Varun - Chapter 40

More sirens. More police. More people getting in the way. They couldn’t let the police stop them now.1

“What are we going to do?” Vixen panted, trying to keep her emotions in control, “We can’t get away from the police!”2

“A lot of them are corrupt anyway,” Varun said, trying to ignore the pain in his neck. He, along with Toushirou, Skylar and Charles, had slight whiplash from the car chase but Varun wasn’t about to let his injuries and theirs get in the way.3

“But they’re likely innocent,” Toushirou said, joining up alongside Vixen, still pulling Skylar along with him, “All they know is trying to keep justice and all they know is a woman just stabbed another.”4

“But that woman pulled a gun on Vixen!” Skylar cried, “It’s not fair!”5

“The ones paying them, meaning the corrupt Fin Government, will think of a way to cover it,” Varun said, keeping his gaze ahead of him, eyes searching for some way to escape. They soon left the alleyway and were running along the back paths behind small terraced houses behind people’s gardens. The odd person or two in their back gardens with low fences watched them go by but did nothing. They were in the down and out part of the town and those people just didn’t care. They often just hated the government as a whole and everyone else with money and authority. It wouldn’t surprise Varun if half the people on the street were doing ‘dodgy dealing’ on the underground.6

Eventually he saw a lone car in a gravelled car park and seeing as no one was around he released Vixen’s hand before looking around quickly. Surely there was something he could use…7

“Varun!” Skylar called, “Here!” 8

Varun looked at her and for the first time, Skylar saw something in his eyes she’d never seen before when he looked at her. He actually looked somewhat grateful for a split moment, for in her hand was a wire coat hanger. There was a washing line hanging out one of the windows leading to the other nearby where people hung their wet washing seeing as that particular building had no gardens. Pegs and coat hangers hung on the string. They probably used the coat hangers for clothes that could go out of shape easily. 9

Instead of a thank you, though, which Skylar didn’t actually expect, Varun called, “Throw it here.”10

Skylar nodded, throwing it over to him and he caught it one handed, then opening it out and slid it down between the rubbed of the window frame and the pane of glass. Then he began to wiggle it, concentrating hard. He had to keep calm despite the sirens and the sound of cars coming to a halt. There were a lot of voices too. They had ran rather far but they were still hot on their heels.11

“They’re still coming,” Vixen trembled, clutching the collar of her top, “Varun…”12

“Got it,” Varun said as he heard the click of the lock undo and he opened the car door.13

“Get in quick! Toushi, Charles, in the back and keep low. Vixen, you drive,” Varun said, “Sky, front seat.”14

Skylar nodded, dashing to the car while the men piled in the back. Varun knew what was best. Charles and Toushirou’s faces were too easy to recognise. People knew them.15

“Sky, keep your head down too. They know your face now,” Varun said.16

Skylar nodded as she slipped onto the front seat once Toushirou had opened her side and she put on the seatbelt.17

Charles had the back door open for Varun while Varun turned to Vixen. He took off his hat and grabbed Vixen’s hair, surprising her. Her mouth opened to yelp but nothing came out. Varun suddenly pulled up her hair and pulled the hat over her head.18

“Go now Vixen,” Varun said, “Use this.” He took out an odd looking piece off metal he had to what looked like a set of unusual keys. They were like skeleton keys. He took one off and handed it to her, “Can be used in any car now go!” He pushed her to the driver’s side.19

“What? But what about you?” Vixen asked as she got in.20

“I got to keep them from chasing after you. They’re not stupid. They’ll soon find out the car was taken. There are sure to be some blabbers around here who’ll see you,” Varun said, “And they can track you like dogs.”21

“Still! You can’t just-“22

“DO IT!” Varun snapped, pushing the driver’s door closed. Vixen jumped and shakily put the metal piece like a key into the ignition and turned it on.23

“But Varun!” Sky cried as Charles shut his door, shaking his head, “What if you get hurt?!”24

“Then go on without me or whatever. I don’t care but my job is to get YOU out,” Varun said, “Now beat it or it’ll all be wasted!”25

“Dammit,” Vixen hissed and pulled off the handbrake before slamming on the accelerator, speeding off as quick as possible. 26

As soon as they were about to disappear around a corner, two policemen dashed up the alley, the route the group had just taken, and ran towards Varun.27

“Oi you! Hands up now!” one of the policemen called, pulling out his gun and aiming it at Varun. It was a genuine policeman and someone had obviously blabbed that they’d seen him with the ‘lady murderer’. Great.28

The other policeman though had a certain look in his eye and a bit of a smirk on his face. He looked utterly determined and he hadn’t got a weapon in his hand. Instead, he had his hand raised up a little, slightly cupped, his palm facing upwards and Varun immediately in that second recognised who he was. A Fire Con within the police force. He was a magic user and only they knew magic. Probably Fins were learning now but they would never be allowed to learn the full extent of magic. Stiller wasn’t that stupid to make his former enemy equal in power.29

It had only taken him about two seconds to note all of this and by the time the first police officer had raised his gun at him Varun was off. The police officer demanded him to halt but Varun obviously refused. The Fire Con in the police uniform said something to the officer and the officer nodded, instead dashing back. Back to the car probably to ‘drive around and catch him that way’ seeing as Varun was faster than a normal human. Even the Fire Con would probably find it hard to catch him as they hadn’t been experimented on twice like he had. Then again…who knew what the Fire Cons were planning.30

As soon as the officer was out of sight Varun knew he was in some trouble, for a lightning bolt fired just past his ear and hit a telephone pole before another came shooting past him, hitting a window, shattering the glass. Dammit!31

Varun gritted his teeth, slowing down a little so his pursuer caught up with him a little. He could hear cars moving and more sirens. They were surely going to try and get him to get information from him about Vixen. After all, the police officer who’d headed back had probably reported back to them about him. If there were Fire Cons there and corrupt Fins then they would likely figure out WHO the police officer was talking about. A direct lead to their top enemy. Hell, he didn’t ASK to be Stiller’s ‘arch enemy’ as people called it. What the heck did HE do? He just wanted to do what was right. 32

Suddenly Varun slammed his foot down and sprang backwards towards the magic user. The Fire Con had been surprised by this, trying to skid to a halt but reached Varun too quickly and Varun swung out his arm, slamming him in the face, knocking the Fire Con off his feet and onto his back. The Fire Con hissed, turning onto his back before shoving himself off the ground by his hands, turning around and throwing a punch at Varun. Varun caught his fist but then felt a burning pain on his leg. The Fire Con had let out a burst of fire onto his lower leg and his trouser leg was alight!33

Varun kicked at the man to get between his legs, knowing it was a fowl but necessary move, but the man blocked it, only to burn his own leg. The man yelped, gripping his burning leg while Varun tore his trouser leg off of him from the knee down. He then swung the material at the man as the Fire Con tried to fire more fire out at him. Varun just dodged it and what was left of the burning trouser leg fell on the man’s head. Varun then slammed his foot into the man’s stomach, sending him backwards while he screamed, the material trying to stick to his hair and face, burning him.34

Varun took off then, heading down an alleyway as he heard the Fire Con using water magic to put the fire out and start to run after him despite his injuries. They sure were persistent.35

Varun got to the roadside a few streets away from the place Vixen had stabbed the woman and he started heading down the road, pretending he was interested in what was in the windows as police cars drove by. They were going all out to get him now they knew it was him. There were more cars out than before!36

“Ralyks,” he heard someone say and he turned around, eyes wide in surprise. What…37

A young girl was in front of him of about fifteen. She had blonde curly hair tied back into a ponytail, free strands dangling either side of her face and piercing pale blue eyes. She wore a dark cap, a hoody and baggy trousers.38

“You are?” Varun asked quickly.39

“Pierce O’Neil,” she said, “Your other half saved my best friend, Zelda.”40

“Why are you here?” Varun asked.41

“People are on standby all over. We have our areas,” Pierce said, “Dad says he’ll help you out now. We know you’re great and everything but even you would get trouble, right? Need a vehicle?”42

“Yeah,” Varun said as Pierce began to move and he followed. She glanced at him before handing him her cap, “Here.”43

“Thanks,” he said, making the cap a little bigger before putting it on his head.44

“How many in this area?” he asked, “And what do you mean ‘dad’?”45

“Oh. The man who looked after me. I see him as my dad,” she said, “Paul Maddison. There are three here.”46

Varun followed Pierce to a pub where bikers were, motorbikes all lined outside with a few cars. It was obviously a popular place for bikers passing through. A biker’s pub.47

She took him to a group of bikers, all muscular and huge, a lot taller than Varun.48

“This the guy?” one biker asked, looking at a shorter male who was rather scrawny looking. The man nodded and he pulled Varun into the group of bikers and the bikers surrounded them.49

“I’m Paul Maddison,” he said, “We got a bike for you.”50

“That quick?” Varun raised an eyebrow at him, disbelieving. Then one of the bikers stepped forward, “You’re taking mine.”51

Varun looked at him, “And you are…?” This guy sure wasn’t a straight Fin, was he?52

The man smiled a little, “With this twisted government and Fire Cons, we all know the mess they’re causing. We’re right behind you guys. I grew up with Paul so I trust him and he trusts me.”53

Paul handed Varun a set of bike keys and took him to a motorbike.54

“We’re all waiting for your orders, Sir,” Paul said, “We’ll be at your side whenever you call. If you need help, we’ll be here.”55

Pierce spoke then, “I’m trying to set up a frequency that the Cons and Fins can’t intercept. If I get the frequency then I’m going to try to set it up with some friends. We’re grouping up so if one dies with it we can destroy it before our group is wiped out. We don’t want it to fall into the wrong hands. So whenever you order something for all of us, then it’ll be spread throughout most of us within an hour.”56

“Good,” Varun said as he got on the bike and put on the helmet hooked onto it. Then he got the bike going and he looked at Paul’s friend, “Thanks for the bike.” He then sped off on the bike. He had to protect Vixen’s car and some of the police cars had been heading out of town, taking the road Vixen had gone on. 57

Meanwhile Paul took a breath and turned to the bikers, “Thanks all.”58

“No problem,” the leader of the bikers said, “This place is crap and the sooner you guys sort it all out the better.”59

“Can’t believe that’s the guy,” another biker sighed, looking a little confused, “Who’s smaller than us and not as muscular. It’s rather interesting.”60

Paul chuckled while Pierce frowned at them, “THAT guy is stronger than any of you. Get him in the right mood and he’ll wipe you guys out.”61

The leader of the bikers rubbed his hand on his beard when Paul agreed to what Pierce said and the biker replied, “To believe that runt is all that is hard to believe but I’ll trust you.”62

Another two police cars were heading towards them to head after Vixen and one indicated to park on their side of the road. Maybe they were going to be questioned.63

However, the bikers all moved into the road and the leader cracked his knuckles as the police cars were forced to come to a stop.64

“What the hell? Get out the way!” one police officer called from his car but the man in the car with him and the two in the other car got out and faced them. Fire Cons or Fins. There was only one real officer out of the four.65

“Let’s do it men,” the lead biker said as Pierce and Paul joined the ranks and ran forward.66

Varun accelerated as fast as he could, soon well going over the speed limit. It would be a few minutes before he caught up to them and he prayed that Vixen and the others wouldn’t be hurt. It would mean he failed.67

The police officer in leading car of the three vehicles had no idea he was with a corrupt Fin. Two more Fire Cons and two more Fins were in the other two cars.68

“Hurry it up,” the corrupt Fin fidgeted, “We need to catch them. They can’t get away.”69

“I know that,” the police officer said, “But even if we miss them now we can get them later.”70

“There IS no later,” the Fin snarled.71

“Look. I know you just transferred here but things are likely done differently here to where you were last at,” the officer said. The corrupt Fin just rolled his eyes. How annoying.72

“If we just keep cool we can do our best. Otherwise we’ll screw up,” the police officer said.73

The Fin ground his teeth. What they would do to catch this lot would be a real surprise for this officer. It wouldn’t cause too many problems though because the higher ups in the police force were being controlled by the Fins and Fire Cons. The thing was that they didn’t really want people to know they were in the police force too. The people would be in total panic and who knew what sorts of people would try to take advantage of such an opportunity to do their dirty work. Along with that, what about those who would see that they are all the bad guys? Would they find out about the incorrupt Fins who were now following Varun? He was a damn martyr for those people! Stiller wanted control of the world, not a sudden turn and therefore thousands upon thousands of people against them!74

A police helicopter came from a city nearby, soon coming over the cars and heading onwards towards where Vixen and the others had headed.75

“They’ll be spotted any minute now,” the police officer smiled.76

Just as he said, the police in the helicopter called in and reported the stolen vehicle. It would take another few minutes to get to them. All those in the helicopter were police officers so there would be no one stupid who would try to take them down themselves or become trigger happy.77

* * *78

Cathy was all cleaned up and her wounds were bound and so she was soon resting on the living room sofa, falling asleep almost instantly. She was totally exhausted.79

On the other hand Christian couldn’t stop pacing. The longer he didn’t hear from Vixen the more nervous and nauseous he became. What if she didn’t make it? What if she got hurt? No. He had to trust her…but…80

“They’ll be okay,” Tanya said as she walked up to Christian, putting her hand on his shoulder, “Remember, this is Varun, right?”81

“I just hope she made it to him,” Christian sighed.82

“Well, she’s a smart woman, that one,” Tanya said, dropping her hand from his shoulder and holding it in her other hand, looking out of the window they were standing in front of, “I can tell and she loves you a lot. I tell you now, it’ll take a lot to take a woman in love down.” She grinned at Christian and he couldn’t help but smile a little back. Despite all that, he didn’t want Vixen to even get into trouble in the first place that would make her have to fight.83

* * *84

“There’s the car!” the police officer said and reported it in the radio to the two cars behind.85

The Fin and Fire Con in the second car sat up straight and ready while the two in the third car smirked, chuckling to each other. If everything went well, they’d get women to play with. They hadn’t long been told that ‘Varun’ had been with them and got them set off. That meant likely in the car with the murderer was the target Stiller wanted. That was a bonus.86

“I heard from Anton that she’s a pretty one,” the one in the third car said, “Some sweet chick. Easy too.”87

“Great,” the other in the car said to him, “Don’t take her all.”88

In the second car the woman Fire Con just scowled. They all had their radios linked and the one in the third car had his button down. All could hear him.89

“You’re sick. Concentrate,” she said through the radio. She ignored the jeers and innuendos she received by the two and concentrated ahead as they neared the car.90

“Holy!” Vixen cried, “They’re catching up! The helicopter says it all!”91

“They must have spotted the car just before we left,” Charles grumbled, “So much for hiding.”92

“I suppose it bought us a little extra time though,” Skylar said.93

Toushirou sat up, nodding, “Yeah it did. They would have seen us instantly in town. We wouldn’t have even left in time. They would have caught us in that town. Someone must have told them their car was nicked or something. Then they’d’ve found out the car and then came after us I bet.”94

“Great. And Varun was trying to get us to leave but we hung around,” Vixen bit her lip, knowing it was her who had delayed them a little too long.95

“You were trying to get him to come with us,” Skylar said, “There’s nothing wrong with that, okay? Just keep going. We got to try to lose them.”96

Charles sighed, “Might have to fight them but…”97

“I don’t want to fight now! I want to see Christian,” Vixen exclaimed, upset, “I hate this!”98

“Calm down,” Skylar put her hand on his arm, stroking her skin, “Take it easy. Christian trusts you. That’s why he sent you out to get us, right? So he knows you’re strong and can get us out of here.”99

Vixen pursed her lips and took a shaky breath. It was so frightening though! But she had to try. She HAD to.100

“Wait,” Toushirou said, “A bike? We got a biker coming up. Hey! Look!” He pointed, suddenly surprised as gunfire went off. 101