Chapter 4: Red

4 AM.

"AAAAAAAAAAAA"

Vivian hid her face with her hands, cried out loud.

"BANG! BANG! BANG!" James shot at the creatures with his gun.

"Vi, run away, this way!" William shouted out.

"Hurry up, Vivy… Before they kill us!" James took her hand, quickly found the clearest way to ran away. The other children also ran as fast as they could, while flying monsters kept attacking them. Some of them used gun to fight back.

"Where are we going, William? Are we lost?" Nick said, breathed rapidly.

"Shut up and try to shoot those monsters! William never gets lost!" James growled.

William led 12 other children ran like crazy out of the forest. No one dared to say anything, their hearts beat like they were jumping out of their chests. They were so scared that they kept running. They ran for their life, among all kinds of howling and growling creature in the forest. Undoubtedly, Govman has specially raised and trained those horrifying creatures, used them as training minions for the children.

"HURRY UP!" William shouted out loud, clenched his gun.

They had run for their life for nearly three hours. The children staged their great escaped at one A.M., and they planned to leave this terrible island before the final test. The January group had successfully anaesthetized their instructors, and the children collected as many guns as possible, tried their best to fight their way to the seashore, where the boat was hidden somewhere…

"STOP!" Nick shouted. Everyone stopped immediately, suspiciously looked at him. They found their way out of the forest, and ran towards a spaciously desolated road. There was nothing, not even a single tree in the road.

"Landmines! Landmines are planted everywhere on this road. Believe me, they have trained us December to detect and defuse mines. Look at this…"

Nick said, picked up a small rock and threw it to the road.

"BOOOOM!" A huge explosion rosed up immediately, blew away everything around it.

"What should we do now?" Vanessa seemed to be horrified.

"Do exactly what I do. With this kind of mine, we only have one way…" Nick lowered his body, pressed his stomach against the ground and carefully started to crawl towards the road.

"Now, follow me. Very slowly and carefully." He whispered.

The children followed him, and finally they could reach the seashore.

"This is it! This is it!" William cheerfully shouted out loud, ran to a boat anchored near the seaside.

"Hurry up!"

The children quickly ran to the boat and tried to climb up into it.

"Willy, but there is no key here. How can we start this boat without a key?"

They tried to find the key, but couldn't find it anywhere.

"The balloon! Damn it. They knew it! They keep the key in the balloon!" William growled furiously.

"We must go back?"
"It's the only way."

William and the children ran back to the island. When they get to the red balloons, a large explosion suddenly burst out behind them. The instructors led platoons of soldier ran after them, and gunshot started to fly around.

"Run away!" William shouted.

William held James and Vivian's hands and ran as fast as he could to the red balloon, took it off and get the key, and then he led them back to the seashore, where the boat was still there.

"AAAAAhhh!"

A monster attacked James, bit off his stomach. His blood spilled everywhere on the ground.

"BANG!" William shot at the monster. It was his last bullet, and he didn't have any

"James!"

"Run away!" James tried to shout with his faint breath. William rushed to his side.

"Are you OK, James? I'll help you on your feet again… Now, slowly…"

"No, William, run away… They are after you. No time to waste, run away. Hurry up… You must bring Vivian back to her family, remember? Your guns have no bullet at all, so run as fast as you can….Please, run away…"

"BANG!"

He hadn't finished his saying yet… He got a bullet right in his head.

James was dead.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO." William growled furiously, looked at Ethan, who shot James dead.

"Run, William, run…" Vivian took his hand, tried to persuade him.

"No!"

"Run now. Run. William, Vivivan, run!" It was Ethan's voice.

Vivian was surprised; her eyes opened widely staring at Ethan. Ethan really wanted them to escape?

"Why do you kill him?" William cried out loud.

"No time to explain it for you, William. Run away. Go and find your mother. All other children were brought back to the camp."

Mother? Right, he had to find his mother…

"I'll kill you."

William said coldly, and then he and Vivian climbed up into the boat. He didn't know why Ethan let him escape, but he would pay for what he did to James. Vivian started the boat, and they drove it away from the seashore. Gunshot and rockets flew all around them, but they managed to escape.

Some hours later, the boat landed. The two children got off, looked at the world for the first time. The Govman had never let them knew anything about this world. Vivian started to cry, because she knew they had escaped the island, and because of James. William put his hand on her back, tried to console her, but finally he cried himself out…

At Scully and Mulder's Apartment

Mulder sat in the empty room. It had been four days since Dana left their apartment. He called to the hospital, but they said Dana didn't go to work. Yesterday, Maggie called him to ask about Dana, so she didn't come to her mother's home. Mulder didn't tell Maggie anything about her; he didn't want her to be worried. He always thought of her as his mother, she gave him anything he wanted, and he loved her even more than his own mother.

"Where could she go?" He mumbled repeatedly, rubbed his hair.

He didn't know much about her friends, all the time she ran away to this little town with him, she didn't make any contact with her friends. Mulder realized that because of him, she had to give up many things: family, friends, their son… and he did hurt her. He always made her live in fear and sorrow.

"Scully…" Tears started to ran down his cheek. He could have lost his woman, the woman he loved more than anything else in this world… He recalled what she said to him someday ago, and now he understood what she felt. He sat there waiting for her, he didn't know where she's gone, he didn't know if she was in danger or not, and, above all, he missed her.

He had to find her, he had to find her. He had to say that he always loved her, and their son, William, was the finest thing he ever had in his life. They were his family.

A/N: Sorry James, little boy. Rest in peace.

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