Gather your best men, we're heading to the superior national forest in Minnesota! ", the instruction came from the chief of police as the officers ran Helter skelter to their cars and swat vans while the chief hurried through the hallway as he assured Daryl that his son will be found alongside his friends.
Meanwhile,flora had decided to call Alan's other friends to inform them about the situation on ground. " Okay, ", flora said, wiping a tear off her face as she scrolled through her contacts. " Alex, Luna, Jason, who should i call first.... ", flora thought to herself as a voice came from behind her.
" Flora, what happened? ", the voice asked as flora turned back to see Jane clearly worried with xavier folding his arms and looking at flora with a blank expression while Jane rushed towards flora who started to sob as a fresh wave of tears streaked down her face and hugged her, both girls sobbing as their brothers were missing, meanwhile Xavier exchanged wary glances with Diana who walked up to him, pulled out two lollipops and handed him one, then stood on her toes, while softly saying in his ear...
" Unless this is another scheme, Alan doesn't get lost that easily, trust me on this, unless something took him away ", she said, not realizing she shuddered at that thought.
" Alright, let's go! ", the chief of police said as he entered his Toyota RAV4 and drove behind Daryl as they tracked Jimmy's location in the superior national forest.
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" That human, posseses talent superior to some demigods! ", a goddess said as others complimented her statement after seeing him assemble a tracking device from scratch materials he found in the Chevrolet's trunk and using a sample of Alan's blood, tried to find his location.
" We cannot allow this talent to waste here in the mortal realm.", a god with a monocle and white hair and a long beard with golden eyes said as everyone was shocked by his appearance.
" H-hephaestus!!! ", medusa gasped as she saw a legend that stayed in his crafting room in Olympus for millenia unknown, suddenly emerging as he saw Jimmy craft a device from scratch. " His creation talent is unmatched in the human realm, it would be best if he escaped the shackles limiting humankind!!!", Hephaestus said, stroking his beard while squinting with his monocle. " Bring him to our realm!!! ", he said once more as the portal sparked into existence with an otherworldly glow, the gloom seeping out of the portal frame while phasing through walls and reality as it closed in on Jimmy who took out his phone and typed down a note in his memo, then stood up abruptly prior to his discovery from the strange device the whereabout of Alan, then he left the area and headed for the hole like crevice which emitted a strange light, not knowing that the portal swirled in his direction slowly but carefully to avoid been seen.
---------- A few moments later--------------------
They all arrived at the scene with sirens blaring and swat officers pointing their guns at every corner, slowly scanning the area while the chief of police, Daryl, Leilah, Flora, Jane, Diana, and Xavier headed to the Chevrolet with hopes of seeing Jimmy.
" Big bro, we're here, you're safe now ", flora said as she waited for a reply from the tinted windows of the Chevrolet Camaro. " Honey, mom's here, you can come out now ", Leilah said as she was getting worried by the second while the chilling silence hung over the air. A few seconds passed, a minute passed, still no response as Daryl hit the tinted glass with so much force it cracked much to everyone's surprise, dislocating his thumb and index with some shards penetrating his palm as lines of blood streaked down, but the pain was dulled by an even greater pain...Losing his two sons!!!.
A loud cry tore from Leilah's lips as she pounded the car's window while flora and Jane slowly wept alongside her, Xavier, who initially pretended not to care, didn't notice when tears flowed down his eyes while Aaron flashed through his mind....
" We came as fast as we...could.....", said a female voice as a girl of height 6ft 1in, pure black hair, brown eyes, putting on a black turtleneck sweater and blue jeans with a pair of white sneakers, about 15 years of age with curves identical to that of an 18 year old, a real beauty as boys gawked at her countless times during both middle and her current highschool years. Some even thought she was being groomed to be a supermodel, which obviously made them gawk more at her, increasing her sense of security to avoid assault of any kind.
" Hey Luna, how's it going? ", Diana asked, casually flashing a brief smile at her then ceasing back into a neutral face as she disappeared into the crowd, without even giving her a chance to reply. Flora heard Luna's voice and spotted her in the mini crowd and waved at her, motioning her to come.
Upon coming closer, Luna saw Flora's teary eyes and rushed there only to see more teary faces while aside from the police checking the area, this part had a chilling silence as no one had the emotional stability to say anything, while two other figures emerged from the distance, flora instantly recognizing Jason and Ava, the two siblings who were as close to Alan as Aaron and Ricky....
Jason would have initially followed them on the trip, but was in Iowa while the camping was in Minnesota, making it impossible for him to go unnoticed, which actually saved him. Ava on the other hand, was Alan's girlfriend as they had been BFs since kindergarten and their companionship increased beyond just friends when they entered their second year of middle school and it became official when they entered highschool.
Ava had sparkly eyes with a blue tint,her long brown hair reaching elbow length,putting on a dark blue jacket with white stripes and a black shirt inside with a dark blue denim miniskirt and black leggings accompanied by black boots. Standing at 5ft 11in, the 15 year old rushed towards flora after hearing the news. Her brother Jason stared at Xavier who barely paid any attention to him and focused on the police as they sealed the area with their infamous yellow tape " crime scene do not cross ".
Jason was pretty much the average American kid, standing at 6ft 1.5in, the 16 year old was younger than Alan and Aaron, while sharing the same birthday date with Jimmy, enrolled in a private boarding school in Iowa, and was doing pretty well for a newbie. During holidays, he'd come to Alan's house to meet Aaron and Ricky there, who in return taught him basic and advanced self defense skills Incase he encountered bullies as he was a huge victim during middle school...
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The news hit him like a bang when he heard about his friends going missing, so he rushed to his car and drove to Minnesota all the way from lowa with Ava and Luna who tagged along as she came to visit Ava for a study session when they got notified about the incident.
------- a few hours later----------------
The chief of police met with the gathering of more family friends and relatives of both the Harrisons, Alan's family and Ava's family too, it was basically a crowd as more and more people flocked to the scene.
" So...any news regarding my son.....s ", Daryl said, tears flowing from his eyes as they met with the chief's worried eyes. " I'm sorry chief, all we found was a boy's body apparently sliced in half due to some kind of sharp burning blade or so, with an unknown degree of burn marks, of which the scan identified as Ricky Turner.....", the chief said as everyone gasped in shock.
"Sliced, in half, what could possibly be sharp enough to slice someone in half?", a family friend asked another woman who equally gasped as there was indistinct chattering among the crowd while Daryl cut the chief off during his explanation. " So there were no signs of my son's at all or Harrison's kid? ", he asked in anger as the chief unknowingly stepped back as if Daryl could pounce on him at any moment considering his mood.
Then coincidentally, Jimmy's phone rang from inside the car as everyone flinched as they least expected that to happen. Then Daryl pulled out a key from his pocket. "I had spare keys... Just in case.", he said unconsciously, answering the question before it came. Then he opened the car and he saw a memo and a blueprint indicating that Jimmy had built something earlier, then he picked up Jimmy's phone and showed Leilah. But surprisingly Leilah snatched Jimmy's phone from Daryl's hand as if it were a relic, and suddenly her eyes became teary once more as she saw the contents of the memo...