[Dynamite brings Calio and Syah unconscious body back to the laboratory and puts both of them inside containment cells to regain their strength. The night after, Dynamite fell asleep while guarding the cells. Someone sneaks inside the lab and suddenly vines come out under his foot and grab his entire body.]
Dynamite: Who is it, speak for yourself... I can't see your face but one more movement and you'll dead
[No one answer]
Dynamite: I maybe can't see you but I can feel you, answer me right now
[Still no answer. Dynamite stand up and walk toward the noise and he sees a cat trapped in his vine]
Dynamite: It... A cat
[The cat looks at Dynamite with his sad face and Dynamite feel guilt and release the cat. Before he drops the cat, he suddenly heard something else]
Ben: Liam, faster man
Liam: I told you, Ben, this is not a good idea
Ben: As I say before, we need to find Cal. Last I say him coming out from here inside a car
Liam: Are you sure, it's him? You could mistake him for someone else, and also this place is abandoned a long time ago. I mean look there're vines everywhere
Ben: ...Li..li..am
Liam: What?! Why so sound so scared did you saw a ghost or something
Ben: Behind you!!!
Liam: Uh?
[Without any warning Dynamite knock Liam out]
Dynamite: What, a lousy person... So what are guys doing here... Speak before you ended up like him
Ben: W...e...we...
Dynamite: You can speak properly right? I can't understand any of that. Or you want to get knocked out too, It's much easier that way...
[Dynamite shows a sinister smile to Ben]
Ben: Eek!
Dynamite: So... What will it be?
Ben: We're finding our friend!!!
Dynamite: Uh... Isn't that better? Come with me, I'll help ya.
Ben: ...Huh?
[Dynamite picks up Liam's unconscious body and walks upstairs to Calio and Syah. And the cat that Dynamite found before follows him. Ben stand up and follow him even though he doesn't know what is happening]
Dynamite: There's your friend, I gonna put your other friend on the sofa. Tell me if he awake
Ben: Ok...
Dynamite: If you do anything stupid, I won't hesitate to throw you off the building
[Dynamite says that while smile happily]
Ben: Aight... (How can someone say that while smiling)
[Ben Look at Liam and try to wake him up]
Ben: Oi, Liam wakes up
Liam: *Mumbling* Not now, mom
Ben: Even in this situation, you still act like a child... Uh?
[Ben slaps Liam in the face until he wakes up]
Liam: Arghhh!!! What the hell man, I was- Woah where are we?
Ben: We're upstairs
Liam: This is a nice place... Wait, is that Calio inside there. Did they made an experiment on Calio or something we need to let him out!!!
Ben: Calm down, Calio passed out we need to wait for a while until he recovers
Liam: Phew
[Dynamite comes back with teas]
Dynamite: Drink up
Liam: Huh? Thank you.
Ben: Thanks
[Liam and Ben drink the tea]
Liam: Wait for a minute!!! What's happening here? Isn't you the one who knocked me out. Ben why you so chill about it
Ben: Ask him...
[Dynamite just smile to both of them]
Dynamite: Syah, isn't it nice to have company here...
[Syah speak inside the containment cell]
Syah: Heh ha hah, Indeed
[Syah wake up, and went out of his containment, and wears his suit]
Syah: Welcome, to my Clinic
[Liam and Ben just sit there shocked and shaken while holding the teas]
Syah: Both of you, are Calio friends right. Sadly today he's not well he needs some more rest like two days... Tell your teacher, he has a heavy fever, here take this
[Syah, give them a medical certificate from his laboratory that also an old clinic]
Ben: Uh... Sure...
Liam: So... Can I ask something...
Syah: Go ahead
Liam: What really, happens to Calio?
Syah: As I say, before he has a fever
Liam: This seems, shady... So who is that guy that keeps smiling there
Syah: He's my assistant. Why did you ask?
Liam: Oh... Nothing, he just knocked me out that's all
Syah: Oh, I see
[Syah whispers to Dynamite. Dynamite then slowly walk away with sadness at his face]
Syah: I'm very sorry, for the unfortunate
Ben: Yea...
Liam: I never heard of this clinic... Also why it's in the middle of a forest?
Syah: This is a very old clinic... We found your friend Calio passed out, on the road. So we help him recover
Liam: And, why kind of medical treatment is this?
[Ben whispers to Liam]
Ben: Liam... You asking too much
[But Syah heard Ben whisper to Liam]
Syah: Nonono, is alright. It a modern medical treatment, even though this clinic is very old we still up to date, you know. This containment cells using bacteria, the same bacteria that use for healing your wounds
Liam: Heh, and what's the name?
Syah: Pathogen Staphylococcus Aureus
Liam: ...
Syah: (I forgot the real name of the chemical I was too focus on the last experiment that I made for Calio. The only thing that I remember is the bacteria that can help with diabetes)
[Ben pulls Liam out of the room while telling him to stop talking]
Ben: Liam, that's enough we should go
Liam: But I-
[They quickly leave the place. After they left, Dynamite walks back in.]
Dynamite: I'm sorry about that... I don't know what to do when I saw them...
Syah: It's ok, they already left. Now then time to wake Calio, if we don't wake him out, we'll be in big troubles
Dynamite: Right...
[Dynamite pushes a button that releases Calio from the containment. When Calio came out from the containment he falls face plant on the floor]
Syah: Good morning, Sunshine
Calio: Can one of you at least, catch me when I was falling
Dynamite and Syah: Nope
Calio: *Ugh* My head still hurt...
[Afterword Calio stays in the lab with Syah and Dynamite because his home is already gone to crisp
until after three days... It was morning Monday when Calio goes to school, Dynamite woke up early so he the only one that can give Calio a ride to school while Syah still snoring in front of his computer... It because last night when Dynamite and Calio already fall asleep he still does research on who's the one that planned about the beacon of war.]
Dynamite: I guess from now on I have to take care of you
Calio: Yea...
Dynamite: Trust me, I don't want to do this either
Calio: Well, what choice we have? This place is too far from the city so there's no bus around here
Dynamite: You right. Well, anyway get ready we going about now
[Calio get on his uniform while Dynamite starting the car]
Dynamite: You, done yet!
Calio: Coming!
[Calio walks out and Dynamite instantly laugh at him]
Dynamite: You wear that to school?! Hahaha
Calio: Shut up, they told me to wear like this
Dynamite: Aight, aight, I'll stop. Well let's go
[they went to the city and straight to Calio's school before they arrive at the school. Calio saw something disconcerting... Pikes with human heads at the end of it. But the image instantly vanishes and turns back to normal. Calio ask Dynamite if he saw that, but Dynamite respond was]
D̸̼̐ỳ̷̢n̴̲̊ā̸ͅm̵̥̋i̵͔͒t̸͈̅e̸̝͗: Congrat, you awaken the war spirits... We'll meet soon I can't wait
[Dynamite face change to a wide smile. Suddenly Calio wake up and heard Dynamite calls his name]
Dynamite: Calio, oi, wake up. We're here
Calio: Uh... *yawn* We already here?
Dynamite: Yes... Now get out and make sure to learn, I don't want to waste my time to send you to school for nothing
Calio: Fine... You sound like my mom
[Then they both stay silent...]
Dynamite: Ok! Goodbye
[Then, Calio walk inside the school gate, right before his foot land on the floor, he heard Ben and Liam shouting his name from afar. They hug Calio, he just surprised and doesn't know what to say]
Liam: We miss you, man... Do you know how long you've been gone?
Ben: 6 days, to be exact
Liam: So what happened?
[Calio explains everything without exposing Syah and Dynamite identity. Afterword, they go to their classroom but Liam is in a different class because he fails on his last exam. While Calio and Ben speaking suddenly the teacher comes in with someone with an eye patch on his right eye. Everyone is talking about him. While the teacher introducing him to the class Ben whisper to Calio]
Ben: He looks like one of the patients from the old clinic
Calio: Are you, trying to say that he looks suspicious
Ben: Yes
[While they whisper to each other, the teacher notices them speak in the middle of the introduction]
Teacher: Calio, Ben, do you two have something, you want to say to the new student?
Calio: Uh... No, teacher
Teacher: Then, stop talking while he tries to do an introduction! you can continue your introduction
David: My name is, David Mills I'm a transfer student...
Teacher: Transfer from where?
David: From Thailand, my parent move here for working
Teacher: Oh, that explains the accents. Can you speak Thailand?
David: Yes, a little bit. S̄wạs̄dī c̄hạn chụ̄̀x David Mills.
Teacher: That's very good
David: Thank you. By the way, you can also call me by my nickname Dai
[In the meantime, Dynamite just arrived back to the lab, he sees that Syah already waited for him outside. He goes there and greets Syah]
Dynamite: What's up
Syah: ...
[Syah says nothing and quickly pull Dynamite inside... Syah bring him in front of his computer]
Syah: Look at this
Dynamite: Look at what?
[The picture shows Dynamite's car been tailing from behind by a car color red. The window was dark so they can't see the one who's driving it and the car plate also can't be seen]
Dynamite: How can I, didn't see that?
Syah: *sigh* I know made you a driver alone is not a good idea
Dynamite: What should, we do?
Syah: I already put a small camera on his shirt we can put Calio under surveillance with that
Dynamite: ...
[Syah open the camera and sees Calio at the canteen suddenly his friends join in]
Ben: Yo, Cal what's up
Liam: Sup, Calio
Calio: Hey
Ben: What's the problem man? you look a little bit pale
Liam: Are you sick? Let me call the doctor
Calio: I'm fin- Wait did you just say the doctor?
Liam: Ye, the doctor give me his number so I can call him if anything happens to you
Calio: You, got to be kidding with me
[Dynamite speak to Syah at the lab]
Dynamite: You give him, your number, when and, why?
Syah: He came in the middle of the night, ask me is Calio alright and I say "he's ok but he can leave tomorrow" But he force me to let him in so he can see Calio. So I gave him my number so he would shut up
Dynamite: Eh, I would the same thing to
[Back to the camera, Calio looks at the new student, David.]
Calio: I wonder, why he got transfer here
Liam: Who?
Ben: That guy over there with an eye patch
Liam: He's looking rather shady
Ben: I know right...
Calio: He says he a transfer from the school next to ours
Liam: But... There's no school next to us...
Ben: You idiot... Man you didn't hear when he introduce himself
Liam: What?
Ben: He's a transfer student from Thailand...
Calio: Oh... My bad
Liam: Cal, you scare me for a second there...
Ben: But still he does look weird...
Calio: What, you mean?
Ben: I mean, I look at every house in this town... But I don't see any family name Mills
Liam: He, said his parent just move here to work right?
Calio: Probably didn't update yet
Ben: Not really... Cuz they must move yesterday to arrange everything before making an appliance for him to get into the school... By that mean, they must be at least live here for a week before start school
[Back to Syah and Dynamite]
Syah: Well, this is interesting
Dynamite: Ben, It's a pretty smart person
[Calio, Ben, and Liam go back to their class after Liam tell them his plan]
[After school, they follow Dai. He doesn't seem like going home... Because there's no house nearby just a bunch of abandoned buildings. Suddenly he stops and then disappears]
David: Hey, it's rude to follow someone from behind
[Everyone was shocked even Syah and Dynamite... Dai kicks all of them back but only Calio holds his ground. David smile]
David: Just as expected, from the beacon of war... But you're nothing just a beacon
Calio: ...
David: Lost a word, I see why don't we do this more properly
[David altered his stance and showing that he's about to fight. Calio do the same]
Dynamite: Should we help them? Calio is not that strong that guy could be the guy that follows me before
Syah: No... If he collapses or the camera broke then we make our move, for now, all we need to do is watch...
[David lunge into Calio, he tries to dodge it but he can't move his legs]
[He looks down and sees that his leg already been freeze, Calio breaks the ice, but David already near. He got no choice to defend himself, David punch Calio but he blocks it instead]
[David smiles and continuously punch toward Calio. Calio holds his ground while slowly pushback, but David found and opening to his stomach and he throws a quick punch to Calio's stomach. The impact has causes Calio to drop his guard, David grabs Calio and knocks him down to the ground and he steps on him. With some energy left in Calio, he tries to get up, but his energy is to low, he can't even use his elements. While he getting beat up he looks upon his friends and he glad that his friends still fine.]
David: Come on! Is this all you got?!
Calio: ...
[Dynamite looks at how miserable Calio got beat up and clench his fist... In his mind "He's going to die... I have to do something" In the time of desperate Dynamite activate his power. His body became a tree while his soul move to any tree nearby Calio and after his insert the tree he changes the tree into his body]
Syah: Dyna, why you sound quiet...
[Syah, turn around and see a cat meowing while sitting on the tree that shapes like Dynamite body...]
Syah: Goddamnit, He's when there already... What are you doing Dyna you gonna get yourself kill if you activate your power... I thought he forgets about that power.
The End Of Chapter 2