A Sun Lit Path

Chapter 12 "The Lock Down" Part 2

          It doesn't help that everyone in the convention is talking loudly since someone stole a priceless artifact! Highly armed security guards blocked every entrance around the convention. Every exit was blocked off. As I frankly scanned the area, I felt a tight squeezed on my right arm. I looked over to see Jess hugging my arm.

"Are you scared?" I asked her

"Y-yeah reminds me of my life in Canada."

      That's right. Jess had a pretty hard time in Canada. Let me explain, it was the 11th of December 2016. Jess lived in Canada for most of her life. The reason she moved was due to the government. The Canadian government banned all maple syrup for some reason. It was unknown why they did it. Rumors say that drugs where being put into the syrup but that wasn't the case. Since the Canadian government banned all makings of maple syrup, bootleggers came to rise and Jess' parents where one of them. The Canadian government did not take fondly to this. They decided to start a mass genocide of bootleggers killing nearly over 30% of the Canadian population. Jess manage to escape, legally, to the US, however she was not treated like one of us. People did not know what to do since it was during the time of the genocide. So they treated her like she was invisible, afraid they might do something wrong to her, like say the wrong thing. They did not realized what they where doing was wrong. I mean we where just kids in middle school. It wasn't like we had 150 IQ or anything. Back to Jess, she is terrified of guns or any security guard in the world thanks to the her government. 

"ATTENTION EVERYONE!!! We need anyone who has a Dick Sanchez cosplay on and to report to the auditorium." said the announcer

I looked at myself to see that I'm wearing a Dick Sanchez outfit on. Jess let go of my arm and said, "Be careful." 

"Don't worry, I will." I said as I kept on walking. 

      When I got to the auditorium, I could see 24 people wearing Dick Sanchez outfits. I sat myself down as the same announcer came on stage.

"We have checked security cameras to see that one of you stole the gem. Yes we have night vision cameras with 4k 1080p high resolution blah blah blah. Look we need you to confess now and you will not be arrested." said the announcer in a strict tone

"Do you really think one of us did it?! No human could've carried a 6 foot gem within 2 seconds in the dark and manage to hide it that quickly!" said one cos player. 

"Yeah! If you have high resolution cameras why couldn't you checked the person's face?!" said another cos player 

"Because the thief  had a mask on. It was a cartoon chicken." said the announcer 

"This is stupid. I'm out of here." said a different cos player 

      I looked over to see that same cos player get out of his seat. He got up and just walked out the door but I did saw a shiny tiny object. I quickly got out of my seat to try and catch up with him. Once he saw me opening the doors he ran. I chased after him too. We both started running and once he got close to Jess he put his hand on her suddenly Jess shrunk! I stop to look around the area Jess was standing and notice no trace of her.  She was gone. Her cloths must've shrunk with her. I looked up to see his hand was clenched up I started running again and said loudly, 

"Give me back Jess you criminal!" 

Many cos players got out of our way and didn't try to stop him. They just made a path for us to continue running. We got into the center of the convention where the cos players made a open circle around us. 

"Give me back my friend. I know you have the gem." I said trying to catch my breath. 

"I have no idea what your talking about. I have no gem-" Once he put his hands in the air the gem slipped out of his coat pocket reveling the gem on the floor. I noticed a rustle in his coat pocket. He must've put Jess in his coat pocket and she pushed the gem out of his pocket. 

Everyone gasped in horror and the criminal got really angry. He picked up the gem as fast as he could while grabbing Jess out of his pocket putting the gem inside. He held Jess with in his fist while she struggled to get out. 

"You little DEVIL!" He yelled at Jess as he was about to slam her on the ground. I rushed over to her and put my hands down as a cushion. I luckily saved her as the criminal stood over me. He kicked me in the face as I was pushed back while I still had Jess in my hands. I couldn't hear a word she was saying due to how tiny she was. I got up on my feet while I put Jess in my pocket. The criminal had the gem in his hand and put it against his chest saying, 

"All hail Brainwave." 

Suddenly a glow of purple light surrounded him and gust of winds came out of nowhere. I try to look at him but the light was too bright to see what was going on. The light and winds died down and the criminal had a new look. His body was infused within the convention gem,  in a diamond like cocoon. I ran up to him with my fist in a ball of fire and punched it at his chest. He didn't even flinched! He grabbed my hand almost crushing the bone and slammed me to the floor. He was about to step on my skull but I rolled away. I backed up away slowly as the criminal walked towards me even more slowly. The diamond cocoon must've put more weight on him. I quickly open my phone and googled "Can I melt a diamond?" Google said, 

"If you heat diamond in the open air, it will start to burn at around 1,292 degrees Fahrenheit. Heating diamond in the absence of oxygen will see it transform into graphite – a more stable form of carbon – long before turning into liquid." 

"Is it possible for me to use my fire and go up to 1,300 degrees? It's worth a shot!" 

I yelled "Everyone get out of the area now!" 

I put my hands together and unleashed a gulf of fire. I was aiming at the criminal, he was still moving slowly. My flames got bigger and bigger. I started to yell louder hoping to get something out of yelling. Even when the criminal is 10 feet away from me, I did not give up. I looked straight ahead of me, with the sweat dripping down my face I unleashed blue flames! I could hear the criminal yelling in agony the diamond must've melted though his cocoon shield! I immediately stopped to see him laying on the floor burnt really bad. I checked his pulse to see that he does still has one. His pulse was beating and the security came over and arrested the criminal. I took Jess out of my pocket to see her still tiny. The announcer came over to shake my hand and say, 

"I can't thank you enough for saving us!"

"It's not a big deal really. I just had to do what I needed to. Besides he hurt my friend." 

"Well in that case...LET'S CONTINUE WITH THE CONVENTION!"