Shadow Man; A Dark Story of Jude Rutherford

Fiery Terry

Another school day had come. I watched as everyone my age, my brother and my sister, my neighbours' children and every other teenager set themselves eagerly to go to school.

I did not feel the urge they felt. The events of last night still stuck in my brain like dark paintings on a white wall. I had a lot of unanswered questions.

Han Eduardo was now dead, the man who could give the answers to my questions. And the only other thing which could provide more answers, my mother's bracelet, I lost it as well. I was sure someone had picked it where I dropped it that night, the question was who.

It could be anyone actually. A random passerby who just happened to see it on his way, an out of control mutant who accidentally realized the function of the bracelet, or even a member of my own family.

"Hey, Jude! Come get your breakfast and go to school."

I suspected my step mother the most. As she stood by my door, peering at me in an unwelcome manner. Something told me she knew something about m