March 12th-13th 2027.
I looked up at the sky and felt my jaw hit the floor. We were really running out of time. It was all happening. The sky above us began to rip open. I looked at Trace as he was still laughing like crazy. He looked back and me and shrugged his shoulders.
"Well Hunter, let's go get your friend." He smiled.
"Hunter, whats our next move?"
I looked at Sterling and kind of drew a blank for a moment. Hold on Sierra.
"We wait?"
"No," I told Ross, "The second we see that castle we go. The faster the better." I said.
We sailed until the castle was about a hundred meters away from us. We turned back and put the ship behind the castle. It was an old stone castle, like the ones you'd find in stories about knights and kings. It was a grey dirty color, the grass surrounding it was a better shade of color that the building was all together. The sunset made looked worse, to add on night was about to fall upon us soon.
"If Lucifer has Sierra, she has to be up there." Trace said looking up at the tower on the east side of the castle.
"How can you be sure?" Sterling asked.
"I know my brother. She has to be up there, if not there-"
"What about there?" Ross interrupted pointing at the west side of the castle where there was smoke coming out of a chimney.
"What's over there?" I asked.
"I don't know." Trace said.
"We'll we have to check, she could be over there."
"Are you suggesting they'd burn her alive?" Lucas snapped.
"Hitler burned the Jews." Ross responded.
"Hey, no ones getting burned." I said.
"We'll split up. Hunter and I will check the tower, you two can go check the chimney. Trace, man the ship." Sterling ordered. "Its our only chance, like Hunter said we need to do this now."
"Come on you guys. Let's grab Sierra and go home." I said.
Hold on.
With that we split up, leaving Trace on the ship.
"Ready?" I asked.
"Let's go." Sterling and I dove into the water making our way to the tower. It was a short swim for the most part. I was trying to focus so I could get there faster. We swam up to the sore and made our way to the tower.
"Ready?" Sterling asked.
"Let's do this." I pulled my daggers out and stabbed them into the side of the tower and began climbing. By the time I was about 40ft away from the ground Sterling shot an arrow upwards stabbing the top of the tower. Moments later he was right behind me climbing up the rope.
"Show off." I mumbled. We were so close to the window of the tower, I began to get very nervous. I looked out as the sun was completely setting.
I hope we can man a boat in the dark.
"You alright?" I looked up at Sterling.
"Yea, I'm great." I lied.
We finally got to the window of the tower, Sterling took his bow blade and broke the lock off. We pushed then large wooden shudders in leading light into the room. The light hit the center of the room revealing a small girl in a grey tattered and ruined dress sitting on her knees, chained to the floor she sat on and a boy's dead body a foot away from her.
"Sierra!" Sterling and I jumped into the room and ran over to her. Taking his bow blade and striking of down on her chains, Sterling freed Sierra. As her chains came off she started to fall over.
"Sierra? Hey look at me." Sterling took her in his arms and tried to wake her. She slowly opened her eyes.
"Thank god your-" I looked at her face and I knew something wasn't right.
"I-I-I,I tried to save him......I couldn't save him...I tried to save both of them." She broke out into tears, shaking and crying she fell apart. "I couldn't... I didn't know what to do. I sorry, I'm so so sorry!"
I turned and looked at the boy behind me and noticed his uniform. He was a member of the Red Riders guild.
"Sierra," I said putting my hand on her shoulder, "how is he here? Are the Red Riders here as prisoners?" She nodded and began to cry again.
"Lucifer has them locked up down... down stairs. He...he has them all."
"The King kidnapped a whole team?" Sterling asked.
"No, he has the survivors from Leluna...and the resistance." Sierra's crying continued on for a while.
"He,he,he wanted..information and..he said....he would, that he would.", her voice was breaking.
"If I didn't tell...-"
"That's enough." I told her, "This isn't your fault. None of this was you. We're gonna get you and the others out of here." It was obvious Lucifer was trying to black mail her. I can't imagine what awful things she saw. She cried some more as Sterling cradled her in his arms as she kept pleading 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry.'
"Grab and go?" Sterling asked me.
"No, plans changed. Let's hope we can wing it."
