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Sorry again for not updating for a while, I swear, if I ever start a new story, I'll write the final chapters in advance so that I won't get a writers block when I arrive to the "the story needs an epic ending" point in my mind... ugh... xD
Chapter 54
He counted them again and again, but he still got to the same number... and it was too much.
"What do you want?" He asked, but knew the answer. Their grins made it obvious.
"I won't let you hurt her!" He stood up.
As they launched to attack, the first iron rod began to spin on his finger.
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Ian watched as Amy and Niko jumped into the portal.
"I should have gone with them!" He thought. "Amy may need my help... Spasky isn't a five-star teamworker after all..."
He was contemplating to follow his friends, when someone grabbed his arm.
"Ian!" Isabel groaned as she got conscious on the ground.
"Mu- mummy?!" Ian stuttered. It was the first time he could talk to her after the affair with the Vespers.
Isabel examined his face, then took out a poison dart and threw it.
Ian needed a minute to realise that the pain he started to feel in his stomach was just the result of his imagination and that he wasn't the one his mother aimed at. On the other hand, the man who had appeared behind him to backstab him fell backwards and didn't move again. Isabel had saved his life.
"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me mummy? It makes me sound old!" Isabel scolded him, but her expression softened as she hugged her son.
Ian stood paralized. "You... you haven't embraced me since..."
"I know." She admitted, then sent him one of her most glamurous smiles. "But I changed. A lot."
Peeks at the portal. " However, I still couldn't accept if it was only the son of Irina who had the prestige of saving the world..."
"I'll have to go." Ian nodded. "But... can I ask one last question?"
Isabel wanted to say yes, but a man went for them, so she had to fight back.
"I promise I'll tell you anything, just later, darling. I suppose now both of us have something else to do."
She made it clear what she was referring to. Ian saw the way to the portal open up.
"Come after me!" He yelled and got lost in the mystic blue waves.
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He was holding her vulnerable body in his hands. He swore that he wouldn't cry. She had never wanted him to.
His gaze wandered from her pretty face to the mountain above them. The agents who came for them... they were all defeated, one by one. But up there, on the peak, there were more. More than he could overwhelm himself... and his family was fighting those people.
Her hand caressed his face. He knew what he had to do...
...and immediately hated himself for it.
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"Cobra, your stupid shoe trick doesn't work anymore!"
Hearing that, Sinead Starling ran to rescue Dan and Natalie from the revived "King Kong 2.0", but she bounced back from him.
To make it better, the man slowly turned to her to see the "small insect" that had clashed to him.
"What do you want little ant?" He smiled.
"Strong. Too strong." Sinead thought. "You can't be an Ekat!" She said without thinking.
And then came the most flabbergasting event of the day: King Kong 2.0 blushed.
"How... how did you know?"
Sinead's eyes widened. "This can't be!" She thought, then got an idea.
"Because I am the one who was sent after you..." She tried to put as much confidence in her voice as she could.
The man seemed to get taken in, but then, he shook his head. "The last time I was there, Mr. Holt told me that I was a useless crybaby. What would he want from me?"
"The leadership... they just realised that they need you." Sinead tried to win some time to think while concentrating not to gape from man's naiveness.
"Why would the Ekats let a Tomas join them? What can a Tomas do that can make him be a part of a branch with totally different attitude?" She wondered. "Let's see Hammer for example... He cannot even read a map himself, but..."
"They need your hacking skills!" She risked it and won as the eyes of King Kong lit up. "Oh, yes they terribly do. You could be our hero! Maybe... maybe even Mr. Holt would give you his branch leader position to show how... how glad he was if you came back!"
"Really? Is that all true?"
Sinead was afraid that the man would have hugged her to death from joy if she told him anything else, so all she did was nodding, even though it wasn't the sign of her confirmation but the warning for the giggling Dan and Natalie to sneak to the time-gate. And they understood it.
Unfortuantely, King Kong did the same.
"The children!" He shouted. "They are leaving!"
He threw himself after them, but he was late.
"Better luck next time!" Dan laughed as he faded away with Natalie, hands in hands.
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Irina had to admit that she hated Ekats... Nah, not all of them, but the man chasing her truly deserved it.
She swung her arms, but couldn't escape his iron grip. This was enough for her to start feeling hostility towards him.
Then, that bastard had the bravery to kick Alistair, who came to help her, right in his stomach, making the poor old man tremble in pain.
Hissing furiously, Irina leaped to the enemy and pushed him to the ground, clawing his face with her nails.
"I will..." She shouted, but the man regained control and turned that way, that he could catch her wrists again and push them down.
"You will do what?" He asked triumphantly.
"She won't do anything." Came a third voice. "I will."
If the events of the upcoming seconds were told her as a story, Irina would have laughed right into the face of the one who made it up, repeating over and over again how unrealistic, how silly it was.
But it wasn't a tale. She was fighting the Ekats... side-by-side with Isabel Kabra.
And what was the most bizarre in that situation? They made a perfect team.
Isabel pushed the man off her and helped her up.
"Come on, Spasky, don't be lazy, I won't do your part!"
Irina's mouth curled up to a half smile.
"Don't worry, Cobra! You should rather mind your own buisness!" She replied and pulled Isabel away from the hit of another man.
They struggled, but the numerous enemies surrounded them.
"Remember the falcon kick?" Irina asked over her shoulder. Isabel said nothing, just caught her arm, taking up the special position.
"So, you do..." Irina thought.
The circle of the men shrunk as they got closer and closer.
"Three." Irina began the countdown.
"Two." Isabel carried on.
"NOW!" They yelled together and bolted towards the enemy.
Isabel slipped forward and swung her hands, helping Irina high up to the sky. As they rose their gazes to Irina, the sun blinded the Ekats, which Isabel used to knock them out with a fast round strike. Meanwhile, Irina did a full turn in the air, then straightened her legs which collided to the last two agents, sending them unconscious.
However, the two women had no time to rest: they saw an enourmous guy rise a gun, pointing the barrel at Sinead and Alistair. Irina darted to them, but knew that she couldn't save them. She didn't have adequate time. All she could do was watching the live horror.
"Stupid girl, you will pay for making a fool of me!" King Kong shouted.
"Oh, I was not needed for that..." Sinead responded bravely. She was trying to take the man's attention from her uncle, so that he could survive, but Alistair stepped before her instead, protecting her with his own body.
"Leave her alone!" He hissed at the enourmous man. "I'm here for you!"
"No problem, old man, I don't care for the order!" He grinned.
King Kong intended to pull the trigger, but a splitting pain entered his chest. He put one of his hands on the aching point and found blood... with a long iron spear.
Irina gasped as she turned 180 degrees to see her brother standing on a cliff.
Alek Spasky looked like an avenging angel. His cloth was ragged, half of his T-shirt was missing. The wind blew his hair into his face, but none of his locks could hide the hatred in his blue eyes. His fists were tightening on the spears as if he was trying to keep his infinite furry back this way.
"Alek?" Irina asked anxiously. "Alek, what happened... and where is Nata?"
"Where's the one responsible for all?" He asked coldly, paying no attention to Irina. Then, he noticed the gate. "Hmph, so that way."
He strolled to the portal, but at the 'treshold' of it, he stopped.
"What are you waiting for? Aren't you coming?" He growled over his shoulder.
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Amy Cahill has never had enough time to keep telling herself what a 'normal' life she had. A crazy family, a clue hunt for a serum that could make you the most poweful person in the world, doomsday devices and multipled disasters from the past...
So, how on Earth could someone suspect her getting even slightly surprised at the fact that she traveled back in time, fell into a big mass of water, was sucked into the depths by a vortex and ended up coughing on a sandy beach...
She looked up and her mouth stayed open. The sky was in a hue of light orange. As the white clouds were blown away by a weak draft, the blood red circle of a solar eclipse appeared.
After the thin line of sand, a rainforest rose above them.
"Where are we?"
"You're stealing my lines!" Nikolai sat up next to her and gazed at the jungle. "Anyway, there's only one way to know..."
Thank you for reading, I hope you liked it!
I'll be back with the next chappy in a week or two - my fav part to write is nearly here after all! :D
See you!
