Chapter 5-Crash and Burn, Part 2
Zamfir finished dressing up in his gear which included a black army shirt, long dark jeans and a black jacket he had bought some years back which had spots of wear and tear. He returned to the garage where he found Ava seated in the car.
" I see we're riding shotgun tonight are we, however I don't think the rain will affect us to much tonight miss, why the long black overcoat?"
"I like to be in charge of operations, even if I'm not driving, and the rain has nothing to do with the coat, this is my normal attire for my job," she replied with a smile on her soft baby smooth face "however I will be the only one joining you, Kensei already has his own ride." Before she even finished the sentence, Kensei had already pulled up alongside the car on a black, gold rimmed sports bike. At the side of the vehicle, Zamfir noticed a holster outfitted with 2 katanas. Ironically, the timid young man was dressed in quite a similar fashion as Zamfir was, but more surprisingly, the small kitten which he had seen earlier, was poking its head out from Kensei's jacket. Zam asked him what's the cat's name, but he only got the simple answer 'Hidori'.
The rain was pouring relentlessly when the group finally left some moments later. The night sky was not that cloudy, however the rain seemed to be indicating otherwise. Zamfir had to use the flood lights on the car since there was a persistent fog which seemed to have been hovering over the car for a while. For most of the trip, the car was filled with uneasy silence, but the conversation picked up as they neared their destination almost an hour later.
"So now that we're here, is this any strategy you have in mind miss?" Zamfir asked while he and the others walked towards the entrance after the parked the vehicles some yards away.
"The intel I picked up speaks of some sort of room hidden room somewhere near the top floor; my guess is that's where we should start looking. I'll be in the security room on the bottom floor, I'll see if there's anything worth looking at on the video history they have from the cameras that litter this entire area. Oh, by the way, from the moment we got here there has been a real annoying silence, a place of this kind should be teaming with personal, yet we see no one, so new guy, don't get carried away."
"I thought the main reason I was brought here was to get carried away," Zamfir replied with a smile. They then proceeded through the hollow hallways of the seemingly, abandoned building. Moments later, they separated; Ava continued inspecting rooms on the bottom floor while Kensei and Zamfir made their way up the stairs toward the top floor. When they got there, they look over a few rooms until they found the door they were looking for. Having an uneasy feeling, Zamfir kept one hand locked firm onto one of the guns he had concealed in his clothing, while the other slowly turned the lock. Moments later, to their surprise, a deafening explosion rocked through the building as the ground gave way under the two figures.
Several seconds later after the dust settled, a black figure was seen hanging precariously from a crossbeam, which at any moment, looked as though it would give. Zamfir hung there for a moment, trying to gather his bearings, he then looked around seeing that the explosion also affected the bottom floor. The realisation then hit him that he was directly above the room Ava was suppose to have been, he then saw Kensei perched on a nearby ledge with a worried expression on his face.
"Ava not picking up," he said while he was speaking into the earpiece trying to get answer from her.
"I don't have a good feeling about this," Zam whispered to himself. He was about to reply to Ken when he heard footsteps coming towards them, then the sound of cartridges being loaded into guns echoed of the walls and debris. "Damn it, what a time for company to arrive," Zamfir said as he jump off the beam and used the side of the wall to slide all the way down. "You go and look for Ava; I'll deal with our friends here and see if I can find out what is really going on.
Moments later several gunmen entered the caved-in area looking around for any sign of life. Suddenly a dark figure jumped out from behind a large boulder, startled by it, the men then opened fire. When the figure dropped to the ground they then headed towards it, but were shocked to find it was just a jacket! The men were startled again when the area suddenly turned dark, then a dark and solemn voice echoed through the night as like the sound of death.
"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, and have the keys of hell and of death, amen" the sound of gunfire, and blood hurling screams of agony and despair then sounded through the darkness. When the sound of the last empty shell struck the ground, almost immediately, the room became brighter, and crouched up in a corner was a gunman who was still in shock as to what just happened around him.
"You're probably wondering right now why you're still breathing, or most likely your thinking you've just experienced firsthand what true despair is, that's good, because right now, you're going to tell me what's going on," Zamfir said as he walked to him lightly stepping over the several dead bodies in his way.
Moments later he left the man on the ground and began running towards the exit, couple of seconds after he heard an explosion behind, and looked back to see a flames licking at walls some distance behind him, however as he kept looking he realised the flames were actually heading directly towards him. Before he knew it, he was being surrounding by a wall of flames that began eating away at the floor.
"First, some bastard causes an explosion, now some idiot torches the place; this is so not my day." He then dived through a window on his left, just seconds before another explosion echoed through the house, this one however seemed to be bigger somewhat, because the whole building then collapsed. On his way down he jumped off several objects which had been through from the building because the explosion, he then landed in a fountain below which broke his fall. He then climbed out and to his surprise he heard Kensei's voice in the earpiece he was wearing. Before he could ask a question, Kensei said bluntly to him "Ava got kidnapped".