Prologue

Alison dreaded the 2 hour period of science that she had to cope with on a Monday afternoon. It seemed to drag out across an eternity as she found herself looking at the clock at nearly every 10 second interval. Alison had none of her friends in her science class and the class was always near silent. She always failed at science tests and after a while got used to the teachers constant moaning.

The bell went and it was if she's been ejected from the chair as she bolted towards the door, she'd survived through hell… or that's what she thought.

Chapter 1

Alison exited the school with everyone else through the gate, however the gate wasn't big enough to allow an exhausted horde of school children out of them so she had to barge a lot to get through.

Her home was a few miles, she would have got the bus but she was out of money and her only choice was to walk. She lived with her grandma as her mum apparently disappeared and never showed up again and her dad was probably somewhere drinking his life away after their divorce.

Her grandma donated a lot of her money towards charity but never told her which one which seemed very odd to her as her grandma never kept secrets from her very often.

It was winter and the sky was getting dark very quickly, Alison looked at her watch and saw that the time was 4:23 and she still had another half a mile to walk before she made it to her grandma's house. Her grandma's house was a few roads away from the town square so it was easy enough to get home by the time she reached the town. The sky had turned a very dark blue colour as the sun made it's descend across the sky and the old town lights painfully flickered on.

No one seemed to be around but the sound of feet shuffling made her turn at numerous occasions. Fear and panic started to fill her veins as she turned around a last time and found nothing again, she turned to continue her journey but ended up walking into someone.

"Woah! I'm sorry." She said as she tried to walk around the figure. She had a couple of seconds to study him and saw that he was wearing a black hoodie and baggy jeans that seemed to pile up at the bottom of his leg due to the length.

The figure reached out and grabbed Alison by the throat and lifted her about half a foot off the ground and revealed a creepy smile.

"We have a bone to pick with you Miss" He said with a very deep voice and let off a slow and creepy laugh after.

Then the figure entered a spasm and dropped Alison before falling to the floor in another set of spasms. She saw a chord attached to the man's back which looked like a tazer.

"If you want to live you better come with me" The woman at the end of the tazer shouted at her, Alison was confused as scared about what just happened let alone who this woman was.

"You coming or not?" The woman shouted again but this time Alison responded as she started to sprint towards her.

The woman rounded the corner and Alison was not far off her heels.

"Keep going!" She shouted as she stopped at a corner and let off a few bullets from a pistol and ducked back into cover as the figures returned gunfire of their own. One bullet implanted itself into a wall in front of Alison and she stopped and screamed but was forced to run again as the woman gave her a shove in the back.

The woman revealed some keys from her pocket and threw them with a light swing towards Alison.

"Get the car open while I keep these bastards back!" She screamed, it didn't take Alison long as she turned the key in the door and in the ignition and the car's engine stalled for a second but the revved into life. Alison hopped over to the passenger seat and the woman took the driver's seat and floored the accelerator, the force threw Alison back into her seat as they drove down an abandoned looking street.

The figure watched as the car drove into the darkness and knew that the boss wasn't going to be very happy. He pulled out a phone a dialled the number, dreading what was probably to come.

Alison was nearly breathless and her face had turned pale. The woman looked over at her.

"Check the glove box, there should be some water in there, it's all yours" She said, it was only now that Alison realized the small hint of Russian within her accent.

"Where are you taking me and who were those guys!?" She asked as her voice got more and more high pitched as she asked on.

"I'm taking you somewhere safe, I can't say where but it's a lot safer than here, and those people were henchmen for Leonid Amarov. He escaped Mexico before we could stop him and is now after your grandmother's money." She replied calmly, doing her best to try to calm down Alison but it didn't work very well.

"What does my grandma have to do with this?" Alison asked

"She has a lot to play in this game, do you know the money that she donates to 'charity'?" She took her hands off the wheel for a second to make small quotation marks with her fingers.

"Yeah…" Alison was getting curious of how this woman knew all of this but decided to just listen on.

"Let's just say that it's not going towards a charity, and you'll see what it's going towards soon enough." She said with a smirk.

"I don't think I've introduced myself, I am Vina Kazakov. A member of an organization called the TFU which try to stop people like terrorist and drug dealers threatening the lives of innocent civilians. I enlisted after my husband Yosyp was murdered during an undercover mission. I believe you are Alison Dalis, 14 years of age and lives on the outskirts of Rochester, am I correct?"

Alison gasped in awe at how much this woman that she's known for no longer than 15 minutes knew so much about her.

"How do you know this!?" She asked, nearly stumbling on every word.
Vina reached down into the side pocket of the door and brought out a file and put it on Alison's thigh. She began reading, everything was there: her place of birth, her mother and father's name, her birthdate, even her passport picture. Alison closed the file and just looked into the darkness, completely in awe.

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