Into The Wasteland

Chapter Ten

"The Big Nothing?!" Savage demanded. "Are you crazy?! You won't make it one week before dying!"

"What other choice do we have?" The Dag whispered. "Splendid died for us to get to the Green Place. If we go back now..."

"She would have died for nothing," Toast finished. Savage's heart fluttered at the mention of Splendid. She had watched her body get dragged under those wheels...

"I suppose you should go and pack up then," Savage murmured.

"You aren't coming with us?" Cheedo asked as the others wandered to the war rig to load up the motorbikes. Savage shook her head.

"I will probably return to Gastown. I don't think they yet know of my treason. I will take the long way around to avoid the war parties". Nux looked like he was being torn to pieces.

"I can't go back," he murmured, gently grabbing Savage's hand. "They will kill me".

"Come with me to Gastown," Savage smiled. "No one knows you there, plus you can get Larry and Barry removed!" Nux smiled down at his lover and gave her a long, lingering kiss.

"Where ever you go, I will go," he murmured as he pulled Savage into a warm embrace.

"I guess this is goodbye then," Furiosa's voice startled them. Her eyes were still red and puffy from crying, and she had yet to reattach her metal arm. Savage reached out her arm from Nux's embrace and shook her hand.

"It was an honour meeting you Imperator Furiosa," she stated. "May you die historic on the Fury Road". Furiosa nodded before turning her back on the war rig and made her way towards the bikes where everyone else was seated... Except for the blood bag.

"I take it you will be taking the war rig?" Nux asked as the man stepped towards them. He shook his head and motioned towards a bike packed behind him.

"Where will you go?" Savage asked, still holding on tightly to Nux.

"Somewhere where the dead don't haunt me," he muttered before walking off towards his bike.

"Wait!" Savage called. He turned. "What is your name?" But he ignored her.

Nux kissed the short shaved side of Savage's dark brown hair and gently pulled her towards her car. Slipping into her car, Savage watched as the women on the motorbikes revved their engines and drove down the dune into the Big Nothing. It upset her to know that they would surely die.

Starting up her cars engine Savage turned the wheel to head back the way they came, but a bike parking in front of the car stopped their movements; it was the blood bag.

"I have an idea," he stated as Savage rolled down her window. She and Nux smiled as he explained his plan.

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Savage pushed her car to the maximum speed as she sped off after the group of motor bikers. The blood bag had climbed onto the lancers perch and was watching the distant mountains thoughtfully. Speeding past the motorbikes, Savage pulled on the handbrake and spun the car to a halt, the motorbikes slowing down less impressively.

"So you decided to come with us?" Capable asked hopefully as she pulled up her driving goggles, her eyes lingering a little longer on Nux than the others.

"Not exactly," Savage smirked as she sat in the car door window. The blood bag jumped out of the lancers perch.

"We are going to the Green Place," he stated.

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I'm gearing up for the final battle! Are you? ;)