Sara Toga

Chapter 6

Looking through his binoculars, Rem saw that there were already Lizardmen walking around in the village. There seemed to be a lot of them too. He saw that all of the normal people whom he assumed lived in the village were all herded into one large group near the right edge of the town from his perspective. They weren't moving. It looked like they weren't even breathing. If they weren't all standing up, he'd have said that the villagers were dead.

"Ummm we've got a problem." he put the binoculars down and told Sara what he'd seen.

"So she's already here? Damn. This is going to be more difficult than I was hoping." she looked disappointed and slightly worried. Her lips were parsed and it looked like she was thinking hard.

"I didn't see anyone. Just the lizards and the villagers. And what's up with them anyways? They aren't dead, are they?"

"No, that's not the way we work. Neither she nor I set out to change history in this time. Unless she felt something should be changed about what happened here, they won't be dead. It looks like she used her power to stop time for their bodies. They'll wake up after she releases them and it'll seem like no time has passed at all." she told him.

"O-oh, okay." He paused, thinking it over for a second, "So, what are we gonna do. We're still after that guy aren't we? Are we just gonna go in guns blazing?"

"Pretty much. You stay here and snipe off the ones you can once I give the signal. Once you run out of shots you can make, move up and into the town."

"But what's the sign-", he tried to ask, but she was already sprinting towards the first of the enemies.

The town was laid out very openly. There were really only around ten buildings and from this side he could see all the way down the main road. There were four houses on either side of the main street and one pub and one general store-looking building at the opposite end.

Sara approached the three Lizardmen guarding the entrance to the village without even slowing down. She was within arm's reach of them, still heading straight for the one in the center, when suddenly her swords extended out of her sleeves and directly through the chest of the unlucky reptile. She shoved it over, stopped in her tracks after she'd passed the other two, and waved back at him and made a finger gun and mock-fired it.

Guessing that was the signal she'd mentioned, he lifted his rifle and quickly shot down the two lizards she'd missed. Since she ran past them and they hadn't seen him, they turned and he even had time to carefully aim where he assumed their hearts would be. They both dropped dead easily.

By the time he'd taken those two out, she'd approached the center mass of the houses and he knew where she was heading now. The last house on the left side was the only one to have guards. Two more Lizardmen were standing by the door, these with guns.

Rem ran to the corpses of the three lizards they'd already killed just as Sara arrived at that house and he fired the killing shot on the one closer to him while she cut the head off the one on the other side. The door was now unprotected. The man they were searching for was inside, as well as the woman controlling these Lizardmen.