Blackport PD: Paranormal Detectives

Chapter 22

Nathan’s POV

“No, I don’t want to be a part of your team.”

My smile slowly faded when I hear her answer. Even Mica is shocked because she thought that we can easily convince her to join us especially that we helped her stop and bring her Other Mother back to where she really belongs. Also aside from the fact that Mica healed her immediately even with lots of people in the surrounding.

“Why?” I blurted out. The people from the fast food chain steal glances to our direction. They are probably waiting for another scene to post on their vlogs.

“I don’t want to join f-freaks like you,” she said while looking down. I scoffed and eyed her sarcastically and scan her from head to toe.

Oh yes, she do looks normal like the rest of the people in here but we all knew she was one of us.

“A freak? Ha! After all we’ve done for you?” Mica blurted out and shook her head before moving her chair away from Carina. She has a grim expression on her face while glaring directly at the latter.

“Why? Aren’t you real freaks? That guy who walks out earlier did this to me,” she showed the part of her sleeves that had been burned, “and you three have abnormal abilities like draining or healing or manipulating or whatever freak power it is!”

A loud slap had been heard across the room. Everyone stopped in their tracks to look at Carina who is now on the floor while caressing her red face due to Mica’s loud slap on her.

Mica sits down to level her gaze with Carina and hardly squeeze her jaw. She whispers things to her that are not quite audible and then push Carina one more time. She looks dumbfounded as she slowly looks at my direction.

I shook my head and grab my thing especially that I saw a staff walking to our direction. Even before he could say something, I grabbed Mica from the hand and walk out of the fast food with her.

“That stupid cold hearted bitch.” Mica continuously mumbles under her breath. I gritted my teeth in anger and clinch the fist that wasn’t holding her tightly.

“I’m sorry for what I had done to her, I just –“Mica cuts Gene off who was explaining his side while waving her hand to his face.

“She deserves that. I wish you burned her more and that I wouldn’t heal her.”

She went to the car and slammed the door hard, leaving the two of us outside. Gene had a curious look on his face as to why Mica is acting up like that. He looks at me waiting for an answer that made me rolled my eyes on him.

“Carina said we’re freaks and that she didn’t want to be part of our team,” I monotonously said before opening the door in the passenger seat and went in.

I saw Gene from the side mirror walking furiously back to the fast food chain, only to be stopped by Antonov who just went out  from there and held him on to his shoulder. Gene looks really mad but when Antonov puts his finger on his forehead, he calms down and walks back to our direction.

I closed my eyes and rested my back while waiting for Antonov to come to the driver’s side and drive. I am getting tired with all of these even though we are just starting to gather teammates.

“What took you so long?” Mica asked as Antonov went to his seat. He looks at her from the mirror and smiled slightly before slowly looking back into the glass frame of the fast food chain where Carina is still there and looking at us.

“Start it up, I don’t want to see that b***h who can’t accept that she’s a freak too,” Mica scoffed while highlighting the word ‘freak’.

Antonov started the car and heats up the engine and then looks at me with a slight smile on his face.

“What?” I asked while raising my eyebrows on him. He chuckles a bit and gave us all a slight smile before droving off the parking lot.

“She will be our teammate soon, just wait for it.” He said meaningfully and we hit the road once more.

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The day easily passes by and now it is almost night time. I don’t even know where we are but Antonov just continues driving to wherever he would take us.

I closed my eyes while remembering the golden streak in Carina’s soul when we face her Other Mother. That is a clear indication that she is indeed one of us. I really thought that she will easily accept us as her teammate due to what we’ve done and then now, she just dumps us and called us freaks.

“Where are we now?” I asked when I saw familiar English words from the streets and to the signboards. I can also hear music and the way of communication of the people around us are also in English.

I look out from the window and wander my sight until it landed in one of a huge arc stating where we are.

“Arabia is quite far from here so how?” Gene curiously asked while eyeing the surroundings. In just a second, all of the lights went on that made this dark place illuminated by random bright colors as music filled everywhere.

“Through the invisible portals, of course.” He answered and drove swiftly to one of the most prominent place in here that is the trademark of this country. A huge casino welcomed our sight with glistening lights and random rich people coming in to it.

He slowed down the car and parked nearby where we could clearly hear loud music from the inside. He looks at our direction with a smile on his face before confirming the answer to our question.

“Welcome to Las Vegas everyone...”