Some Strange Type of Peculiar Love

The Final Attack Part One

Third Person POV

Fiona ran, she didn't know where she was going, but she somehow knew where she'd end up.

At the base of acre's bridge, -which led to the panaloopticon where one could escape as a last resort— hundreds of seedsprouts like her grew whatever they could to reinforce the ground. Fiona had a scary thought leap into her brain,
If he can't get us, will he kill us all?
With that thought, she got onto her knees and commanded the roots to hold the base of the bridge steadfast to the ground. She ran across to the other side and did the same. Others ordered her to go to the other side and mind the work there. She nodded and ran back as fast as she could despite her lungs burning from lack of oxygen.
Then there was a loud bang.

Fiona's POV

I heard it. Everyone did. It sounded like the Earth was shattering, like the world was an egg and we were being cracked open by a mother and child trying to make a cake. The ground shook and everyone fell to their knees. A child next to me who looked about 6 or 7 cried for his ymbryne. Then there was an unbeatable deafening sound- silence. Was that it? Everyone around me cautiously stood up and took a few shaky steps.
"I think—" The boy next to me was cut off by a loud voice, Caul.
"You think you killed me? I'm unstoppable!" He yelled. He was a cloud, but a dark one. His whole body was made of swirling black anger, he had to have been at least 200 feet tall. He towered over us like a giant about to step on anything in its way—us. He swept his arm over the apartments knocking them down swiftly. I tried not to think of the peculiars who had been crushed by the debris.
"Run!" Someone yelled. I didn't hesitate. We ran to Bentham's tower. The big wooden doors were no match for all of us and were taken down almost immediately. We dashed inside and I noticed now that I was soaked from rain that I didn't even realize was falling. Much to our surprise, there were others there. All of us it seemed like, which made sense as this probably was the safest place to run. I heard someone call my name and I was embraced in a tight hug. It was Horace.
"Do you know where anyone else is?" I shook my head.
"Hugh?"
I shook my head and my eyes started to water. Horace wrapped me in another tight hug. When he let go he had a determined look on his face.
"Let's go save our world."

Hugh's POV

By the time I got to the dock, Jake and Noor were there.
"Hugh!" He threw his hot sweaty arms around me.
"Where's Fiona?" Noor asked nervously, she had very seldom seen us apart from one another.
"Growing things to help the bridge stay together."
"Is that where everyone else is?"
There was nobody lining the streets as usual, not even the homeless and addicted.
"Yes." I lied.
The water behind Jake and Noor became choppy and I felt sick just looking at it. Rain started to fall and the wind whipped frantically.
"Let's go!" Noor shouted.
"I am unstoppable!" I halted, I knew that voice.
We all dreaded that nails on a chalkboard voice.
Jake and Noor ran faster towards Bentham's. I saw our house on the way there, completely destroyed. Fiona's two chickens clucked wildly. I took a quick detour and grabbed both of them by the feet like I saw Enoch do (Which Fiona hated but now is not the time for luxury chicken carrying) and tried to catch up to Jake. My lungs burned and my legs felt like the orange jello Jake had us try back in the present.
"Go in that door! There's a basement down there, it's a tunnel! It leads to Bentham's!" Jake roared over the wind.
"Why do you have those chickens?" Noor asked. I ignored her.
"Stay with everyone else, don't wander!" I nodded and wished them luck. The door was long gone and the basement steps were practically in the doorway. I ignored the birds pecking at my hands and clawing at my skin.
"I'm trying to bring you to Fiona, you bloody fools!" After hearing her name they immediately calmed down, she was almost a mother to them. I walked slowly through the dark tunnel. It was dark and damp. It smelled of moss and dirt and seemed like the perfect place to murder someone. Soon I saw a light and a ladder. I put the chickens down.
"Stay." I commanded. They did.
"Hey! Let me up!" I hollered. I climbed up the slippery metal rungs and pounded on the wooden door myself.
"Help!" I screamed.
The door opened and I saw two faces standing over me, Olive and Claire.
"Hugh!" The cried in unison.
"Hold it open, I have the chickens!"
"Did he say chickens?" I heard a posh voice say, Horace.
I grabbed chicken 1 and tossed him to Olive, who barley caught the flightless bird before it broke its neck, and then chicken 2. By the time I climbed up the ladder it seemed everyone in the acre was here. Bentham's house was large, but it barley fit us all here. We looked like war refugees, which I guess we were.
"Where's everyone else?" I asked.
"Fiona is with Bronwyn and Miss Peregrine." I nodded. "And Emma?"
"Warming up the dazed and confused." Horace threw his head to the side. I saw Emma crouching down and holding her warm hands over shell shocked peculiars, some were grown adults.
"'Dazed and confused' is another way of saying 'weaklings'." Enoch said callously.
"Enoch!" Stomped Claire.
"What? We've been through this time and time again but you don't see me crying for the bird!"
Claire and Enoch started to bicker as I shivered.
"Let's get you some new clothes." Horace walked me over towards the locked hallway doors. The once large castle like mansion seemed small and insignificant now. He pulled out a shiny gold key that hung around his neck and unlocked the door in a secretive way. He closed it again and locked it behind us. I frowned at him.
"What? Some of these people have fleas! We can't just let the roam like buffalos!" He defended.
"Speaking of fleas, is that what's going on with your shirt? It's hideous."

Third Person POV

Jake and Noor tried to fight the monster outside, but they simply couldn't. Noor shot all the light she had, but it proved futile. Caul was smaller now, only about 7 feet, but he was riding what seemed like a larger than life hybrid hollowgast.
"He's tired!" Jake yelled. Noor nodded, if he shrunk that fast with as little as they could do, he wasn't as omniscient as he claimed to be. Jake tried to command his last living hollow, but he was too injured from the falling debris to fight. Suddenly the other light eaters him and Noor discovered that day were next to them shooting rays of light into his eyes, but it didn't seem to affect him any longer. Caul got closer.
"Come in! Hurry!" It was Miss Peregrine.
"We can't!" Noor shouted back.
"She's right, we need to go back and strategize!" One of the remaining 7 said.
So with a heavy heart, they ran inside the protective fortress.

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