The Magnificent Seven
Part Four
We're almost done with the dark stuff...well this is doom so most of it is dark...Right ;)?
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Jess slumped into Zach's arms. Everyting went in slow motion. Jaimes' screams Josh, Jay and Skott jumping at the three gunman. Zach heared the shots and saw his brother and the one with the mask still on hit the ground. He watched as his three bestfriends turn from boys to men before his eyes. Their anger had given them the strength and the valor to be the victors of the stuggles. French was on his knees with a shotgun to his forehead.
"I'm going to kill you for what you've done."
Glen just laughed.
"Killing me won't solve anything. This genissed is happening all over the country. We will have a strong nation when it is our turn to rule. Death doesn't scare me Josh! I have done my duty."
"Enough!"
Jamie had picked up a pistol off the desk.
"Kill
em."
The girl had no emotion in her voice. She too had change. Jess had quickly became her bestfriend and her role modle throughout all the odds their bond had become stronge over a short time. All four of them pulled the trigger. Pieces of their former friend splattered their faces and clothes. None of them fliched or had a shadow of a doubt when they fired their wepeons. Josh was the first to move. He wiped the blood from his eyes and than turned his attetion to his former love. Zach held her tightly as her body began to be racked with seizers. A call over the walkie-talkie was the only noise to be heard.
"Boss, level two cleared. Return to post?"
Still in his rage Jay went and pick up the deivce.
"There's a new boss now. Come and find us bitch."
Jamie looked up in horror. Her mind had cleared and was calmer than before.
"We're not heros Jay! We're not soilders or cops, we're not ready to take these guys on!"
"LOOK AT HER JAMIE!"
Jamie was taken aback. Josh had never yelled at her before. Her eyes began to burn with tears.
"LOOK AT JESS! SHE'S DIEING BECAUSE OF THESE FUCKERS! WHAT ABOUT CHRIS? HE DIED PROTECTING US!"
Skott went to Jamie and wrapped his arms around her. She had started to cry. Josh wasn't even looking at her while he yelled at her. He was busy trying to get the bleeding from Jess's chest to stop. It wasn't until he heard her shaky voice that he felt bad about his outbrust.
" Josh...I can't do this. Please don't ask me to."
He didn't even turn to her. His mind was still clouded with the anger and hatered for these men if you could even call them that.
"I wouldn't ask you. Your not coming with us."
"What?"
"Your going to get your ass back in that crawl space and not look back. Get out. Someone has too."
"I won't leave you!"
"I can't lose you to."
"But Josh..."
She went and touched his shoulder. She felt him flinch to the touch, but he didn't move. That touch melted his heart and he couldn't turn around and see the pained look on her face. Finally he reached up and grabbed her hand.
"I'm sorry..." he wispered to her.
"It's ok."
"We dont' have time for this...Their on there way."
Jess had taken her last breath, but Zach had been holding tightly to her.
"Zach we have to leave her."
"I can't leave here her!"
"Now Zach, get your fat ass off the floor."
Zach got up and laid Jess down. He closed her eyes and kissed her forhead.
"I'll come back for you."
"Now Zach!"
"I'm comin'!"
He grabbed a gun and headed out the door. They had all paintballed for many years on a team together, also air soft gun wars were a favorite pass time, so their aim wasn't that bad. Besides they lived in eastern Oregon, which ment losts of hunting. They head down the hall until Jay put a fist into the air and hit one knee. The rest followed suit. Josh looked at Jamie and did the eyes on me signal. She nodded. She wished Jess was here. She had always been Josh's sideman. She was one of the best aims of all of them. Jay lend around the corner and saw two of the gunman running towards them checking every room. He held up two fingers and than waved Josh to him. Josh quickly came and knelt by him.
"On three Dean, 1,2..."
Jay popped up and took the one on the right and Josh was a few seconds later, but soon the other man hit the floor. Josh turned and look at Jay.
"You said on three!"
"We always go on two even when we say three!"
"I didn't think we would this time!"
Zach was standing behind a piller he heard voices and quickly opened up gunfire. He was close range which was good, because he was the only one that could really aim. He doged around the piller again and than appered on the other side. Jaime was standing next to him. Tears were streaming down her face, but she hit her targets right on. Skott was on the other side of the hall shooting into a classroom futher down the hall. Josh was about to fire at a figure coming towards him, but stopped short of shootinc an officer. That's why they hadn't been rushed. The cops must have been in the building for sometime.
"Your Jay Mossman right?"
"Yes sir."
These kids he was looking at seemed like hardend warriors. They were covered in blood and carring guns. He noticed that there were seven of the masked gunman on the floor. These kids had taken out half of the army that had taken over the school.
"Let's get you out of here. Any of you hit?"
Jamie pointed to Josh. He shrugged and looked at the officer.
"I'm fine. I just got knicked."
"We'll we need to get you patched up then."
They started to walk out, but Zach turned back to the room that had formed them into the people they were to become. He couldn't bear the tought of Jess laying in that room with the person that killed her in cold blood. He pause a moment before entering. He didn't want anyone else carring her body out of that building. He knew Jess's mom would be outside awaiting the fate of them all. Zach walked in and a lifted her body into his arms.He could smell her hair. It always smelt good. All the warmth and color had left her, but she looked like an angle.Just like she had that night.
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Yup.