The Holographic Trickster

Chapter 5 - Finish line

Authors note

I just want to say thank you so much for reading the serie. If you've read to this point, good job! I really hope you enjoy this short story of mine. I love working with it, and the best part is to actually see that others like my work as well. I will be writing more like this. Continue writing fanfictions and also post some of my own novels in the future.

Thank you to those who have been sharing their love with me, you are keeping me going<3

Without further due, I'll let you continue your journey ;)

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Maybe she's right.

While walking home, I'm thinking back to what Ajay said to me before I left town. That was her name, the pharmacist I was at earlier this afternoon. I believe that she is right. If I let him leave without me, I'll maybe become stressed. I don't want to sit back while he's on a deadly island where he might lose his life in battle. This man is a part of my life now. I can't let him go, not without me. I am going to join Elliott. After all, I love a good challenge.

The sun is once again on its way down. The sky glows both orange and pink, as the sunlight is still shimmering from behind the horizon. The road I walk, shifts abruptly from asphalt to a path. I live not far away from a forest village. I grew up in that village with my mother and father.

After the huge tragedy, my mother decided to leave the village. She never told me or anyone that she was leaving. What I do know is that she left her only child in an empty house, a child who had just lost their father. I felt lonely, so I moved into my father's old workshop. I refurbished it and made it my own. Since then, I've never thought of that village as my home, but somtimes I visit it. Just so the people there knows that I will never leave them, like my mother did. That village is still my birth place.

When I reach the workshop the sun is nowhere to be seen. Only a little bit of light can be spotted far away in the distant sky. Trying to find the keys in my handbag, I notice that the door is already unlocked. But how? I remember to have locked the door before I left. I hesitate. What if someone has broken in? Everything I care about is inside there, well, not everything. Once again, as if it wasn't a surprise, Elliott appears in my mind. Wait a second, Elliott! I open the door as if it were as light as a feather. My eyes opens wide, I meet the sight of twenty Elliotts spread everywhere inside the room. Frustrasjon hits me harder than ever.

"You got bamboozled, again!"

"What in the world are you doing here?" I say with a raised voice.

"Don't you mean, what are we doing here?" One of the Elliotts corrects me.

I shake my head. My tolerance can handle one Elliott, maybe even two, but twenty? I look at one after the other. One of them must be the real one, right? I'm trying to see if one of them is standing out. Think  y/n, think. Which one can it be? I see the Elliotts standing and looking at my things, studying my workshop, but none of them are holding or touching anything. Walking some steps further in the room, narrowing my eyes a little, I finally see him. That cocky idiot. After revealing the secret of his technology, did he really think he could fool me again? What I believe is the real Elliott, is sitting on a working bench and flipping a screw with his thumb.

"Found you!"

I start walking towards Elliott, but before I reach him, he disappears, as well as the copies of him. Entertained chuckling can be heard in the background. Someone is having fun for sure.