Operation: Absolute Chaos: Chapter 19

 New York

 On the way to Base

Global's POV

Home sweet home. Ah, actually, my home is in California, but....nevermind.

We have the seal of Hypnos, killed a few monsters, and had landed safely in Manhattan, now making our way to base. Josh looked uncomfortable, though. I wonder why.

I hailed a taxi while Josh looked around, his hand clasped around the seal, his face pale.

"Stop it." I said grimly while we climbed in. Josh's eyes were unfocused. He looked at me with a questioning face. "What?"

"You're acting all strange. Are you alright?" I asked.

"Yeah, yeah fine." He started fiddling with the seal in his hands.

I shrugged and looked ahead. It started to rain very hard, so there wasn't much to see outside.

All of a sudden, the driver slammed on his brakes and let out a loud "Whoa!" I squinted through the thick curtains of rain, and saw a beggar lying in a heap on the asphalt. I immediately opened the door and let myself in on the downpour.

"Wait, Global, no!" Josh tried to stop me.

But I put on my hood (like that was going to help me shield from the rain), and tried to help the beggar to stand. He started groaning, like in pain, and looked at me, through a mop of gray hair. His red eyes suddenly glowed.

I fell back in surprise. The beggar laughed, and he formed into some kind of a smoky figure. It was a hideous face with red, crinkled skin. It began snaking its way dangerously fast to me, when Josh shouted, "NO!"

He blocked me and raised the seal. A burst of grayish blue light went streaking towards the smoky figure of what I think was Chaos, an essence of him, anyway.

There was this piercing sound painful to the ear and his essence dissolved into nothing.

<p style="text-align: left; ">"Now, we know the seal works." I mumbled.