"What was he called again, a Private Infestor?
"No, I think it was Private Infection!"
I recognize the voices; it is the three damn brothers. Water splattered my face as I woke up; I dried it with the blazer, and I was spot on about the brothers. Ragnar, Bagnar, and Tagnar, the toads with human-shaped bodies, are speedy runners with their flappy feet. Worst nightmare for an investigator: they always keep one step ahead of you and rob artifacts and art. I looked for them for a year, and in the last months they have been here… and fishing?
I got up to see two Grawlers dead on the ground, which is strange because they are supposed to be invisible.
"How did you…?" I pointed at the bodies on the ground.
"Nobody can get into this area with powers. We saw them moving towards you and went in between.
Ah shit! Now I owe them for saving my life and have to pretend I have never met them. I pointed towards the lake and cabin, not understanding how in the hell a beautiful landscape was behind a door in a train station.
"How did you…!"
"We heard about a hideout from an anonymous source and came here, and we rented it from Chae-Won because it's in a decentralized area and nobody uses it. You almost caught us two times, and we wanted to get you off our backs, so we found a peaceful place." Ragnar said.
"W-W-What! You know she works for the Van Polan organization, right?"
Ragnar pushed his tongue out, and the stare from him may have indicated that he was smirking at me.
"We gave her the Top 10 paintings of Asian Beauties as she had favorites there, and she gave us unlimited access to the relaxing place with a non-disclosure agreement." Ragnar countered.
I forgot, corruption is everywhere. I didn't have time for this crap, and I will let this shit pass. The Toads were heroes for one day and saved my life when I was unconscious. I took a step forward with my whole body shaking. I couldn't move, and the pain in my lower left stomach didn't make it easier as my adrenaline had gone down. I need to go back; the portal is not far.
"You need help, Private Immobilizer, you get it. You can not move hahaha!" Tagnar made a weird sound, and the other two followed suit.
I suppose that is how a toad with a human-shaped body laughs.
"Yeah! Can two of you hold my body up and force my legs to jog to the portal, then throw me into it with full force?"
The laughing stopped, and they stared at me.
"You…soon…dead!" Bagnar uttered.
"Yeah, I know that I need medical care, but I need to go back. I have never met you guys, no more hunting."
All three of them made the sound again, and it was hard to tell if they were laughing or just happy that I wouldn't tell anyone they were here. Tagnar and Bagnar went under my arms and lifted me a little bit from the ground, but my feet kept dragging on the grass, and the pain and aching all over my body refused to react to what my brain wanted.
"Come on…please…move!"
They went around in a circle on the grass, looking down at my feet as I tried to push my feet forward:
(This is only a funny segment pushed in as a joke; you do not need to read it. Just jump over it if you do not want to read it.
A white blood cell was running on the muscle mass, moving as quickly as it could towards the feet. On the way, it saw a red blood cell and made a double-bubble kick at it so it could follow it through the stream, leading down all the way to something called…Foot. When white and red blood cells came down, several white and red cells were scattered everywhere, out of energy. A brown cell came up, staring at everyone.
"Eh! I must have gone through the wrong channels. Do you guys know where the road to the intestinal is?"
Everyone there stared at one of the exits, and the brown cell nodded as it got the hint on which way to go.
"By the way! When is the due time?" White Cell asked Brown Cell.
"Ah! I forgot, in around three hours." Brown answered.
"Thanks, it can be good to know, you know…we are working here, you have all the luxury!"
Brown went through one of the channels and disappeared, but a black cell came in, moving back and forth, looking pumped up and ready to go.
"Okay, White and Red motherfuckers, look, you need to get the stickipi fickipy up and start fucking working, or I will shove wheat in you and your colour will become yellow, you want to be yellow?" Shouted to all cells in the area.
The cells slowly got up and moved to a big wheel called Feet, and their energy was really low as they tried to push it into motion. Everyone joined except the black cell, which shouted into the air.
"OUR MASTER HAS A MESSAGE COMING FROM THE…BRAIN!"
All of them looked at the black cell, waiting to hear what the message from the Master was.
"OUR MASTER SAYS…MOOOOOOOOOOOVE!"
The cells started to move the wheel, and electricity shot through the muscle mass around all of them, and all the cells smiled as they kept pushing the wheel around as their Master was back.)
"MOVE DAMN LEGS!" I screamed my lungs out as my right foot started to move, and then the left came right behind, and I needed to keep moving as we kept moving in a circle.
Bagnar and Tagnar upped the tempo, and we came up in a straight line towards the portal. They rushed towards it as my legs got used and I started running with them, and they threw me through the portal at really high speed, with my back against it.
I looked back in the darkness when a light was behind me. My back hit something hard, and I fell over the desk, noticing it was a Grawler who was probably guarding the door. I fell to the ground, but the rolling I had in mind was a big failure. Tried to make a kip up, but failed miserably and fell on my back again. I got up slowly and noticed it may be only one Grawler left. I looked around to find Valdor when a bang came from the right, as a train wagon was in the station, and Valdor's yellow light, combined with grey smoke, occupied half the wagon. While the Grawler on the ground slowly tried to gather itself, I tried to look into the wagon to see the enemy properly. When I looked down at the other wagon, innocent citizens with scared expressions were there, looking like it was a train going in the other direction, fuck! It is going to Paladin Woods. The Grawler came around the Kiosk while I took off my blazer with my new beautiful red shirt, instead of white… blood red. The Grawler rushed towards me and I threw the blazer at its head, but missed because I thought they were idiots, but it was smart and ducked. I went quickly down and made a low kick, which made the Grawler fall towards a window that cracked at the wagon where the other battle was going on. It quickly got up and tried to use its right arm like a spear towards me. Still, I bent way back and grabbed the arm as both of us fell to the ground. I swung my legs around its head and kept pushing to break its neck as it struggled back, but I was bigger than this one, and in the end, something broke as I saw the disgusting black eyes slowly closing.
"Fuck me! That was way more work than I signed up for!"
The train with Valdor started to move, but all the doors were closed. I got up, ran onto the platform, and jumped left and right through the cracked window before the train picked up speed. I looked towards the other side of the wagon, where Valdor's superhero shirt had turned blood-soaked, and it was two against one: a black creature shaped like a human was hitting Valdor every time he tried to protect himself from a blow from the green-hooded A-hole with green hands. My breathing was all over the place, and I felt that any moment now, I would probably die from loss of blood. The black smoke in the black cloak figure put up its green shining hand, pointed at me, and screamed:
"WHY IS HE NOT DEAD YET!"