Saturday, 6 December 2014

chapter 5 opposite ends.

Hello everyone, my book is being published next year (yay!) but it means i can't post anymore of the book onto my blog. but i'm giving you one last chapter to check out so you have one last small taste until next year.
Enjoy.
Chapter 5: The truth behind her choice.

I could feel the sun light coming through the tent, waking me up slowly with its warmth. But the warmth that was next to me wasn’t coming from the sun, what is that? Shit. I opened my eyes to see legs, wrapped around mine like a vine in winter light. And an arm placed softly across my chest. Whose arm? What the hell had happened? My mind was spinning, not awake enough to pull my head around it. Jamie was snoring softly in my ear, it kind of felt comfortable to be next to him but my mind was screaming at my heart, ‘Ryan is your man! Not Jamie!’
I slowly pulled away from him trying to sneak out, but it wasn’t happening. As I went to stand up he slowly opened his eyes in that adorable sleepy boy way. Come on Em. stop thinking of him that way, one night! That’s all it is!
My thoughts were deceiving me, all I could think was how good he looked laying there looking at me and his lips softly moving, his voice low and sleepy. Oh yeah speaking, speaking to me. “Em, is something wrong beautiful?” I couldn’t think. I had to, I had to run.
I ran as fast as I could, the world a blur around me. My thoughts were all I could see and hear. No idea where I was going, where I was or where I would end up. All I knew was I had to run.
Soldiers flew past my vision, explosions flared in the corner of my eye and barbed wire was crunching into the heels of my boots. ‘What the hell should I do?’ was all I could think, stuck in a war I didn’t want part of and stuck in a life I didn’t want. I could feel the tears running down my face as my breath caught in my throat, my head was spinning and spinning and my vision began to blur.
 “Em! Where are you going? Em!“ I had been followed by Jamie, my vision was almost black by the time he had caught up with me. I felt like I couldn’t breathe, like my stomach was in my chest and my heart was in my throat. “Em, what’s wrong? What is going on? Get up Em, please get up.” So many emotions passed through my head, but one stood out the most. Anger, angry at myself for being such a fool and anger is a powerful emotion.
“Enough!” I shouted but my voice was cracked with power leaving it distorted and echoing through the air. And there it was, the power everyone kept telling me I possessed let loose by my emotions, my eyes burned as if the world had suddenly become brighter somehow.
I stood slowly, trying to keep my balance. Jamie looked at me wide eyed, “Em? Are you back?” he asked hesitantly. He thought I was the other me.
“No, it’s still me.” I could feel the words leaving my lips but it sounded nothing like my voice. I focused on my breathing, like some sort of meditation trying to calm the surge of power within me. It was like an adrenalin rush of sorts, calming your heart after fight or flight mode was the only thing I could compare it to.
I don’t know how long it was, it felt like hours but it must have been only a few minutes standing there with my eyes shut, listening to the distant shouting and explosions. “Jamie, what’s going on out there? Why does it sound like World War III is just round the corner?” He looked at me with a cocked half-smile, his eyes glinted just for a second.
“The scoping has begun!” he grinned, grabbing my hand and just whispered one word in my ear, one word so full of adrenalin, so full of life, it made my heart skip a beat; “Run!” and I ran straight into the fields of battle alongside Jamie and Ryan and every other poor soldier willing to fight. There it was again, that surge of power, it was my turn to fight.
The battle felt like it was lasting a life time, Jamie was defence in front of me and Ryan a few feet ahead fighting with all his might. That surge of energy was pulsing, I could feel it tingling in my finger tips and flowing through my legs. Before I knew, it I was walking into a group of the enemy. “My turn,” I grinned stamping my foot on the floor. As my foot hit the floor the ground cracked under me, collapsing under the enemy, leaving mother nature to swallow them whole and to feast on their flesh. I picked up a rusted metal bar and, as it touched, my skin it crackled with the same energy produced from my skin, turning it into some sort of cattle prod.
Wielding my new weapon, I swung at any enemy attempting to come near me. As soon as it touched even an inch of their armour, or even their guns, it sent a pulse of electricity through them stopping their hearts before they touched the ground. A bullet sank into shoulder, the energy spat it back out into the shooter’s skull. Another bullet buried itself into my ribs on my right side piercing my lung, my breath caught in my throat, I couldn’t even scream in the agony I felt. The energy swirled around my vision in shades of gold and grey, the pain was leaving me but so was my vision and my hearing. Everything began to sound so distant.
“Em!” someone shouted. My vision was blurry but I could see Ryan kneeling beside me as I fell to the ground. “ It’s going to be ok Em, we’ve got to get you out of he-“ his voice was cut off by the sound of a gunshot so close by it could have been right next to us, and it was.
A bullet plunged straight through his skull and out the other side leaving a trail of his brain flowing out of the tiny little entry hole on the side of his head. His eyes were open so wide but blood seeped out the corners. He was dead.
I wanted to scream, to do something, but I was frozen by fear, pain and heartbreak. His body collapsed into my lap covering me in the blood and brain that continued to flow from his head, a piece of his skull was cracked and cutting into my leg. And there he was, the soldier who shot Ryan was standing above me pointing his gun straight at me. I looked up into his face, into his cold soulless eyes, to see it was a man I knew and despised from what felt like a different life ago back in that base when it all began. Agent Cable.
“Kill me! ”I shouted at him, as tears poured down my cheeks mixing with Ryan’s blood. “Just kill me!”
He smiled putting his hand on my head and pushing me down, shoving my face into the dirt.
“Mark! Let her go!” Jamie was by my side now glaring at Agent Cable.
“Jamie, I’ve missed you,” he said sarcastically, pointing his gun in Jamie’s face.
“Please Mark, just walk away.” Jamie was keeping his cool, and Mark just grinned as if someone had just offered him a million pounds. He pointed his gun at me again.
“Scum.” He pulled the trigger leaving a deafening boom as the bullet ripped through my flesh burying itself in my shoulder blade. I screamed in pain, Jamie stood to attack but Agent Cable was faster, knocking him down and placing his boot on his cheek slowly breaking his jaw whilst pointing his gun at me again. My vision was stained with tears and blood, but there it was again that pulse of energy flowing through me but this time it was different, it was as if it was filling my brain and flooding my broken heart.

I lost consciousness.

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