Chapter 5

Kaname and Tessa slept on each other's shoulders sheltered from the rain by the trunk of a tree. In fact, they were sleeping IN the tree for it was hollow. Tessa moaned, scrunching up her small nose at the odious smell of rotting wood. Kaname surprisingly had gotten used to the smell by now and was snoring gently, an odd harmony to the whistling wind.

CRUNCH

Tessa shook Kaname awake with a cool, small hand on her mouth.

"Shhhh….." She whispered, "Someone's coming!" Kaname's eyes widened with fear as the snapping sound of twigs grew louder. Harsh male voices called out to each other, causing her heart to thump.

"Hey!" A deep baritone snapped out, "I found something!" Tessa could've swore her heart skipped a beat.

BA-BUMP

The tree that was their hide-away had fallen over in recent storms. Through the pile of rotted wood and insects that they had used to plug holes, Kaname's eyes saw a boot right in front of the log, so close she could have touched it.

NO, her brain screamed, GO AWAY!!!

"Owww!" The baritone coughed, "My head…." Kaname saw someone wearing brown pants fall to the ground. Suddenly, without warning, Kaname's brain burst into fiery, searing pain. She thrashed around in the log and kicked through its rotted walls, attracting the other soldiers' attention. Kaname rolled along the ground, twigs and briars attaching in her hair. The man collapsed, hand around his head. Someone grabbed at Kaname and she shrieked, the pain increasing.

STOP

LEAVE ME BE

Pain…..fire….

Then nothing

-Darkness-

In the several hours that Kaname and Tessa had hid from the storm, Sousuke and Xiera had arrived in Saigon. He had kept a careful watch of the ground during their flight and had noticed two well-hid clearings that he marked on his map. He compared this map with another one from the Vietnam War.

Of the two clearings he had noticed, one was marked on the war map.

Sousuke frowned.

Would the Terrorists expect a rescuer to go to the known one? Would they even expect a rescuer? He was still thinking about it as they hired a cab to the nearest hotel.

Sousuke got a room and he and Xiera both set up their equipment there. Sousuke emptied his suitcase onto the bed. Grenades, pistols, rifles, explosives, radios, and clothes fell out. Xiera shifted through the things and picked out two small pistols and one radio.

"These don't look too hard to fire." She commented. Xiera flipped the pistols around, reloaded, and attached a suppressor. She tossed her notebook into the air and fired one shot clean through the dot of the 'I' in Chemistry.

"Nope they aren't that hard." She winked at Sousuke and went to the bathroom to change.

AFTERWARD

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