Disclaimer: Yes, I'm J.K Rowling. Yes, I'm lying. No, I do not own Race To Witch Mountain.
"Are your parents gonna be okay with spending all this money?" Jack asked, either trying to start a conversation or an argument. Victoria kept her eyes to her mp3, even though there weren't much to see except the title of the song playing.
"We have agreed upon a financial deal." Seth answered, before adding slightly, "If your concern is regarding compensation-"
"My concern is that I got a couple of kids in the back of my cab with a big wad of cash, with a drop-off location that's pretty much in the middle of nowhere." Jack cut him off, and Victoria can already sense an argument coming by. "Now, in my book, that's a little chapter called 'running away', and-"
"Jack, you better be getting desert miles on that fare. And they better be able to pay. And you better get me an ETA! Capisce?" The sound of Jack's employer was heard after the radio crackled on.
Victoria casually picked the radio and shut it off. She shrugged when Jack gave her a look. "What? I don't like Dominic. Besides, you'd probably do the same thing if I didn't." she defended, and Jack chuckled quietly.
Victoria looked at the rear view mirror to see Sara and Seth staring at the road from the back window rather nervously. Turning around, she asked, "Something wrong?"
"Jack Bruno and Victoria Rogue, the vehicles behind us are indicating a pattern of pursuit." Sara said cautiously, and Seth had to give her a soft glare that seemed like she said something wrong. Which she did.
"Wait- how- I never told you my name, have I?" Victoria asked carefully, starting to think that the two people on the back of her uncle's cab were some kind of psychos.
"That does not matter now. We need you to increase the speed of your vehicle, Jack Bruno." Seth turned the topic around, seemingly trying to avoid that topic being brought back anymore.
"Well, I don't see any vehicles following." Jack said, and that exact second, a black SUV came out from the used to be empty road. Victoria started to panic in her mind, thinking that the vehicle looked vaguely familiar. When she turn around to look at the SUV once more, she saw Sara giving me what seemed to be a 'it's-going-to-be-alright' look, and she turned her head back, not exactly getting what Sara was talking about.
"At your rate of speed versus theirs, they will overtake our vehicle-" Seth tried to explain, but was once more cut off by Jack.
"Relax, kid. I'm just gonna let them pass." Jack said, whilst rolling down the window of his side of the car and sticking out his free arm, waving it forward, as he shouted, "Open road, people! It's all yours."
"Jack, I really think we should listen to them." Victoria suggested.
But Jack ignored her, and one of the SUVs was now right beside our car. She stared at the windows, trying to see through it, but with no avail as the windows to the SUV was blacked out. The SUV kept in pace with their cab before slowly driving pass them.
Jack put his free arm around the back of the passenger seat. "See, what did I tell you? Nobody's following us. I'm the King of these roads-"
"Jack!" Victoria yelled the same time Sara shouted "Jack Bruno!"
The first SUV, that was in front of them had stopped, while the other two pulled up on each sides of the cab, crashing its sides. The cab spun and when Jack finally regain control, he drove pass the first SUV, the other two still chasing him.
Victoria had a grip on her seat very tightly, and was a half surprised when she turned to see Sara holding one of her hands. Victoria smiled a bit before looking forward again.
"I said I was out, and I meant it!" Jack shouted. "Is it really them again?" Victoria asked, feeling a bit of frustration.
"Who is Mr. Wolfe, Jack Bruno?" Sara asked, and this time Victoria was really sure of this siblings being psychos.
"How did you know that-" Jack didn't had the time to finish as one of the SUVs hit the back of the cab, making Victoria's head lean backwards at the sudden move.
"Victoria, get to the back seat and everyone get down now!" Jack shouted and Victoria jumped to the back seat, sitting between the siblings and was given a seatbelt by Seth. After fastening it, all three teens had their heads down, their bodies on their knees.
A lot more banging and car-crashing happened, and the kids were gripping on tightly. Sara managed to keep holding Victoria's hand, which Victoria grip back, while Seth had one of his arms around Victoria's shoulder, covering her head. One of the SUVs had stopped due to getting pushed hard by the cab, and there was only two more left.
Having the situation not too chaotic anymore, the teens simultaneously raised their head and looked behind them.
"Jack Bruno, it would appear we have not eluded them." Sara warned. It was true, all three SUVs have regained control and were chasing them again. Victoria saw Jack glancing up at the rear view mirror before demanding, "I'm so over this. Stay down!"
Sara, Seth, and Victoria all ducked their heads once more. But this time, Victoria caught the siblings having a quiet conversation. Sara turned her heads to Seth, looking worried. "Seth, no. It's not a good idea." She whispered.
"I have to try." Seth replied stubbornly. "It's too dangerous!" Sara whispered back softly. But the next second, Sara had her hands on Victoria's face, making Victoria look at her. "You must not panic, Victoria Rogue." Victoria said nothing but nod slowly, and when she turned to see Seth, she saw no one. When she thought of one thing, she quickly looked at the roads behind her, and her eyes had a perfect expression of horror as she saw Seth outside, right in front of the SUV, looking ready to get crashed.
"What is he doing, he's gonna get himself killed!" Victoria half whispered and half yelled at Sara. "We will explain this matter to you later, Victoria Rogue. For now, please just stay as calm as you can." Sara pleaded, her eyes looking worried. Victoria sighed and nodded before turning her head back. The next scene caught her off guard.
The SUV had crashed into Seth. And for some reasons Victoria really doesn't get, no matter how ridiculous they sound, Seth stayed completely fine, with no such injuries, while the SUV ended up being the one destroyed. Victoria looked at Sara, demanding an explanation, but watched as her hand was stretched forward, and when the cab started moving back Victoria thought they would crash the SUV behind them. But the cab stopped right in front of the SUV.
"You three okay?" Jack asked. Victoria simply nodded her head, not able to say any words at all after all that happened in such little amount of time. Sara looked behind worriedly. "We are-"
"Fine. We should just. Keep. Moving." Victoria whipped my head to her left and saw Seth, seeming to have trouble catching his breath. And once again, Jack paid no attention, and decided to walk out of the cab, heading towards the SUV.
Victoria buried her head in her knees, a bit too confused to understand what was going on. "Victoria Rouge, I know this may be hard for you to understand-" Sara tried to comfort Victoria but Victoria burst out in words.
"First of all, I'd like to know how the hell you knew my name. Are you some kind of stalker, no? And second of all, he just flippin' got crashed by a flippin' SUV! With no such wounds and bruises at all! Third of all, how the hell did you just do these creepy hand gestures that caused my uncle's cab to move backwards?" The more she talked, the more frustrated she sounded.
"It is not for you to understand." Seth replied coldly. "Shut up." Victoria snapped while still having her head buried in her knees, sounding equally cold.
"Victoria Rogue, it is believed that the amount of time we have before Jack Bruno comes back is very little, so we must not tell you." Sara kept her voice steady and normal, and Victoria muttered a 'fine' before going back to the passenger seat at the front. That moment, Jack has returned, and he seemed very pissed off.
"Were they Wolfe's guys?" Victoria asked, holding her legs up to the seat with her arms locked around her knees. "Yup. How are you guys holding up back there?" Jack asked, glancing at the rear view mirror. Victoria saw the siblings exchanging looks from the rear view mirror before Sara answered softly, "We're fine."
"I'm sorry I dragged you two into all this. And you too, Victoria."
"There's no need to apologize, Jack Bruno." Sara said with the same soft tone before continuing after a small break, "You're not always the one to blame."
At first, Victoria thought that this would be a small sweet scene, but then Seth had to break it by his cold formal 'Let's-Get-Down-To-Business-And-Show-No-Such-Frickin-Emotion' words by saying, "But the urgency of our trip has not decreased."
"Look, don't worry. I'll get you two where you need to go. You've earned it." Jack replied, and Victoria tried to get rid of the image of Seth destroying the SUV just by practically standing in front of it and all the other odd things that had been happening by turning on the radio as some teen pop song played.
"We're here Jack Bruno." Victoria had been asleep, but her eyes fluttered open when Sara's voice broke the relaxing silence. She looked outside the window near the passenger seat, expecting to see some big house or maybe more breathtaking psycho-like things, but all she saw was nothing.
"Here?" Victoria muttered curiously, more to herself. "There's nothing here." Jack said, looking around.
And then Victoria saw a small shack, a rather old and dirty one in the middle of nowhere. It seemed like someone just trashed all over it not long ago. "Somebody's expecting you two, right? Because it doesn't looked like anyone's home." Jack asked rather worriedly. But the tone in Sara's voice made her seemed like she's…excited. "Don't worry, Jack Bruno. We'll soon be reunited with relatives."
The car stopped. "Okay. So that's seven hundred and twenty dollars and 50 cents. But after everything that went down today, how about I knock off %25. I also-" Jack cut himself as Seth handed him a big wad of cash. Victoria watched the siblings run into the shack. "Can I be honest and say that the shack looks completely unsafe." She said, before turning to look at Jack counting the money Seth gave to him.
"Five hundred percent tip? That's reasonable." Jack said, sounding sarcastic. Victoria quickly got out of the cab, Jack following her while shouting, "Hey! You guys overpaid!" He glances back at the money. "By a lot." He added. Victoria slammed the doors shut and saw the big damage the cab had, shaking her head. "Unbelievable."
That second, both of them heard glass shattering, coming from the suspicious shack. Without having second thoughts, Victoria ran inside, leaving Jack alone, who soon had no choices but to follow. Walking around the shack, with no light sources other than the small lamp hanging and the sky that doesn't look so bright anymore, Victoria kept thinking that someone, or maybe something, was watching her. Not Seth or Sara, but something else. But she shrugged the thoughts off and continued wandering around.
She saw Jack holding some kind of piece of wood that seemed to be the leg of a table or chair. She was about to start teasing him about how he's such a scaredy cat, but stopped once she knew she'd do that too if he wasn't here. And when she saw a hand tugging on Jack's jeans, she gasped quietly as Jack aimed the wood at Seth's shoulder who was sitting down with Sara on the floor. And the wood went right through his body.
"What just happened?" Jack asked, clearly witnessing how the piece of wood casually went right through Seth's shoulder, not hurting him at all.
"Jack Bruno and Victoria Rogue, you should not have jeopardized your lives by following us." Sara whispered very softly, as if she was trying to not get caught by someone, while Seth went back to fiddling with the device he's been playing with ever since the start.
"Well, what sort of trouble are you in?" Victoria asked, and Seth looked at the two of them. "I suggest you two return to your vehicle. Your services are no longer required." It took everything not to make Victoria explode in front of him. His personality was pissing her off, obviously. But she can't seem to avoid him. She had to grit her teeth very hard to keep herself from yelling.
"Seth, they're just trying to help." Sara said, trying to comfort her brother down, seeming like she realized how pissed off Victoria was. But of course, Seth's stubborn and closed personality won't change. "We don't need their help. Somebody's already been here looking for it. We simply cannot trust any of them. Just us, Sara." At the end of his line, Seth's voice softened a bit, and Victoria can't help but to have both her eyes and heart soften as well. It was cut off when Sara looked up at the two humans in front of them.
"We appreciate your efforts to assist us, Jack Bruno and Victoria Rogue. But my brother is right. We can involve you two no further." Sara said, right before Seth stood up as he whispered, "Got it!"
Jack stood there, thinking to himself if he should follow the kids or just leave like they told him to, but Victoria automatically followed them. He groaned, knowing that as long as Victoria goes with them, he will have to tag along.
When Victoria found them, Seth was placing the strange device he was holding on a…fridge? It made Victoria question their insanity a bit, but when the fridge started to move backwards, revealing a secret passage, she was completely distracted. Obediently following, yet she stopped when she heard Jack talking to himself, wondering if it's the right decision. "Don't go in the pimped-out fridge, Jack." Victoria had to stifle her laughter at the tone he was using.
"Oh, come on. Cowboy up." Victoria pushed Jack inside the 'pimped-out fridge' and took one look around the ruined shack. She was still feeling that someone was watching her. But she shook her head a few times before following the others.
They walked through staircases, and Victoria kept waiting for Jack to walk past her first whenever she sees a specific type of insect crawling on the walls. When they finally reached the siblings, a new door opened. It led to more staircases, before finally revealing some type of garden. Though, most of the plants there were unknown to Victoria. Especially these humongous blobs things hanging on from the ceilings of whatever they're at. The siblings separated, leaving Jack and Victoria separating too; Victoria randomly choosing to follow Seth, even if she did wanted to just act really harsh on him. And Jack was following Sara, because he didn't want to leave any of them alone.
While following Seth, Victoria saw his device beeping once as it got near to one of the blobs. Then, twice. The closer it was to the blob, the more it beeped. Seth turned to look at Victoria and smiled. "It's here. What we're looking for is here." He said before calling out, "Sara! It's here!"
Not long, Sara and Jack came into view. Nodding to Seth, Sara pulled out her necklace and placed it on the blob. After a few seconds, she stuck her hands inside it. 'Oh dear lord' Victoria can only imagine how disgusting that must've felt, as horror were written all over her face. When Sara pulled her hand out, she was holding another type of device.
"What is it?" Jack asked.
"It is what we came for, Jack Bruno." Sara's eyes seemed like they twinkled in delight.
"Really? Is anyone else looking for it?" Jack questioned further, smelling something fishy. Victoria quickly caught on and was reminded of the times where she felt that someone was watching her.
"Say, the person who trashed everything upstairs?" He continued.
"We think so. It is very valuable, which is why it was so vital that we locate it first." Seth explained.
"Then, what makes you so sure that whoever else wanted it, isn't still looking for it?" Victoria asked, sounding more like she's making a point. Seth looked at her and tilted his head for a bit, before a big 'thump' was heard and made all of them jump. They stared ahead of them, and kept their head a bit down as more thumps and rumbling sounds were heard.
"Go, go, go." Jack whispered as he pushed the kids to move backwards, while he took a hold of his small weapon before following them and guiding them along. They stayed at a spot when they heard more sounds, each of them looking at another direction to make sure there were no harmful moving things in sight. When Jack saw a glimpse of whatever's chasing them, he shouted.
"Run, run, run!" and run did they. The girls followed Seth while Jack ran to the opposite way. After it started to get quiet, they stopped to listen. None of them moved, or breathed. But Victoria managed to whisper very softly,
"Where's Jack?" It came out short and casual, but kids like Sara would've definitely noticed the worried look on Victoria's face. So Sara squeezed Victoria's hand before smiling and whispering very low, "He will be fine."
Victoria flashed back a smile, and turned to continue hiding. And then, one of the blobs near their hiding place exploded. Of course. The robot shot it. It caused Seth to let out a surprised noise and made Victoria yelp. Crap. Victoria grabbed Sara's hand, the other one holding Seth's wrist, before pulling them both away as another blob exploded.
"Jack Bruno!" Sara called out. "Kids!" Jack shouted. The robot was starting fire on the blobs, and now fire were everywhere; sliding on the blob in a light blue color before turning into a yellowy red as it fell to the ground.
"Go, go, go, Sara!" Seth shouted as he ran, with his shoulder around Victoria's back who's starting to get weak due to all the smoke. Another blob exploded right behind them, and all three of them were sent flying forward as they fell. But they quickly stood up and continued running.
"Jack Bruno!" Sara shouted, before the robot appeared behind her, throwing her right arm forward very swiftly, making the device fall from her hand. Seth tried taking it back, but it only takes a hit from the robot to make him fly down to the ground once again. The robot was about to take the device, but that was before Victoria jumped in and stole it right before the robot touched it. Of course, she hadn't thought of what'll happen afterwards.
The robot walked towards her, giving her no exit when she realized the other ways were already covered in fire. She covered her head with her arms when she thought it was going to hit her, but then she opened her eyes and saw Jack rugby tackling it. It didn't stay for long, though, as the robot started head-locking Jack and throwing him to the ground. Sara thought quickly and stretched her arm at one of the blobs that were on fire, making it fly to the robot, smashing him down. Jack took advantage of this and pushed all three kids forward back to the room filled with staircases.
The robot, though, turned out to be very strong, as he was up just the second when Seth got inside. Victoria helped him close the door as the robot aimed his shooter at them both. They were fast, but not fast enough, as some of the flames found a way in, not to mention how the ground shook a bit afterwards, making both Seth and Victoria fell unconscious.
A/N: Hope you all liked it ^^ Yeah…I really wish I knew what to call those unnamed blobs things.