Prodigies: The Dark Phantom

Episode 3

He drop the call and layed the phone on the table standing beside his right hip where the paint bottles are placed on top of it. Then, he take the paint brush that is vertically placed inside a thin and small empty bottle. There, he began swaying the brush on the empty paint board.

Inside Samuel's car, a slow christmas song is playing on the radio and Samuel can be heard singing with his closes lips.

He is driving on a long and wide road bridge that has a height of a three storey building. This road bridge is divided into four lanes through the use of white dash lines. Several vehicles are driving on this road at this moment.

Samuel's car curves to the right lane where the bridge's barrier is built on the edge of the fourth lane. He did this to stare at the beauty of the city lights which are far away from his location.

Meanwhile, a red pick-up truck can be seen driving on the third lane and is several meters away behind of Samuel's car. A fat guy was driving it and has been drinking his beer every minute.

“Gughaah... Wooh, this beer is really good.” grabbed by his right hand, he drop it behind the windshield and closer to the steering wheel, then he returned his eyes on the road.

Through the use of the left side mirror, Samuel's eyes shortly rolled to it. He's just making sure that gazing at the city lights will not cause him trouble. He's still humming at that time and seems like nothing can't stop him unless the song is done.

Both drivers of the red pick-up truck and the brown car are driving safe, until they both feel a sudden coldness that causes their arms to squeeze their body and shakes their head a little, like something pours them a bucket of a very cold water.

“Guahaaaaashh... Weird?, the weather suddenly gets colder.” the fat guy said as his hands are gripping on the steering wheel and his lips are squeezing because of the strange coldness even though he's wearing a thick jacket.

(Vroooooom! - Vroooooom! - Vroooooom!)

Three luxurious sports car suddenly took the attention of everyone driving on the road due to the loud bursting sound of their engines. They are filled with glowing and blinking lights that makes them more eye catchy on the road.

The drivers of these luxurious cars doesn't care about the other vehicles moving on the road, they didn't even showed everyone a sign as they change their lanes.

The fat guy smirks, “Tsk tsk tsk,” his head wobbles shortly while watching those cars, “boastful kids.” then his right hand grabs the beer again behind the windshield.

He nodded up and sticked its mouth to his lips, and when his eyes rolled to the rearview mirror where everything at the back can be seen, “Huh?!” his bristles all over his body suddenly risen. His eyes turned broad too, and disrupts his drinking.

It's because of a monster that is clearly visible to his eyes through the mirror.

This monster doesn't have an outer skin, only the reddish and wrinkled flesh are visible. Its limbs that seems like burned can be seen too, and its veins that looks like thick branches of a plant.

Its neck is twice longer than a human, the head is a shape of a bunny and the eyes are golden red like it's burning. Ears are sharp and pointed out to the back of its head. The mouth is wider like a shark and has a crocodile like teeth.

It's head is peeking out between the two front seats while its hands with a root like fingers are pressing down the shoulders of those seats.

The beer fell down and rolled when the fat guy's shaking hands loosen its grip. He quickly takes a look at the back seats to see it but he saw nothing was there except an empty back seats.

He returned his eyes to the mirror and he could still see the monster peeking from the back seats. The fat guy swallowed his saliva once as he stares at the mirror with a frightened look.

The overwhelming fear in his chest that weakens his limbs just made it worst when the monster turned its head to him.

Sighs, Samuel takes away his eyes from staring at the city and focuses his attention on road, there he decided to speed up his car.

The red pick-up truck suddenly increases its speed too until it matches Samuel's car.

“Hm?” Samuel noticed the other vehicle moving on his left, and his eyebrows merges a little because of the driver's weird actions.

The fat guy's head is stiff while looking at Samuel and seems like he has something to tell him. Samuel also noticed the suppressed anger that his face shows.

The strange actions of this driver is caused by the monster inside his truck. This monster is sitting on his lap, the hands of it are gripping his hands on the steering wheel, its legs that looks like hands are also gripping his feet, and its back is leaning against the driver like it was squeezing him.

All of this are only visible through the mirror.

The driver pulled his truck away by curving it to the left and instantly curves back until it strongly hits Samuel's car.

“Aaaghh!!!” because of the wild collision, Samuel was shaken inside and felt dizzy when his head hardly hits the door's window.

The window didn't shattered into pieces, but it created a lot of broken marks that seems like it's about to be fully wrecked. And his car is squeezed into the bridge's cemented barrier.

“I can't stop it!!!” he loudly screamed at Samuel because of his body that feels like being paralyzed.

Despite of the dizziness, Samuel tried to keep his attention on the road. He tried to stop his car by stepping onto the break pedal that could stop the wheels from rolling.