Searching for a true Identity

Searching for A true Identity

Chapter 12

He watched the screen fixedly. He didn’t want to miss even the smallest detail on what was going on. He hated how the aid forces seemed not to move at all, when in reality they moved faster than any other aid forces would. It was very frustrating to only stand and watch a screen instead of being out there but still, he knew he couldn’t do much at the other place either. His knowledge wasn’t needed right now. The forces were all well educated and knew what they were doing.
He could feel Platinum creep up behind him and slide his arms around him.

“It will be alright,” Platinum murmured in his ear. “Blaise knows what he’s doing.”
Emerald managed to make some sort of a noise in agreement.

“They’re there now,” Marcus, another screen analytic, announced. More and more people gathered in front of the screen to see what was going on. If a spot began to blink it meant someone was injured and needed help. However, those were entirely reliable. If someone was badly hurt the person might not be able to activate the spot and therefore the spot might not ever begin to blink, so everyone could be taken out but still the spots would act normal.
Harry watched how the blue spots began to mobilise on the screen. It looked like they were preparing for an attack.

“What the fuck is going on over there? It seems like a whole fucking battle going on!” he burst out loudly. People turned to stare at him but he didn’t care. When four of the blue spots began to blink, quickly followed by ten others he froze.
A phone ringing pierced the deadly silence, which had followed the blinking spots, and echoed through the chamber. Since no one of the communication workers made a move to answer Harry went over and picked up the phone. He pressed a bottom so everyone could hear the conversation.

“Hello?” he asked. No one said a word on the other side of the line but they could all hear an inferno of voices and gunfire. A loud ominous rumble sounded suspiciously like a building falling down and crumbling to dust. Emerald forced himself to stay calm.

“Hello? Blaise, anyone?” he asked.

“Emerald?” a coughing voice asked. Everyone in the chamber tensed and listened with rapt attention. A couple of communication workers grabbed a notebook and was ready to write down any important information that might come.

“Yeah, this is Emerald.” He looked over at Platinum and met a blanc face. Platinum’s face didn’t reveal what he might be thinking or feeling.

“It’s Jack, I’m first year:”

“Jack, what’s going on?” Emerald asked and gripped the edge of the table with the telephone on in front of him.

“I don’t…” his voice was outdone by a new wave of noises. The noises were very hard to identify, however the human screams weren’t.

“Lab no ´5, find out what those noises are!” Platinum shouted out over the chamber. A total of 14 people were set in motion. While it should be easy to identify some of the noises it weren’t in this case began all the sounds were made at the same time, making it hard to sort out.

“Jack, are you still with us?” Emerald asked once the noise level had increased a bit.

“Yeah.”

“Tell us what’s going on.”

“I,I,I…home!” Jack said. Emerald and Platinum traded looks.

“He’s gone into shock,” Platinum explained when Emerald began to speak with a gentle voice.

“All right Jack, you’ll be home soon, I promise you that,” he said and was intent on keeping it. “Now tell me, what’s your favourite colour?” he asked to keep Jack’s mind of his surroundings. Jack hadn’t gotten any field education yet since he was a first year and hadn’t been around the last time they had worked for SL.

“G-green.”

“Green? Now that’s a pretty colour. You know, I’ve got green eyes. What eye colour do you have?” he asked. They weren’t having any actual time for this but he had to calm jack a little before he could ask him for any information.

“Brown.”

“Yeah? My father had brown eyes. How many in your family has it?”

“Two- no three people.”

“Alright. Blaise got brown eyes too, you know. By the way, can you see him anywhere near you?” He asked causally even through he really wanted to know.

“He’s hurt,” Jack said uncertainly.

“Hurt? How to you mean hurt? Does he have a fever?” he asked and played stupid. He didn’t want to ask for dangerous or life threatening injuries or jack might freak out.

“There’s a lot of blood. I can’t see much…” Jack answered.

“Alright. I understand that. Do you think you can move a bit closer?” he asked.

“No!” Jack shouted panicked. Harry cursed before he set to calm Jack again.

“Alright jack, you don’t have too! That’s alright, stay where you are. Listen Jack, there’s people coming to get you out of there, but first we need to know what’s going on o we know what sort of people to send there, do you understand Jack?” he asked.

There was no answer and Harry began to fear that jack might have gone into a full blow shock or something.

“There’s a man with no head,” Jack finally whispered and many people began to whisper. Harry silenced them with a hand.

“Is there?” he asked and decided to let Jack speak for himself.

“And there’s people bleeding, they’re going to die. They convulse… I’ve never seen them before.”

Harry exchanged another look with Platinum.

“What are they dressed like?” He asked.

“They all look alike. “

Harry closed his eyes at that. If they looked alike they would belong to the, it would be the aid forces who were bleeding to death.

“Emerald, jack is in a shock, it might in fact only be one or two of us who’s bleeding badly. He’s in no state of estimating right,” Platinum’s voice soothed the whole chamber.
Harry nodded and continued to ask Jack things.

“Alright then. Is there many people left of those who you tried to question before?” he asked. That’s when the rumble began again and drowned his voice.


“Jack?” he asked when it was over. “What happened?”

They could all hear Jack cry. It sounded like he was in pain.

“Jack?”

“I don’t know!” he cried out. “It hurt’s god it hurts!” he shouted and he continued to cream in agony. Emerald turned of the bottom so only he could hear Jack and motioned Chris over to him.

“Talk to Jack, don’t ask him anything about the situation down there, just speak to him of other things.”
Chris nodded. He too knew they wouldn’t get anything else out of Jack.

Emerald turned around to face the others in the chamber.

“Well what are you standing there looking at?” he barked. “The muggle authorities are probably there by now. Go get our men the hell out of there! Pansy! You and everyone educated in Healing and Medicine, go to the hospital section. Get everything out, make every bed available. I want THREE people who’s skilled at potion making to go with Pansy and make those potions they’ll need,” he said and looked out on everyone. “Be prepared for injuries in form of glass splitter, burn injuries, shoots and what not,” He said because the lab 5 team had only just sent and list on the noises out on the screen they stood in front. They had found out what the noises were. They were: fire, buildings crumbling down, cars exploding, gunfire, human screams, alarms going of somewhere from afar…

“Alright, healing team, go!” he shouted. Everyone in that area plus the three potion makers left. The rest stayed for more orders they knew would come.

“You others, I want 10 of you to oblivate the muggles and take care of the wizarding ministry workers if there are any at the scene. The rest of you; concentrate on getting our people to this HQ, here in the chamber. I am expecting each and every one of them to be here within the hour. I don’t care if they’re already dead: no one is left behind. Even the aid forces that were sent out are expected to be brought here for treatment of their injuries. Platinum, take charge and go with them. I am going to SL HQ in London,” Emerald said and they all went to work.
They only hoped there were more than one person left to save.