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Chapter 8

Sometimes Missions Kinda Suck

I honestly didn't have much to prepare before we left, so that just left me time to sit there wondering what they would want me to do. Nobody here was ever to keen on sharing information here so I was just about always left in the dark. It also didn't help that I couldn't necessary ask them easily.

I was starting to get restless so Roman decided to take me out to the aircraft we would be using. I hadn't left the hideout in over a month and it took my eyes quite some time to adjust to the sun. At this point I was starting to forget how pretty the forest was.

The forest is deceiving in that way, beautiful but dangerous. If you stray too far, looking at the pretty flowers and trees, the grimm will get you. It's the cruel irony of this world, get distracted by the good and you'll forget the bad just long enough for it to catch up to you.

That never stopped me from enjoying the beauty of it all.

The aircraft was right outside, Josh was in the driver's seat. It didn't take long for other people to show up. Justin was there along with a girl I had seen around but knew nothing about and an older man I had never even seen before.

Josh looked around outside the airship and called over to us, "You guys better get in the back quick or I'm leaving you behind!"

I made my way to the back as fast as I could, I couldn't get left behind on my first mission, Alex would probably hate me even more. Everyone else though couldn't see to care less about how fast they got there, the girl even seemed to be walking deliberately slower than normal to annoy Josh, "We all know you won't leave," she rolled her eyes, "You're the second lowest ranked here, Alex would have a fit if you left anyone behind," she glanced at me, "Except for her maybe."

I decided to ignore that, it wasn't a surprise that she didn't seem to like me, few people here did. The other four took their seats soon enough and the ship took off.

Each side of the back of the ship had three seats, I took the middle in the back, Roman was to my left and Justin to my right. The other two sat across from us. The first bit of the ride was accompanied by an awkward silence. Until the older man decided to break the silence.

"You're probably wondering why your all here, so I should probably explain."

That was followed by a couple of "yeahs" and one "well duh."

The man spoke again, "My names Jay and I'm the leader of this mission, a rivaling gang around here has taking something from Alex and he'd like us to get it and return it, you've all been called here for a specific reason and your strengths will be put to use. We'll be discussing plans further once we land."

The rest of the flight was accompanied by only the soft buzz of the engine. I didn't mind the silence but I could tell it bothered Justin, the lack of noise made him fidget.

We landed in about thirty minutes or so in seemingly, the middle of nowhere. Jay left the ship first, followed by Justin and the girl, I hopped out and followed close behind them, Roman tailing me. Josh was already out, standing in front of a tree waiting for us. He glanced at Jay, "You've got to explain the plan, quick too Alex expects us back before the end of the day."

Jay walked to the front of our small group and said, "The leader of our rivaling gang took one of Alex's guns the last time there was a fight, he wants it back."

Beside me Roman scowled, "You've got to be kidding me, Alex sent 4 high ranking individuals Neo and Josh, to get a Gun," he shook his head, "Man I hate that guy, I could be doing so many things better with my time."

The girl, who I assumed was Maranda gave a short laugh, "Tell me about it."

"It was one of Alex's favorite guns," Jay rolled his eyes, "We'll get in get the gun and get out, Alex is the highest ranking here so I don't suppose we have much of a choice to do what he tells us, do we?"

"I suppose that's true," said Maranda, "What's the rest of the plan Jay, I want to get this over with."

"The leader of this gang has a room full of what he calls battle trophies and that's where Alex suspects the gun is being kept," Jay laid out a map of some house and pointed to various rooms as he talked, "Roman, Maranda and Justin, will provide a distraction, I will wait here for Neo with the gun, shes small and will be the one to retrieve it, when she gets here I'll send a message to the rest of you to come back. Everyone got it?"

There was a series of "yeahs" and "sures" I just nodded.

"Ok then, were moving out."

Maranda began to make her way back to the air craft but Jay stopped her, "Nope," he said turning her around, "We'll be walking."

Maranda groaned, "Uggg why?"

"Its best that we don't make our presence known until we want it known. I don't think riding in a huge air ship up to their front porch would be the best idea."

"Arrrg fine, let's go," Maranda rolled her eyes and followed Jay as he began walking, the rest of the group followed behind.

Josh stayed, presumably to watch the ship.

I'm not exactly sure how long we walked but eventually I saw the top of a house poking out of the trees. About ten minutes later we were standing in a small grove of trees just outside of the gates.

Jay stopped us all before we moved further and whispered, "You all understand what you need to do?"

The group gave nods and split up, heading to perform their various tasks, Roman stopped to give me a thumbs up before leaving to do his.

To my surprise Roman didn't give a subtle distraction as I had expected, instead he walked straight up to the front door and threw it wide open leaning on his cane and grinning madly as chaos erupted inside. It didn't take long for me to realize that Justin and Maranda had already somehow snuck their way inside, they were fighting someone by the sound of it.

I shook my head, I needed to stop thinking about them and get into gear. I had my own job to complete. With the three others inside the building it didn't take long for me to be able to sneak into a window unnoticed.

Once I was in it only took me a moment to figure out where I was, the widow I had jumped in led to a pantry room, the Trophy room was on the other side of the mansion like house. It was fortunate that the room I had jumped in was empty, I was just hoping my luck held out a little longer and I wouldn't run into anybody on my way to the room. Hopefully most everybody would be distracted by Roman and the others in the main room.

I inched the door open to find a seemingly empty. I glanced around the side before making my way out as quietly as possible. I walked for a bit and I hadn't yet ran into anybody, I assumed everyone had been distracted, that's what the distraction was for after all.

I glanced around the hall after walking for a bit, if I remembered Jay's directions correctly, I was about halfway there. Hopefully my luck would hold out until then.

My luck did hold out for the next ten minutes or so, nobody crossed my path. But I'd always had bad luck and that wasn't about to change now. That was the one thing I was sure about, because right when I turned the next corner, I was faced with a very large, and not so friendly looking guy.

He had pink hair, but somehow even managed to make that look freaky. I jumped when
I first saw him. I looked him over, he was big enough to easily snap my neck, I was small. I quickly decided that fighting him would not be the best course of action.

Tying to be inconspicuous I put my head down and began slowly walking towards him, abruptly changing my direction and going to other way would draw attention to me as he had obviously already seen me. So just pretending to be up to nothing and praying he would ignore me would be my best bet.

I got about a foot or two in front of him before the man grabbed my shoulder I tensed up for a moment, waiting for him to do something, "Where are you going, this hallway is off limits to the servants."

A wave of relief passed through me, he thought I was a servant, that was good. He let go of me and I walked off in the other direction, quickly slipping into the nearest closet, the man didn't stop or question me, I was safe for now. I peeked through a crack in the door until the cost was clear then I quietly stepped out.

I made it the rest of the way without problem and soon enough I was inside the "trophy room." Every inch of every wall was adorned with some kind of token. The tokens were anything from a leaf to a tusk of some large grimm. I didn't like the room, it creeped me out. After a spotted a doll nailed onto one wall it made it all worse, I didn't want to know why that was considered a trophy.

Sure, the group I was a part of wasn't the nicest group of people but even so this repulsed me.

I decided I was going to find that gun and get out as quick as possible, I didn't want to have to stay here any longer then absolutely necessary. It didn't take too long to spot it, it was the only gun in the room and was right smack in the middle of one of the walls.

About two seconds after I removed the gun from the wall, I realized what a terrible mistake I had made.

Alarms began blaring all around the room, there was only one way in or out of this room and I needed to get out, now. I made a break for the door but standing in my path in all his pink haired glory was the man I had seen in the hall only minutes before. He glared at me, "I thought I didn't recognize you. Boss wouldn't let some filthy rat like you work for him, I bet you're one of Alex's brats, aren't you," he growled at me.

I ignored his comment, already look for a way around him, this was when being mall was convenient. Currently he was blocking the whole doorway, if I could get him to move just a bit in any direction, I could slip right by him.

I looked around the room once more, hopefully I would see something to help m. About a foot away from me I saw a pedestal with a vase on it Wishing for the best I reached my hand with the gun in it and knocked the pedestal over.

The delicately crafted vase plummeted to the floor shattering into thousands of pieces. This had the desired effect, the man jumped moving slightly to his left, giving me an opening on the right. I pulled Alex's gun close to my chest as I made a run for it, only just making it through the gap.

I sprinted through the no longer empty hallway barely avoiding several people who made grabs at me. I too occupied with my running to notice I had ran straight into a dead end.

Internally cursing myself for my stupidity I glanced around for a way out. I couldn't go back the way I came, there were people following me and I wouldn't be able to dodge them if I went back. There was a small window to my right, it would be a tight fit but I could make it.

I tried to open it but the window wouldn't budge, seeing no other way out I was going to have to make this work. I slammed the butt of the gun I was holding into the window until it shattered. There were jagged pieces of glass around the sides but this would have to do.

I gave a silent prayer to anyone who would listen then jumped. As I fell to the ground I felt a sharp pain in my leg then a jolt as I hit the ground. I didn't have any time to examine my leg, I just had to get up and keep running towards the meeting spot Jay had arranged for the group.

Just as I left the clearing a large bang sounded from the mansion followed by the distinct sound of Romans laugh. He yelled a quick, "Nice party," before leaving, followed by Maranda and Justin.

I didn't wait for them, I still was worried I'd be caught so I ignored the pain in my leg and the ache in my body for running so far and turned to continue running towards the meeting spot.

After a few more moments I made it to the spot, sure enough Jay was waiting there leaning on a tree.

I sat down and began to examine the cut on my leg. After peeling away the bloodied pant leg the cut was better shown. The actual cut wasn't super deep but it had bled a lot and my leg was throbbing because of the run.

Jay walked over to me and picked up the gun I brought and examined it, "Hmmm," he glanced at me, "You actually got it, that's rather surprising, well good work kid."

Jay pulled out his scroll and quickly sent a message, presumably to Justin, Maranda and Roman then put his scroll back before looking at me again, he nodded to my leg, "That cut bad?"

I shook my head.

"Good, we'll get it bandaged up when we get back to this ship."

I nodded and we waiting in silence for the others to come. Once they arrived, we all walked as a group back to the ship. Josh was waiting inside he seemed fairly surprised that I had got the gun. It seemed odd how shocked everyone was that I had actually gotten it when I was assigned the job in the first place.

Roman helped me bandage up my leg, the whole thing seemed to have put Roman in a good mood and the ride back was much less awkward.

When we arrived and gave the gun back to Alex he seemed shocked and asked if I'd gotten it, when I nodded he was even more surprised. Yeah, something was defiantly odd about this whole thing. I just needed to figure out what.

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