209 Illness (2/2)

”Privacy?”

Just as the old man was considering his words, Tyr jerked up and looked down the long drive way. Laz sensed it to.

”Go. Draw them away and circle back,” Laz told Tyr. Tyr gently but quickly removed the kids and took off, shrinking while getting out of sight quickly and running down the side of the driveway. Sarah's mom finally took a deep breath and looked over at Laz and Onacona, finally noticing something was wrong with Sarah.

”WHAT HAPPENED?” She screamed as she raced over, scaring the little ones who were looking around, sad at Tyr's quick departure.

Onacona made a choice right then and there.

”Take her to her bed room. Upstairs, third door to the left. Quick.” Onacona said while point, he then moved to block Sarah's mom while trying to calm her down.

”Stop. YOU NEED TO STOP.” Onacona gripped his daughter tightly while trying to get through to her.

”WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY BABY?” She screamed, obviously worried and angry at her father.

”She will be alright. The boy will take care of her. But you need to be calm. The patrol is coming up the drive. And if they hear something is wrong, Sarah will really be in danger then.” The old man looked his daughter in the eye. With almost a unnoticeable flash, a light came from Onacona's eyes and hit hers, causing her tense body to finally relax. If one looked closely, the would see that she almost looked absentminded, as though she was there but not really.

”Alright children. I'm taking your mom inside to relax. Play out here a bit, but only in the front yard. If anyone shows up, tell them to go away.”

”OK!” All the kids responded at once as they raced off, obviously looking for Tyr.

As the kids raced down the road, an old pick up was driving up the stone driveway with four twenty somethings inside. The young men all held rifles and an inflated sense of ego at having the job of guarding the town. They hadn't actually come across any demon beasts in their time guarding and only had some of the older guy's stories explaining how dangerous they were. As such, none of them felt the slightest bit of fear.

”Why are we going out here again? Want to see that little hottie boss?”

”Shut up. It's cause of your guys mouth's that she doesn't want to hang out with us anymore. Not like there are a lot of options in this town. And as long as we got work, it's not like we can head up to the city to look for chicks either. So this time, keep your mouth shut. Otherwise, I won't invite the other girls the next time.” The oldest of the bunch responded, scolding him.

The town has had a long history. Although they were the descendants of indigenous people, it's not like everyone who was born in the town stayed in the town. Some of their best and brightest had gone out into the world and with the towns help, had gone on to do amazing things. As thanks, all of them had given back to the town, helping fund building projects, getting the town broadband near the center of town and other things. These success stories were spoken of by all of the grateful families of the towns and their names were well known. Even the town doctor was one such person. As someone who wanted to start his own practice, he needed funding. As such, the town supplied that for him, allowing him to open up shop close to town, but also close enough to serve other towns and villages, giving him the option of growing. Once he was successful enough and could expand his practice, he would open up new clinics and services.

All of these people were the pride and glory of this small nameless place in the middle of nowhere.

And then, there were these guys. They barely made it through high school and instead of going on to try to do better and be better, they basically gave up, picked up a few jobs around town and didn't do much besides waste their days drinking and trying to get laid. It was like college without the occasional classwork.

And being guards now, of course.

As such, knowing that there was a new girl in town that they could try to get friendly with, their boss went out of his way to spend time with her, despite their age difference. His behavior really was a headache to all.

Just when he was thinking about what he could off Sarah to go do, the guys saw the kids running down the drive way as though looking for something. They quickly stopped the truck as the boss called out,

”Hey. Boy. What are you brats doing?”

”Looking for Tyr,” Sarah's oldest brother called out while picking up a rock. He quickly shook his head and set the rock back down.

”What the hell is a tear? The thing you cry?” One of the other guys asked, not understanding the kids. Although these guys were assholes, they weren't bad people, per say. They had their limits. Even if they were rude and lazy, they still loved the town that raised them. Otherwise, they never would have agreed to spending some of their days driving around, wasting their time.

The smallest one, the little girl suddenly looked up and pointed,

”Tyr!!!” She yelled, causing the guys to all turn their heads. Just as they turned their heads to look, they ended up having to look up as well since Tyr had assumed his truck size form.

And he was waving at them with a smile on his face.

The guys blanked out, their brains not able to handle what they were seeing. Tyr just continued to wave for a good two minutes before he felt like something might be wrong. He lowed his arm which caused a bit of a boom as it hit the ground. The noise was just enough to wake the guys from their stupor. The all ended up screaming in a high pitched panic while the one driving floored it. The truck did a quick circle and shot off towards the main road, with the sounds of the guys screaming still echoing.

After watching the show, the kids just shook their heads and pounced at Tyr who was happy to shrink a little, crouch down and let all the kids hop on for a fun, giggled filled ride back to the house.