The Dark Streets

Chapter Fifteen

I kick the door in and I immediately saw someone and shot him in the face,
"I killed a hostile, checking the rest of the downstairs for more." I walked into the living room from the kitchen, I didn't see anyone in here but the TV was on and the news was on but it was muted, I turned it off. "The living room is clear." I walked up to the stairs to the second floor, "heading up the stairs."
"Meet me in the bedroom to the right of the stairs."
"Okay, will do." When I reached the top of the stairs, I went right and I see a door, I open it and then I walk in and close it behind me. I see Marcus in the room,
"Hello Jack, how are you?" I nodded,
"I'm glad, Marcus." I looked at him,
"Can't you use the Principle to find Stake?" I nodded,
"Yeah, I can." I closed my eyes and knelt down and focused my Principle energy on locating Stake, I got up and opened my eyes,
"Well, where is he, Jack?" I looked at him,
"He's in the basement." We walked out of the room and towards the basement, I opened the door and we walked down into the basement, I saw Stake,
"Hey Jack, good of you to drop by." I smiled,
"Hey Stake, where's Drogoth?" He looked at me and then at Marcus,
"You brought him to me." I looked at Marcus and he smiled at me,
"I guess the truth's out." The body of Marcus shapeshifted into Drogoth's, "how's it going, Jack?" I aimed my gun at him,
"What the fuck did you do to Marcus?" He put his hands up,
"Okay, no need for violence, I killed him after you two fought for the first time because the second time was actually me." I looked at him with my gun still aimed at him,
"You're not that powerful anymore are you?" He looked down and then back at me, he punched me in the face and I hit the wall and I dropped my gun,
"What do you think Jack?" I got up and picked up my gun and shot at Drogoth,
"Not that strong." He started shooting at me,
"You're going to regret saying that Jack! I made your friend find out the hard way." I looked at Stake and I just noticed that he was holding his hand over a wound and there was blood on his hand,
"Stake! You okay!?" I ran over to him,
"Yeah, I should be fine." I looked over at Drogoth and shot at him,
"You're going to die for this Drogoth!" He shot at me, I reloaded my gun,
"You can't kill me, Jack!"
"He might not but I can Drogoth!" I looked at Stake and I saw him standing up and the wound in his chest was gone, Drogoth also looked at him,
"So you want to try again brother?" He smiled at Drogoth,
"Yes and I'm not going to fail this time." Drogoth chuckled at him,
"That's what you think little brother?" Drogoth shot at Stake and he dodged and shot back at Drogoth, Stake looked at me,
"Jack you need to leave!"
"No, I can't just leave you alone to die Stake!"
"You have to Jack, go now! I created a portal outside of the house!" Stake took out a sword and so did Drogoth and they ran towards each other and their swords clashed together, I turn around and leave the house and I see a portal outside, I look back at the house,
"Good luck Stake, I know you can do it." Just before I walked into the portal, the ground began to shake, I ran into the portal,
"Hey, Jack, it's me your old friend Stake, if you can hear it means only one thing, I have sacrificed myself and killed Drogoth and saved the world, I will miss you, my dear old friend,, but my death will not have been in vain, because as you will soon find out, the Principle has been unlocked but in my final hours of living, I discovered something, the Principle wasn't just unlocked in your Dimension but it has been unlocked in other Dimensions as well, so be aware." I awake and just as Stake has said the Principle has been unlocked, I knew because I could feel it, I got up off my bed and walked into my living room and turned on the tv and sat on my couch,
"Hello and welcome to Chicago Channel 7 Morning News, and my name is Nick Zapata, the first big story of the morning is several reports of people with unique powers across the world, there have only been ten reports in the United States and Canada alone." Just then I get a call, I walk over to my phone and pick it up,
"Hello, who is this?"
"My name is Max and I work for the DBI, the Dimensional Bureau of Investigations, and I think you know why I'm calling you."
"Yes, I worked with Agent Stake."
"Yes and his sacrifice to save the world worked, even though it was against his orders to do so and we know that you helped him to do it, so we figured we'd train you for a position for the DBI, so what do you say, Jack?" I sighed,
"That's something I can't answer right now."
"I understand Jack, I'll give you twenty-four hours to think about it." The call ended, I put the phone down, I walked over to the window of my apartment and looked out of it, I walked into my bedroom and got dressed and put my jacket on. I walked out of my room and walked to my front door and got my shoes on and opened the door and walked out of my apartment and into the hallway, and I closed the door and locked it behind me. I started walking down the hallway to the elevator, I pressed the down button and the elevator started going down to my floor, after a while the elevator door opens and I get in and press the one button and the doors closed and the elevator started going down, I took out my phone and looked at my messages and there was a new one, from Max, it read, "Hey Jack, I was wondering if you wanted a drink with me tonight?" I looked at the text and then I wrote a reply,
"Hey Max, you know what I haven't had a drink since this whole thing started, I'll have that drink, just let me know when you want to meet up."
"Okay, I'll text you." The elevator stopped and the door opened, I got out and put my phone away. I started walking out of the building, my phone began to ring, I took out my phone and answered it,
"Hello?"
"Hello Jack, it's Max, I'm at Cajan's."
"Okay, I thought you were going to text me?"
"I just decided to call instead, it's a lot easier."
"Yeah true, I'll be right over." I got into my car and turned it on and started driving towards Cajan's, on the way all the memories of the journey played through my mind, it's funny how everything started at Cajan's and now everything it ending at Cajan's. I reached Cajan's and parked in front of the bar, I turned off the car and got out of it, and walked into the bar. When I walked in, a guy sitting at the bar waved over to me, I walked over to him and sat beside him,
"Hello Jack, what do you want?"
"I'll take a beer." He waved the bartender over,
"Hey, there I'll take another rum and coke and my friend here wants a beer." The bartender looked at me,
"Hey Jack, it's been a while since you were here as a customer." I nodded,
"Yeah, I know I'm finally done with my investigation." He gave Max his rum and coke and gave me my beer, I opened it and took a sip of it, Max looked at me,
"So have you thought about it?" I looked at him,
"Yes I have and you know what, I'm no longer a police officer and really I have nothing else to do, so why the fuck not, I get to be a fucking agent!" I took a sip of my beer, and he smiled at me,
"Okay sounds good, we can get all the paperwork done and then we can issue transportation to the DBI Training Camp." I nodded,
"Sounds good to me, just give me the paperwork and I'll get it done quickly for you." Max nodded and the bartender came back and took our empties,
"Okay well I'll have to get it and we will have to meet up tomorrow." I nodded,
"Sounds good." I get up off the bar stool and leave the bar and get into my car and turn it on and start driving back to my apartment. All I can think about is becoming a DBI agent. After a while of driving, I reached my apartment building, I parked my car across the street from my apartment building, I turn the car off and get out and walked towards the building. I reached the front door, I opened it and walked towards the elevator, I reached the elevator and pressed the call button and the elevator started going down. It reached the first floor and the doors opened and I got in and pressed the three button, the doors closed and it started going up, after a while it reached the third floor and the doors opened and I got out and I started walking towards my apartment. I reached my apartment, I unlocked my door and opened it and closed it behind me, I took off my shoes and walked into my bedroom and took off my jacket and hung it in my closet and I took off my clothes and got into my bed and fell asleep, "oh Willow, oh how I wish you were still with me." I awake to my phone ringing, I pick it up, "hello?"
"Did I wake you up?"
"Yes, in fact, you did."
"Well sorry I'm not sorry, you need to be up early, you're coming to the DBI Training Camp."
"And where is that exactly?"
"It's in the Ether Dimension."
"Okay, where do you want to meet?"
"Meet me at the train station."
"Okay, be there soon." I hung up the phone and got up and put on my clothes and put on my jacket, I walked to my front door and put my shoes on and I opened the door and closed and locked it behind me. I started walking down the hallway of the apartment, I walked to the elevator and pressed the down button. The elevator started going up, the elevator doors opened and I walked into the elevator, I pressed the one button and the elevator doors closed and it started going down, the door opened and I walked out of the elevator and down the hallway and I walked out of the front door. I walked to the car and I got in and started driving towards the train station, my phone began to ring, I answered it,
"Hello, Jack."
"Who is this?"
"You really don't know who this is?"
"Wait, Thomas!" He started laughing,
"There you go, old friend."
"How did you get my number?"
"That's not important, what is, is that the DBI is hiding something really big and dangerous from the public."
"Like what?"
"We don't know."
"We?"
"Yes, I'm part of a secret organization called Guardians of Truth."
"Guardians of Truth? Who are they?"
"We are an organization of people who seek the truth and inform the public of the truth because it's their human right to know what is going on in their world."
"I see and what exactly do you want me to do?"
"We want you to be our double agent, how does that sound?"
"I don't know if the DBI finds out I'd be dead."
"I know Jack but I don't think you'll be caught."
"Okay, I won't let you guys down."
"I know Jack and good luck."