Chapter 4
Friendship,love,and …Mercenaries...
Lara walked down the stairs and looked at the big hall..."Everybody's in the kitchen then"She thought as she opened the door and found Kurtis and Zip laughing and Winston looking at them,a disapproving expression on his face.
"Boys what is so funny?"She asked while she made her way to the refrigerator. She took out of it some bread for a sandwich ,mayonnaise,cheese and then sat next to Kurtis. But no one answered her question and she turned to Winston to take an answer.
"Winston...Why were they laughing?"Winston turned around and looked at her. His icy blue eyes examined her from head to toe. He realized she looked happy .He smiled and answered
"Oh because Zip said something about his family..."he looked at Zip and closed his eye . Kurtis and Zip felt relieved that Winston didn't tell that they were laughing with something about Lara. Then Kurtis took the ingredients away from Lara's hands and started making the sandwich for her. She looked at him stunned. What was he thinking,that she couldn't keep a knife?
"No I was actually thinking of making it for you because I like taking care of you..."He answered her thoughts...though he did it out loud.
"Hey Kurtis how did you did that?" Zip asked surprised at what Kurtis said to Lara. He knew that Lara would think something like what she thought...but he couldn't understand how Kurtis knew what she was thinking...
"To answer your question Zip...i read minds and move things with my mind...that's how I'm doing this.."and with a single movement of his hand the fork that Zip was holding was in the air floating...Lara just looked at the fork but she was not surprised...She knew Kurtis could move things with telekinesis...and then she remembered the Chirugai. She looked at the weather outside. It was cloudy and rainy but that wouldn't stop her from training. She grabbed the now ready sandwich Kurtis was holding and stood up and made her way to the door and shouted over her shoulder "Thanks Kurtis..."She didn't want to waste any more time so she rushed up to her room and changed into her sweat pants and a black tank top. But before she went out at the training course she searched the whole room. First under her bed , then in her wardrobe ,under the couches and then out in the huge balcony where she found it lying on the small table. Lara stepped closer and took the Chirugai in her hands."it's so beautiful...But why don't you obey your master..." Lara thought as she closed her eyes and imagined it flying around,orange sparkles behind it, and then she felt a vibration...She opened her eyes and saw that it was open,the five ferilium blades were deadly and out and she couldn't understand what was going on. She rushed out of her room and run down the hallway without stopping at nothing till she found Kurtis at the bottom of the stairs. Then she spoke.
"Tell me that you tried to summon it"She begged him as she got the Chirugai in front of him in order to catch his attention. He looked at her surprised and confused at the same time
"Why?What happened"He asked still looking at the Chirugai which she was holding almost in hes face.
"Because I closed my eyes and imagined it flying around and when I opened them again it was active...What the hell is going on with it?"
"Whoa hold on a sec. It got activated when you imagined it flying?"He asked...He couldn't believe it. Even his father tried to use it and it never got activated by Konstantine. How the hell was it possible for her to use it?
"Yeah that's what happened...So what's going on?"Lara asked loosing her patience ...she bit her lower lip when Kurtis looked into her eyes..."Couldn't you just have brown eyes...or green?Why that hypnotizing blue...Damn Lara get a grip..." She thought and got interrupted by Kurtis who now closed his eyes and raised his hands, palms out and then she felt the Chirugai vibrating again in her hand. The vibration became stronger and stronger so she let it go and starred at it while it was traveling in the room. Then she took a look at Kurtis and he was pale,drops of sweat were running down on his face.
"Okay Kurtis stop...you are going to faint..."She said concerned and felt blood in her mouth. She had bit her lip so hard that it started bleeding...but she didn't stop.
"Kurtis please..."she begged.
Kurtis opened his eyes and looked at her blood stained lip...Why does she had to bit them that much?He thought and then looked in her hazel eyes...
"Okay I'm stopping... Just keep it locked somewhere okay?"he asked her. This was destroying him mentally
"Yeah okay..."She said and walked out of the hall leaving a very upset Kurtis behind.
It was late in the night and Lara couldn't sleep. She was thinking about what happened in the morning...She left Kurtis and locked the Chirugai in her trophy room but she didn't want to train anymore...just think. She was turning in her bed when the alarm went off. That wasn't good...
"Uh-oh that's not good,Kurtis do you hear me?" she asked and ran towards her wardrobe where her dual pistols were.
"Yeah! 10 mercenaries at the hall ,5 coming towards our rooms...you think you can handle them?"he asked while he was searching for his ammo
"Of course..."Lara said and crept out off her room. She looked around and notice two of them standing at the end of the hallway "that will be easy" she said and slowly went behind them and pointed her guns on the back of their heads...They stayed still and Lara spoke
"Okay we are going to do it the easy way or the hard way you choose...I will ask questions and you will answer...if not I'm going to blow the head of each one of you...Am I clear?"she asked. She loved the way she handle some things but the way she handled mercenaries was her favourite...They nodded so that meant they would answer.
"Okay so who sent you here?"she asked as she pressed the guns harder at their necks as a reminder of their agreement.
"Amanda Evert"The one said.
"And Joachim Karel "the other one added
"Why did they sent you?"she asked pressing the guns harder..
"To kill you...Please don't hurt us..."the one said his voice was shaking...
"Thank you gentlemen. I strongly believe that your job here is done"She answered back as she hit their head and they fell unconscious. She took a look at the next hallway. No one was there "Kurtis do you know where the other 3 are?" she asked a bit concerned about Zip and Winston...
"Just a min..." he answered back and he raised his hands,palms out ready to use his farsight. He traveled the corridor to Zips room and saw him holding a riffle a mercenary trying to make him let the gun. He went out off Zip's room and traveled to Winston's. Winston was holding a shotgun and then he shot the mercenary standing in front off him...Quickly Kurtis returned to his body and talked to Lara
"One of them is trying to get Zip the other one is dead...Winston knows how to use a shotgun...I don't know about the third one..." He laughed when he thought Winston again. That old guy knew how to protect himself. And then he heard footsteps.
"Lara Is that you?" he asked cautiously
"What?" she asked back...she didn't understand what was going on
"Someone is right outside my door...maybe the third mercenary...Go to Zip Lara he might need you..." Kurtis stopped communicating with her and silently made his way to the door of his big room,weapon ready ,and opened the door. He looked outside and saw the mercenary walking towards Lara's hide out so he came out of the room and run to the mercenary and when he was finally behind him he pointed the gun at the back of his neck and he spoke.
"Don't you know it's not nice to sneak into someone's place in the middle of the night? " Kurtis asked and he pulled the trigger...
"Winston is going to kill you for the mess but you just saved me...Thanks..."Lara said obviously relieved that he has killed the mercenary before he found her.
"Anytime" he answered while he went back to his room walked towards his backpack and grabbed two silencers. Lara was waiting at the door somewhat curious of what he was doing. He tossed her the one silencer and they attached it at their guns.
"Okay do you think we can make it?" Lara asked quite uncertain. The circumstances weren't that good. They were 2 and the mercenaries 10...And then it hit her
"Kurtis use your mind tricks to reach Zip"
"Ooookay..." he said while he made connection with Zip.
"Zip where are you?"
"What the...? Dude you scared me next time a warning would be very much appreciated..."
"Okay man but where are you?" Kurtis asked impatiently
"My room why?" Zip asked keeping his riffle on his shoulder...
"Just stay there then and don't move...we will take care of those guys"A familiar voice said in his head. Lara's voice.
"What the hell Lara now you own that kind of tricks too?" He asked confused and trying to stay away from things that could possible make noise.
"No I passed her through...Anyway stay there and don't move"And with that Kurtis stopped communicating with him...
They walked down the corridor, opened slowly the door and made their way downstairs. They both crouched and got a cover when bullets passed inches from their heads. Kurtis was behind a sofa which was moved ,maybe the mercs wanted to search the place and they moved the objects he thought and then stood still. He then stood up and looked around,3 mercenaries were trying to open a door right to the Tech room and that was his chance. He got up and shot them one by one..the one fell to the floor and the other two just turned around and looked at Kurtis...He fired the one mercenary between the eyes and before he could shoot the last one he saw the person falling on the floor unconscious...What the hell? oh where is Lara? He thought and before he could reach her mentally she came out of the door the mercs were trying to open, in her hand was his Chirugai and it was full off blood...Kurtis ran quickly next to her and saw that she had a big cut on her belly...Shit He thought and he caught her when she fell once again but this time she was conscious
"Trent you should teach me how to use that thing..."She said and looked into his azure eyes...
"You used it?What happened down there?"He asked concerned and looked around. No one was there it was all clear...
"Why don't you go down and see for yourself ?"she asked back and slowly stood to her feet...
Kurtis started walking down some stairs and looked in awe when he found himself in her trophy room...Dagger of Xian was there, an unknown mask , the Scion and some other strange things he had never seen or heard of before. He noticed a lot of bookcases and tones of books on them and then he stared at horror...Seven mercenaries were lying on the floor dead ,their necks were cut and blood was seeping from inside...Lara did this with MY weapon? He asked himself. He made his way back and found Lara sitting on the sofa...crying...She had enough..."Can't they just leave me alone?i lost my best friend and tonight HE almost got killed...why am I so damn unlucky...everyone near me dies...and what about those guys down there?how can I sleep again knowing that their families are waiting for them and they will never go back?" such thoughts were passing her mind and Kurtis couldn't help but go sit next to her and offer his shoulder...After some time which seemed like eternity she tried to move away from him but he didn't let her...
"It wasn't your fault he got killed...and it was not your fault that they ended up the way they did. And believe me...i would prefer to get killed than see you get hurt..."He said slowly while looking into her hazel eyes...They were both lost when Zip got in the hall and brought them back to reality...
"Um mm guys...?"He asked and looked at Kurtis at the first place then at Lara...Winston then got in the hall too and saw Lara and Kurtis separating from each other. Lara stood up...and then they both looked in shock at the big cut on Lara's belly...They quickly ran to her and she said that she was okay. Kurtis got up and went to the kitchen and took a first aid kit that he found in a cupboard. He returned at the hall and took Lara's hand
"Come on it needs stitching" he said and looked at Zip. He was shaking and Kurtis could understand why. Zip was concerned for her and Winston too.
"I know how to stitch up!Zip calm down..."Kurtis said and pulled her with him back to her room before she could say a word...It's gonna be a long night...she thought...