Chapter 11

I don't know how long were walked or where we were going even though I new but just didn't want to admit. When went t walking, then jogging then running for the next three hours. Drinking any amounts of water we had left which wasn't much. Mahfouz leading us with childish determination untl he beame too tired to even walk or stand anymore. Lennox had to resort to scooping him up and piggyback him so he could rest. Since I was closet to Lennox we both took turns carrying Mahfouz on our backs every few moments, seconds and hours of us walking in the desert. I felt bad for the kid and I would always tell him stories when everyone was asleep with Lennox being the only one to stay up with us listening to my tails with a smile on his face making my heart flutter a little bit.

We finally stopped for a rest again after walking for more hours when the sky in the east began to lighten. Lennox went around checking everyone, who only had a few cuts and bruises. I recevied a cut that ran down to my forehead right down to the side of check. We all managed to gain an hour of sleep, though I was mostly up during those times checking to make sure Scorpnoyx wasn't following us making me receive bags under my eyes, before we started traveling again, toward the moutains, to Mahfouz village. We eventually reached the terrain that became rocky so we had to climb over boulders, before it smoothed back out to just sand. I couldn't understand why Mahfouz had to walk all the way to the base if his village was far out here in the dessert. I felt slightly worried for his feet though I'm supposed to be worried for his well-being, if he was walking all the way from here to the base.

It was the morning before we stopped again, next the army old burned out tank. Epps showed everyone the picture he had taken of Blackout.

"I've never seen a weapon system like this. The thermal shows this weird aura around the exoskeleton, like it's cloaked around an invisible force field" Epps said, as i looked at the picture, and he was right. Blackout did have a funny look around his armor stuff.

"That's impossible there is nothinglike an invisible force field, except lke comic book stuff, right?" siad Donnelly. I groan galring at him and he shruggs his shoulders giving me questioning look.

"My mama had the giftm you know, she could see things. i got that gene to and i have a feeling that thing that attack us, it isn't over yet," Figs saidm who was fingering the cross around his neck, which kind of reminds me of the cross necklace Raphael Santiago had in the Shadowhunters books. I knew how he felt, i had the pit in the bottom of my stomach knowing that Scorpnoyx. Fig looked at me with a knowing look on his face. "You feel it to?" simply nodded. I felt like I heard him making shifting noise with the sand and I tensed but tried to make sure no one saw.

"How about you use that magic voodoo powers and get us the hell out of here, huh?" said Donnelly gripping his gun tightly but we ignored him.

Epps had the strange look on his face, as he passed the camera to Lennox. "When I took that photo, I think it saw me. It looked right at me."

"Well, all i know is that we got to get this picture back to the Pentagon. They got to now what we're dealing with here." said Lennox holding the camera.

"My radio's fried, i got no communicaion with aerial."

"Mahfouz, how far away is your village?" Lennox asked.

"Not far, just over that moutain" said Mahfouz pointing to the genral direction toward the moutain.

"They got a phone?" I asked this time.

"Yes"

"Alright let's hit it." Lennox commanded.

We headed off again, heading toard the mutain that seemed so far away and never getting any closer. I grabbed Mohfouz hand tightly, and pulled out the last picture I had taken with my family before I went away out of my pocket, I always carried it around with me. Mom and Kaylee were crying, Dad looked proud, Sam and me were smiling, I was holding my youngest Zach to my chest, Graham was on my back and Caden was on my right. I smiled as I looked at the picture wondering if I would ever see them again. I felt a hand on my shoulder, I turned my head, it was Lennox.

"Don't worry Nick I'll get you home, I promise you that."

I nodded, and felt a pair of lips on my forehead shocking me, and Lennox walked off follwoing the other's, I run over to the other soliders.