“WHAATTT?????” the speaker almost breaks from the scream at the other side.
Uvall winces. “They got away”
“HOW????”
“I underestimated him. It appears that some of his skills have come back.”
“HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN??? He was just a mindless drone a couple of days ago. What the f$%^# is going on??”
“I don’t know, sir.”
“It’s going to be hard to find him now. He ditches the laptop and his cell phone. That search on Jenna Dayton was our only clue. Now it will be easier to find vodka among a million bottles of water“
“We’ll find them, boss”
“I find your words of comfort are nothing but trash, vermin…You are lucky that I am not sending you the darkest corner of Tartarus and keep you there. I still can use you…for now….”
Uvall is silent, he looks down. One might wonder what kind of power that can make even the big bad demon cowers like a scared little puppy.
“Now what?” Uvall dares himself to look up.
“Now we call for back up. Release the hellhounds.”
~Κ~
Vincent is still running like the wind, carrying Jenna. Jenna asks “Are we safe yet?”
Vincent comes to a halt. “I think we are far enough” He stops, and lets Jenna down from his back.
When they notice their surrounding, they’re already several miles outside Berkeley.
Jenna is shocked. “Is this Emeryville?” She can see Emeryville Marina a distance away.
“I guess it is. I am never good with directions and maps”
Jenna is still amazed and scared at the same time. She’s trying to make sense of things. When she comes to, she frantically asks him. Her questions come out like an M-16. “Who are you, really? How do you find me? Are you some kind of freak lab rat or something? You just ran at least four miles and don’t even break a sweat!! This is insane…this is insane… ” Jenna is pacing around while ranting and biting her nails.
“Calm down…”
“Calm down??? CALM DOWN??? A behemoth was trying to kill me in my own apartment!! My place is completely destroyed!! I don’t have a place to live….I don’t have a place to live!!!! “
Vincent holds her and hugs her, whispers “Calm down…” Jenna’s breathe is still erratic, until she finally comes to a normal breathing. Vincent lets her go.
“Better now?” Jenna nods. “Good”
Vincent thinks “If this is how she reacts to things…I wonder how I’m going to tell her that I killed her mentor.”
Vincent starts “It started a couple of days ago. I woke up in an apartment and don’t even know my name. I don’t even know why I’m here. And then things begin to get messy too fast too soon.”
“I see.” Jenna’s nodding. “So you have amnesia?”
“I guess so. And then I met Benjamin Rabinowitz, and he asked me to find you as he knows that his life is in danger.” Vincent tries to ease into the hard topic before telling her the truth.
“You MET him??? You’re the last person that saw him alive??? “
“Yes. He called me a weird name though..Zeriel?”
“Zer….you mean Zuriel ?”
“Perhaps”
“YOU’RE Zuriel ?? Wow….I guess he finally found you..”
“Found me?”
“Yes. He and the Temple Guardians have been trying to find you for years…wait..do you see him again afterwards ?”
“No..that’s the last time I saw him…...well, he had the blue Manna Crystal with him. He gave it to me. When I accidentally hit my head with it, it exploded. And I began to gain skills and blurred memories of someone else’s life. Most probably mine?“
“I see…” Jenna is thinking hard. “Manna crystal huh…” Then she reopens her letter that she puts in her pocket. She reads a part of Ben’s letter that says:
We need to gather the other pieces of Manna Crystals to retrieve his full memory. This is very important, as without his full memory we won’t be able to locate the exact location of the scroll of end of days.
Jenna thinks hard. “Can we get to a place to stay the night first? There are some things I need to read on the book of angels”
Vincent says “Okay. There’s something else I need to tell you.”
Jenna looks at him “What is it?”
Vincent hesitates, and changes his mind about telling her “Nothing.”
Jenna shrugs. “Okay then. Let’s get to the nearest Inn. Shall we?”
Vincent carries her on his back again, and dashes towards downtown Emeryville under the moonlit night.
~Κ~
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