Snowcrystal of Thunderclan- Yay! :) I'm glad you were immersed in the story :)
Dragonwritergirl112- I said I'd get this chapter up and I did :)
Ashfur's Fate.
"Ashton let me, through!" Skylar struggled to pass the bigger man, her kids were all trapped in the now burning library and she had to get to them.
"No! You will watch them be destroyed like you did to my heart!" Ashton snarls, shoving her back. The teens were screaming, the door jerking as they struggled to get out.
"No! Get out of the way! Leon! Jay! Holly!"
:) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Leon was ramming the door covering his nose with his shirt collar. Holly and Jay were trying to find a way out, Holly struggling to get the latch of the window open. Cynthia was struggling in her bonds, Ashton had tied her to a bookcase, making sure she wasn't going anywhere. Any noise she made was muffled. Holly started screaming as fire licked at her ankles. She rushed back towards Leon, standing next to him in fear.
"I need help!" Leon growled, I can't get this open!"
"Leon!" Cynthia yelled through the cloth covering her mouth, "Help me!" Jay's sensitive hearing picked up on her muffled yelling.
"Someone's over there." Holly gasped and got to work on Cynthia's bonds, "Who's there Holly?"
"It's Cindy! Leon Cindy can help you!" She broke off coughing, the smoke was getting extremely thick.
"Thanks, Holly," Cynthia coughed, "Put this cloth over your nose." She rushed to the door and both teens starting ramming their shoulders into it, the door slowly starting to splinter.
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Skylar shoved Ashton away and tugged on the door, feeling it starting to splinter as it shook. "Come on, open!"
"I know your secret Skylar." Ashfur snarled taking a controller out of his pocket with slow movements, "I know they aren't your kids."
Skylar froze for a moment, 'Where did that come from?'
"But I know you love them more than me and Brad. So for that, I'm going to kill them." He pressed the button on the controller before Skylar could tackle him.
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
"Skylar's not our mom?" Jay echoed in anger.
Holly shrieked, "Ashton's lost it! He's going to kill us!"
"Get down! Come here!" Leon pulled his siblings closer as the ceiling shook he and Cynthia crouched over Holly and Jay covering them with their heads tucked down and arms over the other two kids. Leon covered part of Cynthia too, the stronger teens protecting the weaker ones as the ceiling caved in on top of them.
:O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O
"No!" Skylar shrieked as the ceiling dropped on top of the library, the fire spreading.
"Move!" Firefighters came running over.
Skylar pounded on the door sobbing, "no! No!"
"Sky lets back away." Brad rushed over and gently tugged her back to one wall as the firefighters worked on opening the door. Ashton had vanished the moment the ceiling collapsed.
:O :O :O :O :O :O
Holly was the first to recover, opening her eyes she noticed they weren't crushed. She blinked a few times and noticed Cynthia and Leon were crouching over her and Jay, debris resting on their shoulders. Leon had his eyes open looking worriedly down at his siblings, Cynthia's blue eyes were narrowed and half way rolled back, both her and him struggling to keep their knees from buckling. Cynthia's face was shining with a thin layer of sweat, Holly stared at the bloodied shoulder of her best friend, Cynthia's shoulder was wet with blood, her arm held at a funny angle. Leon's pupils were different sizes, obviously, he'd been hit in the head with something.
"Are you ok Holly?" Leon asked amber eyes worried.
"Yeah, what about you?"
"I think I got hit in the head with something, but I'm ok. Cindy's shoulder is dislocated I think, and Jay's perfectly fine."
"Dislocated shoulder? Try torn shoulder." Cynthia groaned it was raging hot from the fire getting closer to them and it was licking at her and Leon's ankles, both were struggling to keep from dropping things on all four of them. They waited in tense silence, Holly huddled next to Jay, thankful for her brother protecting them.
Minutes passed before she spoke again, feeling something trickle through the debris. "Is that… water?" She felt the liquid hit her face like it was raining. The fire hissed and sizzled as it started to go out. "It is!" Holly let out a shriek as suddenly Cynthia dropped to her knees, the debris shifting at her movement. "Cindy?" A groan was the injured girl's reply, "Are you ok?"
"I'm good," She said gritting her teeth blue eyes squeezed shut.
"We'll be out of here soon Cindy." Leon said to his friend, "We'll get out of here."
"Is there anyone in here?!" A man called, "Anyone caught in the fire and the blast?!"
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Skylar ventured into the destroyed library, listening for a response, "Kids?" She called, "Leon? Jay? Holly? Where are you?" She froze hearing muffled yelling,
"MOM! WE'RE DOWN HERE!" She ran over to the pile where the voice was coming from and started digging,
"They're right here! Brad there under the rubble!" She dug harder as Brad ran over and started heaving things away from where Skylar was. Finally, Skylar dug a hole through it and found an opening, Holly was looking up at her, her face scratched but mostly unharmed, Jay was next to her. "Where's your, brother?"
"I'm right here mom." Leon replied careening his neck to look up at her, "Cynthia and I are holding the rubble up off us."
"Can you get us out of her?!" Cynthia said through heavily gritted teeth, "My arm is falling off down here!"
"Cynthia's here? Of course!" She and brad helped the firefighters dig them out, revealing Jay and Holly mostly unharmed with Leon and Cynthia quite beat up.
Holly snapped her eyes open with a start and shoved her sleeping friend away from her. Cynthia let out a yell as she fell off the bed and hit the floor with a loud thump.
"Ow Holly!" She stood up her face red from hitting the floor, "I swear I didn't do anything now!" Holly looked her friend over, the injuries from the fire were still there, from the incident that haunted Holly, the fire may have been a month ago now but Leon and Cynthia still suffered from torn ligaments in her shoulder and a broken collarbone affecting his ability to play sports. After the fire, Cynthia came over a lot more and she stayed around Jay, Leon, and Holly, seemingly almost paranoid from the incident. Leon wasn't much better, he wouldn't let his siblings leave his or Cynthia's sight, worried they'd be injured and hurt while he couldn't help them. Holly was more paranoid than either of them. Worried that Ashton was on the loose she was working on locating him and taking him out. She didn't want too but she couldn't let him try again, and every time she thought about what he said about how Skylar wasn't her mother she vision turned red. Ashton had lied Skylar told them, they were her children, but he also knew about Cynthia's secret that only her family and Holly knew. Years ago before Cynthia had started training her strength her brother had been on the road when Brad's car was going along and nearly hit her brother Miles near her house. Cynthia had barreled across the road but accidently snapped her brother's neck, and now Ashton knew, and he was planning to reveal it at the neighborhood gathering this weekend. That was the time limit for Holly to take him out. She asked Cynthia for lessons in head locks and chokeholds and she could finally hold one even if her brother struggled against her.
:) :) :) :) :) :)
(Holly's view)
I followed Ashton as he made his way towards the gathering trees, I stayed in the shadows and out of his sight, being careful not to step on any twigs or leaves. I couldn't let him notice me. 'I'm sorry Ashton, but this is necessary.' Sneaking up behind him I jumped onto his back and locked my arms around his neck in a strangle hold, listening to him gasp and heave for breath, struggling to throw me off. I tightened the hold and was nearly jerked off as he fell to the ground. I checked his pulse and found none, I swallowed the huge guilty lump in my throat that made me feel like I was choking before pulling his dead body into the stream after using Leon's stolen switchblade to make a thin cut in his throat to seem like he was murdered. I watched the body float down the stream with horror prickling in my fingers before I dug a small ditch and buried the knife, I then washed my hands and walked back towards the gathering place, my heart was pounding in my chest.
:) :) :) :) :) :)
I could hear my blood rushing in my ears, it was loud and condescending. The stress was killing me, 'Did anyone know I killed him? Did Leon notice my disappearance? Can Jay read my memories?! Is Cindy's secret safe?' My mind was exploding, I didn't notice I had stood up and walked up to where my grandfather was standing before I heard words tumbling from my mouth, startling both everyone and myself. I numbly told everyone what happened that summer day, the last day anyone saw Miles, and the day I promised I wouldn't tell what happened. I watched trapped in my own secret revealing mind as people's eyes widened to the size of golf balls and Cynthia cowered against my brother who hugged her protectively, his amber eyes were glinting with anger at me and shock and confusion directed at my best friend.
"... She's responsible for Mile's death." I finished, my body numb. I looked at everyone and slowly horror started tingling my senses, causing my body to flee, I felt branches whipping at my face as I ran, I heard my brother Jay trying to follow me,
"Holly come back! Come back!"
I didn't heed his calls, tears were blurring my vision and I ran to a place I wouldn't be found. The sewer.
:) :) :) :)
(normal pov)
Leon and Cynthia ran after Jay, pulling him back at not letting him run off, "She's gone, Jay." Leon murmured, "She left.
"I'm sorry." Cynthia murmured, blue eyes wide, her face was expressing her fear of rejection and her horror.
"It's alright Cindy." Leon smiled weakly at her, "It's ok."
Cynthia's bottom lip trembled as she faced the gathering area again.
Then it goes to Hollyleaf's Sewer Trip and Cinderheart's Accident part 1 :) I hope everyone is still enjoying this collection and I hope to get a few more ideas while I'm working on Cinderpelt's accident :)