I just couldn't help myself guys but here is finally a centric chapter for our one and only redhead. Enjoy my kindness and as always remember to review telling me your favourite parts. Sadly I will ban myself from writing anymore chapters until Friday night after my exam.
CHAPTER TEN
Caterina Valentine
I spotted a few shady looking guys leaving an abandoned police station a few blocks away and I knew straight away that's where they would have kept their prizes: Tori and Jade. I stayed in the shadows while running towards their but I jumped at the sound of cackling laughter. I turned around to see a bald headed muscled man who with one swift movement grabbed me and lifted me over his shoulder.
"You just couldn't stay away could you redhead?" He laughed again and it was repulsive the way he did. I was just thankful that he didn't spot the gun hidden in my hood that was scrunched up and tucked into the back of the hooded sweatshirt. If he put me in the police station then I could be with Tori and Jade and get them out. I smiled as I thought of my plan and as I spotted the keys hanging from his jeans just inches from my reach.
Before we entered the police station he took me off his shoulder and pulled me into the room. He pressed the button under one of the desks opening the cell and pushed me into it where a shocked Jade and Tori stood watching. He closed the cell and it locked into place. He walked out with a dirty smile. I looked over at Tori and Jade and smiled. "Hey Guys. What's up?" Jade spoke up. "Cat how'd you get here. Why did you even follow us?" I ignored Jade's confused and frustrated expression and looked over at Tori.
"I came to save you two. Me and Robbie. During the attack they tried to grab me too but Robbie and Aniq's Gramps saved me." Tori instantly spoke up and asked something I would've expected from Jade. "Is Beck alright? I mean…Beck, Andre and the others?" She corrected herself just in time and Jade missed the hint her mind off somewhere. "I don't know. But I'm sure their fine because the traffickers left to take you right? They probably left them there."
"Or they killed them so they wouldn't follow." Jade said absent mindedly. I gave her a disappointed look and hugged Tori quickly. "Guys don't worry. They should be fine plus we can find out." I pulled out the keys to the cell and Tori smiled. Then I pulled out the gun hidden in my hoodie and Jade smiled. Sometimes I worried about her. Jade patted me on the head. "Pass me the gun. I'll teach these inbred fools a lesson they'll never forget."
I passed her the gun willingly and she clicked off the safety while I unlocked the gates. "Why have a button that opens the gate and then have keys that open the gate?" Tori muttered behind me. We opened the gate and creeped out into the empty. "Stay close and stick to the shadows." I whispered to Jade and Tori. As we walked I saw a bunch of men jumping into positions and bursting out of some of the empty houses. Orders were shouted and some people rushed towards the tall wooden fences.
As the men got ready for the attack of what could only be Zowls now that the sun had set and the sky was turning dark blue at an alarming rate; Jade, Tori and I made our way to the gates. "Hey!" I heard behind me followed by a quick gunshot and the man who had noticed us fell to the ground dead. But it blew our cover as a few men with guns walked out of the house from which the dead man had come from.
Jade grabbed the man's rifle and passed me my gun back. The men raised their guns but she sprayed them with bullets and we ran into a straight out run towards the end of the street while more traffickers noticed us. Jade turned behind and let off some bullets anytime someone got really close and as we ran I noticed a truck to my left roar to life and come toward us. I raised my gun but I realized Robbie was driving and jumped in pulling Tori behind me. Jade was a little behind and shot at those approaching the truck running straight behind.
Robbie turned around to see if we were all on the truck but was told to keep his eyes on the road from Tori who had jumped into the passenger's seat next to him. I extended my hand to Jade who grabbed it and jumped into the truck. We sped towards the gate but Robbie seemed to slow down as he saw men grouping by the entrance that had been closed off. "Speed up Rob and don't you dare stop." Jade yelled. Robbie complied and as we sped past men who did not wish to play chicken with the hood of the truck.
We ducked as they let off their guns and Jade in a moment of quick thinking let out a rain of bullets on the entrance causing the wood to splinter and all of a sudden Zowls burst through the walls breaking through and wreaking havoc. Robbie sped up and drove through the broken mess Jade had left and I jumped back as Zowls jumped onto the truck. Robbie pulled out his gun and blew a hole into the head of one that jumped on Tori's side of the truck.
Jade sprayed bullets into the oncoming Zowls and another Zowl jumped onto the truck. We tussled for a few seconds and then with my gun aimed straight in his face I pulled the trigger and kicked him off the truck. Robbie pushed his foot down on the acceleration and we sped off from the rest of the Zowls that decided the forty odd traffickers in the abandoned town were a better target. I sat back huffing, tired.
We drove back to New York down an empty freeway in silence. Jade spent her time playing with the rifle she had stolen while Robbie drove determined to get us back to Beck and Andre and confirm whether they made it out alive. Tori sat with her walkie talkie in her lap using it every few minutes calling out Beck and Andre's name. "Hello anyone there?" She said with a yawn.
Her face lit up when she heard Andre's voice but then a bunch of Zowls feasting on a dead crow ran towards us and jumped onto the truck. Robbie swerved violently and the truck flew off the freeway. My head flew back as we crashed into the water and everything went black. After a while my brain felt hot and fuzzy and I could hear noise in the distance. I looked to my right and opened my eyes gingerly and spotted Robbie shouting at Jade, Andre holding Tori who had his coat wrapped around her and Beck who was the first to notice I was awake.
He smiled but then his smile disappeared almost instantly. I pleaded in my mind for his beautiful smile to return but he walked towards me awkwardly as if I was about to attack him. I realized as soon as I saw him walk towards me and the others took notice of me being awake. They knew…I had been bitten.