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Authors: J.A. Cipriano
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were soon standing in the observatory of the Empire State Building.
It was surprisingly warm inside the building, but the moment we stepped outside, I started shivering despite my trench coat. I hadn’t thought about how cold it would be eighty-six stories in the air, but it made sense since it’d been cold on the ground, and it was always colder the higher up you went.
We moved around the platform in one giant mob until we were at the spot where you could clearly see the Freedom Tower and the Statue of Liberty in the distance. The view was spectacular, and even though I wasn’t here to sightsee, I sort of wished I had a camera to take some pictures.
As we approached the railing, Wendy pointed to nowhere in particular. “It’s right below us. I can feel it in the pit of my stomach.” She looked back at us, and if I didn’t know better, I’d say she was going to vomit all over us. If that happened, there was no way I was going to hold her hair out of her face.
“And even if I was crazy enough to jump off a building into nothing, how are we going to get around the gate?” I gestured at the huge wrought-iron fence surrounding the railing and quirked an eyebrow.
Before I’d even finished speaking, Vitaly had pushed his way to the front of our little group. He ran his huge hands along the cold, black metal and smirked.
“Okay,” Vitaly said, nodding at us. “I open way. You follow. Be quick. If it closes, you go splat.”
Part of me wished he’d left that last part out. I was already feeling dubious about leaping from one of the world’s tallest buildings, and now there was a possibility the door he opened would vanish before I got there. That was total bullshit. Still, I was Mac Brennan, and I never let a thing like falling to my death stop me.
Vitaly waited until we all acknowledged him before pulling a plastic key from his hip pocket that looked exactly like Sora’s keyblade from Kingdom Hearts.
It glimmered like freshly hammered silver in the sunlight, and as Vitaly touched it to the metal gate, the entire structure shimmered. Bronze sparks leapt from the tip of the key and raced along the bars, and as they did, the entire section of gate vanished into smoke that smelled like mint chip ice cream.
I was still in awe of how he’d done it with a magical toy key, when Vitaly climbed up on the cement wall and leapt through the hole like we weren’t eighty-six stories in the air. I rushed forward in time to see him thrust the key into the air a couple floors below.
Golden light streamed off the key as the air exploded in a flash of purple before tearing asunder with a sound like cracking thunder to reveal a pustule of black swirling clouds where nothing but empty sky had been before. The Russian’s body swirled in a way that reminded me of a cartoon character getting sucked into a hurricane before he vanished like he’d never been there at all. Well, that was new, and terrifying as hell.
“There’s no way I’m doing that,” I said, stepping back so I could flee. Kids or not, I was not leaping off this building so I could get sucked into Hell’s hurricane.
“We don’t have time for you to back out now,” Jenna said, grabbing my hand and pulling me onto the rail with her. Her hand was surprisingly warm, and as she squeezed my fingers, something about the gesture comforted me in a way I hadn’t expect. “It will close soon.” With that she released my hand and jumped. As she leapt into oblivion and left me standing by myself on the rail, people began screaming behind us and rushing forward toward us.
As Jenna vanished into the tear in reality, I gritted my teeth. It was so far down it was making me dizzy. I still wanted to run away, but I tried to push the fear back down inside me, and not because Wendy was giving me the “I will throw you into that hole” look.
“Here goes nothing,” I said before doing what any insane person would do. I shut my eyes and leapt off the top of the
It was surprisingly warm inside the building, but the moment we stepped outside, I started shivering despite my trench coat. I hadn’t thought about how cold it would be eighty-six stories in the air, but it made sense since it’d been cold on the ground, and it was always colder the higher up you went.
We moved around the platform in one giant mob until we were at the spot where you could clearly see the Freedom Tower and the Statue of Liberty in the distance. The view was spectacular, and even though I wasn’t here to sightsee, I sort of wished I had a camera to take some pictures.
As we approached the railing, Wendy pointed to nowhere in particular. “It’s right below us. I can feel it in the pit of my stomach.” She looked back at us, and if I didn’t know better, I’d say she was going to vomit all over us. If that happened, there was no way I was going to hold her hair out of her face.
“And even if I was crazy enough to jump off a building into nothing, how are we going to get around the gate?” I gestured at the huge wrought-iron fence surrounding the railing and quirked an eyebrow.
Before I’d even finished speaking, Vitaly had pushed his way to the front of our little group. He ran his huge hands along the cold, black metal and smirked.
“Okay,” Vitaly said, nodding at us. “I open way. You follow. Be quick. If it closes, you go splat.”
Part of me wished he’d left that last part out. I was already feeling dubious about leaping from one of the world’s tallest buildings, and now there was a possibility the door he opened would vanish before I got there. That was total bullshit. Still, I was Mac Brennan, and I never let a thing like falling to my death stop me.
Vitaly waited until we all acknowledged him before pulling a plastic key from his hip pocket that looked exactly like Sora’s keyblade from Kingdom Hearts.
It glimmered like freshly hammered silver in the sunlight, and as Vitaly touched it to the metal gate, the entire structure shimmered. Bronze sparks leapt from the tip of the key and raced along the bars, and as they did, the entire section of gate vanished into smoke that smelled like mint chip ice cream.
I was still in awe of how he’d done it with a magical toy key, when Vitaly climbed up on the cement wall and leapt through the hole like we weren’t eighty-six stories in the air. I rushed forward in time to see him thrust the key into the air a couple floors below.
Golden light streamed off the key as the air exploded in a flash of purple before tearing asunder with a sound like cracking thunder to reveal a pustule of black swirling clouds where nothing but empty sky had been before. The Russian’s body swirled in a way that reminded me of a cartoon character getting sucked into a hurricane before he vanished like he’d never been there at all. Well, that was new, and terrifying as hell.
“There’s no way I’m doing that,” I said, stepping back so I could flee. Kids or not, I was not leaping off this building so I could get sucked into Hell’s hurricane.
“We don’t have time for you to back out now,” Jenna said, grabbing my hand and pulling me onto the rail with her. Her hand was surprisingly warm, and as she squeezed my fingers, something about the gesture comforted me in a way I hadn’t expect. “It will close soon.” With that she released my hand and jumped. As she leapt into oblivion and left me standing by myself on the rail, people began screaming behind us and rushing forward toward us.
As Jenna vanished into the tear in reality, I gritted my teeth. It was so far down it was making me dizzy. I still wanted to run away, but I tried to push the fear back down inside me, and not because Wendy was giving me the “I will throw you into that hole” look.
“Here goes nothing,” I said before doing what any insane person would do. I shut my eyes and leapt off the top of the
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