Shadows in the Dark by Hunter England Page A

is special. Very, very special.” I tried to
respond, but the force on my neck grew tighter. All that came out
was a croak for air.
    “ Hey, Luke,” came Nick’s voice from
the other room. “This place will have to do for tonight. From the
looks of it, no one is gonna come in here anytime soon.” For a
moment it was silent as I struggled to breath. I heard Nick walking
towards the room. “Luke?”
    He walked into the room and saw me
pinned up against the wall, then saw the man standing
there.
    “ Hello, Nick.
I’ve been expecting you.” Before Nick could make his fire appear,
the man quickly pushed his free hand in front of him, sending a
force into Nick and sent him flying back. His right shoulder blade
rammed into the doorframe, making him do a full one-eighty turn. He
made a loud thud as he landed onto the hard floor.
    The man looked back at me and
started to laugh.
    “ Oh, Luke,” he said. “You have no
idea how long I’ve been waiting to do this. I might’ve thought it
was too late. But it must’ve slipped my mind that you two would
come here. I forgot all about that.” What was he talking
about?
    The grip on my neck tightened more
and more, up to the point where my neck was about to snap. But
that’s when Nick stepped into the picture.
    A big wall of fire surrounded the
man, completely covering him and making him unseeable. The force on
me and my neck vanished and I fell to the floor, gasping and
coughing. Nick ran over to me and helped me up.
    “ Come on!” he yelled. We only made
it a few steps before Nick was sent flying back, smashing into the
wall and sending the air right out of him. The wall of fire
vanished and the man stood there laughing.
    “ Did you think a
small wall of fire would stop me?” The man started walking towards
us. My heart started to race as I backed up against the wall. “I am
more powerful than the two of you combined and more. You
have no idea what
I am capable of.” The man raised his hand at Nick and I, preparing
to strangle us to death. But I was ready.
    “ Well,” I said,
“you have no idea what we’re capable of.” I took a step and pushed my hand in
front of me. At first, I was afraid that nothing would happen. But
I was proved wrong.
    A long shot of electricity shot
from the palm of my hand and smacked right into the man’s chest,
sending him back and ramming him into the wall. I grabbed Nick by
the arm and dragged him over to the window. I rammed my elbow into
the glass and it shattered, sending glass shards down to the floor.
The man started to slowly stagger up, but I had already tossed Nick
out the window and leapt out myself.
    Nick had already started running
away and I started to follow. I heard the man yell in anger, and I
looked back. He was standing at the window, watching Nick and I run
away. He pushed his arm out in front of him, and a car parked in
front of the house was sent into the air towards us.
    I honestly thought I was going to
die right there as the car was just over my head. But with quick
reflexes, I dived out of the way. The car landed just a few inches
away from me. Glass shards flew in the air and got a few cuts on my
face. Nick grabbed my arm and pulled me up.
    I noticed the man was about to do
that again, so I sent a bolt of electricity at him. It hit right at
the bottom of the window frame, causing the wall to demolish into
pieces. Smoke filled up around the window frame and the man could
no longer be seen. Nick and I took that as our chance and ran as
far and as fast as we could.
    I couldn’t help but think. Who was
that? What was that all about? How did he know who we were? But the
biggest one that stuck out in my head was what bothered
me.
    Who was Joshua Shaw?
     
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    Joshua
     
    I didn’t come out of my room for
days. I kept it locked for hours. My parents tried to get me out,
but I told them to just leave me alone. The school called and said
that if I wasn’t back in two days,