The Elements

This is the kitchen bla bla, the bathroom bla bla, this is his office bla bla. This is all I heard in the hideaway tour. I wanted so bad to tell him to shut the fuck up and show us the dungeons, but we have to make an escape route, so I have to endure.

“And this door leads to the dungeons.”

I swear that my ear quirked up when I hear dungeons.

“From here I’ll let you go alone because we have an annual control and I have to be present. And the button that unlocks all the cells is right in the front. That’s all I need to tell you. I think. Bye.” and with that he was gone.

I sighed exasperated. “Finally!”

“Wow. Darks really talk a lot. And I mean a lot like a lot more than you and Sparky on a pj’s party. And that’s something.” Flame said and shook his head.

I couldn’t help but agree with him. Me and Sparky really talk a lot.

“Would you stop it? We are here in a mission, not to talk about how talkative are the girls.” Ash was clearly annoyed by us.

Grumpy pants.

I scoffed. “Just open the damn door!”

He looked at me with an eyebrow raised. “The Magic word?”

“NOW!” I shouted and glared at him.

“Fair enough.” he shrugged and opened the door.

Why? Why it has to be damn stairs? And why it has to be peach black? Just why??

Flame raised his hand and a sphere of fire appeared. “Let’s go idiots.”

They all turned around and looked at me.

I was confused for a minute but then I realized what they wanted. “No! I won’t go first. No. Never. Nope.” I said shaking my head.

“Yes. Yup. Yes you are.” Black grabbed me by my forearm and started to drag me downstairs.

I closed my eyes and trusted Black this time. Let’s hope I didn’t make a mistake.

“We’re there?” I asked when Black stopped.

“Kind of. We have a little problem.”

I opened my eyes. “What problem? Are you motherfucking kidding me? Another door?! And this one works with handprints. Fuckingtastic.”

“Maybe me or you Shadow, can burn it down with a little shock.” Ash suggest and his eyes were already turning yellow.

I shook my head. “Wait.” I raised my right hand and started to talk in the microphone. “River! We have a problem. We can’t get into the dungeons because it’s a fucking door that works just with handprints.”

“I understand. Wait a minute and let me see what I can do.”

“It’s not like we have anything else to do.” I said and furrowed my eyebrows at Black. “What are you doing?”

He was studying the scanner and wanted to put his hand in the scanner. “I cut some wires and interlocked another ones and I think it will work now.” he was avoiding my gaze while he was talking.

I was staring at him as he raised his hand and I swear that his eyes became black when he touched the scanner. It started to scan his hand and then the scanner turned green and the door opened with a click.

“Good job Black boy!” Flame patted him on the shoulder and walked in followed by Ash and Lincoln.

Black was staring at the scanner with a blank face. I was staring at him in question. What the fuck was that? And why he has that face?

He shook his and looked at me. “Let’s go and we are already a little late.” I flinch at his harsh tone and cold gaze.

He saw that and his face soften. “I’m sorry Li-”

“Keep it jerk.” I said on a dead cold tone and walked past him.

I gasped when I saw the dungeons. Everything was made of stone and all the prisoners were sleeping on the cold stone floor. But this was the nicest thing here. All of them were covered in dirt and dry blood. They look so hopeless and broken. When we entered here, they don’t even raised their heads to see who walked in.

“Yo! Shadow! Snap out of it! We don’t have very much time left.” Flame said and pressed the unlocking button.

All the cells opened with a click but the elementars didn’t moved a finger. I started to get angry.

“HEY! LISTEN UP EVERYONE! WE ARE HERE TO SAVE YOUR ASSES SO DROP THOSE LOST AND HOPELESS FACES! GET UP AND FOLLOW US TO FREEDOM!”

Some of them looked up at me and started to get up from the floor.

“That’s it people! Let’s do this!!” I said an ran in the back of the dungeons to help them to get up.

The boys were helping the ones in the front so I took the last 4 rows of cells. I helped all of them except one when an alarm started to ring.

Shit. This doesn’t sounds very good.

“EVERYONE WE HAVE TO GO NOW! THE DARKS FOUND OUT WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE! FOLLOW ME!” Flame yelled and walked out from the dungeon.

I ran into the last cell. “Come on! We have to get on of here! Try to get up!”

Here was a boy no older than me but he looks like he saw things that no one should have.

“What’s the point? I have no one left. My whole family is dead.” he whispers on the average on tears.

I was tapping my foot impatient. “Look. Don’t say that. Your family wouldn’t want you to be a loser that gives up on his own life. You have something to life for! You just have to find what that thing is. Now get up or I’ll carry you because I’m not letting people behind!” I said and looked at him dead in his teddy bear eyes.

WAIT! Teddy bear eyes! Oh my shit.

He started to get up and I helped him by putting his arm around my shoulders. “Hold on teddy. We have to walk a little faster than usual.” I warned him and started to walk fast.

I was the last one remained so I started to jog a little. Teddy was more hanging on my shoulder than walking by himself, but thank God he wasn’t heavy. I stopped when I saw that the people weren’t moving anymore.

“Well, well. Someone thought that they can trick us.”

I cursed under my breath and turned around. Five fucking darks were standing in front of me and all of them had guns. We are screwed. Mostly I’m screwed but they are too.

’Teddy, I’ll put you down and you have to hide between the people. You have to stay alive no matter what, okay? You have to.”

He nodded his head and I put him down.

“Aww. The little girl tries to be brave and safe everyone. How cute! Too bad that you’ll die.” the one in the middle said and throw a knife at me.

I smirked and cached it with my right hand while with the other hand I griped my gun. “This brave little girl is going to kill you.” I said and raised my gun.

I shoot two of them in the head and the rest 3 in the hand. At least they can’t shoot me now.

All of them snarled and lunged at me. I pulled a Clock 23 with my free hand and shoot two of them in the leg. I kicked the third one in the temple with Clock but he was back on his feet in less than a minute. He lunged at me again and I jumped to right and shoot him in the head. One of the darks remained on the floor grabbed my ankle and pulled me down. I fell down dropping my guns. I punched the dark in the face with my feet while I pulled out 2 handguns, but when I was about to put the trigger the other dark kicked me in the arms causing the guns to fly away.

Damn it!

The dark that grabbed my ankle was now standing on his feet with a knife in his hand. I jumped on my feet just in time to dodge the knife. They lunged at me and I jumped over them pulling out the other Clock and the handgun. I turned around and shoot both of them. Or, that’s what I wanted because just one of them was now falling on the floor. I heard footsteps behind me and when I turned around a knife cut my left side. I hissed in pain and the dark took it as an opportunity and kicked me in the ribs sending me flying into the wall.

I swear that I heard the wall cracking in my back. My guns were again not in my hands. I tried to pull out the last 2 guns from my boots but the dark shoved his boot into my face.

Yup. Definitely a broken nose.

This means I have one last variant. I blinked and my eyes turned stormy grey. I jumped on my feet and sent a lightning bolt in his direction but he dodge it and throw another knife. I dodge it too and shoot 2 lightning bolts this time. He dodged them again. I growled in frustration when an idea popped into my mind. I made a sphere of lightning bolts and started to ran to him. When he saw me coming he started to throw numerous knives but I dodged all of them. When I was right in front of him I shoved the sphere in the place were his heart should be and the fucker stabbed me with the knife in the same place as earlier before he fell on the floor breathless.

I turned around and walk past people until I was in the front. Here, the boys just finish 6 darks.

“Fucking darks. Let’s go before more of them come.” Flame said and started to walk away.

Ash followed him, while Lincoln and Black turned around.

When they saw my fabulous face, Lincoln ran to me and hugged me. “God. I thought you were dead.”

I hugged him back. “Well, I can’t feel my face or my left side so I’m half dead.”

He pulled away and glared at me. “Don’t you ever dare to say that again. EVER.”

“Huo, there! I won’t. Now let’s go before we are ambushed again.” I said search between all the people for teddy.

“Okay. I’ll walked in the back in case they try to attack us from the back.” Lincoln disappeared through the sea of people.

“TEDDY!! ARE YOU HERE??!!” I yelled when I couldn’t see him.

“I’m here.” he said and his head popped from behind a very tall and bulky guy.

I chuckled. “Come here. You have to stay with me because, how I said, I need you alive.” I motioned for him to come and started to walk after Flame.

He jogged until he was walking side with me.

“We are close to the exit.” I said after I looked around.

The alarm started to ring again and I cursed under my breath. “Teddy, go and run after that grumpy guy and the big angry one. I’ll go and help Lincoln.” I didn’t waited for his answer and I ran after Lincoln.

He was already fighting with two darks and two more were running in his direction. I raised my hand and shoot two lightning bolts in the ones fighting with Lincoln. He gave me a nod as ‘Thanks’ and froze the other two.

Suddenly, the earth started to shake and pieces of the ceiling started to fell. That’s not good.

“Let’s go sis.” he said grabbing my hand and we both started to run.

The rest were already outside motioning for us to hurry. I looked back and gasped when I saw that the ceiling was falling. I started to jog faster when I heard the pieces falling more closer to my back.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

I yelped when a piece fell on my head causing me to feel a little dizzy. I was about to fall down but Lincoln cached me and threw me over his shoulder.

“You are not dying with me here.” he said and jumped outside exactly when the ceiling was about to fell on us.

I smiled while breathing like an asthmatic. “We did it.”

Lincoln looked up at me and smiled too. “Yeah. I guess we did.”

“Good.” I said and everything turned black.