The Kidnappers

The Kidnappers - Weapons (Chapter 24)

CHAPTER 24

- Dese's POV

"Ouch man, get a pair of glasses, I'm not your punching bag." Zeki yelps as Sap walks past him.

I grin to myself, Zeki had that coming to him, considering Sap has a solution for everything and his intelligence should never be criticized. I must admit the wireless translators make life so much easier for all of us, so we don't need to speak in two languages. I hope he gives some to Butter. 

"Nice to see that you are freshened up Butter." Sap comments as he starts to set out the table. Butter shrugs, as he kneels his head on his brown skinned hands. 

"You don't talk much do ya?" Love points out, rather rudely. She can be so blunt sometimes, I flinch.

"You don't shut up much do you?" Butter snarls back, showing his white teeth, and giving her an annoyed look. Desert boys got spunk to stand up to Love. 

"Where did you get Butter's clothes from? I didn't think anything would have survived over so many decades." Sap intercepts sensing the dislike between the two children.

The two children have issues with each other, maybe it's because they are not used to having human contact but they seem relatively civilized with us. But it's not really my problem, as long as we deliver these kids to the Domi Society in time, they can act and do what they want. We better hurry up and find the next child quickly, I don't want to face another penalty.

I shudder, as the images of being trapped in the cave, assault my mind. Thanks to the Domi Society, I was knocked out by the guards, thinking that was my punishment but then I was awakened, hanging from chains drilled in the metamorphic rock of a cave on an deserted island. I finally managed to escape from the cave that flooded every 6 hours and became a furnace when it was not half drowned. There was the added bonus of the cave being infested with a family of Beolfs. They are mutated version of  the traditional  wild bear and wolf but are more rabid versions. I could have died but the Domi Society don't care, I shouldn't have committed the crime they stubbornly say.

"Actually, I found them in my room. There is this titanium box in my room now and I was like if there was a enormous metal box in the middle of my room, I sure as hell would have noticed it. So anyway I opened it up and there was, just  piles of clothes. There was also this." Zeki says pulling me out of the scarring memories. He is rummaging through his black leather coat, he puts so much stuff in there, I would not be surprised, if he has put a filing cabinet in there just to keep everything organized. 

 "It said "For the Children."" I supply to save him the trouble, so he can hurry up and actually find the spatula in the drawer. 

"So it was from the Domi Society then." Sap murmuring to himself

"Yeah, looks like they made themselves at home here. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if they put surveillance all over the place." Zeki spitefully says, his tousled brown head dunked into a drawer  furiously uprooting everything in it. Dude, how hard is it to find a spatula?  

"Wait, does that mean if they are watching us more closely, they would have witnessed the fight with Jude, the plane crash and getting lost in the Saharan desert?" I ask fury spiking through me instantly, all that has happened could have been prevented and it would not have been this messy. They could have aided us, instead of forcing us to go through all that unnecessary hassle. We only just managed to reign everything in  because due to our experience of working for the Society, since we were fifteen years old. Our missions became harder and more dangerous each year as we became better and experienced. 

"The Domi Society are present in most locations but I'm sure, if they thought we could not handle a certain situation they would have intervened." Sap reasons, sometimes I think he has too much hope in the Society. However Zeki and me are more open minded to the pain and corruptness,  the society inflicts, maybe Zeki more so.