The Angel of Darkness Continues:

Chapter Three: No Place to Hide

A couple hours later it was now late morning even though it was still dark outside, Kurtis mentioned, "We need to get dressed as quickly as possible, and get out of here." "Um okay." They both got completely dressed quickly, and gathered what little things they had with them. Lara asked, "Are we still planing on going to Paris?" "I don't know yet exactly, but probably so that were out of Prague." "Alright." Then they left the room, to go downstairs to return the key to the guy at the front desk, when Lara said, "He's been murdered." "Oh no, there closer than I had anticipated." They immediately ran outside, and Kurtis looked around for his motorcycle. "Hey, isn't that your motorcycle, Kurtis?" "It is." They hurried over to it, hopped on, and Kurtis revved up the engine to take off. Lara said, "Kurtis look out." Kurtis carefully took a quick turn down a side street, but found out that wasn't such a good idea. There seemed to be soldiers wherever the seemed to go. "These guys don't give up do they."

Kurtis kept driving down so many streets, and said, "It seems like there's no way out of here. It's like they have the whole area under quarantine." Lara pointed to a narrow alley, and said, "Let's try down there." "Okay, and what weapons to we have, if any?" "Your Chirugai." "Well then, I guess our only way out of here is with the Chirugai then." He went down the alley and said, "Lara, hold on tight." "Okay," as she held him tighter, he vaulted over something blocking the road. He kept on going and said, "So far so good, I guess." "It seems that way." He continued making his way out of the city, even though it seemed like he had been driving for what seemed like eternity. "Are we out of Prague, yet." "I'm not sure, exactly." Although little did they know there was a helicopter following them, but Kurtis kept on making it out of this infernal city, no matter what.

Lara began to hear something, so she looked around a little, when she noticed a light following them. She looked up towards the sky, and said, "Kurtis, we have a slight problem." "What is it, Lara?" "There seems to be a helicopter following us, wherever we go." "Shit, that is a problem." "Is there anywhere we could hide?" "That may not exactly work, because no matter where we go, it's seems like there hot on our trail." As they continued down the current street there were on, they took a sudden left turn, and sped up a little to try a loose the helicopter, or at least confuse it. Although where they were heading to seemed to be a trap, because Lara quickly stated, "Kurtis use your weapon, to knock them out of the way." "Okay." He somehow controlled his weapon, and threw it towards the soldiers while driving, knocking them all down. "Lara here it comes, catch it as we turn." "Okay," she replied, and as he turned she caught the Chirugai.

After at least an hour of what seemed like hopeless and endless driving around trying to loose those soldiers, they found themselves in what seemed to be the outskirts of Prague, headed for the countryside. As they neared the countryside, Kurtis had another vision. Lara asked, "Kurtis you alright." He didn't answer her at first, and then he snapped back to reality quickly to steer away from where they almost crashed. "Lara, I had another vision, this time not a very pleasant one." "What happened?" "Mr. Gundersen, really has this whole city blocked, so that no one can come in or out, and with who there block it with, there's no way we can break through it. Meaning, not even breaking through with my Chirugai." In a matter of minutes, the helicopter was hot on their trial again, and this time there was sniper aiming at Lara. Mr. Gundersen accompanied some of his men, in the helicopter, and said, "Fire, when ready." "Yes sir," the sniper replied, checking his sights again to make sure he had a clear target of her.

The sniper fired two shots at Lara, and before she realized what hit her she lost consciousness causing her to let go of Kurtis and fall off. Kurtis stopped the bike immediately and did a 360-degree turn, to go back and get her. Meanwhile, Gundersen called over the radio with the location of where Lara fell, and said, "Bring me Mrs. Croft alive, immediately, before Mr. Trent gets to her." Some soldiers quickly moved in towards Lara, in a desperate move Kurtis jumped off his bike and ran towards her. The soldiers close in on her a lot faster then Kurtis was, and yells out in fury, "YOU CAN'T HAVE HER!" He brings out his Chirugai and throws it right at them, as he continued running towards her. Kurtis caught his weapon, sheathed it away, picked up Lara, and made a run for it. Before the soldier knew what hit them, they dropped like flies from his weapon, while Kurtis held Lara in front of her as he drove away on his bike again.

"Hold on Lara, I'm going to get us out of here," as he sped towards the countryside again, whether they were blocking it or not. He was about to risk his life by keeping her away from them, so he used telekinesis to fire his Chirugai at the something that created a way for him to vault over the blockade. He carefully positioned the bike, to go up and over the blockade, using his telekinesis to retrieve and sheath his Chirugai. As he flew over the blockade, while Mr. Gundersen ordered, "Fire at them, immediately." The soldiers fired at them, and as the bike landed it threw Kurtis and Lara off. Kurtis got up to notice that his bike was about to blow up, so he ran to Lara, who was still unconscious from what must have been sleeping darts. While he ran with her in his arms, Mr. Gundersen ordered the pilot to land over in the field, and radio out, "All soldiers in the immediate vicinity of our targets, charge after them. Remember I want Mrs. Croft alive, and leave Mr. Trent behind, but make sure he's alive too. Now go, and do not disappoint me."

The elite soldiers dispatch themselves and quickly closed in on their targets. This continued for several minutes, and Mr. Gundersen said, "Shoot Trent down now!" Kurtis continued running and running despite how tired he was getting, since he was carrying Lara as he ran. He cried out in fury and with so much anger, "YOU CAN'T HAVE HER!" As he used what strength he had left to use his telekinesis to vault them up into the trees, without the soldiers knowing where they went. A soldier nearby radioed to Gundersen, "Sir, they've disappeared without a trace." "Well find them you idiots, and second level elite teams move in." The second level elite team moved in, searching for them leaving not one piece of the countryside and forest unchecked. Kurtis sensed that they were gaining on them, so he tried to wake up Lara quietly. After removing the two darts from her back, he tried shaking her a little. That didn't work, so he kissed her, and whispered, "Lara, you must wake up."

She started to come around, although she was about to scream, so Kurtis held his hand over her mouth and whispered, "Sh.you must be quiet." She shook her head in agreement as he removed his hand from her mouth, and she whispered to him, "Kurtis.." "What?" "I love you, Kurtis." "I love you too, Lara, and I promise not to fail you." "Since I fear that this isn't going to end pretty, if they get me, promise me that you'll get of here, and.." Kurtis looked down and notice that the were right their below them, he held Lara close to him and put his hand over her mouth to keep her quiet again. He feared that's this might be the end of this situation, and it wasn't going to end pretty, since there was no place for them to hide.

Karel had a team working on the reconstruction of a new and improved lab left in a helicopter to meet up with where Mr. Gundersen was. Karel stepped out of the helicopter and walked over to Mr. Gundersen. Karel said, "I thought Mrs. Vorchnicov didn't want you to get in the way." "She called me and told me to step in, sir." "Very well then, but plans have changed." "Sir." "Call your men off immediately and leave Mrs. Croft and Mr. Trent alone." Mr. Gundersen didn't question the boss, so he went ahead and called his men off, and told them to go back to the base. "Please have a little faith in me, Mr. Gundersen." "Yes, sir." "Mrs. Croft and Mr. Trent if you are nearby please come down, so we can talk." Lara whispered to Kurtis, "All the soldiers have been called off, and apparently some guy wants us to come down and talk." "I'll go down and talk, you stay her and keep quiet, okay." "Okay, please be careful, Kurtis," she mentioned, as she gave him a quick kiss on the lips. Kurtis hopped down out of the tree to see the two people from his nightmare standing just a short distance away from where he was. He slowly approached them, going against all his instincts to stay away. Lara watched as Kurtis walked towards them. "Sir, why exactly are you doing this?" "Hush, because it looks like Mr. Trent is coming this way."

Lara looked all around to make sure there was no sign of anyone sneaking up on her, so she got down out of the tree, and followed after Kurtis. Although little did she know that Mila was hot on her trail, and has been ever since Kurtis and her left the city. Mila quickly came up behind Lara, and grabbed her. Lara tried to get out of her grip, but Mila put a knife to her neck and said with a strong Russian accent, "I wouldn't do that if I were you, or I'll slit your throat." "What do you want with me," protested Lara. "Just wait and see, Lady Croft." Mila took Lara to where Kurtis walked to, while Karel said, "Mr. Trent, where is Mrs. Croft?" "She safe and away from you." "Oh, such harsh words. Well anyways, I have a proposition for you." Mr. Gundersen saw Mrs. Croft nearing the group of them, but decided to keep quiet. "What may ask is your proposition, Mr. Karel, or should I call Nicoli?" "You'd better the attitude of yours, Mr. Trent, because it could get you in to trouble." "Kur." Lara started to say, but Mila had her hand over her mouth to keep her quiet. Kurtis looked over at Lara and then back at Karel, "So what's your proportion then?" "I would like you and Mrs. Croft to go out and retrieve a couple of artifacts for us." "Why so you can try to rule the world, and bring the Nephilim race back, no thanks." Karel walked closer to Kurtis, and said, "Like I said you should watch the mouth of yours," as he motioned for Mila to bring out her knife. Mila held the knife extremely close to Lara's neck again, while Karel stated, "Do you really want to see your precious Lara die right her in front of you?"

Lara tried to speak again, but Mila moved the knife closer to neck, to keep her from talking. "So Mr. Trent, will you and her agree to do this job?" Kurtis looked at Lara with a saddened look on his face and answered, "NEVER!" Lara managed to get Mila to drop her knife, so she could kick her several times. Mila kept trying to keep a good grip on Lara, but Lara finally broke free and started running away, which Kurtis soon followed after her. "Idiot, you let her go." "I'm sorry, sir," apologized Mila. "Well go after them," ordered Karel. "Yes, sir," replied Mila, as she took off after them. Meanwhile Lara and Kurtis continued running and running to further their distance between them and Karel. Kurtis said, "I think we should find a way to get to Paris, and research these artifacts that were mentioned in my nightmare." "Okay," she replied, while Mila was trying her best to keep up with them. She manages to stop long enough to ready her sniper rifle, and fire it at them. The bullet pierced right through the skin of Kurtis left shoulder, but he kept running no matter how much pain he was in. Mila fired her rifle again, but this time Kurtis used his telekinesis to maneuver the bullet away so he would harm him or Lara.

A few minutes later Kurtis and Lara managed to make it into a town that had a train station nearby. They ran for the train station and purchased two tickets to depart from Prague immediately and head for Paris. While Mr. Gundersen said, "Looks they got away, sir." "That's precisely what I anticipated would happen." "Sir." "You see now that they have a glimpse of what we plan to do with the artifacts, they go research them and then go retrieve them. So they can try to stop us, but I've got a little trick up my sleeve. Because I've gotten a little secret to tell you, Mr. Gundersen." "What secret, sir?" "I already have a special team that I already deployed to Siberia to bring us the Nepherium meteorite, so that we can then locate and retrieve the second Sleeper." "Won't they try to go after that meteorite, sir?" "Probably not because they read somewhere that the one in Amazon can keep us for finishing our plan, so they go after that one first, of course." Karel radioed for Mila to come back, and Mr. Gundersen said, "Are you going have Mila spy on them, and go from there?" "Precisely." Mila returned and asked, "Yes, sir?" "I won't you to spy on Mrs. Croft and Mr. Trent and find out what they're plans are. I also won't you to keep in touch with me, so that I can tell when the right time is to bring Lara back to us." "I heard them mention Paris." "Excellent." Karel and Mr. Gundersen returned to where the Lab was being reconstructed, while Mila headed for Paris.