Chapter 25: Explosions
Helen couldn't find Sestiva anywhere. She looked around all the corners and in the most hidden spots under ledges. She occasionally bumped into an armada soldier and took him down by stabbing him with the bayonet over and over. She made their deaths quiet and collected their bayonet if she took down a musketeer.
"Sestiva where are you?" Helen muttered as she turned a corner. Helen took a moment to think about all the possible areas Sestiva had gone.
She could have gone to a covered area right after we got in, but I would have heard her running to get to that spot.
Helen pressed her back against the wall, and put her hand on the door handle. She swung open the door and went inside. I was nicely lit and the walls and floor was stone. Armada soldiers roamed around the hall. She grabbed a bayonet from where her knife used to be and ran it through the soldier's neck, withdrew it, and let the body fall to the floor, barely making any noise. The second soldier down the hall spotted her and was about to shout intruder. She covered his mouth, grabbed him by the waist and slammed him against the wall. She took her rifle from off her shoulder, pressed the barrel of the gun against the metal chest plate, and fired. The charge left a dent in the chest plate, so Helen fired again and again in the same spot. It left a small hole in the chest plate, but that was all that she needed. Before ramming the bayonet into the gears, she asked him one question.
"Where is my sister?" Helen growled inching the bayonet closer to the gears.
"I don't know. I never saw anyone come down here other than more members of the armada." The armada soldier responded, trying desperately to find a way to escape.
Helen dropped him, and smashed his mask with the butt of the rifle, and fired where any gears were exposed. She walked farther down the hallway, still searching for Sestiva.
"Sestiva where are you? We were supposed to do this together."
Sestiva continued to place down dynamite around the perimeter of the fortress, connecting them with one long fuse. She found the new crates of dynamite by one of the doors. She pried open one of the crates, and took the first five sticks of dynamite she saw. She took them to where the fuse was and extended the line of explosives.
"Where could she have gone?" Helen asked herself. "I've looked everywhere for her and there's not a single sign of her. Not even the armada soldiers have seen her."
Helen continued down the hall and made a sharp left. A few armada soldiers were spread out down the hall and some of them were guarding the rooms. Helen took down the first armada soldier, tackling him to the ground. The other soldiers continued what they were doing and stood guard. Helen bent his head backwards and attempted to snap it off. She then proceeded to slam the butt of her gun down onto his face over and over again, eventually killing him. She looked over to see a door right next to her. The armada soldier she had just killed was guarding the door. She stood up and pressed her back against the wall and put her hand on the door handle. She swung the door open and stepped through the doorway.
The door had lead to the outside. She took a few steps forward with extra caution. She didn't know what could be ready to jump out and kill her. She took a few more steps and tripped on something she didn't see. She looked down to see her foot snagged in some wire. It wasn't a wire, it was a fuse. Someone was planning to blow the place up, and she knew exactly who. The last time she checked there were no other pirates on the island but herself and Sestiva. It had to be Sestiva's doing.
I knew it! I knew it! I knew she couldn't be trusted! If I just left her on a nearby island and did this by myself, none of this would have happened! I wouldn't have to search for her and hope she's not ditching me and leaving me to fend for myself.
Helen lifted the section of the fuse that she tripped on. Sticks of dynamite rose from the grass and hung tightly on the fuse. She stayed close to the wall and followed the trail of dynamite.
THUD!
THUD!
THUD!
THUD!
What was that?
THUD!
THUD!
THUD!
Helen could hear the crates breaking from the impact and something rolling out of the crates. She continued to follow the trail of dynamite. At one point, she found several crates that said "EXPLOSIVES" on the side, but the crates were empty. She found the end of the trail, which was at the very front of the fortress. However, the fuse kept going and Helen found Sestiva and the end of it, hovering a lit match over the tip of a lit match over the end of the fuse.
"SESTIVA!" Helen yelled, getting her attention and making her drop the match. "I'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER FOR YOU AND I FIND YOU HERE…BLOWING THE PLACE UP! I SHOULDN'T HAVE TRUSTED YOU!"
"You were the one who went inside with one of the worst plans! You wouldn't let me talk so I just went off and did my own plan! You're plan was to go inside, defeat most of the armada soldiers, and then blow this place up! My plan was to just blow the place up, get it done and over with, and watch as the explosion kills everything inside of it!" Sestiva shouted back, looking back down and lighting another match. She lit the fuse and ran up to Helen, grabbed her arm and pulled her onto the ship, pulling up the gangplanks as she went. "Steer the ship away from here, there fortress is going to explode!"
Helen rushed up to the wheel and spun the wheel as hard as she could to get as far as she could away from the fortress that was about to explode.
"TAKE COVER!" Sestiva screamed, before closing the door that led below deck and diving down to the hard wooden surface.
The fortress exploded and sent debris flying, smoke preventing the two sisters from seeing anything.
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