*about a month later*
I was just about to finish my last repair before my lunch break when Toby, one of my co-workers stopped me in the middle of the catwalks.
"Rue, boss wants to see you, some guys are here to talk to you or something" He helps me steady the wobbly bridge.
I smile, "Okay, can you repair the engine on B5 for me?"
Toby nods, "Yeah, of course." He pats my shoulder before I walk off.
As I walked I though about my life's most recent events, Jace and I were dating, and trying to keep from my father for the obvious reason that he was extremely over protective, Jace and Lou had started coming to school too, Lou and I sparred almost every other day, and I sparred with Jace the rest, except team training days. It was a bit stressful, but I make it work, and work was where she could escape and lose herself in the mindless repair jobs.
I walk into Mr. Koari's office, "You called for me, Sir?" I ask.
Mr. Koari nods, "Yes there are some men asking to speak to you, erhm, they're out in the plaza." He waves me off, quickly turning back to his paper work.
"Sir are you feeling well? You look pale." I ask with concern.
He smiles, "Don't worry Runa, just a little cold." I nod, "okay Sir," I exit quickly, something's up... I shake my head and head to the plaza.
I open the plaza door. I sweep my eyes over the plaza, there's a large group of men who are now staring intently at me. I recognize most of them as Triple threat members.
"Umm, hello? Mr. Koari said you wanted to speak to me?" I question hesitantly.
One of the men steps forward, "Yes we do, we're representing the Triple Threats, and we would like to ask you some questions." He smiles crookedly.
I step back, "Sure, ask away." I but up a cool facade, quietly assessing the situation.
One of the men casually flips a knife in his hands, how can someone flip a KNIFE CASUALLY? I take another step back.
"Have you heard about that torch tiger that got nabbed from our gang?" I shook my head, knowing better.
"Oh really? Because one of our guys saw you and your little friends beat the shit outta our guys." He tsked slowly, "And by the looks of it, YOU were the ring leader of that little operation... And our boss, well, he's not to happy about it ya know? He had a lot of yuans on that cub, and he wants them, and well, you gotta pay, little missy." He signals for some of the men to step forward, immediately I take up my fighting stance, Agni, these guys are big, don't know if I can take them all.
But before I can do anything more, the guy speaks again, "Now we can do this the hard way," he gestured to his companions, "Or we could do this the easy way, you just gotta tell us where the cub is."
I shake my head, " 'Fraid I can't do that," I tell him politely.
He shakes his head, "Hard way it is." He signals the men.
The men are suddenly upon me, I skid back, kicking one in the gut, he snarls and jerks my foot towards him, but I jerk my now flaming foot up and kick his jaw, just as another guy tries to grab me I spin around and uppercut him with a firery fist. Just then another guy comes up from behind, grabbing me under my arms and linking his hands behind my head. I grunt and try to kick him but the other guy grabs my feet, I flail my flaming fists around helplessly, there are too many of them, I can't win.
The guys who was talking before laughed, "That was entertaining. But now, we've got places to be, gas her, gag her, and tie her up." He orders. One of the guys forced a mask onto my face and I can't help but breath in the fumes. I cough and gag as they pull the mask away and gag me.
I struggle sluggishly as they start to tie me up. After a few moments of foggy confusion, my eyes flutter closed and I'm dragged down into a dark slumber...