Blurr Kids
Neal W. Courtney
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Word Count: 6312
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BLURR KIDS
By
NEAL W. COURTNEY
It all happened so fast. Will ducked as the 9mm barked off three shots. The shots echoed in the tiny room and he covered his ears. When he straightened to see the carnage he had to blink a few times to clear his vision. He hadn’t realized the shock of the gunfire had caused him to squeeze his eyes shut.
He had only just met David, but he knew there was no way he could have missed Thomas at point blank range. Yet, when Will looked at his friend he could not see a scratch. All the bullets were firmly lodged in the wall behind him.
Will blinked again trying to focus his vision. Thomas was blurry. He rubbed his eyes and his friend came back into focus. Will was astonished. He had watched David lift the gun and fire at Thomas’s and somehow his friend didn’t have a mark on him.
“Did you see it?” David asked.
Will was still in shock. Agitated, David asked, “Will, did you see it? I don’t want to do it again. It’s a waste of bullets.”
Will drew in a few breathes before he was able to talk, “You missed.”
With a little more patience than David, Thomas pointed to the wall, “Look at the bullet holes. They’re directly behind me. You know he didn’t miss. What else do we have to do to prove we’re telling you the truth?”
Walk through walls, Will thought.
David shoved his gun back into its holster and looked at Thomas, “That’s it we’re out of time. You have five minutes to breakthrough or we fast track.”
David lowered his head and took a deep breath. Will shook his head. He must really have done something to his eyes because David was blurry now. Was it possible to injure your eyes by squeezing them shut? No, Will knew something was off because the rest of the room was in focus. Only David was blurry.
Slowly, with his head down, David walked across the room. He crossed in front of Will and through the wall. Will’s jaw dropped.
“Now that was subtle,” Thomas said sarcastically.
Will pointed at the spot in the wall David had just walked through. Regaining his ability to speak, “He just went right through the wall. I mean…he was blurry and walked right through the wall.”
Will’s friend took a deep breath. Right in front of Will he went out of focus. It was different than what had happened with David though, Thomas kept his head up and alert. Will turned his head away; it was hard to look at Thomas when his eyes couldn’t focus on him.
“Okay! That’s enough, I get it! You can do it too.” Will said.
Thomas put his hand on Will’s shoulder and turned him around. Will was relieved to see he was in focus again. His friend gave him a look so serious that he gulped.
“I need you to listen to me very carefully right now,” Thomas began, “We are called Blur Kids and we’re in a secret war. There are things out there, things that go unseen to most people. Our ability as Blur Kids allows us to see evil in its true form. It walks among us masquerading as human. Our purpose is to extinguish that evil.”
Will took Thomas’s hands off his shoulders and started to laugh nervously. He was walking backwards towards the hallway.
“This was a really nice prank. Ha ha. You got me. Blur Kids. At least you could have come up with something better than that. You’re not even a kid. But the walking through the wall thing was good. Is David in the hallway with a camera crew catching my every move?”
He went into the hallway only to find it empty. Will ran his hands along the wall that David had walked through trying to find a trap door or anything to prove how he did it. He jumped back as Thomas walked through the wall. His friend came back into focus and stood in the middle of the hallway in front of Will.
“You need to come with us,” He said, “This is not a joke. There are things going on here that you don’t understand.”
Will pushed past him, “I don’t care. This has nothing to do with me.”
Thomas sighed before blurring and walking back through the wall.
Will made his way out of the building. As his eyes adjusted to the sun he saw a woman leaning on his car. Her hair was the color of fire and it danced when she spun to watch him approach. She flashed him a smile.
“Hello,” She said holding out her hand.
Out of the corner of his eye Will noticed winged shadows on the ground moving towards him. He ignored the woman and turned to see what was making them. To his surprise two more women were headed his way. He looked down to see their shadows didn’t come close to matching their bodies. The shadows were skinny bodies with small wings. While he was studying them the shadow’s tail started to rise over its head. Will looked up to see the two women approaching with their hands out.
“Hello”, they said just as the first woman had.
Will was starting to get nervous. Thomas’s warnings. Now this. Will was about to turn around when the first woman spoke again.
“Hello, I said. Is this your car?”
That’s all it took. She was close enough that her outstretched hand grabbed his shirt and pulled him to her face. She dropped to the ground pulling Will down until they were face to face. Her face went blurry and when it came back into focus instead of deep blue eyes he was looking into pure black pools.
The woman that was there before was now replaced with something else. The thing that held him was short and stocky. It was covered in an oily skin and the smell of rotting leaves filled his nose. Its arms and legs were wiry, but its grip was like iron when Will tried to break free. His shirt ripped and he made it about a foot before the creatures lighting fast hands grabbed his arm pulling him to the ground again. The two other women had turned into the same looking creature. Each of the remaining two grabbed a leg and stretched Will out on the black top. The creatures laughed as their scorpion like tails rose up over their heads. The tails hit their apex and were preparing to strike. Guttural words came out of the creature holding Will’s arms.
“Die Echthros.”
Will’s face was sprayed with warm liquid and he tasted mud. His arms were free and his back exploded with pain as he was dragged across the blacktop. Panic filled him as he clawed at his face to get the foul substance off. Another rain of warm liquid splashed over him, quickly followed by another. He was no longer being dragged.
Scrambling back on his hands Will landed on his butt and used his shirt to wipe his face off. Opening his eyes he found himself sitting next to a headless body. Getting to his feet he scrambled away from the body only to trip and fall on something warm and wet. Will looked back and saw one of the things that had held his legs. Looking down he found himself laying on the other. It occurred to him then that both the creatures were missing a head. Will realized he was screaming and clamped his mouth shut. He stood and started wiping his hand on his jeans.
“Gonna need a change of clothes I see.”
Will swung around to find David holstering the same 9mm he shot at Thomas. Thomas tossed him a backpack. Will caught it and turned it over. It was well worn with stains all over it. On the front of the bag in neon orange was stencil lettering saying FAST TRACK. He opened the bag to find a change of clothes and a bar of soap.
An acrid odor filled Will’s nose and he started to cough. Taking a few steps away he watched as the three monsters evaporated until there was nothing left. David looked to the sky and back to Thomas who shivered and said,
“I feel it too. Let’s get him back to the house. Unless you wanna bait that many. “
David gave him a dirty look, “No, but he’s washing up and changing those clothes before he gets in my car.”
Thomas raised his hands and gestured to the empty buildings all around them.
“And where do you suggest that? I don’t think there is one piece of copper left in any of the buildings let alone running water.”
David pointed at the ditch a few hundred feet away, “There’s some run off water right there. It’s either he cleans up or he walks. That stink doesn’t come out once it dries.”
Thomas sighed, “Fine grab the car and meet us there. “
David started off toward the car as Thomas produced a 9 mm that matched David’s. He checked the clip and chambered a bullet. Gesturing at the drainage ditch he said, “After you.”
Will didn’t move. Thomas put his arm down.
“Listen we go back a long way. I am not going to sugar coat it. Those things won’t stop. They know who and what you are now. There is another dozen or so headed this way. You can stay and be lunch or you can come with me. If you refuse you are on your own. So what’s it going to be, Blur Kid or lunch?”
With the stench of the evaporating bodies still in his nose Will had no illusions that those things wanted him dead. He threw the pack over his shoulder, “Let’s get going then.”
They both walked across the blacktop to the ditch. About half way through Will cleaning up David pulled up in a jet black Lincoln town car. Will was surprised when the clothes and shoes fit. He bent over to tie his shoe and asked. “What makes you think this evil wants me dead?”
Will was finishing with his left shoe when David and Thomas pulled their guns. They started to spread apart getting some distance between them while training their guns at Will.
Will threw his hands up and said “Wooh, what did I do?”
David moved to Will’s left toward the car. Thomas told Will.
“Just stay still. David is going to unlock the car and when I tell you you’re going to run like hell and dive in the back seat. You’ll find a shotgun under the blanket back there. Get it out and blast anything that tries getting into the car that isn’t David or I.” Will realized the guns weren’t pointed at him, but past him toward the drainage ditch. He started to turn around to look.
“I won’t turn around if I were you. Luckily these things don’t have as acute smell as the last bunch that was after you. But make no mistake these things are only made to kill.” David sternly told him.
“Now,” Yelled Thomas.
Bullets were suddenly whizzing past Will and definitely hitting something behind him. Will took off while Thomas and David were unloading their clips. Will made it to the car and dove into the back seat. David opened the driver door an put one leg in the car while he was still shooting.
Will had uncovered the shotgun and saw what they were shooting at. There were bodies littering the drainage ditch. The things looked like gorillas but with a dog’s head. They were covered in fur with a mouth full of pointed teeth. Their legs and arms were rippled with muscles and each finger ended in a pointed claw. The dead bodies were starting to evaporate obscuring the ground. Each time one would jump over an evaporating body a bullet would hit it in the head.
Half in the door David yelled, “We gotta go now or we’re going to be over run.”
As if Thomas didn’t even hear David, “Last clip”, He said as he slammed the clip into place and started picking off his targets. “Get that shotgun out here while David starts the car.” Thomas said loud enough for Will to hear.
Will had no idea what came over him, but he found himself climbing out of the car and taking aim at the first beast. He had only fired a gun twice in his life. He had been much younger at the time. He closed his eyes and squeezed the trigger. The kickback rocked him a little but nothing like he remembered. When he opened his eyes the monster he had aimed at was cut in half. The torso had fallen to the ground but the legs were still moving as if it was trying to walk. A few steps later it fell over and stopped moving.
“I’m out,” said Thomas as he darted past Will into the car.
Will blasted off two more shots as the car’s engine came to life. David was right, there were too many of them and the beasts were getting closer.
One leaped onto the hood denting it with its weight. Will took aim and shot the thing’s head clean off. David slammed the car into reverse as Will dove into the back seat. They were all over the car at this point.
David gunned it and the monster on the hood couldn’t keep its balance and fell off. Another one on the roof tore a hole in the top of the car like it was tissue paper.
Reaching in, the beast tried to grab ahold of the shotgun Will was still holding. Will pulled the trigger and the monsters hand turned into a red cloud. He could barely hear the howl from the creature though the ringing in his ears from the gun going off in such a confined space. Will racked another shell and pointed the gun at the hole in the roof. The monster smashed its remaining hand down and ripped a larger chunk out of the roof. The beast stuck its head through the hole. Will shoved the gun into the monsters mouth and pulled the trigger. Click. The gun was empty. The beast pulled its head out of the hole and reached in with its remaining hand grabbing the barrel of the shotgun yanking it out of Will’s hands. It pulled the gun through the hole and tossed it. David was at the end of the blacktop and slammed on the breaks. The beast lost its balance and tumbled past the hole and off the car. David threw the town car into drive squealing the tires as it took off like a rocket. Looking back through the window Will saw the animal rear back its head and howl. David swung them out of the parking lot and onto the main road. For a few minutes the only sound was of the wind whipping past the gaping hole in the roof. Will finally broke the silence. “Hope you weren’t terribly attached to that shotgun.”
For a moment no one said anything and then David and Thomas looked and each other and started laughing. David said though his laughter, “After the craziest fast track in the history of fast tracks all he has to say is some smart remark about the shotgun. You’re not careful Will I might start to like you. So far you’re not too bad. At least you didn’t freeze up.”
Thomas whistled and said, “Holy cow that’s pretty high praise coming from you. You pretty much hate everyone that has to be fast tracked.”
David kept his eyes on the road as he maneuvered his way back to a more populated part of town as he explained. “Well Will here has now faced more Kakos than most Blur Kids see in a whole year. Plus he didn’t hesitate. He cut one in half and took one’s head off. In my book he’s ok so far.”
David looked back at Will and smiled. A sound of shattering glass was followed by Will’s face getting splashed with another wave of warm liquid blinding his vision. He quickly wiped his eyes to see Thomas whipping a dark red substance off his face. He was speechless when he looked at the driver’s seat to see David’s headless body with his hands still on the wheel. A racking of a shotgun brought Will’s attention to the driver’s window that no longer existed. A clawed hand was sticking a shotgun in the window. A deafening roar echoed in the car as part of the windshield and passenger window exploded in front of Thomas. Thomas was scrambling to get his 9mm out as he yelled, “Will get the wheel.”
Will reached across David’s headless body and tried to keep them on the road. Another racking sound and the barrel was pointed into the car again. This time the roar of a gun was from Thomas. He unloaded his clip into the ceiling of the car just above David’s body. Instinctively Will ducked his head only to find his cheek pressed against the lifeless shoulder of David’s corpse. Thomas pulled the e-brake and the shotgun went off again this time punching a basketball size hole in the windshield. Thomas reached over and pulled David’s 9mm out of its holster. The car was losing speed fast. Thomas barked off two shots at the ceiling and pointed to a car parked on the side of the road.
“Steer towards that car. When I tell you, jump out my side. I have no idea what’s out there so when you land run until I catch up with you.”
Will aimed the town car at the parked car. Another racking of the shotgun. “Now,” said Thomas.
Will yanked open the door and jumped as Thomas started putting bullets through the car’s roof again. The car was still moving pretty fast, so when Will hit, it knocked the wind out of him and he rolled a few times before coming to a skidding stop on his back. He was trying to catch his breath when a crashing sound startled him. He looked over to see Thomas’s blurry figure walking towards him. A scream erupted from where the town car crashed into the parked car. Thomas kept walking. Another apelike beast landed crushing in part of the hood of the parked car. This one was different though. It had the clawed hands and an ape like body. The face was human like though. It was covered in patchy hair like a beard that won’t grow in and its eye’s glowed yellow like a lion’s. It screamed again and racked the shotgun it was holding and leveled it at Thomas’s back. The thing fired and Will held his breath. Without Thomas he was for sure dead. But the ground in from of Thomas erupted. Thomas just kept walking. Will realized that there are some big advantages to being a Blur Kid. Another blast from the shotgun and again the ground erupted in front of Will. The beast screamed in anger. Will didn’t even see Thomas come into focus but he did hear the gun go off. Thomas took three shots. Each one hit the thing in the forehead. The last caused a large red cloud to erupt from the back of its head. It started to smoke and disappear while it was crumbling into a heap. Thomas walked up to Will and held his hand out to help him up and said, “I thought I told you to run.”
Will took his hand and Thomas helped him up. Will let out a sigh while he watched the beast disappear into smoke. “That is not something you see every day,” Will said to no one in particular. Thomas chuckled as he looked at the two cars mashed together.
“I never really notice anymore but ya it is something, isn’t it? They just fade away and no one is the wiser.”
Will started to brush himself off and said, “What’s the next move?”
Thomas pulled the clip out of each gun taking inventory of ammo. “Well I have six rounds left and we have about two miles to the house. Hopefully we have shaken whatever is chasing you because if we haven’t we aren’t going to make it very far with six bullets. Let’s get going before they get another sniff of you. I have no idea why, but the Kakos seem to really want you dead which means I really need to keep you alive. He pulled out a small cell phone from his pocket. Punched in a few numbers and told the person on the other line, “Code twelve. One down. Fast track off the rails. Need extraction ASAP. Lock on to my GPS.” A few more back and fourths and Thomas was off the phone. “Our ride should be here in a minute. Let’s just start to walk. We don’t want to hang around and have to explain a headless driver hitting a parked car.”
The two headed off down the street leaving the crashed cars behind. Will was quiet for the first few minutes of the walk. Curiosity got the better of him and he had to know. “If I’m going to be part of this I need to know a few things.”
Thomas handed him one of the 9mm’s and said, “That’s fair enough. What do you want to know?”
Will tucked the 9mm in the back of his pants as he saw Thomas do and asked. “What are we? Why are those things after us?”
Thomas laughed. “I can’t really answer either directly. It’s not that I don’t want to its just that it’s kind of complicated. It all revolves around the balance between good and evil. Everyone has the capability of good and evil in them. The choices we make are what feed it inside our bodies. “ Thomas looked and saw that he was getting a little ahead of himself. “Okay we’ll start out with good and evil. You agree that the world contains both right?” Will nodded, “Each side must be equal and balanced. When the balance is enacted the world goes on its merry way. It’s when that balance shifts that’s when things start to get out of control. Wars. Genocide. Mass suicide. All that stuff happens when there’s more evil, but there’s a flip side to that. Polio is cured. Man saves bus full of kids. Kid falls three stories and is unharmed. That’s what happens when there is more good.
“But isn’t that a good thing? If there was more good in the world then everyone would be happier right?” Will asked.
Thomas shook his head, “Let me finish. The things that came after you are called Kakos. It’s a really old word that pretty much means evil. Now the Kakos survive on good,” Thomas sighed and ran his hands through his hair, “I know it sounds weird, but it’s true. Every time someone does something good the balance inside of them shifts and contains more good than evil. That is what the Kakos feed on. They extract the good from a living body by taking just a little or enough to drain a person dry. They are very clever about it. When they drain a body it looks like a sudden onset of cancer or heart failure.
Each body reacts in different ways to the draining. Some drop dead after all the good is gone. Some bodies will hold on. That’s the long lasting debilitating ‘You have months’ to live stuff. But with your common cold or flu you’ve just been drained and left for further draining. You following me so far Will? I know it’s a lot to take in.”
Will had a horrified look on his face, “I just got over the flu. Are you telling me that something sucked the good out of me? And made me sick?”
“That would explain the sudden interest in you. The first feeding will awaken the ability to blur. But yes, you were fed on. Now comes the tough part. Evil has to be stopped. That’s what we do. There is something else.” Will shuddered. Thomas studied him for a moment before taking a deep breath. “There is a battle each Blurr Kid struggles with. In order to combat evil we have to employ evil. We can try and justify killing by saying these things are evil, which they are. But that doesn’t make up for the fact that we’re killing them. The amount of evil each Blur Kid can handle is different. Some are never affected and some just burn out and can’t do it anymore. There are extreme cases of the evil overwhelming a Blurr Kid and taking over. This individual would be your crazy gunman senerio.”
They took a turn and were headed into an industrial park when Will whistled and said, “So all the school or mall shootings those were Blurr Kids?”
Thomas shook his head. “No, not all of them but most of them were.” He looked over at Will and found him blurry. Thomas pulled his gun, pointed it at Will, and pulled the trigger. The bullet flew through Will before the bang from the gun brought him back into focus.
“You shot me. You shot me.” Will said as he was feeling for a bullet hole.
Thomas put the gun back behind his back. “Calm down. I shot through you to show you that you can do it. Now you just need to control it. When you want to blur just daydream. That’s how it’s done. If you want to walk across the street daydream you’re walking across the street. If you want to walk through fire daydream you’re walking through fire. Few tips for you though. Don’t shoot while blurry. The bullets come out blurry and don’t hit anything.”
A black Lincoln town car came down the street towards them. “This should be our ride.” Thomas walked towards the edge of the street and stopped. The car started to slow and pull towards where he was standing.
One second the car was there and the next it was blurry. Thomas swore and grabbed for his gun. Will was about to ask what was wrong when Kakos started pouring out of every window and door of the buildings on each side of the street.
Will was speechless. It looked like the scene from The Matrix where hundreds of copies of Agent Smith came out of nowhere. Except Agent Smith in this case was a horde of killing machines looking for him.
The car took a sliding stop in front of Thomas. The trunk popped open. Thomas pulled out an assault rifle. He slapped the clip in place and started picking off the Kakos as they were running down the street.
“Feel free to grab one.”
Startled, Will spun to find a woman dressed in camo brush past him and reach into the trunk. She pulled out the same kind of gun that Thomas pulled out. She slapped the clip in place and stood next to Thomas picking off targets just as fast. She was just as tall as Thomas and seemed to have just as good as aim.
“These with you Sarah?” Thomas asked as he loaded another clip. When she didn’t respond, Thomas racked a bullet into the chamber and glanced at her. “That bad? Really?”
“Yes, that bad,” Sarah replaced her empty clip, “The house is overrun. I can’t reach anyone. You’re the only one that I have talked to for the last three hours. I have no idea why, but your friend here seems to be something special. Some of the Kakos didn’t even blur they walked right to the front door and knocked. I couldn’t believe it. “
Sarah put the gun up to her shoulder and popped off three quick shots. Thomas did the same. Six Kakos stumbled and fell, tripping the ones behind them causing an enormous pile up. The Kakos were all pushing to get over each other. Sarah pointed her rifle to the ground so she could talk to Thomas. “They asked for your friend there by name. When I said I had never heard of him they just left. Ten minutes later every window and door blew open and Kakos were everywhere. I was doing a weapons check that’s the only reason I made it out. I blurred the car and drove out through the back wall of the garage into the yard. That’s when the phone rang and it was you asking for a pick up. Now I’m here and running out of ammo.” She pulled the gun back up and fired off the rest of her clip as did Thomas.
Will made his way to the trunk and was looking over the arsenal. He found the only thing he was familiar with. He walked over and stood next to Sarah and Thomas. Sarah was changing another clip when she glanced over at Will. She raised one eyebrow looking at the sawed off shotgun that Will now held. “Interesting choice,” she said
Thomas finished his clip and was reloading, “Sarah have you noticed that…”
Sarah and Will looked over when Thomas didn’t finish his sentence to see Thomas looking confused down at his chest. The reflective part of the no parking sign sticking out of Thomas’s chest caught the light and glimmered for a moment. Thomas dropped his gun and put both hands on the pipe that stuck through his chest. He looked at the shaft holding the sign and then at Sarah. While his head was turned a handicap sign went through his head. The force of the sign carried him backwards and the end of the sign lodged in the ground. This left the handicap sign sticking out of the ground at a forty-five degree angle with Thomas’s head skewered two feet off the ground. The parking sign was still sticking out of his chest. Will found himself being hauled to the ground as a turn sign flew through the space he had just occupied. Sarah had tackled him and saved his life. She ended up on top of him when they came to a halt. Will looked up to see her face only inches from his.
“We’re about to die anyway, why not?” She said. With that she leaned in and kissed him. The kiss started out soft, but quickly escalated. Will didn’t know if it was the impending death, but this kiss was like nothing he had ever experienced. Rocks, signs, even uprooted bushes were landing all around them. Anything and everything the Kakos could get their hands on they were launching. Apparently, they were tired of Thomas and Sarah picking them off with so much ease. Sarah pulled away and opened her eyes. They were both breathing heavy. Sarah smiled and said, “Now that was a kiss. Too bad we’re about to die I would have liked to see where that would have led.”
Will tilted his head up and saw that she was right. The street was filled with all kinds of Kakos heading their way. Will looked back at Sarah and caught her studying his face. “You’re actually kinda cute.”
Will liked her already and he was sure not going to let it end like this. He took another look at the massive horde heading their way. “I have an idea, but you need to get off me.”
Sarah gave him a quizzical look, “That’s a first. Being told to get off a man when I’m on top.”
“Well if you don’t want that to be the last thing anyone says to you I suggest that you get off me.” Will said.
Sarah furred her eyebrows, “Geez touchy, aren’t you?” She rolled off him. They both stood and had to dodge a few bricks that were sent their way.
“Can you do something about the aerial assault?” Will asked.
“Demanding too. I’m starting to think you’re not so cute.”
Sarah picked up her weapon, checked it, and started to target the Kakos that were about to throw things. The wall of Kakos was now only about a hundred yards from them. Will started to see unnerving details about the Kakos. He could see clearly the yellow of eyes or the gleam of teeth. He shivered and turned to Sarah. “Like I said, I have an idea. How did you blur the car?”
“I don’t know I just do. I have the ability to change things like that. I just daydream that they’re part of me. I picture the car and myself as on and it just blurs.”
The Kakos were now seventy-five yards away. The missiles had stopped because the Kakos were so close they gave up throwing things. Will grabbed Sarah pulled her in and gave her another deep kiss. They separated and she said breathlessly, “Okay, you’re cute again.”
“You think that was good watch this.”
Sarah watched as Will examined the Kakos. They were a living wave of evil about to crash on top of both of them. Sarah looked a little closer and noticed Will wasn’t looking at the mob, he was looking at the street directly in front of the Kakos. The street started to shimmer and then it blurred. The Kakos fell into it like they were falling off a cliff. Sarah was speechless. She never even imagined that was possible. She looked back and found Will blurry. He surprised her by turning his head and smiling at her. “Watch this?”
Will turned his attention back to the Kakos. Sarah heard a loud creaking sound and then a rumble brought her attention to the building that the Kakos were still coming out of. The buildings were collapsing! No, they were falling through themselves. Will had blurred the supporting walls and the remaining part of the building came crashing down with nothing holding it up.
He did this building after building stemming the tide of Kakos. The remaining Kakos had halted and were all milling at the edge of the blurred street. In a clockwise circle the Kakos started disappearing. Will was creating a circle of blur around them. When it was complete Will had trapped them all on an island. All at once the circle of Kakos fell into the blur. All except one. Will had left one surrounded by blur.
Sarah was so astonished she didn’t even realize they had been holding hands until Will pulled on it to approach the last Kakos. She looked down and only Will’s hand was in focus holding hers, the rest of him was still blur. Sarah tugged back and when Will turned she asked. “How? How is this possible?”
Will smiled at her, “Nerdy is the new sexy and I am People’s ‘Man of the Year’ because all I do is daydream. You know what I do for a living?”
“You own a comic book store or something right? That’s pretty nerdy.”
Will chuckled at her barb and said, “No, I am a writer. I write fiction. Short stories, books, really anything that I can imagine I put down on paper. So when Thomas said all you have to do is daydream I thought easy enough. That’s how I write, I just daydream and my fingers punch out what I see. This way is way easier. No spellcheck. No editing. I can just let my imagination run wild.” He had gotten her moving while they were talking. He led her across a bridge made of in focus asphalt that he had created. When they stopped they were in front of the remaining Kakos. Will addressed the Kakos.
“You can see I am no Blur Kid. I am something else. I have left you alive because I want you to relay a message. I want to be left alone. You will no longer hunt Blur Kids. You will no longer drain humans dry. Anyone who does, I will hunt and destroy. The balance will be kept and this war ends now. Do you understand?”
The Kakos blurred and turned from an ape like creature into a normal brown haired, medium height man. “Echthros if you release me unharmed I will convey your message. The words you say will only enrage, but I will deliver.”
“In that case forget it.” Will said and he blurred the ground under the Kakos’ feet and it disappeared into nothing.
Sarah punched him on the shoulder, “What did you do that for? We could have gotten some answers out of him or at least had him relay the threat.”
Will grabbed her up in a hug pulling her close. “That thing is right, if I send the message, it will just infuriate whoever is pulling the strings. This way they just lost thousands coming after one man. Let them guess what happened. Whatever they concoct in their heads will no doubt be worse than the truth. In the mean time I’d like to take you somewhere warm and sandy. We have a kiss to finish.”
A man in a black coat and large black hat stepped back behind the tree he had been watching from while Sarah and Will kissed.
A circle of air a little taller than he was turned blurry in front of him. The man took one last look at the two kissing and stepped through the blur. After he disappeared the circle vanished leaving no evidence it had ever been there.
End
