CHAPTER 3 : SEEING THE CONCEALED

CHAPTER 3

SEEING THE CONCEALED

The search for Maria wasn't long as Khloe displayed a sort of ability leading us to the exact point where the girl was.

I was stunned after realising that I was standing before the club that had been placed in my head. Not actually before it to be precise, just by the road side. Not a big deal but it felt strange.

"Juan Sebastian Bar?"

 I read the bold bar name written above the door, glanced at our surrounding and back at the door where the bouncers stood. 

"How are we getting past that door?!" 

I asked Khloe with my arms folded on my chest. I turned around to no answer rather Khloe was already heading towards the door, walking drunk-walking. I realised she had taken off her jacket and all she had on was her sleeveless thin shoulder cloth with her jeans of course.

"Dang it!" 

I banged the car's door hard and laid by the car, just waiting to see what she had to play off.

"You know what they say about big boys like you two?"

 She started off, seductively speaking, as she cat walked towards them in a loose (drunk) manner.

".....They do everything perfectly." 

She winked. I had my hand over my face, shamelessly watching.

Khloe grabbed one of them, (the bouncer at the left to be precise) by his shirt, leaving him speechless.

"Ma'am are you drunk?" 

They asked...trying to help her out.

"...big girls don't get drunk..."

 Khloe added with a sultry voice as she dragged him closer to her, staring at his lips. She had her index finger, going all the way from his forehead to his lips and down to his stomach. He got sexually stimulated obviously, I could see something in those rugged jeans of his. His eyes stuck on her face, his arms ceased to move and his eyes widened.

"Horny bastard."

 I spoke out.

"This is enough play for today, don't you think?"

 Like a temptress, Khloe whispered seductively, in his left ear, winked at him before pushing him back. She turned over to me and I thought she was coming back until she smiled and pimp-slapped him with her left foot. He hit his head against the wooden door edge and he suddenly fell. 

The other one thought it was the right time to put on self defence mode as he walked towards Khloe with the intention to perhaps, handle her fake drunkenness.

"Hey! I think that's enough!"

 He groaned.

I flicked my finger and heard a crack from the neck of his. Honestly I couldn't tell if he was still alive but...

"He'll survive!"

 I said confidently to Khloe, stepping down from the vehicle, before she dragged the bodies all the way behind the bar. 

"If you were to be a demon, you'd be a succubus."

I stared at Khloe. She smiled widely and all she said was,

"I know damn well." "But I'll rather take the role of a temptress!"

She exhaled with a wide grin. This girl's hella bad ass. I felt something going down my nostrils again, my blood precisely. I gasped before cleaning it and Khloe gave me the sober you-will-be-alright look.

"Okay!! We got this."

I pushed the door all the way in and it suddenly occurred to me, that door was sound-proof. We were welcomed to a full day club. The booming hard beat music almost deemed my ear drums to premature eruption. The disco light swirled in an array of multiple colours I couldn't even point out. Glasses clashed at the sound of cheers, voices of various tones rose and faded. On the right side, as I studied, it seemed like a competition went on there, hand wrestling, thumb wrestling, and all that surrounded the two wrestlers struggling to take each other down, were rodeo bouncers who seemed fascinated by the match.

All the way to the north, right before Khloe and I, was a DJ guy and two strippers, who had on a nipple covered sort of bra and a G-String pant, on two poles beside the DJ guy. 

"This shit still exists?"

Asked Khloe.

"I'll need a distraction."

She added as she rolled her eyes and walked to the left corner of the room.

"For Goodness sake, what does a seventeen year old see here that intrigues her?"

I stared at the left pole, where the strippers danced and rolled their asses down and up, for a moment and it got slit halfway, which caused the strip lady who was sliding down from the top with her head downwards, and her legs up high to have some intense cut. The sharp edges of the pole gave her a deep seven inches long cut per view. Suddenly every where went up in screams from the girl and the other stripper who stood still, stamping the wooden podium with her hills. She yelled as they stared, doing absolutely nothing to help.

I felt it again, the blood. I took out a handkerchief from my left pocket and quickly swiped it over my nose, glancing and swivelling to confirm if anyone saw anything or if I had eyes on me. I turned over to Khloe who was at the left corner of the room with a girl at the counter, sipping their beer. Suddenly I saw her like I knew her or something. It was Maria. She wore a worried expression on her face, turning at Khloe and at the stripper who was bleeding. Khloe quickly tipped what seemed to be a white powder into her glass. She glanced at me, starring daggers and I walked towards her immediately. Just as Maria turned back at us, Khloe grinned and spoke up just as Maria drank from her glass. 

"Maria, John...John, Maria." She introduced us to each other, gesturing at Maria and I.

"Nice to meeehh...."

I didn't quite get what she was about to say before she dozed off. I grabbed her before she fell, lifted her up and took her to a room I saw behind the counter where Maria sat at. The bathroom to be precise. It was empty and all that I saw were toilet sinks lined up straight before the mirror which was at the eastern side of the bathroom. On the left were toilets with toilet partitions covered what ever was behind them.

We tied her hands and kept them behind her, then dropped her beside the sink at the extreme, before the entrance. Not exactly what I planned but perhaps, I needed answers. 

"What exactly did you put in her drink and where did you even get it from?"

I asked. Honestly I was intrigued by that.

"Not your business!"

Khloe replied sternly.

"She is waking up."

She added with a smothered smirk.

Khloe stooped and had her face right before Maria's half way opened eyes, smiling villainously. 

"Is that necessary?"

I asked referring to the villainous smile.

"Ahh! Stay back! Stay back!"

Maria suddenly opened her eyes fully, yelled and was about to do something with her hands but then realised it was tied behind her.

"If you harm me, I will scream, I..I-- will...I will...call the cops."

She defended her self, trying to cuddle up at the corner.

"Scream and I will kill you."

I smiled broadly and widened my eyes.

"Youuuuu bitch, I thought we were getting to be friends."

Maria yelled at Khloe, shrugging hastily with rage at Khloe's face before she spat at her.

I grabbed her by the throat, lifted her up. Then I saw everything around me in a golden display. Not the first time, it always happened when I get tipped off.

"Now listen to me!"

I said to her, displaying my canines. The sinks that were lined up there suddenly shattered as soon as I spoke. 

"I've heard the rumors and I am not impressed.You have something that belongs to me and I want it back."

Khloe tapped me trying to push me away from Maria. I felt her mouth move and heard the blunt voices of those on the other side of that door. I tried to let Maria go but I felt somehow more filled with power than the past two days. It was overwhelming and it felt like satisfaction. The sound of silence that concealed all other sound trying to reach my ear drum suddenly cleared and I heard Khloe's yelling at me.

"John you are killing her, let her go."

Khloe yelled. I heard as Maria choked and grasped for air, hitting my left hand which suffocated her.

I suddenly dropped her and I saw clearly.

The scene extended as I turned away from both Maria and Khloe and tried to think of what just happened.

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"You said you have heard the rumors what exactly do you mean?"

Khloe who stood behind me asked. I turned over my neck and tilted my eyes at her. The expression on her face seemed like she was confused. Of course she was!

"The rumors of her and her ancestors accused of being witches. But she doesn't even know!"

I added, before turning over to her.

"Know what?"

Maria asked, tilting her eyes at Khloe and I. 

"She is a witch!"

I whispered to Khloe rather than Maria. I tapped her by the sides of her head and washed away the words she heard about her being a witch. 

I closed my eyes to the dim misty sight of my eye lids and said in my mind, to Maria's hearing as well.

"I want you to believe." 

"John!"

Khloe called as she came in between what was going on. She thought I was harming her again. She held my hand and made body contact with Maria. I was about to yell 'No' at her for what she was about to do but she did it already. The body contact she made interrupted what was going on already. This action had consequences.

I suddenly blacked out and I saw myself in a dark room. Not for long though. I opened my eyes immediately and I saw as Khloe took a huge grasp of air before she opened hers. And Maria, she collapsed.

I stared daggers at Khloe, fully aware of what she just did. She at that moment possessed another shard of my ability. She just took the ability I had to siphon thoughts. 

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The rest of the events that went on wasn't as rough as how it started. I had a brief talk with Khloe on what she did. She got used to the ability pretty fast. I thought her how to use the powers within few minutes, requiring her to siphon my thoughts from years back, to herself. After this, when Maria woke up, we walked out of the ,then, emptied bar and back to Khloe's house where we spent the night. For the record, Khloe just officially became a siphoner, with hidden powers I had no idea of, powers that Raphael put in her. Contradictorily, we had a witch who didn't know she was one yet. And down to me, I expected to have a peaceful night but suddenly I felt the weight of sleep being lifted from my eyes. I stood up from the sudden floor I laid in and I realised it was Raphael's world, once again. 

In his usual attire and his usual position of staring at the scattering sun set into the thick blue clouds, he spoke up.

"I can see you are making progress."

He stated, not bothering to turn over.

"As in progress, you mean finding out that my best friend has a shard of my power, and that we have a witch in the team and my power is at verge? Yes of course, progress it is." 

I grinned ironically, awaiting his next angelic line of speech.

"Your past, you deserve to know, to know how you lost your powers."

Raphael spoke, swerving from what I just said. Although, I wanted to know what happened, how it all came to this. How I lost my powers.

Raphael turned over and starred at me and suddenly every thing I saw, the Venezuela street, Khloe's house and the rest of it, faded off like a hologram. That was how it was to be told, how I lost my powers. 

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