Chapter 89. Hijacking
Aiden was currently on the airplane.
A male voice reverberated in everyone’s ears.
"Please fasten your seat belt, return your seat back and tray table to their full upright and locked positions, open your window shades, and place all electronic devices in airplane mode. We are now ready for takeoff. It will be a four hour journey. Enjoy the ride."
Earlier, when Aiden entered the airport his disguise eventually wore off. His face had returned to his original facial appearance. But there was no cause for alarm. He deduced that any enemy that may have been trying to keep tabs on him would be thinking he was still on campus since they didn’t see him leave campus.
Currently, he was seated next to a young couple.
Aiden has his hoodie cap on. He was currently playing a game.
The couple seated next to him was a young man and young lady. They looked like they were in their late 20s.
The two had rings on their fingers so Aiden figured it was either they were married or engaged.
They looked at him for a moment and greeted him.
Aiden greeted them back and closed his eyes. He wanted to sleep during the flight.
The couple returned to what they were doing.
Clearly they didn’t recognize him as Aiden Vhorn. Sometimes things like this happened. One could meet someone they see on television all the time and not recognise them.
The woman was watching a video with glee on her face.
It was a video of Aiden’s battles during the chaotic beast tide of Derulo City.
The man sighed.
"Do you have a crush on him or something?"
The lady chuckled.
"Who doesn’t?"
The man rolled his eyes. "He’s not too exceptional anyway." He clicked his tongue in jealousy.
His fiance was too obsessed with Aiden Vhorn.
"I don’t know what’s so special about him," he added.
"Seriously? If there’s nothing special about him, then every other warrior is basically trash," the lady said.
"Babe. You know that’s not what I meant. I’m just saying that people are giving him way more credit than he deserves."
"Alright alright," the lady said. "You are jealous aren’t you? I will stop watching his video. Let’s watch a movie together."
The gentleman felt guilty for acting up.
"No need. Watch the videos. Sorry I’m being an ass," he replied.
"No worries." She played the video again.
"She didn’t even hesitate to continue watching it." The gentleman chuckled inwardly and decided to find something to do on his phone.
Aiden was asleep, but he heard everything the couple was saying. He found the couple very dramatic and funny. As for the gentleman’s comments about him, he didn’t care. Aiden was not someone who cared about the opinions of others about him.
He kept on sleeping.
Very soon, two hours passed. The airplane had completely left the territory of Derulo City and its surrounding cities.
****
Somewhere on the airplane.
Three individiduals gave each other nods from across the place.
Two women and one man.
Suddenly, they stood up.
Lightning bolts flashed across the figure of one.
Fireballs appeared in the hands of the other.
Conical arrows of ice formed in one’s hands.
Everyone’s attention was drawn to them.
"As you can all see this is a hijacking and robbery. Don’t worry, we are not terrorists, just professional thieves who specialize in hijacking and robbing people on airplanes. Airo City’s airport will just have to send us some money, and we will let everyone live. If by the next hour, we don’t hear from them, everyone dies. How’s that?" The boss of the criminals, a pretty lady with a wild expression, said. She was a legendary rank 1 warrior. The other two were expert rank 1 warriors.
Everyone on the aircraft was terrified.
Someone was about to scream. However something whizzed through the air.
Everyone looked.
It was an ice arrow. It was few breadths away from the entering the temple of the person who almost screamed. She felt a cold sensation sweep across her head. A tiny drop of blood oozed out of her temple. The ice arrow had grazed her temple.
"If any of you misbehave, we will kill you all. Our boss here is a legendary rank 1 warrior, and the two of us are expert rank 1 warriors. You do not want to try our patience," one of the criminals, the one with the ice affinity, said with cold eyes.
The woman with the ice arrow floating close to her temple fell on the ground. She extremely afraid.
"Make sure the pilots don’t turn around. Pass on our arrangements to them. The money should be sent to our anonymous account in the next hour. Else, everyone dies," the criminal boss said.
"Roger." The male criminal left the passanger area to where the pilots were.
Meanwhile, everyone on the plane was terrified.
None of them were warriors.
They were completely helpless against these criminals.
Were they gonna die?
***
The young couple seated next to Aiden had embraced each other in fear.
Aiden’s eyes snapped open.
"If these guys kill the pilots, getting to my destination will take longer," he sighed.
He had to take action.
"I need to use the washroom too. Let’s deal with them on the way to the washroom then. Plus, I get free blood essence too."
Aiden stood up.
"Excuse me." He spoke politely to the couple.
"Can I pass?"
The couple was surprised.
What was wrong with this man?
Did he not see that a woman almost got killed for pissing off these criminals?
The other passengers and even the pilots at the front had the same thoughts.
The pilots were about to contract Airo City airport for the money the criminals were requesting for.
But this crazy man was gonna have them all get killed!!!
"Hey... get the fuck back in your seat or we will.."
The boss of the criminals didn’t even finish talking when blobs of blood appeared before Aiden, transformed into a crimson arrow and shot towards her.
Puchi...
The crimson arrow met her head. It broke through flesh, pierced through skull, sliced through her brain and appeared behind her head, leaving a gaping hole there.
For a moment, she stood still. She had a look of shock and fear on her face. Then, blood oozed out of her mouth. Her eyes turned lifeless. The lightning dancing across her figure ceased.
A dull thud resounded as she fell on the ground. Her corpse lay in a pool of her blood.
The crimson arrow didn’t stop.
It sliced through the air like a projectile.
Puchi...
Another dull thud resounded.
The other criminal with the ice affinity also fell. Her ice arrow disappeared.
She had a gaping hole on her forehead all the way to the back of her head.
She lay dead in a pool of her blood.
Puchi...
The criminal at the front with the pilots was so scared.
He decided to escape through the pilots window. He was about to break the pilots window.
However..
He suddenly felt something pierce through his neck.
He chocked on his own blood. His eyes turned lifeless.
He was dead.
Everyone looked at the handsome brown haired young man with crimson eyes with shock.
So powerful...
He killed them all..
He must be a legendary rank 1 warrior!
Wait...why did he look so familiar?
Aiden didn’t care about the looks he was getting.
The crimson arrow turned into blobs of blood and returned to him. His crimson eyes returned to their usual black color.
The couple who were seated close to him were petrified.
They recognized him. Was he not the one who’s video they were looking at?
Aiden Vhorn... the crimson reaper..
Even if they failed to recognize him in person because they didn’t pay much attention to his appearance, his blood affinity stood out.
It was him!
"It’s Aiden Vhorn," the lady muttered out loud.
Everyone heard it.
Now, it registered.
This was why he looked so familiar.
He was the famed Crimson Reaper, Aiden Vhorn.
He was so powerful. But, was he not supposed to be an expert rank 1 warrior?
How the hell did he manage to kill the boss of the criminals then?
He was a legendary rank 1 warrior!
Aiden absorbed the blood essence of the corpses of the criminals.
After that, he spoke to the couple again politely.
"Can I pass?"
"Erm...sure, Mr Vhorn," the gentleman said with reverence and fear.
"He was seated right next to me and I said bad things about him?" The guy thought inwardly.
"In quite fortunate he didn’t take it personal," he thought.
As for his fiance, she was so shocked to see Aiden Vhorn that she passed out.
Aiden went to the washroom.
The air hosts and hostesses got rid of the corpses and the blood of the criminals.
The threw the corpses out of the airplane and cleaned the blood. Soon, the floors were very white as if nothing had happened.
The moment Aiden returned to his seat, the chief pilot said.
"On behalf of the entire crew and everyone on this airplane, we would like to extend our sincere gratitude to Mr Aiden Vhorn for saving us from such an unfortunate incident."
Everyone clapped.
"Thank you sir."
"I’ll name my unborn son after you!"
"You saved our lives."
Aiden simply nodded politely and closed his eyes.
He simply acted based on self interest. He was not a hero. He got blood essence after killing the criminals. Also, the pilots didn’t die. His journey to Airo City was not interrupted.
"Excuse me sir...I’m sorry for the words I.." The gentleman seated next to him said. However, when he looked at Aiden, he was asleep with his hoodie cap on. It was as if he was not the person who just killed three people.
He looked like an ordinary person.
"Even though he’s the exact same person Ive seen on social media handles, he looks so ordinary in person. No wonder I didn’t recognize him. This man is very dangerous," he sighed.
He looked at his fiance.
"Fortunately she passed out. Else, she would have disturbed Mr Vhorn for an autograph," he chuckled and returned to his phone.