Chapter 3: The First Encounter of the Cult of Sowelu and the New Weapons

Me and Chris went back home, as we opened the door and entered the room to our flat, as my father came down

"hello, who is this?" asked my father as he came down stairs

"Im back father" I said

"ah, your mother said that she is going to be back late due to a problem with her friend, how are you doing, how was the first day of school today?" asked my father

"It was rather fine, but I have something to tell you"

"what is it Joseph?" asked my dad

"today while going to school, I stopped some blokes from harassing my new classmate right?"

"yes?" said my father

"well when I was going back to the flat, the blokes came back up again right?"

"yes?" said my father

"well now they show up with bloody 12 inch knives, a bloody Lee Enfield riffle, and a revolver"

"are you hurt anywhere Joseph?" asked my father in a concerned voice

"no, Larry helped me, he bloody sliced the riffle bullet coming towards my head into two"

"ah, as expected from the O'Spangerson family, what move did he use?"

"storm style, knife arts, high level, cut of the lightning flash" Chris replied

"nice, but now you would have not called unless you have something important such as this, otherwise you would have not struct a conversation with me after you came back home"

"very nice deducing father, so the blokes we fought called in reinforcements, and our new classmate, Ainsley came in with a lightning hose, called Zeus, and I looked at their wrists, and saw a zigzag tattoo"

"Joseph... don't tell me it's the cult of the rising sun"

"yes, it was the cult of the rising sun, the cult of Sowelu"

"Joseph, at the next foundation meeting, tell us the details, we will send out a squad out, and we will inform the police"

"yes father" I replied "also Chris is here as well, he is safe, do not worry"

"good, now, go take some rest, and go to school fresh tomorrow"

"alright" I replied

as me, Chris and my father ate at the dinner table, we talked about school, it seem strange that he didn't talked about anything regarding the cult of Sowelu, when we went to sleep I heard my father go out the house into the streets. We woke up the next morning, feeling refreshed we went down stairs all dressed and ready to go to school as my father stoped me and said.

"Joseph! what ever you do, bring this with you!"

he hands me a fully loaded automatic loading pistol and 3 spare magazines as he said

"you would need this with you, since it is certainly not safe out there" as he also hands Chris another pistol he says

"this is a colt 1905 edition, it is a automatic pistol made in America, be warned that our British rounds cannot work in this gun"

"father are you drunk again?" I asked "why are you giving underaged children guns that are high tech?"

"what? ah, it's nothing, had like *Burps* a dozen bevys last night"

"bloody hell father, you should sober up! last time, when you gave me a revolver, I took it because I was driving into a really messed up place, Please be careful when handing people guns!"

as we head out delivering news papers, we pass the Aulay family's house again and spot Ainsley.

"good day Ainsley" Chris shouted

"Gday Chris, and Joseph"

"Ainsley! can you deliver the Newspaper to your parents?"

"Sure thing Joseph!"

as she takes my newspaper from my hands and goes inside the house, as she comes out with her bags and ready to go to school as I invite her to hop on with the bike, she remembers something and goes back to her house and brings back a yellow backpack

"whats in there?" I asked

"it's nothing much, since last time, there were blokes here trying to attack us, I got you guys some weapons to fight with" she replied

"ah! don't worry, me and Chris already have automatic loading pistols in our pockets so it will be fine"

after that, I whispered something into both of their ears as they nodded

"then I'll keep these in the locker when we go to school" she replied

we rode the bicycle, to school, meeting Larry along the way, as we head into school, we were introduced to a new teacher that had just transferred today, his name was Reaggra McLáûclang, as he was Scandinavian, a pretty rare site to see as they are usually up north, we started our classes in our classroom, as classes pass by, then it was time for physical education, which was a pretty strange name, considering that the word physical is in the name. in that class apparently we got to exercise, since it is an assignment, as Mr McLáûclang, is our teacher, he was really muscular considering his size, since he looked like skinny a normal teacher who lectures students in the classroom, as I didn't expect him to be teaching us how to exercise, as I was taking a water break, I heard a noise.

clack, shrick, chack ching!

as I looked behind me I heard the noise

Bang! Bang! Bang!

3 bullets fly towards me as I dodge 2 bullets but get hit in the arm with the 3rd bullet, I quickly, took a handkerchief and tied my arm up to stop the bleeding, as I hear.

"well well well... isn't it Joseph Smith, son of Harry Smith."

"well yes indeed, Mr McLáûclang"

"how did you know?" he asked

"well, you have been weird since the entire day, judging by your clothing, your clothes still have their fold marks from when they were folded, so I knew you changed your clothing at school, judging by the fact that your right hand was covering your Webley MK II, and your left hand's shirt sleeves was too long, I assume that you are here to kill someone, and the last part that triggered thinking was, when you demonstrated how to do push-ups, I saw that tattoo, which means you are hiding some meaning in that tattoo. you are a member from the cult of Sowelu trying to kill me"

"nice deduction skills Mr Smith, right now, I have the entire gym as my hostage, and either you surrender and die, or she dies" as he spoke that, I grabbed Ainsley by the collar, and pointed the barrel of the gun towards her head

"ah, so you are playing the hostage game eh? well then, you could just blast her brains out of her head, because I can't be arsed to care about her anyways."

"you sure about that Mr Smith?"

"JUST PULL THE TRIGGER YOU BASTARD!",

Mr McLáûclang pulled the trigger, as Ainsley, pushes a button in her sleeves, which activated, a pulse wave, sending anyone in a 3 meter radius flying, as she runs away, going into the locker room. as he picks himself up from the ground, I pull out my pistol and start shooting at him,

Bang! Bang!

2 bullets flew out of my gun, going into the direction of Mr McLáûclang, and hits his chest 2 times, but, he stands there as he laughs

"heheh, I saw your pistols this morning as well, but I do not think that these bullets will work against my bullet proof armour"

he continues to dash towards me as he knock my pistol out of my hands, as he pulls out his pistol and prepares to shoot, as I grab my spare magazine and throws it at the bullet's direction, as the cartridge hits the bullet, it explodes as it it the powder part of the bullet cartridge

KABOOM!

I run out of the dust with my pistol in my hand as I charged towards MrMcLáûclang as he takes a defensive stance, using his bullet proof shield to block any potential bullets from my gun, as Larry jumps out of a table and starts attacking Mr McLáûclang, as he attempts to chop Mr McLáûclang's neck, shoulders, knees with his hands and feet in high speed, attempting to numb him out, but it wasn't effective as he softly says while gasping for air

"Storm Style, Hand to Hand Combat Arts, High Level, Numbing Thunder Strikes"

As Larry did that, Mr McLáûclang turned back to look at Larry as he says

"ah don't think I will forget about you, child of the O'Spangerson family" he chuckles for a bit, "well, then looks like you are out of energy, looks like I will have to apprehend you first." Mr McLáûclang picks up his revolver from the ground and points the gun at Larry's head.

"bloody hell, you are good at taking hostages" I said

"well, yes, I have been doing it for the past 10 years you know" he responds "now put the gun down or else I kill your friend"

I stand there hopeless, since Ainsley hasn't come back yet, and I don't have a definite working plan, as I stand there, I rethink to myself. ok time to think straight, since the bloke has gotten Larry up in there I need to know what Larry can do for the meantime, lets see what moves Larry has for now since he is un-armed. Larry uses his father's Storm Style fighting technique, it is a powerful technique considering that Mr O'Spangerson used it in the Boer War with my father, but Larry is still young, and his father isn't a drunk head like mine, so he wouldn't be able to handle a gun, but considering that there are a ton of mugging in the pavement of London lately, he would at least know hand to hand combat, and knife arts since he did knife arts and hand to hand combat in front of me before, lets see the list of moves he has...Beginner level of storm style is 'Crude Lightning Strike' which the person basically tangles another person's arm with their own, and redirect, and reflect their attacks, medium level is called 'Double Thunder Strike' which the person does the beginner level move, but instead they double strike, with every punch and kick, the person will double strike the enemy, the high level is called 'Numbing Thunder Strikes' which aims at the enemies' weak spot such as nerves, veins, or muscles which they create cramps, temporary disabling the enemy, it can break through metal, which surprises me that Larry didn't break through the metal but since our enemy right here is wearing protective layer of armour as well, it doesn't work on him, now the deep level is-

Bang!

I get interrupted mid thinking by McLáûclang warning shots

"I am warning you! if you don't drop your gun down I will shoot your friend in the head!" he shouted

as I head back to thinking, I said to myself... since Larry is going to be fine, but I wont, judging by the way he holds the gun, his backhand is pointed forward, and the gun would hit the back of the head, not the side of the head, which means he would shoot me instead, so putting down my gun is a guaranteed death, so a better way is to either throw my last spare magazine as the bullet hits the magazine, or to risk my shoulder and try to reflect the bullet back, since I can't kill him because we need him for interrogation, I decided on a side plan to continue the usual plan. I raise my hands up, and drop my last spare magazine onto the ground and my half used magazine, as I dropped it to the ground, the bullet from Mr McLáûclang's gun flew out of the barrel, as I flicked the bullet I was hiding when the magazine dropped, and pulled out a pen from my pocket, I applied pressure to the pen, which lit the igniter of the bullet cartridge, which the bullet fired, straight into Mr McLáûclang's arm, lodging a bullet into his arm as Larry as being held hostage, turns around and jumps off from Mr McLáûclang's grip, shouting.

"Storm Style, Hand to Hand Combat Arts, Deep Level, Dance of the Thunder God!"

Larry, does a squatting position, as he disappears and simultaneously, appears at Mr McLáûclang's area, I see Mr McLáûclang being punched and kicked at high speed, as Larry cycles over him, punching and kicking him and shouting

"You! *flashes* Bloody Bastard *flashes* You Tried *flash* To Take *flashes* Me Hostage?" Larry flashes around and around again and again and continues to shout while flashing around and beating Mr McLáûclang.

as Larry keeps beating Mr McLáûclang, Mr McLáûclang shoots a bullet at Larry's direction, as the bullet flies out of the barrel, hits Larry in the stomach, puncturing his liver, as he bleeds out and rolls all around in the ground, Chris Tries to sneak behind Mr McLáûclang and tries to shoot him with the pistol as Mr McLáûclang shoots Chris's gun's barrel, as the bullet goes inside the barrel of Chris's gun, the bullet hits the bullet inside the barrel as the bullet's force was enough to ignite the powder inside of the bullet, the gun explodes and the slide flew out and hit Chris's face as Chris lies there on the ground moaning, as Mr McLáûclang turned back, I run toward Mr McLáûclang with pure rage and my empty pistol as I try to smack his head with the butt of my pistol, as I charged into Mr McLáûclang, I get shot in the arm at the same spot at he shot me earlier, as I felt the pain and shock of being shot twice at the same spot. I fell down the ground as I see, Mr McLáûclang walk towards my body, panting and reloading his revolver, he spins the cylinder of the revolver, the cylinder clicked onto the barrel, he prepares to end me with one blow, as I close my eyes and smiled, as the Gym door opened. There we saw Ainsley stand there with Zeus in her hands, spinning at maximum speed with a ball of electricity as she shouts

"Joseph! Chris! Larry! Get out of here, or I might hit you!"

she pulls the trigger, as the lightning ball gathered into the hose, and as Zeus was about to fire she said

"Oh! They going have to glue you back together, IN HELL!"

a giant beam of lightning flew out of Zeus, as it impacts Mr McLáûclang with full force he flies across the gym and his entire body smacked the back wall of the gym, as he faints, Ainsley comes and check on us, if we are ok or not, as she patches up Larry's stomach with a new towel from the basket first, then she comes to check on me and ties up my arm with her neck tie, as I ask.

"Ainsley, don't you have another cloth or something that can tie up my arm?" I asked "I don't want to get your clothing dirty with my bloo-"

she shushes me with her index finger, and says "it's fine" she replied "I just want to return the favour of you saving me down the alley"

"eh? that little thing? it's nothing much" I responded

"Im just returning the favour, so don't think too much about it" she replies

"Oi! you two love birds having a good time there? I need some support you know!"

"Bloody hell Chris! just shut it will you!" Ainsley shouted " ill catch up to you after I finish patching up Chris, you go handcuff Mr McLáûclang first" she said to me

" Ainsley helps lifts me off the ground, I head towards Mr McLáûclang's fainting place, and handcuffed him. we brought him to the police station after that with the jurisdiction of my pen-knife, we were able to keep him imprisoned there for a while until he will be secretly courted. after this we sent Ainsley back home as she invites us to stay for a cuppa for a while. We enter the house, and we saw my father talking to Mr Aulay. my father spots me, Chris, Larry and Ainsley enter the room and said

"ah! Joseph, and everybody, you came right in time, I didn't expect all of you guys to come here"

"father, I came here to send Ainsley home from school since there has been a lot of blokes harassing women on the pavement lately, and I saved her once, I don't want to have to deal with it again and see my classmate become a victim of another rape"

"that is very gentlemanly of you Joseph" he responded "Mr Aulay and I have something to discuss with you 3 lads and Ainsley"

"Ahem! may we start Mr Smith?" Mr Aulay said

"yes you may" my father responded

"as you can see, today was a disaster, since the school was invaded by a member of the cult of Sowelu, and we do not want that to happen again, but when worst comes to worse, they will come and try to hunt you down Joseph and Larry"

"me?" I me and Larry asked

"yes you, Joseph are the son of the great Harry Smith, the master of the science of deduction and Larry, you are the son of the great Thomas O'Spangerson, the master of the top secret storm style arts after all after all, and they know assassinating Harry Smith and Thomas O'Spangerson is a bad idea, since the British Government keeps these 2 gentlemen as a secret national treasure that nobody knows about." he explained "so instead, they are coming for you Joseph and Larry, since you are the son the 2 gentlemen, killing you will lower their morale after all, which they will take advantage over the bad morale and start hatching their plan"

"what is their plans?" Larry asked

"The cult of Sowelu is the cult of the rising sun after all, they have been here since the dawn of time, creating chaos and plotting Coups and pulling the strings from the back stage, but in this case, we believe that they are working with the German Government, as they are plotting a coup against the British government, to cut off supplies and allies from the french, we do not know what is their main reason, and their motives, but having a puppet government is bad enough already so we got to stop them" he explained even further "so now incase of an attack, we need to be more prepared, so we brain washed the entire school of the situation that happened today, and we are giving you new weapons for you to fight the cult of Sowelu"

Mr Aulay puts down a strange looking pistol on the table and explains

"this is a new prototype weapon I whipped up, I call it Thor, the god of lightning in norse mythology, it is weaker than Zeus since it is scaled smaller, but a clean precise shot at someone with a beam of lighting can kill them so I suggest you aim for the arms, legs or stomach if you want to keep them alive, but if worst comes to worse, you can go for a killing blow to the head, or chest. this weapon right here can pierce any metal, and is seriously dangerous, so there is a cap on bottom of the body of the gun, which you can adjust the range of the thing, but do not turn it on infinite range unless you need to, and I am giving this to to all of you. as for Larry, since you specialize in hand to hand combat with knives and swords, I will give you this."

Mr Aulay, runs up stairs and comes down with a knife handle, as he presses a button, the knife handle gets lightning swirling around it , as a knife is formed.

"now Larry, this is my latest invention, Mars the god of war in roman mythology, this blade right here is just simple a blade made out of a tungsten-titanium alloy, which the blade can extend and can run electricity in the blade, which can make it a deadly weapon when hitting someone with it, but not only did I add the electricity blade part, it can also become a flaming blade if you want to by the press of a button on the blade handle, which will switch the blade from fire blade to lightning blade, you can adjust the electricity power with a rotation of a button to switch"

we tried our weapons in the alley way where I beat the blokes trying to harass Ainsley, Me Chris, and my father went home where we met my mum and had dinner