Angels and demons

The worst. Alliance. Ever.

A/N:

K, thank u so much for favorite/follow this story (if ur one that have done it lately or done it a while ago)! And I'm so happy! Lots of talking in this chap.

I'm not the marvellous Michael Grant, therefore: I do not own GONE!

Astrid's POV:

The boys (plus Brianna and Dekka) all stood there, ready for a fight. Astrid thought it was idiotic. They had just talked about the fact that Caine could come in good use since he knew most about Drake, if you didn't count Diana, but they all knew Caine could fight better than her. And now they were preparing for a fight.

"There is no need for a fight," she said. Every eye in the room went to her. "Yea, you're outnumbered, Caine," Brianna continued. Astrid sent Sam a look as if to say that she could handle this, and she could.

"Listen everybody! Drake has gone into the neutral-zone with a girl, and we all know that he is psychotic…" an eye roll from Diana "…and what he will do to her, so why can't we just work together?" Caine glanced at her before his eyes went back to his brother.

"And why in the world would I do that?" Astrid looked directly at his face. She already had an answer. "Because you want revenge on him." "I want the same on Sam." He nodded in her boyfriend's direction.

"Maybe, but this is a one-time opportunity for you to get him, and no one of us knows what can be behind that wall of fog. Most likely something dangerous since no one ever have walked back out, do you really want to face that by yourself, because I don't think so." He laughed a short and angry laugh.

"You think you know everything about everyone, don't you. Surprise, you don't!" Sam spoke up: "Why won't you. There is no need for us to not stand together against him! There will only be one time but you still don't want to. What's the big deal?"

Caine snorted. "It's all about hate, the whole game in this world is about it. Hate together towards someone, also the other way around, hate between two groups and hate between two people. And most of it is in this room."

"And what's the point about your little monologue?" Edilio asked. "The thing, wetback, is that none of us would've worked together." Dekka took a step forward. "No, the problem is you. We work great together, but you don't fit in." She took a deep breath. "But as much as I hate to admit it, and I really do, we need you. You can fight and you know Drake." Astrid had expected Diana to protest on the statement, but she didn't.

Caine looked like he was considering it, then Diana laid a hand on his shoulder, got a little up on her toes, and whispered something in his ear. When she pulled back he raised an eye-brown at her, then se whispered something more.

While they were doing that, all the other people in the room had questioning looks. The weird couple looked back at them. "So…" Caine started, "…we're going after Drake, into the Neutral-zone, just to hunt him down?"

Sam nodded. "That's the plan." Caine smiled a devilish smile at them all. "On two conditions. One, Diana stays here." This earned a glance from Diana, that was obviously something she had not decided. "Two, if we find Drake, I get my revenge on him before you can take him and do whatever you want."

Sam and Edilio didn't look pleased, nor did Astrid as she had a small frown on her face.

"I don't think you are in the place to discus," it came from Edilio. Caine looked at him again. Sam looked a little sick to what he was about to do. "Deal, but you can't kill him." It looked like they were going to agree, but of course Diana had to get involved.

"I'm not just sitting here waiting, I'm coming with you," she said. And there the plan fell together. Diana had to stay here so Caine just couldn't run off with her, because Astrid knew that he wouldn't give up the chance she had clearly given him by kissing him.

"No," was all Caine said. Diana turned to him. "I'm coming," she said, giving the coldest look Astrid ever had seen. "No, you're not. When and how do we leave?" Brianna smiled. "Have any of you ever rode a horse?"

Time skip

It wasn't hard to find horses. The Zang-family sold and rented horses to everyone in that part of town, even the red ones. As Miss Zang led them to some of the horses Astrid remembered her and Edilios conversation.

She turned to the boy walking beside her. Sam was on her other side, Caine and Diana in front of them and Brianna and Dekka behind them. "Edilio, what was the message from Dekka you told me about?"

He turned to her and looked puzzled before he remembered. Astrid pocked Sam on the shoulder and caught his attention. "Sam, I just wanted to say that Dekka has talked to Emily and wanted you to know that a whip was stolen from their store." He nodded.

"Drake had a whip when I met him, used it on Breeze," Brianna said, venom dripping from her voice. Then she cursed the psychopath. Dekka looked at her with compassion. "Calm down, we'll get him." Then she whispered with a smile: "And we'll get him hard."

Miss Zang came out from the stable, a rein in each hand. "Duck, can you help me sweetie?" she asked. Two black and white horses following after her. "This is Star." She gesticulated to the horse that had a black head. "And this is Lycke." That horse had a white spot around its left eye.

A boy that Astrid assumed was Duck came with three horses. One totally black he introduced as Cameron, one brown that name was apparently Miley, and then Mileys darker sister: Storm.

"So, do any of you ride horses?" Duck asked. "Yes, I do," Brianna said as she walked over to Storm. Astrid and Sam went over to the first one, and Sam clapped it. "Hey Lycke," he greeted. Astrid smiled. "Sam, that's Star," she said. Sam blushed. "Oh, hey Star!"

"Okay, since this young girl is the only one who can ride, I think we should give you all a fast lesson," Miss Zang said. "No we don't have time, Miss, we need to go now," Edilio said. She looked at him as she let each of them take one horse.

"I suppose that could work, but you need more than one person with so many horses."

They all looked at one another, thinking of people that they knew, but then Astrid heard a barley hearable mumble from Duck: "I could go." She looked over at Sam. Astrid knew that Sam didn't want to drag Duck into this, so she took the word.

"That had been nice, if that's okay for you, Miss Zang?" The owner nodded. "Yes of course! But this is all the ones we have left, so two of you have to share a horse back." They all looked at one another.

"We'll just see," Sam said. "So, we don't know for how long we'll be gone, so if it's okay for you, we'll pay when we come back. You have Duck looking after them so we don't run away with them, sooo…" Even Astrid had to admit that Sam wasn't good at this.

Laughter came from behind them. "Nice one, Sam," Diana commented, Caine was also humming. Sam blushed again.

They paid (or, Sam, Astrid Dekka and Edilio paid), then they all (but herself and an angry Diana) took a place at the horse-back, and started following Brianna and Dekka on Storm towards Drakes camp.

A/N:

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