"Jack, is it done yet?"
"Yes it is, thank you for leaving it half way done." Jack's lower body is replaced with gunpowder, coughing out some dust.
"Yeah I thought leaving you the dirty work was a good idea."
"Stupid sly fox."
"Lazy dumb bunny."
"That sounded wrong."
"Let's never speak of this again." Jack and Kelly both turned their backs for a second, and Aura was left to break the awkwardness between.
"You two done? Good, Jack tell us your plan."
"Yeah, the plan for you is to stay here and rest."
"Come on, Kelly already told like half of it, spill it out." Jack glared at Kelly, a stare that could tear her apart. Kelly shivered and looked away. "It's better off not to tell her secrets you know."
"Yeah well I want to know what you are up to. I don't have time for whatever is between you two." Aura stood in front of Jack, their eye caught each other. Jack laughed and sat down, with a arm resting on his leg and breath gently run through his fur.
"Every well, I want to know if you're trustworthy enough."
"How do I do that?"
Jack throw Aura a gun, point at Kelly. "Shoot her."
"Excuse me Jack?" Mark held kelly's arm, Aura pointed the gun at her face. "Jack what is this for! What did I ever do!"
Jack punched her in the stomach. "You know damn well what you did!" Kelly bend her body as much as she can to ease the pain, Mark stepped on her back making it sounds like cracking. "What did I do?!" The last howl came out of her mouth with words, but soon covered by Jack's command.
"Shoot her." Aura swiped the gun off the ground, into her hand and pointed and Kelly's face. The growl of pain and the tearing up eye did not brought any mercy in Aura. But Aura just stood there for a few seconds, before she threw the gun away.
"The gun is empty."
"Thank God!" Kelly on her knees, breathing fast and sweat dripping over her head. Hands held her neck up.
"You didn't really think you were gonna die did you Kelly?" Jack walked away, crouched behind a bush, few hundred meters away, guards patrolling the bridge.
"For a second I did!" Kelly squealed with a twisted voice and wiped off the wet grass on her knees.
"It's too risky to take down all four of them at with a gun, someone has to sneak attack on them." Jack asked and looked back, no one said a thing
"No bushes, no trees. It's hard to find cover." Kelly suggested.
"I can take them down." Aura rose the blade Kelly gave her, a killer's instinct can be felt around her.
"You sure? I'm positive you'll get shot into pieces before you even get close to them." Kelly picking her nails and whispering in Aura's ears.
"Oh shut up, I assume you have a better idea then?" Aura pushed her away and made an opening on the bush.
"I got nothing." Aura focused on the nearest target, she stepped out the bush, the only sound of the night blended with the sound of autumn wind blowing away leaves off trees, Aura was covered by light of the night. The guard shivered then a cold feeling came from his chest and soon spread all over his body. He gazed down, a blood pool had formed under his feets, and an noticeable hole on his chest. He tried to scream, he couldn't make any sound. The last attempt of trying to wave at his fellow guard faded away after the blade entered his neck. He laid down, breathing his last breath away. The other guards heard nothing, until the blade went through one of the guard's head, a slightly moan came out of him, with the body heavily landing on the ground, showing the blade inserted into his head, just the handle sticking out. The other two armed themselves with handguns, pointing at the dead bodies. The one on the right fell down, with a sudden snapping sound, his neck was twisted ninety degrees to the right. Aura landed with silence, kicking the blade off the guard's head straight into the last guard's eye. A howl came out of him, the last howl he will ever have, before he fell on the ground twitching in front of Aura. Who is just watching him, slowly and painfully dying.
"I'm not cleaning up this mess." Jack said "I starting to think you hired me just to do dirty work." Kelly joked. "Maybe I did if you didn't have your talent in chemistry you would've been a great labour." Jack smirked and looked at Kelly's murderous eyes. "Well I'm happy I graduated from Lakewood Academy, top student." Kelly replied calmly "There were two top student, one were you, who was the other one?" Kelly didn't answer immediately, she game Mark a time bomb and told him to go under the bridge to set it up. The night was getting lonely without some kind of explosion. "Vera, Vera Solaren. Also a chemistry genies." Jack had interest in this mammal. "Tell me more." Jack said. "Well, what could I say? We were best friends for a while, before I took your job, we were working on some project her boyfriend wanted us to do, it was a kind of ammo for mass destruction. The project was almost done, but the government dismissed our army that time, so our work went straight into trash." Kelly had Jack's attention when she mentioned mass destruct. "Any of you two still have a draft of the project?" Kelly closed her eyes and thought about it. "Her boyfriend kept it, and he moved in with Vera at that time I assume it's somewhere in her house."
"Maybe you should pay her a visit." Jack said
"Maybe I should." Kelly replied while watching Mark coming back. "Great, let's light it up."
Mark stood by watching Kelly set up the time, he overheard a few words in Jack and Kelly's conversation, but one thing he was thinking the most. 'Who is Vera? Sounds so familiar….'his mind kept telling about he somehow know this mammal. "Ugh." He shaked his head. "It's nothing." He reminded himself.
"It's set up, move!" Kelly commanded, the blood of the guards drying off on the ground. The four vanished deep into the forest. Someone peeked out of the corner of a building. She couldn't see much, but she saw Kelly. She backed off a bit then the explosion shock wave force her to the ground. Vera squeaked, she pulled herself off the ground by the wall.
"Spread out." Jack said. "Met you guys back at the desert." Aura and Mark ran through the jungle the a car that was waiting for them, Jack looked back waiting for Kelly. "You ain't comin?" Kelly sneaked out of the bush watching Vera frozen by the fire meters away.
"No, I think I'll visit my old friend." Jack nodded and caught up with the rest. Kelly exited the bush, and tapped Vera on the shoulder. Vera screamed, and then Kelly covered her mouth. "Calm down you! So excited to see me?" Kelly uncovered her mouth after she have calmed down "Y-yeah! What are you doing here this late?" Vera said, clearly knowing of what she just saw was real. "I was gonna ask you the same thing." Before Vera could answer Kelly said something first.
"Stay out of this mess Vera."
"What mess?" Vera's eye blinked twice. "Come on Vera, I saw you peeking on me, you know what you saw." Vera was a bit shocked then she became angry. "Alright, first of, why did you just blew up the bridge, you know my house is across that bridge you basically made me homeless! Second why will you do such kind of job? You were a top student you could've got a job anywhere, why with them?"
"Because they promised me something."
"Like what? What's more important than-"
"My boyfriend." Vera stood there confused, Kelly sighed and looked away. "I know it sounds ridiculous, but when I saw you and Serien so happy, I wish I've had something like that. So I did, I secretly had a boyfriend. When our project fell apart he disappeared with the secret and now Jack has him and he knows about our project." Vera paced around the lone street listening to Kelly.
"You're in danger Vera. I am helping you out here." Vera rushed back and pushed her away. "By blowing up the only way to my house? My brother have been missing like months ago!"
"You brother is with me."
"What?" Vera took out her pocket knife and put it against Kelly's neck "Where is he?"
"If I tell you, you are going to die."
"Why will I?"
"Because you'll go alone. You're out numbered."
Vera pushed the knife closer to Kelly's neck "But you can stop whatever is coming."
"I can get your brother back, I can't stop what's going to happen."
"What do you mean?"
"I have to go." Kelly moved Vera's arm away from her and dived into a bush. Then vanished.
Vera took out her phone and immediately called Lance.
"Hey, you still awake?" Lance sitting on the ground in Lucy's house. "Lucy won't let me sleep on the bed or sofa, so yes."
"I'm in trouble."
Lance yawed "How much trouble?"
"Life and death trouble." Lance rose his left eyebrow and stood up "Where are you?"
"I'll met you at your house, stay awake."