"Why?" I got up, shaking. Zach looked away, and Bex seemed upset. "We had to" Bex whispered, her voice shook. "For the others." I was confused, "what do you mean?" I wiped blood away from my body. I held my shoulder, my shirt had been ripped there and once it healed, if it did, it would be a scar forever. "You won't find out" Zach ran forward at me, and punched my in the stomach. The force threw me out of the fountain's pool and I landed on the hard ground. I got up and heard struggling. I limped over to the fountain to see the terrible thing that was happening.
Bex was on top of Zach, forcing his head under the water. "Don't do that! We can find a way out of this!" I screamed, "Bex, let him go!" Even though I felt a hatred for them both at the moment, I couldn't let them kill each other. Bex let go of Zach and he sat up, gasping for air. Zach smacked Bex on the cheek but all she did was rub where she was hit.
"We'll do what Bex says, we'll find a way around it, what do we need to go around anyway?" I held out a hand for Zach to help him get up, but he refused and slowly got up himself. "The Master." Bex said, Zach looked at his toes. "The Master? You guys are undercover now you don't have to call him that!"
"That's all we know about his name, that's all he would tell us." Zach said, "we don't even know where his room is." So, we were starting at a blank. We had to think of something though, or else everyone is going to die fighting. "Do you have a little clue or something?" Bex and Zach thought quietly for a moment, then at the same time went, "the mattress store!" I was really confused at the moment. "What?" Bex explained, "at the mattress store there are two guards there, that is the most heavily guarded place in here besides outside." "Well apparently outside wasn't guarded enough if everyone else got in." I smirked, they frowned. "Fine, lead the way!"
Bex and Zach started running around the corner, on a broken escalator and then through an old food court. There they hid behind a picture booth, dragging me behind next to them. After catching our breath, Bex pointed out the guards and the store. Then she thought of a plan. She ran off to distract the guards and I stared at Zach. He had been awfully silent since I found out he was the cloaked person. He had only spoken once. "What's wrong with you? You're so quiet!" He looked away. More silence. Bex moved more slowly towards the guards with her hood on. "I'm sorry" he said, I was shocked. I never heard him actually say sorry before. "For what attacking me?"
Then I heard something that shocked me. Bex had gone up to the guards and spoke silently, but I could still hear the voices. "May I see the master?" she said, making her voice low. "Have you completed the mission?" one guard said. "Yes, the girl is dead."
I gasped as the guards let Bex through. Zach put his hood on, and I stared at him, shocked, "that's what you are sorry for? You were going to kill me?" he sighed, "for the others." It was all stuffed in my mind at once, I couldn't get it straight. Does this master guy hate my family or something?
I looked over back to the guards to see one on the floor, and the other fighting Bex. He knocked her to the ground and was strangling her, so I grabbed a nearby trashcan. I dragged it over quietly, so the guard wouldn't notice. Then I picked it up and hit it against the man's head. The body fell on Bex and she pushed him off. "I hope I didn't kill him." Zach ran out from the booth and ran into the store. We followed him inside to the darkness.
"Where's the light in here?" we searched through the store and I found it, but instead of it being a tiny finger sized thing, it was a big, long metal bar. I wrapped my hands around it and tried to push it. "Guys! I could use some help!" But I heard nothing. Then I heard somebody behind me, but couldn't tell who it was. They helped me push the lever and I said, "thanks." Then I gasped.
Instead of my good friends Bex or Zach, instead there was a really scary man that was a foot taller then I. But the really scary part was the five guards in back of him. They were all so strong that there were huge bumps on their arms and their veins stood out. And the part that shocked me, was that the two guards in the back were holding an unconscious Bex and Zach.
