Lainey and the Magicians (First Draft)

Chapter 4

 Lainey gasped. Were the magicians here? Did they send petty criminals after her so nobody would know? Despite the handcuffs snapped to her wrists, she almost ran away from the officer. All that mattered was that she got out of this situation quickly. "We've got to get out of here!" Lainey hollered.

 The cop got out his pistol, pushed Lainey inside the cop car, locked her inside the cop car, and went out to the scene of the crime. Another cop came over to where she was sitting to look after her to make sure no criminals were coming to come after her or rescue her if she happened to be connected with them. When Lainey squinted her eyes, she could manage to make out a car crumbling in the distance. The shooter had driven away from the scene. The cops were chasing the unidentified shooter. "Wow. This is what I get." Lainey glanced down at her hands, muttering to herself. The window was rolled down so the other policeman could understand what she was saying. 

 "What did you say?" he looked puzzled. "What did you get?"

 "Unfairness," Lainey remarked. "I'm in a city with thousands of people I don't know, all because my stupid parents want me to go to a surprise party tomorrow for my grandmother."

 Darkness loomed closer over the horizon. Darkness crept toward Lainey. The gravity of the darkness looked as if it was pointing itself toward her and then the darkness' energy hit her like a wave. She lowered her head. It wasn't like this was going to help her much in being pointed at by the darkness itself in plain sight. She had been a magician. This must have been a consequence of quitting her old lifestyle as one of them. A wave of shadows zigzagged to Lainey's car. They joined together. The officer beside her retrieved an anti-magic pistol prototype to fire it at the shadows. 

 Inside the traffic, people scattered. Families huddled together to find a way out of the scene of the crime and this would be extremely difficult when the literal darkness of the crescent moon night engulfed them. A crescent moon was more likely to be corrupted by magic. More officers arrived at the scene. Helicopters flew in. Some shadows jumped onto the helicopters! The officer unlocked the car, but then he was knocked out by the dark centipede. The darkness was after Lainey. She was not going to harness the darkness again even if it were to stop. One little touch and one little taste of the darkness could lead to disaster. She couldn't use magic. She would go to jail. People could have been saved by her efforts, but it wasn't like the magicians were trying to get anyone else. All they cared about was getting her.

 The first officer who had stopped her to chase the drive-by-shooter came back. He pushed her out of the way, removed her handcuffs in the process, and someone in armor caught her. Who was this person? Her heart took a lurch. Was this a magician in disguise of an agent of the United States government? These United States agents were magician hunters and they chased members of the evil Magician Organization all around the country. The armored person by the name of Codebreaker had grayish-blue armor with a giant circle for a visor. The number eight was on his chest. Shadows worked their way throughout the city. Lainey gasped. "Codebreaker. It's you."