Prodigies: The Dark Phantom

Episode 27

“I know you're wondering why I invited you to come here...” she looked at him with a smile and Vincent looked at her too.

“Four of our team members weren't able to attend due to some reasons,” her eyes changes direction, “so that's why I told you to come here. We need additional assistance of another volunteer” chuckles, “though you're not a real volunteer.” she glanced at him.

(Loud party music echoing)

(Female voice on microphone echoing)

“What?,” Vincent chuckles and his eyebrows move up as he looked at her again, “you should have told me. Look at my clothes,” his hands pointed his clothes.

Margaret just laughs, “I'm sorry.”

“Anyway,” he looked at the crowd in a far distance, “I never had been involved in this kind of work so, I guess this may be fun.” he smilingly said.

“We'll see...” she kiddingly said.

(Children giggles)

As the event continued to give fun for the children. Vincent thought that he just wasted his time doing different tasks for the event to run smooth, but it was just an expectation.

Vincent and Margaret didn't just worked like wasting their energy for the event. Instead, they spent a lot of time laughing, talking about fun topics and joining some games that requires assistance of adults for the children to play safe. No matter how many task they do, the tiredness they feel doesn't seems affecting them.

(People clatters)

(Loud party music playing)

Sighs deeply, Vincent dropped down a large box on a table containing stacks of cooked spaghettis that are wrapped in styrofoam plates.

He wipes down his sweat and noticed something strange at the crowd, where elders are playing cat(elders) and mouse(children) chasing game in the open field.

It because of a white man standing behind several senior citizens who are watching the fun game of other elders and children. He's holding the straps of his backpack and moving in a silent panicking behaviour. He keeps on looking around, nodding up and down, gripping his backpack's straps, looking sweat, and spinning a little and then facing back the children.

“Why are you still standing there?” a deep voice of another man coming through the white man's tiny earphone on his left ear.

When he heard this voice, he breathes in deeply and exhales his unstable feeling. The voice proves that it is the source of his fear.

“Stop staring at them and just do it.” the same voice showed up again.

The white man feels an intense beating of his heart. His mind is troubled by something that the deep voice wants him to do but seems against of his will.

The way he breathes is so deep and fast although he's just standing there and moving strangely while staring at the innocent faces of the children enjoying their moment with the elders.

“Can you hear me?” the deep voice showed up again.

Breathing deeply, “Yes.” he nodded up and looked around.

“Then why the hell are you still standing there?”

The deep voice makes the fear on his chest more heavy.

The white man's legs are starting to tremble.

“Stop f*****g hesitating, remember what our leader had told you.”

After hearing those words, the white man suddenly remembered the last happy moment of him with his wife and their son which is still a kid.

He was seating beside his twelve year old son while his wife is preparing a meal on the lakeside, and teaching his son on how to use a fishing rod when a group of armed men suddenly came and forcedly grabbed him away as they covered his head with a black cloth.

“I said do it!” the deep voice suddenly turns mad and he was startled, disrupting the moment of thinking of his family.

(Children giggling)

The white man finally decided to move his feet, but it was interrupted when a little boy suddenly bumped onto his legs.

This little boy was giggling at that moment because of an elder woman who is chasing him, he quickly run away after it with a very joyful look on his face.

The white man nodded up after staring at the little boy and took a deep breathe. He still can't make his feet move into the middle of the crowd.

At this moment, there are two things that are extremely fighting in his head, and these are to complete his mission for the sake of his family or fail it for the sake of the innocent lives around him.

“Do it now!” the deep voice yelled.

“Hm?” Vincent wondered why the white man is moving more strange than before. He noticed how the white man's behaviors are different from the others who were just standing and watching there in the field.

He also noticed that the white man is several meters away from Margaret and several children, who were having a fun moment with their toy hand puppets on the leafy ground.

So he decided to move his feet, heading to where the white man is standing because of his curiosity.

But when he almost reach the white man's location.

All of a sudden.

Inhales deeply, “Gaaaahhhhh!!!” the white man loudly screamed till his belly is curved, but not just one time, he screamed again and again despite of the others thinking that he is a crazy man.

He decided to scream because of the too much confusing situation that none of the people around him knows the reason why he does it.

His sudden screams makes everyones moments disturbed. The people and children near him was moved away while the others are wonderingly staring at him.

“Agh!” wearing a jogging suit and holding a phone with attached wired earphones, this good looking man's ears felt hurt because the loud scream, making him remove it and stops jogging on the walk lane which is far from the program.