Prodigies: The Dark Phantom

Episode 10

At this moment, he was wondering why there's no blood mark on his forehead. There's nothing at least a small drop of it.

He layed his palms on the washbasin, and swallowed his saliva once. The fear on his chest is still not fading away along with his heavy breathing.

His eyes couldn't stare at one spot too because of the frightening situation that happened a while ago.

He twisted the faucet's handle and the water bursted out. He immediately placed his palms under the faucet to soak the bursting water and wipe it up to his face, he did this for two times before looking up again on the mirror.

Vincent closes his eyes and took a deep breathe.

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Time | 3 PM onwards.

Walking at the park, Vincent was having a chilly moment with his ice cream hold by his left hand. He went there after having another job interview.

While he was having a walk on the park and staring down at his right hand closing and opening it for unknown reasons, “Hey!” a woman suddenly taps his right shoulder after chasing him.

“Oh hey!” Vincent turned a look at her and stops walking, “it's been a long time, how are you?” he felt surprised because of her sudden appearance.

This woman is Margaret, she's gorgeous and has a slim body. She's wearing an office attire and holding the strap of her shoulder bag.

“Yeah, it's been years.” she smilingly replied.

“So how's your life?” Vincent asked and continued to walk, Margaret walks too.

“Well everything's fine, my work isn't that stressful. You?, how's yours?” her eyes turned to Vincent who's watching a group of kids playing football on the field.

“Mm?, well uh.” he felt a bit shy, “I'm still looking for a job until now.”

“Hm?” her eyebrows moves up, “How long you've been unemployed?”

“Um, a year and four months I guess.” he said and bites the ice cream.

“Really?, wow that's a long rest.” she kiddingly said as she looked to the other direction.

Vincent chuckles, “Yeah, but it's fine. I'll get a job soon.”

“How's the others?” his eyes stares at her shortly.

“Who?” she looked at him and wondered.

“I mean, our highschool classmates. Have you heard anything about them?” he stares at her again shortly.

“Oh!, I almost forgot. We'll be having a reunion party at the Felicia's bar this coming Sunday, you know that place right? ”

“A reunion?, yeah I know where it is.”

“Yeah, you should be there at 4 in the afternoon, everyone will come.”

“Sure, It's a special day. I can't wait to see what they look after years.”

Their conversation entered new topics, until they decided to have a seat for a while when they reached a bench idling at the left side of the walk lane. And there, they continued talking to each other.

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Time | 8 AM

Date | Sunday

The huge bell hanging inside the tower of the cathedral, which is visible to the eyes of everyone on the ground because of the large square shape window built on the four walls, began to sway when the sexton pulls its thick rope tied above it continuously.

Under the broad daylight, lots of people are scattered everywhere, and they're all heading into their own preferred places with their love ones or friends.

The whole place is peaceful and bright. There are children having fun popping out each countless bubbles floating on some areas, as they're all being bursted out from the vendors's bubble guns.

Others are entering and exiting the cathedral's wide gate. Some are taking time inside of their preferred eatery and food stalls.

All of these are disturbed by a sudden explosion.

Huge and thick smoke suddenly came out from the cathedral's front door. People run out to the west and east doors, panickingly screaming. They're all racing and bumping against each other despite of the children who were running with them too. Others from the outside immediately runaway from that place of explosion too.

Later, lines of police mobiles and ambulances showed up rushing towards the cathedral's gate while their paths are being blocked by the panicking crowds heading to a safe place.

The authorities came out to secure the area while the rescuers immediately checked the situation of the wounded survivors laying on the ground.

All of them are surprised as they saw the merciless result of the sudden explosion.

Dead bodies are scattered at the front doorway, and some parts of those bodies were blown everywhere, filling the whole entrance with blood along with the scattered burned parts of the bomb.

The terrifying event spreaded quickly through different social media platforms, causing fear to the country's people.

In the news, based from the recorded video of the installed surveillance camera near the area of explosion, there was a tall and skinny man who entered the front door and wearing a pale indigo backpack. He wears a light grey sweater, a dark pants, a maroon rubber shoes and his skin is mild dark in color.

The country's representative of National Anti-Terrorism Organisation told everyone to stay aware all the time, and the terrifying event is undergoing thorough investigation, to figure out who are the enemies behind it that killed eighteen innocent lives including the children that were standing near the suspect.

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Time | 4:12 PM

Vincent came twelve minutes late at the bar's front door.

The bar looks luxurious because of its pleasing architectural design. It was huge and built in a hundred plus meters away from the seashore.

Vincent wears a formal look such as navy blue coat, tucked in white long sleeves, silver watch, grey slim fit pants, and black leather shoes.

He entered the mild dark room lightened by colorful steady and moving lights to look for his old friends as he passed through other customers standing, walking, dancing while holding their beverage everywhere inside the noisy bar.