Alpha Aiden and the Desjadiens Conflicts

Schinx in the cult

"Just like that, we are having a name. We are making an impact. Someone out there is speaking about us and I can feel it," Ix said and laughed not to the funny tune of what she had said, but it was a rejoicing laugh. She, together with Luke was Aiden's childhood friend. They grew on the community wealth during elementary days and ended up in an orphanage. Luke was lesser in inch when compared to Aiden, but he was stronger as Aiden was battling a health condition that was eating him up. Luke had muscular arms and his torso was rigid. He loved the gym and he had become an instructor in it. Every other aspect of beauty where Aiden was lacking was where Luke was blessed. He had full hair that he packed with the help of a ribbon and Aiden had always admired him.

While Aiden and Luke would boast of their height and strength respectively, Ix would boast of her sense of reasoning and her smart mind. Aiden had once referred to her as his mother's successor. She was good at sighting dangers. She grew to be beautiful and petite, more of the reason Aiden thought he must continue to protect her as he had been doing from childhood. They, Luke and Ix had accepted Aiden's idea of the cult when they agreed to give back to the community, however little it may seem.

"Do you expect lesser reactions?" Jacob said. "At least, the bullies in Kinderwell will learn to be mild with the kids. I'm sure petty thefts will reduce. I'm sure little brawls will sleep." Jacob and Jason were twins, Aiden's friend of a friend and they were brought into the group by Luke. Jacob was seated beside Michelle - the two were an item.

"Soon, very soon, we shall be known. We shall be called to help mend a rough town. By then we can start charging the ones that need our service. Isn't it?" Luke stated.

"I bet that's a long day from now. The police department is there. Then, the local vigilante, then the hunters. I think to these, we would be competitors. That's not what I see, Luke," Ix said, shaking her head. "I see that we would be probed. Forced to stop or hunted by competitors. I can see dangers dangling on our heads."

Aiden had heard the whispers already. Their last encounter with the Anna group in the street was an eyeopener to it all. It was their first intervention that ended in a short span fight but it ended quickly. He had seen the anna in a fight and saw how rash and rough they were. If it were in the days when the demons in them were wide awake, it would have been death. But they seemed official in the hooded sweatshirt with the heptagon inscription and a big 7 lashing across the words. They seemed like they had financial support from a stronghold, which is what stunned the anna. He could sense that a time would come when his verbal scope, Jacob and Jason's fury, in conjunction with the endless physical strength of Luke would keep them. He hated the thought of it.

"We will maintain our winning ways. It had been working and it will continue to," Michelle said and amidst her words, Aiden shook his head. The winning way as said by Michelle was lying about being in seven-folds and that backup would come. Again, he felt the danger that Ix talked about.

"You should see the anna's leader face when Jacob overpowered him in the tussle," Michelle said. "I was scared at a point. I thought Jacob was going to kill him."

"I knew he wouldn't. He is not going to be on Ashlake's murderers' list at age twenty, is he? I bet he doesn't," Rebecca said and added another piece of wood into the fire within. It was close to seven post meridian when the meeting would wrap up for the day. "I loved the fact that we seemed official with some rogue mindset. We were learned. We almost tied them with our words about being an activist. At a time, it became obvious that it won't be enough, then Aiden intervened with his invisible and invincible call for backup," she concluded.

Aiden couldn't help but marvel at the role he played in the open confrontation with the street Anna. He was fulfilling his dream on a mellow scheme but it was a big deal to him.

"Then, thinking of what would happen and what we'd do if we're to reveal our faces," Ix said again. She was seated beside the mastermind behind all plans, the one who formed the cult - Aiden himself. The two were supposed to be. Luke would love it so. The heptagon too. But a lot was on Aiden's head and there was no space for Ix. His head was filled with how to usurp power from budding gangs and have their name 'Heptagon' erected in the heart of Kinderwell which is the only street they have harnessed, as well as the downtown where most of the crime happens in the whole Ashlake, and then all over New York.

"We are going there. I can see it. If we meet a crazed group that reveals one of us, then all of us are. It renders us unsafe and open to threats. I don't want you all to see the positive alone, reason along with the negative. It's normal to be scared, it will help our preparations," Ix concluded.

Aiden was absorbing it all. That Ix was saying it was enough to be scared. Ix was known to talk out of turn and be right. Just as Aiden was seeing her, she was a visionary and she would keep proving it.

"We would be careful onwards. Ix is right. If we encounter a crazed force we will bend. Though, few are happy with this group. Still, many are not with it. The danger is that the little that is happy with us won't be there whenever we're having a hard time. We will be all for ourselves. So we will be careful. We will hopefully await recommendations and then we will step out to accept them. But still, we won't reveal our faces," he said sternly. He always harboured the feeling of being the nucleus of the group. They all refer to him as the master planner and he was okay with it. He could see prophecies coming to pass but not fully.

As the fire danced with respect to the wind pattern, he closed his eyes and allowed it to fall on his face as the chatter continued. He missed out on all. His mind was befogged by Ix's prophecies which were insights alone without cautionary plans or revelation. Again, he found himself worrying about the future.

Suddenly, there was silence. The breeze carried an eerie serenity in it and they felt it all. Aiden opened his eyes and saw Luke on his feet. Ix also raised her eyes and began to observe the area. "What is that?" Aiden asked.

"I think I heard something," Jason answered.

"I did, too," Michelle said.

"Eyes," Aiden said and they all picked a point to observe, a tree each, none said a word, just palpitations for the first minute.

"I guess there's nothing," Rebecca said to kill the silence.

"I submitted an idea of weapons. We should get them, especially for times like this" Jacob said and there was no response.

"No, there is something," Ix said. "Something I can't explain."

After Ix's voice, an object dropped in the middle of the area and scattered the woods in the fire and causing pellets of small light molecules to fly. It was Aiden's call to order the alert but at that point of austere fear, Jason took it to himself and called for a run. "Run," he shouted. If it were Aiden that made the call, he would add a coordinate such that they would converge at some point. Hence, he watched them scatter and turned to run as well. As an afterthought, he turned back to hold Ix so that the escape from the unknown danger would be effective together but she had run towards the opposite region. There he saw, after checking out the object that had dropped that it was a human body, riveted on the fire for some time and then rolling off. With alert in his system, he retreated with his eyes set on the body, observing the movement.

"Help me," a voice came from the body, a distressed, weakened one.