The man looked at Len and his body suddenly started to quiver. He looked into Len's eyes, noticing they weren't directed towards his face, but his body. He turned to Doc and whispered towards him.
"He can see me"
Doc looked at the man smiling. He nodded, and started laughing.
"Of course! Of course! Haha."
He peaked back in the rearview mirror and Len was still staring at the man's body, admiring the figure that wrapped around the man.
Doc grinned.
***
They arrived back at the house just before it started pouring again. Doc opened the car door and stepped out, Len did the same, and soon after so did the man.
"Today really is a wet day!"
The man beside him did not respond
"Really Jame? Your not going to respond"
"Ahem, sorry about that Doc, I was just deep in thought."
"It's alright, buddy, but it's not very nice to let someone talk to themselves."
"What about the kid?"
"Oh, Len? He seems very shy and still needs to get used to talking to other people!"
"Is that right?"
"Yup!"
They entered the house and the three of them walked down the entrance hall, and into the main room. Doc went over to the single chair, and sat down in the middle of the room, he began looking through the window, he stared out at a tall glass building in the distance, smiling at it.
"Yesterday Len, yesterday I found you in the middle of the street with lots of bruises all over your body and today they are nowhere to be seen."
Len looked down at his body and Doc was right, there were no signs of any bruises or injuries on his arms anymore.
"I find that quite interesting, don't you?"
Len looked up at Doc and his eye began to hurt again. He closed his eyes and slowly opened them, a dark mist suddenly began to emerge from Doc, but Len looked over towards Jame, and he didn't seem to notice a thing.
"Can you see it?"
The mist started moving around the room and Len's eyes followed the mist. Doc slowly looked back and stared into his emotionless face, Len's eyes were rapidly darting around, tracking the mist's movements.
He rested his right hand on the arm of the chair and pressed a small grey button on the arm rest.
A loud noise could be heard downstairs, and Len turned around, fixing his attention towards the stairs leading to his room.
Doc grinned.
"My, what was that noise?"
Len looked backed at Doc. His face, still emotionless.
"Why don't we go check it out?"
Len slowly nodded.
Doc approached the stairs and the two followed behind him, Len being between Doc and Jame.
"It really sounded like it came from your room huh?"
They approached the room and entered. Nothing looked out of place.
Doc slowly walked towards the door in the corner of the room. He reached into his left pocket, and he pulled out a tiny gray key, inserting it into the door's handle. He twisted the door open.
The room was a small closet, but in the ground there was another staircase, leading down into the hillside.
"My isn't this interesting? Why don't we head down, maybe there's treasure!"
Jame nodded, and they led Len down the stairs. He obediently followed, he didn't seem to care for what was happening, he just followed Doc.
They continued down the stairs, nobody talked. Footsteps echoed throughout the stairway and the three slowly continued down.
Minutes passed and the echoes in front of them came to an end, before them a small dimly lit room appeared with a tube like object in the center of the room.
The floor was all gray and the ceiling above was full of square tiles that surrounded a flat fluorescent light over the tube.
Doc went to the side of the room where a small white counter resided, laying his hand under the edge of it. He flicked a small switch and the tube slowly opened. Jame stood by the entrance to the room and didn't speak.
Doc approached Len and looked down at him.
"Get in."
He obediently followed Doc's order and entered the tube.
Doc returned to the counter and flipped the switch again, prompting the door to close.
The tube was like a one way mirror, on the outside Doc and Jame could see Len, but on the inside Len could only see himself.
Suddenly a bright light turned on inside and Len closed his soft eyes.
"Wow Doc, this kid really is obedient."
Doc nodded slowly.
"I would assume so, I found this kid on the streets and helped him out, so it's kind of a guarantee that he wouldn't go against me. And look at his face, he has worn that same expression since we met… Poor kid, fate really must hate him."
Jame looked worried.
"Doesn't this seem too easy for us?"
Doc looked at Len, whose eyes examined the inner of the tube, only looking at constant reflections replicated against its reflective surface, then he closed his eyes once again, seemingly accepting this fate.
"I mean yes, but who am I to complain?"
Jame couldn't shake this uneasy tension.
"Let's just get this over with before anything happens alright?"
Len opened his eyes again and a boy appeared in the reflection of the tube, this time distorted as a result of the mirror's round shape. The boy's mouth began moving, but no words came out. The boy's eyes started glowing and a blue translucent figure appeared behind him. The boy reached out his hand, revealing the crevices of his palm to the eyes in the mirror.
Len started to feel dizzy, his knees collapsed and his head hit the mirror in front of him.
"Looks like the kid passed out."
"There's very little oxygen inside so that would be the common result, just keep a close eye on the kid's body just in case."
Doc pressed a button on the counter and a syringe slowly lowered itself from the top of the tube carrying an opaque purple substance inside.
He pressed a few buttons and the syringe moved left and right and suddenly stopped directly next to Len's right arm. He moved the syringe left, sticking it into his arm. He pressed another button just left of the arrows and the syringe began releasing the substance into Len's arm.
***
welcome back…
this time I shall grant you power…
so continue on…
and change your destiny…
Len opened his eyes and the blue star appeared before him. He looked around the area and a small gray star shone in the distance, he looked down towards his feet, the once reflective surface was gone.
He looked back up, the star in front of him began emitting a blue light. It slowly approached him, growing smaller as it approached Len's face… He just stared at it conflicted by its eminence pul, and it got closer and closer to his left eye, then they met.
Len suddenly felt woozy, causing him to lose his balance…
Then…
He fainted…
***
"Looks like everything is working."
Doc turned back around and opened a drawer. Suddenly Len woke back up.
"Hey doc the kid is back up."
"Oh really? That's a first."
Len stood back up and saw Doc rummaging through a drawer, the reflection was no longer there… His eyes suddenly turned blue, and a light emitted from his right hand. His skin began to turn back to its original pale color.
"Hey Doc, this one's not norm-"
The glass shattered, engulfing the floor in sharpness. A figure suddenly appeared right behind Doc, quickly catching the eyes of Jame who suddenly saw the mysterious figure begin to move.
"Hey Doc watch out!"
The spirit lifted his arms and threw his left arm towards Doc, striking him in the back of the head, shattering it to a blood filled dust, full of scraps of his skull.
Doc's body fell to the ground, sounding a hard thud through the small room… the figure disappeared.
Len swiftly averted his gaze towards Jame, and quickly lifted his hand, a blue light began forming in his hand, flowing in from the space around, combining to a blinding light, casting a spell of blindness onto Jame.
The spirit appeared directly in front of Jame, and he fell down, landing harshly on his back, releasing pain onto him. The figure approached Jame's side, his face full of fear, it lifted it's right leg and stomped down on Jame's chest, destroying his heart…
Len slowly stepped over the broken glass and approached the figure. He stopped directly in front of it and looked into its eyes. They seemed vaguely familiar to Len, then the figure suddenly smiled at him.
"Looks like I saved you once again kid… I have one ask of you, please, take care of my family…"
The figure slowly faded away, leaving Len there alone, with the bodies of the two men. His head began to feel light, he began stumbling all over, eventually losing his balance, his foot slipped, and his body fell quickly into the ground.