A/N- major editing… This editing is hard work! Enjoy
Chapter Two: The Factory
"Okay! What the hell's going on? There's no way any of this can possibly happen!" Alathia snapped at the sky.
"I know. We aren't even sure about how that story started writing itself. And none of this makes sense! How are they real? And why are they after us?" Alexia exhaled almost monotonously.
"I don't care about that gay ass story! What about those silver haired dudes coming to life and… They're after us!"
Then Alexia remembered! The story was in the bag! As quickly as possible, Alexia flipped it to the gravel pavement, stirring up dust, and pried the notebook out from its depths. Alathia gasped, eyes wide with horror.
"You brought that thing?"
…now she cared about it…
Alexia nodded, shaking a little as she opened the cover. No sooner did the cover come back, did the writing start appearing again. They both froze, afraid of what it might say, but dared to read on.
Their eyes widened even more as Alathia and Alexia read the silvery red ink one last time.
"The men ransacked the quiet little home, before realizing the front door was unlocked, and the young women were no where to be found. Kadaj pouted as he blew the doorknob right off. Sniffing the night air, he followed two pairs of footsteps down through the wet grass. 'They ran this way. It won't be long now' the young man sneered as he made his way down the sidewalk."
Alathia and Alexia blinked and looked at each other in horror. How could this be happening?
They scrambled off their bums and searched for an open or unlocked door on the factory side. Soot already coated their sweat and water drenched faces Finally, around back, a door was left wide open to keep the place cool. Alathia and Alexia dashed inside and locked the dead bolts. They turned around to meet a small, dark forest of assembly line machinery.
This was a shirt factory. Long abandoned, only a few sheets of cloth were left behind.
"We have to hide…" Alathia whispered while panting.
"Maybe we should split up. That way if they catch one of us, they still have to find the other." She explained, almost calmly.
Alexia nodded, and hid her backpack in a small cabinet near the rear door.
"Stay out from in front of windows, where they can see you. And try to stay out of any and all light" Alexia warned.
"And don't go to the center of the factory, they'll be expecting that" Alathia said sprinting away from Alexia. "Good luck".
Alexia slid along a wall until she met up with a window around the back. She heard leaves and sticks snapping and crunching as the men neared the window. With some random burst of courage, she ignored her own advice and peeked out the side of a dusty, almost black, window.
"I've melted the two side doors, as you saw. I'll go inside and look for them, you two guard the front and back doors. They'll be trapped. No way to go, but with us. Sephiroth will be over-joyed to see us return so quickly," sneered Kadaj, the youngest brother.
Alexia leaned towards the window to get a better look at the men. Yazoo flicked his hair out of his face, only for it to fall down his back. She took notice to their beautiful eyes. They were glowing an eerie green as they scanned the surrounding trees and bramble. Alexia panicked when she noticed Kadaj walking towards the window, and slammed herself against the wall, sliding down to the floor idly. Alexia began to crawl away when she heard his gruff voice at the window, and froze with fear.
"Loz, guard the front, Yazoo, guard the back, after I enter. This shouldn't take long." He smiled sweetly to his older brothers.
Alexia crawled away quickly. This was going to be difficult getting out. She'd have to escape through a side window, where the men wouldn't be looking. But when, and how would she do it? Alexia found herself crawling into an office, and hiding under the desk as she heard the back door to the factory being ripped from its hinges and clang across the floor. They'd blown it clear off!
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Alathia managed to sprint all the way to the front of the building, and caught a glimpse of the three graceful men striding around the dumpster and straight towards the building. They stood at the door, near her window and examined it.
Alathia closed her eyes for a moment; maybe to make it all go away. When she opened them, and realized they wouldn't disappear, a small tear made its way down her slender cheek and cleared away a trail of soot. Alathia ducked for a moment as Kadaj slid past the window. She took a long look at him as they made their way to the side of the building.
Suddenly, the boy turned around and stared through the window, almost seeing her. Alathia noticed how handsome he really was. The young man was very slender, with light features. His silver hair blew softly to his sides as a gentle breeze caressed his smooth face. The pupils of his glowing cay eyes narrowed as he smirked and led his brothers around the side.
Alathia scrambled to her feet and ran towards the opposite side door. The frantic girl backed away only when she noticed it was smoldering around the edges.
They'd melted the door shut; she'd have to find another way out.
Alathia gasped when she heard the blast of the back door being blown away, and immediately got on all fours. Crawling out of the small hallway to the door, she noticed an office room off to the right.
Alathia dared not stand, but crawled to the cracked door; dirt and dust fluttered about threatening to make the girl sneeze. To her relief, she saw Alexia removing a window. Alexia turned around and smiled as she quietly placed the window below the desk.
They hugged and scrambled out the window running in the shadows, down the street.
A/N2- thank you all for reading and putting up with this crappiness. And thanks for the reviews. I always did like reading them :D