Gareth looked over to the table close to him in the restaurant. He smiled as a kid blew off the candle from his cake, while the parents cheered for him.
He smiled as he watched the happy family, wishing it was his own.
"Ahem!"
He heard someone clear their throat and turned his attention to Becky. Junior walked over to his father and embraced him in a warm hug.
"Are you fine my boy?" He asked, checking him out.
"Stop acting dumb Gareth. You know that I am going to stick to the agreement. Junior is doing fine." She replied and then stretched her hand. "The money."
"Listen Becky, I know you...."
"Excuses huh? Junior, let's go." Becky said and tried to get up from her chair, but Gareth quickly stopped her.
"I did not say I am not going to pay." He said, rolling his eyes and reaching out to his pocket to pull out the bundle of cash.
"Ten thousand dollar and a tip. That should cover for three months."
Becky snatched the money away from him and put them back into her purse. "He is going to be with you for the weekend. I have a date." Becky revealed and got up to walk away.
Gareth carefully leads his son to the chair that she had left behind and they begin to speak to one another.
Suddenly a commotion broke out and everyone is forced under their table. Gareth carefully hides Junior with him.
"Nobody moves. Stay where you are and we will have no problem." Gareth was scared because the armed robbers held heavy machinery in their arms.
"Daddy, I am scared." Junior mentioned with tears dropping from his eyes.
"It is alright my boy. We will be.." His word is cut out of his lips as he felt someone drag his leg out of the table.
"Is he the one the boss is talking about?" One of the masked men asked, pointing the gun at Gareth.
"Yes, shoot him!"
In a split second, Gareth felt a heavy energy overwhelmed him. He grabbed the gun and forcefully bent the tip to face the masked man.
The rest of the men tried to shoot and he flipped the table over. He carefully carried Junior moving with the table as a form of defense till he manged to get to the exit door.
He carefully lead Junior out of the restaurant and into the car. Gareth rushed to the driver's seat and as soon as he turned the ignition of the car, the tires exploded.
"Dammit!" He cursed as he watched from the rare view mirror the masked men, holding up their guns at the car.
"Junior, I want you to listen very carefully. It is about to get very messy and I don't want you to be involved. Hide at the back sit and don't come out till I open the door okay?" Junior nods his head and did as his Gareth had instructed.
Gareth got out of the car with his hands up in the air. "It is me you want so go ahead." He said.
As the men approached Gareth, his eyes caught an explosive in the Pocket of one of the men. They grabbed his arm but Gareth forcefully slammed their heads together and swiftly reached out to the explosive, while using the dead bodies as a shield against the bullets.
He pulls the plug of the explosive and throws it into the ground and the rest of the masked men dispersed in fear before it eventually exploded.
Gareth gets into the car and picks up Junior and take to his heel. He couldn't determine if the men were going to come after him or not.
He made a turn to the left block and stopped at the sight of two men standing in front of him. Gareth turned around to leave but comes once again face to face with one of the men.
"How did you..." Gareth stopped in his words the moment he recognized the face. "Anthony?"
"Hey Gareth."
"What in the world did you just do?" He asked turning around to see it was left with one other man, who was coming close to him.
"We watched you from afar take on an entire mob all by yourself and that is quite impressive." Anthony said with a nod of approval.
"To be honest with you, I don't know what happened or how I ended up doing that. But I guess it was necessary after all." Gareth said, still holding onto Junior.
"That is because you have been chosen.." The other strange said as he came close to meet him. "My name is Robert, it's nice to meet you."
He shook Robert's hand.
"What is this all about?"
"We need your help Gareth." Robert replied.
He goes on to also narrate everything to Gareth. After he was done the man was silent and Robert simply watched closely as Gareth absorbed everything he said.
"So you want my help to save your wife?"
"This is not about me Gareth. Although part of it is. This is about the future of this city. We have to stop the evils that will be coming or it will not be safe for any of us."
Robert points to the child Gareth is holding. "From what I watched tonight, it is clear that you love your son. If you want to see him alive, you have to be ready to help us."
Gareth sighed.
He didn't want to be a part of any of this. All he wanted was to be able to protect his son and cater for his needs, no matter how much pressure comes with it as well.
But if anything threaten to take that joy away from him, he was willing to fight it off.
"I don't know how to use my power like that. But I am going to join." Gareth revealed and Robert smiled in excitement.
Everything seems to be slowly working out as he had planned.
It was simply left with one more person.
Mark.