A Rose's Thorn
Chapter 3
"My head hurts." I mutter waking up, once my vision clears I notice that I am not in my house, so I get up, and look out the window. "I am flying." I say unhappily, suddenly I hear voices in another room, so I enter it.
"Хорошо Роза утром, вы хорошо спите?" Drew asks me, and I nod. "Zak, meet my friend Roza." Drew says to her son.
"No way! You are Thorn from the newest episode of Weird World!" Zak says smiling at me. His parents glare at him, I guess that since Argost was their enemy he wasn't allowed to watch his T/V show.
"Uh yeah… I hate being in the spotlight though." I say blushing, I remembered how I was on T/V, and it made me feel weird.
"Is that Bunyip we found the same one from the show?" Zak asks me.
I nod, and say, "His name is плющ (plyushch), or Ivy." I realize that he wasn't in the room I woke up in, and start to freak out, "Where is he?" All of a sudden a komodo dragon comes in the room with Ivy on his back.
"So… you're Russian?" Zak asks laughing at Ivy. I nod, and walk over to pick Ivy up; I put him on my shoulder, and let him climb around my head.
"Can you say my name in Russian?" Zak asks, I laugh, and try to remember the pronunciation. I was a little rusty on my Russian, but eventually I remembered.
"Зак субботу." I say making sure I said it right. I nod knowing that I had gotten it right.
"Cool! How many languages can you speak?" Zak asks, I think for a moment counting them in my head, after a few moments I speak up.
"40. Give or take a few." I smile; Drew had taught me most of it when I was little.
"That's my girl!" Drew says smiling. I was happy that she could overlook the fact that I was a mercenary.
"Well I had the best teacher ever." I say smiling back, I pick Zak up, and hold him upside down by the leg. "Give it up." I laugh, and he hands me my mask, and grenades.
"So your father got a new apprentice? He isn't that tough." Doc says.
I put Zak down, and walk up to him glaring, "My boyfriend could take you down easily!" I say holding up my fist, he flinches, and closes his mouth. I sit back down in satisfaction as I hear a male laugh coming from the video phone.
"Hello Paul!" I say looking at the secret scientist. He had black hair that was spiked using hair gel. He wore glasses that no one could see through, though I knew that they were a deep chestnut-brown. Yes I had dated him before, but that was before Doyle had asked me out.
"Roza Van Rook? It has been a while, how are you?" He asked me. I smiled, and blushed.
"I have been just fine Dr. Cheechoo." I reply smiling, Drew looks at me, and winks making my face even redder. "I am still working for my father though."
"So, how is it working out with you and Doyle?" He laughs, Paul was an old friend, and even though we had broken up, we still hung out, and had fun together.
"We are doing fine." I smile, and then his face gets serious. "What's wrong?" I ask tilting my head slightly.
"Miranda, and Henry's facilities are destroyed, I checked it out on satellite images." Paul says, Dr. Grey, and Dr. Cheveyo were friends of mine, so this infuriated me. I could feel my blood boiling in anger, as it rushed to my face. Everyone looked at me like I was a wild animal which made my anger turn to embarrassment. My face remained red, but it was me blushing.
"Who attacked them?" I ask crossing my arms, and sighing. I released some of my tension and managed to smile.
"V. V. Argost." Paul replies, at hearing this I blushed, he had hired me, and now he was hurting my friends? I was basically fuming, and yet again had to calm down.
"I'll help you." I say looking at Drew, at first she looks shocked, but she nods.
"Zak; any signs of a fight you are gone!" Drew says emphasizing her words with hand motions. Zak nods, and I follow the family into the main control station, I remember Argost talking about Bunyips, and remember that they loved technology, and I check on him. He was sitting down on my shoulder, and he apparently didn't care that he was surrounded by all kinds of electronics which I was thankful for.
"I'll watch Zak while you talk to Henry and Miranda if it helps." I say to Drew she nods accepting my offer, apparently she didn't want him anywhere near a fight.
"Sweet! Roza, do you think that you could teach me some Russian, or combat moves?" Zak asks looking me in the eyes.
I laugh, and through my shortage of breath manage to say, "Да." When he looks at me tilting his head I start to laugh again, "That was your first lesson, 'Да' means 'yes'."
"Mom, can we keep her?" Zak asks looking at his mom, everyone on the aircraft starts laughing like crazy. Once some of it dies down I pick Zak up, and hold him upside down by his leg.
"Dagger?" I ask, and he hands it to me, I gently put him down, and add the weapon to my belt.
"Sorry kido, but she is an elite assassin/mercenary." Drew says smiling. Zak looks up at me, and I nod, I was in the top 10 most wanted criminals in the world.
"Let's go, you have to teach me some moves!" Zak says happily. I follow him, Fiskerton, and the Komodo dragon behind me.
YES, ROZA IS A NICE GIRL THAT CAN BASICALLY GET ANYONE TO ACCEPT HER, SHE HAS MANY FRIENDS THAT WERE GOOD GUYS EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS BAD. NEXT CHAPTER; ARGOST TRIES TO GET HIS HANDS ON THE LAST PEICE OF THE KUR STONE.