Chapter 8: Breath
Roger and Avery were sitting in Avery's office. Roger looked over to see a woman run in and ask a cop for help. He pointed to Avery's office. Roger saw the woman run into the office. She looked at Avery and yelled.
"My friend took her son into some kind of cult!" Avery looked at Roger and Roger looked at Avery. Roger got up and walked up to her. He moved and helped her to a seat. She sat down and then back looked up at the men, and started to tell them what was going on.
"My friend Kendra Taylor has been seen a man by the name of Axel Addams. He has a large cult." She told them.
"How do you know that he has a cult?" Avery asked her.
"Cause she asked me to be apart of it." She told them.
"How do you know that she took her son into this cult?" Roger asked her.
"She called me and told me that she was walking into Axel's house and she had her son with her." They looked at her.
"Why did he call you?" Roger asked her.
"She told me to have her mail sent there for now on." She told them. They looked at her with an odd look. "I mean it! She is head over hills for this guy." She added.
"We will try to find him and get him for what he is doing." Said Avery.
"Yes but this may take some time." Roger told the woman.
"No you have to get him soon." She almost yelled out. They looked at her. "Kendra said that she was going to give her son to him tonight. That it would please Axel if she did." They looked at her.
"When you say…" Roger started.
"He is going to rape him." She told them with tears coming to her eyes. Roger and Avery knew that they had to find this guy now before that could happen.
-A hour later-
Roger was listening to what Avery was telling everyone about Axel. That this guy had a past of doing stuff like this. Roger got up and moved to the hallway. He pulled out the phone and called the only man that could help them.
-In the base-
Al sah-him heard the phone ring. He picked it up.
"What is it?" He asked Roger.
"I need your help." Roger told Al sah-him what was going on.
"Don't worry I will get the kid out." He told him. Al sah-him hung up the phone and looked over to his IT guy.
"Flint I need to find out where a man by the name of Axel Addams lives." He told Travis Flint. Flint moved to the computer and typed somethings in and found the man very quickly.
"Here, here is were he lives at." He told him. Al sah-him walked over and looked at the computer.
"Thanks." He said and patted the man on the back.
-At Axel's house-
Landon Taylor was sitting in a closet. They had put him in here when he tried to run away, and when he had gotten a phone and called for help. He did want to do what his mother wanted him to do. The door opened and he saw his mother.
"Now honey, we have to get you ready." She told him. Landon moved closer to the wall. The sixteen year old didn't want to do this at all.
"NO!" He yelled at his mother. She looked at him and gave him an evil look.
"You will do this or you will be punished!" She yelled at him.
"Then punish me!" He yelled back at her.
"FINE!" She shut the door and locked it again. He heard her walk off. He let out the breath that he was holding.
"God send me someone that can help me." He prayed for help.
-With Roger-
Roger was outside of the house. He and the other's were shocked at what they saw. There along the house were women and men with guns. It was like an army. Roger looked over at Avery.
"What the hell are we going to do?" Avery asked him.
"I don't know, but I hope our friend can help." He said. This made Avery look over at him.
"What?" He asked him. "You called him?" He added.
"Yes I did." Roger said and then saw something on the roof of the house. He smiled to himself. Avery looked and saw it too.
"How did he get on the roof?" He asked himself.
"Who cares as long as he can get the kid out of there."
-With Al sah-him-
Al sah-him got into the house and was running down the hallway. He would fight who ever tried to stop him. He moved down another hallway and saw Axel run into a room. Al sah-him ran after the man. He ran into the room with his bow drawn. He moved it back and forth as he looked for the man. Al sah-him finally saw Axel standing in another room that was attached to the room that he was in. He walked in the other room and yelled at the man.
"WHERE IS LANDON TAYLOR!?"
"He is somewhere in the house, but you will not find him." He told him. Al sah-him saw that the room was getting smoking. He turned and saw that the room was on fire. He looked over at Axel as he said.
"They will not run. Until I tell them to." He smiled an evil smile.
-With Roger-
Roger saw the smoke coming from the house. He then he saw the flames coming out. He ran over to the back of the house. Everyone that was standing outside saw the flames and ran to safety.
-With Al sah-him-
Axel looked out and saw his followers running to safety.
"No." He said under his breath.
"Looks like they don't need you to tell what to do." Said Al sah-him. Axel moved to the window and looked at Al sah-him.
"You will not take me in." He said and jumped out the window. Roger saw Axel jump out of the window and land on the ground. He knew that the fall had killed the man. Al sah-him closed his eyes and moved to find Landon. He ran through the house calling the teen's name. The smoke was getting think around him. He started to cough hard. He moved into a room and called out Landon's name. He was about to ran out when he heard something coming from the closet. Al sah-him moved over to the closet and kicked the door open. There he saw Landon standing up against the wall.
"Who are you?" He asked the masked mam.
"I'm here to save you, come on!" Al sah-him held out his hand and Landon took it.
They ran through the burning building. Walls were started to fall around them. Landon stopped and started to cough. Al sah-him moved and took a handkerchief out and tied it around Landon's nose and mouth. He then took the teen's hand and led him out of the burning house. They ran out the back to the backyard. Roger saw them run out. He ran over to them. Roger took Landon's hand and was about to run him to the ambulance. When he and Landon saw Al sah-him fall to his knees and then to the ground. Roger saw that the man wasn't wearing anything around his nose and mouth. He let go of Landon's hand, and ran over to his so called friend.
"What is wrong with him?" Landon asked Roger, as Roger rolled Al sah-him over.
"He had breathed in to much smoke. I need to do CPR on him." Roger told him and moved and started to do CPR. Landon fell to his knees and started to cough. Another policeman by the name of Zander Kennedy ran over to them. He ran over to Landon and made sure that the teenager was okay. He looked over as Roger was doing CPR on Al sah-him. Roger was relieved to hear Al sah-him breath in and then start to cough. He sat him up.
"You alright?" He asked him. All Al sah-him did was shake his head no. Roger looked at Zander and told him to help Landon to the waiting ambulance. Zander moved and took Landon's arms. Landon looked back to see Roger help the man that saved him by putting an arm around him. He then took Al sah-him's arm and put it around his neck.
Roger moved Al sah-him to a tree that was fall off from the burning house. Zander moved Landon toward the ambulance, but Landon got away from him and moved over toward the man that had saved him. Al sah-him sat next to the tree. Roger moved and rubbed the man's back.
"Just breath slowly." He told him. Roger watched as Al sah-him fell over onto his chest. Roger know that the man had passed out again. He laid the man down onto the ground. Landon moved next to Al sah-him. Zander ran behind Roger. Roger looked at the Al sah-him's face and saw that the mask was kind of coming off. He moved to take it off….
All went black
"Murtaugh?" Roger heard Avery's voice. Roger came around and looked around. He looked to see if he could see Al sah-him or Landon or even Zander. The only one that he saw was Avery.
"Where is Landon and…"
"No one knows where they went to." Avery told him. Then Roger know what had happened. Zander mush have knocked him out. That meant that Zander was working with Al sah-him!
-At the base-
Al sah-him came around. He moved and took off the oxygen mask. He looked over and saw Landon breathing into one. Beside the teen was Zander.
"Thanks Vane." Al sah-him thanked Zander.
"Your welcome, but Roger almost pulled your mask off." Al sah-him moved and got off of the table. He walked over to Landon.
"You alright?" He asked the teen.
"Yes I am fine." He told him through the mask. Al sah-him saw that Landon was looking at him oddly.
"What?" He asked him.
"Nothing, it's that you are very handsome." Al sah-him realized that he was not wearing his mask now. He looked over at Zander.
"It fell off when we got here." He told him. Al sah-him looked back over toward the teenager again.
"You can't tell anyone who I am." He told him. Landon smiled and nodded his head.
-Later that night-
Anne and Cahill were sitting on the couch watching TV. Anne heard something behind her and she looked back.
"DAD!" She yelled out and got up. She ran over to him and hugged him. He looked down at his daughter.
"We saw on the news about the burning house and we were worried about you." Anne told him. Cahill who was standing now. She watched him smile at his daughter. She watched as the man that she loved looked up at her.
"I need you to do something for me?" Cahill walked over to him.
"Anything." She said.
"I need you to look after my new son." He said with a smile. Anne and Cahill looked at Al sah-him and then looked behind him. There they saw Landon. Anne smiled at her new older brother.
"Is he really going to be my brother?" She asked her father.
"Yes he is." He said with a smile. Anne moved and ran over to her new brother and took his hand.
"Here I will show you to your room." She told him and led him to his new room. Cahill watched this and smiled. She then felt a pair of arms go around her. She smiled and laid back into them. Al sah-him moved down and kissed the woman that he loved on the cheek.
"I love you." He said to her.
"I love you too." She replied.