Triple Nightmare /Bakudekutodo

Chapter 85: Outside again!

No ones POV:
Mireille jumped off the window sill and into the girls room. "Sarah! You need to hurry. Pack your things, we're leaving." While saying that Mireille had already started running around in the room grabbing some things here and there. "What? Wait? What's going on?" Sarah asked. "We don't have the time. Just trust me, ok?" "Reille- [Ray]" "Get dressed. I'll start packing your things." "Reille!" Sarah grabbed her girlfriend by the arms and made her face her. "What's going on?" For a moment Mireille caught her breath. "Listen, this is a one in a life time chance. You know how we've always talked about getting out of here. It's time to finally make it reality. I found someone who can get us safely through the lost lands and after that we will still be accompanied by three young men who have been at sea before. We will never get a chance like this again! So please just trust me and pack your things. We don't have much time." Mireille tried explaining. "What about my family?" "Your family is safe here. They live a perfect life. It's way overdue that you started thinking about yourself, love." "Sure we talked about stuff like this a lot of times before but I never thought we would actually go through with it. I don't know if I can." Mireille halted. "What do you mean?" Sarah took a deep breath. "My entire life is here. My family, my home, all I own. Aren't you scared?" "No." "How?" "Because you are all I have, Sarah. You're my family, my home and my entire life. As long as you are by my side I'm not scared of anything." Sarah needed a moment to process her girlfriend's words. "Don't you understand? I love you. More than anything and anyone." Mireille added.

Todoroki POV:
We patiently stood outside and waited. This moment of peace gave us some time to catch our breaths. Even so, we needed to keep a close eye on our surroundings and make sure none of the guards would spot us. After a few long minutes the window finally opened up again. Mireille jumped out first then held her arms open for Sarah. She was a young woman with contrary to Mireilles hair, wore it long and blond instead of short and brown. Sarah seemed to be the typical people pleaser type with good manners and a perfect smile. Both of them rushed over to us. "Let's do introductions later. For now we need to hurry to the fountain in the city square." With that we continued running trying to get to that Najwa girl quickly. And soon enough the path in front of us ended and an opening between the buildings appeared. It was covered in a bunch of closed up pop up shops and market stands. In the middle of it a big fountain with multiple water plays. As we got close to the centre I cold spot a person leaning against the outer ring.

We slowed down. Once she had spottet us the woman straightened up and came closer. "There you are! What took you so long? Are all of you okay?" "Najwa! It's so nice seeing you again!" Izuku greeted her. "The pleasure is mine." "Where are the others?" He asked. "I'm alone. After Mireille came up to me I send my men to the next mission while I stayed behind. We can't afford to neglect our job after all." After she was done speaking Najwa put down her backpack and pulled out some robes. "Here put them on. They won't only help you regulate the temperature outside but are also lost land soldier uniforms and therefore a good cover." All of us grabbed one and threw them over our clothes. All of them had brownish beige colours. Some had a hood attached to it others had matching scarfs you could wrap around your head. Luckily they were big enough to fit our bags underneath so that our belongings wouldn't get covered in sand or get wet. Once that was done we quickly continued walking before someone would spot us. Now that we had costumes it was't needed to run anymore. It would have actually been much more suspicious if we did. It was still difficult to navigate around the increasing numbers of knights now walking through the city though. And then we finally got to the exit. Najwa walked closer to one of the pentagons in front of us and activated a mechanism right next to it. Then two of the pentagons moved aside and we entered a decontamination room. It took me till we were finally outside again to realised how stuffy it had been in that bubble. The cool and fresh breeze felt nice.

The next days went smoothly. Thanks to Najwas expertise we didn't get into any more troubles on our way. Slowly but steady we made it further away from the bubble and closer to waters again. "I played around with some of my connections and luckily managed to get a hold of a little boat. It's not much but has a cabin on deck that should fit all five of you." Najwa said after about a week of travels. "You won't come with us?" Sarah asked. Najwa laughed. "Nah, I still have business on the lost lands. Who will keep the order up if not me. This place is a lost cause on its own." "Cocky much?" Katsuki mocked her. Those two had been getting along not half badly. Even though Najwa was a hyper active, super happy person she enjoyed making fun of people and had a similar taste in humour to Katsukis. I was happy he could make a new friend. Meanwhile I directed my full attention to Izuku, making sure he got proper rest each day and wouldn't overexert himself once it got dark. This switched routine would probable make it difficult for us once we were off this land. We will be faced with full jet lag once we are back at sea. And just as I had finished that thought I could already see the ocean ahead.

To be continued ...