Chapter 12
Drip, drip, drip. Lucas began to slowly open his eyes. Drip, drip, drip. He began to hear something vaguely familiar. Drip, drip, drip. He moves his head around to the sound. Drip, drip, drip. He moves his head to the source and spots a small puddle with water dripping from the pipes above it. Lucas smiles for this is a chance for him and Lloyd to escape. Even if his sai's aren't with him, but hanging above him, he still can control his powers to move the water. Lucas took this as hope.
He starts to scoot his way to the puddle and uses his bound hands to help him launch his way to the right. Thud. He turns his head after hearing the thud and completely forgotten Lloyd was resting on his shoulder, but continues his way if they want to be free.
Lloyd opened his eyes and found himself lying on the floor. He gets himself off the floor, into a sitting position, and looks at his cousin as he was scooting his way to something. But to what, he wonders. He moves his head aside to get a better look and see's a small puddle of water on the ground. He begans to wonder what his cousin has plan with the puddle. But when it comes to Lucas, he can be unpredictable as well. He just sits there and watch.
When Lucas finally reached the puddle, he turns his body around till his back was facing the puddle. He lets his hands touch the puddle, closes his eyes, cleared his head, and began to concentrate. He lifts his hands off the water and brings up a small amount of water; the size of a marble. With his water, he moves it to one side across the rope and moves it to the other side with his hands. Back and forth, back and forth, Lucas kept moving the water across the rope till he can hear it was cutting through. Even if his hands are crossed behind his back, he still could move the water fast to help cut the rope. He kept moving the water through a groove he made as he cut and could feel the bindings loosening till he finally heard a snap.
He breaks the rope with his strength and rubs his sore wrists. After he rubbed and stretched his arms, he gathers more water from the puddle; the size of an apple. With his water, he uses his right hand and moves it fast to slices through the rope around his legs; freeing himself. He rips the bandana off his mouth and could hear Lloyd cheering for him. He jumps up to retrieve his sai's and their backpacks and lands next to Lloyd. He rips the bandana off his mouth and proceeded to use his sai's to cut the rope off his cousin's wrists.
"You did it Lucas." Lloyd cheers, happy to be free.
"Yeah." Lucas says and slices the rope off Lloyd's legs, "But we're not out of the woods yet."