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Sorry i havent updated for a while.

GCSE's being meant to me.

Now, i promised action.

Amd im giving it to you.

Chapter 21

And How She Was Hurt

Part I

Marian

Speed forward a few hours from there and you'll see me lying on my stomach behind a rock.

I know, stylish.

But that's me.

Betts was next to me and we had desert grass stuck in our helmet and a strand of scarlet hair poking me in the eye.

"Hell this is boring." I whispered.

Betts chewed her lips. "Well, it's about to get more interesting. A least I hope so."

Nigel crawled up to us and held his gun likes it a part of him.

"Right ladies. Here's the plan. Lucky is in that building." He pointed to the sand coloured square in the distance. It was weird. Dark windows with no door, just a gaping hole into a black room.

Betts and I nodded and pulled our guns closer to us. Before you get all worried and oh my god she's got a gun I am in the army.

Nigel carried on. "We'll all go. There won't be another way to get it. There's only one way in."

I snorted. "Seriously Nigel, where did you get that line?"

He frowned as if it was obvious. "Every action film I have ever watched."

Betts smile and blushed when he grinned back at her.

"And watch out for piles of earth that look like mole hills. There could be land mines around."

"Right lovebirds. Let's go." I patted Nigel on the back and hugged Betts. "Good luck guys. Try and come back ok. If I'm going back to the US I don't want it to be for your funeral."

Nigel laughed and we all crawled off.

…

We flattened our bodies against the wall, next to the door and breathed heavily. It had been too easy. I glanced at Nigel who shot me a worried look.

I raised my eyebrows at him and he nodded.

Then we spun towards each other and ran into the room.

Gunfire sounded.

I saw a group of men in black. They looked the same as the guys when we first saw her. I was going to wonder where Lucky got all these guys but seeing as she's a Savant that's kind of unsurprising.

And Lucky was sitting in the middle of them.

They all started to their feet and pulled out pistols or throwing knives. One of them pushed Lucky towards a door behind them and she hurried into the next room. Our guys filed in behind us and I dropped to my knee, firing at the closest guy who had just shot at Betts.

There was smoke everywhere and one of our men fell screaming to the ground.

Nigel shouted for a medic and the wounded man was dragged off by our back up.

I don't really know how we did it but we were starting to get rid of the men. Normally I would be conflicted about just shooting a load of guys but they were trying to kill me and my bezzle. So, tough cookies for them I guess.

"Marian!" Betts screamed and pushed me over with her boot from where she was standing behind me. I fell flat on my face and avoided having my throat sliced by a throwing knife that flew through where I had been a second ago and it buried itself I the wall.

I yelled a thanks at Betts and fired a bullet into the man's chest.

Five down, three to go.

"Marian. Go find Lucky!" Nigel yelled and pushed me and Betts towards the door she'd gone through.

"You got it here?" Betts yelled as Nigel shot a guy over her shoulder.

He leant forward and kissed her roughly.

She stared at him. He just grinned and pushed us towards the door.

I grabbed the strap of her vest and pulled her after me.

We ran through the door and were hit by a massive wave of telekinesis.

Betts yelled and we toppled over.

I rolled over my shoulder and fired in the vague direction of the power.

Lucky screamed and ducked.

It was a dead end. There were no doors. Only a small window facing the desert.

Lucky was cowering behind a table and shooting us with fire balls.

Betts seemed weirdly calm about this and we knelt down behind a massive pot in the corner as we reloaded our guns with a click of the magazine slotting in.

"All in a day's work." She said, looking confused but accepting.

We turned and fired at the table. Bits of wood flew everywhere and Lucky fired a shot at the pot we were sitting behind.

The clay shattered and oil spilled everywhere.

It smelt weird.

Betts froze. "Marian, its paraffin oil. If she shoots fire at us this whole building goes to kingdom come."

Lucky seemed to have realised that too. There was no more fire. Just shots.

I fired at her and she screamed as the bullet landed in her leg. She fell to the ground and clutched it.

The firing stopped. Betts ran towards Lucky and kicked her pistol away from her hand.

Nigel ran into the room and surveyed the damage. There was paraffin oil all over the floor and wood chips mixing with blood.

He looked us up and down for damage. "You ok?"

Betts nodded brushed her hair out of her face.

Nigel walked over to Lucky and promptly slipped on the oil. He fell flat on his back and groaned in pain. Betts and I laughed and helped him up.

But we hadn't looked for his gun that had gone flying.

We didn't see that Lucky had caught it until it was too late.

All we saw was her shooting one bullet at the small oil lamp in the corner.

It fell to the ground and shattered.

The small flame kept going in its tiny supply of oil.

But we did see the oil from the pot seeping towards it.

One flame.

A lot of oil.

We were screwed.

"Run!" Nigel yelled.

Betts and I dived through the tiny window and rolled incredibly elegantly into a pile on the ground.

Nigel followed and yelled at us to get out of here.

We scrambled to our feet and sprinted off in our own directions.

I slowed to a stop when I didn't hear an explosion.

I looked around at the house I had run away from. I was a safe distance away.

Nigel shouted from a way off to keep going.

I turned and walked towards the cars we had brought.

I saw a pile of messed up earth and kicked it, frustrated that we couldn't go back for Lucky.

I heard a click.

I looked down at the earth.

Now that there was nothing covering it I could see the glint of metal.

"Oh shit."

The land mine I as standing on exploded.

I was thrown ten foot in the air and agony shot through my leg. I hit against a wall connecting to the house.

I blacked out.

Next chapter's going to be a bit short.

But scary.

xxx