Ah, finally. I got a chance to write, and now I can finish part two of this highly anticipated chapter, at least for me it was. By the way, it's only my seventh day of school, and I already had to turn in an essay. Come on! Well...I don't really have anything else to say, here's the chapter!
Point of view for this story is...Winter! (Surprisingly)
Does it look like I'm Tui T. Sutherland? Stop thinking that I'm going to claim ownership of the series!
Winter pulled into a halt at the parking lot in Qibli's car, maybe not as neatly as he usually would have done, but given his condition, any person with a brain could see why. He limped out of the car, and shut the door, locking the car, his mind brimming with only one thought,
"I have to save Moon."
She had sacrificed herself to save him...and he was about to get the support that he needed to save her.
"I have to save Moon."
He didn't really enjoy admitting it to himself, but he had a crush on her, and there was no denying it.
"I have to save Moon."
Winter thought this to himself over, and over again, as he limped towards the boys' dormitory. The sun was starting to rise…
He doubted the teachers would consider a rescue operation worthy of a tardy.
Winter walked in, and used the key he found in Qibli's car, he had gotten his stolen by Morrowseer, to open their dorm room.
"Qibli!" Winter yelled as he saw Qibli hurriedly searching on his laptop on a find your phone app, it was tracking Winter's but it hasn't moved, he had gotten that stolen from Morrowseer as well.
"Winter!" Qibli jumped up in relief at seeing his friend, "Thank goodness you're both safe!" he stuck his head out the door to look for Moon, only to see that she wasn't there.
"Qibli?" Winter asked.
"Where's Moon? Oh ****! What happened to you? You look even worse than when we saw you on the video chat? Are you okay?"
"Qibli...ill be okay for now, we have to get Moon back from those...people."
"Wait…" Qibli widened his eyes in horror, "You mean she's still there?"
"Yes...she traded herself for me...I don't know if she's escaped."
"I saw her phone on the tracker, and it said it got away from where she stopped. After a while though, it started speeding back there."
"Oh no…" Winter said, "We have to get the others."
"On it…" Qibli said, and whipped out his phone and dialed numbers, presumably calling Kinkajou, Turtle, Umber, and Carnelian.
A few minutes later, they heard knocks on the door.
"Qibli, we're here." Kinkajou said. He opened the door, and everyone rushed in. Upon entry, Kinkajou squealed and hugged Winter, sobbing and laughing at the same time.
"I'm okay guys, don't worry...I'm okay."
Winter groaned a bit from pain as almost everyone in the room hugged him at the same time.
"Well," Winter said, wincing a bit, "Let's go save Moon."
Winter decided to sit in the back this time around, not wanting to drive. Qibli had searched his car up and down, thankfully having no dents, a quick wash and his car would be good as new. Winter sat in the least painful position possible on the right seat in the second row of Qibli's sports car as they went off a loaned road. Kinkajou sat on his left, being the smallest, and not caring about the middle seat. Umber and and Tuetle had somehow squeezed together on the left seat, and Qibli drove with Carnelian having shotgun. Winter stared at the strip of casinos and hotels in the distance, as far away as the eye could see, the land in between all desert. They had left the urban area, and were on the most important mission he'd ever been on, if the only one.
After about an hour of driving, they came across a light. They parked the car a ways away, and they went into a tunnel, hopefully where Moon was.
"Come on...don't you wish that life were easier?" a voice said in the distance.
"N-not with a ruler!" Moon shrieked.
"They could make all of your tough decisions, Moonwatcher." the voice said, with a slimey hint to it.
Everyone froze in their tracks, they could hear Moon, and someone trying to mentally break her.
Winter fumed, and knew he was about to do something he'd regret.
"How about pain?" the person said, making Winter's hair stand on end, "Will that work?"
"No! Please no! No!" Moon screamed as loud as she could.
"I'll take that as a yes." the voice sneered.
"NO! Someone...please...anyone…" Moon sobbed, "Help."
Winter didn't even realize he was shaking, running down the tunnel, the others behind him, stuck where they were with shock. He ran, as the light got brighter, into a blazing lay white room, where Moon was shackled to his previous prison.
With Scarlet torturing her. Holding a gun to her neck.
"STOP," Winter yelled, sprinting towards them. Scarlet whipped around, pointing the gun towards Winter, and pulled the trigger.
Blazing hot pain seared through Winters arm, using it to shield where she was pointing, his heart. There were broken bones and definite scarring, but he dashed on anyways, filled with adrenaline.
"What the…" Scarlet said, but was silenced as Winter body checked her. They both tumbled to the floor, as the rest of the group ran in.
"Winter!" Everyone screamed, and Qibli and Carnelian went to help him as Kinkajou, Turtle, and Umber worked to free Moon.
Blood was pouring from Winter's arm, but he didn't care. He cared about stopping this psychopath.
"If you keep holding me...I guess we'll both go down." Scarlet said with a manic expression. She pulled a switch that was on the wall, and the entire place shook, and water started dripping into the room.
"We're under the city water reserve, either we all die, or you die, which one?"
"I'm not going to lose to you!" Winter snarled, feeling the worst anger in the entire world.
"So be it. You will die, though, even if it's not directly by my hand."
"Run!" Umber screamed and water started to flood into the room, they had unshackled Moon, and started running out of the tunnel.
"What do you mean?" Winter growled, still pinning Scarlet to the ground, water rushing towards them.
"There was a deadly poison in that bullet." Scarlet said, snakes in her words.
Winter howled, and threw her into the wall farthest away from the tunnel, and sprinted towards it. The water was reaching his knees.
There was another,p boom, and another shake, and the poison was starting to take effect. Winter fell to his knees, crying. He had done it, but now he was going to die.
He crawled towards the tunnel, almost submerged in the water.
All of a sudden, the entire ceiling gave out, and the room flooded with water, shooting Winter out of the tunnel as he lost consciousness from the poison.
One thing was certain, Scarlet would never hurt anyone else again.
Okay...ill admit, that was a little violent even for me. Anyway, what do you think will happen? Want to request? This story has been so fun to write, and I really want to continue, I won't if no one wants it, though. And also, thank you all SO much for the support, I honestly cannot believe that 1,000 people took the time out of their lives to read this...it's amazing. Also, a new challenge, the winners for the old one, answer is Hopes and Dreams, didn't have an account, and never mentioned their OC. Where is Jade Academy located? Most of the hints for it were on the car ride. And also, a new rule, you have to have an account for me to include your character, so I can PM you. I also would prefer for your OC's personality to be on your Bio, so I can use it to the full extent. Happy searching! And a hint, the school is in an area using the Pacific time in the USA.