Marina
"John! No!" Ella called out from the front of the car, and spun rapidly to face us. "They got them! MARINA!" She was freaking out, hitting the seat. "They're gone! I lose the connection!" Adelina pulled Ella onto her lap, being the motherly figure I never remember her to be. Until the end.
"Okay. Okay. We prepared for this. Okay? We are ready. He told us what to do. Five minutes." Adelina was rubbing Ella's back, biting her cheek, deep in thought.
"Okay. John said we send Marina, Sam and one of us." Henri took control, just like John would. I nodded, and looked back at Sam. His face was grim, but he nodded as well. "Who's going?" I noticed that he didn't just claim it was his job. He left it open, making sure to fill Katarina, and Adelinas desires before his own.
"Can I go?" Kat spoke up, looking at Adelina and Henri for clearance. Adelina nodded, as did Henri. Katarina smiled her thanks, then looked back to me and Sam.
"That cool with you guys?" It sounded like we carpooling for a road trip or something. Not preparing to go into battle. Sam, said something along the lines of yes. And I nodded too.
Adelina was whispering to Ella, who was visibly afraid. Ella worried about all of us the way a mom would. When we weren't together, she was distraught. Just like now.
"How much longer?" Sarah'a voice was just a whisper. She was trying to be strong, but probably just like me and Sam, she was thinking about what just happens to Six, Sam, and Nine. Henri glanced at the car clock.
"Two minutes." he answered just as softly. Malcolm was rubbing his left wrist looking out the window.
"How do we know that you guys will be okay?" Everyone was on edge, nervous, and it wasn't good fight preparation.
"I'll stay in touch with Marina." Ella offered, now sitting next to Adelina, twisting a loss strand if hair around her finger. I nodded my agreement, and checked the clocme again.
"Go time?" I asked, looking back to Sam, he shifted, slipping by Sarah, and pulling back the door to open it. Katarina slipped out, followed by me, then Sam. Ella's face was pinched in sorry, as we went to the hatch, to slip into the unknown.
"Stay together." Katarina instructed. "Something seems off about this." She added, as Sam slipped into the hatch, a climbed down the small ladder.
"Clear." He whispered up, giving Kat the okay to go down, me pulling up the rear, and hopping onto the concrete ground, now calve deep in ash.
"There was a fight." Sam noted, kicking up the black dust, and peering at the masses of it spreading down the hall.
"Yeah, but then what?" I questioned, looking into the room, where all the bodies still lay, looking untouched, except for the ash that covered them. We had to figure this out.
"Okay. So they fought, they won, but then... They lost." Katarina was looking at the bodies too, rubbing the ash between her fingers carefully.
Six is coming your way.Ella's voice filled my brain, not sounding urgent like before. I relayed the message, then tried to talk to Ella. Alone? I asked her mentally. With Eight. She added, then I felt her connection lapse. Then the dust started shuffling, and Six appeared in front of me, hand in hand with Eight. I threw my arms around his neck, and breathed in his scent.
Six stood back, and waited for us to stop hugging.
"It's been like 12 minutes since you last saw each other." I blushed involuntarily, and stepped back.
"Sorry, but nows not the time." She easily stripped into the control position she took when John wasn't there.
"Right. So where are they?" Sam asked, crossing his arms.
"Down the hall, left, left, right, straight, left-"
"right." Six inturupted. "Left, left, right, straight, right." She corrected. Eight nodded, holding out his hands for her to continue. "Then John is in a chamber, Nine in a cell, and Five in a... Uh conference room... Oddly enough." It seemed unusual, for a conference room, even though he left them. Which still really confused me.
"So we knock three birds with one stone?" Sam asked, looking at us.
"Okay. I'm sorry. I'm... What does that mean? We are... No. That still doesn't make sense. We're going to get Nine first. Because he wasn't knocked out or anything when we were there. Then all of us get John, then try to get to Five." Six struggled through Sam's words, but already had a plan out. Plus it didn't involve splitting up, just like Katarina wanted.
"So lets do this."
Six
"You better now?" Eight grabbed me as we were all heading out. I nodded, not wanting to relive the conversation we had before everyone else got down here.
(flashback time)
"Six? You haven't been yourself. I get it might not be the time, but what's up?" We were standing against the wall, still invisible after Setrakus passed by. My hands were still shaking.
"I'm find Eight." I guess I wasn't convincing enough, because I heard him spin to look at me.
"Cut the crap. You need to get back to normal. What's wrong?" I wanted to see his face. I could hear the sincere worry in his tone.
"I guess... Maybe I'm just living in the past right now. My heads just not here." I began to think back about how if been acting, noticing the differences about myself. Not wanting to fight, not even wanting to come down here. The fear.
"Okay. Well as much sense as that makes. I'm sorry, but you can't keep thinking about that. I was deAd. But I'm alive now. So I'm not going to act as if I'm not. And maybe thats a bad example, but it's all I got." It actually made perfect sense. But I didn't have time to tell him that. Because Ella git in touch with me, and told me that the others were coming.
"I'm good." I told him as we marched out if the room, heading down left an. Left and so on, to save our friends. "Thanks." I added, beginning to finally feel like me again. He winked, as we went forward, as if we owned the place, somehow getting lucky enough to not his any Mogs, even as we approached Nine's cell.
But I got too ahead of myself too soon by assuming that they would leave Nine unscathed. His cry of pain was constant, and wall shaking. We quickly sped by the room, and slipped into an empty conference room two doors down. Eight slammed the door shut behind me, and I immediately began to pace, rethinking the plan.
"Okay... So..." Marina was looking at me expectantly. I rubbed my hands together in thought. Five of us total.
"I say we just go kick ass." I blurted, getting a soft whoop from Eight.
"Back on track." He joked, to everyone else's confusion. I shook my head and rolled my eyes.
"But think about it. There's maybe two Mogs in there. It was stupid for us not just to storm in. I slip in invisible, take the knife to one, then you guys follow, knock out the rest, and we're good." The plan seemed infallible in my mind.
"Yeah... But our plans never actually seem to work out the way we want them too..." Sam thought out loud.
"Well this one will." I declared, walking to the door, knowing that at least Marina would follow. They all did, thankfully. And we did exactly what I wanted to do. There was actually only on Mog there, so I was kind if disappointed that there would be no fun to it.
But that one Mog sure raised hell on Nine. His face was just one big cut, bleeding and broken. His breathing was labored, at best, and he was being held by his wrists, shackled up on the wall. I was too short to get him down, so Eight and Sam came in to help. Together they unchained his wrists, and caught him as he fell, laying him on the ground, so Marina could heal him. I stepped back to stand next to Kat, who was guarding the door.
"We get John, then look for Five?" She cleared with me. It was odd having her go to me for mission clearance, but I nodded my head anyway. Nine was groaning as Marina set her hands on his cheek, bringing the skin back together, and healing the torn muscles.
"That's amazing." Katarina whispered from beside me, watching Marina work.
"She con control ice too." I commented, realizing that she forgot to mention that in the van. Kat looked at me, shocked.
"We had no idea how powerful you all would become." She said quietly, peering behind her keeping watch through the small window.
I didn't say anything, not sure if there was anything to say. Marina stood up, stepping back from Nine, wiping her bloodied hands on her jeans.
"He passed out. Should be up within five minutes..." She sounded like she was trying more to convince herself. I walked over and kneeled next to Nine, brushing his too long hair off the top of his forehead.
His eyes fluttered open at my touch, and I pulled my hand away quickly, standing back up.
"You okay?" I asked from my standing position, suddenly nervous for no good reason. Everyone was staring at me. Nine nodded, and pushed himself up to a sitting position. Slowly standing.
"Thanks." He said curtly, before stretching his arms out and popping his shoulders, groaning as his joints popped and cracked. I waited until he was done to speak.
"We are going across the hall to get John. Can you make it?" He rolled his eyes at me.
"Mar made me good as new, don't you worry." We made eye contact, and stared at each other for a beat too long. I looked down, walking to the door and pushing it open.
"We're all just going to storm this place. Kill anything not Loric." They all nodded and I shoved the door, darting down to John's room, and throwing myself in, turning invisible. I decided not to look at Hohn, as I slammed into a Mog, grabbing a knife from a table, and twisting it in his gut. I head commotion behind me, as alarms began to blare. Ash exploded, and I spun, ready to take on the next guy.
There were only a few left and I dove at one, sticking the knife in his neck, as Marina lunged to close the door.
The room grew quiet as Eight killed off the last one, and we all looked at John, lying in the corner, shaking uncontrollably, Sam and I both ran over to him, crouching down beside him.
Marina came behind, but I stopped her.
"Since we don't know the extent of the injuries, maybe it would be better to get him out of here, then to try and heal him? Yes?" I looked around the room for aproval. No one moved.
"No? Guys I need an answer."
"Six, he looks really bad, I think we should take the chance if doing it here." Marina said, looking at Johns shaking figure. pointing out the trail of blood that was flowing from somewhere on his body. I nodded, and stepped back, standing next to Nine, Eight went over and got down next to Marina, whispering something in her ear, and rubbing her back.
Nine tugged at my sleeve, and pulled me to the far corner of the room, away from everyone else. I looked at him, asking a million questions with my eyes, but not wanting to ruin the moment by talking. I looked up at him, being about four inches taller than me, I was looking up at him, looking down at me. Without thinking about what I was doing, I put a hand on his shoulder, and rose on my toes. He gently set his hand around my hip, and bent down, allowing our lips to meet in the middle. My eyes slid shut, as I pushed myself into him, feeling his arms wrap around me. We pulled apart at the same time, glancing at Marina, who was still working on John, Jat and Sam were talking together. I pushed back up, and we were kissing again, more rough this time, letting months and weeks of longing and pain come out in one burst of love, my feet were off the ground now, Nine lifting me up, hands still on my hips. I wrapped my arms around his neck, wanting all of him on that one crazy rush of completion. I didn't care where we were, why we were there, who was watching. I knew that I was doing something right.
Even as Marina called out, even as I felt my self screaming, now in Nines lap as we both crashed to the ground.
Then I came back to reality. Nine was covering my face as I lunged for Marina and Eight, who were crying into each other. As Kat and Sam rushed over to try and help. Nothing could be done. We all just cried out as Johns scar burned it's way into our legs.
His heart had stopped. And without Five, there was nothing we could do to save him.
If you trust me, you'll wait for the next update. This had to happen, but I promise, it's not permanent, you asked me not to kill anybody major, so I won't! So stick with me guys.
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