Chapter 88 - Dark Alley

Nicole had started her plan as she was outside the auditorium with a few soldiers standing behind her but one significant thing was the teleporter that they had brought from the forest which was now standing in front of her.

"I'm telling you, Nicole, this is too risky," Lennon said after walking out from the auditorium.

"I know, but Michael and a student of mine are trapped in there." She said,

"How sure are you that they are trapped in there?" Lennon asked.

"That was the only conclusion we could make from the search since they couldn't be found anywhere else."

"Who is even making all these conclusions?" Lennon said, hitting his palm on his face. "Let's just wait for a little while Nicole, they might show up."

"Wait?" She chuckled. "We have been waiting for two weeks now and they still haven't shown up."

Lennon wanted to say more but was waved off by Nicole who had ordered the soldiers to activate the teleporter.

The first group of soldiers stepped forward and as the first man in line was about to step through the teleporter, Nicole felt the reflection of bright light behind her.

On seeing who had suddenly appeared behind them she quickly grabbed the man about to step into the teleporter.

"What are you doing?" Michael asked on seeing the same teleporter which had caused them so much trouble, active, but he had calmed down on seeing Nicole stop the man from going through it.

"Michael?" Nicole said as she was in disbelief.

"Hi, sweetie," Michael said with a wave.

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The two Asakans who had somehow found themselves in this strange world after falling into a hole were finding it hard to understand anything about the place.

The dressing, the culture, the food, and worst of all the technology, everything seemed so strange to them.

Although everything else seemed off to them, one thing that Tania was glad about was that the medium of exchange was their normal gold and silver coins.

She had doubted that it would be the case but when they had been directed to a restaurant by a man who kept giving them strange stares, the food was brought and she brought a gold coin while praying inside for the man to take it.

Shivers were sent down her spine as the man stared at the coin for some seconds but to her greatest surprise, he took it and said he was going to bring her change.

'How did someone like her get a gold coin?'

"Everything is different but they also use the same medium of exchange as ours," Leo commented.

"Yeah, I can't wait for this dream to end," Tania said.

She had concluded that this was a dream because she didn't think it was possible for one to fall into a hole and appear in a place like this but then again that somehow explains Luis' disappearance.

"It's not a dream Tania," Leo said.

"I know it's just that all this staring from the people is making me very uncomfortable."

The duo had been receiving strange stares since arriving here and it didn't take them long to realize that it was because of their way of dressing which looked very odd and outdated compared to the ones everybody here was wearing.

"Try to ignore it, we know it's because of our clothes, and now that our medium of exchange is the same we can go try on some of their clothes."

"Ok," Tania said.

After they were done with their food Tania walked up to the man who had attended to them.

"Sir, you said I had a change."

"Oh, yes." The man said, pulling out some shelves on the table.

After collecting her silver coins Tania left with Leo.

The man kept watching the duo until they were both out of sight then he quickly stood up and walked through the back door.

"She's heading towards Lori street now." He spoke into the phone he was holding.

"Ok, we'll inform you when we are done." A deep voice spoke through the phone.

The man ended the call and a creepy smile could be seen on his face now.

As Tania walked through the street with Leo the stares were getting intense, with each turn they took all eyes would be on them with most of the people showing disgust.

Leo had managed to stop a man like he did last time and asked him for directions to the closest clothes store.

"There aren't any close stores around, but there is one at the other side of the town." The man replied.

"How do we get to this other side of town?" Leo asked.

"The safe way is pretty far from here and you would have to meet some requirements before you are allowed to cross."

Hearing that they needed to meet some requirements, Leo knew that it wasn't an option.

"And the other way?"

"Just follow that dark alley, it's not that much of a long walk but you have to be careful." The man said with a little bit of caution in his words.

"Thank you," Leo said

Once the duo entered the alley, three bike men not too far away could be seen, the leader who had his bike in the middle was a dark muscular man who happened to have no hair at all.

"I didn't think they would enter there, that makes our job easier." The man said with a wry smile.

The trio zoomed off heading into the dark alley.

"Oh, dear." The man who had directed the Asakans said.

On entering the alley the duo had seen that it was indeed dark but it didn't take long for them both to be startled by the sounds of roaring engines and bright lights.

One of the men had kicked Leo while still on his bike which sent him flying but fortunately for him, he landed on a pile of trash.

All three bike men stopped in front of Tania with their bright lights pointing towards the teenager forcing her to cover her eyes.

The dark man stepped down from his bike and approached her.

"Turn your lights away." He ordered.

The lights were no longer pointing at Tania's face again but were now giving the man a good view of her face.

"I didn't know we were chasing a pretty princess all this while." He said with a widened smile. "Might as well have some fun before getting into the business." He grabbed her by her arm as he slowly licked his lips.

"Let go of me!" Tania tried to pull herself free.

She wanted to scream as loud as she could even though she wasn't sure how well that would work but before she could do anything a small blade came flying and pierced the man's hand forcing him to let go of her.

"Who's that?" The dark man was furious after pulling the blade out of his hand.

"What would you do if you knew?" A voice was heard from the dark corner and revealing himself was a man in a coat but that wasn't the main thing to note about him as he had about half a dozen small blades floating around him.

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