Chapter 10: let the games begin part 3
*From where Rainsford stood he couldn't really see what they were doing and he thought they were talking but he couldn't be sure 'they are probably planning my demise now, but they won't get the first shot I will, if I shoot them first then they can't shoot me.' *
…but they weren't expecting what happened next. They were being shot at. Rainsford had officially lost it Ashley thought. Ashley was going for her gun as they dodged the bullets that were zipping past them but Helen stopped her and told her to run. They were both running toward Rainsford. 'why are we running towards the dude shooting at us? Don't you normally run away? I know I haven't been gone that long to forget that small detail.' Those questions were running though Ashley's mind as she was trying to figure out Helen's plan. Just then there was a swirl of red lights and John Druitt, Ashley's father, was right beside her and Helen. He grabbed both of them and then there was another swirl of red light and they were gone. Rainsford was looking around when he didn't see them he thought he had scared them off and he left to go in search of the creature again.
They reappeared in a clearing hundred yards away. Helen and Ashley were both grateful for the unexpected savior that was standing in front of them. "How did you know we were in trouble?" Ashley asked.
"Truthfully, I didn't. I got tired of sitting around waiting for you both to get back, but it is a good thing I came when I did though."
"Yes it is John, thank you. How did you find us though?" Helen asked.
"I thought of you, and I ended up here."
"hmmm, I know this sounds crazy but please take us back to Rainsford. We need to talk to him."
"It doesn't sound crazy, it sounds like you." He said with a smile and then grabbed both of their arms and then took them back to Rainsford.
"We need to talk." Ashley said. Then stopped talking as a gun was pointed at her face. "Dude, I just want to talk put the gun down slowly, no one is going to get hurt as long as you put the gun down. I have a story about me to tell you, just listen." Rainsford slowly lowered the gun. "ok, it started almost 10 months ago I think, I was taken by a group of people that we," she said indicating her mom and the people at the Sanctuary, "call the Cabal, they did a test on me and turned me against my mom, sent me to hunt her if you want to call it that, it felt right when I was doing it, until my mom got to me, the real me, then I was feeling bad about trying to kill her the way to fix that in my mind was to sacrifice myself to save her. My mom was hunted by me, and I was hunted by the Cabal, but that doesn't make me a bad person, nor does that mean anyone I see is going to try to kill me, if that were the case I wouldn't leave my house and I would be paranoid, but I know that even though it could happen that I can overcome it. If I hunted people I thought were gunna hunt me I would be no better than the Cabal, or what the Cabal had turned me into, do you want to be like the General that hunted you, or do you wanna be you?"
"But how do I know if you're telling the truth?"
"You don't, it's like anything else in life a leap of faith. Fear is invariable, it is always there. You just have to choose to surmount it or to give in. Which will it be?"
"You say you just want the creature?"
"Yes we want Druitt, that's its name."
"Druitt?" Rainsford and John said.
"Yes Druitt, Ashley named him." Helen said looking at John, then at Rainsford "Will you help us?"
"Sure," Rainsford choosing to be him and not what his worst nightmare had made him, another person like the General.
"Splendid." Helen and John said.
"Well then, lead the way." Ashley insisted.
Rainsford led them to the last place he saw Druitt. "This is where I last saw him, he has a shot wing and maybe even it is broken, so he couldn't have flown far."
"Alright, did you do the bullet wound?" Helen asked.
"Yes."
"Ok I see a trail leading that way." Helen said pointing towards Northeast.
"Then let's head that away." Ashley said excited that they might actually get off this island before dark. They followed the path to where they saw Druitt laying on the ground sleeping.
"John can you take Druitt back to a room for him to recover, then come back for us?" Helen asked.
"Indeed I can." And with that he took three long strides towards Druitt and laid a hand on him and then there was a swirl of red lights as he diapered from view.
"How does he do that?" Rainsford asked.
"It's called teleporting and it is something in his DNA." Ashley answered. Then there was another swirl of the red lights and John appeared beside Helen.
"Thank you for your help Mr. Rainsford." Ashley and Helen said at the same time.
"Thank you for telling me what I needed to know. And call me Jack."
"Well goodbye Jack."
"Goodbye Ashley, Helen." Jack said. After he said bye John teleported Helen and Ashley back to the Sanctuary. Helen went to tend to Druitt and Ashley stayed behind to talk to her dad.