The Advent Of The End

Chapter 16: Preparations

"Now" Evan said, turning back around to the husband and wife, both hands on his pockets. He pointed the two unconscious bodies behind him using his thumb. "Help me carry those two back".

Both of them stared in disbelief, thinking that they didn't heard him right. The buff guy spoke, "Are you saying that you want us to....."

"Carry them?" Evan answered, putting his hand at his pocket again. "Yes, since I think we already know...." He paused, looking up at the light blue sky beyond, the sun shoning its light anywhere it could reach. "That you don't have any choice now"

"How-how did you know?" The wife asked, her voice stuttering everytime she spoke out. "Tha-that we're being observed?"

"After seeing how Miranna used an observer back at the inn" Evan replied, summoning his bow and aiming at the sky, determined to shoot what the buff guy and the wife couldn't see at all. Evan shot a highly pressured arrow by using the air that is surrounding them. He materialized it in his mind to concentrate the air around them into an arrow, then shot once.
"I knew something is watching you two, always". After a couple of seconds, something blew up in the sky, as metal remains started to fall down to the ground. He repeated this process four more times till he knew there is nothing watching them anymore. "Now that no one's watching" He said, his bow diminishing to blue dust, till it is no more. He offered his right hand to the buff guy, signifying of help towards him. He smiled again. "Will you help me get Miranna back?"

The two were both staring at the teenage boy in front of them, as they never saw someone that strong in an early age as his. He also didn't have a Chronos to begin with, making the buff guy a bit suspicious and curious about the boy's innate talent.

"I-I know we aren't in any position to ask" The wife said, her words still stuttering from fear. "But, how can you summon a weapon without a Chronos even? And how can you sense something so small that even both of us can't see?" She asked.

"Luck maybe?" Evan replied, still offering his hand to them.

"B*******" The buff guy thought to himself, knowing that there is no luck when it comes to that guy. He already knew he has a secret behind his power, but never asked him. Instead, he accepted the boy's offer and stood up to form a handshake to him.

"Then, we'll accept the offer" The buff guy said, feeling the soft and rough hand of the boy, which he can't understand why it felt that way, but it is. The only thing he knew is that this boy would help both of them in achieving their goal, the only task that ever made them got stuck with the jerk in the first place.

"But, I want to add something else to offer" He said, which made Evan grin in interest and curiousity.

"What is it then?" He asked.

"Save my daughter" The buff guy gripped the boy's hand harder, but Evan didn't flinched nor groaned in pain, he only returned with a stronger grip on par with the buff guy.

"Deal" Evan replied, both of their hands raised up and down in approval, and both of them let go.

"I didn't tell you who we are right?" The buff guy said, carrying his wife in a back carry, making the lady embarrased and feeling herself hot in the face. But, she knows that she won't even have the strength to stand, after witnessing what that boy can do, even with only a bow.

"The name's Zacharius, or just Zach for short" He answered, making his wife's position a lot more comfortable, making sure her wife is strongly gripped around his neck to ensure she won't fall. "And the lady behind me is my wife, Castriel"

"Nice to meet you" She said, her fear slowly diminishing as she now knows the boy is on their side.

"Well, nice to meet you to, Zach and Castriel" Evan replied, walking back to the two who are very much looking dead at this point with the wounds and all, but they're merely unconscious. Evan carried Ezekiel behind his back while Zach with Pierre.