Dusk

Chapter 18

My mind goes blank when the sun goes down. All I can see is the blinding red emergency lights. All I hear are the deafening sirens. I see the shield over us. I'm not sure how we're gonna get out. The glowing of it is way beautiful in a way. I start rushing over to Brea. I get to her living quarters and I shoot the door open. I see her siting on the bed. She's looking aroun, not knowing what shot the door. She looks different... Somethings not right... I turn the cloak off and she gasps. I run over to her and grab her hand. She let's go and pushes me away. "What's wrong? We have to get out of here!" "Why should I go with you!?" "What? What's wrong?" "Get out! GO!" I stand there. My face blank. My heart in that moment feels like...It broke... I look at her and I can't see why she's mad at me. I reach my hand out in hope of her deciding to grab it, but instead she slaps it away. I look back. Knowing I can't stay.. I can't stay... I can't leave her though.... I stand there for a second and she looks at me. A tear comes to her eye. A tear to mine..Now I know somethings wrong.. I can't stay though. I can't walk away, so I run.... I Run....... My heart, as broken as it is, I hold everything inside me. I can't deal with this now. I can't let this feeling consume me. I'll be back though... I will.... I promise.

I run to find Neon. Pushing the thought out of her out of my head...Which is the hardest thing I'll ever do. She's all I think about... She's my everything.. I shake my had and continue looking. When I do find him, he's with Carter in his office. I sneak in to hear what their saying. Carter stands behind his desk, Neon on the other side of it. "You know what you must do. Right Neon?" Carter says "The only way to kill him is to cut his head off..." His response shocks me... He'd be willing to kill me? To end my life? This can't be... I look at Carter and shoot him. Neon sees where I am and grabs my hand with the gun in it. I slam my other fist into his jaw. He comes back and slams me to the wall. He seems stronger than before. My cloak breaks and turns off. His hands on my throat. Sweat covers my face, blood drips from my mouth. "Why did you do it?! How could you do it?!" He screams in my face. I see the gun laying on the ground. I can't reach it. I knee his stomach and knock the breath out of him, he let's go and I run for the gun. I grab it and I shoot him. It has no effect! He walks towards me picks me up and throws me out the window. I go flying to the pavement. Skinning the ground and leaving marks. I feel the pain of the scrapes. For some reason I'm not healing as fast. He jumps out the window and I shoot him again. Moving out of the way before he lands on me. Somethings not right with him. Somethings very wrong. "What did they do to everyone here?!" He says nothing and keeps walking to me. I stand up ready to fight. He runs to me and slams me to the ground. Him on top of me. Punching my face, over and over again. I mange to get my feet under him and push him off of me. I stand up and look down. The staff is right where it was in the VRR. I have to use it. He'll survive. I grab it and retract it. I run to him and try to slam it into his face, but grabs the end if it. "Big mistake." I press the button and it send electricity through him, lighting up the venom inside him, which is red. Finally it stops and smoke hovers above him. He falls to his knees, then to his face. I grab him and put him on my back and fly over to the armory. I slam through the doors and Jacob stands there with Drake and Bruce tied up together. Adam is in energy cuffs and knocked out. "That was quick." I say to Jacob. "They weren't as skilled as I thought they'd be." Just then my sister shoots the giant doors open and we jump into the ship. We get everyone in. I run to the cockpit. "How are we supposed to get out of here with the shield in our way?" "There's a secret exit in the water." She flys over the water then dives in. There's a little opening where the shield ends. We almost get there when two ships show up and start shooting at us. We manage to dodge most of the bullets. We turn around and they follow. She swerves through the water trying to lose them around rocks and sea life. We circle around back towards the exit and shoot through and barely fit. There to big to get through. We're free.... we made it... I stand up and I can see the room starting to get dark... I reach to the back of my shoulder and it feels wet. I look at my hand and it's blood. I've been shot. Then all at once.. Everything goes black......