Chapter 5 - The Cahills' Get-Together

A YEAR LATER...

They were surrounded. Surrounded by all of them. All the Cahills in the world, were here in this small island for one single purpose. Amy and Dan, together with their Asian uncle, Alistair Oh, continued to run no matter how every muscle in their body protested. They just had to keep running. Or everything will be lost. Every single thing they fought for will be taken away from them. They had done it. They had found all the clues. And now that the philosopher's stone was already theirs, along with a huge amount of money, they have absolutely no intention of letting it go.

Amy looked her surroundings - the palm trees behind them, looking creepy in the night, the fine white sand that they were currently stepping on, and the endless stretch of water laid in front of them. No. She thought. There must be some way to get out of here. But there was none. Nellie was in the and the city was more than a hundred miles away. There was no one else in this island, except for the Cahills who have murderous plans if push comes to shove.

"Stop right there!" someone shouted. Amy, Dan and Alistair turned around and came face to face with Jonah Wizard, with his dad tailing behind him, looking even more desperate than his son. "Where is it!" Jonah's dad barked.

"You think we're too dumb to tell you? Then you're the ones who dumb! How could you think of such when it was us who won?" Amy shouted. She knew that what she's doing was wrong. She was invoking the predator. Inviting it to strike. But being a Cahill, she couldn't help to have a sense of pride in her. "Don't move all of you!" someone, once again shouted. Jonah and his dad, Alistair, Amy, and Dan, all looked to see the owner of the voice. A girl and a boy's silhoutte appeared and came closer to them. "Singing freak and non-Cahill, back off!"

The new comers finally came into view. "So, after a year, we finally meet again." Natalie said to Amy and Dan. "Hey, who are you to tell us to back off!" Jonah's voice boomed. Natalie feigned a pout. "There haven't been enough reunions for us to get to know each other, cousin. But i'm sad to know that you just met the richest and most powerful Cahills tonight."

"Sorry to disappoint you but we will be the richest and most powerful Cahills ever after we claim our prize from Hansel and Gretel over here." Jonah replied

Natalie sighed. "Just like I said... You don't know what we can do. You don't know who I am - the most hired assasin. Many accidental deaths you see on tv are actually my doings..."

"So are you gonna point your freaky little dart gun at me?" he taunted.

"You're right... this is indeed a dart gun... but it's no ordinary one. You see, it's filled with the venom of the most posionous snake in the world. Yes, you guessed right. We are Lucians and the superior of our branch." Without any warning, Natalie pointed her gun at Broderick Wizard and pulled the trigger. Jonah's dad gasped as the needle hit his neck - a fatal point. Jonah looked at the Kabras, clearly horrified.

"Don't worry, he'll die shortly anyway." Natalie said with a wave of her hand. Jonah then ran away, leaving his dad lying on the sand. Such a coward. Natalie turned to Dan and Amy. "Now-"She was cut off by a whooshing sound behind them. The Kabras ducked and the bullet - looking very much like the one that shot out of Natalie's gun - fled past them and pierced the chest of a certain 13 - year old boy.

"NO!" Amy shrieked. She fell on her knees beside her brother. Amy's shriek was heard throughout the island. All the Cahills followed what they heard and saw Amy going into hysterics over her dying brother. "I hate you! I hate you all!" she shouted once she saw that all eyes were on her. She doesn't even have the strength to fulfill what she promised the Kabras a year ago. She looked at them - especially the Kabras with undescribable bitterness.

"I didn't. Ian, I swear I didn't. You were right beside me." Natalie whispered to her brother, knowing exactly what he was thinking. He thought that she was the one who shot it. Natalie felt sick to the stomach. You would think that after killing lots of people, she would get used to this by now. But she had never killed someone so young... And now that she knew how it felt like, she didn't want to.

"I know." Ian replied then smiled comfortingly at his sister. "Which one of you did it?" he yelled to the crowd. An old man, holding a gun similar to Natalie's stepped out from the crowd. Bae Oh. Alistair's uncle. An Ekaterina. "Hey! How'd you get that!" he asked.

Bae smirked. "Lucians. Always so foolish." he said. "You've got a lot to learn young one, and one of those things is to use your mind."

Insulted, Ian grabbed the gun from her sister, pointed it at the Asian, then pulled the trigger without thinking. He didn't even have time to notice her sister's awe and shock before he said: "Natalie, we can't let Dan die. I'll never be at peace for the rest of my life if he does. Let him drink the antidote. Quick." Natalie nodded then pulled out a small vial from her pocket. She approached Amy who was looking very much like a mad woman. Amy looked at her, not caring about anything else anymore. "Please." she whispered, looking up at Natalie. "Save him." She didn't care that she was screwing up her pride. Natalie didn't reply. She silently pulled out the dart from Dan's chest then threw it on the water. She forced his mouth open and poured all the content of the vial. After a few seconds, a gasp escaped Dan and he began choking. His eyes fluttered open. He was okay physically, but he was in really intense pain inside. It was like being tortured. The antidote and the poison were fighting in his system. They were eating each other causing Dan the most painful physical sensation he had ever felt. It was like his organs were being burned. But to his relief, the pain subsided then totally vanished. He began to breathe in a normal pace again.

AN: Opinions? What do you think?