1 Chapter 1 Hero (1/2)
Varen looked to his right to see heavy drops of water rolling down the window and the east river since he was currently on the Queensboro Bridge, on his left he could see happy children with their mothers as one of the kids was singing 'the wheels on the bus'.
Varen smiled at the child and was about to continue staring out the window when he saw an elderly lady around 80 years old standing and holding on to the top handels as there were no more seats. He quickly got up to offer her his seat.
”Please ma'm sit down, there is no need for me to continue sitting as the next stop is where I get off.” (I lied) seeing that he said that with a smile and saw that he had nothing but sincerity and warmth in his eyes when he said that she accepted.
”What a nice young man, thank you very much; but wont you be tired?” Varen quickly replied with flexing his arm and smiling brightly ”Not at all! I havent done much today to get me tired.” (I lied again) Varen has spent his entire day helping build a new orphanage, so he was exhausted, but he didn't really care as he would rather be the one standing.
As the old lady was taking her seat somone from the back of the bus wearing a jacket with a hood over him quickly walked to the front of the bus bumping into Varen.
”Ah, excuse me” said Varen apologizing to the man. The stranger seemed to panick and quickly passed Varen and continued his way to the front. (That's weired I felt like something metal was in his jacket.) As the man reached the front he turned around flipping his back towards the driver and staring at the rows of people sitting and standing, he then opened his jacket revealing the rows of gernades strapped to his chest. ”Nobody move!” He yelled making the rest of the passangers panic with fear.
As Varen stared at the mans face he could tell that he was not right on the head. He had very pale skin, a beard that looks like it has not been shaved for months, and bloodshot eyes with bags under his eyes to demonstrate his lack of sleep.
The child who was previously singing happily was now crying and holding onto her mother. ”Mom are we going to die?” She asked her mother with a tone as if she was begging for the right word. Her mother who heard that did not know how to respond as she did not know herself if they would live.
Seeing her mother not respond made her cry even louder. Obviously getting angered by the childs wailing the terrorist put his finger on the pin and snarled at the child ”SHUT UP!”
<Varen pov>
Seeing the situation I crouch down to the child and pat her head. She looks up at me confused as to why I did that but then sees my eyes that were full of warmth, this made her calm down a lot. ”Are we going to die mister?” She asks with tears as she grabs my hand. ”No we are not, big brother will stop the bad man” I said this to calm her down as her hands were trembling.
”Really?!” She asked me with an elated face clearly believing what I had just told her. ”Did you hear that mommy! Big brother is going to stop the bad man, he is a super hero!” Hearing this her mother looked even more sad as she clearly knew that was not going to happen (At least my baby will die happy) she thought. The same sort of face could be seen on every other passanger on the bus.
Seeing as the child calmed down I calmly stood up and dashed towards the terrorist. Seeing this the terrorist panicked and pulled the pin off one of the gernades. I quickly tackle him with all my strength and crash him through the bus doors breaking them. As I still had momentum I continued to run to the edge of the bridge and throw him off, but he continued to hold onto me dragging me with him falling off the bridge.
We fell about half way down when a huge pain came to me then everything turned black.
<3rd person>
The next day on the news it explained that the terrorist was an escapee from a mental instatution who had stolen military gernades. The news lady said ”Rick Davis used to be a Marine who served proudly for his country but later found out that his whole family died in a car accident due to a bus crashing into their car. This broke Rick and was later confirmed with mental problems putting him in an institution. He later escaped and went to a hidden bunker that he had filled with illegal weponry.”
”Rick tried to suicied bomb a bus filled with 80 people, but was stopped by Varen Davis, a 23 year old who would spend all of his time helping others. Witnesses state that he tackled Rick out of the bus and tried to throw him off the bridge but was draged off with him. Sadly Varen Davis did not survive, but he died saving 80 people, the city will grieve his death and honor his name by donating $100,000 towards the orphanage.”
<Varen pov>
”Where am I? What happened?”
”You died my boy”
”Who said that? Where are you? Better yet where am I?” I am so confused what is going on? Is this the after life or something, why is it not the way I pictured it?
”This is where all souls are judged, where I decide where they are suppose to go.”