The dust ridden air blew steadily but it was still too quiet. Bright sun rays shot down from the heavens baking anything in its grasp and to any other it would have been too much but to someone who has came and sat up here every day it was just another minor pain to deal with.
"This blows" Kai muttered huffing orange bangs away from her sun blistered forehead.
The sand beyond Spargus wall churned and twisted into little dust devils dancing on top of their dunes only to disappear when one catches it with their eye. A few kangarats and stray leapers could rarely be seen grazing about on small cacti shrubbery out on the horizon which was bent by the heat waves emitting from the sand.
"Oh my god I'm so effing bored" She laid the makeshift blaster mod aside and leaned back on my elbows. For at least a year and a half nothing has happened or not since the makers and metal heads were attacking the city now there were some fun times. Not now that the fire has died everything was so..peaceful, a little too peaceful.
"Kai come in" another bored voice came on the com stuck to her belt.
"Yes Hatchet go ahead" She replied in an equally bored tone shifting my brown eyes along the sides of the wall for anything amusing.
"See anything these days?" his rusty aged voice broke through after a few crackles.
Kai huffed and combed the desert once again to double check "nope nothing out there old man, just sand and dirt".
She felt the man on the other side sigh in complete boredom "alright , check back with ya in a few hours or so".
"Joy" she clicked of the frequency and fiddled with the gun in her hands. Maybe there would be a stray metal head to shoot somewhere, at least one for precursors sake or maybe she could just shoot the stray leapers, nah too cruel.
It was hours later close to evening time and the sun created a vast orange blanket across the the wall and sand as it began to set and the night star and moon began to rise.
"This was soooo much fun" Kai mumbled sarcastically and stood up brushing the stray dust off her wasteland attire before something dark on the horizon caught her eye.
She did a double take and squinted her eyes it was huge whatever it was and hid under twilights shadow facing the sun. Then her heart leaped to her throat when it started to come closer spreading out like a blanket of darkness across the sands, then it split up and the dark spots became individuals some more bigger than the others and they definitely weren't human or at least some of them weren't. In the middle of the mass was something much taller and more volume it lifted up into the sky like a miniature skyscraper. Kai gasped and her whole body became numb when whatever the object was spit out a ball of fire and it was hurdling closer straight for her position on the wall.
Unfreezing her legs Kai bolted out of the way, her footsteps clanking across the rim of the walls and was thrown dozens of feet when the boulder made impact almost shattering the city doors in the process. Smoke and cinders littered the air in a musky fog.
Panting in fear and worry she slid down the ladder and the soldiers on the ground scurried about. They all asked her questions like what to do, what was that, who is out there.
Pushing them away she took out her com "Sig, are you there please come in!" her voice cracked through the device both in fear and desperation. There was no answer only static, she clicked another frequency "Hatchet? Mom?" Kai's heart started pounding, would if something happened to them would if whatever is out there is already inside the city?
"The communicators aren't working!" another soldier screamed in the bustle of them.
As fast as her legs could take her she bolted toward a leaper and kicked it in the direction of the palace. A short orange ponytail blew back behind her as the lizard hopped over crevices and platforms until they got to the palace where Sig was already bounding out his face etched in concern and determination.
"What the hell happened Kai why ain't the communicators working?" he questioned obviously out of breath too.
Kai hopped off the leaper "There…is something out there. I saw it form the wall they have some sort of cannon and nearly blew the city gates off but there are other things I couldn't make them out but they're heading this way and fast, by the looks of it they are numbering close to the thousands" she took a long deep breath to make up for her lack of breathing during the explanation.
"Shit, without our communications I can't gather everyone" he looked around to the scurrying citizens then his green emerald eye traveled back to me "kitten, take the sand shark in the emergency garage and drive toward Haven city!"
I gaped my mouth "what! No I can't leave, I have to help!" my fist clenched into a tight ball with frustration and fear.
"That is not a suggestion, it's an order. Go to Haven city and tell them we need help if what you say is true then we are in for one hell of a fight and can't do this alone"
"but, my mom!"
"Now Kai, I'll make sure your family is safe now get your ass outa here!" he growled and ran another direction toward the gate. After watching him disappear she felt the ground rumble beneath her as a boulder crashed into one of the tall stone buildings that used to be a general supplies store and crumbled it to pieces in the process.
Biting back her anger Kai rushed to very back of the city and through a secret doorway where the rear exit and emergency vehicles lay, dust withered and waiting to be driven. Throwing up chunks of rock and filling the cavern full of engine echoes slammed on the gas and zoomed out the narrow cave passageway.
The hot sting of the desert and the violent rush of wind met her on the way out with its cruel kiss. Her knuckles were white from the vibration of the engine and the death grip she had on the wheel trying not to look back as the city she grew up in was being slowly bombarded with unknown souls and torn apart.
Dun dun dun..suspenseful much? Maybe? I don't know I've never been good at cliff hangers