You promised || DREAMNOTFOUND

CENTUM QUATTUOR

cara was sitting against the wall, laura and techno at her side, and she held her stomach as she coughed up blood, she was gone in seconds.

before I could inspect any more of the damage, I felt the room shift as all the guards, at the least two dozen guards, all turned their weapons towards me. I hesitated, but realized I was holding a fully loaded AK.

quickly I rose it to my shoulder, nudging it between my arm and my chest, lifting it up and aiming. one after another, I pulled the trigger, hitting each guard directly in the forehead, killing them immediately.

I took out all the guards, and parts of the crowd cheered, while others stared at me, now knowing I was more than just a civilian.

I took the corner and walked for the stairwell, getting down it rather quickly and coming out the door, tossing the now empty clipped gun into a random direction.

the host was now sitting by punz's side, he looked like he didn't want to believe it, and punz looked annoyed. but punz started coughing, blood was spewing from his throat, and I watched the host look at me in fear as his son was lost.

"this is on you" I pointed at him and he just looked shocked, looking down to his dead sons body.

I quickly turned and saw people were now flooding out of the front door, but there were some who stayed, some who stared at me as I attempted to get closer to techno.

but before I knew it, they each had a gun pointed directly at me.

"for fucks sake" I dropped my arms and started walking towards them, with my hands up, they still were backing up, like they were scared of me.

"where is kevin and olivia" one of the people asked bluntly, the gun pointed at me.

but his words, they stopped me in my track.

"and why do you care?" I asked quickly and they all pointed their guns behind me, at my family.

"ah" I dropped my hands and looked at all of the people, they looked scared, armature, but it didn't stop me from being slightly worried for the people behind me.

"they left earlier" I said quickly, not totally lying.

"bullshit" one of them took a shot behind me, I quickly spun around, seeing the bullet hit someone. it hit nick.

I quickly leaped for him, sliding under him as I caught him before he hit the ground.

"im sorry" I quickly spoke, resting him onto the ground and pushing my hands against his stomach. I tried to stop the bleeding, I really did, but it was happening to fast, there was blood pouring onto the marble flooring.

"its okay" he smiled as blood started to drip out of his mouth, he seemed at peace with it.

karl came running to our side, for someone who didn't care, he was showing a lot of emotion right now.

"nick please" I had my hands pushed against his stomach as hard as I could, trying everything I could not to let him bleed out.

"clay, its okay" nicks hands moved down to his stomach, trying to push mine off.

"ill be with alex" he smiled but was interrupted with a cough of blood.

"clay, you have to get away from him" wilbur came running to my side, trying to pull me off him.

"why what the hell" I kept my ground, feeling nicks body start to heat up.

"hes a phoenix, hes going to burst into flames when he dies" wilbur tried to pull me away but I refused to believe it, even after my hands were almost burning from nicks increased temperature.

"CLAY" wilbur shouted, trying to get me away from him, it wasn't until I felt technos grip on my shoulder, his fingers digging into my shoulder, sending pain into my body that I couldn't imagine.

I fell backwards, techno practically dragging me away.

wilbur tried to get karl away but it was no use, he just picked up nicks body and started walking into the open ball room. you could see the pain in his face, as nick was gone, his body started to flame, and there he went, with karl holding him. the both of them burst into flames, leaving little specs of dust that floated into the air carelessly.

"what the hell just happened" the host stood up and looked at us on guard.

I was still on the ground, but after the host snapped me from my thoughts, I couldn't think about nick right now. I just couldn't.

I spun around, tommy was pleading into ranboo, whose body was still and motionless. wilbur walked over to him and pulled the teenager to his feet, pulling him into a hug and tommy accepted it immediately, gripping his fingers into wilburs back.

daryl and zak came running our direction, charlie close behind. they looked horrified, it was a morbid scene. our family was torn apart, on one mission, half of us are gone.

"where is kevin and olivia?!" the same man from earlier pointed his gun at me again, he seemed so urgent, like he needed them. like he needed a leader.

"their dead" I said blankly, testing something as I stood up, and their faces dropped, they looked scared, hopeless, like they depended on my parents.

971 words

WAY SHORTER CHAPTER IM SORRY

ALSO

SUPER SORRY