If I Could Run

Chapter 24

Before we knew it it was 8:40pm. I was in black yoga pants and a dark blue shirt. I had set up my backpack and put up my hair and some dark blue tennis shoes and was waiting for Mike. I heard the knock on my door and it was Mike. We walked out the house into his car and began driving. We told everyone we were gonna go to the beach for a night swim for awhile, but Amelia knew what we were really doing. We pulled up to volcano road and parked our car on the side of the road. He took my hand and we climbed up the the rope we installed last time. It was still there thankfully. We looked around to make sure it was safe first and then climbed down. Once we reached my dads old room we heard. Voices outside the door. We backed into the closet tunnel silently and quickly. We closed the back of the closet door and turned on our flash lights.
"Ok Mike," I began to say, "this time we are not splitting up."
"Right," he assures, "we stick together and don't leave each other." I smile.
"Which way should we go?" I ask once we reach the split ends. "Last time in my side I saw a hole in the wall but didn't you see a door with glowing red lights?" I continue asking.
"Ya I think we should go my way first." He replies. I nod and we walk into his cave. We carefully walk through the dangerous cave and then reach the wall I fell down on.
"Should we just climb it?" I ask
"No lets throw up a rope."
"With what?" I ask. He looks around and finds a old pick axe near the wall.
"With this." He replies. He ties the rope to it and throws it up. It caught hold on something and then we began climbing. It wasn't that high, it was the height of around 12 feet. Climbing it by hand seemed dangerous so this was the safest choice. I climbed up first. Using the cracks and the ledges in the scratchy wall I climbed up holding the rope. I sat down at the top and yelled to Mike for him to start climbing. I stood up and started looking around. I found that the pick axe got caught around a large boulder near the wall. Finally Mike reached the top. We walked down the cave until we found the door with the red glow. It looked like it would go down a normal path of the cave but they placed a door in it. The door was iron and had a black lining in the center where it was supposed to open.
"Looks like we need a key card." I sigh noticing the slot next to the door.
"Where do you think we could find one?" Asks Mike.
"Probably on someone in here." I answer frustrated. I was about to suggest searching in my dads old room through the closet when we heard a cough. Mike and I ducked behind the boulder.
"Hey, you hear that that girl and that guy is back?" A man asks.
"Ya," replies the other one, "make sure you keep your eyes peeled open, there good."
I smile mischievously.
"I'll be in here." Says the first guy as he used a key card and goes into the other room. The door shuts and the other guy walks around and lights a cigarette. He turns away from us and starts whistling. Without even thinking about what I'm doing I quickly grab a rock from the floor sneak up behind the guy and bash him on the head. His body falls back to the floor and hits the ground hard. He wasn't dead, he was on conscious.
"That's right sucker, we are good!" I try not to yell out as I do a happy dance and grab his key card. I can tell Mike is very confused by my behavior. We pull the body behind the big rock and tie it up and cover his mouth just incase he wakes up. We listened to the door for a second and heard no voices so I slid the card into the slot and it opened. Immediately I was blinded by the glowing red light from the center of the room. Once my vision cleared I saw a brown path around the stone in a circle. The stone was separated to us by a huge body of lava circling it. I couldn't see anyone, it looked empty.
"So this is the stone they were talking about." I say to Mike as we step closer to look at it clearly. "The power source to some secret plan." I continue, "are we supposed to get it?" I ask.
"Duh" Mike says. I roll my eyes.
"But how?" I ask
"I don't know, maybe we fly." He adds
"Ha ha very funny." I say sarcastically. "Wait.." I pause lost in thought, "Mike that's genius!" I say hugging him.
"What I thought it was a bad idea." He answered confused.
"No it's not, I can fly!" I exclaim. "I just..need water." His eyes light up with realization once he understands where I'm going with this. He opens his back pack and gets a water bottle
"Will this do?" He asks
"Maybe"
He removes the cap and I put my hand over it and suck the water out. I move it to my feet and it slowly lifts me off the ground.
"More." I say. He pours another out for me and I keep adding water till I get enough to move. I make the water carry my over the lava and onto the platform.
"Easy peasy lemon..."
"I knew you'd come.." Says a voice. I jump and look around. No one else is in the room except me and Mike.
"Daughter." I turn my head to the noise and realize that this voice.. It's coming from the red stone! My dads face is glowing in the red stone.
"Dad?!" I yell.
"Katie, no time to explain, I hacked the system to get me in this, they just started using the stone they found it here just a week ago. That's how I was able to hack it. It's in the system, it's powering Mr. Black's believe it or not, portal to another dimension."
"What?! That doesn't even make sense!" I scream, "since when did we have the technology for this?! And didn't you just say there was no time to explain?"
"Calm down Katie we don't have much time, they'll discover that I've escaped my cell any moment now, I'm in my room on the computer Katie I need you to get the stone and get out of here!" He says back to me.
"What do I do with it?" I ask
"Destroy it, Katie it has more power than anything this world has ever seen and it's never going to be used for good in this world, Katie destroy it, now!" He yells. I hear men's voices in the background of my dads room.
"Dad! Dad who is that!?" I yell panicking.
"Katie they're coming, destroy it please!" He yells, "and Katie,"
"What?"
"You are my forest." He says. A tear slips down my check and I'm about to tell him I love him when a hear a loud bang. My dads head turns and then the red gem turns back into just a gem.
"Dad?!" I scream, "dad?!"
We here people running outside the door. I break off the gem from the pilaster it was sitting on and toss it in my bag and fly over to Mike. He grabs my hand and we run out the other exit. We here the people entering the room and yelling for where the gem is and where we are. They discover our path quickly and begun running after us.
"We have to get back to my dads room!" I yell. We run down some stairs and take a sharp turn. Then we run up a flight of stairs and take another sharp turn. We run down a long hallways and can see the people entering behind us as we turn again. As we run we see multiple rooms with TNT explosives and Mike picks one up as we run. We reach my dads door and run in the already opened room. No one was there. I slam the door and lock it with the key card.
"Where is my dad??!!" I scream.
"Right here!" He yells running out the closet.
"Dad!" I yell running over and hugging him. I tear falls down my cheek.
"I love you."
"I love you too sweetie." He kisses my forehead.
"Guys!" Yells Mike standing against the door that's being banged on, "we need to go now!!!!"
My dad takes the door and Mike stars climbing.
"This lock won't hold for long you two climb I'll try to make it up after." My dad says.
"No dad we have to leave together!" I yell tears falling down. Mike reaches the rope and tugs it to signal for me to climb.
"You have to, honey." He says looking at me with his blue eyes. I shake my head.
"Honey, just listen, when you smash the gem there's still something inside it, guard it with your life, and don't ever let anyone else touch it."
"But I don't want to loose you again!" I say tears streaming down like a river.
"You won't, I'll be right next to you even when you can't see me." He says with a sad smile.
"I love you, Katie, this blessing you will be given will explain everything,"
"I love you too dad." I say one last time. I hug him again and kiss my dad on the forehead. He kisses mine.
"Goodbye." He says. I start climbing the rope, I can't muster the words goodbye. I tremble as I climb the rope. The door is busted open and I hear a gun shot and my dad yell. I sob and finally reach the top. Mike pulls me up.
"There up there! Climb it!" I here yells from men.
"He's not coming," I say to Mike, "we have to do it." Mike holds my hand and then pulls out a knife and cuts the rope. We hear a few men fall that were climbing.
"Use this" one says. I hear them assembling things to climb up.
"We have to," Mike says sadly.
"Ok." I say crying. I glance down a last time hoping to hear my fathers voice but there isn't.
Mike reaches into his bag and pulls out the dynamite stick we had found. He lights it. He holds it over the hole.
"Get ready to run." He says to me. He drops the stick and we take off running. We just starting running down hill when the explosion goes off. It's huge, the mix of all the electronics and other TNT sticks in it must've helped that one stick do the job. We fall from the effect and tumble down the hill. Debri was falling everywhere. We stopped rolling and hit the street road hard. We were scratched up big time and bleeding. I looked back and saw nothing but a empty hilltop, no sign of life.
And ambulance and police and fire trucks arrived instantly and I was pulled into an ambulance.
"It's alright, your gonna be fine." Says a young looking girl with almond brown hair. She was wearing a light blue dress. She stood over me staring at me with brown gentle eyes. People seemed to not pay any attention to her.
"Who are you?" I ask. The doctors in the vehicle look back at me as if I'm insane.
"Must be shock." Says one whispering to another.
"My name is Destiny." She says
I must've passed out because after that everything was black.
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FAIR WARNING: next chapter is the last chapter of this book and I'm honestly so glad! I can not wait to get into what's gonna happen next so get ready for some serious crazy, confusing stuff.
SEE YA!