Seeing how bad they were and his mission depends on saving the three of them, Stan said, “Ling, quick, we must get them to a hospital.”
“No,” Rudo struggled to speak out even in his pain.
“Save your strength, bro.” Ling said to him.
But he wouldn’t listen as he knew that his time had come. “Leave me here. I can’t make it.”
“We are not leaving you.” Ling Tingzhe and Stan Gibson disagreed strongly with him. Their focus was more on him because he was wounded in a more critical place than Trisha.
“Thank you Gibson, I wanted you dead yet you are still here trying to save my life. I regret not giving you the chance for us to be friends and in my I wish we could be brothers.” Rudo said his last words as he drew his last breath.
“No, no, no,” Ling cried as he shook the lifeless body of Rudo, focusing him to wake up. Aside from Rudo being his greatest competitor when it comes to speed, he was also a great friend and his death would so much affect him. He was not ready to lose him like that. “Rudo, you have to wake up. Guess what, we are going to Africa after graduation.” Ling was saying those to revive him because Rudo always dreamt of going back to his home country.
“He is gone. Come on Ling, he is gone.” Stan said to him after seeing that all effort to revive Rudo was a waste.
It was as this moment that he remembered Trisha who was also hurt in the fight, at this moment she had passed out due to excess loss of blood, she had focused so much on putting pressure on Rudo’s wound to keep him alive forgetting that she also need to put some pressure on her own wounds and stop the bleeding.
“Ling, we have to go now or Trisha dies too.” He said as he lifted Trisha off the ground.
Reminding Ling about Trisha made him get on his feet and ask. “Which way to the hospital?” Having lost Rudo, he was not ready to lose another colleague.
Stan was also confused on which way to go as he too did not know his way around. He had been in the school for two years and a lot had changed. He was not even sure if there was a hospital that still functions anywhere close to them. Most of the technologies and facilities have all been moved to a special part of the country which was mainly inhabited by the elites.
After looking to and fro confused, he came to pick the direction that leads back to the first place where he had woken after the attack of those thugs that resulted in Adoth coming into his life. “This way, follow me.”
His reason for going back that way was because he could recall seeing some medical tools and would be of great help in treating Trisha and making sure she survives the wound.
They took a shortcut which Stan had discovered in the course of his escaping from the team of elites and soon they arrived at their destination even though it took about an hour to navigate through the shortcut and arrive back at the desolate building.
“Take her upstairs to the bedroom.” Stan said to Ling as he placed Trisha in his arms while he looked around the house to find those medic tools which he saw earlier in the place.
“Yes! I found it!” Stan exclaimed as he found the first aid box. Grabbing it, he ran upstairs to join Ling in the bedroom and see what they can do with the first aid box which they’ve got.
*****
Back at the scene where Stan, Ling, Rudo and Trisha had fought with the aliens, Master Sullivan Nathan and the other five elite students got there following the trials which Lisa Perry gave to them. Getting there she stopped even before sighting the corpse of Rudo Walid. His dead body was in a corner that was not open to quick view. Lisa sensed something that was why she stopped when they got to the location.
Master Sullivan Nathan, who was already furious because of their prolonged search for Stan Gibson, a young fellow who he never expected to be difficult for them to catch, had to ask her in an odd turn. “Why are we stopping?”
“Sir, I think….” Lisa stammered.
But Lisa wasn’t allowed to finish what she had to say before Sullivan interrupted her, jumping into conclusion. “Don’t tell me you’ve lost their trail again.” He was expecting that to be what she would say since she had said that some time ago in the course of this mission. His increased anger was not only because they hadn't found and caught Stan but also because the two students he sent out to pursue him were also nowhere to be found and it was getting him worried.
“Not really sir,” Lisa stuttered as that seemed to get his attention to hear what she had to say was the issue this time around. “I sense something strange and it’s a bad omen.”
“Hey young lady, we do not have time for this, what direction did they take?” Sullivan was still in his furious temper and ‘they’ in this context was referring to Rudo, Ling and Stan, if possibly Trisha also.
Meanwhile, as the other students heard Lisa’s words about a bad omen, they began to look around as they prepared for danger, probably another attack from those thugs because they didn’t get the opportunity to kill them in their first and last encounter.
“Sir,” Oscar Johnston called for his attention as he sighted someone that looked like Rudo Walid lying at a corner of the street.
At the sound of his call, they all looked in the direction which he pointed towards. They were all in shock as they could tell for sure that it was Rudo who was lying there. Atkinson Marvin and Jerald Burns were the only ones who had the boldness to go closer to take a clearer look, even master Sullivan didn’t have that level of courage at the moment, he was short of words as he could tell on his own that that was the bad omen which Lisa had just spoken about.
“Sir, he is dead.” Atkinson said after confirmation and that was when Sullivan decided to draw closer to the corpse.
As for people like Lisa and Oscar who probably haven’t seen a dead body before could not still move, they were afraid of drawing close, Callum Jones was the one who slowly followed Sullivan to take a clearer look at the corpse.
“This is the doing of that bastard and more reason why we have to catch him real quick.” Sullivan said as his hatred for Stan rose to its peak.
He did not say that because he thought or believed Stan was the one that killed Rudo, but he had to blame him because if he had not left the school secretly, then they wouldn’t have been out there in the place to have lost Rudo. He concluded in his heart that Rudo was killed by those thugs because of the piercing in his body, so he thought they were the ones that have killed him and harvested the chip in him, but then to make it look like it was Stan’s doing, he said to the other elites with him.
“Can you all see what that bastard did to your friend? He killed Rudo to take away his chip so he can be classified as one of us. But are we going to allow such a thing to happen?”
“No sir.” They all chorus as they did have nothing else to believe, the lie seemed to be true because of the opening in Rudo’s body.
“In that case what are you going to do?” he asked to hear their response so it wouldn’t be as if he is the one telling them what to do, he was simply planting hatred in their hearts as he forced words out of their mouth.
“Bring him to Justice.” Jerald answered.
Then Atkinson added, “We will make him pay. A life for a life.”
“Exactly,” Sullivan said as he turned to Lisa. “Tell us which way to take.”
“What about Rudo? Don’t tell me we are going to leave him here?” Oscar asked.
“Of course not, we are taking him with us back to the school. We have to pay homage to him and also let the counsel know what that bastard had done.” Sullivan answered Oscar’s question as he signaled Callum on what to do with the corpse.
Stan Gibson and Ling Tingzhe were sitting beside the bed where Trisha Graham was lying, they had finished administering treatment to her wounds in the best way they could and she was now sleeping as they waited for her to wake up. They were quite confident that she would because she was now breathing in the normal way which anyone sleeping would.In the course of waiting for her to wake up, Adoth then chose to give Stan the reports of his last task which was also his first legal task, reasoning being that he had to fight against the things that he is to protect earth against. [XP gained.]As he heard the report from Adoth, he expected to hear more, yet none was coming so he had to ask questions to why but he could not do that in the presence of Ling since he was yet to know about the system, so he excused himself from the room, going down stairs where he would freely interact with Adoth with being interrupted by Ling due to curiosity of him speaking to himself.“Adoth, why am I not g
Running was no longer in the mind of Stan else he would have left even they arrived so his supposed movement was not going to be towards to running from them, therefore he decided to act by the command of Sullivan by maintaining his position close to Trisha as he waited to see what their next action would be even though the looks on their faces could already reveal a bit about their next action. “Bond him.” Sullivan said to Oscar. Just as Oscar was approaching Stan to carry out the instruction he was given, Ling Tingzhe came up in front of Stan and said to Sullivan. “Master, please, this is not necessary.”“Will you move aside?!” Sullivan scolded him because his standing in front of Stan caused Oscar to stop.“Ling, you know the consequences of what you are about to do.” Atkinson reminded him as the anger in their faces was waxed high due to what they were seeing and how Ling had turned out to be in favor of Stan instead of the mission which they had left the school for.Ling was st
It was noon when they arrived at the Elite academy again. Entering through the gate of the academy so many students were awaiting their arrival. They had already received Callum Jones earlier in the day when he returned with the corpse of Rudo Walid.Callum Jones had already told them the lie which they were forced to believe. So they all had conceived the same belief and were angrily waiting for Sullivan and the rest of the crew that were sent out to bring back Stan so they would deal with him for killing Rudo or causing his death as the case may be.Just as they were entering the vicinity of the school, a group dragged Stan from the custody of the Sulliva, without asking any question or even responding to their salutation. Aside from being angry at Stan, they were also mad at Sullivan for letting a kid under his watch pass away. And now they would have to answer to the parents of Rudo, explaining to them in proper detail how their son died. Which no parent would take likely. With w
Guzman was not expecting the knock to be from a student and most of all one who had just returned from outside the school premises with Sullivan Nathan. He asked immediately, “What are you doing here Tingzhe? Aren’t you supposed to be resting?” “I can’t rest, sir.” With that response, Guzman quickly concluded that it was because he had lost a friend and probably was seeing his spirit, so he said, “It’s okay, you will get over it in a matter of time.” Ling understood where he was driving with those words and it was totally off from what he was thinking, so he had to state his reason for coming to this office, which was also the reason why he couldn't find himself sleeping. “Actually sir, it is not what you think,” saying that he got Guzman’s attention as he continued. “I really need to see Trisha.” That request gave Guzman a shock as he didn’t expect that from him. “What for?” Guzman asked him, curious to know his reason. “Ummm,” he stuttered. “If seeing her will make you rest, th
Minute passed after Stan said those words, yet there was no response from Adoth and that made him feel very devastated that he saw himself as a failure once again. He was beginning to see himself from a different perspective after getting to know Adoth, the hope he lost was restored by Adoth but now all hopes were lost, and this time he did not only fail himself according to his view, he also saw it as though he failed the entire human race because a task was give given to him.Tears rolled down his cheek as he prepared his heart towards death as he knew that nothing could be done to stop the council from passing negative judgment upon him. He began to think of the afterlife and how he would get to his parents once again.[It is not over yet. Get some rest.] Adoth finally said something to him after he was far into his thoughts, waiting for the morning to come for them the council to do that which they had always longed for.Well, the response came late, it was at a very wrong time a
Few minutes into the hearing, after Sullivan Nathan and two others that went outside the school with him had finished speaking based on what they knew, claiming that Stan was the one that killed Rudo. The judges of the case, which included Preston Osborne, Guzman Ronald and one other leader in the academy had to put their heads together as they deliberated on what their judgment would be, there was a voice from the audience.“I have something to say.” The voice was loud and could be traced to a direction, so all eyes turned to the direction which the voice had come from so as to see who was about to disrupt the process.Lo, it was Trisha who had said those words, she stood to her feet so that they would all see her as she stepped forward while all eyes were still fixed on her.“What does she think she is doing?” Atkinson whispered to Sullivan. “Sir, is this allowed here?” Sullivan asked his superiors who were about to pass judgment before the interruption.“Trisha, aren’t you suppos
Stan Gibson was left in the hall while a lot of people exit to observe the break which was given as Sullivan led a crew with the leaders to investigate the corpse and confirm whether truly Rudo’s chip was harvested and when it was harvested.Ling and Trisha did not leave the hall as they were sure according to what they saw that Rudo was not harvested of his chip, so Sullivan’s claim was bound to be proved false. The both of them then drew close to the desk where Stan was sitting and guarded by two mighty men.As they came close to him, he was now the one to speak first as he had seen from their earlier actions that they really meant well for him and had tried all their best to make sure he did not face a death sentence. “Thank you.” that was all he could say at the moment.“We’ll make sure death is not pronounced on you.” Ling promised him as he was ready to do the unlawful if things went the other way round.“You have done your best and I really appreciate it but there is no way yo
With everyone running up and down to see what had caused the explosion, Stan was left in the court still in chains. The judges who were also the heads of the academy had to put the school as their number one priority as they had a lot of young students to account for.Meanwhile, Trisha looked at Ling with a strange eye because of the words which he had said earlier about doing the unlawful thing just to make sure Stan was not killed. So the explosion seemed to be what he had planned.As lIng noticed the way Trisha looked at him, he quickly shakes his head telling her that whatever happened was not his doing. Nevertheless, it was to his advantage, so he went towards Stan who had been abandoned in the desk and Trisha had no option than to follow him even though she still thinks the explosion was all his doing.“Tell me you are not responsible for this?” Stan asked Ling because he also heard when Ling said he had a plan to ensure he does not face death.“No.” Ling answered as he broke th