Secrets of Our World

Chapter 6 - Josiah and Nagama

Josiah

English is a hard language. I should have paid more attention during class.

"Everyone! Listen to me. We need to calm down." There were people crying, yelling, and fighting. I needed to get their attention.

"Hey!" My voice was starting to crack from the yelling so I had to take a different approach.

As I walked toward an albino man that stood near me, I noticed something. There were three people varying in age, 2 women and a teenage boy, standing next to a totally beat up and trashed car. They were looking right at me. I would have called them over but I had other things to do. I turned to the man that I was going to speak to.

"Can you help me get the crowds attention? I've seen you entertain kids with your powers." I asked the man with the white hair and the milky white skin. He nodded and spoke with a Greek accent.

"Yes. What do you need?"

I took him aside and told him my plan.

Nagama

We stood by, watching who I think was the leader, talk to a man with albino features. I looked over at the woman on the other side. She was beginning to look very frustrated, and well, filled with rage. Then I noticed something.

A lightning storm had started. Dark clouds covered the sky. It started to pour. What was that saying? Oh. Yes. Raining cats and dogs.

"Boy! Girl!" I started. "Storm starting! We take cover! Choose side! Now!"

The two of them, looked at me with odd expressions on their face. They looked almost mesmerized.

"Hello! Liam! Antilia?" What's wrong with them? And then it hit me quite literally. The rain was transmitting a voice, a soothing, beautiful voice telling me to join her. To help her take this world and get rid of the useless humans.

I can join her. Rule with her. Be – NO! I screamed inside my head. That's wrong. Humans are useless? NO!

My parents are human. They are not useless! I can't turn my back on them or anyone else, even Ando, despite all his flaws and lack of understanding. I turned to face Liam and Antilia. They still stood there dazed. I looked at the crowd. The crowd siding with the man seemed even more riled up than before, but seemed unaffected by the rain. The woman's crowd was looking less and less like people and more and more like a zombie army. The woman seemed pleased with this result.

I could feel the winds were gaining speed. I noticed a funnel forming in the sky. Was that a tornado?

"You two need to wake up! NOW!!!" With every bit of my strength I slapped Antilia, and back handed Liam in the face. No effect. They stood motionless and expressionless in front of me. I turned to the crowds and saw a frozen beanstalk in the middle of the man's crowd. It had grasped the attention of the people around him. They were intently paying attention to whatever he was telling them. The beanstalk had begun to move sideways about 100 metres in the air as if it had hit a forcefield. No wonder they were unaffected. That's why they were safe.

I need to get the three of us and HIkenzo, into the crowd under the force field.

I couldn't possible carry all of them at once. "What should I do?" I asked myself.

Then, I noticed Hikenzo stirring in the backseat. He stalked out of the car and out into the rain and started grooming himself? His body began to stretch, and twist, and contort, getting bigger and bigger, until what I saw in front of me was a man.

"Hello.' he said.

The man in front of me had blonde hair, paper white skin, and wore an orange hoodie and jeans. "I am Lukan and I'm going to help you."

I didn't know what to say, but all I could manage, was, "Thank you."