Bottle of Stories (44)

"Do you remember what I said?" Rey asked.

Annie is confused. "What is it?"

"I will defend you." Rey boasted.

Annie's memories returned to her. The days when Rey defended her from the people who hurt her.

She realized from those days that Rey saved her, she doesn't need to worry. Because he always proved that his words are true.

"Unless if it's dark," Rey said.

or not.

"Where's Jayson?" He asked.

They looked around. They didn't saw Jayson.

Rey comes close to the door and Annie followed him. He holds Annie's hand and opened the door.

What they saw is Jayson walking towards the left.

"You just suddenly vanished," Rey said.

"Shh. Look at the other side," Jayson said.

They obeyed Jayson's command.

Rey and Annie looked. They saw the two standing at the end of the hallway. Annie noticed the gun that the man was holding.

"GU—" Rey covered her mouth before she can speak. If they make a noise, the two will notice them.

"Be quiet so we can hear them," Rey said.

Annie decided to not look and only listen. However, Rey decided to watch what's happening.

"Do you know why your friend left you? I mean your creator?" Rey and Annie are both confused.

Creator? God? No, it's far from that. Rey thought.

Creator? Did her friend create him to be called creator? Annie thought.

"You can't answer because you don't know. Or maybe, you are finding the answer on the internet?"

Rey scratched his head. She doesn't even hold a phone.

Maybe, she's a... No, it can't be. Annie cut her thoughts.

"As your friend, I will tell you.

"You're the type of person who will do anything that people tell you.

"So what you said earlier, I think, you only blame others the things that you did."

Earlier? There is a lot of lives that are sacrificed to improve me. The lives that are wasted because of your greed. So I'm here to give justice to their deaths. That means she killed someone? Or she is the reason why they died? No. She can't. Rey thought.

What did she say earlier? I should ask Rey. Annie thought.

"You did it to me. It's not far that you did the same to your former 'friends'.

"You're creator realized that this will happen. That's why he/she abandoned you.

"You're just lucky someone adopts you.

"Those people you want to give justice, they died because of you. If you didn't exist, all of this will not happen.

"You are the one who needs to disappear."

"That's too much," Annie whispered.

Rey didn't respond. I still don't get what's going on. Is the guy did the gunshot earlier? Why does Zhein look more guilty? She doesn't even answer? He thought.

"He gave his gun to Zhein," he whispered back.

Annie is so surprised that she almost shouted "what". She looked again so she can see what's happening.

Justine raised him both hands that symbolize "surrender". He knew that two guns are pointing at him in both directions.

Zhein did not move even Justine is smiling at her.

Tap tap tap tap

The sound from Jayson's shoes as he runs towards the guy who holds a gun. The guy turned around.

"Ugh!" He cried as Jayson gave a solid uppercut on him.

It caught the attention of Justine, Zhein, and the guy who also holds a gun.

The guy didn't lose his balance from the impact. He kicked Jayson as a counter-attack.

Jayson flew and bumped the wall.

The other one who holds a gun talked. "Don't underestimate my comrade."

Jayson kneeled. He took something from his pocket. A nail cutter.

The guy pointed his gun at him.

The nail cutter's small knife at its back was ready. Jayson used his powers to strengthen it. So when he struck the gun, it split into two.

"And don't underestimate my companion," Justine said. He walks closer to the guy while his hands are still static. "What? Don't tell me your gun is fake."

BANG!

Justine kicked the gun of the guy so the one that gets shot in the ceiling.

"Zhein! Leave," Justine said but Zhein didn't obey him.

Rey runs into her and pulled her hand. But Zhein resisted.

She picked her bracelet and wore it first before she let herself be pulled by him.

Rey runs so fast that Zhein almost stumbled at the back. When he passed Annie, she also joined them.

"Where are we going? What about Jayson." Annie asked.

Rey didn't answer because he seems to be deep in thought.

They stopped in front of the elevator.

Annie looked for a button, but what she found are a small square mirror and numeric keypad.

Rey turned around. "Zhein."

Zhein panted but her mind is still floating.

"Can you open it? I don't know how to operate that."

"We need to enter a pin. And this one is a finger scanner. Aha! We can use her hand. Maybe it will work."

Rey took Zhein's left hand. "Maybe there will be no explosion if we're wrong. Or an alarm that will call the--"

"Rey hurry up!"

"There's so many! Is it the pointer finger? What?"

"The... the thumb!"

Rey immediately took Zhein's thumb and stick it to the small mirror. The door opened automatically. They go inside and the door automatically closed.

Rey and Annie sighed.

"Oh no! There should be a button here."

"Then how are we going to get out of here?"

"You're wrong. We need buttons here so we can identify what floor we are going to."

"Ahh. So it will be a pure chance where this elevator will bring us. We are going up though."

"Lord, I hope there's no gun any more."

The door opened and they were surprised by what they saw.

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