A loud bang captured the curiosity of the readers within the walls of the library as its doors swung open with reckless abandon, shaking the very roots of the building.Surprise enveloped the faces of all the eyes that anticipated the culprits’ entrance as the figures of Doctors Hiro and Haishi Aang emerged. The Doctors scanned through the corners of the library with their eyes as they walked forward with urgency.“He is not here.” Doctor Hiro mentioned as his eyes almost completed a three-sixty-degree full turn around his head.“Where could he be? We were assured he would be here.” Doctor Haishi Aang responded with a slight aggression in his voice.“There he is.” Doctor Haishi shuffled backward as Doctor Hiro’s words halted his footsteps in motion. They both walked hurriedly into the private room in which Master Yonda meditated. They exchanged glances as if to communicate each other’s uncertainty about how to break the master’s meditation.“Your child is in pain.” Doctor Hiro loosen
“Look at my medal Mom. Mom, look!!!” “I’m driving baby, I can’t look.” Kakashi’s mom replied, looking at the reflection of her son through the rearview mirror. “Look out!” Kakashi’s dad sounded a warning, but it was too late as the car collided forcefully with heavy rocks placed on the road. The car was on its side as the tyres spun non-stop. Kakashi who had run after the car, ran towards the car seats to open them. His strength was more than it was a few years back, but he still wasn’t strong enough to open the doors. “Arrrrrrrrrrgh!” One would think his voice was the force necessary to pull the doors out. “You did this.” Kakashi jumped in fear as his mother’s face suddenly banged on the windshield with a twisted neck to suit the position of her face, looking directly at him. Blood trickled down from her head and covered her face as her hands glued to the windshield for a few seconds. Kakashi tightly closed his eyes, letting out his held breath. He opened them a few minutes lat
Doctor Hiro felt the nerves buzz through his body like a wave of electric current. He didn’t lie to the Master, but he wasn’t truthful either. Doctor Haishi had undermined the supreme authority of the Master by going out to look for Oz, even if it was for a good cause. That would usually attract a heavy penalty. “Maybe he will be merciful. After all, he changed his mind later.” Doctor Hiro conversed with himself.“Sir, sir?” A nurse intensified her calls on Doctor Hiro.“What is the problem?” Hiro’s tone is unappreciative of the disturbance to his self-consultation. “I think you need to see this.” The nurse led the way after her last words, urgency in her footsteps. Doctor Hiro got the message as he ate up the distance between them with three giant strides.They got to the beds and the nurse pointed at something... or was it someone? “Hello?” The doctor called out from a safe distance. His neck stretched to give his eyes a clearer view of the figure away from him. “Hello?”“I can h
“H—ho... how?” Doctor Hiro expressed his shock, the magic he had just witnessed left his eyes doubting the untruth he had just seen. Speechless, he looked on as Kakashi sat up, catching his breath and the reality of his environment. “Oh God, another place. Where am I?” Kakashi groaned as he dropped his head into his palms, trying to rub the banging headache he felt away.“Can you feel your head?” Doctor Hiro peered at Kakashi, walking closer to his bed. He held his forefinger and middle finger up to test his vision as well.“Two. And yes, I’m fine.” Kakashi answered.The doctor stepped back a bit and questioned the stranger with his looks. Kakashi looked around after a quick relief from the head-splitting aching he felt. “You. You. I recognize you. You were there, weren’t you?” Kakashi fixed his gaze on the stranger.“There? Where? You were somewhere? Where? Were you with others? Alone? Did you see Doctor Haishi?” “Argh” Kakashi’s groan signaled the revival of the headache and this
“You don’t know him?” “What did you say?” Doctor Hiro couldn’t hear the below whisper tone Kakashi mimed at him.“You... really... do... not... know... him?” Kakashi said each word like a sentence with the same tone as his face moved closer to Doctor Hiro’s, and his finger pointed at the floating object for more clarity.“No, I don’t. You think I said I didn’t know him just for what? Because I’ve always wanted to meet a frightening stranger who happens to be a healer and also an incredible fighter with no blood in his veins?” Doctor Hiro swore under his breath as the last part slipped out. “He has no blood in his veins? You two fought?” Kakashi queried further.“We didn’t fight. Well, not really.” Doctor Hiro responded, his eyes searching his head for answers. “Not really? He has no blood too? Did you cut him to realize that while you tried to fight him he still overcame you with no effort?” Kakashi wasn’t letting this conversation slip away. He moved closer to the doctor. “You s
“I am so so sorry,” Kakashi spoke through Jay’s shoulders. “It’s fine. I’ve forgiven you.” Jay replied.“Thank you, Jay, thank you.” Kakashi let Jay go as they broke off the hug, smiles creeping up their faces. “Kakashi! You might want to see this.” Doctor Hiro’s voice alerted Kakashi. Kakashi rued the interruption. He was having a moment with Jay, and the last thing he wanted was for this – an interruption, but the urgency in the voice of Doctor Hiro was too much to ignore. He walked quickly with Jay behind as they got to where the doctor was. Doctor Hiro was fighting his hands into the fitting of the gloves, his nose mask already in place. “Shouldn’t we not disturb them?” Kakashi halted the hands of Doctor Hiro.“He said we shouldn’t disturb him, not them.” Doctor Hiro said, still hesitant about whether or not to continue what he wanted to. “Ah aah!” Jay let out a scream as he saw the man floating above them, across the beds. “Shh” Kakashi and Doctor Hiro uniformly hissed
The crashing of some things on the floor shifted focus to Zoa. Her vomit covered the floor as her still-bent posture meant one thing; there was more to come. Jay and Kakashi helped the doctor get supplies to clean the vomit. The doctor wanted no nurse to be part of what was happening. He couldn’t do it alone but he didn’t need more people overwhelming him. “You guys, look,” Jay called the attention of Kakashi and Doctor Hiro. Zoa was ill but she joined to lookThe chaos energy that was dwindling had turned into a mini globe movie. The energy was fizzing out into different situations and environments, creating a look-alike reality of those places. The stranger was still floating, his legs still tucked within each other.“He saved me.” A voice from behind got them to turn around in its direction.It was Zoa’s first words since she woke up to consciousness. Her pink hair wasn’t as pretty as when her skin wasn’t blue, but it stood out more than ever. Sh-she stood out more than ever.“H
Jay walked up to him and held him tightly in a warm embrace. He didn’t say anything, he didn’t know what to say. He didn’t need to say anything as his embrace communicated all he would have wanted to. After a while, Kakashi finished sobbing and let himself out of the hug. He wiped his eyes with the back of his arms. He aimed to continue the story. “You know you don’t have to do this, right?” Jay didn’t think it was necessary to continue what he had been through. Having to relive a day, such day, again. Phew... he couldn’t imagine the mental fortitude Kakashi possessed to even agree to narrate the ordeal so early.Kakashi wiped his face with his palms. He called back the slimy liquid trying to exit his nostrils. He cleared his throat, then continued. “The whole environment suddenly changed to a pitch-black, windy one. Thunderstorms rained amid the tornadoes and hurricanes. I watched them grow up, literally, from the ground up. They were just winds, then they became whirlwinds...” Ka