Hey everybody! Lightheart77 here to come at you with another installment of this story. I once again must say sorry for the lateness and thank you so much for all of your patience and concern. The simplest excuse: College isn't easy. :P The semester has finally ended and summer has come! Well, it's also nearly gone by thanks to how busy and distracted I've been, but I'm at least giving ya'll this chapter before I go back to college for the fall (FAIL! I know ^^; ). And well, with the feedback, it seems many want a squeal to this story as well and I'm glad to hear that! We shall see if it will happen though… also, thank you to The Dancing Blade for letting me use her characters :) So yeah without any further ado, on with the show.
Chapter 21: Taking on Fydor
"Ken, please be careful… I don't like this. I feel like he's leading you into a trap," Jamie muttered looking at the cameras and seeing Ken walk with Ivan, the Brown Hare that Akuma had mentioned.
"Relax," was all he would dare say underneath his breath. He couldn't have his other set of eyes and ears freaking out.
Ivan guided the wolf down another hall when he turned on Ken and pushed him up against the wall with a knife on his neck, "How did you get my mother's necklace? Why should I not slit your throat right now?"
"Ken!" Jamie shrieked.
"Calm down," saying to both of them. "She gave it to me. She's fine. I have a note if you will allow me to get it. I am unarmed."
"Where is it?" Ivan growled, not letting up on his grip.
"Back pocket."
Jamie's hands were shaking but her thoughts remained focused, trying to think of all possible escape routes.
Akuma put a hand on Jamie's shoulder, "Calm yourself. He will be fine. If need be, I can put his mother on the communicator."
Jamie sighed, "Thank you."
"I still think you should've sent my sister or me. We would've been less likely to get killed," Senaka muttered.
Jamie shot the raccoon a quick glare then went back on focusing on the conversation between the two guys.
"Betraying Fydor, huh?" he questioned with Ken still up against the wall.
"Yes. We're going to bring him down and we'd like to have a helping hand from those who have a grudge against him."
He slowly released his grip, letting Ken get down off the wall, "How many of us do you think there are?"
The wolf shrugged rubbing his neck, "We were hoping for at least half."
He laughed, "Think bigger then. Only a few of us are so blind to believe that what Fydor is doing is good for us. Most of us are kept here because he has our loved ones locked away, threatening to kill them the moment we show resistance. You having my mother's necklace and that letter are proof that at least some made it out alive. I'm sure everyone is willing to fight to free them all."
"Good to hear. Then you'll pass on the word?" he put out his hand.
"Of course, mein freund," takes the out stretched hand as an embarrassed smile came on his face, "Sorry about earlier. It's just—"
"I understand. No blood, no foul though, so we're good."
"This is awesome. We have double the reinforcements we thought we would've had," Jamie squealed. "Now you can come back safe and sound too," looked to a screen. "And soon, the guy trading posts with Ivan is heading that way."
"Come on, let's go before someone suspects something," Ken said as he and Ivan went into action.
Jamie sighed and slid down in her seat, "Thank you God. He's safe."
"Jamie, you worry too much," Alexa yawned coming in with Chase right behind her.
"You got up to see how it was going so you weren't exactly at peace either," Chase smiled putting an arm around her shoulder.
Alexa just rolled her eyes. "We ready to go for tomorrow then?"
Jamie nodded, "Almost. Just a couple of final details that need to be done. You can go and rest up for tomorrow."
Akuma looked at Alexa, "You seem to be doing better." Then she looked to Chase, "But you seem a little stiff still."
"Ah, nah. I'm fine."
Senaka grabbed the stiffest part of his arm and he winced. "I don't think so."
Alexa chuckled getting herself unwounded from his arm, "Akuma, give him something for that. Jamie, you sure you don't need anything?"
"No worries. I'll just wait up for Ken and finish up soon."
"Alright. Then I'm gonna go head for bed," she yawned again heading down the hall.
"Um, Alexa," Chase muttered.
She turned around and smiled, "Don't worry about it okay. We can talk more after this job. Just get checked out by Akuma." And she went on walking.
Chase sighed but grinned. At least I said something.
"So did you say something to her?" Senaka demanded.
"Um—"
"About what? Jamie's ear perked up.
Chase cleared his throat. "It's nothing." She still gave him a look with her eyebrows raised. "I mean, it's something but it's not gonna be a secret anymore soon—"
Jamie giggled and waved her hand to stop him, "I get it. Just go get some rest."
"Uh, right. You too."
Akuma put a hand on his shoulder, "Come on. Let's get you something for that pain."
…
Alexa checked around the corner on the outer wall of the complex with Senaka and Ken right next to her. "Akuma," she whispered in the head set, "are all the outer cameras looped yet?"
"Yes. Go ahead and knock out any guards who aren't cooperating."
"With pleasure," Alexa took off running towards a guard and put him in a choke hold using her cane. She whispered, "Who are you with?"
"Cooper," the guard said.
Alexa released him and Ken came up behind her and said, "Hey Ivan. All the preparations in place?"
The hare smiled, "Of course, mein freund." He looked to Alexa and crossed his arms, "So this is the master mind behind this plan?"
Alexa chuckled, "You better believe it." Her face then turned stern, "Are all the men in place?"
He nodded, "Yes. What are we to do first?"
"Just make sure everyone in the compound to stay in place and ready for the signal. How many are in the armory?"
"I managed to make sure a third of them were on our side but they'll still need your help."
Alexa nodded in approval, "Good. We'll go on ahead to the gun storage then." And she ran past him with Ken behind her giving a thumbs-up and Senaka whispering, "Be careful." The hare nodded and ran off in the other direction.
The trio continued to run down the wall's path till they reached the wire leading to the armory. "You two wait here and stay hidden. I'm gonna go on and make a hole in the guards at the windows. You two know the signal." With that she turned invisible and jumped onto the wire. She then jumped onto the roof and knocked out the guard there knowing that all the allies were inside. She turned visible and let her body relax for just a second, remembering the words Akuma said to her before they left.
"The problem last time was that you were using so much of your energy to stay invisible at once. So the best thing would be to stager out usage. That way your body will have time to recover and give you more time over all to use the ability."
"Good thing we have someone who knows about these sort of things helping us out." Alexa muttered. She looked to Ken and Senaka across the way and realized that she needed to keep moving. She turned invisible again and jumped on the rain drain down to a window on the second floor and then busted through it just as a good gust of wind came by.
"What the hell?" one of the guards shouted getting the window shut and the other looked up tense. "It's alright guys, just a strong gust of wind." And that signaled them to go back to their posts.
Alexa then hid behind a crate of guns and became visible again, taking a soft deep breath. Almost there. She put a pair of night goggles on ready for the next phase and turned invisible once again. She then ran past guards to get to the unguarded fuse box. She quickly took out some components and the lights went out making it pitch black. Screams of complaint from some of the guards were heard as she activated her goggles and saw a few other guards do the same and begin the attack. Not long after, Senaka joined in wearing her own pair of goggles and began attack alongside Alexa while Ken guarded the outside to make sure if any enemy guards heard they wouldn't be able to inspect what was going on.
It didn't take long before most of the guards were taken out so Alexa went back to the fuse box, putting the components back and the light then came on. All across the floor there were knocked out guards with only less than half left taking off their goggles before going blind in the light.
"Hey everyone, good job! Phase one is complete!" Cheers erupted in the room and Alexa smiled. "You got that Jamie?"
"Loud and clear. Phase two begins."
Alexa then called, "Alright everybody, we got to get the bombs laid for phase two!"
…
"I'm good to go, Jamie," Chase said outside of the nearby police station.
"I'm finally set. You can go on ahead."
"With pleasure." He smiled and then busted through the door of the police station. "Hello guys and gals! You lookin' for someone?"
One of the cops looked to the wanted posters and shouted, "Hey, that's one of the Cooper Gang members! Get him!"
Chase then laid down a smoke bomb and ran out the door, "Stupid cops! You'll never catch me!"
"You know pissing them off will make them try even harder," Jamie muttered over the communicator.
"Hey, you wanted me to get them out so that's what I'm doing."
"Tread carefully, Chase. These cops are desperate to catch someone after not being able to get Fydor," Akuma announced.
"I think I can handle whatever they throw at me." Then a whining shriek filled the air and Chase ducked behind a tree to dodge an electrified net. "Crap, I now see what you mean."
"Don't worry, Jamie's going out now."
"Just to let you know, I hate this disguise."
Chase ran deep into the thicker forested area, dodging more nets. "Oh you know it works perfectly for this job. It's not permanent dye and it's only for a couple patches of fur." The earth shook under his feet and he smiled, "That's my cue. You're up Jamie." And he grabbed a white cloth from under his jacket and hid in the snow near a tree.
"Where'd he go?" one of the cops in the group called as they looked about.
Then suddenly a white arctic fox came out of nowhere screaming, "Help, help! Fire, fire!" She ran over to the cops, "Oh, thank goodness I found you! The smoke is getting worse!"
The chief of the police group stepped forward, "What smoke?"
She pointed towards the compound where black smoke began to billow out as tears began running down her cheeks. "I think a bomb went off! We have no idea what's going on!"
The chief didn't even hesitate, "Men, this is our chance!"
"But what about the Cooper Gang member?" a cop claimed.
"We'll get him later. Let's go!" and all of the cops filed after their chief towards the compound leaving the young girl by herself.
She looked up and muttered, "Geez, I see what you meant Akuma. So desperate that they'd just leave a distressed woman like that," she wiped the fake tears as she walked on, "but it's probably a good thing. The tears were starting to get some of the dye out."
"They are that desperate," Akuma sighed. "At least everything is according to plan."
"True." She brushed some snow off a pile near a tree to find a white sheet under. "You still alive?"
Chase removed the sheet from his face. "Yes, help me out. More snow fell on top of me."
She grabbed his hand and pulled, "I'm getting Chase out now. We'll meet you and everybody else at the rendezvous."
…
Alexa looked over the chaos on the surrounding wall of the compound with Ken and Senaka. "Half way there…"
"Alexa!" Jamie called running over with Chase and Akuma. "The police are at the gate."
"Perfect," she kicked a lever near some knocked out guards and the gate went down letting all of the cops in. Then over the communicator, "Alright guys, it's a go. Get your families," and from the receiver came war cries.
"They're fired up," Chase chuckled.
"So are we." Alexa looked to Jamie. "Good job. Maybe you should keep the all white furred look," she chuckled as Jamie stuck out her tongue. She looked to where Fydor was hiding out, "Let's finish this." She took off with everyone behind her.
…
After making it into the fortress and getting past a couple of minor guards, the group came across Brazen in a open wing just before they were going down the last hall way to encounter Fydor himself.
"So," Brazen gave an evil sneer looking over to the sisters, "you two are causing all of the trouble, eh?"
"No so easy keeping us at bay without your cameras and guards, huh?" Senaka smirked.
"You four go on ahead," Akuma stated not taking her eyes off Brazen. "This man is someone only we can handle."
"Are you sure?" Alexa asked.
"No worries," Senaka cracked her knuckles. "We'll finish this guy off and meet you guys soon enough to help out with Fydor."
"We'll cover you, go!"
Alexa nodded and began to run with the others behind her.
"Now who said you all could leave the party," Brazen then sent a wave of energy towards the gang.
Alexa nearly froze in shock but then Akuma jumped in the way deflecting the energy wave with one of her own creating a massive explosion. "Now really, you're going to have to do better than that."
Not even before the dust could clear, Senaka was doing hand to hand combat with Brazen, "We're your opponents." Soon they were moving at almost inhuman speed battling it out.
The gang reached the other side of the wing and closed the doors behind them. All of them just stood there in shock for a minute before Ken broke the silence.
"What… what the hell was that?"
"That was most definitely more than just voodoo," Jamie muttered with her face flushed.
"Holy cow… we could've been fried!" Alexa covered her mouth in shock.
Chase cleared his throat to get the lump that formed down, "Um, let's worry about the details later. Right now, we need to finish off Fydor."
Alexa took a deep breath, "You're right. Let's go!" and she took off running again.
"Hey, wait for us!" Jamie and the others followed close behind.
It wasn't too long before Alexa opened the door leading into Fydor's lair and in front of them was the master mind himself sitting idly on a throne like seat. He grinned at the site of the gang, "Hello, so you are the four who have created such a mess with those sisters. The New Cooper Gang, I presume?"
"That's correct. Didn't realize we were that well known," Alexa looked at the crime boss with no fear in her eyes. Chase had never seen such determination in her and apparently Fydor thought of it as humorous as he chuckled.
"Well, Katz was very unhappy and was a sort of big fish in the crime world. But truly stupid; I was surprised he didn't get caught sooner. Heh, but the biggest surprise was how young your gang is. That and the fact that you four haven't been caught yet is quite a feat."
"Thank you for the compliment but I can't say the same for you," she replied coldly.
"Oh, I see. But I'm sure you know of my countless accomplishments. After all, it is what drove you here, correct?"
"You could say that, but enough with the chit-chat," Alexa griped her cane and pointed it to Fydor in a fighting stance while her friends tensed up and did the same. "One thing's for sure. You're not leaving here without paying the price for those crimes."
That's when Fydor gave a maniacal laugh, "Look at you trying to play the hero. Well then," he stood up from his seat and began to approach the gang, "Come."
"With pleasure." Alexa was the first to go, going hand to hand with Fydor, using her cane to block his claws from sinking into her skin. Chase soon joined in trying to get some of the heat off her but Fydor was quite capable of dealing with the both of them.
Chase eventually made a slip up and was knocked by Fydor into a wall enough to knock that breath out of him. "Chase!" Alexa called not seeing Fydor go for her cane. He then threw her across the room by her cane. Luckily she was able to keep her head and get her feet to hit the wall and land smoothly. "Jamie!" she called as she ran to check up on Chase.
"On it," she had been preparing a batch of sleep darts, waiting for the moment to shoot them off. One after another, she shot into the skin of the bear across the room. But he still stood seeming unaffected. That's when he charged at her. "Shoot," she was about to run for it when Ken got in front of her in time to go hand to hand with Fydor.
"Jamie, I'll buy you some time. Figure something out!" Ken then began to push Fydor back, landing some hits on him.
"R-right," Jamie then tried to fix the dousing and then tried to figure out the best place to aim next.
But Ken landing hits only made Fydor become enraged. He then caught Ken in an opening and landed a large slash across Ken's chest. "Gah!" Ken screamed in pain as Fydor then landed a right hook in his face sending him flying.
Alexa looked up, "Ken! No!" and he crumbled to the ground unmoving.
And that's when Jamie had done something she rarely ever did: completely snap. "You son of a—! You'll pay for doing that to my boyfriend!" she then maneuvered behind Fydor with ease, jumping on his back and plunging a sleep dart into is jugular. "Alexa! This should work! Hit him now!"
"Ah! You brat!" he drove his claws into her arm. She shrieked in pain, letting go of the dart so the full dose would go in before he threw her off towards where Ken lied.
Alexa then charged at Fydor. His movements had slowed greatly and she landed the signature finishing move to Fydor, using all of her strength to throw him up into the air and bring him down with a thud. He didn't move and Alexa still in fight mode, stood waiting for movement. But then she heard Jamie grown. "Jamie!" she ran past Chase, "Check to make sure he's finished, I need to check on those two!" she reached the two trying to see if they were even conscious and what their conditions were.
Chase walked over to Fydor, figuring there was no way he would be able to get up from the attack that Alexa just pulled. He didn't realize she had such strength but then again, he really shouldn't under estimate a woman like her when her friends are in trouble. But then he heard a chuckle come from the heap of a bear.
"So the rumors were true. No wonder Father has become so furious. You're playing house, aren't you? Don't you care about your brother anymore? He'll die if you keep this up."
Chase's eyes went wide and anger all the sudden flowed through him that he couldn't control the hard kick he did in Fydor's face causing a broken jaw and a knock out. He had to take a couple of deep breaths before his head finally came back to reality.
"Chase! Come here, you need to help me!"He turned and saw Alexa's mortified face and her hands covered in blood. She had tore off her sleeves and wrapped both Ken and Jamie as best as she could but tears still threatened to spill from her eyes. "They're both losing blood and Jamie's arm is broken!"
He was about to run over when he heard Senaka over the communicator, "Hey, are you guys hanging in there? We just finished off the sidekick."
"We finished off Fydor," Chase replied seeing Alexa wasn't fit to speak at the moment, "but Ken and Jamie are wounded really badly. Can we meet you guys at our safe house? It's much closer; I'll ping you the location."
"Alright," Akuma replied, "We'll pick up some supplies here along the way and see you there."
"Roger that." Chase then went to help carry Ken while Alexa carried Jamie out of there before the cops could catch up.
…
Alexa sat with her arms wrapped around her legs in the hall way besides the stair case that lead up to her and Jamie's room. Akuma and Senaka had decided that would be the best room to perform their operations on Ken and Jamie. Alexa had minor bruising from some her fighting but she was still better off than her friends. So she waited down stairs, lost in her thoughts but coming close to balling.
Chase sat down next to her handing her a mug of hot coco, "Here."
She absent mindedly took the mug, still silent.
"Hey, come on, those two are strong. I'm sure they'll be fine being in Akuma's care."
She gripped the mug tightly. "What are we doing? What is this all about anymore?"
"Huh? Come on, we just took down a really big bad guy. Isn't that one of the reasons you're doing this?"
"Please, give me a straight answer. My friends would've never been this close to death if not for me, and this stupid mission I thought I was on to protect my family. But everything has changed… So what are we doing!"
He took the mug out of her hands, set it aside, and embraced her. "You have to realize that you're life has also been threatened; you have to realize that they knew what they were getting themselves into; you have to realize that they are willing to die to protect the people they love just as you are. I'm sorry for everything that has happened. Don't blame yourself for these things. You had nothing to do with them. It's okay; they're going to be alright."
That's when Alexa's body went numb and the tears began to flow from her eyes. She clutched on to the back of his shirt as she sobbed into his chest. She was crying for so many reasons but she didn't know which one was the biggest one. All she knew was that she couldn't hold it in any longer.
She really has become more comfortable with me. This is the first time she's been really vulnerable with me. He thought with a sad smile running his hand through her hair, saying "Shh" to try and calm her down.
It was about five minutes later that Alexa finally stopped crying. She looked up to Chase with red growing on her face. "I'm sorry; I don't know what just came over me…"
"It's fine," he gave a sincere smile and stood up. "As long as you're feeling better, that's all that matters." He was about to walk away when Alexa grabbed his hand. He looked back in shock.
"P-please," she could barely get the words out still recovering from all of her crying. "Stay with me until they come out with news."
He smiled and sat down besides her not letting go of her hand. "Of course." Using his spare hand handed her the mug of hot coco again "Drink up. It will make you feel better." And she did as he gave her a look of pure admiration.
So they sat and waited for news as they held hands, giving each other comfort. It was about an hour later when Alexa cleared her throat, "Um, Chase?"
"Yes?"
"Back when we were fighting Fydor and I left him to you to make sure he was finished… did he say something to you?"
"Eh? Why do you ask?" Stay cool. Stay cool. She can't find out that truth right now. She's not stable enough for that…
"Well, you delivered a final blow and it just looked like it was so full of emotion. So I was just wondering if he had said something that would make you so upset."
Shoot, she was observant even when her friends were hurt! I really need to stop under estimating her. "Uh—"
That's when Alexa heard movement from the trap door. She released Chase's hand and went half way up the steps before Akuma opened the door. "How are they? Are they going to make it?"
Akuma smiled, "You don't have to worry. Despite the blood loss, both responded well to the blood replenisher I created so both have the color back in their faces. Jamie's arm will be fine if she rests it for awhile. I have something for her to take for the pain and to help speed up the bone re-growth. Should take less than a week for her to be back in action. Ken also shouldn't do any heavy lifting for a while because he seemed to have over extended some muscles in his arms and legs when he was fighting Fydor but it should only take three days or less before he's completely healed."
Alexa fell to her knees in a sigh, "Thank goodness. Can I see them?"
"Sure," Senaka stated walking past her sister and Alexa. "They should be waking up soon."
Alexa then ran past Akuma happily saying, "Thank you!"
"Did we interrupt something?" Senaka bluntly asked.
Chase looked up a little shocked but looked down blushing, "Not really. You kinda saved my butt actually. There was something she brought up that I didn't know how to explain just yet."
"I see… well, you best go to her while she's like that," she replied walking away.
"Um, why do you care so much?" he questioned innocently.
She froze but her sister replied, "She had a crush on you at one point until she realized how much you cared for Alexa. Now she just wants everyone to be happy."
"Sister!"
Chase chuckled and hugged Senaka, "Thank you. I really do appreciate the nudges regardless of my complaints. They've been extremely helpful." He let go of her and followed Alexa up.
Akuma grinned walking to her sister, "If you keep blushing like that, you'll get a heat stroke."
Senaka grew redder, "Shut up! Geez, why'd he have to go and do that?" she muttered pushing her hair behind her ears, trying to calm down.
"Well, come on, we'll let them rest."
"Wait, I want to—"
But Akuma grabbed her sister by the ear and dragged her along. "No, you're coming. Both of us now need to rest."
"Ow-ow-ow! Let go! I get it already!"
…
Alexa sat between her friends beds and had her hands in her friends even though both were still asleep. Ken was bandaged across almost all of his chest and his breathing a little strained but steady. Jamie had her arm in a splint with a sling and wrapped up to her shoulder but she was also breathing peacefully, making Alexa feel better. But in all of the relief she felt was starting to get to her because she was getting ready to drift off to sleep herself.
"You need to sleep, Alexa, or you'll pass out sitting that way," Chase said sitting in a chair by the window across from her.
"Until one of them wakes up, I'm not letting go," she said stubbornly. "They were up and near me until I woke when I was injured so I'm going to do the same."
He sighed. "Then it can't be helped." He stood up and she gave him a puzzled look. He walked over behind her, sat down and had her lean back into him as he wrapped his arms around her waist. "At least rest your head on me," though he said it so calmly, his face starting to burn red.
Alexa was silent for awhile but then put her head back and closed her eyes with a yawn, "Thank you."
…
Jamie woke up first grunting from the pain. "Ow, that hurt…" she then felt that her hand was being held. Aw, Alexa's here. She must not have left our sides the entire time. She looked over and was about to say something until she saw how Alexa and Chase were. Both had fallen asleep and Alexa was still in Chase's arms. She was in a silent shock for awhile until she started laughing.
Alexa then woke up and saw Jamie awake and didn't care that she was laughing at her. She unwrapped herself from Chase's arms and hugged her friend tightly. "Don't ever scare me like that again."
Jamie then gave a sweet smile hugging her back with her good arm, "Not so fun see your friends hurt, huh?"
Alexa laughed, "You have no idea. I can now understand why you and Ken can get so scared about me even though I know I'll be fine and stuff."
"So… was I interrupting something?" Jamie grinned glancing over to Chase who rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.
Alexa released her with a bit of red on her face. "No. But you better be careful when making fun of me, Miss 'You'll pay for doing that to my boyfriend.'"
"No way," her face went blood red. "Did I say that?"
"You did." The girls turned to see Ken sitting up in his bed smiling. "I'm glad I was able to hear it too."
"Ken!" Both of them girls piled on the wolf.
"Ow, hey I'm still pain here."
"Sorry," Alexa grinned.
"I was so worried about you…" Jamie clutched his hand and he squeezed a little back.
"I was of you too."
"Man, you missed it Ken. You would've been so proud of how kick butt she was jumping onto Fydor's back and plunging the sleep dart into his neck."
"No way! I missed that!"
While those three had been talking, Chase was able to slip out of the way, making his way over to the window. He leaned against the window sill and watched Alexa as she smiled and laughed. Every time his heart beat, he could feel a prang go through his chest. What am I going to do? I don't know if I could hurt her…
A knock came on the trap door and sister's heads popped out. "Hello, everyone awake and doing well then?"
"Yes, thank you Akuma," Jamie said smiling.
"Well, we came up here to changing the bandages and to see how everyone was doing." She and her sister went to Ken first. "Since your wound covered the most area, we'll redo your bandages first."
"Alright," Ken nodded while Jamie and Alexa moved to the other bed.
The sisters began unwinding his bandages. Akuma then pulled out a small jar from her jacket while Senaka finished the last of the bandages. She then took a dab of the thick paste from the jar and began to rub it on Ken's wounds while muttering some sort of incantation. Soon the wound began to close even more. "There that should do it. You should be all healed up in under a week. Keep cleaning the wound with this and there will be no scaring guaranteed."
"Thanks," Ken smiled while Senaka began putting on a new bandage.
"So… how does it work?" Alexa questioned.
Akuma chuckled, "We wondered when you'd ask after that shock you guys had when we fought Brazen."
"Yes well it was a bit an 'oh crap' moment," Jamie stated with a nervous chuckle.
"It more than voodoo for sure," Ken noted.
Senaka laughed, "To be honest, we're still trying to figure it all out ourselves. But from what some of the other 'users' we know tell us, our powers are supposedly demonic…"
"You're healing and helping people, so I don't buy that," Alexa crossed her arms.
"Thank you," Akuma said sitting next to Jamie. "Most people when they hear 'demonic,' they run away so fast that they don't even get to know us."
Jamie grabbed Akuma's hand, "We're not like that. I mean, we're 'thick as thieves,' right?"
That made everyone laugh. "I'm glad you all see it that way. We definitely like to think we're doing good with our powers regardless of where they come from," Senaka finished up Ken's bandages, "There you are." And then joined her sister next to Jamie.
"Before we do anything Jamie, you'll want to drink this," Akuma handed the vixen a flask.
"Should I even ask what's in it?"
"I wouldn't but you're welcomed to," Senaka muttered.
"Right then," Jamie chugged the drink in one gulp. "Ack!"
"Ha ha, total pay back," Alexa grinned while Jamie stuck out her tongue. "So, what are your plans?"
Senaka started helping Akuma with unbandaging Jamie when she replied, "We're going back to make sure everyone's going to be okay. I mean, it's going to be a little hard cuz of us needing to be in disguise but it will be worth it in the end."
"Yes," Akuma agreed, "I can't wait to see how happy some of those families will be when they're together again. "
Alexa smiled warmly, "That sounds like a brilliant plan."
"What about you guys?" Senaka questioned.
"R and R," Jamie grinned but then had a small twitch in her face from a small jolt of pain. Akuma then spread some paste on Jamie's arm where the skin was beginning to heal while Senaka put the splint back together.
Alexa chuckled, "Something like that. We'd like to stay in the country if we can help it."
"Then head for Brigerbad. It's a good town that gets some tourists and is near some spas and hot springs. Perfect for you all to relax," Akuma stated thoughtfully as she bandaged Jamie's arm.
"It's also near all of the trains so you all can head up to where the awesome hiking, skiing, and snowboarding are." And with that Senaka tied up Jamie's bandage.
"Sweet," Ken chuckled.
Akuma then put Jamie's arm back in her sling when Jamie asked, "So how are you two feeling? Did Brazen hurt you two at all?"
"We'll need to rest a little longer before leaving but we took him down pretty easily."
"Hmpt," Senaka scoffed. "That guy was a pain. Now that was dark magic!"
"Don't mind her. She's just upset that she got hit a couple times and he nearly broke her leg."
Senaka stuck out her tongue and Alexa giggled, "It's fine. You're welcomed to stay here. And thank you for the tip. We'll be leaving as soon as we're able."
"Thank you and you're welcome," the sisters chimed in.
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"Oh, before I forget," Akuma said rummaging in her pockets with her sister next to her outside ready to go. She pulled out a communicator and put it into Alexa's hand, "If you ever need a little help, let us know."
Alexa smiled putting the gadget into her pocket, "Thanks, same to you guys."
"Be careful when heading back. There will be cops crawling all over the place," Chase stated in the background.
"No worries, we're masters of disguise," Senaka claimed with a victory sign.
Alexa chuckled putting out her hand, "Good luck you two. We couldn't have done it without you."
"Aw, you could've," Senaka admitted humbly taking Alexa's hand, "but we're glad we could be a part of Fydor's downfall."
"And I am glad we got to meet the fine thief who's the daughter of the master thief we heard so much about," Akuma shook Alexa's hands with a smile.
"Good bye guys. Really appreciate all of the help you've given us," Jamie said hugging both of them awkwardly with her arm in the sling.
"Well, come on sister. We should be going," Akuma began to walk off.
"Right. See you guys later!" Senaka called catching up with her sister.
"Good luck!" Alexa screamed waving.
"Okay, I'm gonna go collapse now. Later," Ken muttered hobbling his way back to his room.
"Me as well," Jamie yawned. "Whatever Akuma gave me, makes me drowsy."
"I'll come and help you," Alexa said going ahead to get the door open for Jamie.
"Alexa," Chase said after he closed the front door.
"Yes?" she questioned while Jamie walked past her.
"About what's going to happen next, are we still—?"
"Of course," she smiled sweetly, "But the details can be discussed later, so go rest. Downstairs," she added with a bit of a stern face.
That made Chase cheer up a little, "I would expect nothing else."
Alright! The end for this chapter! Yay! :) So you all know the drill. Please review and comment! I really want to know what you guys thought about this chapter especially with Jamie's little snap, lol. Also, if you haven't done the poll on who is you're fav character from this story, which I know some of you haven't, please do so. I think I shall make a winner at the end of the next chapter (but not officially close the poll) and actually draw one of their best scenes. So, just so you know Chase seems to be taking the lead with Alexa right on his tail, then Ken, Jamie and Marsh. Poor Jamie and Marsh. Does anybody like them or are Chase and Alexa just that awesome? Haha, well enough of my rambling. I'm gonna go to work on the next chapter for you guys. I seem to be more determined lately so I think I might have the next chapter up much sooner and just to tease you guys, this next chapter is THE chapter where the story will take a most drastic turn. So look forward to it, kay cuz I'm not done yet! :)
With that, see ya in the next chapter!