Following The Footsteps

Chapter Six - and to top it all off, I got a new toy

Fifteen years after Xin Ru Si Hui, Max and Zack's daughter goes off on an adventure of her own, and finds out some startling news.

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"Is that all you can do? Come on, show me what you got." Jonay taunted.

The gunman lifted his gun, and pointed it at Jonay's head.

Jonay stared at the gun for five seconds, before she kicked it out of his hands, sending it flying towards her. She caught it, and pointed it at the guy.

"Oh, looks like the odds have changed. What a shame." Jonay sarcastically commented.

"Jonay!" a voice cried from behind her.

"What?" Jonay asked.

She stood still, with the gun pointed at the guys, as Teva and Jondy ran over to her. They took one look at the five men standing there, and laughed.

"What's so funny Jondy? Teva?"

"It's just funny how a fifteen year old girl can be confronted by five big muscly men, and be the one in control of the gun." Teva commented.

"That one of yours?" Jondy asked the men, indicating the gun.

The gunman stepped forward. "Mine."

"Well, you can just kiss it goodbye, cause it's hers now. So long boys." Jondy taunted the men, before turning around and leading Jonay away. Teva laughed again, before following. The three had only taken a couple of steps before they heard the guys begin to approach them.

Jondy turned, and caught the fist that had been aimed at her face. She twisted the arm, hearing bone crack, and kicked the gunman in-between the legs. Letting go of his arm, she kicked him in the stomach, making him fall over, groaning. The four other men looked at their leader, not sure what to do.

"If I were you," Teva began, "I'd get out of here before we proceed to kick your asses. Got it?"

The men took one last look at their leader, before running around the women and out into the street again.

"Well that was easy. Jondy, I think it would be a very good idea if we got out of here right now. If Zack finds us here, with Jonay, we'd be in serious trouble."

"You're right Teva. Come on Jonay, let's go. We'll show you the back way to Krit's apartment."

Jondy, Teva and Jonay walked away, in the opposite direction to the guys. Smiling, Jondy led them through the back streets and into a little alleyway. Jumping onto a rubbish bin, Jondy took a piece of cardboard off the wall, revealing a hole big enough for a large person to crawl into.

"This, Jonay, is how we get into the apartment without anyone else knowing. If you are ever being chased, come here and get into the wall. No one but Krit and I know of it. Well, except you and Teva who have just been told. Climb in."

Jonay obeyed, crawling into the hole, finding that it wasn't really a hole, but a tunnel going straight up. There was a ladder on the inside wall, which Jonay began climbing.

When she reached the top of the ladder, she stepped off onto a small platform. She squeezed against one of the walls to let Teva and Jondy onto it. Jondy stepped up to the front wall, and flicked a catch that was in the top right hand corner. The door opened, revealing the bedroom that Jonay had slept in that night.

The three women had only just stepped out when a voice called out from the other side of the trap door.

"Who are you and what are you doing?" Krit asked.

"Relax big brother, it's just me, Jonay and Teva."

They walked around the door, closing it as they went, so that Krit could see them, and followed him back out into the lounge room. There they found six others, two females, and four males. Jonay recognized only one of them, the woman who had come to meet her, Lex. Looking them over, she could tell that they were as curious about her as she was about them.

Seeing her brothers and sisters looking at Jonay, Jondy decided to introduce them to her, and her to them.

"Guys, this is Jonay, Max and Zack's eldest daughter. Jonay, these are some of my brothers and sisters." Pointing to each, Jondy introduced each one.

"Dom." Dom was short, with long brown hair that was tied back in a ponytail, and light brown eyes.

"Gem." A skinny woman, medium height, with long brown/red hair and dark blue eyes.

"Lee." Jonay had to look up, and up, and up. Lee was very tall, with short brown hair and hazel eyes.

"Oram." Oram was also tall, with spiky black hair and dark green eyes.

"Mac." Mac wasn't as tall as Oram or Lee, and he had short blonde/brown hair, and light blue eyes.

"And you know Lex and Krit. That's all of us."

"Where have you three been?" Oram asked.

"Yeah, sit down and tell us." Gem demanded.

So the three sat down on the couches, and told them what had happened, everything from Jonay finding Lex last night, to getting back to Krit's place. They left nothing out, and Jonay found out that Jondy had gone into the shop to but some guns and ammo. They had just finished, and Jonay commented on how much fun she had had.

"You know, I think I like this idea of helping you guys. I mean it gets me out of school, and I get to have fun. And to top it all off, I got a new toy." Jonay remarked, pulling out her new gun.

The others just laughed.

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Sorry it's been so long since I've updated, but I've been busy at school, and working on my other pieces.