Fire

Chapter 3: Khole

After he told me what happened, I thought for a moment, while quietly blowing smoke rings. 

"So, who is the person?" Rolo asked. 

I kept quiet. The person he saw was Nathaniel. But I couldn't tell Rolo that. He'd ask questions.

"I have no idea," I lied, and Rolo believed me. The train lulled on, and while the others slept we stared out to the passing world.

It was still night, and we had a big day ahead of us. "How about you get some sleep?" I mentioned to Rolo as I elbowed him.

"That sounds nice..."

"I'll take watch." Rolo leaned his head back and tried to sleep. I stood up and lit my hand on fire. The flames licked into the darkness of night. I looked out the train doors. We were passing some mountains. I hauled the glass door open and stuck my head out. The other cars were dark, showing that the train was pretty much empty. No one really rides the train anyways.

We were headed for Area D. There Jon should be waiting to hop on, then there was an hour ride to headquarters.

Jon is weird kid. He has the ability to shake the ground. He creates earthquakes to a great magnitude. But he can direct the shake to wherever he wants. Or whoever. I try and avoid Jon as much as possible. We have a history, and one I am not to proud off.

But he needs a gang to get to the headquarters. So I volunteered. But Rolo is a new change to this operation. Whatever he saw in that vision, it had to do with Nathaniel. It had to do with my Nate. But Nate was gone.

I shook my head. Right now emotions aren't the best thing.

I sat back down and waited for the hour to change, and to wake Jo for her shift.

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"Jo!"

Soon after I woke her up, I laid my head back and fell asleep.

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"Khole..."

"Go away."

I felt a slight kick to my foot and I cracked my eyes open to see Jon leaning over me.

"How's the weather down there?"

I rolled my eyes, popped my neck and began to get up. Rolo was already awake, and crouched behind the door to the train. He had a gun in his hand. I noticed everyone else did too. Except me.

"Here," Liz shouted to me and tossed me a gun and some finger less gloves. "We're almost to headquarters."

At headquarters, things are simple. If your a rebel, you get in. If you are wanting to become a rebel, you get in. If you are non of those things, you get obliterated. And to prove you are a rebel, you have to by pass security.

And it isn't fun.

We saw the small flag in the snow covered forest. It was cold outside, so I prepared for the leap. I grabbed Rolo's hand and we jumped. The blast of snow hit my face.

I looked up and saw a drone flying over us.

A scout.

I shot twice into the air and hit it down. It was disguised as a bird.

Then the hailstorm of bullets came down. I threw Rolo under a snow bank and blasted the automatic machine gun with fire. It melted fast.

I heard doors opening. I grabbed Rolo and ran towards the small opening in the ground. I heard the others running behind us.