Chapter 5

Chapter 5

3 weeks later

Bryan's POV

Beautiful, that is the word to describe all these. I stand on the balcony staring at the big city. It is night time and all the lights look so bright and alluring making New York look so peaceful. I have been watching the news a lot lately. How could I not. Perry has been wreaking havoc and stealing too. It has been all over the various news channels. It was all our fault. We never should have gone through with that experiment. But it is too late for regrets now. We created this monster and it is our responsibility to stop it now. Ever since I remembered what happened to me at the lab, I have been afraid I might actually become just like Perry. The very thought of it haunts me every night. The gentle night wind pushes a strand of my long hair in front of my face. It is one of the changes that happened with me getting stabbed with the serum. I push the stubborn brown lock away and place it behind my ear. There are a lot more changes that have happened to me over the past weeks. My body is more muscular and stronger, my vision is now sharper than an average human's . My reflexes are better than the best and I pretty much heal very quickly now. Dad showed me all the hospital records but I experienced it myself a few days ago when I clumsily cut my finger with a knife in the kitchen while trying to cook. I quickly washed the blood off in the sink. When I wiped the finger, I thought I was hallucinating. The wound which was all fresh and red was now fully healed with no evidence that it had been a peircing a few seconds before. I was so amazed. The best part of all that happened is that I can hear and smell objects at very long distances. It is a pretty cool experience.

Following the recent happenings, lately I have been thinking a lot about many things and I think I know what I have to do now. I just need to tell Dad and hope that he trusts me in this. Just then , there is a knock on the door. I smell his unique cologne before he even reached the door. "Come in Dad" The door opens slowly and he walks into the room. "You are getting better at this son" I sense a feeling of proudness in his voice. "Yeah, I am getting the hang of everything but Dad, there is something I actually want to talk to...." Still with my back turned to him, I sense him moving his right hand backwards in readiness for a punch stance. I hear him move his left leg forward in a slow motion-like manner . I smirk and turn to him catching his fist in mid air before it can connect with my left cheek. I feel the air around hit me on the face. Woah! that would have left a sting. "Too slow, old man" I chuckle and let go of his hand. "Damn, that is quite amazing" he says wringing his hand. Just then, I catch his left fist just in time before he hits my gut. "Nuh uh, too fast for you Gramps. When will you just accept it" This earns a sulky face from Dad. "Dad like I was saying, I actually wanted to talk to you about all of this. I have been thinking a lot about all of the recent events and I made a decision. I want to help take down Perry and bring Rob home. I feel like it is ..." "Your responsibility" he completes." I have been expecting this. Too many superhero movies these days" he laughs. "I knew you would say this and I fully support your decision but you have to promise me one thing " With a feeling that I might not like what I am going to hear next, I ask "and what is that?" "Promise me you will never use this power for the wrong purposes no matter what happens" I chuckle loudly, "come on Dad, I would never do that. I will never be like him" He sighs, "I know, just promise me you'll always do the right thing with this gift" Rubbing my face with my left palm, I gruffly respond, "I promise Dad. Can we go get dinner now?" And guess what , dinner is on ..." I pretend to think about it then point at him "you" . "Yeah ,yeah . Dinner is always on me. Typical of you to do this every time . You suggest dinner and put the bill on me" I smile cheesily. "No, no ,it's not like that Dad" We go outside and I lock the apartment. "Think fast" I throw the car keys to him. " You drive, I think I'm growing a tail" ." what!!" He cries out dropping the keys. His face looks white with surprise and worry. Before he knows what's going on, I take a picture of him with my phone. " Hahaha , just kidding. You should have seen the look on your face, priceless. Gonna use this as my wallpaper now. Done." I wave the phone at him. " He looks shocked and when he gets over the information, he groans . " Very funny son. He mock laughs. " Can we go now. I'm starving. And delete that picture "

As father and son pulled out of the driveway and headed into the big city , they were unaware of the two pairs of sinister eyes that watched them intently from the top of a building nearby . The darkness of the night fully enveloping them. The glowing-Amber eyed figure turned to his companion who showed no emotion at all in the cover of the night. " I think it is about time we had a little reunion. Don't you? Their fun ends soon. Ours, however has just begun" Perry snarled earning a crazy smirk from his black-hooded companion.