Updated: 1/26/17
Updated: 5/6/17
Chapter 4: You Make Me Sick
I sat in Lami's room with her and Law as I remembered the promise I could only make for one of the doctor's two children. I was singing over the noise coming from outside the window in the streets.
"I remember tears streaming down your face
When I said, "I'll never let you go."
When all those shadows almost killed your light
I remember you said, "don't leave me here alone."
But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight
The two kids were sitting there listening to me sing, but their eyes flicked over to the window occasionally. I looked over at the window as well, and it was hard to not think about what had happened to my home. The window was tinted red from the nearby fires.
Just close your eyes
The sun is going down
You'll be alight
No one can hurt you now
Come morning light
You and I'll be safe and sound"
Lami climbed out of her bed and walked over to her window to look outside. I watched as Law motioned for her to stay away from the window. She came back over to her bed and sat down.
"Don't you dare look out your window darling
Everything's on fire
The war outside our door keeps raging on
Hold on to this lullaby
Even when music's gone
Gone"
I stopped singing. There was a noise from downstairs. I shared a look of understanding with Law. He had Lami get inside of her armoire. He then went downstairs to check out the noise leaving me upstairs with his sister. I knew something was wrong when I started smelling smoke and heard footsteps too heavy to be Law's coming down the hall. They came to a stop outside the door. They burst into the room. They started shooting. The bullets hit a barrier and fell to the ground. I smiled at the group that were standing in the doorway.
"You people make me sick." I hopped off the bed. "I don't think any of you should live." They stood their ground.
"What do you plan on doing about it?" One of the men asked me. "You're just a little girl." I popped my neck as I walked towards the group. I stopped right in front of one of the men. I looked up at him with glowing red eyes.
"I'm going to kill you." The man had barely moved his gun when I kicked his leg with all of the force I could manage to muster. I heard a satisfying snap of the man's leg. He screamed in pain. He bent down and grabbed his leg. I grabbed onto his head and twisted it around until I heard a satisfying snap.
The smoke had grown thicker in the room. I dropped the man that I had just killed. I cut through an artery in the leg of the second man using my nails. Blood spurted from his leg. I picked the second man up and used him as a shield as the men in the hallway shot at me. I dropped the now dead man on the ground as the men in the hallway were reloading their weapons. There were only two of them out in the hall. I ran out and jumped onto the third man. I nicked his neck with one of my nails. I jumped away and watched the blood spray from the cut before he fell to the ground. I turned to the last man and smiled. He took off his helmet and dropped it on the floor. He did the same with his mask. He brought his gun up to his mouth and stuck the barrel in his mouth. He pulled the trigger. If anyone watching would have seen that, they would have thought that the man just killed himself, but that was far from the truth. I looked both ways down the hallway now. Both directions were engulfed in flames.
"Lami!" I ran back into the room. I pulled the door open to the armoire. She was laying on the bottom and barely breathing. "Lami, stay with me." I pulled her out and carried her over to her window. I sat her down to knock out the glass. I cut my arms and hands in the process. I picked Lami back up and climbed up into the window. I jumped out, and my wings appeared to slow my decent to the ground. I landed on the ground with a thud. I laid Lami there. She had stopped breathing. "Come on Lami. Breathe for me." I started CPR on her, but nothing happened. After trying for a while, I looked at her lifeless body. Then I stood up abruptly and ran out into the street on a whim. I came to stand between a kid and a group of gunmen. They opened fire. I was hit by several rounds, and my blood splattered onto the kid's face.
"Who were the ones to attack Flevance?" I looked up at the woman standing in front of me with a questioning look on my face. "The ones that killed everyone. Who were they?" I understood the question that time.
"Mostly it was the neighboring countries military personnel, but there were some marines there. They were sent there to search the island for me. They helped the neighboring countries." The woman waved her hands to dismiss what I was telling her.
"What did the marines want with you? Also, they would never do such a horrible thing." I laughed.
"I wouldn't expect you to believe me. You're too blind to see the truth that's staring you in the face. Everything's there all you have to do is look hard enough for it. You're high ranking, so you should have access to the top-secret files. If you don't, then they are hiding something from you that they don't want you to find. Maybe it has something to do with your cousins or maybe your aunt. It could also have something to do with your grandmother or myself. Then again it could be the answers to what happened to my home island of Niflhel." The woman looked rather stunned. "What's the matter? You don't have the access, do you?" I laughed again.
Song used in this chapter:
Title: Safe and Sound
Artist: Taylor Swift
