Sinistral

Chapter Four

One moment, everything can feel so real. You can feel so alive and everything begins to slot into place. Then it all changes. Maybe a wrong grade, maybe you break up with the one you thought you love or even fail at your diet.

I had no idea, no one does. It just happens, it comes right at you. Some people take it quite well, others not so much. At the time I felt scared. Scared for what was ahead of me.

I mean I was dead. Strange right? But you already know that, but there is much more to come. Something even I still cringe about now. Things could have easily broken me, destroyed me completely and left an empty shell.

I remember a long time ago my foster parents telling me that we all go through change but they would stand beside me whatever happened. I still remember there happy faces. No wonder they cared so much and feared so much.

I meant everything to them, more then I even gave them credit for but even they couldn't have foreseen it. This was bigger then they could have ever began to believe. They weren't there anymore and I wouldn't see them again.

But in that moment. That moment when I met Zack, I saw a bit of them in him. I saw a spark which either him or I could not deny. Maybe I don't have my foster parents, my real parents I never even given a chance too but they would be in my heart.

I still have the knowledge and wisdom they taught me as I grew up. Even if its all a distant memory, even fading from me right now. Ripping at the seams.

I would never ever hear there wisdom again and I fear even if I did. It just wouldn't be enough, not for what was about to happen to me next once Zack destroyed that Tracker. All hell broke loose from then on out.

Crack! It sounded like bone cracking against stone. I could just imagine it but the vision in my head vanished as Zack's arm latched around mine.

"I need you to trust me, Cayden. I need you to have faith in me that is the only way we will both make this out alive. When I tell you to run you run. You don't linger back for me. You run and don't stop until I say so. You have to promise me that," Zack said staring right at me.

It was clear we didn't have much time. That loud crack would have woke anyone, even in a deep sleep. I had no time to argue, no time to say I couldn't leave him even if I don't know him. I nod my head lost for words.

Just then the door swung open and Zack's eyes darted over to it. "Oh crap its the Scars," he said.

I'm not sure if he said that for real or if he was trying to trick them. I guess that's what there called. I looked at the Scars, two of them standing in the door like they have already got us. Like its already over, for a moment I thought so too until Zack's mouth slowly turned into an evil smirk.

"Run!" he shouts. At first I stayed rooted too the spot, thinking Zack has lost it. "Zack they are covering the exit," I said turning to him but Zack was already charging straight at them like a tiger attacking its prey.

I took my chance and I sprinted across the room and shot by Zack and the two scars now on the ground. I noticed a sword lying on the ground. One of Scars had dropped it. I saw Zack struggling with the two scars and one of them still had there sword. I dived for the sword just as two more scars where coming up the stairs and spotted me.

I panicked and swung the sword just as they reached me. The sword slammed against there's with such force I stummbled back fearing the worst until I found Zack catching me holding a sword in his hand too and the two scars on the ground out cold.

"Run," he whispered into my ear as he knocked one of the swords out the two scars in front of us and I sped by as I watch Zack take the two scars out the corner of my eye. I got half way down the stairs as I hear Zack scream.

I froze. I had many stairs to take before even escaping, more scars would be on there way. This is my only chance.

Run get out of there! Zack wants you to do that too! Stop being a dick and run for it!

That's what was rolling around inside my head. Each word as nasty and selfish as the next. Just as I thought I was actually going to leave Zack behind I put all the will power into turning back and sprinted back upstairs.

I got half way up when I found the two scars smirking right at Zack. They had him pinned to the wall. He was trapped well and truly. I sigh with frustration. Why did he have to save me the idiot?

"Wait until he finds out what you have done. You'll regret the day you stepped foot in Sinistral," one of them said.

"More like you will!" I shout as I charge. It was probably the stupidest thing to do but it gave Zack long enough too get from there grasp. I waited until Zack ran over to me before we both sprinted down the stairs.

"I told you too run. You promised me!" he shouts as we leg it.

"One thing you need to know about me, Zack. I don't leave anyone behind. I never have and I'm not going to change now, even if I'm dead. I still want some part of me to still be human," I whisper.

"I'm glad. Keep on to it, Cayden because you're going to need that!"

"If we get out of here," I say as each stepped felt like we got further away from escaping but we carried on our hearts racing. The sword in my hand was weighing me down and that was when I tripped.

Everything went in slow motion, I fell forward my head inches from hitting the steps in front of me, everything flashed in front of me. My last few moments on earth in life flashed in front of me.

Something stopped my fall. "Cayden come on move it. We are so close," says Zack as he brings me back onto the step. I hand him the sword shacking. He looked at me and nodded.

We had one more staircase and a door between us and the exit. I could really escape the tower, this was it. Now or never!

Zack let me lead the way but it almost felt too easy. It felt like just maybe, this was all a trap.

I thought that even as we reached the bottom of the tower, well I did until I heard someone screaming very loudly and I just about made out one word.

"GET HIM!"

"It's time to go Cayden. If you think this tower is bad, wait till you get out there," says Zack.

"I could always stay and have some tea," I laugh.

Zack smiled before he put his hand out to me. We shook hands. "Promise whatever happens we won't let him get us. We will fight," says Zack.

"I Promise!"

I didn't know if making that promise I would regret but I guess I would find out soon enough. We run over to the door and push open the doors.

I took one last gulp of the fresh air the tower seems to give off and felt like I walked into a Volcano.

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