by Burak Koç
“ I know everything that happened between you and Lena. I was here with you all this time.”
“ What are you talking about? There was no other person in this room. If you were here I absolutely would know that. “
“ You couldn’t because I was invisible. I could hear and see you but you couldn’t. ”
Alfonso didn’t seem to believe what I told. He had a cynical expression on his face.
“ Ok, the invisible guy who I can see. It was an outstanding story, but I need to know the truth. Now tell me how you know all of these? Are you spy or something?”
“ Who do you think saved Lena’s life in the backyard? Yeah, it was me. You saw me. I was suddenly appeared then disappeared.”
Eventually, he started to be serious about what I said instead of making fun of. Even for this story, what I told was an extraordinary thing but what I know, proved what I said.
“ So you were invisible huh? Were you one of the victims?”
“ No, I came here from a different place. I am only a witness.”
He was asking a lot of dummies question and I was still tied to the chair. He seemed crazy. He was walking around the room, talking himself, and asking me a question. His wavy hair looked like he just got out of the bed. He was a mysterious guy. I had a lot of things to don’t trust him. But this story forced me to trust him. There was no other way to reach the end of the story. After he stopped his crazy movements, he turned towards me to ask another question.
“ Why aren’t you invisible now?”
Finally, he asked a good question. I gave him an answer that cleared any doubts in his mind.
“ I don’t know, it is out of my control. It changes according to the situation of the events. I have come here to tell you what I saw in the center of the organization. I was going to find a way to communicate with you because I thought I was still invisible. But I didn’t notice I wasn’t. And you know the rest.”
“ Then tell me, what you saw in there? ”
He was curious and excited, couldn’t stand without a move. For me, it wasn’t the same situation. I started to feel pain while I was sitting on that chair without making any move. I was getting really uncomfortable. My hands became purple because of the rope didn't let my blood flowing in my veins.
“ Before that, please untie me or I will die here. And we will work as a team, so don’t inject that medicine to me.
“ OK!”
He untied me quickly, the flowing blood inside my veins after a long time, gave me unbearable pain. I writhed in pain for a while. Then I started to move my hand slowly.
Alfonso waited till he makes sure I am ok. Then he asked again with curiosity:
“ Now tell me where is the center? ”
“ A car took us there, hard to remember but if I see the road I would remember. “
“ What happened in there?”
“ They gathered in a big hall and were waiting for Lena.”
“ For Lena? But why?”
“ Because of the young man. They injected medicine to him. After it worked as well as they wanted, they took Lena to a room. There was a dead man in that room. They injected his blood to Lena.”
Alfonso wasn’t happy with what he heard.
“ Damn, this is not good. Then what happened to Lena? “
“ For a while, she screamed in pain. Then she started working under the order of the organization. She went in front of the huge door with the young man after passed inside a labyrinth. “
“ A labyrinth? “
Alfonso's mind was very confused, and he was constantly asking questions.
“ Yeah, a huge, complex labyrinth. It is impossible to reach that door through the labyrinth without the map. “
“ You know where it is right? ”
“ Yeah, in front of the labyrinth but we can’t see it. Only the same blood as Lena’s would show us.”
Alfonso started acting like crazy again. He walked around the room and talked to himself.
“ Hey, I didn’t tell the most important part for you.”
He stopped and focused on me.
“ What is it?”
“ Lena’s blood is different than the others: Dark brown. You know what I mean. You and Lena might have the same medicine in your blood. I think you are so important to this organization. And this is not all. There were a lot of people portraits on the wall next to the door. One of them is yours.”
What I've said so far shocked him, but after that, he had a serious expression on his face instead of a shocked expression. Maybe by this time, he was waiting to hear this. He asked seriously:
“ Did you see what was inside the room behind the door? ”
“ I tried but couldn’t see. Suddenly I found myself here. “
This answer seemed not enough for Alfonso. I could see the emotions he felt in his eyes. They were staring at me with big curiosity. Feeling that he was close to knowing his past made him crazier. But I had started to trust him more. He wanted to know what happened to him and his family. I think it was an innocent effort; he didn't want to harm anybody.
“ I have to know what is there behind the door. My past is hiding there. Can you take me there? ”
I wanted to help him a lot because I cared for Lena and other mysterious things.
“ Yes, I can but if you want to get in there, we need the blood of a member of the organization.”
He said: “ We have.” He put the masked man’s body on the table and took some blood from him. The blood didn’t look the same as before. Its color had turned yellow. We both knew it was not what we wanted. Then I remembered the woman we trapped.
“ Hey, where is the woman? We can take it from her.”
Alfonso seemed reluctant to do this but still, he did it.
“ There she is.”
He put the masked woman’s body to another table. She was dead just like the other man. Alfonso was in a hurry more than ever. I felt he was trying to hide something. While he was taking some blood from her, I removed the mask on the woman's face. Her face was familiar as if I had seen it before. It didn't take too much to recognize her.
“ She is Tina. You killed her.”
Alfonso looked at me in regret and desperately defended himself.
“ I didn’t know her, even I wasn’t sure if she was. Now I'm sure because you said. I know it won’t change anything but I’m sorry.”
I was really angry, he endangered Lena in vain and sent her to that place.
“ You should have told this to Lena, not me. You lied to her. You sent her to death because you didn’t care about her. You only care for yourself and your stupid past.”
“ You don’t understand. This situation is beyond Tina. There are a lot of children kidnapped in that place just like Tina. If I told Lena that I killed her friend, she wouldn’t go there. That means more children will be kidnapped. I should have known what is in there to make a better plan to save all of them.”
I didn’t want to accept but he was right. At that moment I was reacting with my emotions, not logic. Maybe it was due to my feelings for Lena. I was with her throughout the story. She had all I want for a girl: beauty, courage, loyalty, and more. But I decided to be logical to save the other children.
After Alfonso took some blood from Tina, he went in front of the table and took a syringe that contained a blue liquid. He turned towards me and showed the syringe in his hand.
“ We will find Lena in there and I injected this medicine to her. She will be ok as before. Then I will get into that stupid room and save everyone. But I couldn’t do it without a guide. Now I’m asking you. Will you help me to save the people and destroy that stupid organization forever?”
I didn’t have another choice to say: “Yes!”
We left the house together and started a journey to the center. We passed the forest and the long road. We were on foot and there was no other person on the road. After a long time journey, we finally reach the center.
I said: �
�� This is the entrance of the center.”
“ How we get in there? ”
“ We must use the knife…”
I was answering his question but I stopped after heard Alfonso’s loudly voice.
“ Hey! Where did you go??”
He was looking around for me because I was invisible again. He couldn’t see and hear me. The story put me in key moments so far, so I didn’t judge it this time. But Alfonso seemed not happy about this.
“ God damn! He disappeared again.”
He helplessly sighed and started walking towards the entrance. Finally, we reached the point that we will learn everything. At this point, Alfonso needed my help but there was nothing I could do. I was hoping that he can find the way. He reached the door at the entrance and opened the door. While he was staring into the room, these words came out from his mouth: “The light’s returned to darkness.”
Chapter 5:
The Fault Affecting Whole The Story
Actually I was expecting that he would back to his house because I thought the only way to find the secret door was to use the member of the organization’s blood. In our plan, he was going to inject the blood to me then I was going to help him to find the door. I was invisible and couldn’t help him, but still, he got into the room because he knew a second way. He thought he was one of the members of the organization. I understood this after he said this sentence:
“ The light’s returned to darkness “
That sentence explained that Alfonso returned where he belongs. But he described himself as the light in the dark. I think, it because of the unanswered questions inside his mind. He was going to reveal everything that hidden, like a light that brightening the darkness. I could see the confidence and courage that were created by this thought had in her eyes. With that courage, he took a step into the room.
I followed his in the hope that he could find the secret door. But there were 2 important problems to be solved. The first one was he should have figured out how he could make visible the secret door. And the second one was, he needed someone to put on the table to be able to stick the knife out of the wall. Of course, he was unaware of these problems when he came in.
The room was the same as I saw before: a table, a knife that stood stuck on the wall. There was nothing else so Alfonso could have noticed the knife easily.
He looked around the room for a while then saw the knife. He approached it with quick steps. It seems he didn't care about the table and his goal was to stick the knife out of the wall directly. He gripped it with his hands and pulled with all his power. I could see his veins on his neck, which meant he was having a hard time.
He continued for a while but then he gave up because he spent all his power. But the knife didn't even move. Apparently, the only way was to put someone on the table but Alfonso still didn’t know that. I should have communicated him with some way to help but he couldn’t see and hear me. There was nothing I could do but hope. He rested for a while to try again then pulled it again. The result was the same as before. With that way, no one could stick the knife out of the wall, even Alfonso couldn’t. Then a great idea came to his mind. A Great Idea? I’m just kidding. He did not give up his stupidity and remained dependent on the primitive method. But this time he used a different way: he gave a punch to the wall.
If it was a normal wall, I would expect that the wall was broken because I saw what Alfonso’s punch could do, but this one was something special. At the time Alfonso screamed in pain after he gave a punch on the wall, I saw the special thing the wall had. This wall was so solid even for Alfonso’s punch, and it had no traces on it after punch. It was fine as before, but I couldn’t say the same thing for Alfonso.
I could understand the pain he felt from his movements. He was running around the room with screaming. He was clenching her teeth because of pain and holding his hand tight with another hand. He tried to calm himself like that for a while.
After the pain that he felt was over, he was able to be calm. He was trying to lower his adrenaline by taking his breath deeply. After he was calm enough, he looked around to find a place to rest. This time he noticed the table that standing on his across. He approached it with slow steps and sat on it. While he was sitting on the table also staring at the knife by focusing. He was in deep thought and definitely they were about the secret door. Suddenly his facial expression changed. He had an expression like when you have an idea. Then he added a smile on his face and stood up from the table. He began to press down to the table with his hands. Apparently, he had noticed the way to use the table. He walked towards the door and got out of the room. After a couple of minutes, he came back by carrying a huge stone on his lap. He put it on the table and went to pull the knife again with hope. The result made him hopeless again because nothing happened differently than before. It seemed he completely gave up this time. His facial expression confirmed this. He walked towards the door by complaining.
In this story, the story had always given me a chance to affect the story in critical moments. I knew that time was one of them and how should I do. I approached the table and checked if I could touch the stone. The story didn’t mislead me as always. I pushed the stone off the table with the happiness of being right. At the moment that the stone fell down to the ground, Alfonso was about to get out of the door. Alfonso stopped after hearing the sound of that stone hitting the ground. He looked at the source of the sound by turning around. I was hoping that he could understand it happened because of me and his facial expression confirmed me. He understood what I wanted to do and he approached the knife without wasting time. I sat on the table when he gripped the knife with his hands. He pulled the knife and stick it out of the wall easily this time.
The first step of reaching the secret door was done, and the second was predictable for Alfonso because he told this way to Lena. He examined the white knife in her hand for a long time then he scratched his palm with a knife. He seemed it hurt him so much. While the knife was absorbing his blood he was writhing in pain. That was a surprise for me because it didn’t happen on Lena. But still, I didn’t much care. Alfonso put the knife where it belongs after it absorbed his blood enough. The blood flowed to the wall slowly. This situation was the same as Lena did, but the door didn’t appear. Normally the door should have appeared after the flow has finished. Apparently the second way didn’t work. I was expecting that Alfonso would give up again but he seemed to determinate this time. He sat on the ground and started waiting. It took a little long but was worth it. The door finally appeared on the wall.
Alfonso stood up from the ground and started touching the door. The weird figures on the door attracted his attention. For me they were meaningless. A bunch of weird things was there. Maybe they made sense for Alfonso, I don't know. After he pushed forward the door, the dark hallway showed up. He carefully went down the staircase and started walking in the hallway without making noise. I was nervous because I was worried that all the members would be in the big hall. Alfonso seemed he doesn’t much care about this situation. After a short walk, he reached the door of the big hall at the end of the hallway. He pushed forward the door without wasting any time. The opening sound made a big echo in the hall. At that time I noticed that no member was there because if they were there, they would hear that sound clearly and come to check it out. No one was around, that made me a little bit relax. The doors of other rooms inside the hall were closed. These rooms attracted Alfonso’s attention so he started walking towards them to check them out. There were 3 rooms, and the first one that Alfonso entered was the room in which Lena was injected with the drug. The room was completely empty. There was nothing special to stay so he didn’t spend much time in this room.
The second room was a lab. There was a lot of lab stuff around the room. There were papers on the desk tables and different formulas were written on these papers. Even if I didn't understand these formulas, I knew what they were about. They were chemical formulas that meant the drugs were created here.
I was sure that Alfonso knew too because at the same time we noticed the fridges lined up side by side. There were quite a lot of fridges and each of them had strange names written on them: “... BL - F: 540, BL - F: 561, ZX - C: 1001 ...”
Alfonso checked the inside of all fridges one by one. There were different drugs in each fridge that were stored inside the stopper tubes, except one. One of them was completely empty. “FB-M: 44” was written on it. It was as if the drugs in this fridge were hastily taken. Alfonso didn't care much about this situation too and he went to the third room. This room had something that could attract his attention. This was the room where the kidnapped children were held captive. There were a lot of large iron cages and they contained the kidnapped children. As soon as they heard the door open, they looked at Alfonso with scared eyes. We expected they were unconscious because of the drug in their blood but they looked normal. When they noticed Alfonso wasn’t a member of the organization, they started screaming for help. Alfonso approached the iron sticks, and he noticed the stopper tubes on the ground. There were a lot of tubes standing in front of the cages on the ground. Alfonso leaned over and picked up one of the tubes. There was some liquid left in the tube. It was familiar for us: The blue drug that purifies drugs in the blood. That explained why these kids were conscious. These drugs were contained in the empty fridge named “ FB - M: 44”. So this meant the blue drug name was “ FB - M: 44”. They used these drugs to turn children normal. But why did they do that? It was obvious that it was a trap. Alfonso couldn't be aware of that because hed focused on the situation of pathetic of children. He opened the door of cages quickly and released the children free. There was only one door: the huge one. He went in front of the door and opened it. The labyrinth that I mention was across him. As soon as he noticed the table in front of the labyrinth, he approached it. The blank paper was standing on it with a knife. Alfonso took the paper and examined it, then remembered what I told him, and took the knife in his hand. He scratched his palm with a knife and his blood flowed to the paper. When the path was beginning to appear on the paper, Alfonso took the paper in his hand and entered the labyrinth. For a while, he followed the path that appeared on the paper then stopped suddenly. The paper had become blank again. His blood should have had to flow on the paper again, but he didn’t take the knife with him. He had to go back the way he came and take the knife. This situation made him angry until he noticed another knife that was standing on the ground. This knife was the same as the knife at the entrance of the labyrinth. I didn’t notice it when I came here with Lena. My doubts grew because what I saw in that place this time was not the same as before. Someones wanted Alfonso to reach the room at the end of the labyrinth and it seemed they were going to succeed it. Alfonso took the knife and scratched his palm again. After the path appeared on the paper again, he continued following the path. This event was repeated 3 times. Alfonso poured his blood so much on the paper so he was getting sluggish and I was following him hardly because of the low oxygen air. After long walking, we finally reached the end of the path without being dead.