21 Chapter - 21 (1/2)
James, Sussan, Elly, and Linda reached the border to let everyone in. Sussan went across the border with the help of James. When they reached that side of the border, James used the latest technology to open a huge artificial portal to let everyone in.
Sussan and Brenda stood on each side checking every one of their clan member's hands who stood orderly in a row. When the last person reached the portal, he turned around and tried to skip the checking.
Brenda took a magical rope and held his neck while James tied an electrical cord on both his hands and legs. He felt down while puffing and then fainted.
Sussan went to examine his hands and saw no marks visible. Slowly the young man turned into an old man with wrinkles. Looking at him, they wondered still how many more do they need to hunt down.
Looked like the infiltration started way before they even started noticing. They could not come to a conclusion when it all started but now they had a rough idea that it is going to be more dangerous from now on.
Elly and Linda received the people who came out of the portal. When Elly saw Robert, she went running towards him to hug him. Robert looked at Linda worriedly.
Linda came towards him and patted his back and said, ”Do not worry lad, nothing can happen to me until I hunt that old witch down.”
Robert then looked around for Peter, when he could not find him, he started to look at Linda questioningly. Linda just ignored him and turned around when she saw Sussan and Brenda come out of the portal.
James went on to check the perimeters when he was about to reach the last portal he saw the portal did not have any glitch. It looked like it was newly fixed.
James immediately became alerted and sent messages to his team through a secured connection. When his team arrived, they started examining the area thoroughly.
But they could not find anything suspicious. James broke the portal with his artificial rod and lit the fire on the portal. Then he ordered his team to retreat to safety.
When James flew around, he saw a bush shake around heavily. He aimlessly shot the bush but still, it did not stop shaking. He then called for back up and one of his team members went to examine what was behind the bush.
But even after waiting for a long time he did not come back, all that was left was the shaking bush and they could not even reach him. All the connections between him and the team got to cut all of a sudden.
Everyone went around to check it together but suddenly the bush stopped shaking. It went under the soil and a stream appeared out of nowhere which swallowed everyone into it except one of the team members.
James tried to jump out of the stream but it did not let him go. When the left out team member, Jack tried to follow the stream it quickly disappeared without a trace.
He immediately flew across the border to inform Linda and others. When Sussan and Brenda heard that, they immediately shouted 'Secure' forest.
”Linda, you need to take everyone to safety, we need to go find James right now. I do not know why the magical stream appeared near the border, it looks like something is definitely wrong. Even though it can roam around, it has its own set limitation. It would never try to take someone forcefully if they do not wish to go somewhere.” Sussan explained to Linda.
Linda and Jack helped the clan members to move towards the secured military base while Sussan, Brenda, Elly, and Robert with the help of the portal which Brenda created traveled towards the Secure forest.
When Peter and Draven reached the military base, they could not meet the elder at first as the security was too tight. The base was made to secure against any magical powers.
They waited until the Asher disappeared, the sky became dark with no stars around. Slowly they crept along the fence where they found a small hole. Peter tried to enter through that hole as it seemed to be a perfect size for him.