The Rocks
Oscar has a look of madness on his face as he follows the girl from Twelve. I try to reach him but it hurts to put pressure on my ankle. When I finally do catch up, he is crouched behind a group of bushes. He motions for me to get down. I crawl over to where he is.
"What's going on?" I ask.
"Shhh!" he says pointing into the bush.
He puts his hand inside and makes a clearing in the bush just big enough to see the other side. The girl from Twelve is trapped in some sort of headlock. The boy from Eleven has both arms around her neck, squeezing as tightly as he can, lifting her up off the ground. He is very skinny but must be at least Six-foot-Three and the girl is dangling almost two feet off the ground.
"As soon as he kills her, we rush him!" says Oscar.
It seems he has no conflict with killing to survive. I wonder how long before I become his target. I pull out my slingshot and ready myself.
The girl from Twelve is still fighting, struggling viciously to get out of the boy's death grip. She grabs his head and tries to gouge out the boys eyes with her fingers but the boy bites her hand. I can tell he ripped off flesh because her hand is bleeding. In one final desperate act, the girl from Twelve kicks the boy right in his groin. This loosens his grip. As the girl wiggles herself free and falls to the ground, she quickly rolls forward and sprints off tossing one of her backpacks far off to the side. The boy runs for the backpack and opens it up. Oscar takes off his glasses and put them in my backpack.
"Cover me," he says as he charges through the bush.
I run in after him. The boy from Eleven sees us both, but doesn't run. Before Oscar can even get close, the boy from Eleven kicks Oscar square in the chest. He falls back winded. I shoot a rock right for his chest because I don't think I'm capable of a headshot. I miss though and he starts running right for me. Oscar grabs his leg and the boy kicks Oscar in the head. I run at him as he tries to swing his arm around at me. I duck and he loses his balance. I jump on his back and wrap my arms around his neck, as I try to squeeze the life out of him. He spins back and forth trying to toss me off his back. His arms are so long that he tries to get his hands around my neck but I squeeze tighter and tighter waiting for him to give up. He backs me up into a tree, it hurts but I don't lose my grip. He continues to back into the tree before he finally wraps his hand around my head and flips me right over his. I'm flat on my back staring up as I see his foot about to land right on my face. I grab his foot and twist his ankle trying to break it but I only make him lose his balance again. As we both get up and face each other I notice Oscar creep up behind the boy. He jumps on the boys back and tries to finish him once and for all. I feel dirty for double teaming up on the boy who has never done anything to me warranting his death but its kill or be killed. I grab the boy's legs so he can't move. As he falls to ground, I hold him down while Oscars squeezes any remaining air from the boy's lungs. His body stops moving completely.
When the cannon fires it hits me that we have killed him and we both fall over exhausted. I watch as his lifeless body floats up into the air before disappearing into a hovercraft that zooms off into outer space, for all I know. Oscar picks up the backpack that once belonged to the girl from Twelve. He tosses it over to me and I look inside. It's filled with rocks.
"It was a decoy, I guess," says Oscar frustrated.