Tada! Chapter 19! See, I promised you guys I'd deliver. Enjoy!
Outside of the house was a bridge, another little shack thing, two enormous gates, and the merchant.
"So is this the guy you bought your gun from?" Ashley asked me once we walked up to the masked man.
I nodded my head and the blonde female turned to our rescuer. "Leon, I want a gun."
The man furrowed his brow, and rubbed his hand against his forehead, obviously annoyed. "Not you too…"
She rolled her eyes and put her hands on her hips. "You let her have one! And she's not even legally allowed to!"
"Hey, don't bring me into thi-"
Leon cut me off. "Well, neither are you, Ashley."
She grunted in frustration. "That doesn't change anything. She's not even an adult yet, she shouldn't even know how to use a gun!"
What did she mean 'I shouldn't even know how to use a gun'? Was she being serious? "Yeah, well, neither should you, Mrs. I'm-so-perfect-because-my-daddy's-the-president. Take a look at the situation we're in. This shouldn't be able to happen either, but it did and here we are. Now, whether he buys you a gun or not, I want to get the hell out of this place before I completely lose my mind."
I trudged off in the direction of the little shack while they gaped at me, in shock.
In said shack there was a typewriter and a note.
"Two Routes" It read.
"Just a while ago, I was informed by Lord Saddler that our men had shot down a United States military helicopter. There shouldn't be any more outside interference for a while now.
"The Lord has also informed me that the younger girl has also escaped. Although she already has the Plagas egg in her, we still need to recapture her, along with the other girl, to initiate our plan to the fullest.
"The three Americans can only get out of our territory by using one of two routes. This is where we will stop them.
"We shall make uses of our forces to the greatest degree.
"We will deploy a large number of Ganados…"
"Is that what those things are called…?" I whispered aloud to myself, before continuing to read.
"…in one of the routes to ensure that they do not slip by us. For the other route we shall leave the task to the giant. Whichever route they take, the agent will never leave here alive. Not with the girls at least."
This worried me. I mean, sure, we've fought 'a numerous amount of Ganados before, and Leon has fought one of those giant things before, but the way they described it in the note sent chills down my spine.
I walked out of the shack and saw Leon and Ashley talking prices with the merchant. Apparently, Leon had given in, and bought Ashley a gun. I wondered if she even knew how to use it correctly.
"Hey, what's that?" Leon asked me, pointing to the note while Ashley stuck her gun in-between her belt and her shirt.
"Another note. Basically, all it says is that we have to pick one of these doors to go through." I pointed to said doors/gates.
"Okay… well what's so bad about that?"
"One route holds another giant, and the other holds a lot of those freaky villagers."
"Does it say which is which?"
I shook my head. "No, just that either one we take, we won't make it out alive…"
Nobody said anything to that. We walked over to the lever that opened the gates and stared at it.
"Well… are you going to pull it?" Ashley asked.
"Ashley, it's not that simple. One of these routes could lead us to our unfortunate deaths." I explained.
"I highly doubt that. They want us alive, right? I don't think killing us would make that Saddler guy very happy."
She had a point. But, in the note it said all he wanted was the girls, and that the 'agent' was going to die. Why did he only want us? He said he wanted Ashley alive to send her back to the states after she had the egg, but why me? How was I important? Maybe he just had a thing for young girls and he was planning on-
"My gut says go left." Leon interrupted my thoughts, thankfully.
"Why left?" I asked.
"It just seems like the easier way to go."
"Are you sure…?" I pondered aloud.
He didn't answer, he just pulled the lever to the left, and that gate opened. He didn't have to say anything for me to know that he was, in fact, not sure; his face said it all.
When we opened the door we were greeted by "Allí esta!"'s and "Un forastero!"'s. There was a wagon with barrels in front of us, and a lot of villagers gathered around it, walking slowly towards us. So, me being me, I did the first thing that came to mind: I shot the barrels. They exploded, and every villager within range of the fire was engulfed in flames. Once there were no more Ganados in sight, Leon told us to wait where we were while he went and checked the area out.
Ashley and I stood there in awkward silence until-
VroooOOmm VROOOOMM…
Two chainsaws started and we saw Leon running for his life back to us.
"Chainsaws?" I asked Leon. He breathlessly nodded as the two women made their way towards the three of us.
"Girls, get in there!" Leon commanded, pointing to a rusty, orange, dumpster-looking container.
I glanced at the container. It was wide, but not very tall. We could both probably fit in it if we crouched down.
The two women got closer; they were jumping down from the ledge Leon came from. I was torn. One part of me said "No, stay here with Leon. Help him fight, prove to him that you're stronger than he thinks." While the other side said "Just get in there already! Do you want to get yourself killed? Leon has had special training for these kinds of things, just imagine how he would feel if you were killed by them!"
I glanced at the container, and back at Leon. He was pulling out his TMP, ready to shoot the living daylights out of the two women. The latter was right; he could handle this by himself. I quickly ran for the orange container of which Ashley was already hiding in and we shut the lid and tried to listen for the sounds of gunshots, but the chainsaws were too loud.
I covered my ears and put my head between my knees. I should have stayed out there… I thought. He's going to get killed and it's all my fault…
I felt a hand gently place itself on my upper right arm. "He's going to be alright…" Ashley whispered in the darkness.
I looked up at her and in the light coming through a tiny crack in the lid, I saw her comforting eyes. I nodded slightly and we sat there, waiting for all the noise to stop.
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