Asazi
Chapter 25
"Asazi, wake up," a voice frantically whispered.
The rain was still pouring hard. Stinging hard. I was in a puddle of mud, someone's hands gently shaking my shoulders. "Asazi, come on, wake up." Travion.
I opened my eyes just as a huge lightning bolt flickered across the sky. The storm was harder than earlier. I looked to my shoulders to find the strong arms of Travion…my eyes following the arms up to his face. A look of relief had just seemed to come over him. At least I thought it was a look of relief. I wasn't sure in the rain and dark skies.
"What's the…how…" I stopped talking, my head still a little woozy.
"Ssshhh, Asazi…take it nice and easy." His arms easily pulled me up to a sitting position.
And then I remembered.
The windshield was spraying glass everywhere and felt small shards go into my skin all over me. My eyes began to haze up and suddenly, Torin yelled again and in mid-yell, his voice was cut off by…death…
My breathing fast, my heart pumping—
"NNOO!" Energy was suddenly pulsing through me, energy that I haven't felt since…back then…
"Asazi! Calm down! Don't wor…" Travion's words faded from my sense of hearing; everything seemed to suddenly seemed to go in slow motion…as more sudden flashes went through—
…my feet, I looked through the open window at Torin. His body was hardly recognizable. His head had been blown apart by another bullet that had also gone through the back window. His chest was all over the place. A dark feeling seemed to come—
I tried to take deep breaths. Think clearly…focus on the present…come on… I summoned instincts from the past and slowly but surely, old feelings and buried senses came back. I instantly recognized the shadows in the back, hidden by other shadows, layered by trees and bushes…
Travion handed me a Glock from his back pocket and I slipped it into my back pocket. "What's going on," I asked in a surprisingly calm voice. My head was exploding with memories and emotions and possibilities…stop. Focus on the present…the here-and-now…
Anger was flooding into me, the dam that I had built on my past broken.
"They came back. They want you. I don't know why or how they found us but I do know that they have Summer." Travion hesitated, his voice choking. "They'll kill her if I don't turn you in to them. I honestly don't know why or how or anything like that but I do know that…they have a knife to Summer's throat and we have to turn in you…"
I closed my eyes and took another deep breath…and smiled. "I'm not going in without a fight or without knowing who I'm fighting."
Travion smiled, I think.
"Good," he said. "I figured you would say something like that. They took the house, were least thirty of them in about five trucks. I was in the master bedroom upstairs and I heard them drive up and get inside in a matter of seconds. I bailed out the rope that we put in that tree that is close to that window…I hid in the tree while they searched the house for you and me…"
His eyes glistened. "They came outside and shouted 'give us Asazi and everything's okay and we leave'. Then they dragged Summer outside…I…they knocked her out…she was…all bruised up and everything…" His shining eyes began to flow in the midst of the rain.
My thoughts were on Torin. They had killed him.
I realized I was crying too.
"Asazi…they killed Torin and I'm sorry about that but we can't let them kill Summer…please… I don't know what to do…"
"I do," I replied almost instantly.
He looked up at me. "What do you have in mind?"
"They'll kill you and Summer even after they get me…so we walk in there, I say I'm gonna let them take me as long as they don't harm Summer and just as they come over to me, I whip out my Glock, you whip out whatever you have and kick. Their. Asses…
"Sound good," I finished.
He closed his eyes and took a deep, silent breath…
"Let's do it," he said.
We took off into the woods, racing up around the mountain, killing two people on the way up…I wasn't sure but I think one of them was the sniper that killed…that killed Torin…
We made it to the house without a problem. My clothes were sticking to me and it was hard to stay flexible and comfortable but in war on your own turf, you can't loose. So I ignored it.
I approached the house. The backside of it was all windows, the side that faced the peak of the mountain. They saw me when I was about twenty feet from the house. Travion was at the forest line, ready to step out about three or four seconds before I'd pull the gun and start shooting.
Once they saw me they were about to come outside but they suddenly stopped and looked at me expectantly. It took me a second but I soon realized that they were waiting for me to come in. Smart…must somehow know that the windows are completely bulletproof…that screws me and Travion's plan…
I stepped inside and almost immediately they walked toward me. I was dripping wet, getting our nice carpet stained and ugly. I noticed Summer lying on the floor, her hands tied behind her back, her mouth gagged…someone with a knife around her neck too.
There was about ten people looking at me as two of them approached me. They were all punk-looking people. Not leather or anything like that but you could definitely tell they if you were in the same room with them, you would avoid them.
When the two guys walking toward me were about five feet, I whipped the Glock out as fast as I could and got off four shots.
BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM!!
All were accurate, two slapping the guys walking toward me, one blowing the man with his knife around Summer's necks' head wide open and the last hitting someone that saw it coming.
"She's got a gun," someone yelled.
"Shit," yelled another one.
They didn't realize that Summer's captor had been hit. It was a serious problem, the fact that she was unconscious. I looked up and saw someone stepping out from behind a sofa. I fired off a shot before they could. Their heart splattered against the wall behind them. I crawled on my stomach behind a sofa and yelled, "Why do you want me?"
They didn't answer but there was movement at the top of my eyes and as a looked up, a foot swung into my vision and kicking my hand, the Glock flying from my hands over to the door. Move, move, move! I started to roll to the left but a second later I was surrounded.
Two picked me up and with unbelievable strong arms, kept me still. A man with brown eyes stepped up to me and said, "Good fighting…took out five of our men…that's…disappointing but if we have you, Boss shouldn't be to disappointed."
He leaned in to me, his face close to mine. "He also said we could have a little bit of fun before we take you to him too!"
I blinked in out and of images of Shawn and my past going through my head. Suddenly there was wind streaming by face and I hit the ground, the air knocked outta me. I opened my eyes to see the man standing over me. I struggled but couldn't move, the strongest people holding me down.
No…I will not let this happen. Not since Shawn and not ever—
The man mashed his lips onto mine for a few seconds and then came up. I blinked and when I opened my eyes, there was a bloody stump where his head and neck were, the sudden disappearance of them accompanied by a gunshot.
Travion!
The sudden gunshot surprised everyone and I was able to break free, sending my left leg into someone's privates, my right leg tripping someone and my arms rolling myself over onto my stomach. In another second, I fluidly jumped up from the floor and landed on my feet.
A few more gunshots and everyone was down…
Travion stood in the doorway, smoke slowly flowing upward from the Glock in his hand. His breathing fast was fast, his eyes darting rapidly going around the room searching for Summer. "She's right over—," I started to say but looked at where I was pointing and…, "She's gone…she's gone!?"
Travion and I suddenly heard the trucks outside starting up.
"Hurry," he yelled, sprinting off through the house.
I followed him but knew that there was no hope. I recalled him saying there were at least thirty of them…only about half were inside the house…
We got outside into the pouring rain to see the taillights of four trucks just passing Torin's car, at the base of the driveway, fading away into the distance. Torin's headlights were still on…tears came to my eyes but I tried not to show them as Travion suddenly yelled, "Look! They left a—''
Time slowed as I saw it but it was too late…, "Travion, duck!" Too late…
BLAM BLAM!!
Travion's chest rippled from the force of the two shots going through him…and out the other end, little bits of flesh and drops of blood flying out from behind him…
My thoughts clouded, I sprinted to the truck and hit the dirt just as bullets soared into the air right behind me. I rolled under the truck. I could hear the man inside literally yelling at the engine that wasn't starting right. It sounded like the battery was dead.
I silently approached the driver side of the huge truck. The man inside was panicked, judging by his frantic yells at the engine. I waited…until he suddenly stepped out and jumped out of the truck, starting to run away but I grabbed his foot, pulling him to the ground.
He hit the dirt and rolled. Now take him out, something seemed to say inside of me.
I pushed myself away from the ground and kicked him in the side, causing him to cough up blood. "DIE YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH," I screamed as I kicked him and kicked him until there was a sudden crack coming from his body and he yelled in pain. Consumed by anger, I reached down and said, "See you in hell, bitch." I then reached over, positioning one hand on his chin, the other on the back of his head…and pushed with one hand and pulled the other, breaking the man's neck in one swift, fluid motion…
Adrenaline pumping, I walked over to Travion, who was staring up into the night. I held him up and he seemed to come to life. "Ge-e-e-t-t-t…Sum…Sumah…" And his head sinked back into muddy puddle, his face immersed in the mud…
Eyes tearing with emotions, I slowly stood up… Hate, fear, anxiety, questions, everything from the past was suddenly flowing back into me…the memories, the feelings, the emotions…the…
I slowly walked inside and collapsed onto the floor… It had returned…my past…just as everything was…perfect…