The Key of the Gunovi Family Page 4

fades, but, even without a glow, her emerald green eyes stand out against her tan skin. Her shaggy chestnut hair goes down to her waist and matches her clawed gloved as well as her boots and belt. Her mahogany pleather pantsuit is skin tight to avoid any possible wind resistance.

  “Does Gunovi have an endless supply of troops?” Roger asks.

  The woman laughs evilly as she tries to attack Roger using a combination of martial arts while dodging any possible blows using a combination of her danger sense and gymnastics. A sword appears in her hands as if from nowhere.

  Roger, having a hard time keeping up with the woman's movements, traps her in a telekinetic bubble. “Now that you can't move, tell me who you are!”

  “I am called Aardwolf,” she snarls. “Now, let me out of here!”

  Beta Crucis

  “She suffers from amnesia,” a new woman states as she grows to a normal size from the size of an insect. “I am her psychiatrist.” The woman has poofy black hair down to the middle of her back. Her light yellow skin gives her the appearance as if she's from another planet. She wears a white leather pantsuit trimmed with bright blue gloves, boots, and belt. She also wears bright yellow goggles.

  “That means that you're the reason she works for Gunovi,” Roger accuses. “Who would you be?”

  “Beta Crucis,” the woman in white states. “I am also the one who taught her gymnastics.”

  Beta Crucis grows into a giant and tries to squash Roger under her foot, but he instinctively uses his telekinesis to trip the oversized woman. She shrinks back to her normal size.

  Beta Crucis stands up and starts blasting at Roger with diopside. Roger uses his telekinesis to get a genuine pearl necklace and irremovably place it on the villainous woman.

  “How? How did you know my weakness?” she asks.

  “Telepathy,” Roger answers her. “I used it to read your mind.”

  Officers McLanda and Jeans arrive to take Dr. Clematis, Aardwolf, and Beta Crucis into custody.

  “It looks like Aardwolf will be getting a new psychiatrist,” Roger tells Beta Crucis as he places her in the back seat of the patrol car.

  Mysia Lydia

  A woman runs like a streak of lightning up to Roger. Her teal hair reaches the middle of her back. Her skin tight purple pantsuit is attached at the back of her neck to a mask that covers her eyes and nose. Her eye slits are a golden yellow that match her gloves, boots, and belt. “Are you Gunovi's prey?” she asks in an almost seductive tone.

  “Who wants to know?” Roger asks, unaffected by the tone in her voice.

  “It is I, the former leader of a group know as Airborne,” the woman begins her introduction, “Mysia Lydia.” She raises her hand and the Hill house shrinks to the size of a doll house, with Nathan Hill inside.

  Roger looks at his house. “Alright,” he fumes. “Where can I find Gunovi? I'm going to finish this once and for all!”

  Mysia Lydia throws balls of magic at Roger, but Roger uses his telekinesis to make a marigold necklace and irremovably place in on Mysia Lydia.

  “I asked you a question,” Roger roars in a low grumble. “I expect to be answered.”

  The woman in purple shrugs in a manner that shows she has no idea where to find the head of the Gunovi Family.

  Ice Sculptor

  A woman in a skin-tight white leather pantsuit with white boots and gloves appears out of nowhere. Her wavy black hair flows down to her shoulders. Her eyes are covered with magenta goggles. Her apricot skin gives the illusion that she is human. “You will have no need of knowing where Gunovi is once I am finished with you,” the woman brags.

  “We shall see about that,” Roger argues.

  The woman begins throwing a barrage of ice and fire balls at Roger. He barely gets his telekinetic shield up in time to keep the fireballs from burning his clothes, but is otherwise unharmed.

  “You must be using your telepathy to block my own,” Roger states.

  The woman laughs and seems to vanish, obviously invisible from the sound of her laughter.

  Roger tries encasing the woman in his telekinesis, but she wills herself to be intangible to keep from being trapped.

  “The best you can hope for is a stalemate,” Roger yells at the air, knowing the woman can hear him. “I cannot be killed.”

  The invisible woman tries blasting Roger with some form of magic, but it just hits him and disperses.

  Roger creates a telekinetic shield around himself to protect him from anything else this extremely powerful woman might use.

  The woman tries blasting Roger with a stun ray, but it deflects off his telekinetic shield and directs itself right at her, stunning the woman with her own power.

  The woman becomes visible and Roger quickly reads her mind while she is incapacitated enough for him to do so. “Ice Sculptor,” he reiterates her name and memorizes her face as he uses his telekinesis to gather a flask of bromine, which he pours on the woman, temporarily making her powerless.

  McLanda and Jeans show up just in time to take the two women who work for Gunovi and place them in their patrol car.

  “You are making it so much easier for the police force to search Gunovi's limo for evidence on his death,” Officer Terry McLanda states.

  “Then, you believe as I do and Sam Gun murdered his own father to gain his power?” Roger asks.

  “All of the evidence appears to be pointing that way,” McLanda answers him.

  Nathan Hill comes out of the doll-sized house and looks up at Roger. “Can we do something about this?” he squeeks.

  Officer McLanda looks around, opens one hand palm up, and the house, and Nathan, grow back to their original size. “Shhh,” she winks, then gets in her patrol car and drives off.

  General Exploso

  A man covered entirely in black, with the exception of red eye-slits and red trip at the openings of his mask, gloves, and boots, appears out of nowhere with a scantily clad woman in each of his hands. “You should really work for Gunovi.” You can almost see the man smile behind his mask.

  “No thank you,” Roger replies. “I obviously have more respect for women than Gunovi does.”

  Nathan sees the two women. “I'll work for Gunovi.”

  “No you won't,” Roger glares at Nathan. “Your fifteen year old hormones wouldn't be able to handle the corruption.”

  Nathan ponders his older brother's wisdom. “Fine, but I get to take care of these two while you deal with their boyfriend.” Nathan turns to the two women. “How are you two lovely ladies? Do you have names?”

  The man in black clenches his fist and the Hill house explodes.

  “Again?” Roger asks rhetorically. “What is it with all of you destroying the place I live?”

  “You are next,” the man in black informs.

  One of the women, one with long brown hair, brown eyes, and peach skin risks answering Nathan's questions. “I am Sandra Lovemoney. For the right price, I will tell you how to defeat General Exploso.”

  Nathan smiles at the woman.

  The other woman speaks up. She has wavy strawberry blonde hair, green eyes, and apricot skin. I am Beverly Bloreg,” she giggles.

  “Do you know the down side to trusting others with your secrets?” Roger asks General Exploso. “Your telepathy can't block me from reading their minds.”

  Roger uses his telekinesis to gather as much amber as he can, forming it into a pair of amber handcuffs and placing them on the man in black.

  “Done already?” Nathan whines.

  Roger uses his telekinesis to trap the two ladies who appeared with General Exploso. “That's to keep the two of you from warning Gunovi that I'm coming for him.”

  “What about the house?” Nathan asks.

  “I'm thinking it's time to move,” Roger asnwers.

  McLanda and Jeans drive up in their patrol car, place the three members of the Gunovi Family in it, and drive off.

  As Nathan uses his Concentratian telekinesis t
o rebuild their house, Roger walks off.

  Samuel Gunovi

  Roger walks up to the Gunovi Estate, right up to the front door.

  A woman with long brown hair down to her waist comes out the door. She is wearing a light-blue pantsuit that matches her eyes. “What can I do for you?” she asks Roger in a honey-sweet voice.

  “You can tell Samuel Gunovi Junior that Roger Hill is here to finish what he started,” Roger answers the woman he recognizes as Samantha Thorn, Gunovi's girlfriend from school.

  “I don't think I can do that,” the young woman looks afraid.

  “Tell me,” Roger starts. “Did Sam kill his father just so he could use every asset his father had just to try and kill me?”

  Samantha Thorn's lips tighten, showing she knows the answer but is afraid to speak the truth. “No,” she tries to hide her lie with an uneasy laugh. “Why would you think that?”

  “That's all I needed to know,” Roger states as he unleashes his telekinesis on the Gunovi Estate, ripping the domicile apart, piece by piece, until all that is left is Samuel Gunovi standing on a pile of rubble.

  “I warned you that I was going to bring the entire Gunovi Family down,” Roger reminds his former classmate. “Maybe now you'll listen when someone else speaks.”

  “You have not defeated me yet,” Gun snarls.

  Samantha Thorn covers her eyes, not wanting to see what happens next.

  Samuel Gunovi picks up a couple of hand grenades from the rubble and chucks them at Roger, but the half-Concentratian uses his telekinesis to encase the explosives in mid-air, containing their explosions.

  “As I told many of your