Chapter 5: The Hooded Figure (Kratos)

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My eyes cracked open and just through the windshield of the car, I could see the stars twinkling in the night sky. As I moved my head to the side, my neck made a loud cracking noise, to which I let out an annoyed groan. It was unbelievable that I had fallen asleep in a stolen car. The fact that it was a sleek, stylish Camaro only seemed to make my case worse. The cops could've caught up to me by now and I could've been in jail. Plus I fell asleep sitting up which resulted in both my neck and back killing me.

What concerned me the most though, was the dream that I just had. Had I really just seen the exact same girl from the picture in the wallet? Why was she in my dreams? What did this mean? This was just all way too random and my brain couldn't comprehend any of it. The dream was really odd and out of the blue. What was even weirder was how real it had felt. With every swift movement of my sword, I could feel the chilled breeze brush against my face. The piercing cries of the wolves rang through my ears as my swift movements made them fly into the trees. I could feel how the rush of adrenaline pulsed through my veins. There was a jumble of emotions flowing through me, and my only intention was to keep that girl safe, but why? She was nothing to me but a promise I made, and as soon as I found a place for her to stay, she was out of my hair.

The fact that she was nothing to me was the fact that made it hard to determine just how long I would have to take care of her. I had no idea who this girl was or if I had even seen her before in my life, but there was something that felt familiar about her. She had beautiful, long brown hair that flowed in the wind and the most beautiful amber eyes. Being honest with myself, she was one of the most beautiful girls that I had ever seen in my life, but I couldn't help but try to fight off the vibe that I was getting from her. It felt as if she had some kind of magnetic force that kept pulling me in, that kept making me want to protect her. I didn't know what it was, but it was extremely bothersome. Never in my life had I ever had an urge to protect anyone other than my organization colleagues or myself. So out of the blue, how can this girl just come in and break my ways?

Even though I didn't know much about her, there was on thing I was certain of: This girl possessed some sort of great power, a power that she didn't even know that she had herself. Her power definitely wasn't anything like mine.  As I was pondering in my thoughts, everything suddenly started to line up. Pulling the worn out, brown leather wallet from my pocket, I flipped it open to reveal the girl's picture once more. She had beautiful, long brown, flowing locks and the same amber eyes as the girl in my dream did.  Just as I flipped the picture around, the moonlight illuminated a handwritten KL Kiyano, Age 17.

No. No,no,no,no,no. There was no way this was even possible. Those words written on that picture just confirmed all of the doubts I had. There was no way this was just mere coincidence.

KL Kiyano was real. She was alive. She wasn't just some fictional pigment in my mind. She wasn't a made up story that some crazy man on a plane had told me. KL Kiyano was a real and living person. She was the person that I needed to find.

Shifting in the driver's seat, I pulled out the crumpled paper with the address on it. I wasn't even sure if this was the right place to go, but everything else was effortlessly falling into place, so I hoped that this would too. Sure, it could possibly lead me to someplace dangerous, but obviously the man had ties to this place so regardless of where I ended up, I'd still end up with more information. Unless, of course, this was a set up. Then I'd pretty much end up dead or in jail because I just stole a Camaro from someone.

Putting the key in the ignition, the car purred to life. Looking around inside the beautiful hunk of metal, I noticed something peculiar. There was a tiny red light where the passenger would place their feet at. Getting out of the car and going to the other side, I noticed that there was a chip there. It wasn't just any random item that had fallen there either. It was perfectly placed inside of a device that would read off information to whoever installed it in here in the first place. It was a chip placed into a chip scanner. The only thing that this could mean was that someone was watching my every move and tracking every coordinate I had made since I had stolen the car. Someone was tracking me.

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