Ok, so here's the next chapter. It's super long, so I decided to make it into a two parter. Enjoy!
Warning: Blood/violence
I turn the gun around in my hands, then insert the bullets and shoot at some rocks to get the feel of it. Mal kicks me. "Jay, don't waste the bullets. We'll need them." I stop shooting stuff and put the gun in my pocket.
We split apart at Pain Alley, Mal going to her castle and me going to meet Carlos. I arrive at Hell Hall, stealing a few things along the way, and Carlos is waiting for me outside the entrance.
"Yo Carlos, look what I got." I show him the gun, a lucky find off the goblin ships that Mal and I had to fight at least ten other people to get it.
He looks at it in awe. "That's gonna give us a real edge against Uma tomorrow." We're planning to attack Uma at midnight tomorrow. Right now it's about eight, and already super dark. We make our way down a couple of streets, Carlos hunts for some more machine parts while I steal even more stuff for Dad. I've just come out of a shady alley when Carlos calls my name urgently.
"What?!"
"Mal and Evie have been captured by Uma's crew!" he answers, waving a note from the pirates. "They're seriously injured and Uma's crew are planning to kill them."
"Shit!"
"I know. What are we going to do?"
Then it hits me. "Carlos, we have to fight the pirates. Tonight, so we can rescue them in time."
"But Jay, it's only the two of us against all of them-"
"But we have a gun." I answer. And on sudden inspiration, I add "And I think I know where we can get another one."
"Where? They're so hard to find."
"Your mom has one doesn't she?" I ask, proud of myself to have remembered that.
"Oh yeah!"
I give him a brain duster for fun. "Let's go steal it from her!
"Oooh, I don't know Jay. What if we get caught?"
" We won't." I answer, running to Hell Hall.
"Fine, ok."
Carlos slowly opens the door and we tiptoe into the crumbling living room. "Where is she?" I whisper.
"In her bedroom, asleep." Carlos answers.
"Asleep asleep or drunk asleep?"
"Drunk asleep."
"Good. Then nothing will wake her up. Where does she keep the gun?" I ask.
"On her bedside table."
We make our way into the bedroom, holding our breath. Cruella is asleep on her bed with a couple of empty bottles on the floor. In the gloom I can see the gun on the bedside table, gleaming from the shiny metal. I grab it and shove it in my pocket. We tiptoe out and back into the living room when my ears pick up a noise. I stop Carlos, who hasn't heard because I'm used to listening carefully when I steal.
"What was that?" I ask. Carlos looks scared.
I hear a thump. "CARLOS! GET OVER HERE YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING PUPPY!" Cruella screeches, slurring a bit.
"Fuck!" I scream and we leg it out of Hell Hall. We don't stop until we're almost at Ursula's fish n chips.
"Here we go,'' I say, and toss Carlos the gun. He practices on some rocks like I did and then we walk in. Strangely, Uma and the crew are nowhere to be seen. We go round to the big junkyard at the back and look around, back to back. It's eerily silent.
Then, suddenly, I hear a bang and the world explodes. The pirates are everywhere, there's too many to count, and I don't even think, I just start shooting everywhere. I hit a few, but more come. I dive roll to avoid a sword, and come back up in a fluid motion, shooting a pirate in front of me without hesitation. I keep running, shooting, ducking, over and over again, hardly noticing the sweat streaming down my back. I flick my hair out of my face and carry on. A bullet grazes my leg, leaving a shallow cut. They must have guns too. I don't stop.
"Jay!" I hear a shout. I turn around until I see Carlos hidden behind a bin. "Jay, come over here!" I run flat out towards the bin. Only when I arrive and crouch down, I notice how out of breath I am, "Jay, you gotta calm down. You almost got shot so many times, you can't just run like a maniac!"
"Shut up Carlos. While you've been hiding, I've been HELPING so we can get Mal and Evie out." I argue, pissed at him for telling me to calm down.
"I know, Jay. I've been shooting too. It's just that I don't want you to get hurt."
"I'll be fine, Carlos. Stop freaking out," I say, and then get up and run back out onto the battlefield. I carry on shooting in every direction, until a flash of turquoise turns my head. Uma.
I sprint towards her, shooting at her, but she sees me and dodges. She's holding a sword and she has a gun too, but I kick it out her hand. She punches in the stomach and I try to shoot her again, but she shoves me and the bullet goes into the ground. She holds her sword at my neck and I stand still. "Ya wanna know where Mal and Evie are?" she hisses.
"Duh. Tell me where they are otherwise I'll kill all of your pirates!" I growl back.
"You're never going to manage that. But I'll show you them, just for fun." she signals to some pirates who are on the roof of the fish n chip shop. The pirates duck down and they appear again, holding Mal and Evie tied up. Evie seems okay, a bit beaten up, but she's wriggling like mad and they have a hard time keeping a hold of her. But Mal isn't moving at all.
"What did you do to her?" I demand.
"Oh, nothing much. We might have broken a few ribs, maybe stabbed her a bit…" I don't get to hear what else they did to her because I punch Uma so hard she falls into a bin. Then I shoot into the bin and hear a screech. I look up to Mal and Evie, and my blood boils.
Sorry for ending on a cliffhanger! Part 2 will be up soon. Until then, unicornyay x