I hope you guys enjoy this. I know my other chapters may have been short, but this one is better. JUST READ! lol I'm weird, I know.
They were under attack. Piper, of course, knew the police would never be able to find their hide out. It was the West Side. They were a cold-hearted bunch of street boys with the occasional street girl. The West Side was notorious for their thefts. Unlike the Thief Lord's gang, the West Side would steal from their alliances and they would literally steal candy from an infant. The West Side did in fact come from the West side of London. The Thief Lord's "gang" came from the East Side of London, but they were anonymous thieves. The West Side is the gang of thugs that once took Lil' Jimmy away.
Piper was forgetting the attack and having the same flashback every time the West Side attacked. She could never bare the agony she had felt while listening to the faint whimpers of Lil' Jimmy's weak, childish voice while he dreamt about the time he was captured. Lil' jimmy always had nightmares after they had an ambush. Piper recollected her thoughts and sank deep within them…………
……….It was a crisp autumn morning. The air had had a faint scent of maple syrup from the gardens. The girl with the locks of gold had grabbed Lil' Jimmy. She had clasped her frigid hand against his mouth. He had tried to break free. Piper had tried to run to him and help him escape, but almost out of nowhere, Piper had gotten her foot clamped in Mr. Aradondo's thorn bush. She had tried to get her leg out of the tangle of thorny vines so thick, it was as if they were snakes coiling around her leg like food after a hard day of hunting. Her grip was too tight on the vine so she had made streaks of blood come pouring down her hand, onto the thorns of the bush. She had wiped the warm blood on her shirt and tried another vine. While she had tugged at the vine strapped around her leg, it had broken free from the bush, making the back of her head hit the wall of Mr. Aradondo's house. Something must have come crashing down because a few seconds after she had tugged loose the vine, she had a painful sensation and everything had faded away from her vision…………………
"Snap out of it Piper, we need you", bellowed the Thief Lord. He was in the hallway bombarding Gino, the leader's assistant with his slingshot. The leader of the West Side was probably off some where stealing from a shoe shop. The last time Piper had seen him, Maguelti, the leader of the West Side, Lil' Jimmy had set his military boots on fire. The boots was so porous it had looked like a sponge.
Gino was a brown haired boy in his teens. He had a hard face and a tattoo with the symbol of the West Side, an arrow, burnt into his flesh. He wasn't bad to look at and he had dark curls that reached his shoulders, but he is an enemy thought Piper, so he was supposed to be off-limits right?
Piper awoke from her brief flashback and took notice of the commotion. Marcellus was already shooting the boys with his almost antique slingshot. He only used it on the West Side. He had issues with them, yet no one in the group had the courage to say a word about it. Lil' jimmy was concealed beneath the old seats of the theater. He was shooting at them from an angle so they wouldn't be able to seize him and run. His sweat was forming small sweat bubbles across his forehead. As he smudged the bubbles with his sleeve Piper noticed that she didn't have her slingshot with her. She looked frantically around the theater and saw the rubber band of her slingshot hanging down from the wooden cupboard across the room. Marcellus and some of the West Side boys were shooting at each other. Marcellus was the only actually hitting something. Lil Jimmy was helping the Thief Lord with Gino. Piper needed to get to her slingshot and help her friends. Marcellus was being overwhelmed with a six on one battle and the Thief Lord and Lil Jimmy were facing the toughest opponent, Gino. The curly haired boy was hitting his opponents with speed. The team was losing and Piper needed to reach her slingshot to help.
Piper dropped down to the ground and crawled over to the couch by the window. Marcellus shot one of the boys in the stomach and the other one took revenge by shooting him back. The boy missed so it whizzed past Marcellus and smashed into the window behind Piper. Piper covered her eyes and tried to calm herself. She had a piece of glass stuck between her fingers. She tenderly pulled it out from her skin and watched as the hot blood leaked out of her hand and slowly as if in slow motion dripped down to the floor. The blood formed a small brownish dot on the red carpet. She couldn't just wait here. She had to keep going. Piper tore her sleeve on a sharp rock she kept in her pocket. She used the torn scrap of cloth to wrap her bleeding finger. It stung, but she did not want an infection. She crawled past the shards of broken glass. Piper was getting closer to her slingshot. She had started sweating from the exertion. She thought of getting to her slingshot and shooting a few boys in the belly button. She yearned for that sensation of freedom when she let the band of her slingshot go releasing the sharp rock the rubber string had held. She thought about Gino and how his mates would run from her killer shot as she crawled her way past the battle field. She slowly extended her hand toward the slingshot. She couldn't reach it and she couldn't stand either because chances are, even though Piper had her evasive manor, she would get hit with so many opponents.
Lil' Jimmy was about 10 feet away from her. She called to him.
" Lil' Jimmy"!
" Huh? PIPER WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON THE FLOOR" scolded Lil' Jimmy.
"I need my slingshot!"
Piper pointed her index finger at her slingshot. Lil' Jimmy saw the slingshot and carefully aimed his own at it. He let the rubber band of his slingshot go. The rock whizzed through the air at Piper's slingshot. He missed.
" Smooth" said Piper.
" Oh be quiet" said Lil' Jimmy. He respected Piper too much to say, "shut up".
He shot at the slingshot with a bigger rock. This time he hit it. The slingshot dropped to the floor.
"OK. Now help us! We need you in this Piper, no wonder we're losing" said Lil' Jimmy.
"Yeah I know you guys need me" chuckled Piper.
She crawled toward Lil Jimmy with her slingshot carefully tucked under her arm. Piper got behind the couch and looked around at the "battle field". She saw Marcellus overexerting himself with a blonde girl. It was the same blonde girl that had taken Lil Jimmy. Why isn't he shooting at her, wondered Piper?Marcellus was only evading the girls attacks. He could handle her, but he was being weird. The blonde girl was leaning in on Marcellus. Marcellus's face was flushed. Probably from battling so hard thought Piper, but inside she couldn't help feel something else. She didn't have time for this. Her team was losing and she needed to do something about it.
"What's up with him"? asked Piper.
" I dunno. He never backs down on his opponents!" said Lil' Jimmy.
" Well if he's not going to shoot her, I will." said Piper.
She aimed her slingshot and shot the girl in the back. She twirled around, almost whipping Marcellus with her long blonde braid. The girl tried to shoot back, but Piper was too quick for her. Lil Jimmy stood with his mouth agape at Piper's brilliant shooting. She almost never missed.
The Thief Lord signaled for the team to finish the West Side off. Piper was constantly shooting at the blonde girl. The Thief Lord and Lil' Jimmy handled Gino and a few other boys while Marcellus shot the other six or seven left behind. The West Side ran out of the theater with all the pride they could muster at the moment. Piper looked at the blonde girl's bruises with satisfaction, knowing that she was the one who made them, but she couldn't help stare at Marcellus and the blonde girl with jealous curiosity though. Before she could say anything Lil' Jimmy interrupted her.
" You guys wanna continue eating?" asked Lil' Jimmy to nobody in particular.
I hope you guys liked it and I hope you all review cuz that little button is only a little swerve of the mouse away! Even if you didn't like my "beloved chapter" lol , REVIEW PLEZ! BYE!