CHAPTER 10- FEAR THE BLUE MIST

Austin awoke before the sunrise, waking up Draganta and spyro as well.

"Why are we up so early?" spyro asked yawning

"We have to go into town and get more supplies. I need more bullets, and we need more food, as you guys already know." Austin said over their grumbling stomachs.

"Yea lets go." Draganta said as they walked down the trail from their camp to the city market.

They came into the outdoor markets and browsed around the various stalls.

"Dragant! Dude you can get 1000 rounds for 100 bucks a box! That's madness!" Austin said buying a huge ammo can .

"Ok you got your bullets, can we buy food now?" Draganta asked

"Yea, that sounds good."they found an outdoor resturaunt and sat down, eating as much as they could.

After a while, Draganta heard a very odd noise

"You guys hear that?"

"Hear what?" spyro asked putting down his sandwich

"Its like a high pitch grinding noise…"

"A high pitch grinding noise?" Austin asked 'where have I heard that before…' he thought

Then it hit him

"TANK! GET DOWN!" Austin shouted as a black september battle tank blasted through the front of the resturaunt, pointing its main gun at them.

"Run!" Spyro said as the dashed through the city streets, where panicked people were running franticly to try and save themselves as tanks, armored personnel carriers and ground troops stormed the city, and began shooting.

The three of them took cover behind a fallen column of one of the office buildings which had been hit by a tank round.

"All this for us?" Draganta yelled over the gunfire

"It looks like it!" Austin shouted back

"And me without my armor!" he said as he shot fireballs at a troop truck, launching it into the air.

Austin fired clip after clip until the barrel of his gun was almost red hot, while Spyro used his earth shot to flip over a charging tank.

"Good shot Spyro!" Austin said handing him a grenade

"What the hell is this?"

"Just pull the pin, and thow it into that group of guys!" he said pointing to the soldiers setting up a 50 caliber machine gun.

Spyro hurled it perfectly, destroying the gun, and the soldiers building it.

Spyro then heard a noise that made his heart sink.

Helicopters.

"Austin! Its those flying things again!" Draganta shouted over the gunfire

"Get in this building now!" they rushed into the building and got cover just as four gunships fired their miniguns on their previous position.

"What do we do about those things?!" spyro asked.

"I've got an idea!" Austin said as he charged his plasma cannon as high as possible, and turned on his targeting system.

He locked onto the first chopper and fired. It struck the tail rotor and sent it into a spin, and then into a building.the second helicopter locked and fired a missile heading straight for him.

He only had time to jump out of the way enough to avoid a fatal direct hit. it blew up right next to him, throwing him across the building where Draganta and Spyro waiting.

"Well, you got one of them." Spyro said

"Ow…man that hurt…I think my plasma gun is busted…yep, no more plasma…" Austin said as his cuts healed themselves.

"Well now how do we kill those choppers?" Austin asked

"I got this." Spyro said confidently as he stepped outside.the three remaining helicopters locked on Spyro, and armed their missiles.

Spyro jumped into the air and released his lightning fury attack, electrifying the gunships, shutting down their engines, sending them crashing out of the sky.

"Impressive young one." Draganta complimented they came out of the building to get back into the firefight, when they heard an air raid siren, and all the ground troops and armor fell back, and disappeared.

"Where are they going? Do they always give up like that?" Draganta asked

"Not usually…I don't know why they would…" Austin looked up at a formation of silver gleaming bombers in the sky.

"That's why!" Spyro said as they released their payload of four bombs each.

"That's it? Just a few…" Draganta said, but was stopped as they exploded high above the city, releasing a blue mist over the buildings, that slowly descended.

"Gas! We need to find gas masks!" Austin said as he ran to the store where he bought the bullets.

"Put these on!" they hurridley donned them and began hearing a gagging chocking noise that seemed to come from everywhere, or at least, everyone without a gas mask.

Soon the noises stopped, and their was silence for a time, then the townspeople came back outside. But something was different about them…the people charged them at full speed.

Austin began firing as fast as possible and then ran in the other direction.

"What the hell is wrong with them?" Draganta asked sprinting along his friends

"Some kind of new gas! They look like zombies or something!" Austin said as he kept up the pace.

"Why cant we just fly?" Spyro asked

"They have airplanes in the area!" Austin shouted as they turned down about the 5th street in the city.

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Flame could see the monitors through his plastic cell, of the cameras throughout the city.

He saw his friends running from something, but he couldn't tell what.he heard a hissing noise, then looked at the vent, and saw a yellow gas pouring into his cell. Before he could do anything, he was out cold.he woke up to a punch in the face, and tried to fight back, only to realize he was tied to a chair, with a muzzle on to keep him from breathing fire.

"Hello again Flame." he recognized that voice

"Crzr!" he said muffled by the muzzle

"Take that off him" he said. A guard removed it and he blew fire at Crozier, which he caught, and threw back into Flames chest, knocking his chair and him over.

A guard picked him up set him back to his origional spot.

"You dragons are all the same, you think you fire can solve everything?"

Crozier shot electricity at him, shocking him painfully, and leaving him smoking.

"Now Flame…I know you know what the prophets plan to get to us is…now you will need to cooperate with us, if you want to live."

"Never…I'll never tell you anything, I owe Austin my life…"

"That's most unfortunate…because I think someone wants you to tell us what we want to know." Crozier turned and opened the door, and brought a tied up Snow with bruises and cuts into the room.

"Snow! What have you done with her you bastards!"

"Flame…please tell them what they want to know…I cant take anymore of this…" she said wearily as she began to cry and fell to her knees.

Tears fell from Flames eyes, and he began to talk.

"The only thing I know is where our camp is…" he told them how to get there.

"Now please let her go…" he said sobbing, in shock that he just signed his friends death warrant.

Snow got up and began laughing.

"Snow, what the hell are you laughing about?" he said loudly

Then she disappeared before his eyes."What the…"

"She wasn't real…It was an image I projected into your mind. Thank you for finally telling us what we wanted to know. Get him out of here.

"They drug him back to his cell and tossed him in his cell.he stood up and looked at his wounds, his legs barely strong enough to hold him up.

He collapsed on the floor and passed out.he woke up a few hours later, to general Serevus in front of the monitors

"What is the phrophets status?" he asked

"They are barricaded in an old building, but they have held off all of the infected so far." The soldier at the monitors said.

"Grr…I don't have the patience for this, give silo one the launch codes, I want that city leveled."

"Yes sir."

"Oh god…I've got to warn them…but how?"he remembered the radio he had on him when he was kidnapped, he hid it under his first spike.

"Thank the gods this thing is small…" he said checking the battery life

"Only enough juice for one transmission…I hope they can hear me…"

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They had been pinned down in this building for the better part of an hour, with Austin still shooting the Zombies with his remaining ammo.

"Zombies…man Black September has gotten creative…" he said as shooting them in the head time after time, almost to the point where he was bored with it.

Spyro's radio was hidden close enough to his ear (do dragons have ears?) so he heard Flames warning.

"Whoa! Flame! Can you hear me? Flame!"

"Whats the matter Spyro?" Draganta asked

"I just got a radio transmission from Flame! He said to get out of the city before they destroy it!"

"Guys we have a problem!" Austin interrupted

"What?"

"I'm out of bullets!"

"Then it is sword time!" Draganta said drawing his Ice sword.

Austin drew his they stepped out onto the outside steps of the building, and the remaining population lined up outside crowding the streets.

"Oh…my…god…" Austin said viewing the horde of infected.

"Its going to be a long day…"

Draganta noticed a glimpse of silver with a smoke trail behind it.

"What is that? Another bomb?"Austin looked at it, and knew immediately what it was .

"You've got to be kidding…gentlemen, we are SCREWED."

Whew! another chapter down. Nuclear missle on the way to level the city! what happens next? next chapter will tell you. Peace!