One would expect the
rebel hideout to be a little more… discrete? I was expecting a tunnel or
trapdoor entrance. Maybe a fortress if they wanted to make a point, but I was
not expecting a house.
The rebel hideout
Hamburger King sent us to was a simple two story house. I could vaguely hear
the sounds of two people arguing, but they didn’t really sound angry.
“Lilly, are you sure
this is the right place?” I asked.
She nodded, and handed
me the map. “Check for yourself if you want to. Let’s blow this place into the
next world.”
I shook my head. “No
way! These are just normal people! We shouldn’t be doing this! Just listen to
them speaking. How can you heartlessly kill them for no reason?”
Lilly made eye contact
with me, and for the first time, I noticed how cold her brown eyes were. A
shiver went down my back, and I instinctively took a step backwards. “Are you
intending to betray the Pisces Empire, Jinx?”
I grimaced. “No, but…”
She reached into her
vest and pulled out a little gray ball. She rotated it around in her hands, and
went to pull something off of it. I realized it was a grenade to late, and she
hurled it at the house. The weapon smacked into the door and stuck there. I
breathed a sigh of relief. It was a dud.
Lilly shrugged. “That
was my only grenade.”
“So can we go now? We
can tell the king to go screw himself.”
Lilly nodded. “Yeah,
let’s go.”
We both turned around
and headed away from the house. We were about halfway to the palace when Lilly
suddenly stopped. I turned to her, frowning, and she held up a finger for me to
wait. She reached into her coat and pulled out a little remote. I stared at it
incomprehensively, and she pressed a button on it. A moment later, a mushroom
cloud rose into the air behind us, and a wave of sound blasted me of my feet.
She pulled two wax
earplugs out, and tossed them on the ground. “There. The job is finished.”
My ears were ringing,
and my vision was flickering with black. She glanced at me, and rolled her
eyes. “You got nailed in the back of the head with a piece of debris. Idiot.”
I felt a flame rising
in my chest. “You monster! You killed them! You killed them for no reason, and
you lied to me!”
She spat on the ground
in front of me. “Come back when I care. War isn’t for babies, so don’t be a
coward.”
I wrapped my right hand
around my pendant, and a warm thrum of power rushed through me. My eyes
narrowed. In a swift movement, I lifted the pendant and threw it onto the
ground. Flames erupted along my right arm, and I lunged forward. Lilly easily
dodged my punch, and kicked me in the back.
I tumbled forward, and
fell face first into the ground. She planted her boot on my back, and pressed
my face into the ground. “The only reason I haven’t killed you yet is because
the Pisces Empire needs someone to get an army, and you fit. Got that, worm?”
The flames on my arm
leapt upwards, and she yelped. She jumped off of me, and I got to my feet. I
placed my arm on the ground, and let the energy travel out of it. The flames on
my arm died, and a spear of flame shot up from the ground and shot through
Lilly’s leg.
I pulled my energy
dagger from my pocket, and the blade shimmered to life. I jumped forward, and
pressed it to her neck. “The only reason I haven’t killed you yet is because
I’m not a murderer like you are.” I hissed, and shoved her in the back.
She stumbled onto her
injured leg, and fell onto the ground. I turned the dagger off and slipped it
into my pocket. Lilly rolled over, and stared at me. “You’re an idealistic
fool.”
“You’re a murdering
devil.”
She grimaced, and
pulled a bandage out of her shirt and wrapped the wound. “The fire sealed the
wound, so you won’t die of blood loss.” I said.
She raised an eyebrow.
“How do you know about that? You said you don’t like fighting, yet here you are
knowing about it.”
I shrugged. “I’m fine
with helping people, just not the causing them to need help part.”
The steady thrum of
running alerted me to another’s presence as a guard ran up to us. “How goes the
termination of the rebels? The Lord King Hamburger saw the explosion and sent
me to find out what was going on.”
I smirked a little.
“The rebels are dead. Bring us to Hamburger.”
The guard nodded. “Can
your partner move on her own?”
Lilly nodded. “Just
give me a stick.”
The guard took his
weapon off of his back and emptied it into the sky. He tossed her the used
weapon. “Will that work?”
Lilly nodded. “Yeah,
this will be fine. Thank you.”
My eyes narrowed, and I
jumped behind the guard, turning my Energy Dagger on. I pressed it to his
throat. “Tell them to come out.”
“Wh-what? What are you
talking about?” He stuttered.
I kept silent, and he
sighed. “Come out.”
Several other guards
came out of the bushes along the road. “How did you know?” He asked.
“You were kind. The
guards that the Hamburger King had were brutal. They would have told Lilly to
walk on her own. Or they would have shot her to put her out of her pain. You’re
rebels, aren’t you?”
One of the rebels
nodded. “Right you are. I assume you see our problem with ya? You just blew our
base to hell and took two of our friends with it.”
I turned off the
dagger, and pushed the rebel away. “You guys have to leave now. Lilly will
attack you the second she can pull her pistol.”
Sure enough, Lilly was
struggling with the weapon. “Run!” I snapped.
They hesitated for a
moment, and one went to pull his own weapon. I chucked a rock at him, and it
whizzed by his head. It smashed the sights on his gun, and he dropped it in
surprise. I glared at them, and they all turned and ran.
“Whew. I got lucky
there. I guess those days of throwing paperweights at people helped out after
all.
Lilly tossed me my
pendant, and I slipped it back on. “You only threw a paperweight at someone one
time.”
I shrugged. “Let’s go
get the darn troops from that fat cow and get out of here.”
She nodded. “I can
agree with you there.”
She picked the empty
weapon up from where she had dropped it when she had gone to draw her pistol,
and leaned on it. Then we stumbled slowly towards the castle looming in the
distance.
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