Chapter 10

Felicity kept looking back toward the Amazo to make sure they were not been followed. Felicity did not hear the sounds of gun fire anymore. "Is everyone okay? Did any of you get hit?" Felicity asked. She saw Oliver gave her a thumb's up, letting her know he was okay. Felicity looked down at Sarah not moving. Felicity leaned down, "Sarah?" Sarah did not answer. Felicity quickly looked Sarah over to make sure she was not hit by any bullets. Once she was satisfied that Sarah was not hit, she stood up and looked back toward the Amazo again. Even this far out, she could still see the fire burning on top of the deck. She could barley see some of the crew of Amazo rushing, trying to keep the fire under control. As she kept watching the Amazo get smaller, she could see the two smaller boats had already sunk underneath the water. She then looked around the boat and saw they were taken on water. "The boat took some hits..." She looked at Oliver. "Ollie, will she hold together till we reach the island?"

Oliver turned around and tried to get a good look at the boat. "Here, grab the wheel while I look her over." Oliver said. Felicity moved to the front and grabbed the wheel as Oliver let go. Oliver looked on the right side, "At least nine bullet holes, some not curial but some we are taking on water." Oliver looked on the other side, "Only about five on this side." Then he looked at the back of the boat. "Well, I got some good news and some bad news." Felicity turned and looked at Oliver. "The bad news, this boat is going to sink and the engine is not going to last too much longer. The good news is, I think we can make it to the island. And that is a big maybe. At least if it does stop, we will not have that far to swim."

Oliver moved back to the front and took control of the boat again. Felicity kept looking back toward the Amazo. She wanted to make sure that they did not have another boat and were not been followed. She knew their only chance to stay alive was to reach the island and find a place to hide out until she came up with a plan. She saw Sarah sitting on the side with her arms wrapped around her knees with her head down shaking. Felicity looked back toward the Amazo and still could see it was still on fire.

Felicity sat down beside Sarah and put her arm around her. She could feel Sarah's heartbeat and breathing was fast and heavy. "Sarah? Are you okay?" Felicity asked.

Sarah looked up at Felicity, "No. No, I'm not okay. I mean, I just spent over a month on a boat with a mad man, according to you, who had people locked in cages like animals and... And who just tried to kill us and god knows what else he has done." Sarah replied.

"Sorry, I know this is hard for you, but you need to slow your breathing and relax. If you do not, you're going to pass out on us." Felicity squeezed her hand on Sarah shoulder, "...I am just glad we found you and we got off that boat alive." Felicity said.

Sarah reached up and placed her hand on top of Felicity hand, "At least we are safe. Right?"

Felicity saw the look in Sarah's eyes and could tell she was scared. She wanted to tell her it is going to be okay. However, Felicity did not want to give false hope. "We might not be to long. Once they get that fire under control, they will come looking for us." Felicity said.

"You're right. He will come looking for us... and he will kill us or put us in that prison you saw." Sarah said.

"As long as we are alive, we got a fighting chance." Felicity said.

"You might, but me and Sarah. What chance do we have?" Oliver asked.

"Oliver Jonas Queen, shut up. As long as you two have breath, you got a fighting chance also." Felicity said snapping at Oliver.

"But Felicity, you can take care of yourself. The way you took those men out, it was like watching an action movie or something. That is something that I do not know how to do." Oliver said.

"Oliver, we got to believe, if you have doubt, then no, you will not make it. But we are going to try our best to stay alive. That is all we can do." Felicity said.

"You're right Felicity, I am going to fight." Sarah said.

Oliver looked back at Felicity and Sarah, "Me too. Felicity, you still need to tell me what is going on and where you learned how to do that."

"I will, but right now is not a good time." Felicity stood up and saw the Amazo and could not see any flames burning anymore. She still could see the black smoke rising in the air from the Amazo. "They got the fire out, but it will not be long now when they come looking for us." Felicity leaned over toward Oliver. "Oliver, we need to find a place to dock the boat out of sight."

Oliver just looked over at Felicity and said nothing at first. "There is something different about you. You're not rambling like you do a lot." Felicity could tell by the look in his eyes he was confused about her. She knew she would have to explain to Oliver one day, but not like this. She had to come up with something as soon as she got a chance. Wondering how Oliver will take it, explaining to Oliver, that she was sent to spy on his father. Felicity reached in her pocket and pulled the book out that Robert had given her. The book was still soaked from the water. As she opened the book, all she could see was blank pages. She would have thrown the book away, but she knew from her CIA training, not everything seems to be what it is. As she looked at the book, she wondered, could there be something written on these pages, but needed something to bring the ink out.

As Oliver drove the boat closer to the island, Felicity saw another boat from the Amazo was already at the island. "Oliver, take it around to the side, out of sight. We need to get out of sight fast as we can."

"Why?" Oliver asked.

"Ivo still have some of his men on the island here. I am sure they will be heading back to their boat to head toward the Amazo." Felicity responded.

"Look!" Sarah called out.

Felicity and Oliver looked and saw the smoke was dying down. Felicity knew they did not have long now. "Not going to be long now."

"But, we blew up their other boats." Oliver said.

"Yes, but once Ivo's men who are already on this island get back to the Amazo, Ivo will not waste a moment to come and look for us." Felicity said.

"Over there!" Sarah called out. Felicity saw Sarah pointing at some rocks and trees that was halfway in the water.

"That is perfect; we can hide the boat behind the rocks and climb on top and use the tree branches to keep hidden so we can keep an eye on the other boat." Felicity said.

"Once I turn this boat off, I do not think I will be able to start it back up. There is too much damage to the boat. We were lucky." Oliver drove the boat around to the side and had cut the engine. The boat slowly floated toward the bank and then landed the boat on the shore of the island behind the rocks and trees. Oliver grabbed the rope and secured the boat to a branch to keep the boat from floating away. Oliver stopped and looked at the rope and wondered why he did that for. The boat was going to sink here in a little.

"We got to hurry up, that fire there had only kept them busy for so long." said Felicity. Oliver looked over at Felicity, wondering who she was. "Let's go." Felicity hopped off the boat and had the gun raised and pointing in front of her, ready to fire. Felicity looked back at Oliver and Sarah, "Listen, once we see Ivo's men leave on the boat, I will go and make sure any of Ivo's men did not stay behind."

Oliver helped Sarah out of the boat on to the rocks. Sarah and Felicity reached down and helped Oliver up. Sarah grabbed Oliver and Felicity, "Hold it, I hear something."

Felicity stood there listening for a moment. She could hear movement in the trees and someone was yelling. Felicity grabbed Sarah and Oliver's hand and quickly pulling them down behind the flat surface of the rock behind the branches of a tree that was growing out sideways. Felicity slowly lifted her head to look over the rock and looked between the branches to watch. She saw three men came running out of the trees. Each one had what looked like a submachine gun. The men stood there looking at the Amazo.

"They're going to find..." Oliver started to whispered. Felicity quickly put her hand over Oliver mouth and raised her other finger to her lips letting Oliver know not to talk.

Oliver looked at Felicity and nodded his head, letting her know he understood.

Felicity removed her hand from Oliver's mouth and looked back at Sarah. She saw that she had both hands covering her mouth to keep from making any sound. Oliver moved closer to Sarah and held her close to him. Felicity noticed this seemed to help Sarah calm down a little. Felicity slowly lifted her head backed up and looked through the branches of the trees. She could see one of the men was looking toward their directions and saw him slowly walking toward them. Felicity raised the gun and pointed it toward the man. Felicity could not hear what they were saying, but she could tell they were arguing. The man had stopped and turned backed around and walked back toward the other two men. Then she saw the men pushing their boat into the water and jumped in fast as they could. With in minutes, Ivo's men were heading back to the Amazo. Felicity took a deep breath and rolled over on her back. "Okay, we can breathe now."

"Good, now you can tell me who are you and how and when did you learn to fight like that? You're Special Forces, right? I mean the way you took out some of those guys and how you handled and shot that gun. Also, why did my father give you that book for?" Oliver asked.

Felicity looked at Oliver. She wanted to tell Oliver the truth, but whether she told him the truth or a lie, now was not the time. "Oliver, I will explain everything, but not till we find a safe place to hide. They are on their way to the Amazo and as soon as they reach the boat, they are going to be here any moment."

"So, were you in the army?" Felicity turned and looked at Oliver. She knew Oliver was not going to let this go.

Oliver stood up and looked down at Felicity. "Oliver, get down. We do not know if there is anymore out there." Felicity said.

"No, we are safe now. You said you would tell me when it was safe. Right now, this is safe as we are going to get. How come you never told me you were in the military? I mean, that is the only way you could have...ARRRRGH" Oliver screamed in pain. Felicity and Sarah both looked in horror. Oliver looked and saw there was an arrow sticking out of his shoulder. Oliver grabbed his shoulder and fell backward into the water.

"OLIVER!" Felicity and Sarah yelled reaching out to Oliver as he fell backward. Felicity dropped the gun and quickly jumped in the water to grabbed Oliver. Felicity rolled Oliver on to his back to keep his face out of the water and pulled him to the rocks. Felicity was not sure if she saw what she thought she saw. Then she got a better look, Oliver was shot with an arrow. Sarah reached down and grabbed Oliver's arm and helped Felicity pulled Oliver up. As soon Oliver was on top of the rock, Felicity quickly climbed backed up and grabbed the gun and pointed it toward the direction where the arrow had came from.

"Sarah, stay down." Felicity said. Felicity could feel her body was shaking from the cold of the water. This was twice Felicity had jumped in the water. She knew she would have to get dry soon or she might end up getting a cold or worse. She could already feel her body aching and her feet tingling. "Sarah, how is he?"

"Oh my god! Oliver! He's been shot with an arrow." Sarah cried out.

"I know, is he alive?" Felicity asked.

Sarah placed her hand on top of Oliver chest. "Um, yeah, yeah, I see him breathing, but he passed out. Should I pull the arrow out?" Sarah asked.

Felicity looked down at Sarah, "No, leave it for now. We have no idea what kind of damage has been done." Felicity quickly looked back up pointing the gun toward the trees. She slowly moves the gun from side to side, trying to be ready to shoot whoever had shot the arrow. As she looked into the trees, she was not sure what she was looking at. "I think I see someone moving." said in a low voice.

"Then shoot them." Sarah said.

"I need to be sure, if I fire this gun and miss, they will be able to get a shot off and it will also let Ivo know where we are." Felicity squinted her eyes together, trying to see into the trees, trying to make out shapes. "How bad is he bleeding?"

"I don't see a lot of blood. I only see a little where the arrow came out." Sarah said.

"Good, that means he is not losing blood, unless he is bleeding inside." Felicity said.

Sarah looked at Oliver, wondering if he was going to die. Then she sat there and imagined herself getting killed or worse by Ivo men. "We got to move Felicity." Felicity looked back at Sarah looking at her leaning over Oliver. "Felicity, Oliver needs a doctor." Sarah said.

Felicity looked back up toward the tree lines, trying to see where the direction of the arrow came from and where the person might be hiding at. Felicity quickly glanced down at Sarah and then to Oliver. "I know, but if we move now, we are sitting ducks ready to be picked off one by one."

"Ivo's men are going to kill us, are they?" Sarah asked.

"I do not think it was one of Ivo men, they have guns. I never did notice any of them having a bow as a weapon. A knife, a machete or an axe, guns for sure. I do not think this is any of Ivo men." Felicity took a deep breath, "I am rambling again, am I?" Felicity leaned down beside Sarah, "Stay here. I am going to try to see if I can find this person." Felicity looked into Sarah eyes and saw her staring past her. Felicity could feel someone was standing behind her.

Sarah slowly raised her hands in the air as Felicity turned around. She saw a man was dressed in all dark green and black combat boots. He was wearing a hood that covered his face a little. Felicity barely could see his eyes under the hood. She could tell he had dark brown hair that was kind of long with a goatee. The man stood there dressed in what looked like combat army shirt or vest from a uniform with it sleeves ripped off. She also noticed that he was wearing what looked like cargo pants that were also dark green. Felicity could also see what look like home made arrows sticking out of his quiver sheath case. She saw it was the same kind of arrow that was sticking out of Oliver. The man in front of them was pointing one of the arrows that Felicity noticed. From the motion he was giving, he wanted Felicity to lay the gun down. Felicity slowly laid the gun on the ground in front of him. From the look of the man standing before them, Felicity was sure this man was not part of the Amazo crew.

"My name is Felicity, we need your help. Do you understand me?" Felicity asked.

"Are you out of your damn mind? He just shot Oliver and now it looks like he going to kill us." Sarah said.

"Gēn wǒ lái, rúguǒ nǐ xiǎng zhù" he said.

"I have no idea what he is saying." Sarah said.

"I do, he said, come with him if we want to live." Felicity replied.

Sarah looked at Felicity, "You understand him? Of course you do, like the damn terminator or something. Oh shit, you're not an android?"

"Sarah, you are starting to sound like Oliver." Felicity said.

"Shit, I am." Sarah looked at Felicity then back at the man. "How can you trust this guy?" Sarah turned her head back toward Felicity and saw she was looking at her.

"Wǒmen bìxū zhuājǐn shíjiān" the man yelled out. Felicity and Sarah looked back at the man. With his arrow still pointing at them, he motions them to grabbed Oliver.

"He said we must hurry." Felicity looked at Sarah. "Sarah, we have no choice. He is not part of Ivo's crew. You got to trust me on this. Grabbed one side of Oliver and help me carry him." said Felicity. Felicity saw the man with the arrow pointing at them kicked the gun over to the side in the water. The man pointed behind Felicity and Sarah. Felicity and Sarah looked and saw the boat was returning to the island.

"Zhèyàng yī lái, méiyǒu shíjiān" he said.

"Oh shit. Let's go Sarah." Felicity said.

"What did he just say?" Sarah asked.

"We got to move now, because we are out of time. Now help me with Oliver and move your ass." Felicity responded.

"Nàyàng." Felicity looked and saw him pointing toward an opening at the tree line. The man still had his bow with his arrow drawn back. He motion Felicity and Sarah to move.

The boat pulled up to the shore and Ivo jumped off the side of the boat into the water and walked up the beach. "SARAH! COME ON SARAH, I PROMISE I WILL NOT KILL YOU. I JUST WANT TO TALK." he yelled. Ivo narrowed his eyelids and scanned the cost line back and forth, trying to see if he could see any clue where Sarah and the rest were hiding. Ivo motioned his hand and five men climbed off and walked up beside Ivo. "SARAH!" Ivo screamed again. Ivo continue to look around. Then he stopped and noticed some rocks with a tree branches lying on top. Ivo pointed at the rocks. Two men moved slowly toward the rocks. As the two men reached the rock, they quickly jumped to the other side with their gun in the air, ready to fire.

"The boat is here, it took some damage. It is already starting to sink. And it looks like one of them is hurt. There is a little bit of blood trail leading toward the trees." one of the men called out.

Ivo and the other three men walked up to the rocks. Ivo climbed to the top and looked at the boat then the blood on the rock. "With all of this water still here and blood, it looks like someone fell into the water and got a cut or something." Ivo stared at the trees for a few minutes, thinking what his next move should be. He took a deep breath and put his hands on his hips. "Well now. I guess it is a good thing we are on an island with no escape." The men started to laugh a little. "I want you to find them. Alive, if it is possible. However, make sure Sarah comes back alive. While you are looking for them, look for the caves. Who knows, we might get lucky. Andrew, Mack, go east. Corwin, Kyle, go west. Ross, get on the radio and tell them to take a raft to the shore and bring 3 men. Then when they get here, I will get two of them take the boats back the Amazo and get more men to this island. Then you and one other one will be with me. We will follow the blood trail as far as we can. However, I have a feeling, it will lead to a dead-end."

A.R.G.U.S.

Waller stood there with her arms crossed, wearing her usual three-piece black suit with a white button up shirt. Waller looked at the large monitor that was in the center of the wall while listening on her headset. On each side of the wall, Waller could also see three smaller monitors. She paced herself back and forth, looking while watching the men and women controllers sitting at a smaller computer screens watching while typing. As she paced back and forth, she glanced at each monitor. Each monitor was showing a different mission that Argus agents were assigned.

"Agent Aycan, you have a go." Waller said. Waller turned and looked at another monitor on the wall. "Agent Wilson, recover the drive and return to base." Again Waller walked back and forth watching. As Waller looked, she stopped and leaned against the rail to take a closer look at one of the monitors, "Agent Sykes, watch your six." Waller covered the mic with her hand and leaned down to one of the controllers. "Tell Agent Harkness to get his ass to Sykes before he gets killed."

"Yes ma'am." she said.

"Ms. Waller, I think you better see this." Waller leaned up and walked over to the monitor station. "You asked me if I see anything at all, to let you know."

"Yes Agent Ginny?" Waller asked.

"As you can see, there was an explosion on the ship and right there, you can see two smaller explosions. However, there was one boat leaving the ship as this was happening. Satellite has picked up three heat signatures on the boat."

"Is our package one of them?" Waller asked.

Ginny looked at Waller then turned back toward the monitor and started to type on the keyboard. "That is confirmed. The package is on the boat."

Waller leaned over and stared at the screen. "Transfer this to my office. I also want the last 24 hours of satellite footage sent... and Ginny..." Ginny looked up at Waller. "Take a thirty-minute break." Ginny gave Waller a smile and stood up from her station. Waller leaned up and looked at Ginny.

"Yes ma'am." Ginny gave a slight smile and walked off.

Waller enters her office and sat down behind her desk. She reached under her desk and pushed a button. Waller could hear the sound of the door being secured and the windows going dark. "Well now, it looks like there is more than one person who is crashing Mr. Fyers party. Now let us see who we have." Waller pressed a few buttons on the keyboard. After a few minutes, she leaned in. Waller reached over and picked her phone up, "This is Waller; I need you to get me all the information about a ship called the AMAZO."

A HIDDEN CAVE ON LIAN YU

Oliver opened his eyes and saw he was in a cave. As he looked around the room, he saw Felicity and Sarah were sitting around a fire on the other side of the room. "Fe... koff, koff... Felicity?" Oliver said in a low voice. Oliver felt his throat was dry and was hard to talk. As Oliver leaned up, he remembers being shot with an arrow as the pain went through his arm and back. He heard someone walking into the cave. He looked over and saw a man walk in. Oliver started to cough a little as he tried to speak. "Who are you? What is going on? Felicity?" Oliver asked.

"You were shot by an arrow Oliver." Felicity said.

"Was it one of Ivo's men?" Oliver asked.

Felicity and Sarah looked over toward the man, "No, it was him." Sarah said.

Oliver looked at the man as he watched the man reach down and grabbed a bowl and something that had what looked like grass. "Who are you, why did you shoot me?"

"Bǎohù nǐ" he said.

"He said to protect you." Felicity said.

Oliver quickly looked at Felicity, "You... speak his language also?"

"Oliver, please lay back and do not move." Felicity said.

"How does shooting me with an arrow protect me?" Oliver looked and saw the man leaning over him holding bowl with water in it and what look like green grass in front of him. The man motioned for Oliver to eat the grass.

"Oliver, eat it, it will help." said Felicity.

Oliver looked at Felicity and Sarah then back at the man. "Right, koff... koff... koff... eat something from the man who tried to kill me."

The man looked at Oliver, "Bǎohù nǐ."

"Oliver, he saved us from Ivo's men. He has not harmed us anyway at all." Sarah said.

"Oliver, stop being an ass and take it. Please eat the damn medicine." Felicity said. Oliver took the grass out of his hand and placed it in his mouth. From the look on Oliver face, Felicity and Sarah could tell it did not taste good.

"How come we are sitting over here when we should be over there with Oliver?" Sarah asked.

"He told us to sit here by the fire and get warm. Plus, I am not going to argue with a man who has a bow and arrow and can hit a target that is about 500 meters." Felicity said.

Oliver grabbed the bowl and drunk the water. Before Oliver knew what happened, the man reached over and pulled the arrow out. Oliver screamed in pain and then passed out.