May Sickness (Chapter 36)

Chapter 36

“Thanks kid.”

“What?” Roy asked.

“I know we said we wouldn’t talk but now it’s just me, so listen! For the past two years that bastard was my partner. Prier to him I would go through team mates like they were nothing, well they were nothing. Then that bastard comes along and I’m told, “If he dies, your next.” by he higher ups, in retrospect I assume that’s why Michael and most Agents go solo now. But I agreed and it was pretty cool. We shared the same interest; you know rape, murder the good stuff. But it’s hard as hell to have fun when you have to look after a weakling, you know.”

Roy looked confused at him. “Are you stronger than that Michael guy?” He asked.

“What difference would it make? I’ll be honest with you… I am, by tens of times.”

“Well then, I guess I’ll put more into killing you.”

“Michael had just brute strength going for him, but even in that category, I’m stronger, and every other way I’m stronger,” Gabriel continued.

“Let’s stop talking now!”

“No let’s talk. Lets talk about that girl of your. Or how you’re trying to kill that kid.”

“What? How do you know that?”

“Good question. We can’t read each others minds but we can look at each others past. Now let’s talk about her, what was her name… oh yeah Nina.” He smiled seeing Roy start to shake. “What a pretty young thing. Do you want to see her? Of course you do.”

Roy glared at Gabriel.

Gabriel held out his hands. “Come on, what kind of lover are you? You should be glad.”

From nothingness came a thousand Nina’s. They covered the street.

“What the fuck are you doing?!” Roy yelled.

“I think this is my favourite.” The Nina’s disappeared all but one, Gabriel put his arm around her. She wore nothing, with no pants or underwear, as how her body was found. “Oops, I’m sorry. She’s missing something isn’t she?”

“Don’t.”

Gabriel made her raise her hands.

“Don’t!” Roy yelled.

On her wrist opened two wounds, though in reality she only had one. Blood flowed from the wounds and flooded the street.

The sight of Roy’s suffering aroused Gabriel.

“Stop it now!” Roy again yelled.

“Stop crying you baby. We’ll continue fighting. Just give me a minute.” The bleeding Nina disappeared, but as Roy looked up he saw something far worst.

There Gabriel stood with Nina’s appearance, the same as the day her and Roy first met.

“Don’t you wish that day would never have ended?”

Roy did not answer.

“Come on man, don’t you love me?”

“You dare insult, mock the image, the memory of someone close to me? Or someone that is no longer with us? Of the woman I love?!”

“I’m still with you see look!” Gabriel joked. “I don’t know… What the hell?!” Gabriel quickly started to panic. He looked down, his stomach had been cut open, his wrist cut, and soon blood ran down his chest, coming from his neck.

Roy approached as Gabriel bled to death. “You have forced me to kill you in a less than climactic way.” Roy spat into Gabriel’s face.

May Sickness (Chapter 35)

Chapter 35

Roy had only ran a block, maybe two, when he sensed something. It made his skin crawl, as if maggots were crawling under his flesh, every now and then taking a bite. A chill ran up his spine, he shivered. What he felt was the desire to kill, to commit unspeakable acts, this feeling radiated off the pavement and buildings. The whole area was like a manifestation of Hell, an evil surrounding everything.

But from the emptiness came a voice, “Wow! Did you see that Gabriel? He killed Michael!” The voice of Raphael echoed through the street. Roy looked around, but saw nothing.

“Yeah Rapha, that was something else.” Replied Gabriel.

“Who’s there?!” Roy yelled, not seeing the two.

Slowly from the ground, like two zombies, theyemerged.

May Sickness (Chapter 34)

Chapter 34

There standing in the middle of the road; arms crossed and as tall as a giant, wearing a clean black suit; and with his face covered in dozens of scars, was Michael. His eyes were fixed on Roy, following him as he ran.

Roy continued to run even after noticing Michael watching him.

“Running away are you?” Michael asked.

Roy stopped as he heard Michael and looked at him. “Why would I be running away? I just have to be somewhere else.” Roy said, trying to be nonchalant.

“Where might that be?” Michael asked as he started to walk toward Roy.

“Not here.” Roy replied, “I’ll be leaving now.”

“Why? What possible reason could you have? You’re just a kid.” Michael continued to walk, he smiled as he spoke.

May Sickness (Chapter 32)

Chapter 32

Roy stepped on the sidewalk directly in front of the school and walked through the crowd of students that stood on the grass.

Soon he was in the court yard, he looked through the many faces, none were Kevin.

“Where’s Kevin!?” He yelled, not particularly to anyone, just to everyone.

Many people answered, but with no consistency.

Roy felt and looked for Kevin. Every inch of the area was in Roy’s vision, but no sign of Kevin. But it was more what he could not see that directed Roy. In a room close to his first hour class was a void. “That’s him!” Roy yelled.

The crowd of kids stared at Roy, all eyes were fixed on him.

And in a split second Roy was gone, vanished in thin air.

“Where did he go?” many people asked.

In the class the teacher stood in front of a black board and was in the middle of a lecture on the Civil War.

In the middle of the room, Roy suddenly appeared. Roy’s eyes instantly found Kevin.

“Who, what…” The teacher started but she was unable to finish.

Time froze and a count down began until others would arrive.

No one in the room moved.

Kevin stood up. “Who the hell are… wait your that guy. But your different.” But his demeanour quickly dissolved. “Do you know what you just did?!” He yelled at Roy.

“What I did! What I did!”

“Why the fuck did you do this?! We’re both fucked!”

“Yeah you are, I’m going to kill you.”

“Why… oh I see so your that whores boyfriend…” He stopped. His eyes widened and he turned his head, on the wall inches from him was a large hole.

“I missed.”

“Shit!” His sentenced ended with Roy’s fist smashing against his facing, jettisoning him through the wall.

Kevin body landed in the grass outside.

Roy jumped down.

“It was just one girl! Is it really worth getting killed over?” Kevin looked at the grass under Roy’s feet, it was turning brown as if the moisture was being squeezed out of it.

“I saw what you did… I saw! The degrading filth…”

“Well it looks like this is it for you. I’ll be leaving if you do survive, look me up, and we’ll finish this.”

“What?”

Kevin raised his hand, a column of dirt flew into Roy’s face.

As he finished removing the soil from his eyes, Roy looked around. Kevin was gone but in his place almost a hundred men and women in black hoods.

“If you are planning anything against me, I would recommend you don’t. It would be in your best interest to just let me be.”

Roy looked through the crowd.

May Sickness (Chapter 33)

Chapter 33

The people in the black hoods slowly circled Roy.

“I’ll tell you again if you value your lives just walk away.” They were quiet, Roy took a deep breath.

They started to rush at Roy, one at a time.

One-by-one they jumped on Roy, twelve in all just, a fraction of the total. Their bodies buried him. He faced the onslaught of knees and elbows.

Roy stood stern and slowly he started to struggle. “Get off me please.” His words penetrated through the envelope of bodies.

The hooded people, as if they were fish being pulled from the water, flew in every direction away from Roy’s body. They landed in various places, but they had little to no injuries. Some lay in the grass, others stuck in trees and a few landed on others.

“It would appear that I’m going to go through all of you.”

Roy made his move, running toward his next target. One ran at him, a taller one of the group, a man. He grabbed at Roy, but was evaded. Roy’s hand slammed on the man’s face, then, with almost lifting him, Roy slammed him against the ground. The grass did little for cushion but was enough to prevent it from being fatal.

Roy paused for a moment, his heart was racing and his body was shaking, but within that moment another hooded man was readying to attack.

He jumped at Roy, but did little good. Roy stopped him with a kick to the stomach. The strike caused the man to fall to the ground and vomit.

Determined to finish the fight, Roy, once again ran at them.

Roy was readying to strike, but stopped. He started to notice something, something that had been clear from the beginning.

A girl he was about to hit looked at him in confusion. She’s just a girl. These are just kids; they can’t be any older than me.

He looked into her eyes, they were a brilliant bright blue, and they conveyed her thoughts as clear as day. They showed confusion and fear. A fear of death and a fear of pain. He looked into them and his body went limp. Roy looked back at the two men he had just dropped. My God, what am I doing?

His arm rose and he placed his hand on the girl’s shoulder, no one made any sort of movement; they just looked at Roy, wondering what he was doing.

Roy raised his other arm, the girl started to quiver in fear, “Don’t worry,” she looked at him, “I’m not going to hurt you.” He snapped his fingers.

Everyone fell to their knees.

“I hope you guys stay down, I don’t want to hurt any of you.” Again he snapped his fingers.

An invisible force slammed down on their bodies, pushing them to the ground. They lay on the ground, all still alive. Roy’s hand was still on her shoulder, she looked around at her companions. She then looked at Roy, she was about to speak, but was stopped. “Don’t worry, you all will be alright.”

He removed his hand from her shoulder; she fell to the ground, the same as the others.

“Please don’t waste your lives.” Roy said as he started to walk away.

“Thank you.” Came a girl’s voice. He looked back, though everyone was on their stomach lying on the ground, he knew who it was.

“Just remember this day.” Roy said, once again walking away.

Roy walked in the direction that he believed Kevin to be. Within a few blocks he had started to run; but even though he did not know it, another obstacle stood in his way. Far more dangerous than the previous, Roy was oblivious to it.

May Sickness (Chapter 31)

Chapter 31

“See you when I get home Roy.” Roy’s mother said as she walked out the door.

A feeling shot through him, forcing him to say. “Mom, I love you.” Roy was confused as to why he said it, but it felt right.

“Love you too.” She smiled at him.

“Bye, mom.”

“Bye.”

She shut the door behind her.

Roy walked to the bathroom.

Roy looked in the mirror, still he was not used to his newly acquired appearance. He smiled thinking of Nina’s words.

May Sickness (Chapter 30)

Chapter 30

The alarm went off, waking Nina with a loud persistent beeping and a muffled static.

She awoke with a deep gasp of air and with a mixture of confusion and surprise, she looked around her room.

“Roy?” She expected him to be there.

A pain shot through her hand, she looked down, there was a blood stain on the blanket, and on the index finger she had a cut, like the dream, a shallow gash.

“It was real… it was real!” She yelled both in happiness and terror.

She got out of bed and quickly got dressed.

Knock, knock!

Nina’s mother opened the door.

“Nina, Kevin’s here.”

Fear shot through Nina, nervously she replied, “Okay, let him in.”

Kevin walked into the room, Nina’s mother stayed in the doorway.

Kevin stared at Nina, as if inspecting her.

“What a shame.” He shook his head. “Go take a nap.” He directed Nina’s mother, adding, “I was never here and you have never seen me.”

Nina’s mother walked away, Kevin shut the door.

“What are you doing?” Nina asked.

Kevin walked toward her, she stepped back with each of his steps forward. “You seem different, why?”

“What makes you think that?” She continued to stop backward. Her back hit a wall.

Kevin put his hand on the wall, next to her head, and with a sadistic smile said, “Let's have some fun.”

Nina panicked, “Help, someone help! Please help!” But her yelling turned to a whisper, “Roy help.”

“What was that? I don’t think he’s coming and if he did what would he do? No one can hear you and no one can help you.” He smiled feeling pleasure from the torture.

Nina could not move her body she tried to speak, but no words came out. Tears ran down her cheek.

Kevin squeezed her cheeks together and kissed her. “Yeah, we’re going to have some fun.”

The only thing she thought of was Roy. Roy please help me.