The Void

Chapter 2

At that moment I realized something, he was alive. The guy was alive and he was on his feet, there were no signs of any bruises or anything on him except for the fact that his shirt had blasted off. He was already on his feet and he almost looked intrigued by me. Then I heard a crashing sound a truck had broken through the arena wall and was coming at me. It had spikes on the front. It crashed into me, the spikes went through my skin. It hurt like hell but I didn't die.

A hand pulled me out of the spikes, it was him, the guy who was supposed to die. A girl in the driver's seat of the bus asked him, "What's with the kid?".

He replied, "He's going with us.".

"No, I'm not," I said angrily. I took his hand off me.

"Come on," he said, gesturing around, there were assassins running into the arena, "there's no way you're getting out of here without my help."

He had a point, "Alright" I said, then I gestured towards Daniel "but only if he comes with me."

"Fine", he said, picking Daniel up, "Get in the truck."

I got into the back of the army truck, he was right behind me with daniel and just as the assassins got near us, the girl hit the accelerator and we went rushing forward. Towards the other wall of the arena and then as soon as I realized what she was doing but by that time we had already broken through the other wall of the arena. I looked at the guy who should be dead, he put Daniel on another seat and sat down himself. There were no signs of harm on his body, he caught me staring and said, "We're one of a kind, you and I."

"What do you mean by that?", I asked angrily.

He leaned forward, looked me in the eyes and said, "Well I'm not sure but I think you're a....".

At that moment the girl said, "Assassins!"

He replied, "Alright, Alright"

He looked at me and said, "Watch and learn." Then he did something that was absolutely crazy, he jumped out of the truck, grew blue wings and flew. You probably want to put this book down right now but that's what happened, that's the truth. Then, I heard a loud noise, the truck got hit, I flew and smashed against the wall of the truck and fainted. When I woke up I was in a cave, I was surrounded by statues. There was a sword in front of me, wedged into the wall and it called to me. I can't explain the feeling or what it said but I got and walked towards it, I put my hands around the hilt and pulled it out.

A voice above me said, "Told you he was it, let's go kid." Then I saw who was up there, the guy who flew.

He dropped me a rope and said "Come on up, you can, right"

I looked around the room there were no other exits. I climbed up the rope and I was face to face with the human-bird-flying thing and the truck driving girl.

The guy said, "I bet you're really confused". While walking out of the cave.

I followed him, I couldn't really do anything and said, "You think." My sword started vibrating. Outside there was a jeep, the girl hopped in the driver's seat. I got in the backseat with flying dude.

I said, "What was I doing in that cave? and also who are you?". While the girl started driving.

He replied, "The cave, we put you in there, see for as long as I can remember no one had been able to take that sword out and you just did, you know what that makes you? It makes you something special."

"Congrats!", said the girl with obvious sarcasm. As she started driving.

"I'm Mark", he said while lighting a cigar, "and she's Green."

"Oh", I replied, " Why the hell am I here!"

"Calm down kid", he replied.

"How can you fly!, I asked.

"Well, I have a few special abilities. I was injected with Celestial blood", he replied.

"You're crazy", I said.

"No seriously, I did it myself", he replied.

"Junkies", whispered Green.

"Huh", he said, "this is a good time to try out that sword of yours, isn't it. Hey Idiots!" He jumped off the jeep and started running at them, Green did the same. I stayed there, I wasn't going to fight crazy criminals with random guys, then I heard something behind me, guess what it was a junkie. I punched him off the jeep. I got off myself, ran towards him and stabbed my sword in his chest. The sword vibrated again, I looked ahead there were 5 junkies running at me, I ran towards the closest one. I stabbed my sword into him, another guy ran at me, I punched him and kicked him to the ground. I was about to stab him when another junkie tackled me to the ground. I lost my sword. I punched the junkie in the gut and threw him off me. The other junkies caught up, I got my sword and stabbed the first one, the other lunged at me, I stuck him in midair. The guy who tackled me got up, I ran at him and finished him.

"Good job kid", said Mark.

"Good job!", I replied, "who the hell wants to fight junkies!, I'm out of here."

"We have your friend", he replied, " I mean not really have-have him, he's at my place recovering."

Daniel, I couldn't leave him, he was my best friend.

"Fine", I replied and got in the jeep. Green started driving.

"There it is", said Mark, "Grindtown!"

"You guys live in Grindtown" I replied.

"Yeah and that's where your friend is.", said Mark.

We stopped and I followed by Green and Mark got out of the jeep. Mark started leading the way while Green and I stayed back.

After a few minutes of walking, I asked Green, "So, how do you know this douchebag."

"None of your business", she replied.

"Alright", I said, "understood."

"We're here", declared Mark.

I ran into the house and say Daniel bandaged up, sitting on an old chair. I ran to him.

I kneeled beside him and said, "Hey dude, you okay."
"As okay as I can be" he replied, "that dude really busted me up."

"Ok we're going", I said.

"No, you're not", said Mark.

I ignored him and got Daniel up, we started walking to the exit.

"I have some information, about your dad", said Mark.

I stopped and looked at him. He looked dead serious, I put Daniel down and walked towards him.

"This better be true", I said.

"It is", he replied, "you might want to st down for this."

I sat down and so did he.

"Alright", he said, "your dad is a Celestial."

I laughed got up and headed towards Daniel.

"He's right", said Daniel, getting up, "your mom told me to tell you this whenever you were re.."

I threw my sword at the wall and said, "Please tell me this is a joke. I mean this is crazy, right."

"I'm sorry dude it's true", said Daniel in a sad, hopeful tone.

I started crying. I know Daniel wasn't lying, he wouldn't lie about this. How could this be? My dad is a dirtbag who left me and a murder who killed millions.

Daniel looked at his watch and said, "Look, it's pretty late, how about some sleep?"

I stood there crying. I almost wanted to punch him but he was my best friend and it wasn't his fault, it was my dirtbag father's.

"Please", said Daniel.

There was nothing else to do, I left, got in bed and cried myself to sleep.