The Jinns Amongst Us

Chapter 08

"There are ways to take back at them, ruining their future is not okay." said Selina. "Future? it's those dumb asses, what future they could have?" asked Irene. "A better one than you do, they're not born into a luxury life like you, wait, you're not born into one, are you?." asked Selina to which Irene becomes shocked. "You take that back, right now." said Irene.

"No, I won't, I won't take back anything what I said, what Tim did was wrong, what you said was wrong, what happened to Ivan and his friends was wrong! I'll say it from the mountains if I have to." said Selina. "Piss off Selina!" yells Irene.

"You piss off! go back to your rich mom, who adopted you by the way!" yells Selina to which Irene comes at her ragingly to which she pushes back.

"I'm done, you hear me? done." said Irene. "Yeah, so am I, bye! forever, have fun." said Selina. "I will, I definitely, will." said Irene as she walks away without turning back.

Meanwhile, as local authorities are swarming all over the place, looking for the missing victim, Khayun manages to flee into the city, unable to stay inside the forest any longer.

Not being able to release himself from his current host as well as revert himself from his spiky nature, Khayun wears a thick black trenchcoat which he finds in the dumpster.

Walking amongst the shadows and through every alleyways he comes across, Khayun stays from the eyes of public, as well as the police.

He keeps fleeing until he spots a small girl, dressed in a medical gown which looks quite old and dirty, even from afar, she has a really long hair which is the only thing natural about her, except for its strange unusual long length.

She continues climbing above one of the buildings with stretching her arms and legs like a spider, but moves quite quickly for a woman. Not knowing it is actually a Jinn much like himself, Khayun begins following behind her further as possible.

As she climbs on top of the building, Khayun jumps aside to a further building and leaps above as he reaches the top of that building. But as he climbs above, he notices the woman he spotted earlier was nowhere to be found on top of the building she climbed onto.

Not a second had passed, an eerie sound comes from behind him. He turns to see the same woman, inches away from him, but this time, she is in the same height as Khayun's host is, and her skin too is pale, but much more decayed than Khayun's host.

"You're... not human?" asked Khayun in Jinni language. The woman lifts up her hair and reveals her face from underneath all that amount of hair she has. It looks horrible and disgusting to which even Khayun becomes shocked.

"What... happened to you?" asked Khayun. "Follow... me." said the woman, uttering her first words as she turns around and walks now like a regular human and looks upon a hospital few blocks from them. "There... take me." said the woman.

"Take you? how?" asked Khayun to which she offers her hand. Khayun touches it with suspicion, but within seconds, she appears with Khayun inside a empty patient room within the hospital. "What.. what is this place?" asked Khayun. "Place, where they kept me. said the woman as he begins to lie on the bed. She slowly turns away her appearance, from a horrifying Jinn, to a beautiful woman, human as ever.

"It.. can't be.." said Khayun just when suddenly a nurse bursts inside, Khayun rushes to hide himself, but as he does, the nurse doesn't even spot him inside the room. Khayun realises he is being projected by the woman of what happened to her on the hospital, which now looks more like it's ages ago, considering the outfit of the nurse and the design of the room.

As the nurse checks in on her, a doctor and a few people dressed in suits arrive inside the room. "What about this one?" asked the doctor. "Perfect health, no physical harms or bruises, this could be it." said the nurse. "What about her family?" asked a person in the suit.

"I wouldn't worry about it, only person that has link to her, is her uncle who visited her months ago, he almost gave up she'll recover anytime soon." said the doctor.

"You sure about this? we wouldn't land in any trouble right?" asked another person in suit. "Yes, I'm sure, you're not the only one to come here, asking for a live test subject, many things had been done here, cops haven't told a single trace, it's tighter than a grandma's purse." said the doctor.

"Very well then, let's begin the experimentation as soon as possible." said the person in the suit when suddenly everything fades away, and Khayun finds himself back in the building with the woman. "I couldn't understand what they were saying, what's an experiment?" asked Khayun.

"Follome, follow.. me." replied the woman. "What?" asked Khayun to which she holds his hand tightly and brings him aboard another vision, where this time, several plugs had been inserted onto her hands and legs while her mouth is inserted with a large ventilator.

She is struggling to restrain herself from the straps on her while the doctor and few person in suit look at her patiently, collecting notes and recording it. The nurse approaches her with a syringe containing a thick black liquid that almost looks like tar.

"Send it directly in her bloodstream this time." said the person in the suit as the nurse nods and sinks it inside her nerve on her neck while she goes into cardiac arrest. As her skin soon turns pale, and her hair growing long rapidly, she struggles through until she breaks free while her face disowns into the horrific figure it is now.

When Khayun returns back from the vision, he takes a moment to recollect himself after watching through such a dark inhuman procedure. "I'm sorry about the glimpses you saw." said a woman's voice inside his head in Jinni language.

"What? who's that?" asked Khayun as he looks everywhere, trying to spot the sound. "It is me, I'm right in front of you." said the woman to which Khayun looks upon the horrific woman figure he followed. "You? you're talking? but.." said Khayun. "I've linked your mind with mine, it was the only way to communicate with you, plus, I taught you their words too, using my knowledge." said the woman telepathically.

"Oh.. right, I know.. what experiment means now, I understand them." said Khayun. "Yes, what they spoke was words made from a language, not so different from the Jinni." said the woman. "You understand Jinni?" asked Khayun. "I do, Khayun, thank you, allow me to introduce myself, I'm called Follome." said the woman. "Follome? that's a unusual name." said Khayun. "It is the only word I can utter from my mouth." said Follome as she utters the word Follome once more in her body.

"Are you a Jinn, or a human?" asked Khayun. "Sadly, I do not follow, I'm neither, or maybe I'm both, thank you for finding me, it's.. been difficult.. being alone." said Follome. "What did they do to you? and, what happened after that? after the one you showed." asked Khayun.

"I.. do not remember, my earliest memory was weeping, alone and lost, this memories came into surface when our minds connected." said Follome. "Perhaps, you can find more, connect us again." said Khayun.

"It doesn't work like that, our link is already established, you cannot re-establish the link again." said Follome. "Oh, well.. I'm sorry then, for what they did to you." said Khayun. "Don't be, as I said before, thank you, for finding me, I was scared at first, that you came to hurt me, as they did." said Follome. "Who do you mean by they?" asked Khayun. "I can't remember their faces, but.. they wanted me, they wanted me so bad." said Follome.

"Do not worry, if they come again, I'll kill them myself." said Khayun. "Thank you, if I may ask, where did you come from?" asked Follome. "You knew my name and the language I speak, didn't the link show you my memories?" asked Khayun. "Only few glimpses, I was unable to visualise it properly, please, tell me." said Follome. "My name is Khayun, and I'm a Jinn, I was banished here, by the Trail of the Alqada." said Khayun.

"You were Banished? why?" asked Follome. "It's.. quite complicated, and a really long matter." said Khayun. "It is alright, please, at least, try to explain it." said Follome. "Okay then, well.. there was this barrier, okay? the barrier is called Sheik'fila, it stabilizes the capacity of our power through feeling energy from other beings." said Khayun as he begins to think follome doesn't understand.

"Do continue." said Follome. "Okay, so this barrier divides the power and shares it equally amongst us, sustaining life, as well as protecting us from the threats of the world, but there were these invaders who reached our land, Nulgaths, they're immune to the effects of the barrier, so nothing stood in their way while they masscured and killed millions of us, establishing their colonies, you're with me?" asked Khayun.

"I am, do continue." said Follome. "Well.. since they're immune to the barrier's power, the magic we use on them using its energies is useless, I thought to myself, if the nulgaths are immune to the barrier's power, then maybe we should take it down." said Khayun. "And then?" asked Follome.

"They refused, the barrier was sacred to them, and there was a chance that the raw power we draw from other planets without stabilization could overpower some and kill them." said Khayun.

"That is risky." said Follome. "It was, and since it was the only way, i had to do it." said Khayun.