Rescue: Save Tessa?
Chapter 11 (I'm still not sure about those chapter numbers)
Tessa fell to her knees and the all around collective intake of breath was the only noise in the room. Probably in the whole sub. Sosuke was the only one who did not show a thread of emotion. He remained placid and seemed to take every new curve ball with patience and calmness. Kaname was still sleeping from where she had fallen asleep on Kurtz. Melissa was no where to be found. Surreptitiously, Sosuke looked around the room, searching for the missing Mithril member. She wasn't anywhere. Then, a glint of light flashed from the rafters. Sosuke tilted his head back, feigning a sigh and glanced at the light. There was Melissa, a gun in her hand, the red laser point aimed at what Sosuke guessed was the back of Yatori's head. How she got there was beyond him.
"How did you escape from a top security prison?" Sosuke questioned, postponing for time. A musical laugh broke into his thoughts. She was laughing, her silvery blonde head tilted back.
"Escape? What makes you think I escaped?" She smiled at him, with a superior I-know-what-you-don't look on her face, "I was let go."
It took several minutes for the realization to sink in. Even then, the group of Mithril agents doubted what she said.
"Really, do you expect us to believe you?" Kurtz chuckled, adding his smile to hers, "You are a bad liar, girly."
"Liar? Well, perhaps I am but certainly not for something of this accord. Indeed, I was let go by Prison Commander Noruag." Kalinan stepped forward, fingers scratching his beard, thoughtfully.
"I know of no 'Noraug' in the Mithril Prison." Yatori smiled her superior smile, again, white teeth flashing.
"Hmm, tall, untidy hair, mean looking. Hmm...know anyone like that?" Kaname lifted her head from her deep slumber for a moment to murmur,
"Gauron." Kurtz burst out yelling after she said that.
"Gauron, Noruag!! Noruag is Gauron backwards!"
Sosuke smirked,
"Just what we need... Mentally challenged psycho serial killers with elementary school degrees."
He sighed, feigning boredom, and closed his eyes. In a flash, Yatori had Tessa in a headlock, silver knife flashing against her small throat. Tears had begun to build up in the Captain's eyes. Then, something changed within her, she stopped sniveling and her blue eyes took on the equivalent of an Artic glacier. She rammed her elbow into Yatori's groin and hooked her left ankle around Yatori's. She yanked her leg up and Yatori fell, still clasping Tessa to her, tightly.
Kaname struggled to sit up, her eyes wide with fear for her long-time friend and competition. Sure, she hated Tessa at times because where Kaname was clumsy, Tessa was graceful, where Kaname was ignorant, Tessa was a prodigy. But, she was still a friend and to the Mithril crew, Captain of the Danaan.
They struggled for a moment, and Yatori pulled out a handgun that was strapped to her waist. She looked at the laser pointer on her chest, followed it up, and shot.
Melissa fell. Souske ran and dived to catch her. She was shot in the leg, crimson blood running rivulets down her thigh and onto Sosuke's arm but he paid no notice to it. His attention was on Yatori and what she would do with his captain.
Yatori smiled...
And drove her knife fluidly into Tessa's back. Tessa gasped, the intake of breath entering quickly through her small mouth. She staggered up and turned to face Yatori. Tessa pulled out her own little handgun and before Yatori could react, shot her back.
Yatori slumped to the floor but there was no one to catch her. Kurtz and Sosuke put down the girls they were carrying and ran to Tessa. The Mithril Captain smiled at both of them and slumped to the floor, her favorite Sergeants already there to catch her.
Kaname leaned back against the wall of the Tuatha de Danaan (that is its name right? Gomen..) . She watched Sosuke care for Tessa and attend to her needs gingerly and tenderly, how she wanted him to be with her. She frowned, her mouth set in a grim line, and a spirit hardened in resolve. She wouldn't win Sosuke back, but she would make him very very jealous.
AFTERWARD:
The next chapter is the last, then will come the final story later. Lol. Sorry, FMP readers, but I have several other stories to complete!
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