MVS 205
The room was slowly heating up as the flame started to spread from one piece of furniture to the next. Soon the entire room would be engulfed.
Peter had already left the room carrying Erin over his shoulder. He followed Logan’s instruction telling him where to go making sure to avoid the hallway where Quinn and Kenny were fighting right now. The directions he was giving them were to his own room. Right now, it was the safest place he could think of.
Unlike the other rooms that had routine check-ups now and then, Logan’s room was different. It was off limits most of the time. This was a special request he made because of the number of different inventions he contained in there. Afraid at any point and time someone would come in and possibly take on of his ideas for profit.
At this point, the smoke had hit the detectors above, and the sprinklers had been activated. However, the flames were too strong to completely get rid of the fire. It could only slow them down for now.
Looking around the room, Jack before could only see the students who were asleep in their chairs and was wondering what had caused the fire. However, when the sprinklers had turned on, the drops of water bouncing off Raten formed a slight outline to be seen.
Raten had currently had not only the abilities of fire, but of invisibility as well.
The strange shape that Jack could see was standing right in front of him, if it wasn’t for this, he would have made a dash for the door.
Raten had made the suggestion to kill Jack, but Vorden knew this wasn’t an option. The simple reason was the balance of the current world right now. If Truedream were to die, it would go back to what it was like straight after the war.
When the war had ended, Earth was a mess. Ruined cities, the low population of animals and a lot of the land had sunken into the sea. The whole human race had been struck with poverty. Only there was a big difference now, they had powers.
This caused more infighting to happen than ever, and there was no control put in place. Eventually, the rise of the three families had come to create some type of order. But the relationship between the three of them wasn’t the best either, and the fighting continued.
The military had power, but they weren’t strong enough. They would have many people switching sides between them and the three families. That’s why when Truedream had come to them seeking support, it was a blessing. It was someone the military could use to keep everyone in place, and it was why the current system had been put in the first place.
If Truedream was to be taken out of the picture, the military power would weaken, and the power balance would be upset, leading to another civil war. But that wasn’t what worried Vorden the most. Civil wars happened, and in the end, there would often be a result.
The problem was if the Dalki was to see this. If the humans were fighting each other, they would come to invade as soon as possible.
For the sake of the current human race, Truedream was someone who needed to live, no matter how evil of a person he was.
Vorden tried his best to explain this to Raten, but right now he didn’t care he was in charge.
"I disagree," Raten said. "If the human race can’t survive without one person, then maybe we shouldn’t be alive in the first place." Raten had set his hand ablaze and threw a punch right towards Jack.
All Jack could see right now was a floating arm of fire. He tried his best to move out of the way, but the attack was clearly too fast.
As his hand full of flames was about to hit, a slight reflection could be seen in front of Jack. "What the..." His hand had touched the reflection, and it felt like he was hitting a solid wall. A mysterious force then moved from the point where he had hit, and it seemed to bounce off right back at Raten.
"Hugo?" Jack said. As he turned his head, the large guard, wielding the two-handed axe had entered the room. "Well, we know someone is getting a raise."
"Damn!" With nothing else left to do, Raten quickly headed for the corridor. He didn’t know Hugo’s ability nor how strong he was. He loved fighting but wasn’t crazy enough not to know when his chances were against him.
"Hugo the door!" Jack screamed.
Hugo held out his hand, and another reflection appeared just in front of the door. But it was too late. Jack could see the figure moving through the sprinklers water, and it was clear it was no longer in the room with them.
"Damn it! You were too slow, forget about that Raise let’s get out of here."
As Raten ran down the hallway, he could see Quinn was still busy dealing with the green guard Kenny. "I’m leaving!" He shouted.
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