The day was cloudy and dark. It was soon going to rain. Under those clouds a man in black hoodie, hiding his face and wearing all black was running towards the walls from the market. Carrying his disguise along with himself, he stops and stands in front of an old lonely house. The house had patches on walls and a broken door to match the broken ceilling. He stood at that broken door holding that rusty door handle, looking around and when he believes that no one is looking, he opens the door and enters the house. He enters inside and takes off his hoodie revealing his face. He had that glowing red eyes and white hairs to compliment them. He walks to the telephone that was supposedly the only clean thing at that place. He dials a number and sits on the chair next to him. After 2 rings a lady picks up the call and exclaims,
"Moody restores. you break; we fix. How may I help you?"
The man replies with a deep voice and serious tone,
"It's Robin, tell the boss the sea is stirring!"
The lady asks in a sarcastic way,
"Is it now?"
Robin replies in the same serious tone,
"I am not answerable to you!"
And he cuts the call.
Robin stands up and lies on his bed looking at the celling when the phone suddenly rings again. He stands up and reaches for the phone and as soon as he picks it up the same lady speaks up,
"Boss asked few questions."
Robin asks her,
"Which are?"
The lady replies after taking a deep breath,
"Who? Who? Why? When? Where?"
Robin heard the questions waited for a moment to think and with a long deep breath he proceeds to answer,
"46-46E, the Keats… specifically Richard Keats, I don't know why but if it's 46E it's not safe, it happened yesterday; at the market and Keats house- oh and also the death of Krustine Yamal is somehow linked to it."
The lady's behaviour suddenly changed. She did not sound all so sarcastic and funny anymore. With the new tense voice, she says,
"I will let the boss know this and you go keep check on the boy and 46E; if anything happens just call me!"
She hung up. Robin stands up and wears up his hoodie and he asks himself one last question "why leave that small boy alive? What are you up to 46E?" and goes out of that house.
On the other hand, in the market Richard was moving place to place asking for something to eat. He looked so tired and was moving like a zombie with no brain. He stops in front of a fruits shop and asks the shopkeeper,
"Can I have something to eat mister?"
The shopkeeper looks at Richard and asks,
"How much money do you have boy?"
Richard looks down and without uttering a word, he nods to shopkeeper.
Shopkeeper looks at him in a disgusted way and exclaims,
"I don't have anything for you boy!"
Richard starts taking deep breaths and suddenly looks up and starts screaming and the whole market was confused at the scene. Suddenly Richard stepped forward picked up an apple and ran away. The shopkeeper was shocked and he shouts
"Stop him! He's a thief! Stop him!"
The police men heard the cry and ran to catch Richard. Richard was using all his left-up energy to escape the scene. He was running when suddenly he saw the road was ending. He noticed a very slim and dark alley at the end of the road on a right turn. He ran towards the wall straight and suddenly took a right turn. It was easy for Richard because he weighed less but the police officers were not the same so they missed the turn and had to take their steps back and then turn to the right. The officers were hardly able to move in that alley but Richard on the other hand, was moving fast and running making his distance from the officers. He thought he would get away easily. He saw light from another end of the alley. He looks down and gives it his full. He bursts out of the alley and as he was going to smell freedom, he crashed into a police officer standing just in front of the alley. Behind the officer was a cart. Police officer catches Richard and picks him up from his collar. Suddenly the carts door opens and a man walks out of it and suddenly the police officer kept Richard down and when he looked at the man he had than stunned and disgusted expression on his face. It was the Angel. The Angel walked up to Richard, bent a little on his knees and spoke,
"Oh, poor boy, what a pity it is to be you at this very moment."
Richard with that disgusted expression looks at angel but rejects the option to answer him in any way. Angel looks at him and speaks again,
"See boy, I'm sorry for what I did… I didn't mean it; it's just that I-I sometimes forget who I am. So, I have decided to help you at this point of your life."
He stands up straight looks up and in a very emotional voice says,
"I want to repay for what I did to you."
The Angel bends again and looks at Richard. Richards eyes felt a little numb to look at. Richard looks at Angel and in a very emotional and low voice asks,
"Really?"
Angel looks at the boy and exclaims,
"yes"
Richard looks down and says,
"well-"
Angel looks at him with more excitement.
"Well, I-umm"
Angel comes a little closer.
"Well, I don't trust you even a bit!"
Richard shouts out and throws an apple on Angel's face.
Angel already disgusted from what Richard just did stands up straight, takes a deep breath and with an awful look at his face he orders the police officer to catch him. Richard looks at the gesture and turns back to runaway but police officer throws a dart at him and as soon as it touches Richard, he starts feeling dizzy and suddenly faints while running.
Robin was looking at it all and after Richard fainted, he ran from the market.
In a big dark room filled with massive machinery, the door opens with a loud sound of hydraulics. The Angel enters the room with a scientist wearing long white coat. Behind them was the police officer holding poor Richard in his arms. Angel turns towards scientist and asks him in a serious tone,
"Will it work just the way you said it would?"
"Yes sir, it will, it will attach itself to the boy's spine and open up his muscles and pack them to the very limit of the human body. He will have inhuman strength and remain the same size as he is now. I just want you to sit in other room and observe it from a far."
The scientist ensures Angel and angel leaves the room and goes to the observation room. Observation room had a big wall made of glass to look into the main room. Angel stood their looking at scientist's work.
The scientist gestures the police officer to keep the boy onto the bed surrounded by all type of shady machines around it. The police officer does the same and stood there at the gate. Scientist looks at officer and while working on the big computer in front of him,
He asks,
"Do you have children?"
"Yes-sir"
The police officer replies confused.
"And a lovely wife too?" The scientist asks him again.
"I certainly do sir… why?" officer replies and asks still confused.
Scientist turns towards him and speaks
"Well, I don't think you want to see them again."
And points towards the door with his eyes. Police officer understands and leaves the room.
Scientist walks to Richard and picks up the syringe from the table besides him, fills it up with a purple liquid and turns towards Richard. Holds his head and moves his hair to a side. Using his other hand, he holds the syringe and injects it in the only nerve visible on Richard's forehead.
"Brain temporarily disconnected!" scientist shouts to let Angel know about it.
He proceeds towards next step and reaches his computer and turns a lever. The machine turns the boy upside down with a hydraulic hand. He proceeds to next step with a tension on his face. He uses a round ball to navigate the computer and makes a precise cut on the spine of the boy. And then he carefully takes it out using the mechanical hand. After the removal, he carefully replaces it with an artificial spinal code made of titanium. Once the artificial code was placed, he takes a deep breath and shouts'
"50 percent of the work is done, once its completed 100% the spine will release chemicals and he will become strong. Now we need to wait for his body to adapt to the spine!"
He turns towards the computer. Angel was still looking at the boy. Scientist presses a button on the computer and at the very next moment a big explosion takes place and the wall of the room was blown. Through the curtain of smoke came Robin, the phone lady and the boss. The phone lady was standing still with a gun in her hand. She was a slim lady and had white skin and glowing red cheeks. Boss on the other hand, was a tough guy, 6 feet tall, neither too bulky but nor skinny but a perfectly built man with only one eye, carrying a long sword with him. The blast was so loud that it woke Richard up. He was awake but was not able to move at all. Richard was looking at the scene when the Angel suddenly jumps in the room and starts clapping.
"A fabulous entry, as always; Fedrick!" the Angel states to the boss while clapping.
"Well, thanks for the compliment, Marton!" Fedrick exclaims with a deep voice and looking at Marton he states,
"I am here for the boy, hand him to me and remember, no funny business!"
"of course you are here for him, of course; but you are a little late, but nothing new for you, right?" Marton speaks smiling.
The words did hurt Fedrick and it was visible from his face. Marton notices the expressions on Fedrick's face and asks in a teasing way,
"Does it still hurt darling?"
"Huh?... oh, no, no, my eye does not hurt anymore." Fedrick replies.
"No, no, no dear, I am talking about your delicate feelings… do they still hurt?" Marton asks again smiling and teasing Fedrick.
"You are asking for it!" Fedrick replies with a very deep and serious tone.
The tension in the room was very high. The calm before the storm could be felt by everyone. That is when Marton speaks up,
"Oh, the poor girl she was…"
Hearing these words, Fedrick lost it and charged towards Marton.
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