He gently tapped his baton on his palm thoughtfully.
"What division are you from?"
A weary looking police man asked him hopefully.
"Um mm…. Division 049?" he gussed and his face lightened up. "You are the one taking my place then" he said happily and hurried away immediately.
I sighed in relief and stopped the next incoming car. Knowing fully well what Rexy can do, he scrutinized them throughly but it was just a group of teenagers coming from a party, so he let them go.
Next was a dad and his daughter coming from….only God knows. He was about letting them go when he discovered his daughter was gagged and was struggling.
"Stop!" he shouted and opened the back door without saying anything. Rexy tried to stop him but he had already seen her.
"Emma!.... He shouted and was dealt a powerful blow from behind by Rexy.
He quickly held her hands and placed his forehead on hers and they disappeared.
They both Appeared in the forest they were chased the first day they met.
She stared wide eyed at him in horror as he unbinded her mouth. "Why is everyone after me? Is there something I don't know?"
"You..." he gasped in disbelief.
"What?" She asked her face wrinkling in puzzlement.
"Your powers….they are making you glow. Your tattoo is glowing!" he shouted excitedly grabbing her shoulders.
She screamed in terror on seeing herself glowing. She tried cleaning it off herself. Her dramatic dance in circles made him laugh for the first time in years.
After laughing to his content, he held her in one place and made her look into his eyes. "Calm down princess, breath in and look at me long in the eyes. Try connecting to my soul and speak into my subconsciousness." he urged calmly.
"What is all this nonsense you are saying? I am saying am not normal and you are talking about subconsciousness!" She shouted struggling to free herself from him.
He sighed in frustration. This is taking us nowhere. Rexy or Liriah will soon find us if we don't do something fast enough.
"Alright… try summoning the spirit of light." he suggested, but she just stared at him like he was crazy.
"Just try doing something supernatural, so I can take you back to father." he urged and that snapped her last ounce of patience.
"I can see you are raving mad.! First, you said I should spend the night with you. Then boom! You called me a princess and dragged me to this evil forest. Now i see myself glowing and you are saying i should do something supernatural. I need to go home before I go crazy!" she shouted and began to march away.
He grabbed her wrist and drew her back forcefully his anger rising. "Didn't you see what happened just now? There people after you. Both physical and spiritual! You can't go back there, you will be doomed."
She sighed, "I need to go back to my parents and tell them all that had happened to me. They must have been worried by now, the day is getting dark."
"They aren't your real parents!" he stressed and a crisp slap was landed on his left cheek.
"Don't ever say that rubbish again! I have tolerated enough of your rubbish already. Who knows if this isn't one of your ploy to get me on your bed? Because you men are unbelivable!"
His face stinged from the slap and he realized he had been too hard on her. He was supposed to be coaxing her not forcing.
So he took a deep breath, "please Emma, let me take you to where you will be safe. I will explain everything to you when we get there because am one hundred percent sure you are the princess. This tattoo on your arm is not as simple as it seems to you.
"Please listen to me and let's leave here before we are found. We will come abs see your parents once you are safe. For now, my company will be in sole charge of your family. They can even run it as they like. But your life is the most important here. I…."
As he spoke, a loud laughter suddenly echoed in the forest. " having a hard time convincing the princess?" Liriah mocked materializing as a beautiful young lady in front of us.
"Come my dear. Don't let him deceive you. He is trying to take your powers for himself. Come with me and I'll take you back to your family" Liriah coaxed sweetly streaching out her hands to Emma.
Emma looked dazed as she dreamily stepped forward like she was being controlled.
"Emma, no stop!....."
She suddenly stopped and smiled like a grim reaper. "I am not going anywhere with you!" She shouted at Liriah and pushed her away and she crashed into a huge tree.
"Run!..." he shouted pulling her deeper into the forest.
"You fool!" Liriah shouted turning back to her normal form and began to pursue them, sending flashes of lightening after them.
They ran in different directions, hoping to shake her off, but she was very relentless. He began to pant in exhaustion but Emma kept running like she was just jogging.
After running for what what felt like enternity, they finally shook her off in the huge forest.
They both collapsed on the floor panting, their hands on their chest.
She began to laugh to my surprise. "I thought you were lying all this while. Now I am dying to know my origin and why I am being hunted."
He scrunched up his face. "If you said all this a while ago, we won't have been here" he accused.
She pushed him playfully on his chest and he staggered back a bit. She wasn't expecting it, so fell on him and their lips met. His heart flustered in a way it hasn't before.
His eyes widened in surprise, so did hers. She quickly pulled away and sat back, adjusting a little away from him.
"Am sorry…." She said rapidly brushing her hair away from her face like someone having a panic attack.
He nodded, his throat dry and he couldn't speak.
Suddenly, her eyes widened and she collapsed to the ground.