New World (One Direction)

Chapter #12

{Liam's POV}


I watched closely as this girl started to tell us her story, as I looked closer I saw she had blonde hair reaching past her shoulders, it looked slightly un-cared for as if she had been on the run for several days.


"Uhm, before you get started, would you mind telling us your name?" I asked her.


"Chloe, Chloe Johnson."


I nodded and gestured to her to start.


"Well, I've been given a job to do by my father, since he well, he was killed by the Burke troops, he was trying to protect our family. It didn't work. My father gave me this pendant before he died, apparently if we can find them all, its one step further to turning the power back on."


She held up the same pendant she had shown us earlier.


"But its not that simple, someone is trying to set up an army, they’re called the Burke troops, it won’t be long until they achieve that.”


I noticed the sad look in her eyes when she talked about her father. I wondered if there was anything me and the lads could do to help.


“Is there anything we could do to help? We’re not really going anywhere so we could come with you?”


She eyed me suspiciously before waving over her team, it took them around 5 minutes to discuss the matter at hand.


When they finally broke away she spoke to me, Zayn and Louis.


“We could use another set of volunteers, you’re in.”


Before we could celebrate in any form, she interrupted us.


“But don’t think this is a little game, you could get killed, do you understand? You must obey whatever I say, okay?”


I nodded, this wasn’t going to be a trip to the park, it was dangerous.


She started to look us up and down, inspecting our clothes.


“Well, for starters, your not going to last one minute out there without and proper gear.”


We all looked at each other, she wasn’t going to give us crossbows was she?


Oh no, but she gives us knives.


“Uhm Chloe, we don’t know how to well, fight with a knife.”


She rolled her eyes once more, but before she could regret allowing us to come with her Zayn stepped in.


“But, we will learn...won’t we Liam?”


I nodded before following Chloe and her two allies out of our apartment into the slowly changing world.




{Chloe’s POV}


I had yet to find out if it was a wise decision recruiting these three, they looked like alright fighters, and they looked well fed. But would it be enough to fight off half of the Burke troops.


I just needed to find these other pendants before they do.


We walked down the now deserted street that  had once been filled with bright plants, people on bikes, and women with prams strolling through the nearby park.


Now it was a whole different picture, house windows had been smashed, no sign of movement in the rooms, trees on fire.


I’d already predicted that the government was going to collapse, and here it is. No power or control over their own country.


I heard the boys muttering behind me, no doubt taking in the wreck of the town.


“Chloe...”


I turned my head to see who called my name, it was the shorter one with brown hair..Louis I think his name was.


“What.” I asked him.


“Who was the guy you hit over the head with the frying pan?”


I had forgotten about him.


“Well, he was a prime example of one of the Burke troops, they are looking for new recruits you see, raiding houses and kidnapping people.”


He muttered a small “Oh”, before continuing his conversation with his two other friends.


I scanned the streets for any useful modes of transport, we needed a fast ride. Something that can get us to Inverness before anyone else.


My dad gave me some locations of the next pendants, he doesn’t know where exactly, but apparently they are normally consumed in a tight space of some sort.


I span around, about to give the boys a task, they were quite startled by my sudden movement, but I shook it off.


“Right, we need to get to Inverness, since there is no power, I need like some racing bikes or something. Horses would be an option, but I ont really know this area well, so I’d have no clue where the nearest stables are.”


Liam I think his name was, looked at me confused.


“Inverness? Thats in Scotland, its around 500 miles from London.”


My heart dropped, if I had known that, I would have never spent my time recruiting these idiots.


I sighed, “Well, do you know any nearby stables?”


“Well, there’s Shirebrook stables around 2 miles from here, its not that far.”


“Well Shirebrook stables it is, come on then.”


I started marching off in the direction Liam pointed out, there was no wasting my time, I would have run if it meant getting there quicker.



After about 15 minutes later, we came across a dark stable, with a wooden arch over the entrance to the stables.


I rushed inside to find 5 horses attached to reins.


“Perfect” I muttered.


“Wait, we’re not just going to take the horses are we?” Louis said, his face panicked.


I turned to face him, “Who’s here to stop me?”


“Uhm, no one..”


“Thats right, now pick one and get on, we’ve got a place to be.”


I walked up to a dark brown horse with a fluffy mane, it had the name “cielo bueno” sewn in blue on the bridle.


“Cielo Bueno, what does that translate to?” Louis asked.


“It means ‘Good Sky’, ironic eh?”


“Hannah, you’re coming with us, Jack you stay behind and try and recruit some more people.”


I spoke to my two friends, who reluctantly came with me, Hannah was a better navigator that Jack anyway.


I didn’t want to be the only girl either.


Hannah got on the remaining horse and I watched as Jack went off with his crossbow in search of hopefull recruits.


“Inverness it is.” I mumbled, kicking the horse lightly to get it moving.




{Sam’s POV}



“Sam.”


“Sammm”


I opened my eyes to find Niall near my nose.


Shocked, I jumped up from the sand and brushed it off my clothes.


“Niall what was that for?” I asked him, annoyed that I was awoken when trying to get some well needed sleep.


“Well, Harry’s cooking some fish, he found it this morning washed up.”


My nose wrinkled up at the smell now approaching me.


“Ugh, fish? Really”


“Yep.”


I followed Niall to the little fire we had made and perched on a log of wood. I noticed Amy and Haley were still asleep.


It looked like Haley had been with someone last night, no guessing who, as her hand had been lying in the small ditch that had once been a person.


Amy on the other hand, had a jacket over her head, and her body facing the sea. 


“Niall, why did you feel the need to wake me up when Amy and Haley are still asleep?”


He grinned at me before plonking a piece of fish on a stick and handing it to me.


“That didn’t answer my question..” I remarked at the piece of fish slowly slipping down the stick.


“I got lonely.” He said to me with a smile.


“Oh really?” I answered.


He gave me a glare and continued twisting the fish around the stick, attempting to roast it on the dying fire.


“Where’s Harry and Aaron anyways?”


“Well, I think they went to get wood, they should  have been back by now though.” Niall muttered.


“Well, they need to hurry up, this fire is dying and I’m freezing.”


Niall tackled me in and hug and I ended up falling off the log and into the sand.


“Awww, are you warmer now?”


“Mmmph.” I said into his shirt.


He got off me still grinning and went back to his fish.


“Hey so-”


He was cut off by shouting coming from the forest.


I leant forward to get a better look.


What I saw next was utterly terrifying, yet confusing.


Harry and Aaron were being dragged out of the forest by men in uniform, they looked quite vicious.


But whats more scary was the fact they had guns. Not some only tiny thing.


Large muskets, probably loaded with gunpowder.


“Hey, watch it, what do you want, we don’t have anything!” Harry yelled at them.


“Silencio, o bien..”


They spoke in Spanish, well that gives us a clue to where we are.


“I don’t speak Spanish!, what are you saying?”


One of the men proceeded to hit Harry in the stomach with the stump of his musket.


“Vamos a estar tranquila, no le hagas daño.” Aaron spoke to the two men.


So he speaks Spanish now then.


But the men didn’t let them go.


They walked over to where me and Niall were sitting and threw them both down on the floor.


During all this commotion, Haley had woken up, she crawled towards the log me and Niall were sat on and whispered to us both.

 
“Whats going on?”


“I don't know..” I answered.


The first man started speaking in rapid Spanish to the other one.


I didn’t like where this was going.


I whispered over to Aaron, who was kneeling down by the fire, trying to make out what the two men were saying.


“Aaron, what happened?”


He whipped his head over to us.


“Well, me and Harry were collecting wood, and we basically came across this camp site, they had guns and horses and me and Harry were going to walk away, but they caught us watching them, and well...”


“Guns?”


“Yep..”


I stared at the two men, they both had a crisp uniform, it was dark green, I looked closer and I saw a brand mark on both or their arms, it read “B”.


I nudged Niall and pointed to their arms.


He gasped, “What do you think it means?..”


“I have no clue..”


I watched as Harry tried to get up and walk away, but the men pushed him back down.
 

When they pushed him, something flew out of his jacket pocket.


It was a pendant of some sort.


The two men stopped suddenly, staring at what just fell out of Harry’s pocket.


Harry dove on top of it, followed by the first Spanish man.


“No, no, no, no, you can’t have it” he yelled.


Aaron proceeded to dive forward and pull the man off Harry, not knowing what a fuss the pendant was.


His actions got him a elbow in the nose and a blow to the head from the butt of a musket.


“Sorry..” He muttered.


When the man finally retrieved the pendant from Harry, he stared at all of us, before motioning to his partner.


The second man ran back into the forest.


“Where is he going..” I asked Aaron.


“I don't know, he said something about more people..”


“Great..” 


About 10 minutes later, three more men came running out of the forest, then a final man, who looked much higher up in the system.



The last man scanned all of us, until his eyes landed on the pendant in the first Spanish man’s hand.


“Where did you get this?” He asked.


The man just pointed to Harry, and to him that was enough.


He said something to his men then pointed at all of us.


“Oh lord.” Haley whispered behind us.


Each guard grabbed a different person, I struggled in the mans grip to get loose, but it wouldn’t work.


They dragged us through the forest until we reached a camp, it was just like how Aaron described it, guns, horses, and troops lines up.


“Put the five of them over there, tie them to the poles.”


The guard spoke with curiosity, as if it wasn’t going to be the last we saw of him.


“Wait five..who are we missing?” Haley questioned us.


It soon hit me, we had left Amy at the fire, they didn’t notice her.


“Amy.” 

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Hello so yes I finally updated, I don't know whether I will update again before I go on holiday....I will need some motivation to get out of bed and write.. But I'm hoping this chapter is long enough to last you through two whole weeks..

Probably not.

So what do you guys think of Chloe? Will she turn out to be good? Or is it all just a scheme?

Oh and sorry about all the Spanish...

Song of the Chapter : Someplace by Jake Bugg