Dimension Academy

Chapter 9: Nine

Nine sat with Five until he woke up.
"Are you okay on your own..?" Nine asked drowsy Five.
"Yeah." Five was sitting up on the couch fidgeting with his fingers.
"Don't do anything dumb. You're hurt, remember?" Nine stood up and looked down at Five.
"I won't..!" Five looked up at Nine.
"I'm watching you!" Nine did that finger thing to let someone know that they are watching you as he walked away. Nine opened the front door and walked out of the house.
Nine continued to walk down the sidewalk. He looked at the houses as he passed them. Finally, he reached town. He walked into the pharmacy. He browsed through the injury section. He grabbed 3 boxes of the big kind of bandaids. He put them in the basket he had hanging off of his arm.
"That's a lotta bandages for one kid." Said an old man standing next to Nine.
"Oh, they're mainly for my brother. He's accident prone." Nine laughed a little.
"Younger brother?" The man asked.
"Yeah." Nine nodded.
"Ah, I see. He must be a stinker." The man smiled.
"Oh, you'd better believe that." Nine raised his eye brows as he took a few boxes of gauze and put it in the basket. Next thing Nine knew the old man kicked him where the sun don't shine. Nine dropped the basket as he crouched in pain. He clenched his teeth and squinted his eyes. The old man laughed. The man punched Nine right in the jaw. Nine fell down, passed out. The man dragged him to his car. He put Nine in the back seat.
Luckily for Nine, someone didn't listen to him. Five came sprinting down to the car with a pistol in hand. The man pulled a knife out of his bag.
Nine started to wake up. It wasn't until he heard yelling when he really woke up. Nine opened the car door to look and see what was happening.
"Your little brothers here!" The man looked back at Nine.
"Five?!" Nine gasped.
Five teleported behind the man. The old man tried to stab Five, but he realized his knife wasn't in his hand anymore.
"Looking for this?" Five said with the knife after he teleported to right in front of the man. The man tried to grab the knife out of Fives grip, but Five teleported before he could. Five appeared behind the man. As soon as he appeared, he stabbed the knife right into the mans shoulder.
"Agh!" The man yelled in pain. The old man elbowed Fives stomach, right where his bullet wound is.
"Oh..!" Five grabbed his wound and squinted in pain. Nine ran up beside Five and grabbed his pistol. Nine looked right at the man.
"I'm glad you got to meet my little brother." Nine said right before he shot the man right in the chest. The man fell back towards Five, but Nine pulled Five away before the man fell on top of him. Five was still breathing heavily and holding his wound. "Let me see." Nine lifted up Fives shirt. He saw blood soaking through the gauze that was on Fives wound.
"Let's go get what I came here for. It'll help you." Nine told him.
"What about the body?" Five managed to say over the pain.
"Uh.."
Nine grabbed the old mans corpse. He tossed it in the car and shut the door.
Nine walked into the pharmacy again, Five limped after him. He began to pick up his basket and all of the things that fell out of it. Five stood and watched him.
"Let's check out." Nine said to Five. Five followed Nine to the check outs.
Nine put everything that he had in the basket on the counter. The lady looked over to Five who was still heavily in pain, and he wasn't trying to hide it. "He had dairy for lunch. I told him it was a bad idea." Nine shook his head.
"Oh, haha. Dairy hurts my stomach sometimes, too." The lady smiled and began to scan the items.
"Oh, he's not in pain, he's just trying to hold in that big crap that he's gonna make once we get home." Nine smiled.
"Stop it-!" Five elbowed him. Nine chuckled and so did the lady.
The lady bagged all of the items and handed them to Nine.
"You and your son have a great day." The lady waved goodbye.
"Oh, we will." Nine waved in return. Five looked over to the lady and gave her an angry look.

Nine walked home with Five stumbling behind him. Once they got home, Five lied down on the couch with a big exhale. Nine kneeled down next to Five and pulled up his shirt. He continued to change Fives gauze.
"Be careful." Five looked at the ceiling.
"I'm trying." Nine put the final strip of tape on the gauze. Nine stood up and gathered up all the trash. Five sat up. "Please, for the love of your health, just rest for today." Nine sighed as he walked into the kitchen.
"That's a lot to ask, Number Nine." Five leaned back into the couch.
"Of course it is." Nine smiled as he threw away the trash. He walked back into the living room.
"If you want a job to do, why don't you take out the trash?"

The moon was high up in the sky when Five kicked open the front door with a huge garbage bag in his hand. He walked down the porch stairs, almost slipping. He walked to the edge of the yard and the road. He noticed a strange vehicles headlights coming from down the road. He recognized the vehicle. He remembered that it has been following him all day. He quickly threw the trash bag on the grass. He ran up the porch stairs and into the house.
"Number Nine?!" Five called.
"What?" Nine replied.
"There's a vehicle outside that has been following me all day now. I think it might be the lab."