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Teresa finally gave up on waiting for Thomas, falling asleep on the couch with Aris. She was going to kill Thomas and Newt the minute they walked through the door. If they even showed their faces tonight. They might end up staying at Newt’s place to be alone.
After a couple of hours, she finally heard the sound she had been waiting for: her phone ringing. Aris began to stir and she reached over him to grab it and was ready to yell at her friend, but she was confused when she saw it was Mary calling her, especially so late. She quickly answered the call. “Hello?”
“Teresa, is Thomas with you? ” she asked, desperation in her voice. “He’s not answering his phone.”
“No, he was on a date with Newt and he shut his phone off. Is everything alright?”
“Teresa, you have to find them! Please! They could be in trouble!”
Thomas didn’t know which attack to defend himself first. Frypan started morphing multiples of himself. Winston had electricity running along his arms. The girl who threw the energy blasts was flying towards him.
He started with her. He sent a forceful thrust of air in her direction, causing her to fall back into one of the other attackers behind her. The Frypans started swarming around him, leaving him with no escape. He knew Frypan was good at close combat, but six Frypans?
Thomas made the ground below quake, causing half of the Frypans to fall over and then blew the rest of them across the street.
He turned his head and saw a flash of lightning coming right for him. A burning sensation went all throughout his body, screaming in agony as he was knocked to the ground convulsing.
Newt stood up from the ground, reaching up to feel a large gash across the side of his forehead and other smaller cuts around his face. He took a step away from the car he was so ungracefully flung into and when he saw the scene before him, he panicked. Thomas was down on the ground convulsing.
Newt realized he recognized some faces of their attackers: Ben, Miyoko, Frypan and Winston. Now the look he and Frypan shared at the Homestead made sense. They wanted Thomas for something. Newt needed to save him.
He ran and stood in front of Thomas, getting his magic ready as his opponents started heading towards him. “Don’t even try it,” Newt warned.
As soon as they came charging, Newt hurled them backwards, some knocking into each other and others hitting into the buildings across the street.
He turned back to Thomas, quickly pulling him up and supporting him with one arm around his waist and Thomas’s arm around his neck. He moved as fast as he could to get them off the street and out of sight. He ducked through an alleyway and came out on the next street over. He leaned down and propped Thomas up to rest against the closest building.
His shirt was burned, a small section of it missing by his left abdomen. He was hissing in pain, still feeling the shock from Winston’s lighting blast. Newt gently put his arms on Thomas, checking for other injuries. “Thomas, are you alright?”
“Fine, fine,” he dismissed, although he definitely didn’t sound fine. “I guess I should have listened to you and stayed in for the night, huh?”
“Alright, come on. I have to get you up, we need to go.”
Newt attempted to pull Thomas off the ground, but Thomas couldn’t do it. “I need a second before I can move.”
“Thomas, we can’t stay here! We need to go before they find us.”
“Too late.”
Before Newt could even look at who said that, Thomas pushed Newt off of him before the brunette was grabbed by the Rachel and flew off with him. “Thomas!”
And he wasn’t able to go after his boyfriend because at that moment, the Frypans, George, and Miyoko came got in his way.
Despite having lessons in physical combat, Newt was by no means a fighter, so his only defense really was to dodge and use his magic to send his opponents attacks away from him.
They were clearly playing with him. One of the Frypans or George send an attack his way, then Miyoko would cast a nearby item into his direction, which he quickly stopped and forced away from him.
He knew he couldn’t just go run after Thomas. He needed to focus on these opponents first before he went after him. It killed him to leave Thomas in such danger, but if he lost focus, he could be taken out, leaving Thomas alone with all of them. And he’ll be damned if he’s going down without a fight.
Rachel threw Thomas hard to the hard surface of a rooftop, earning a groan from the Exemplar. He quickly stood up, just in time too, as Ben directed a blast of fire - blue fire, a deadlier flame - towards him. He sent an air attack, deflecting the fire away from his direction.
Rachel, Winston, and Ben stood side by side, each of their hands radiating with their own powers and ready to attack. “Just come with us, and the blondie gets to live,” Ben threatened.
“You aren’t going to touch him,” Thomas sneered as he charged forward. He wasn’t going to let anything happen to Newt.
All the while, a man in a dark hooded cloak watched as the skirmish unfolded.
For the first time in the longest time, Minho was finally able to sleep peacefully. Brenda’s mattress was too uncomfortable in his opinion, and the nights he did get to spend on his own mattress, he had to endure Newt and Thomas keeping him up with their not so quiet whispering and laughing.
He and Brenda were perfectly comfy and he was so happy he was going to get a good night’s sleep in his own bed.
Until someone barged in. “Wake up!”
Minho registered the voice as Harriet’s. He shot up startled, Brenda doing the same, and became even more confused when he saw her and Sonya standing there with their weapons, Harriet’s double edged sword and Sonya’s bow and arrows. “What the hell is going on?”
“Thomas is in trouble!” Teresa yelled frantically coming into the room with her own weapon, some form of staff, and the others coming in from the hall behind her. “We need to find him now!”
Minho literally jumped out of bed and started panicking. Brenda doing the same except being able to remain calm. Two of his closest friends were in trouble, and they needed help. But how exactly were they going to help?
“And how do we do that?” Minho asked. “We can’t just start running around the city, hoping we find them.”
“We won’t be able to find them that way,” Alby said. “Harriet can only teleport to them if they call her! Hell, we’re not even sure if they’re in trouble.”
“But if they’re in trouble, they know they can call her,” Brenda explained. “We just have to wait.”
“If we wait too long, it’ll be too late!” Sonya yelled. “We knew this was going to happen, I knew this was going to happen, and I didn’t do anything to prevent it!”
It was clear the girl was upset that her brother’s life could be in danger. It was hard enough to dream about a loved one getting hurt, but to actually see that dream come true? That was a nightmare on it’s own.
“Wait,” Aris said. “I think I have an idea.”
Everyone turned to him as the brown haired boy began to explain. “Thomas or Newt need to call Harriet, right? But Teresa might be able to call out to them herself. She can tell them to call for Harriet!”
“I don’t know if I can do it,” Teresa said. “Especially since I can’t look at Thomas. I won’t be able to focus that well enough to do it.”
“You can do it,” Aris said, coming over to the dark haired girl. “You can save them. I know you can.”
Minho watched as the girl’s expression transformed to a sad and scared one to a fierce and determined one. “I can do it,” she declared.
Newt managed to throw George into a brick wall, taking him out of the fight for a short while. So he took one down, but still had to deal with six Frypans and Miyoko.
The fight was getting quite irritating to deal with now. They kept the same attack pattern. When Newt blocked one attack, another was right on him. He couldn’t do this forever. He was trying not to seriously hurt them, but it was starting to look like he wouldn't have a choice.
He was kicked hard in the back and it knocked him over, but he rolled and recovered to see the Frypans grinning at him. “Just give up already Newt.”
“Let us take him and you can live.”
“We promise he won’t feel a thing.”
Newt grit his teeth and stood up. He felt his anger growing and his magic with it. His hands started glowing red, along with his eyes. He was done with this game. “You won’t hurt him,” Newt threatened as he managed to use his magic to throw a nearby parked car in the Frypans direction.
Four of them were able to dodge it, but two were hit. Newt ran straight towards the others, preparing to take them down. The faster he did, the faster he could get to Thomas.
Thomas in meantime was struggling to fight off his opponents as well. Ben was aggressive, Winston was dangerous, and Rachel was sneaky. It was hard to deflect three incoming attacks at the same time, but he was managing not to get hit so far.
He aimed fire in Rachel’s direction, the girl swiftly dodging the attacks with her flight ability. Thomas figured the only way to take her down was from the air, so he launched himself into the air and sent an air blast in her direction. Rachel couldn’t avoid it and she went falling hard onto the rooftop.
Winston took advantage of Thomas’s distraction and sent a blast of electricity upwards his way. The brunette expected such and deflected it mid-air, only for it to hit a car down below on the street and cause it to explode.
Newt knocked one Frypan into another, leaving just two to deal with. Miyoko started to get closer to him, ready to attack. As Newt was about to make his move, an explosion next to them knocked them all to the ground.
His ears were ringing and everything began to move in slow motion. He rolled over and grunted in pain. He slowly began to pick himself off of the ground, moving away from the burning vehicle beside him. He saw that the other Frypans and Miyoko were also on the ground, but they didn’t make any movements. Newt took advantage of this and decided to get back to Thomas.
He stood up clutching his side in pain, and when he turned around, he froze. He was face to face with a dark cloaked figure and he couldn’t see the person’s face.
The person reached out and grabbed Newt’s arm in a tight grip and a burning sensation went through his entire body.
Thomas was knocked off the rooftop by a fire blast from Ben, but he used airbending to just barely break his fall. Ben and Winston were close behind, jumping down right at him.
Then he heard a scream. Not just any scream, but Newt’s scream. He turned his head and saw the blonde down the road, falling over onto the ground, and a dark figure disappearing into the shadows from next to him.