Criminal

--Two houses in The small town in Gorally Valley is completely destroyed in yesterday evening. It all happened at around 8 P.M. when a towns people eye-witnessed the fire as he smelled smoke. He was curious and went ahead to check out the situation. It seemed that the building was in a state of fury fire when the man arrived. Although all the burnable materials seemed to had ran out, the flame goes on. Then the second household nearby collapsed without reason. That's when the witness saw the suspect.

--"He wore a black robe, like something you would have seen out of a movie. He had blue shimmering eyes, so stand out from his clothes despite the dark surroundings and he was touching the broken house! I was so scared I hid in the darker streets, awaiting his departure." the witness said quickly, as though being chased by an infuriated animal. "Then someone broke the silent. It was another woman out of one of the nearby building. She screamed and tried to run. Then the robed-guy zipped through, and I really meant zip! He moves as if he was floating! Like a phantom of doom!" terrified, he continues. "Then the woman was choked and held up mid air, then she was heard no more. The man was still a few steps away from her but she was held up in the mid air! I think he most probably sense my existence... He scanned towards my hiding spot and narrowed his eyes while I quickly hid right after."

--The witness was then brought to the police office to record the tragedy. This news was brought to you by Savery News, good afternoon and have a nice day.

That was out of the blue, He mused. Moments later, Wayne turned the TV to standby mode and pushed himself out of the seat. Troubled, he went to the kitchen to look for his lunch. His mom hasn't been preparing food for him lately, she was with her friends, watching some movies.

"Get the lunch ready for your own, dear. You should have learned how to cook long ago." She had said.

Disappointed again, Wayne left the kitchen and reached for the phone.

*****

"Wild imagination dude!" Fred exclaimed while chewing down his portion of the pizza Wayne ordered.

"Its not really out of ordinary, everyone thought about that when they are a chil-"

"That's the point! You ain't no child anymore so stop that and grow up..." Fred mumbled with his mouthful of food.

"Don't ever say that! being young in spirit is important! If your kind of attitude continues, I'll be calling you Gramps." Wayne screamed, spitting some pieces of bun from his filled mouth. He wiped the crumbs away with his hand and reached for his coke.

"But imagining magic is a part of the world is insane. everything is scientifically proven to be true. There's no such thing as magic anymore. Moreover, witches are all put to death by the time people believe in magic-" Fred takes a breath "and true still that some people still consider magic a part of the spirit world, ghosts as a prove of magic's doing and such stuff, but we live in the modern days dude! It's even better to believe that someone with a high-tech time machine and return to our time to twist the world than-"

Wayne cuts short the chat by a cutting action with his right hand. "Fine, fine you're right. Nothing's magical... Even when your scars never heal at all after the incident and after your dad sends you to that magic shop and it's recovered. Wow, SCIENCE DO WORK MIRACLES..."

"Stop the chat about that incident! I'm just infected by-"

"A virus that is not known by the human kind yet. You've told me that at least a billion kazillion times since I know about that stuff..." Wayne said without thinking, as if it was blurted out by its own.

"Good, since you know that, we'll stop this crap 'bout wizards around the world, spreading chaos and more... What about the project you wanted ta talk ta me 'bout?" Fred reminding the purpose of him being here.

"NO! Totally blank! Nevermind, we'll start now, I gotta pass this up tomorrow, so it must be done ASAP!" Wayne rushed to the stack of paper on his computer desk upstairs.

Added

The 1st post was lengthen by another part and so try to read from the middle line if you missed it before. Thank you.

The Start

'Breakfast!' shouted Wayne's mother.

Hearing that voice told Wayne he was awake and aware of the sound of the surroundings. He pushed himself out of his comfortable bed and got to his feet.

Moving toward his toilet, he replied half-consciously, 'OK,OK, just let me wash my face.'

After he finished his daily hygiene routine and dressed, he walked downstairs for his readied meal. His mother was doing the dishes , probably what his father was having before. The food wasn't especially great, but it suited his taste well.

Mom know me too well for that, he thought.

Finishing, Wayne put the plates aside, thanked his mother and got outside for a early morning exercise. He rode his bike downhill outside the housing area he lived in. A soothing breeze greeted him and lighten his mood up for the upcoming hours. when he reached the foot of the hill, he return in the same way as before, opposing the slight steepness of the hill.

Gosh, he thought. It never is so hard to ride back up isn't it? Maybe I should visit the gym later.

When he stopped to catch his breath again, a slight screech approached him. It came from above and it sounded metallic. Looking up, Wayne found only a lone lamp post and trees.

Those can't have made that metallic noise, he mused. When he was about to give up, the screech came again.

I could swear that came from above, in the direction of that lamp post, but what could it be? He assumed.

After awhile, he grew bored of it and continued back home. A bath was what he wanted the most after a nice exercise. He took his time in the bathroom to rethink about the shriek he heard from the lamp post. He did not even mix the soap well on his skin before washing it off, clearly still musing about it.

When he exited the bathroom, Wayne heard a slight rustle coming from the drawer of his wardrobe. Those drawer weren't used because of their situation near the ceiling, making it impossible to reach without the aid of a chair. He took a chair in his room and reached for the drawer above. Then he found nothing but dust gathered for at least some years judging on the thickness of it, not even a foot step of a cockroach or rat can be seen.

Looks like something grand is about to happen in my life, finally! His heart exclaimed.

* * * * *

Life past on as usual, until he visited Wayne few days after.

'It was holiday, man, cheer up. I'm here to have fun, not looking at your gloomy face all day so, come on, let's get some one-on-one practice, whatcha say?' Fred called on to Wayne while he entered only seeing Wayne staring through the window.

'What?' He replied a moment later, 'I was only thinking about -'

'Not having a girl friend, not studying well enough, sleepless days, boring holidays and what more? What more can you brag about?' Fred finished for him. He sat down and help himself to a cup of tea from the messy dining table of Fred's doing. Clearly, he had not start his cleaning work his mom wanted him daily, although its only afternoon.

'Not those, its...its...argh...How do I put it?' Wayne claimed. 'Its something that happened to me the other day, weird things like -'

'Ya finally started? The maturing? Finally!' He said exhilaratingly. 'You are already 15 and we thought you will never grow! Buddy, you will soon think of yourself as a teenager and enter a new world, full of fantasies, future and linger no more to your childhood. Then yo -'

'Stop cutting me off like that! That's rude you know? Didn't we have that moral lessons together and when you halted the teacher's lecture and start about your claim that your parents taught you all these already during home ed and in the end you got scolded? Respect, dude, respect!' Wayne barked out of frustration.

Fred looked down on the floor, moping apologetically. 'I'm sorry, man. I thought what I might say was right so I got straight on, you know me better than anyone does. So this matter must be real serious. Let's hear about it then while we move to the court. Sound good?'

'Yeah, great. Let me get my shoes and the ba -'

Fred got the basket ball and started dribbling toward the gate. 'I got that for ya. Anything else?'

In Wayne's eyes, he could see a flame of excitement sprouted into life as he ran to him and his mouth widen into a grin.

'Let's go then, to the court.' Wayne avowed.

* * * * *

'Is that him?The him?' a tiny, feminine voice asked.

'Yes, it is. Now, we better get goin' and tell our boss 'bout it ya?' said another boy hastily. Their footsteps as silent as possible.

'OK, but I want to confirm it for myself here,' the girlish voice replied and its foot steps faded soon after the voice.

'Aww c'mon, we ain't got whole day ya know? Can't cha just believe me for once and get workin already?'

'Fine, get working, and confirmation comes after, OK?'

The male hesitated, 'Deal.'