The feeling of air returning into the lungs of her new patient left Lisa feeling relieved and ecstatic. She had discovered the space hidden in the walls of the cavern.She had been reluctant to believe it at first, but her radar kept on showing blank and empty spaces in places where there should not be such things. Like underneath the water, and in some parts of the cave.Talesein's cave didn't look like much from the outside, but on the inside it was a massive space and they had searched extensively. The space they had thought was the wall to the end of the cave had actually been a barrier.A mere hologram, designed to keep others away and deceive them into thinking that nothing was in the cave.It was genius really, and even up until now she could not determine how that image had been set up to such perfection.But she had been able to determine the existence of an opening right in one of the walls they had driven past, and when Con had touched it, the wall had opened up.They met t
"Is this the city you want destroyed?"Con looked at the man in front of him and tried to figure out what was happening.What city, and why would he want it destroyed?His head was woozy, his legs were light and his body felt like it wasn't his. Like he was floating right outside that body and it wasn't him controlling it anymore.Almost as an afterthought Con felt himself focusing on something. The feeling that he was in deep contemplation was like a dull taste at the back of his throat and he heard his voice say something shocking next."Can we use the people in it as a sacrifice? A whole realm wouldn't compare to a city but at the very least it would make up for something right?"The man at his side nodded and Con watched as that man tapped something at the side of his sleeve gently. The floor around them seemed to pulse with some strange energy and soon images appeared in front of them.Millions of images showing millions of people living their lives. Some of those images depicted
"What do you want me to do today Master Frost?"Xavier stared at the small floating ball of light in his hands and he cocked his head to the side.What the hell could this thing be?Lisa had come to his room early this morning almost shaking and in tears. She was scared and after the talk he had with Con last night, fear from his daughter had been the last thing that he would have wanted to see the next morning.Lisa had come into his room practically shaking and she didn't look like the type of person that cried easily.She handed the ball of light over to him and said it was a strange object. She had spent all night trying to figure out how to open it and how to get it to respond to her, but the thing just created a force field that expanded and retracted so quickly that the resulting shock wave ruined all the other things in her lab. Her test tube, reports, documentations on plants she had acquired from all over the island, all of them were gone. Nothing had been saved and couple
Jake looked at the arm that had been reattached for him and he gave a small sad smile at it.Who would have thought that he of all people would need a fake arm."Is it going to be okay doctor?"Aubrey looked at the doctor and noticed the way the man's eyes flashed past her boobs. It had been quite some time that she had experienced that now. Not the fact that someone was looking at her, people always looked at her, but the fact that someone could be so subtle about it, that was what really fascinated her about it.The doctor was young like herself and Jake, and the fact that she was looking at him and that she was also looking for someone else to fill in the space that Jake's absence would soon bring, the doctor seemed to be a very good alternative.Jake wouldn't keep her for long and she knew he would find out that she didn't like him anymore.He would come to realize that she wasn't as loyal as she had made him believe and then he would try to get rid of her. She would have to fin
"This person called you Daimon?"Con nodded his head and looked into the distance again."I'm pretty sure that's what he called me, or was it Darion?"Xavier sighed and Lisa found herself rolling her eyes at the sound of that sigh. Con was messing with all of them and he seemed to enjoy doing that regardless of the fact that he had been asked to stop a number of times now.It was a very funny affair, but it was also a serious one and the tension in the air could cut a piece of paper. "Are you being honest Con or are you just joking with me?"Lisa could hear the dangerous tone her father's voice had taken and she gulped at that. It was never a good idea to try tricking him when he had not gotten his full amount of rest. Even ten percent of the rest he should have taken would be enough for her father to function at full speed the rest of the day, but from the look in his eyes she could tell that he had skipped sleep all together.He was looking cranky and it showed in his voice.Con c
Con stared at the information being displayed in the space in front of him and he frowned."What is this?" Xavier simply dropped a file on the table before him and he moved it closer to the other man. They were in his home office now and so far nothing had settled at all.Con had become more agitated and it would soon be nightfall. He was scared of having that dream again but that was the least of their problems ,Their major problem now was Lana Caswell. She had almost finalized her divorce to Jake when Orion city collapsed and she had been taken by that strange hand.Now Con was back, and she just happened to show up at the same time.It was fishy, and not comforting at all. He was happy that they were both back, but he didn't know what that would mean for all of them together. There were still a lot of mysteries they had left unsolved and new ones were popping up everyday.It would be enough to make anyone feel disconcerted.Con could feel the anxiety radiating off Xavier. He was
The ice was fairly easy to thaw with Lisa's help and soon Xavier found himself free from the table he had been stuck at.Lisa leaned back with the flaming torch in her hand and she lifted the visor she had used to protect her eyes from the flames up. Her father's table now had some mild burn marks under it, but at least his hand was free now and that was all that mattered.He could follow her now to go check on the purple-haired lady, and maybe on the way, he could also narrate how they knew a celebrity.It had taken her some time before she could realize who was really under her care, but the moment she did, she almost screamed.Lana Crawford had been a megastar ten years ago. Her face was everywhere and she was known for her great acting skills. Now that the lady was back, it was almost like a dream for her. The purple hair and added features she seemed to have gotten weren't helping matters too and that was exactly what she wanted her father to explain to her.What was actually hap
Con walked down the hallway of Xavier's home and for the fourth time in one day, he passed the room where Lisa was being kept and he avoided the door again.What would he go in there to do?He had failed all of them.He had failed Mark and he had broken his promise to protect his sister. He didn't even know where Adeline was anymore and the last he had heard of Nurain was the fact that it had crashed with the collapse of Orion city. Adeline was nowhere to be found now and he had made a promise to her brother to keep her safe. And not only had he failed his friend and not kept a promise he had made, he had failed a lot of other people too.He carried out his own research from time to time and he could say for a certain fact that he had caused destruction in the lives of all the people he had come into contact with.Aubrey had to go through hell after he disappeared. She had been heavily injured and also under the assault of her husband who seemed to have gotten even more wealthy and
Xavier stared at the files in his hands and tried not to get too scared by them. There was information on them, more information than he would have felt comfortable ever knowing but he could see what Con was so scared of now. He might even be sure that he had managed to see the things Con had not. To begin with, this world was not what they thought it was.At least it was not all they thought it was. It was much more than they imagined and the fact that Con had somehow managed to stumble on this clearly meant the cosmos was seeking their help, or rather Con's help. Somehow somewhere there was someone or something pushing Con towards making these decisions and he could feel it now. He was sure if he told Jane and Aubrey that they would plan to eat him up alive. Both him and that thing he felt was guiding Con into making the decisions he was making. Their world was under threat, and he would be damned if he just sat back and watched it all crumble.Xavier reached for his phone and tap
Con watched the hackers he had hired work and he came to the conclusion that he had undoubtedly made a very huge mistake.There was little he could do in terms of making them more coperative and oddly he got the feeling that they wanted to make him frustrated. One of them full on refused to listen to his commands and Con felt the urge to give the man a sound slap at the back of his mind. He had to resist it because the others were already working and from what he could see, they were doing what he wanted them to do. That was enough for him, but what he truly wanted was their total cooperation.From the way they had abandoned their jobs to go chase after money, he knew that he couldn't use them for any of the jobs he would have wished to. Since they had the basic knowledge he would need in the people he wanted to recruit, it would have been better if they had behaved and not messed up that way. It was not like he was that desperate that he would hire them despite whatever they did, but
Jake looked out his window and tried to assess his surroundings. He could tell people were trying to hack into the cyber security of the the hotel. The alarms had gone off the moment the breach was noticed and he had spent the past one hour trying to calm himself down and not fly into a rage. The fact that whoever this was thought he could mess with him and get away with it felt funny to him.The only problem right now was the issue of intention. The hackers seemed to be aiming for the security controls to switch them off. That was what they had been trying to do in the first place and he felt they might have done it sucesfully if they hadn't diverted to start hacking away at money. If they were petty thieves then he would make them pay. He would make them pay badly for having him all worked up for nothing, but if they posed a greater problem than than that then he would have to solve that problem, probably with the aid of some thugs and torture. He just bought this hotel. It was on
Xavier watched as Lisa and Clay kept their eyes on him like he was performing some kind of magic trick just sitting down there and doing nothing. He could already tell that it would be a long time before they left him alone and honestly, now he was up to the challenge. There was no way he was going to let them keep him in when he already had something he wanted to do.Lisa could be dealt with. He could persuade her with treats and make her feel he should be let loose to do what he wanted because he was her father and even he would have to admit that he let her loose to do what she wanted too sometimes.Lisa would let him do what he wanted to do because he also let her do what she wanted to do at times. It was an agreement they had both reached and he was sure she would honor her part of their agreement. The one was really worried about was Clay. The fact that the younger male just stood there watching him gave Xavier a funny feeling in his stomach. He and Lisa should have done off t
Con could swear that he had thought there was a chance of Xavier calling him on the phone and offering his help.He had been expecting that for a day plus now but yet nothing had happened and he was getting skeptical. Was he wrong to expect that his comrade in arms would come to him at this moment? And was he sure that he could pull off this operation with Xavier?Con stared at the building in front of him and turned to look at the others in the car. Two of the maids had revealed themselves to be hackers specially trained by the Black family. It seemed his uncle had also believed that one day he would need the help of such people so he had gathered them, from all walks of life, which to him probably meant the prisons. The man was a cheapskate. He couldn't hire professsionals who would get his job done for him, so instead he went to the prisons and got men and women who had been arrested and convicted of various internet crimes .He had bailed them out, paid the men behind the desk eno
Lisa stared at her father and tried to assess the level of damage she had done.She had one hand over her mouth and the other helping her prop that arm up.'"When the heck did my father become ebony haired?""Language Lisa.Lisa rolled her eyes and walked over to go stand near Clay."We did this didn't we?"Clay couldn't help the chuckle that escaped his throat. Somehow he had imagined that Lisa would have more information than he would on what was happening to her father. She had asked him to promise that they would both take the fall for whatever happened and when this happened, he suspected she knew about it. No just knew about it but expected it. He would not have been surprised if Lisa expected this to happen, but it seems she had not. She was just as surprised as he was, or she was now a great actress and she was faking all this, but he could tell there was no talent for acting in Lisa so he was sure it was the first one.Lisa was shocked, the same way he had been and it was fu
"What exactly did Lisa put in to make your hair this color?"Xavier could see Jane was getting distracted already. Her eyes were gleaming as she fingered his lock of hair and he could already see the longing in her.Jane wanted to cut his hair and take it in to be studied. He could proudly say that he had taught Jane as much as he could in the art of detectiving in a science lab. He had taught her how to determine how long a piece of fabric would retain its color if dyed, what mixture of dyes to use and what colors seemed to have an affinity for each other. In part he was a fundamental aspect to the success of Jane's clothing brand and he had felt a bit disappointed when she had abandoned their lab meetings to focus on leading her company, but now he could see that the spark wasn't totally dead yet.She looked at his hair with a clinical eye, from a scientific point of view. Lisa was asleep and he had asked Clay to leave her so she could take the rest she needed. Lisa rarely slept
Clay left Lisa in the room and descended to the lab beneath her to check for himself how her father was doing. Maybe it was because he had been there when the man collapsed or maybe because he had been just as scared when it had all happened, but he had a deep feeling of worry for Mr Frost. There wasn't much for him to do concerning the cure Lisa had administered to her father. She seemed sure of it and it seemed the cure had worked the way she said it would.The ice core had been repaired. By a bunch of black petals. It still surprised him as to how that happened but as long as Lisa's father was out of the danger zone then he would be happy. They were in enough confusion as things stood already and more confusion was not something he wanted for any of them. What he wanted at the moment was to confirm that Lisa's father was okay, and if he was then maybe he could ask if they could run a brain scan on Lisa. She had lapsed off into thought again and it was making him feel a bit scared.
Lisa could feel her heart slam into her chest the moment she heard the question. Her face turned red and she looked away, not because she was ashamed but because she was embarrassed."How the hell can you pop that kind of question on me so casually? Do I look like I have someone on my mind?""You look like you've been hella distracted and when girls are at your age they tend to think of boys twenty four seven. Can you see the reason for my curiosity now?"Lisa rolled her eyes and noticed how close she and Clay were. Closeness between the both of them had never bothered her, Clay was like a brother to her and she was like a sister to him, but he had grown these past few months and she wouldn't say she had failed to notice the changes in herself too. They had both grown a lot and somehow this kind of closeness made her extra aware of that.Everything around them was changing. Not just the climate or global warming, but mostly a lot of the other things, the more important things, the peo