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Chapter 23 Marina
I throw my knife as hard as I can into the Mog's kneecaps. I want him to suffer for what he's done to Brutus. The Mog screams in agony, I look around and see only a few Mogadorians remain. Before I can get to the Mog who stabbed Brutus he crumples to black ash. Six appears behind him with a knife in her hands. I notice her side is bleeding heavily and she clutches it, I try to run to her but she disappears again. The dark rain continues and I start to see a face form in the clouds.
Sam has run to Brutus's side and is trying to stop the bleeding by pushing down on his stomach. A Mog charges at me and swipes his sword. I duck and stab him in the kneecap, I army roll behind him and stab him in the back. The more Mogs that charge at me, the more that get killed. Swipe, jab, dodge, slice throat. The anger consumes me and I'm filled with every horrible thing that has happened to me. Being trapped in an orphanage, Hector dying, Adelina dying, Crayton dying and Lorien being destroyed.
I feel tears cover my cheeks and my vision becomes blurred. I spin my head around looking for more Mogs and realise there are none. Just piles of ash. Sam is with Six by Brutus's side. I run over to them and kneel on the floor. I put my hands over his wound but he grabs my hand.
"Stop, you can't heal me. You'll just hurt me." He erupts into a round of coughing and blood trickles out his mouth. I don't move my hands but feel nothing, no icy sensation, nothing. The rain continues, more natural than Six this time.
"It's going to be fine Brutus." Six pleads. I feel my tears roll down my face and see Sam's face is the same. Six looks teary but keeps control of herself.
"Guess you'd never thought you'd cry over a Mog." Brutus laughs but is followed by spluttering and his head starts to struggle to stay up. Adam and Ella are watching from a distance, he holds her hand.
"Yeah funny how things work out." I choke out. He smiles and I rub the blood off his mouth using the corner of my shirt. The rain turns lighter and I feel it run down my shirt.
"Promise me something." He says quietly.
"What?" Six asks. I see a tear run down her cheek.
"Not all Mogs are bad, make sure you know your enemy's from your friends." He coughs, the blood is now pouring out. Sam continues to cry and holds Brutus's giant hand. I feel his pulse get slower and slower. He looks at me and smiles one last time. His hand feels lighter and I look down and see it turn to ash. This follows through the rest of his body and soon we're kneeling over ash. The rain stops completely.
I stand up and walk to the car and look for something to put his ashes in. I see a small plastic pouch and pick it up from the dashboard and walk back to Brutus's ashes. Adam and Ella walk with me. Sam is in the same position as before with Six holding his shoulders. Ella starts crying and Adam holds her trying to keep the tears in himself. I crouch down by Sam and gently pick up the ashes he does nothing to stop me and stares at the spot where Brutus died.
"He's coming to Lorien with us." I say slowly. I wish the other Garde were here, especially Eight to see how Brutus died saving us.
"He'd like that." Sam says quietly. I hear sirens in the distance.
"Sam I know it hurts but we have to leave now." I say gently rubbing his shoulder. He picks himself up with Six's help and takes one last look at his house and the well. Soggy papers are lining the ground and blowing in the wind. Guess the Mog's knew about Malcolm's well. We jog to the car and Sam drives with Six in shotgun. His eyes don't leave the road as we leave Paradise, Ohio.
I put my hand on Six's side and the blood starts to slow down. Her white top is stained with blood but that's the least of our worries. We need to get to the Mog base and free Sam's dad and anybody else in there.
The sky darkens and I hear Ella cry, I wrap my arms around her and let her cry into my shoulder until she falls asleep.
Losing Brutus was like losing an anchor. I think of all the stories he told us when we were in Five's base and how he changed sides. I start to try and take his advice to heart. If he can be good what's stopping other Mogs changing sides. I feel myself get drowsy and fall asleep on Ella's head.
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I dream of Adelina. I see her in her nuns outfit in my old room at the orphanage. She spins around in it and smiles.
"So what do you think?" She says.
"You look silly Emmalina."
"Adelina" She corrects. I remember she changed her name when we got here.
"How long are we going to stay here?" I ask curiously.
"Only a few months, Marina. When we get back on are feet again we'll be gone and looking for the other Garde." She spins again in her Nuns outfit and I laugh. She laughs back and lifts me into the air and spins me. I don't stop laughing until I get stiches. I suddenly hear the morning bell. Adelina smiles at me one last time and I watch her leave.
Her body then turns to ash. I try to scream but my voice doesn't work. The ash clumps together and forms a new shape. It grows and grows until I see a laughing Setrakus Ra above me. I curl up on the ground and cover my ears and try to block out the laughing.
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I jerk my head up and realise I'm back in the car. Ella moans and moves to a comfier position and falls back to sleep.
"You okay?" Sam asks.
"I'll be fine. What about you?" I ask cautiously.
"How do you think I'm doing? Brutus is dead and my father is captured probably dead or being tortured." He says coldly. I stay quiet and don't know how to respond luckily Sam responds for me.
"Sorry I shouldn't have said that." He apologises. I nod back at him.
"It's alright. It's hard on all of us losing…" I don't finish the sentence and remember Brutus dying all over again. Adam mumbles in his sleep.
"He's always talking in his sleep; he did that whilst we were in prison together." Sam says suddenly.
"Oh yeah, what sort of stuff did he say?"
"It was always really weird things like saying 'no, not the kittens'" I laugh at this.
"So you think the Mog's super-secret weakness are kittens?" I say.
"Yeah we could just go marching in with an army of kittens and puppies." He laughs. We start cracking up and it feels nice. Soon everyone else wakes and looks at us confused.
"Throw the kitten bomb!" I shout to Sam. He doesn't stop laughing and soon everyone's nervously laughing at us. Suddenly Sam's face goes emotionless.
"What?" Six asks. I look outside the window and see abandoned cars down a narrow wooded path. The sun rises across the road and I start to smell sulphur. I suddenly see a dead rotting bear and Sam stops the car. I gag and hold my chimera close to me. Ella's swarm around her in a little nest.
"We're here."