might say we were those neighborhood kids that no one knew where we lived. And we intended to keep it that way.

"Hey Tommy, have you found Child's Play yet?" Jacob asked.

"Not yet."

"K."

I walked around the store for a little bit until I found Sam in the book area.

"Hey Sam." I waved.

"Ah! Oh, hi Diego. You scared me." She smiled.

"Did you find anything interesting?" I asked. She held up a book with a tornado on the front.

"Yep. It's called Eye Of The Storm. Basically it takes place in a time where super devastating tornadoes are just part of daily life." Sam explain all the while leafing through the pages, "It looks cool."

"After your done with it can I read it?" I blushed as I said this. Fun fact, I have a crush on Sam. And I'm not the only one. The store clerk here likes her too. Trust me, I can tell.

"Sure." She smiled and I blushed even harder. Sam, being the awesome person that she is, chose to ignore it, "So, found Child's Play yet?" Tommy came over holding a CD.

"Yep. Found it. Cassie, Mary, and Jacob have gotten snacks and are heading back. We better get going." He went up to the clerk and quickly rented the movie. We exited the store, making our towards the woods. As we were about to enter a man stepped in front of the path. He looked like a hermit honestly.

The man had dark brown hair with grey here and there, a long beard, and crazy looking eyes. He stood there with unconscious forms of Cassie, Mary, and Jacob. We all took a step back as the man lurched forward with a knife in his hand.

"Where is she!?" He shouted.

"Who?" I asked. The man glared at me with a look of pure hatred.

"Her mother." He hissed as he pointed the knife at Sam.

"What does my mom have to do with this?" Sam asked fearfully. She unconsciously put her hand on her eyepatch. The man rushed forward and grabbed Tommy. The poor kid shrieked in terror as he was dragged closer to this psychotic man.

Suddenly there was a flash of silver and the man staggered away. Sam and I looked to the side and saw Uncle Ben holding his old sword.

"Stay away from my son." He growled.

"Matt?" A voice said behind me. I looked back to see Crook standing with her swords in her hands.

"Finally you show up." The man, who was apparently Matt, laughed as he came towards us. Sam and I ran behind Crook like she was a wall.

"No, finally YOU showed up. Where'd you go after I kicked your ass?" Crook glared daggers at Matt.

"Mom...who is this?" Sam asked.

"Sam, go now. Get your father." Crook said emotionlessly, "Why are you here?"

"Sam let's go." I took her hand and led her away. But Matt blocked our path and looked at Sam hungrily.

"Her."

"Not on my watch!" I pushed Sam behind me and glared at him.

"Oh so your the little brats child? Did he ever tell you what I did to him?" Matt leaned forward and I leaned back.

"What are you talking about? I don't even know you!" I shouted.

"He didn't tell you did he? Well let's just say your dad's a screamer." At this my eyes widened and I stumbled back.

"You did too." Crook snorted.

"Oh I'm not talking about knives or guns...." Matt let the sentence trail off and let silence ring out.

"You sick son of a....what did you do to him?" Ben tackled him down and pointed the sword at his throat. Sam and I ran over to Cassie, Mary, and Jacob. Tommy soon followed. The others were just starting to wake up.

"Let's get out of here!" Tommy whispered.

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that." A voice said in the shadows. British. Another man appeared from the bushes, causing all of us to jumped back. This guy had jet black hair that was slicked back, a pale complexion, and eyes that were all black.

"Who are you!?" I shouted. The man grabbed my wrist and despite my best efforts to, I couldn't escape.

"My name is Devron." He leaned in close, "You have heard of my mother, Jane no?"

"Jane as in Jane the killer Jane?" Mary asked feaerfully. Jacob stood in front of her protectivly. Cassie looked, in all honesty, like she wanted to rip this guys head off. Devron smirked as he looked up at Sam.

"Ah, your the one I'm looking for." He let me go and approached Sam.

"Stay away from me!" Sam shouted and pushed her hands forward. At the same time a blast of fire hit him and he stumbled back. Sam looked up at her mom but saw that she was trying to get Ben off of Matt, "Did I...?"

"More powerful than you look huh?" Devron brought out a dagger and pointed it at me, "I won't let you interfere." There was sudden flash and I was somewhere else entirly. I was near the lake. But that made no sense...how did I get here?

"Sam! Sam where are you!?" I shouted. Terrified, I ran in a random direction. I didn't know what to do. So I just ran as fast as my legs could carry me. That is....until I slammed head on into something. I bounced back and hit the ground. Looking up, I saw someone I for once wanted to see,

"Dad!"