A/N: Im so sorry for the delay, i was a fucking retard and accidentally deleted this chapter and had to rewrite the entire fucking thing from scratch, (Three Fuck yous for Apple and the IPhone 4! Hip hip! Fuck you! Hip hip! Fuck you! Hip hip! Fuck you!) so here you go, I'm so sorry.
Ellie couldn't believe it. The fireflies that were supposed to meet them were all dead. And Tess was about to die, for her.
"We can't just leave her!" The redhead protested as Joel closed the door to the Lobby.
"Be quiet! Up the stairs!" Joel growled. What choice did she have but to comply? As they walked up the stairs they heard gunshots, and they stopped abruptly.
As they opened the door to the second floor they heard the soldiers report that Tess had taken out two of their men. "Shit, Tess!" Ellie whispered as she watched their companions blood spread around the body.
"Come on, this way." Joel whispered as he moved towards an office.
The next five minutes were spent with them avoiding FEDRA while trying to leave, after they reached a room where Joel Recovered a Hunting Rifle from a fireflies corpse, they heard footsteps approaching them followed by a shout. "THEY'RE IN HERE!"
Joel whipped around to kill the soldier. Only he never got the chance, for suddenly the window next to the soldier shattered and he was grabbed by some type of tentacle and thrown out of the building. Then a person came through.
Ellie gasped and the new arrival looked at her and did the same. He looked shocked.
He was the Teenage Boy she saw on the Window earlier! The jacket, the cargos, the shoes, only she had a clearer view of his personal features. He had blonde hair, white skin, and the most beautiful pair of eyes she had ever seen.
She remembered when she was Eleven someone in the Boarding School had smuggled a 'Kaleidoscope' into the girls dorm and showed everyone else how it worked, the boy's eyes reminded her of the toy.
They were blue and green in a pattern similar to the Kaleidoscope, yet there was something inhuman about how vivid the colors were, almost as though they were glowing.
She watched as he regained his composure, but before he could utter a word more footsteps were heard approaching them, and she swore she heard a type of animalistic growl come out of the teenagers throat.
Then things got scary.
She watched as his arm shifted into a fucking BLADE and he charged toward the doorway, she heard the panicked shouts of the FEDRA soldiers and gunfire before she heard slicing sounds and the sounds of something wet going everywhere.
She had a horrible feeling that those wet sounds were Blood being spilled. Joel aimed his hunting rifle at the door and prepared to pull the trigger.
When the boy walked back through Joel pulled the trigger and the boys head exploded from the round, only to both the man and girls horror it began to do the impossible and reform. Just as his face took back its shape Joel tried to reload, only the teenagers arm shifted again and a type of spiked whip shot out, grabbed onto the rifle, and pulled it out of Joel's hands. He then gave both of them a glare so intense that Joel took a step back.
"Do. Not. Shoot. Me. In. The. Face. Again." He growled.
For the first time in short period Ellie knew Joel, the man looked terrified. The boy then dropped the Rifle and said. "That's better. It looks like your going on a suicide journey into the ass end of nowhere. If you're looking for The Fireflies, they have left Boston. FEDRA has them in full retreat."
"How do we know you ain't lyin'?" Joel asked as he pulled out his handgun and aimed it at the boy.
The boy sneered and replied. "You don't, but if you want to live I suggest you trust me. More soldiers are on their way."
Ellie then whispered to Joel. "I don't like him, but we could use him... Strength in numbers and all that..."
Joel didn't look happy, he stood there for nearly a minute unmoving, but then he slowly lowered the pistol and said. "Fine. How do we get out?"
"Follow me." The boy said before adding "My name is Michael, yours?"
"Joel, this is Ellie." The middle aged man gestured to the Girl.
"Well then, Ellie and Joel. Stay close and you might live to see tomorrow."