- 05. The Escape -
The painful silence was quickly broken by Anna's harsh laugh.
"Do you think that's funny?" Kratos asked with a frown..
"Well yeah, YOU bump into the facility, slashing practically everything in your way, stealing important research data, setting prisoners free, and then you tell ME that I'M in danger?"
True enough…
Kratos couldn't find the words to respond.
"Touché" Anna chuckled under her breath.
Kratos' face flushed, he sharply turned his head.
" Well then, let's get going" he said as he walked out of the room, Anna followed shortly behind.
" You're cute when you blush, you know that?"
Kratos stunned as he felt his face turning the same color as his hair. Anna walked up to him and grabbed him by the arm.
" Now now, don't be so modest, I'm just complimenting you!" she added with a bright smile.
Kratos felt really stupid, not being able to reply. He forced himself to stop blushing.
" No time for silly games, we must be on our way at once…" he said in a serious tone as he continued walking.
Anna let go of his arm and started walking behind him again. Although he could not see it, he knew that Anna was probably glaring daggers at him for his last comment.
He smirked at the thought.
"Touché" he whispered…
They both walked silently for a while, Kratos didn't even bother to look back to see how Anna was doing.
" Shit…" Kratos hissed as he entered a large room with strong closed doors.
He looked around the room for a control panel or anything to open the door with, but in vain. He tried ramming the door with his body, and slashed his sword against the metallic edge, but the door didn't even budge.
" This is no good, we'll never get out at this rate" he said in an annoyed sigh as he turned towards Anna.
He found himself talking to a wall, for Anna was gone. Kratos really started to lose his patience.
" Miss Anna, as I have told you, this is no time for silly games…"
…no answer
" Miss Anna?" Kratos growled
…still no answer
Kratos let out an irritated sigh.
"Just my luck…JUST MY LUCK" he hissed under his breath as he started running back the small corridors to find her. Why did he rescue her in the first place? Bad question to be thinking about now…how much he would love it, he couldn't just leave her behind…he had to finish what he started…
His heart was throbbing in his throat as more empty rooms passed him by. His anger turned into frustration as he desperately called out her name.
"Anna! Can you hear me?"
"An---"
He stopped as he saw her standing near a wall, her hand reaching out for something.
It took a while before his normally fast-working brain had overseen the entire situation. His eyes widened as he realised what was going to happen next…
" DON'T! That's---"….
…A howling alarm echoed through the empty room…
"…the security system" he finished with a sweatdrop.
Anna looked at him with a guilty look on her face.
" I'm sorry! I-I didn't mean to --"Kratos bluntly cut her off
"Never mind…." He said in a sigh
"Well excuse me for living, but you didn't really bother to stop me either..."
Kratos' calamity was torn by that last comment.
" STOP YOU? You where the one who started wandering off!"
"You should have just paid more attention then! Why did you save me in the first place?"
" You'd better be grateful, you owe me your life!"
WHACK!
Kratos rubbed his cheek, while glaring at Anna
" I told you to stop tha--"
WHACK!
"Don't you yell at me!" Anna snarled
"You don't have the power to tell me who I can yell at!" Kratos growled back
They didn't seem to notice that someone had entered the room in the process…
"Ignoring orders I can understand, but now you even betray Lord Yggdrasill? Mr. Aurion has sank even deeper down than I had expected" a calm voice said.
Kratos and Anna looked up to see a tall blonde man in a blue uniform, he was holding some sort of staff, his eyes were closed…
"Kvar…I thought I'd smell Desian scum, but I never expected YOU to be here…" Kratos scoffed back.
"Surprised? Well…that doesn't matter…What matters is that you have been in contact with host body F0012 -Anna- , and stole research data from the Angelus Project. Crimes such as these need to be punished.."
the man had hardly finished his sentence or Desian guards had come running into the room, surrounding them.
"I've no need for traitors.." Kvar started. " Bring me the girl, keep him secured"
Two of the guards roughly grabbed Anna by the arms as she was led towards the man in the uniform.
"Kvar! If you touch her I swear I'll make you dig your own grave!" Kratos fell silent as the edge of a razor-sharp blade was pressed against his throat.
The man smiled, as he grabbed Anna by the chin.
"Such a waste really, to spill something beautiful like this only to be a test subject...Wouldn't you agree Kratos?" he said as he forced her head into Kratos' direction.
"Kratos…" she whispered desperately
"Still, why would you even bother to save an inferior being like her? Give me one good reason why I shouldn't just kill her here and now." Kvar said calmly as he pushed her to the ground, twisting her arm in the wrong direction.
Anna cried out, tears rolling down her face as she tried to remove the hand that was forcing her down.
"Kvar, you bastard!" Kratos yelled, anger boiling up inside of him.
"Oh, don't you worry Kratos…I won't kill her just yet, I need her for the Angelus project." He said as he released her, and slowly walked towards the auburn-haired man.
"Sadly, I have no need for you"
Kvar smoothly drew a knife, stabbing it into Kratos' belly.
Kratos gasped for air as he fell down to his knees, the guards released him. His hand reaching toward his mouth as he coughed up blood.
Kvar smirked. "I'm sorry Kratos, but I'm afraid I can't help you out of your misery. I need orders from Lord Yggdrasill to go any further"
Kratos looked up at the man with pity.
"Heh…" he said as he spat blood at Kvar's feet.
"YOU UNGRATEFUL DOG!" Kvar yelled as he punched Kratos back to the ground.
Kratos tried to collect himself after the fall but his muscles wouldn't give in to it. Black spots flashed before his eyes….
There was a faint sound before he completely blanked out…
…"First Aid"…
Woohoo!Fifth chapter is finallyup after...a lot of days! )
Sorry it took so long, I swear I'll have the sixth chapter up befgore the weekend, that's a sworn oath!
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