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CHAPTER TEN

10 | the serum

"THEN WHY WOULD YOU PUT THE GODAMN SERUM IN ME?!" NOVA SHOUTED. Her mother, or she thought was, chuckled. "I'm not that dumb to let you go after this. Starting from tomorrow, you will work for me. Now, please hold still while I put the serum on you." the woman stepped towards the girl, she shaked the syringe a few times, then she put the serum in Nova.

The amount of pain Nova has experienced in her life couldn't compare to this moment. The serum was stuck in a thick syringe, and to Nova, it was the most hurt she felt in her lifetime. Her head hurt too much. Her body hurt too much. It seemed that everything hurt too much. Slowly, her sense started to send reports back to her brain.

There weren't any stab wounds, bruises, or cuts, just a thick syringe , nothing else. It was a mystery on why it hurt too much. She kept her eyes closed, not because she didn't want to see what was happening, but she thought it would hurt too much to open them.

Ten seconds passed, and then twenty and thirty, and finally the pain started to pull back like the tide going out.

An idea formed in Nova's head, she took out a syringe she had in her pocket and slowly brought it closer the the woman who was infront of her.

The woman laughed, not that she found it funny, but rather pathetic. "You think you can kill me with that?" she asked, then proceeded to grope the needle out of Nova's hands. As expected, she took the other needle and stabbed it at Nova's body.

Nova gasped, and pretended to feel dull and sleepy. Alice chuckled when she saw Nova losing her senses.

Or so she taught.

Nova's eyes shot open, her pupils expanded, and she started laughing. Nova jumped, kicking Alice away with the strength she had, while she was still tied up to a chair.

"Wha—" Alice's mouth was gaped open. Nova gave her a wide smile. "It's adrenaline, bitch."

Nova kicked the men who ran after her. When she found a corner full of knives, she took one with her fingers still tied to the back of the chair, and handed it to Peter.

"Hurry up!" she shouted, as she saw multiple men ganging up towards her. "I can't move my arm!" Peter shouted.

"Hold it upright, and don't make the knife move." Nova instruced. When Peter gave her a sign that this process was finished. She jumped down near the tip of the knife, causing it to hit the ties that was used on her. Nova removed the cutted ties and jumped out of the chair.

"This is going to be fun." the girl cracked her knuckles. Closing her eyes, the world was slow again. She looked around her, Alice was charging towards her, the men were ganging up on her, and her Uncle was holding a knife.

Nova walked towards her Uncle first. She took the knife and sat it down on the desk beside him. The girl gave him a big slap on his face, and kicked him, so he was now mid air to hitting the wall.

Then, the men. She took all the guns and set them down on the table that she placed the knife on. Nova took all the men and rushed them to the local park nearby, and left them there.

Nova kicked Alice, and pushed her to the ground..

Then, she moved to Peter, took the knife he was holding and removed him from the chair he got tied in. Closing her eyes again, time resumed.

"I don't think I'm going to work for you." Nova said. Alice looked around her, letting out a groan when she found all of her men gone.

"I win Alice, give up."

Alice laughed like a maniac. "Oh no dear," she kept on laughing. "You didn't win, I took away the person you care for the most. Go to the Coffee shop downstairs, another surprise is waiting for you."

Then it hit Nova. Her dad was missing. The police sirens.

"What did you do?!"

Anger thrummed through her veins.

Peter could visibly see how her face was turning into a deep shade of red, the vein in the middle of her forehead started to throb, and her jaw was kept clenched.

Her eyes started to glow, then flames came rashing out of her hands. Peter choked on his spit, for he had never seen Nova like this before. The whole apartment was starting to burn up, fast.

"Nova!" he shook her, but the girl wouldn't bulge.

"Nova!" he tried again. The girl escaped the trance she was stuck in. Reacting quickly, she took Peter and rushed him out of the apartment.

In the blink of an eye, Nova was gone, again.

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The sirens hurt her ear. police were gathered all around a pool of blood, while a man layed unconscious.

Nova froze when she saw the man.

"No," she whispered.

The girl knelt to the ground and buried her face in her knees. When the words would not come, the tears did. She wasn't crying, it was more than crying, it was the kids of desolate sobbing that comes from a person drained of all hope.

She stood up again. "Take him to the hospital, you idiots! I'm his daughter!"

One police officer heard this and exchanged a look with another officer. They talked for a moment, then he went towards Nova.

"Ma'am, I'm sorry to say this, but Mr. Ellman is no longer alive."

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NOTES: so, um, i'm alive again.