When we arrived at the barn, I made Lyn and Lu go into the barn, and keep the stuff safe. Not many people had been near the barn -all the cars had already been abandoned, probably because the houses are all close enough to walk to- but I didn't want to take any chances. I grabbed as many leads as I could, and went out to the farthest paddock, on the left, where four horses were standing, grazing unconcerned. I approached them, and clipped the leadropes on the first two -a 17hh red chesnut mare, Class Act, a.k.a Abby, if I remember correctly, and Encore, 16.2hh and between blood bay and red bay, which is dark brown-red body with darker points.- and started leading them to the barn.
I walked down the path again, and when I got to the barn, I put both of the horses on crossties. I went to the tack room and grabbed the grooming kits for these horses. "Groom them. Use this" I held up the respective curry combs, "then this," I held up the hard brushes, "and then these." I held up the soft brushes. I then went and picked up the hoof picks. "Don't use these anywhere, I'll pick their hooves when you guys are done, and show you how. Their feet are really sensitive, and you can hurt them if you don't do it properly. With brushing, you can't really mess up."
"Gee thanks Syrr. Nice to know the level of confidence you have in us." Lyn said sarcastically, picking up a curry comb and beginning to brush Abby in circles. Lu looked over and copied her older sister. I smiled and left them, with the extra lead ropes still over my shoulder.
"And next for Lance, Tyme and Lola." I walked towards the entrance of the barn, grabbing three apples on the way.
When I got back to the field I'd just been in, I called out, "Lance!" He lifted his dark bay head, with the little star in the center, near his forehead. He whinnied and approached when I showed him the apple. I opened the wooden gate and let him come to me. He took the apple when I offered it and I clipped his lead rope on, winding it around the fencing of the paddock, and walked over to Lola. She was a darker browny-bay colour at the front, and lighter and lighter until she became almost chestnut at her haunches.
"C'mere sweetie." I held out my hand to her, with one of the other apples. She approached slowly, and I stopped. She then came and took the apple. I clipped her lead rope on and led her over to Tyme. He lifted his dappled gray head and shook it. He turned away, deciding that we weren't too interesting.
I sighed and shook my head, walking over and clipping on his lead under his head. I lead them both back to where Lance was waiting and took the two leads in one hand, and used the other to lead Lance with the last apple. Tyme can get one when we get back to the barn.
"Come on Lance, follow the apple. You can have it if we can just get to the barn." I grimaced in pain as I twisted my anchle in a rut in the path. I looked over to the road and saw six forms in the distance. There were two bigger ones, obviously guys, and three that were mostly the same size, and one that was smaller. I kept leading the horses to the barn, but I looked back every so often. When they got parallel with the REC (Royale Equestrian Center) property I could see them better. What I saw made me grin.
Tynk, Ry, Elli, Rhea, Ty, Cam... but where's Letta?
I hurried to the barn and when I realized that there were no more spare stalls I walked them right through the barn, and clipped them on the fence outside, right near some choice grass.
"Is someone there Syrr?" Lu asked, her voice small.
I patted her curls and grinned. "There most definately are."
Lyn looked up and over Abby's back. She put the hard brush on her back. "Ry, Tynk, Elli, Letta, Rhea?" she asked.
"Not Letta." I looked away. "But I'm going to go greet them. You guys stay here and watch the horses, make sure that they behave."
I walked away again, towards the driveway. The group was already halfway down the driveway, opening the gate up. Elli closed it behind the others and jogged to catch up to them. They were all dragging suitcases and luggage. I grinned and waved. When they got closer I ran over, not wanting to run too far from my sisters.
"Let's talk in the barn, okay? I don't want to leave my sisters alone." they nodded and Ty gave me a wierd look. The metal buckle of one of the lead ropes hit me on the hip and I realized I still had three or four of them over my shoulder. "Post-Change chic," I twirled in a circle, "origional, eh?"
"Yes, that's one way to think of it." Ty muttered. Cam just rolled his eyes.
When we got into the barn I went and grabbed the grooming kits for Tyme, Lola and Lance. "Tynk, show Lu, Elli and Cam how to pick the hooves of a horse. You can tell them the brushing order too, but that's more straight forward." I turned to Ry, Ty, Lyn and Rhea. "Rhea, you must already know how, and Ry, I'm sure you do too. Why don't you go and groom either Lola, Lance or Tyme." Rhea, obviously, took Lance's kit, seeing as Lance was her horse, and Ry took Lola's kit. I went over to Abby.
"She has been brushed, but her hooves were not picked, so she's the perfect example. There'll be plenty of horses to practice on too." I tried picking up her hoof and when she didn't respond, I leaned on her a bit and forced it up. I held the tip of her hoof and proceeded to show them how. "Do you get it?" I asked, when I was finished, dropping her hoof.
"Yeah." Lyn and Ty both said.
"Good. Each of you do a hoof." They nodded and proceeded to do just that. When they were done Abby had three clean hooves. "Finish up with Abby please Lyn, and Ty, come with me. You get to groom Tyme."
I brought him over and got Ty to give Tyme an apple, thereby making them okay with each other. I left him to that and went to Tynk. "How's everyone doing?" I whispered.
"Pretty good. They need more practice, but I have a feeling that there's going to be plenty of time for that." I nodded.
"We should go and get the rest from the field, and assign horses to each person." I looked out to the field. There were twelve out in the field. "There are twenty-eight horses that we want to bring."
"But Tinkerbell is only a pony, she'll slow us down. And Tea Biscuit is just plain mean. Kari has a yearling. There are tons that aren't very reliable." she screwed her eyebrows together.
I grabbed her wrist and got her to walk beside me, so that we were going to the field. "But Kari's yearling is a male, yes?" I asked, keeping my eyes on the horses in the field.
"Yeah, so he'd be useful for breeding, with the mares that are all waaaaay older than him." she smiled. "You're going to be a great leader Syrr."
I chuckled darkly. "I guess we'll never know, will we?"
"What makes you say that?" she asked.
"Ty or Cam're going to want to play boss." I rolled my eyes.
"You never know Syrr, they may surprise you."
"Anyways, I don't want any part in leading this camp." I said.
"Uhuh. Well, It's not about you. It's about us." She gestured to the barn. "All of us."
I rolled my eyes and punched her lightly on the arm. "Why don't you be leader then?" I asked.
"Because 1) I don't want to 2) I'm kinda scared of Ty, and you're not really supposed to be scared of your subordinates." she grinned.
"True... go and get those far ones will you?"I smiled at her.
"Oh ya, I go for the far ones, and you get the ones right and close," I stepped in the mud and I sunk in to the tip of my riding boots, "and completely in the mud." she giggled.
"I gave you the better option. At least you don't have the possibility of getting stuck in the mud, with nothing to do but push yourself out of goodness-only-know-what."
She nodded. "I'll take Tea Biscuit, Hanna, Grace, Chester, Deke and Dreamer." she groaned. "Almost all moody horses. Especially Chester... but I guess we'll get him to like us eventually."
I grinned. "And I get Talisman, Salut, Harry, Daisy, Stormy and Sprinkles. Sprinkles can be mean too."
"Yeah, can is the operative word there." she waved. "See you on the other side!" she grabbed six lead ropes and set off. I grabbed two more lead ropes and started making my way slowly over to the horses. My boots kept getting stuck, and when i pulled them out there was a loud sucking noise.
Finally, I made it to Sprinkles. Sprinkles is a medium-large pony, a brown colour. 13.2hh, so only about three hands shorter than the other horses.
"Hey there Sprinkles. Come here girl, let me just hook you up to a lead rope. That's a good girl." I soothed, clipping her in. I whooped triumphantly, the hardest one was done. I squelched over to the fence and found a small spot, about a foot squared, that was firm, and I stood there, tying a light barn knot with the lead, so that i could pull it off quickly in case on an emergency.
I blew my brown hair out of my face and started moving towards Talisman. Talisman was grey mostly, with alot of white around his head. He was 16.2hh. He wasn't the most reliable horse, but i figure, Ry or Rhea can take care of him as one of their horses, seeing as they both have experience with horses. I clipped his lead rope on and he turned and tried to bite me. I hit his head away, not hurting but warning him.
"Hey! Don't bite me! I bite back!" I turned and moved over to Stormy, a red chestnut pony with darker legs. She was one of the horses I hoped to take care of, seeing as she was extremely loyal and she was as fast as a full grown horse.
"Hey sweetheart, how're you?" I smiled and stroked her neck lovingly. She nuzzled my hand affectionnately and whinnied a little. I clipped her lead rope in, and she followed easily, while I had to almost drag Talisman over to where I was keeping Sprinkles tied. I tied them in too and patted them all and turned again. "Don't move!" i called over my shoulder. Of course, I didn't get an answer, but I smiled anyways. I loved being with horses, and even the Change couldn't take that away from me.
"Salut!" I called. He lifted his white head, shaking his mane around. His lower half was dappled grey, while he was mostly white. "Do you want to come here and make this easier for me?" He stood where he was, obviously not getting it. "I guess not." I mumbled. When I got to him he gave me a horsey grin and I hugged him. "Big goof."
Ten minutes later, I had Harry - a brown horse with white socks- and Daisy - a light chestnut 15hh mare- with the other horses and me, walking back to the barn. I met up with Tynk at the place where we'd parted.
"Talisman is being such a brat-" I smacked his head away again, so that he wouldn't bite me, "today."
"So is Chester, but thats normal." she smiled.
"When we get back I'm going to talk to them about picking horses. I think I'll make it so that we each pick one, then another, then another, so that everyone gets at least one horse of their choice, and eventually they'll fall in love with them anyways, so it's all good." I kicked a rock away from me and stepped into the barn. "Coming through! And we need some groomers over here! There are twelve new horses and nine people here so we need to hurry ourselves up! But, before we do, I need to ask you guys something."
I made sure they were all listening. Ty was holding a brush over Tyme, seeming to have become best buds with him within the last half hour. The others were all standing near their respective horses as well.
I cleared my throat and then continued. "How do you guys feel about getting assigned three horses to look after, each?"
"That's cool." Ry smiled.
"Yay!" Lu exclaimed. "Can I have Abby?" she asked eagerly.
"Anybody else want Abby?" I looked around. "Then yes Lu, you can have Abby." She squealed and jumped up and down, hugging the mare and smiley hugely.
I looked over at Ty, who was on Lu's right. "Who do you want?" I asked.
"Is it okay if I have Tyme?" he asked. I looked around for any objections, and getting none, nodded and he smiled.
"Cam?" He was to the right of Ty.
"Well, I was hanging with Deke over here and he actually seems to like me, which I've been told, is a miracle. So, is it okay if I have him?" There were no objections.
"Perfect. Lyn?"
She looked down at the ground and blushed. "Encore?" she mumbled.
"Definately. Ry?" she was the closest to my left, standing with Hanna, -a black mare- having navigated towards her.
"This one?" she asked hopefully.
"Sure. And it's Hanna. Elli?"
"Delilah." she stroked the white mare lovingly.
I smiled at her. They were all already falling in love with their horses. "Tynk?"
"Lance. Duh."
"I object!" Rhea snapped. "He's my horse too!" she said indignantly.
"Well, you can still hang out with him and stuff, and just think, the three you get will be your horses and you'll fall in love with them, so can you just let her have him?" I tried to persuade her.
Rhea sighed. "Fine Tynk. You can have him."
"Thanks Rhea." she smiled.
"Good. Rhea, what horse do you want?" I asked.
"Ummmmm... I'll have... Grace." Rhea decided.
"Perfect, and nobody can object, because I'm the only one left to pick. I think I'll choose...Stormy." I looked around. I was about to open my mouth to tell Lu to choose again when Ry interrupted me.
"Why don't you pick another, because you'll be the last one to pick, other then Rhea." Ry said. Everyone else agreed so I smiled.
"Does anybody else want Harry?" Nobody did.
In the end the horses were assigned as follows:
Me: Stormy, Harry, Pearl (a dark blood bay mare) and Shadow (Kari's yearling, dark bay, just like his mommy)
Ry: Hanna, Grace(a black mare with white socks) and Daisy
Tynk: Lance, Mia(brown with giant white splotches) and Roo(16hh chestnut gelding)
Lu: Abby, Strawberry(grey mane and tail, white body with some brown on tail and legs) and Tinkerbell (an off pinky-dun white)
Lyn: Encore, Sprinkles and Wesley (dark bay, with a fairly large star, and lighter around the stomach)
Elli: Delilah, Chester(red chestnut gelding) and Salut
Rhea: Talisman, Monster Boy(a red bay) and Tea Biscuit(a normal brown pony)
Cam: Lola, Deke(a bay) and Dreamer(a dark chestnut, lighter the farther back you go)
Ty: Tyme, Zeus(a dapple grey) and Kari(dark bay)
"So, now that that's settled, we need to find a way to fit these suitcases on the horses without murdering them." I said. I looked around at the others, who were now standing with their horses either in stalls or near them, tied with the lead rope to the stall. I got my first really good look at the barn since I'd arrived here today. I'd grown so used to being in this barn when I came for lessons that I was comfortable with the wooden walls, and concrete flooring, the peeling paint, and the beaten up roads.
"Well, there are a bunch of saddle packs, that will probably fit most of the food and drinks in them, and we can transfer the personal belongings, and toiletries into the backpacks." Ry pointed to the tack room. "I saw the bags there when I was looking for some grooming kits."
"Really? I've never even seen them." Tynk frowned.
"Well, I went looking in some unmarked cabinets before I looked in the ones with the names on them." Ry blushed.
She's embarassed that she didn't think of looking at the labels first, but that mistake may have just saved our sorry asses.
"Perfect." I grinned. "Who wants to go and get them all? I'll get the cans and stuff out of the suitcases and help people organize their belongings."
"I'll go, since I know where they are." Ry said.
"I'll go as well, 'cuz I'm not a very good organizationer." Lu smiled.
I opened my mouth to tell her that 'organizationer' wasn't a word, and then thought, what's the point? There's not going to be any more school, which will probably start to bug me within weeks.
"Good, I think that's enough for that anyways." I got the suitcases together, and then got the backpacks together. "My backpacks, and Lu's and Lyn's are already filled with personal stuff, and toiletries, so they're fine, and they'll go on the horse we're riding." I picked them up and put them aside. I decided to sit down on the ground, figuring that my breeches were already completely dirty, and more dirt wouldn't hurt them. The others followed suit.
"So, do we just empty the bags and put our personal stuff behind us, and our food and drink supplies in front?" Ty asked. I nodded, and started with one of my suitcases.
Ry and Lu made about four trips, and brought us twenty seven good sized saddle bags. By then, we'd transferred most of our personal belongings, like clothes, glasses, and such, and our toiletries, to the backpacks. Everyone had about three backpacks each, and all were good sized ones too. I looked at our huge pile of food. There were some things that were going to expire sooner then others and I decided that we should probably have those on the top, so that we had the ones that lasted longer, for later on.
Two hours later, we had divvied up all the food and water so that every horse was carrying as much as they could. Mia had the most, because she was the strongest. The horses carrying the riders had less then the riderless ones too. I decided to ride Stormy this time, and went to work getting the others on their horses and giving them the basic riding instructions. Harry and Pearl were attatched on the right of Stormy, and then Shadow was on Stormy's left. The others had both their pack horses on their right. Shadow was only on my left because I wanted to make sure that he wasn't bullied or hurt by anything. He was still young and needed to be watched a little more closely.
"You know, this would be so much easier if we had a wagon." Elli muttered.
I giggled. "Would you like to make one?"
She stuck her tongue out at me and giggled back.
"I would, but there's definately not enough wood here." Ry said sarcastically.
Tynk snorted with me and Cam and Ty just rolled their eyes with a holier-then-thou attitude. Lu didn't get it, and Lyn was leaning close to Encore's neck, trying to explain it to her. We were all ready. But where will we go? I wondered. I looked up and saw that the sun was beginning to set. It was probably around six, give or take a few minutes. I looked to the left, and saw some shapes slowly approaching, and they looked armed. I'd made sure before that everyone had something that they could defend themselves with, until we could get to Wal-Mart and get some more useful equipment.
"Lets go, now. Trot on." I called back to them all. We rode in a loose formation of sorts, me in front with Ry and Tynk on either side, with Hanna and Lance's muzzles reaching Stormy's barrel, or mid-section. Elli was a horse-length behind Ry, and Lu was a horse-length behind me, and Lyn was a horse-length behind Tynk. Rhea was behind Lu and Ty and Cam were both riding a length behind her. So, we were in a formation that from the air would have looked like a messed up pentagon. I looked behind me, and saw that the people were still about a kilometer away, which was good. We were about 600 meters away from the barn now, and we had to leave Beau and Diego. They were too old to do anything. Strawberry was pretty old too, but not nearly as old as Beau and Diego.
Let's just hope that they can run away, or want to run away. We let them out in the field but... who knows? We may end up seeing them again, but with riders. I thought.
"We should get to Wal -Mart, or somewhere where we can rest, and assure our safety." I said to Ry and Tynk, keeping my eyes facing the front. I could hear Lu bouncing around a bit in her saddle, from the trotting, which I'd have to fix, but for now, was going to have to ignore. The others were doing pretty good for beginners. Some of the horses were pretty uncooperative when we were putting on their saddles, and then putting their saddle bags on. We weren't using the saddles right now, but eventually, we were going to switch horses when we rode, so we'd need a saddle that fit the horse.
"Syrr! Incoming!" Ty shouted from behind. I turned Stormy and thankfully Ry turned Hanna too, or we would've collided. I saw that the people had gotten alot closer, obviously they'd been running. There were two men, and two boys in their teens. They were about 200 meters from us, and coming fast. They both had makeshift weapons, and they weren't giving off the happy we're-here-to-help-protect-kids vibe. My face went hard, and my palms started to sweat cold. This is it then. This is when I see if I'm a sissy or if I'm able to protect my own. I pulled out the huge meat knife I'd taken from my kitchen, and then cover the other knife, so that they wouldn't see it until it was too late. I dismounted, since I'd only endanger my horses if I tried fighting on tehm, and gave the reins to Lyn, and so Ry. Ty and Cam gave their reins to Rhea. We weren't going to run, they'd only catch up to us later. We'd already decided that this is what we'd do in this situation, until we were sure we could get away for good.
They were now fifty feet away. "Hey bitch you can still surrender now, and we'll let you and yours off easy." one of them grinned. He was one of the older ones, and he had brown hair, flecked here and there with grey. The other older one looked really weak, and tired, and as if he was going to drop any second. He had blonde hair, that was almost white. The teens looked really psycho. One had black hair, greased over his face and falling to his neck, and his face was pale. The other was of middle eastern descent, with short cropped hair. They were both about 5'8'' ish.
Thank goodness Tynk'd thought to teach them the colours in german. Let's just hope that they remember.
"Ty, shwartz und weise. Cam, shwartz- braun. Ry und Tynk, long und shwartz," shit they don't know the german word for long yet! I just hope that the others wont get what I'm saying even though I'm not giving much away... "Me, gelb." I was basically telling Ty to get the one that had black and white hair, Cam to get the middle eastern one, with black-brown hair, Ry and Tynk to collaborate and get the teen with black hair, and me to get the adult with blonde hair, who llooks like he's going to die from exaustion soon. I'll be able to help Tynk and Ry soon then, I hope. I switched to french. "Est-ce que vous comprenez?" I asked. Let's hope that they do get what i said.
"Oui." they all answered. Perfect, at least that makes it a little easier.
"Oh, and to answer your.. offer, like hell, asswhole." I said to the salt-and-pepper one.
He shrugged and smiled a sick smile, "Have it your way then." They rushed us and the distance closed withing seconds. I ran towards the blonde one and he tried to smash at me with his baseball bat. "Jackass! That could've seriously injured me!" I snapped.
He just sneered and tried to sweep my feet out from under me. I jumped over the bat and thrusted with my knife, getting him right in the middle of his chest. He dropped to the ground, coughing blood, and the knife was ripped out of my grip. "Shit!" I swore. I looked down at the man and almost vomited at what i saw. His mouth was all bloody, and his chest looked almost ripped, which must have happened when the knife was wrenched out of my grasp. I swallowed it back and pried the knife free of the dead man. I closed his eyes with my fingers and hurried over to where Ry and Tynk were getting pretty beat up. This guy had a knife, and he looked as if he knew how to us had a long shallow scratch up he forearm, and Tynk had a small one near the edge of her mouth.
He jabbed at Ry with his left hand, and I ran and jabbed his right forearm with my knife, getting it in good and deep. It went right by the bone, probably nicking a bit on the way by. I pulled it out quickly, and moved out of reach as he swiped blindly with knife, howling in pain.
"Thanks Syrr." Ry panted. Tynk just nodded. I looked over and wasn't paying attention for a second, and felt a pain on my cheek. It felt hot, and when I looked up, I saw that the black haired guy had pulled himself together, and that my blood was now on his knife. I heard the low growling, yowling and barking coming from Jazz, Simba, Max and Spot. Obviously, they weren't taking too kindly to these not-so-kind strangers.
"Karma's a bitch!" he spat. Definately of the not-so-kind disposition.
"And Karma goes both ways jackass!" I snarled and jumped at him. Okay, maybe that wasn't very kind either.. but he started it! He moved backwards, not thinking about stabbing back, and I got him in the gut. I fell to the ground on top of him, and before getting up, I twisted my knife, making sure that he could not repair himself. I bit back bile and pulled out the knife, getting out of range.
"Make sure he doesn't suffer for long." I said to Ry and Tynk and hurried over to where Cam and Ty had both dispatched their opponents, with what looked like alot of difficulty. Ty had two cuts that were visible, and bleeding, but not too badly. Cam had a few more, but they were smaller, and now bleeding anymore. I heard a cry, and then it went silent. I checked all their pulses, and made sure that they weren't breathing anymore, and then dragged them all over to the side of one of the cars. I put it on the side that most people wouldn't go on, so that even though they'd smell it, they wouldn't have to see it.
Ty and Cam looked at my face and their eyes widened. "Is it bad?" I asked, worriedly. They could just nod their heads, which didn't make me feel any better. I felt my face and realized that i was bleeding a fair bit. The cut was from the edge of my mouth on the right side, to the side of my right eye. I had about a centimeter from the edge of my mouth to the cut, and the cut was about a centimeter from the edge of my eye as well. "I'm really lucky, aren't I?" I asked.
"Yes. Yes you are." Ry stated, looking at my face. "We need to get to Wal-Mart soon, so we can get you fixed up Syrr."
"Okay. It's almost dark too." I climbed onto Stormy, and waited until the others had too, and then called back, "Trot on!" to the rest of them.
We got to Wal-Mart when it was almost dark, giving us jst enough light to find the entrance. We had to go in single file, which meant that we had to unclip the horses from each other and lead them in seperately. I was anxious of doing that, but at least noboody would go looking for us in the middle of a store. We went to the camping equipment place, where we grabbed some small tents and some compact yet warm sleeping bags. Then we went to the medical place, where we stocked up on medicines, and bandages, and polysporin, and other useful things.
"Time to fix you up, before I can't see anymore." Ry said, making me sit down. She cleaned out the cut, and winced when she saw it. "At least it isn't deep enought to need stitches, because that would hurt like hell. It's just barely out of stitch deepness though. It's not hanging open though, so that's a good sign." she smiled. I tried my hardest not to say 'I know what are good signs and bad signs, we did take that medical course together' because 1) that would be unneeded 2) it's not as if I could do it myself and 3) she was just trying to reassure me.
"I really dont know how I'm supposed to get a bandage around that though, so I'm going to put some polysporin on it and put a long gauze pad on it, and then tape it with medical tape to your face. It's going to look wierd, but it'll help it heal faster." she smiled.
"Thanks Ry." I looked over to where Lu and Lyn were sitting anxiously, watching. "I'm okay you two. No dying for us today." they perked up a bit after that. Rhea and Tynk were brushing down their horses, and so were Cam and Ty. "Why don't you guys go groom your horses?" I asked, smiling, and wincing. I'm not going to be a pretty smiler anymore. I sighed. They got up and did as I asked, smiling once they got to their horses.
"This is going to get really old, you know?" I said. "The bandaging, the worry. We need more people. People who can help us defend our family." before she could say we weren't actually related I interupted her. "We're a family now Ry, in the closest way other than blood. Horrible things bring people together." I stated.
"Yeah, I guess they do." she agreed and her hands dropped from my face. "There. All done."
I got up and went to the mirror, which I could still sort of see. There was just enough light filtering in to make my face out. It looked pretty bad, even without any blood anymore. The bandage was covering almost my whole right half of my face. It made me look... broken? No. Fragile? Maybe. I shook those thoughts from my mind and went over to the others.
We decided to get some knives as well, and the like, from the hunting section, while Ty, Rhea, Tynk, Lu and Lyn stayed with the horses, and the dogs and cat. They were all bristling visibly.
I broke the glass of the gun cabinet, and proceeded to lod the gun, put the safety on, walk far enough away so I would hit anything important, and took off the safety. I pulled the trigger and there was a clicking noise, but no loud noise, nothing getting hit.
"What the...?" Elli breathed.
I reloaded the gun and pulled the trigger. It didn't shoot again. "What the hell?" I tried again, and it didn't work. Then it dawned on me. "The guns don't work either... that means... we're living in the same way that they probably lived in the thirteenth century..."
"This sucks." Elli stated.
I snorted. "We can't use guns on them, but they can't use guns on us." I turned, squinting now, to make out the form of a bow, and arrows to go with it, in a glass case. There looked like there were others in cases below as well. "But there are bows..." I whispered, and broke the glass as well, grabbing all the cases. There were tons of arrows, and there was even an advertisement for a make your own arrows quide on the inside of the pacage.
"Jackpot." I grinned. "We can check them out in the morning."
So, I hope you guys liked this chapter, and I know it was really long and stuff but I can never find a good spot to stop the chapter anymore, because the clifhangers aren't coming very easily anymore XD Please review!