Kierra Crestel

A blaring pain shoots through my chest as my eyes pinprick in tears. My chest shakes like no tomorrow as I scream again and again. When my eyes shakily look down at myself, there's this wad of silver blood dripping around my chest, and a silver bullet making its home on my chest, diving into my ribcage. Its not at my heart, but its pretty damn close.

Pure pain strikes myself again and again as I cry out in pain and scream before seeing Kelvin, who's looking down at me with wide eyes.

"R-Run." I manage to spit out as he shakes his head at me before I grab his hand, my grip loose but still clutching it close to me. What if he gets shot next? My baby brother is the first priority."Please… Run." I whisper weakly. I don't want him to get shot too. I don't want him to die. I can't let him die.

The world is a wreck, everyone who was once composed and steady is throwing a bloody fit, rushing for the doors, hardly able to see with the lights cut out.

Kelvin stares at me before stumbling away and nods. "I'm getting help, Kierra!" He screamed and started running the opposite direction of the door. I'm too weak to tell him not too, I don't have the air in my lungs to even move as I quietly pray for a quick death, my entire body shaking with pain, my entire being collapsing as tears roll down my cheeks.

I feel like knifes are striking my bones over and over again, as if thread is cutting my damn skin open, like a potato peeler. I feel like death itself is staring at me in the eye.

I let out a sob and a scream as I can feel the blood loss slowly but surely becoming too much for me when I hear him. The voice of my angel.

"KIERRA!" He screams as I let out another sob. He found me, he found me through the crowd and the flickering lights. Darkness illuminates his face, but light sweeps over it once more. "KIERRA!"

I take in a deep breath, forcing my heart to cooperate, and let out a scream, making it easy for him to find me. I can see him now, his black hair jagged and messed up, his face paste white, full of worry and concern.

"KIERRA!" He screamed and ran towards me, kneeling down and spotting the bullet almost instantly. When he spots it, I can see the tears in his eyes as I slowly raise my hand, my breathing quick and uneven.

"Please don't make me deaf too." I whisper weakly as he shakes his head again and again at my injury before scooping me up and running faster than I've ever thought he could run.

Pain strikes my heart again and again when I hear the sound of an explosion. My thoughts instantly wander to Kelvin as I shake my head at it. He must've caused that explosions, we get our powers from our emotions. From rage, anger, sadness and betrayal. He must've exploded something. He must've.

Still, I manage to speak. "Kelvin.." I whimper as Cal shakes his head at me again and again.

"He's fine, okay, Air. You're fine. You're okay, and you're going to live." My cheeks are wet with my and his tears mixing together as I take in even more rapid breaths of air. My hands are shaking before he suddenly gets into a room and screams something that I hardly hear. Its like everything is submerged underwater, its as if I turned deaf during this time.

"SKONOS!" He screamed as I feel something get out of my chest, only making me scream even harder, my entire body shaking as I feel like I'm going to die, right here and now in Cal's arms, but then I feel something relieving against my skin. It feels like heaven.

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When I open my eyes once more, the room is still collapsed in chaos. My eyelids flicker open as I look down at myself and notice the fact that the wound is completely healed. I let out a sharp exhale and slowly get up, as if waiting for the pain to strike through me, but instead, I feel oddly fine.

"Cal…" I whisper, wanting to talk to him when I quickly notice that he's not here. I look up and see Maven and Mare, both of which are staring at me, with the King screaming orders at Sentinels. I widen my eyes at the scene. "Where's Cal?"

Mare looks down at her feet before responding. "He went to go find the Scarlet Guard." She says, her voice sharp and oddly clear. I nod slightly before getting up and scrunching the bottom of my dress and letting my head clear. What happened again? All I seem to remember is the pain.

"Wha-What happened?"

"The Scarlet Guard attacked." Maven whispered, his voice tinted in anger and fear. I let in a deep breath before, suddenly, the door opened. I turn and see Cal, his entire wardrobe messed up so hard that it doesn't really look like it can function anymore. I grin at his appearance, happy that he's alright before I see what's in his arms.

A body, no, a child's body.

I walk up to him and somehow, someway, I just know who it is. I can tell just by the way that brown hair is tousled and twisted who it is.

"Kelvin." I whisper as Cal lets him down and I instantly fall to my knees. His eyes are closed, something I have no doubt that Cal did. He looks fine, until I see a long, jagged piece of metal inside of his stomach. The very second I see it, I feel like I'm going to faint. I instantly shake my head at him, tears welling into my eyes once again.

"The explosion… A piece of metal must've flew at him." Cal whispered as I let out a cry, a desperate, pathetic cry.

"Someone get a healer. Someone get someone. Someone save him." I whisper and my voice suddenly turns desperate. "SOMEBODY HELP HIM!" I scream, my voice broken and torn apart as tears drip onto my beautiful baby brother's pale face. Silver blood stains my hands, his blood. I let out a cry and slam my fist into the ground before noticing that tiny sparks are running around my fingers. I keep waiting for a Skin Healer to appear and save him, but when nobody does, is when the world crashes into me.

The truth strikes me harder than anything. It smacks me in the face again and again, making my hands twitch and my tears to fall on the ground. The King is screaming something, but I can hardly hear, I can't hear. I know much before someone announces it what happened. I know exactly what happened.

Kelvin is dead.

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