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Chapter 6- Horrific Suprise
Sam and Six, who were sleeping peacefully, are now awakened by Four's yelling and intense shaking.
"The Mogs, they've found us! Guys!"
After hearing the words they dreaded the most, the couple jolts out of bed and races to the door.
"How did they find us?" asks Sam, trying hard to be calm as possible but failed as his words came out cracked and shaky. Six looks at him and wonders if she should comfort him but there's definitely no time for that.
"Suck it up," she tells him, "We leave everything behind and make sure you leave no trace of whatsoever." Four takes his Loric Chest and signals Bernie, who seemed forgotten in the moment as well, to run to his side. On the other hand, Sam takes his laptop and as he looks up, he sees Six and John staring at him dumbfounded. "What?" he asks then shrugs, "You said no traces…my laptop holds some very important information you know."
Six then walks up to him, takes his laptop from his hands, drops it on the floor with a loud thud and with one swift movement, crushes it with one foot leaving Sam 'gawking' at her which was certainly the opposite of what she had expected. She raises one eyebrow to indicate that she did not understand his reaction and sees him take out a USB from his left pocket.
"Got it all backed up in here," he says grinning. No matter how chaotic it is, Sam is still, well, Sam. Smirking, Six sneakily runs to the door, listening first before peering outside for any signs of the Mogs. Bernie runs to her and she whispers something to the dog, "Check the safest way out." After a bark, the dog runs out and Four felt the urge to follow him but was stopped by Sam.
"He'll be fine John. He made it out alive the last battle, remember?"
Four winced and nodded at Sam's words. He clearly remembers the pain when he thought that his dog had died but was later replaced by happiness when he sees him limping to him with only little injuries. Not a minute later, Bernie was back and Six signals the boys to follow. Sam triggers his pistol and cocks it while Four lights up his Lumen. Six holds her gleaming sword tightly and turns invisible.
As they walk very quietly along a corner, they start to hear voices – deep ones that only a Mogadorian possess. Six glares at Bernie who now looks down at the floor and she whispers one word loud enough for the boys to hear: "RUN!"
She slides down the hall in the direction to where the Mogs' voices are. As she turns toward the exit, she sees four Mogadorians guarding it. She lunges at one of them and with one quick movement, thrusts the Loric sword in his guts, preventing him to fight back. The other three Mogs who were alarmed by this takes their stances and searches for where she came from but not before long, Six lands on another one and sinks her sword through the Mog's chest, turning him into ashes. "Two down, two more to go."She was then followed by Number Four who raises his hand and shoots Lumen out of them, aiming at one of the Mogs successfully, leaving one left behind. Sam appears behind Four, aiming his pistol at the last one but before he can even pull the trigger, Six rushes in and stabs the Mog until all that remains are nothing but ashes. She looks at Sam annoyed, "That pistol, when pulled will cause a ruckus! Better keep it down as much as possible."
Sam, whose mouth was agape and is pitied by Four, shakes his head before exclaiming, "Give me one of those then!"
"Excuse me?" Jane sees Sam pointing at her weapon.
"I need something like that obviously." Jane searches for the weapons remaining after the recent battle. Fortunately, she sees a gleaming sword just like hers and hands it to him. "You better be careful with that. No playing with it alright?" Sam smiles widely as Six handed him the sword while Four looks at the two's action thinking that their relationship looks more like a mother and her child instead of a couple. He chuckles inside and picks Bernie up as they leave the building.
They made sure that no camera or others had caught them. Now that the Mogadorians know where they are, more would be coming. They need to be quick in getting Number Seven and her Cepan, if he or she is still alive.
Once outside, Six gives the keys (to Sam's truck) to Four who looks surprised to why she would not want to be riding with Sam right now.
"I never wanna be separated from him but like I said, now's not the time. Now, can you stop acting all surprised with every move I make?"
Four nods at Six who was actually expecting something more than that – something like assurance that he'll look after Sam but when he says nothing, she diminishes her thoughts and starts her Ducati.
This time, Sam takes the lead for he's the only one who knows where Number Seven is, moreover, what she looks like. As he searches for the monastery, he couldn't help but glance at the reflection of Six in the mirror. He smiles and she seems to notice this because she smiles back. As they exchange more glances, John, who's looking outside the window, catches a sight of the place and was beaten to notify Sam by Bernie's barking.
"Good boy," says Sam to the dog.
Four just looks at him and whispers, "Good boys, you mean."
"What's that?" Sam didn't hear Four's words.
"…Nothing. So, you sure that Seven's in that place."
"I'm definite!" Sam looks at Four and notices how terrible he looks - depressed and all that. "We have a lot to catch up to Bro! What's with the mood?"
Four chuckles at Sam, thankful that he's finally noticing him. "Nothing. Just miss Sarah you know…..and…..you," confesses John.
"Me?" asks Sam in disbelief. He was here all along so there should be no reason for Four to miss him! After thinking about it for a moment, he realizes what must have happened: Six. "Oh! Sorry man….for being occupied."
Four gave out a huge laugh, the first in three or four days! "Yeah, you're pretty occupied alright. I understand though, everything's fine Sam but you're right. We've a lot to catch up to! How did you tame the monster anyway?"
"Huh?" Sam snaps out of his trance looking at the reflection of Jane, "Oh, you mean Jane. You know, I used the tricks hiding in my sleeves." He chuckles.
"No really Sam, how did you do it? You never took the lead with Emily and she was more of a girl than Six."
Sam laughs at John but soon stops abruptly as he reflects on their relationship, "What the hell just happened?" He sees John suppressing laughter and then failed.
"Good to have you back bro!" Four punches Sam's shoulder lightly and sees him redden. A couple of days ago, he was definitely a different person. Whatever both of them did, it seemed to have changed them both. This again reminds Four of Sarah. It's been days since he had called her and it will be days again before he can ever will. The Mogadorians know where they are right now and he was sure that Six wouldn't let him take any risks that would surely give away further of their location.
As they round the corner to the front of the monastery, Sam tells four to take the wheel and gets out of the car. He motions back to Six and Four and points at the parking lot for them to park. As they left, he look around the area and spots Number Seven right away: she was looking out of the window, moreover, at him. Her eyes are black as well as her hair and her skin was, well, she was tan. Once she notices that he had caught attention of her staring, she makes an embarrassed face and before she could even turn around and leave, she sees him smiling like he just saw the sun for the first time and walk towards her direction. She was confuse of the boy who was about to knock on her door anytime now. Have she met him before? Does he know who she is? How? Questions flooded her mind but she was interrupted by in fact, Sam's knocking.
"Number Seven? I know it's you."
Number Seven's eyes widens at his true accusation. There is a stranger right now who knows what she is and if it was any of the others, she would have felt it right away but since she hadn't, it only meant two things: the Mogs, they had found her and the protective charm casted among them is now broken. Following her instincts, she jerks the door open and pulls the boy inside, only having one thought in mind: kill him.
After parking her Ducati, Six along with Four and Bernie, tries to catch up to Sam right away. Once they saw him by one of the doors of the monastery, Four couldn't help but notice Six's relieved face, probably thankful that he's still alive. It quickly turned into panic when she sees Sam being pulled in violently by someone and she turns invisible trying to reach him place as soon as possible. When she jolts the door open however, she was welcomed by a horrific scene: Sam was stab through his chest, non other by what seemed to be his sword, held by the lady in front of her. "No! No! What have you done! Sam!" Six rushes to Sam, who is now lying motionless on the floor.
A/N: So, surprised? I made a cliff hanger because I wanna see where your imaginations take you. Review and TELL ME! For spoilers though, just wanna say if this was a tragic story, then I would have categorized it as tragic (which it is not!)….if I get 'enough' alerts, I'll post the next chapter!