My Secrets and Horrors

Chapter 20 – Free

Previously

Ms Faragonda sighed "I'm just worried about Flora's past and if she will come out of all of this okay."

"You know she will Faragonda, she has all the girls behind her and don't forget the boys. They will come back fine, and safe." Griselda replied as she put a hand on her friends shoulder.

"I know, Ii know but it doesn't stop me worrying…"

"Worry is always there, Faragonda, it is what makes us strong."

"I know. I just hope I can be strong enough, not just for me but for the girls as well…"

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"So are you going to tell you us everything?" Sky asked as he sat next to Bloom on the bed near the rest of girls and guys. Flora sighed as she knew she had to tell them.

"I guess I better start from the beginning, I am an orphan, my parents died when I was about 6 months old, they died in a car accident on the way back from their first night out alone since having me. I had no family in the area, and the rest of my family didn't want to take me in so I was put into an orphanage." Flora sighed deeply as she took a quick break

Flora swung her legs over the side of the bed and sat up moaning softly as the stiches pulled at the movement, "I spent nearly 8 years in that orphanage having handed down clothes, and minimum meals. Then when I was just about to turn nine when a man came and wanted to adopt me, at that age I didn't care who they were I just wanted to get out of there. So he adopted me with not a lot of questions asked, and I went to live with him."

Riller smiled as she knew what section was up next," When I arrived I saw loads of adults and kids roaming the corridors all looking so sure of themselves, so self-confident and then there was me… shy, weak and scared. That was when I met Riller for the first time, she just walked up to me without a worry in the world and asked who I was and if we could be friends, before I had a chance to reply the man told her my name was Jade and that I was to share a room with the girl."

Riller decided to continue the tale, "Flora then came and stayed in my room, it wasn't a room like this as we were special, it was a small room, with two separate beds and two desks, perfect little dorm room, real comfy. We grew really close as we was taught how to blend in, how to hide, how to become invisible, how to kill and every other skill an assassin needed to know. But at that age we didn't understand what we were training for."

Flora smiled lightly at the happy memories that was playing through her head. "When I reached the age of fourteen me and Riller was the best in the school of what we were doing, it was this year I was given my first assignment I was to mug this man in the street, they didn't tell me what exactly I was stealing all I knew was I had to take his wallet. I succeed and returned to the base turns out there was a valuable piece of information in his wallet, but what I don't know, it wasn't my place to ask."

Flora stood up and walked over to the book case and leaned on it as she stared at the floor, wanting a bit of distance between her and the girls. "It was a year later I started to get the kill missions, every time I had to kill someone I backed out at the last minute I start to walk away, I either hear a gunshot or a scream, I turn around and my target was dead. For years that went on I still have no idea who kills them but it isn't me…I would love to find out who it is…"

Riven stepped forward "Why the hell do you want to know who this murderer is?

"Because Riven, it is due to him that I'm not dead at the minute, anyone who fails three tasks is executed as they are classed at a failure, and they are a threat to the company because they may or we may reveal secrets of the company. So in a way that person saved my life by killing those I could not."

It was silent for a while in the room, no one knowing what to say, but Flora thought that it was time for her to continue "I was then given the mission named Alfea, my job was to go into Alfea as a student and await orders…The I got the order to rob the museum… yes it was me but I didn't kill the security guard, I think my shadow did. I ran I didn't know about the security guards and then I think you know the rest."

"So it was you that broke into the museum, but you didn't kill the guard" Tecna asked wanted confirmation.

"No I haven't killed a soul, I can't I'm not that kind of person"

Stella stood up and walked over to Flora and placed a friendly hand on her shoulder, Flora turned slightly to face her and was shocked when the sun fairy pulled into a hug holding her tight as she did but being careful of her wound. Flora couldn't help but let a few tears escaped as her friend held her close, telling her by her body language that it was alright and that she was still a friend.

As the tears subsided Flora wiped her eyes and stared up at her friend, "Thank you"

"You have no reason to thank us Flora, we are your friends and we are here for you."

"Yer Flo, we are here till the end, whenever that maybe." Musa replied as she placed a hand on her friends shoulder

"I love you girls, I never wanted to hurt you…" Flora said as she looked at the girls one by one.

"We know Flora, and that is why we are here to help now." Stella replied.

Flora stared at the ground as she held her side with her hand the stiches pulling and causing slight pain, everyone noticed this but choose to say nothing. "So what are we going to do?" Flora asked the question that hung in the air and needed to be said.

"Well you are in no shape to fight Flora, and don't try and argue with me, you know you're not. We need to get out of here, we are not safe with that coward of a man roaming the halls." Riller took a breather "We need to leave the complex, I think Alfea would be best…."

"We can't…" Flora tried to but in but was stopped.

"No Flora you know it's our only option, the only question now is how do we get out of here?"

The boys looked at each other before Nabu spoke, "We have the ship outside, we could use that to fly away, but it means we would have to get back outside… but that should be easy with that dude injured." Riller thought about it for a second, before shaking her head slightly,

"It's not going to be that easy, Jason heals extremely quickly, that injury would only affect him for a few hours at the most. About ten years ago there was a programme set up here funded by the government who were sworn to secrecy. The funded for experiments to take place to make the ultimate solider."

Riller paused and waited for any response before continuing, "Jason was a convict who was on death row before he was brought here for the experiments, they spent months nearly a year injecting him with numerous things in hunt for the perfect solider. The government stopped the funding as they couldn't afford it so Jason became an assassin, but although they didn't finish the experiments he still had some abilities, he healed fasted and his reflexes were a little faster and better than a regular human. He is more than human now."

The look of shock was on everyone's faces, "So basically they experimented on a human being and made him like a super being?"

"Exactly" Riller responded as she sat on the bed next to Flora, Flora sat down on the bed and gripped her ribs in attempt to numb the pain a little more, but nothing seemed to be working.

"Then what do you suggest Riller…" Flora asked as she gasped slightly swinging her legs over the edge of the bed and laid on her back.

Eyes moved over to Flora worry in all of them, as Flora led on the bed her face etched in pain as she gripped her ribs. "We have to get out to that ship, Jason is only going to hunt us down in here, we can't stay her, he will find us." Flora managed to get out. "We have to move"

"And how do you think you can manage that Flora, you have been stabbed and with no source of pain relief, you won't be able to make it, you will either agitate the wound and be at risk of bleeding out or pass out first because of the pain. You won't make it"

"Does it matter if I stay here I'm dead anyway, I have got to try." Riller stared at Flora knowing she was right but didn't want to admit it.

The room was silent as no one knew what to say, but it was Riven who spoke first. "She is right Riller, we have no other option, we have to move… but this doesn't mean you will be walking Flora, you would be safer carried."

"I am not being carried, owwwww" Flora yelled

"Yes you are, you don't have the choice." Riven spoke his tone telling her that there was no point arguing against him. Flora slouched back against the bed giving in.

Riven smirked as he realised he had won the battle and turned to face Musa a small smile on his face, "Come on we better get moving then." Riller spoke as she checked her belt to ensure that she had everything she needed. "Helia can you carry her, I would have but someone needs to protect her and you." Helia was about to respond when Riller turned around and walked over to the hidden door, Helia quickly went to Flora's side and with little resistance he picked her up bridal style causing her slight pain and a grimace to appear on her face.

Helia looked down at Flora's face and saw the look of fear on it, causing lines to appear on her face, her arm was hugging her ribs covering the bandage. He slowly walked towards Riller "Right now, where do we go." Riller smiled and moved up to a panel in the wall before touching it in three different places and a door appeared opening out into a corridor.

"We go this way" She replied with a smile on her face.

"Okay that answered my question." Helia replied a little awed.

Riller let a small laugh out as she started to walk out of the room into the corridor, "Now keep your eyes open for any sign of that, that man. Now where did you enter the building?"

Timmy stepped next to Riller, "I can't tell you where but I can show you were if you take me back to where you got us from."

"Of course, if I take you there we got you, and you get us out to your ship, right?"

"Yes exactly, let's go"

The walk was silent as everyone was on full alert for any sign that they were not alone, the only noise was the slight pant from Flora, every step that Helia took sent a shiver of pain up through her body. Helia tried to stop looking at her pained face but he couldn't help it, it hurt him to know that she lied to him but it hurt him more to know that she was in pain. But as he looked down at her he knew that everything was going to be alright, in the end no matter how far away that was. Timmy broke the awkward silence, "There it is the hole we came through, you can already see the ship from here" Tecna smiled and kissed her boyfriend on the cheek.

"Well done baby, we better get back to Alfea, try and sort some type of plan out." Tecna replied before taking the lead and climbing through the gap and walking out towards the ship looking around to make sure the coast was clear, before nodding to the rest of the group that they could continue.

The ship hummed to life as the men started her up, Helia had placed Flora on one of the beds before placing a blanket over her and moving over to the cock pit to help to take off. Musa walked over to Flora's side and sat on the bed near her head, the vibrations of the ship was causing more pain to course through Flora.

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Jason stared out of the window and watched as the group moved across the lawn towards the ship parked on the grass, a smile grew on his face as he picked a gun up from the floor and straightened his arm aiming it towards the group and fired.