Building A Nation
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OK..um how should I say this…? Oh I know! Warning: There is a bit of graphicness in this chapter so you have been warned.
AN3: I own nothing except this story idea.
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Rescue
Ivan's POV:
Alfred and Toris just stared at me in utter confusion as if I had said something that made no sense what so ever.
"Wait…what? You want to do what?" Alfred asked tilting his head.
"I'm going to go find him. Yao is out there alone and in pain. If I'm in ths much pain just from a handful of soldiers's deaths, how do you think Yao is feeling? He's in worse pain da? He doesn't need to suffer like this." I said, that last sentence a whisper to myself. I started hobbling over to the door with determination set in my mind.
"B-But Ivan, that task is impossible, especially in your condition right now! Please Ivan, you must understand." Toris pleaded standing up.
I just kept moving towards the door. Even through the massive amounts of pain, I pretended to be gaining my strength back as much as possible. A clear picture of Yao pops into my head and I drank in every detail; his perfect smile, his lips, his lithe figure, everything. It was only too soon afterwords that another picture of Yao suddenly made its way into my mind. His bones broken and some shattered, his perfect smiling face torn up and scratched, no one around to hear his cries of pain and desperate pleas for help which doesn't come.
A sharper pain errupted in my chest. Not from the pain of the bomb, but from those thoughts. Before I could open the door however, Alfred and Toris made their way in front of me.
"We can't allow you to leave Ivan." Alfred said. "You are too weak to go."
I glared sternly at him. 'So now the Nation who bombed my little Yao is going to tell me I can't go save him?' I thought to myself.
"Get out. Of. My. Way." I groweled trying to push past him.
He once again stood in my way. "You can't go Ivan. At least, not without some friends by your side." Alfred said smiling.
I smiled at him. "Then let's go da?"
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Even through Alfred driving at top speed, it still took us about 6 days to get to Beijing from where they were in Moscow. (1) I currently was in the middle of telling Alfred and Toris where I think Yao might be.
"I believe that Yao was currently in Beijing for meetings reguarding situations." I said. "Once we get into Beijing I can show you where to go."
Time passed away. We got closer and closer to Beijing and already we could see the destruction and devastation the the bomb left. It was beyond anything we could ever imagine. The city was in ruins and brutally destoryed. Fires still in buildings, the beautiful trees that I once remembered seeing are now destoryed and some that are left are scathed and burned. People loiter the streets cowering or crying out in fear and pain at the loss as many people try to treat their burns and wounds. Dead shower every parts of the sides of the road in plentiful numbers. It was a horriffic sight to see so I shut my eyes and looked away.
'Yao could be any one of those. Is he in pain? Is he hurt? Is he safe? Where is he?' these thoughts clouded up my mind.
"Ivan?" Toris gently spoke up. "Where should we go to look for Yao first?"
I looked up and saw he had turned around in the passenger seat to look at me. He held an expression not only of fear, but of sorrow, pain and pity. I then looked to see where we were and realized we weren't that far off from the government building that Yao has his meeting at.
"Make a left here and down a ways you'll be able to turn into the government building's parking lot. It's where Yao was supposed to be having his meeting at throughout the majority of his time being here." I said and Toris and Alfred nodded.
As we neared the building we had to stop entirely: we couldn't even pass through the road. The destruction blocked off the road and destroyed the building entirely. No one could have survived that.
I stared wide eyed at the catastrophy in front of me. Tears threatening to release from my eyes as my hands were gripped onto my seat. "No, this can't be possible." I whispered gently to myself.
Alfred and Toris looked at each other then back at me. "H-Hey! We shouldn't jump to any conclusions here!" Alfred said waving his hands back and forth to advert my attention from everything. "Maybe…maybe Yao wasn't here today or something…you never know! Heh…" he tried to get my hopes up.
A sudden memory hit me in the head. "Alfred, you're right! He said he was tired and was going to take a day off that day and spend it at his house resting. We need to get over to his house and quickly!" I yelled. Alfred nodded and stepped on the gas.
It would normally take aboout 30 minutes to get to Yao's house from where we were. Alfred pulled it off in about 7 minutes. Finally we made it to the remains of Yao's house only to find it was still standing!
"Yao." I whispered under my breath and rushed out of the car and started to run towards the entrance.
"Ivan!" Alfred yelled getting out of the car as well. "You can't get in! It's too dangerous!"
I payed no attention to the yelling American and continued my search. As I neared the front door however I couldn't go any further due to debris blocking my way. "Damn it!" I looked around frantically and found a very unstable but clear path of fallen debris leading towards the second story window. Without a second thought I started climbing the rubble to get in.
"Ivan! You shouldn't do this, it could fall in at any moment!" Toris yelled and I ignored it all.
I cleared away the glass off the window sill and carefully climbed into the tattered remains of the guest bedroom. Everything was a mess; the dresser was broken, walls caved in, glass scattered the floor, it was just a total wreck. I slowly walked through the rubble and walked out of the room. Pain continued to coarse through my body but I ignored most of it and had a set destination: Yao's bedroom. The floorboards creaked in agony at the heavy footsteps walking through the house. I traveled down the hallway and entered Yao's bedroom; a feeling I have recalled too many times before.
The once normal calm and relaxed mood you get from walking in the room was now broken and torn to pieces. Part of his ceiling collapsed right onto his bed, his big screen door that opened onto the balcony was shattered in onto the floor; the room was ready to collapse on itself.
"Yao! Where are you? You're in here da?" I called out moving heavy pieces of debris and rubble away without any restraint.
I started to move the pieces of ceiling off his bed and that when I noticed an article of red clothing and and arm hanging loosely off the bed. I started to throw the pieces off him and soon I found his lifeless body on the bed.
"Yao! Yao speak to me da?" I cried leaning over and holding him in my arms. I checked his pulse and after a few seconds I managed to find one, slow and barely there, but still there. He was alive!
Cuts were all over his face, hair tattered with dust, brusies on his arms and legs and a very saddened look on his face. His legs looked fine but it was his left arm that looked crushed. Other than that, he was fine. "Yao wake up! Please wake up…" I whispered but he remained unconscious in my arms.
That's when the floor started to wobble and shake. The walls around me started moving and I heard Alfred screaming outside.
"IVAN! GET YAO AND GET OUT! THE PLACE IS GOING TO FALL!"
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1) Ok I tried to look up on Google maps how long it would take to get from Moscow to Beijing and it wouldn't give me anything! Sure it would tell me if I want to go from New York to China it says to Jet Ski across the Paciffic ocean but Moscow to Beijing? Nope! So I just estimated.
AN1: Sorry I had to leave you guys on a cliffhanger there! Don't worry I'll make it up to you guys with the story of a lifetime! ^J^
AN2: Sorry I didn't update when I said I would. My friend wanted me to spend the night at her place and I ended spending 2 nights over there. Well what can you do? So while you guys were on a major cliffhanger with my last chapter I was off watching shows and documentaries about sharks and jellyfish. SHARKS ARE THE MOST AMAZING THING EVER! THEY CAN JUMP REALLY FREAKING HIGH! IN. SLOW. MOTION!
AN3: Well sorry again for the delay but because it's such a great cliffhanger I'll update very soon. Until then, ja ne!