Chapter 14: Chapter 4: Ally Part 4

Yafu turned and headed for the door. Zavier shot up from the bed and tapped him on the shoulder before he reached the knob. “We can’t let my parents see you. They need to stay out of this.”

“How do I get to your car?” Yafu responded in a ‘figure it out before I do’ tone.

Zavier hesitated to gather his thoughts. An idea formed. He pointed at the window. “Drop out through there, go left around the house, and duck low to avoid the windows. I’ll meet you at my car at the front of the house. Wait for me.” Yafu registered Zavier’s instructions and turned to the window. With an impressive amount of flexibility and smooth athleticism, he slipped out of the window and dropped down. Not wanting to have Yafu in his front yard unintended for long, Zavier moved deliberately out of his room and down the stairs. Trying to avoid a signal of anything being amiss, Zavier walked quickly past his parents in the family room without much eye contact.

“They need me for a last second shift tonight.” Zavier announced, hoping that would give him a blank check for being out late. His mom looked up from her tablet, nodded, and looked back down again. Zavier was in the clear. He grabbed his keys from the bin and walked outside. Yafu was standing next to his driver door peering through the window.

“Otherside, you’re not driving.” Zavier said as he moved toward the driver. Yafu looked up, nodded and headed to the passenger side. Once they were both in, Zavier started the car. Yafu was not a seatbelt guy. Zavier shifted to drive and drove out of the subdivision towards the area’s main road.

“What is our plan?” Yafu did not hide his impatience. His frantic energy had begun to wear on Zavier.

“There are a few places across town to check.” Zavier slowed his speaking pace to a crawl, hoping to slow their pace down a little. “The first place is a condemned hotel down the road of the warehouse that that guard got burned at. Then, they’re a lot of old farming barns and storage lots that are just outside of town. If we don’t find anything there I’ll think of some other places.”

“Be thinking of the other places while we are at these first few.” Yafu ordered rather rudely. Zavier sighed. It was going to be a long night. They might not even find anything and Yafu was liable to get more cranky with each passing dud. Zavier drove for just under a half an hour before he pulled into the parking lot of the old hotel. There was no one else here. This hotel was set to be demolished this summer. It was three stories tall and in a decrepit condition. The only reason the city was dragging on tearing it down was that it was too far away from anything else to be a pressing eyesore. Empty undeveloped land surrounded it about a mile in either direction with the exception of the warehouse about halfway in between. You could only just make out the housing line in the distance as the sun was setting. 

Zavier hoped Yafu’s soul sense thing was good enough that they did not have to search all three floors of this place. The elevators might not even be working to go up. Another thing was bothering Zavier about Yafu’s abilities. The man clearly was a superman amongst himself and everyone else on earth. But he had no idea how impressive his powers were compared to other users back at his home. Yafu seemed to be very pessimistic about what would happen if Shen and his friends were able to run amok on earth. Was he taking Zavier to a fight they were going to lose? Most people would logically avoid this type of direct confrontation with a superior foe which should imply Yafu was confident he could beat Shen, but the former may not be a safe assumption. In the brief time he had known Yafu, Zavier got the sense he would show up to fights he had no chance of winning. This fear loomed over him as they got out of the car. It may be an empty night of searching but it was impossible to get a read on what would happen if they really did meet Shen face to face.

Yafu leapt out the second the car was turned off and walked quickly toward the hotel. Zavier got out a little more deliberately and trailed behind Yafu. He was expecting to make a lot of these walks tonight and was already conserving his legs. Yafu got about five feet away from the glass front doors and stopped. He leaned in toward the hotel and squinted as if he was trying to make out small writing at a distance. Zavier thought it was more likely than not that Yafu could not interpret written English based on how his powers seemed to work, so it was a safe assumption he was trying to sense Shen. Sure enough, as Zavier strolled up next to him there was a faint yellow glow in his eyes. This continued for about two or so minutes. Zavier patiently stood behind Yafu. For safety purposes, he was going to let this man take the lead whatever they went tonight. Finally the glow dissipated from his eyes and Yafu straightened up.

“No luck?” Zavier said as he started to turn back towards the car.

“No, he’s here.” Yafu replied so intently focused on the hotel doors he hadn’t even noticed Zavier starting to head back. This caught Zavier tremendously off guard. He did not realize how unready he was for this until it was in front of him. It was delusional but Zavier had subconsciously expected to not find this guy tonight at all. Or at the very least at a stop down the line. The fact that it had come this early was a shock.

Zavier began to tense up and felt sick to his stomach. What was he doing here? What would happen if he got hurt or died? What if this ends with him in jail for trespassing? In his distress, a very critical question floated to the top of his mind, one he was upset for not asking earlier. “What are you planning to do once we face him?” Zavier asked, his voice cracking slightly as the adrenaline hit a fevered pitch. It was an open ended question but there was a binary choice of intent on Yafu’s end that Zavier had to know.

Yafu sniffed out the real crux of Zavier's question and responded calmly and clearly, “No prison here can hold him. Even if there was a way to deny him his aspirations logistically, I had one goal when I started this and it remains the same no matter the world we’re on.” Yafu’s implication was clear. Zavier now knew he was planning to help with a murder.

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