Survival

Alaric

“Okay so onto me” Skyrah says quietly.

“So, Skye, your dress has a bodice made from the bullet proof material, it also has a slit in the skirt, you said you wanted to move easily, and I also made a leg holster, the slit will allow you to reach your gun quickly, you should probably master running in heels though” she says laughing.

“Oh god” Skyrah says. Astraea hands Raine a silver mask with lots of swirled carvings and she hands the final mask to Skyrah that has lots of lace and a silver gem at the side that attaches black ribbon to the mask.

“Urm, quick question guys, where are we meant to get weapons from?” I ask.

“There is a weapon safe house near the town hall, I know where it is, but is it worth the risk?” Raine says.

“I think it is, Skye?” I ask.

“I agree with Alaric” She says so quietly I barely hear her.

“Okay then, well I suggest we go at midnight tonight, things will be quieter and we have less chance of being caught” Raine says, she gets up and grabs a pen and a piece of paper, she draws a square and writes weapons on it, then she draws a line and writes road.

“We need a quick getaway, do we know anyone that drives well apart from us?” she says. I don’t know anyone here, but Skyrah quickly offers up a name.

“My friend Jaunie is a really good driver, she hasn’t taken her test because she is my age but she did take a lesson as a birthday present one year and she was really good” Skyrah says “Emory, can you call Jaunie and tell her to come here?” she asks.

“Well I can, but just let me say Skye, it hurts that you didn’t pick me to drive, right in here” he jokes pointing to his heart.

“Because you suck at driving Em” she laughs and he sticks out his tongue and walks out to call Jaunie.

“So that is where the door is, the main door, which we will obviously not be using, but there is a back door right here” she says drawing a cross onto the square. Emory comes back in and sets his phone onto the table.

“I said I had a surprise for her and she had to get her ASAP” he says proudly.

“Good, we need to make sure she doesn’t freak out because- well you know” she says motioning to herself.

“Eh, she will be fine” Emory says spreading his arms across the back of the couch. Ten minutes later there is a knock at the door. Skyrah jumps up and runs for the door but then she realises she can’t answer the door so she stops. I hear a girl’s voice.

“Hey Em, you have a surprise?” she says laughing.

“I do have a surprise” he says and she walks in and screams.

“Hey Jaunie” Skyrah said and waves awkwardly.

“But you, you are meant to be dead” Jaunie gasps.

“Yeah, I know, but let’s face it, I never do what I’m told, and yeah before you start rambling on about how and why and who these people are, I’ve heard it before so I will just say the short version” she says tiredly.

“O-okay” Jaunie stutters.

“Who, Raine and Alaric, friends of mine” she says “how, Layla pushed me out, Raine and Alaric got me back in” and finally she says “why, because I’m insurgent”

“Why are you here though?” Jaunie asks.

“Because, you know Morrisa Mercer right?” Skyrah says.

“Yeah of course”

“Well she wants to kill anyone that is insurgent or anyone that has a skill she perceives as threatening, the vaccination next month isn’t to fight off a disease, it is to fight off us, it is to see whether a person is insurgent, they will then round up all those people and kill them all with another injection” Skyrah says.

“And we need your help tonight” she says.

“Okay, okay, it will be safe right?” Jaunie asks.

“I can’t guarantee that Jaun, all you need to do is drive us back here quickly after we steal weapons from the weapon safe house” she says.

“You are stealing weapons, it sound like you are about to declare a full on war Skye” Jaunie says in disbelief.

“It’s inevitable Jaunie, we need to do what is right and bring them down, they don’t deserve the power they have, they’ve already got Zaynah on their side, I can’t lose you too Jaun” she says hugging Jaunie.

“What do you mean they’ve got Zaynah?” she says.

“Zaynah was in a search party on the outside and they were going to kill me, hell they tried, they shot at me” she says.

“That fake bitch, she has been acting like she really misses you and-“Jaunie says pacing up and down.

“You can’t tell anyone that I am alive, Astraea, Emory and his family know and that’s it apart from you and these guys” she says motioning to Raine and me.

“Okay, I’m in” she says smiling.

Raine talks us through the plan once more and we leave at eleven thirty. We all pile into the car. Jaunie in the driver’s seat, Skyrah in the passenger’s seat, me, Emory and Astraea on the back seats and Raine sits on my lap.

“Are we ready for this?” Skyrah says.

“As ready as we will ever be” I say and she smiles. We drive for twenty minutes slowly through town. We pull up alongside a large warehouse. Jaunie stays in the car and we all run to the back door of the warehouse.

“I can pick this” Emory says looking at the lock, he gets a small pin out of his pocket.

“A hairpin?” Raine asks.

“Yeah” he says as if it’s that obvious. He puts the flat side of the pin into the lock and twists it, the door quickly pops open.

“Ta-da” Emory says and walks in. We didn’t think anyone would be inside. A few guards stand on the far side of the warehouse.

“Intruders” one of them shouts and the other presses a button on the wall that sets off an alarm. We all dive behind some metal crates. I grab a gun and quickly load it, my fingers fumble and by the time I am finished Skyrah is already shooting over the crates. I quickly stand and aim at the guard by the button, I shoot at him and he falls to the floor.