My Secrets and Horrors

Chapter 15 Two Down

Previously

Flora sighed and wiped a single tear away from her cheek before she followed after Riller. She had to think about everything, who she wanted and who she truly loved. She sighed once more this is going to be the hardest decision of her life….

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It was silent as Flora sat up in the watch tower staring out over the skies keeping an eye out for the intruding ship, Riller was led on the floor staring down the scope of a sniper rifle which had been left in the tower.

"Riller, Are you angry with me?" Flora asked her voice giving away her worry.

"No Flora, of course not. I'm not angry just disappointed, you did technically cheat on me. Now we better get our head onto the mission. I have no idea what I would do if you got hurt because you were not concentrating."

"I know Riller, I'm sorry but we will talk about it after right?"

"Of course we will Flo I mean Jade" And with that the conversation ended, and they continued their eyes on the skies.

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"Are we there yet Timmy? This waiting is driving me mad" Stella spoke as she checked her nails out for the hundredth time.

"We are nearly there Stella…" Just as Timmy finished speaking a giant building came into view. The girls and guys stared at the building in shock.

"God that place looks like a prison, poor Flora." Layla spoke softly as she took in the building in front of her. "We have to find her…"

"Layla we can't just charge off in there we don't know what this place is? We don't know if there are any traps or anything like that." Nabu spoke as he held Layla back from charging off.

The Tides Princess sighed knowing that her boyfriend was right, she would be no help for Flora if she was dead. "Well what do we do then? We can't just sit her and call Flora's name out hoping she will come."

"Layla, we will slowly make our way through the building scanning ahead for any mechanical traps and keeping our eyes out for any other. We will keep as quiet at possible we don't want to give our position to anyone else who may be here" Riven spoke as he took out his sword and gave it a quick look over.

"Riven's right that is the best way to handle this, we will have to keep an eye out for any other people…"

"I can listen out for any other people within the building, I will be able to sense the vibrations of movement from anyone else."

"Well then let's go" Sky replied as he landed the ship on the grass.

Without a word the girls all powered up into their Enchantix as the boys got their weapons out, slowly they walked out of the ship, Tecna had her PDA out screening for any mechanical traps.

Flora stared down onto the green as well as Riller and watched as they began to walk across the green, Flora noticed out the corner of her eye that Riller was preparing to shoot. "No don't"

"What is your problem Jade, we have to kill them!" Riller whispered back harshly.

"There my friends…"

It was silent for a second and the next sound was a single gunshot but not from Riller's sniper, both girls dropped down to the floor and examined the burn mark on the wall.

"That was from a lazar gun"

"Timmy has one of those, they must have seen us!"

"Great, come on we have to get a move on, before they kill us…"

"They won't do that!"

"Jade look at what they just done, they fired at us we could have been innocent, we have to move on"

Flora sighed and followed Riller without another word, silently the two left the watch tower through the emergency escape and back to the main building, keeping their distance from the others. "Right since we can't kill them, what do you suggest we do then?"

"How about we knock them out and secure them in the gym, they are bound to split up, I know these guys they will split." It was silent as Riller thought it through.

"That will have to do for now until we can think of something better, are we going to stay together or split as well?"

"I think it will be better if we stick together, they will split boy girl, they always do. It's like they don't believe that the girls can look after themselves."

"Alright we wait till they split up, we can watch them through the CCTV cameras"

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"Timmy why the hell did you shoot" Tecna screamed at the poor specialist,

"I, I saw someone I panicked"

"You could have just killed Flora" Helia screamed as he grabbed Timmy by his collar, "you could have just killed her!"

Riven and Sky jumped forward and pulled Helia's grip off of the terrified boy, "Cool it Helia, there is a small possibility that Flora is dead, we know Timmy has no good shot. We will split up into groups, me and Bloom will go and check the tower to find any evidence of Flora being there or hurt. Stella and Brandon will head to the North Entrance and search the back rooms, Tecna and Timmy will work through the building to find the camera's to get us eyes on this place. Layla and Nabu will take the South entrance, Musa and Riven will take the East side and the garages. Helia you will go with Musa and Riven. Right any questions?"

It was silent, "Good let's move out then" each of the respected partners separated and went their own ways.

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Stella was walking silently towards the door on the North side of the building, her hands fidgeting in front of her and her body stiff and rigid. Brandon walked behind her with his plasma blade out at his side, he watched as she walked with fear in her body. He reached out and grabbed her arm and watched as she jumped. "Stella wait a minute"

"Holy…., what the hell was that all about Brandon?"

"Stella you need to calm down…"

"I can't help it what if there are other people here apart from Flora, I don't think we should have split up"

Brandon sighed as he put his sword away at his side, and gently grabbing Stella's cheeks in his hands. "Stella I don't think it was a good idea that we split up either but we know how heavy minded Sky can be, but he is right about it being the best way to find Flora. Stella everything is going to be okay, I won't let anyone hurt you, and I would bet my life that Flora wouldn't either. You saw her reaction when the cops were with her she is not a killer."

Stella smiled before leaning in and placing a soft kiss upon Brandon's lips, "I'm sorry Brandon, I'm just a little scared is all, and I know you will be there to protect me."

"Until the end Stella I will be there until the end" Brandon leaned in and captured Stella's lips once more. "Come on Princess we better get a move on"

The pair made their way towards the door and stood either side of it, Brandon signalled for Stella to power up and prepare. Stella closed her eyes and powered up, and nodded to Brandon that she was ready. Brandon slowly withdrew his sword and slowly outreached for the door handle, with one swift motion he opened the door and jumped in front ready for any battle that may come. But he was met with a brightly lit corridor, and no-one else in sight.

He motioned to Stella that it was safe to move forward, and she stepped out beside the specialist, "So where to now?"

"We take the rooms one at a time, then we meet up later with the others." They both moved slowly through the corridor being cautious as they did, as they reached the first door they opened the door slowly and entered the room ready to strike if needed.

The room was clearly a small office as there was two tables with a computer on each and a few filing cabinets around the room, it was barely lit. Brandon walked into the room and headed towards the computer leaving Stella stood in the doorway. Stella watched as Brandon began to type on the computer, his back to her. Suddenly a shadow appeared on the floor in front of her and she knew it wasn't her, before she had chance to scream a heavy object hit her on the back of her head. Brandon heard a loud thump and turned around to see Stella led on the floor clearly unconscious and a shadow stood over her. "STELLA!" Brandon screamed as he charged towards the shadow, but before he got near an arm wrapped around his neck from behind and held tight. Brandon struggled against the arm but soon his head began to feel dizzy and he soon passed out.

Stella groaned as she came to, slowly she put a hand to her head checking for any lumps, she moaned as she found a big one on the back of her head. Suddenly it all came back to her, she opened her eyes and sat up, obviously too fast as her head began to spin. Once her head calmed down she opened her eyes once more and looked around, she was sat on a camping bed. The room was a long rectangular shaped room with 12 beds lining the walls, the walls were a calm purple colour. There were no windows but the room was well lit by lights hanging from the ceilings.

Against the back wall was a book case full of different genres of books, and on top of that was a few magazines and bored games. As she scanned the room her eyes fell upon another bed and she instantly recognised the person led upon it. "Brandon!" wasting no time Stella got off of the bed and ran to his side, just as he was waking up.

"Stella? Where are we?" Brandon asked as he embraced her in his arms and pulled her onto his lap.

"I don't know I just woke up here, what's going on?"

"I don't know baby but I have a feeling that whoever did this does not want us dead, if they did we would be dead by now."

"You think so?"

"I do, come on Stella dry those eyes everything will be alright. Come on let me check your head you were hit pretty hard."

Stella leaned forward and allowed Brandon to check her head as her mind thought about what had just happened to them and how the hell they were going to get through this. Stella leaned back into Brandon's comfortable embrace and fell asleep in his warm arms.