Chapter 6 – Endless Fields

I quickly ran upstairs. Bodies littered the hallway that branched out to the different rooms the Sanctuary had. I checked my room. It was totally destroyed. Heck, it wasn't even there! Fakir, in his fury, blasted it to oblivion. Still carrying the machine gun in my hand, I hid it behind my back and opened Nadine's door. There she lay, bloody, but still breathing, on her bed. I ran towards her and looked at her sleeping face.

I wiped the blood out of her cheeks. Then, I took out my rosary and prayed. For what seemed like an hour, I prayed to God, asking Him to heal her, as my healing magic was apparently not enough.

An angel in white descended and touched her forehead. The angel looked at me through sapphire eyes; a message from God. My tale had begun to unfold. The blasphemous hypocrite, Fakir, had to be sent down to Hell by God's command, for the fate of the world.

I nodded in agreement, as Nadine opened her eyes. She quickly gripped my shirt, struggling for air. Then a rose fell from my pocket to the floor. I picked it up. It was the bloody rose turned black, as a result of dried blood. I showed it to her and she took it, and gripped it as tight as she could.

"Re…" She softly said, gripping the rose, wounding herself with its thorns. "What's going on?"

"I'll explain later. Right now, we have to get out of here."

I took her hand and helped her get up. Just then, another gunshot blasted part of her room. She screamed in terror, not even knowing what was going on.

I walked over to the exposed part, took the gun, then—"

"Re!"

"What?" I hastily replied. It was obviously about the gun.

"Why do you have a gun?"

"I took it from one of the people destroying the Sanctuary. It's necessary to survive! What? You want us to bonk them with sticks, while preaching the word of God? Well here's the thing: That doesn't work."

She thought for a while, then finally considered it. She stood up and went closer to me.

I, on the other hand, aimed at that damn Kaizel. His black suit was an eyestrain to find in this darkness. Just then, he fired straight at me. It was so quick, I couldn't react fast enough. Nadine though, created a barrier around me. Protecting me. Seeing this, Kaizel rode this motor cycle and drove away.

"We have to go! Jump!" I exclaimed.

"Jump?"

No time to explain as I always did. I took her in my arms and jumped down. Without even willing it, angels took us and brought us down gently on the ground. God was on our side, not theirs. Not even five steps and I saw yet another motorcycle. Fakir's.

I quickly ran towards it, and called out to Nadine. Without hesitating, she rode behind me, and held on to me. I ignited the engine and we started moving.

One thing remained in my head though: Where the hell did Fakir go?

"Hey, do you have any idea where Fakir is?" I asked.

"Who the hell is Fakir?"

"You….you don't know who Fakir is?" I asked awkwardly. She really didn't know him….or at least notice him.

She just looked at me with the weirdest expression ever, saying, "He some rapist or something?"

"No…no…forget it."

"Oh my God! Did he rape me or something!"

My eyes widened. I slowly turned my head and looked at her awkwardly. "I honestly don't know."

Suddenly, Nadine screamed, "RE!"

I quickly turned around to see Kaizel in front of us. We were now entering the forest. He slowly went to the right, hiding behind the many trees.

"He's…gone."

"I'm not so sure about that…"

And sure enough, he emerged beside us, his gun pointed at my head. I stopped the motorcycle as he pulled the trigger. The bullet went off into the distance, missing me entirely. I decided to turn the other way.

Now, we were driving to the south. Kaizel was quickly catching up, professionally maneuvering through the trees, whilst shooting at us. It was getting harder and harder to dodge the bullets. I hastily turned right, heading towards Geffen.

Kaizel was catching up. I had to do something. He aimed his gun at Nadine, she would surely die if it hit her.

I had no choice. I turned the motorcycle sideways, and shot him with the machine gun. It hit several parts of his body; his chest, shoulders, stomach…he was now bleeding heavily. I never had experience with a gun, and so never knew how to keep the gun steady.

He screamed in pain as we drove off towards Geffen: The Arcane City. Hopefully, that would be the last we'd see of Kaizel. But somehow, I doubted it.

We were far from safe. Geffen was miles away, and the gun had just run out of ammo.

A good thing though, we had just exited the forest, and were now entering the region of Geffen. I drove faster. The cool, night breeze was rocking me to sleep, but I had to stay awake. Nadine, though, was leaning on my back, so comfortably.

"Hold on a bit more. We're almost there." I whispered to her.

Note: Did it seem a bit...rushed?