THE ONE CALLED J

Chapter 29

Dave's entourage was touching Max but Max's body remained the same, it didn't appear to be getting healed or anything, Dave could feel sweat drip from his forehead but he kept his calm.

"Children are children, they tend to easily miss things and jump at what seems right, Hendrickson must either be an i***t for trusting the kid blindly or Dave must have proven himself in the past," Andrey thought to himself, he was standing right beside Max whom Dave was kneeling with.  He and his entourage were invisible.  "No creature can move without making a sound, though sometimes the sound intensity is too low that it might not be picked up and an entourage is capable of hurling words even faster than its movement, that's why words in aura cloak do not travel as slow as sound.   I had immersed myself partially in my entourage, it's an old technique that the i***t, Kronk taught me, it enabled me to bind with my entourage thereby becoming an ethereal manifestation but with a problem of significantly reducing my strength and speed," Andrey's entourage hovered past Dave's entourage as it moved directly above Dave who had a worried look.  "But I have been able to mislead Dave and Hendrickson, I have no reason to go after Hendrickson.  One of the reasons why people fail is because they don't know what they should do, there's a fine line between what I should do and what seems right to do, it seems right that I should destroy Hendrickson as he might prove a problem for later, trying to infiltrate Madame's base to rescue the two Primordials but that isn't my mission, it's to capture them, what comes after is none of my business.  Hendrickson isn't my goal, only Dave is." Andrey's entourage held a small scimitar; both the blade and the hilt were grey.  It brought it down speedily as if to stab Dave on his shoulder but just as it was about to reach him.  Andrey's entourage was frozen in his spot, Dave's entourage had connected an arm to his chin.  Andrey felt the hit to his chin as he dropped to the ground, he and his entourage became visible.  Dave's entourage took it up as it slapped the entourage's chest into the ground.

"Howwww?!" Andrey says, blood splurging from his mouth.   "I had given you the perfect distraction, I heard what you had told Hendrickson, you fell for my bait."

"No, I wanted you to think I had fallen for your bait," Dave got to his feet, his face still calm.  "I knew you had left the roof, the training Sensei gave me paid off, I could sense that there wasn't any object on the roof from the seismic activity going on underground but I knew you could hear us, I had deliberately told Henry that as I knew you would try and factor that to your advantage, while Hendrickson had gone off, I knelt beside Max's body, my entourage or I could have healed him at any time but I was patient.  I could feel your weight on the ground but not your entourage.  Whenever any human is about to do something violent, either in their body or by their mind, the beating of their heart increases depending on the urgency of the situation, I waited for that slight change in the beating of your heart and once I heard it, I had sent my entourage to attack, I knew you would be directly in front of me."

Andrey got to his feet, he clutched his sides as blood still fell from his mouth.  He had an evil smile on his face.  "Your friend's corpse is gone..."

He was about to complete his sentence but another punch lands on his face sending him several miles again as he crashed against a building breaking it into several rubbles. 

CRRRRAAAAAASSSHHH!!!!!!!

  Hendrickson had dealt the punch, his entourage was at his right-hand side.