The Rebellion

Chapter 2

After about 30 minutes, DJ finally wakes up with a soft groan. She sees my face and gives me a bright smile. "How long was I out?" She asks me.
"Not long." I Shrug and smile back. "Harry knocked you out to test me or something."
"Harry? Who's Harry?" She asks a bit confused. I laugh and point to the curly headed boy who is twisting his knife between his fingers.
"Wow! Hottie alert! Wait. Isn't he from that band you really like?"
I grin and nod a bit. "Yeah, but Harry isn't my favorite." I say with a tone almost like a teenage girl spilling her crush to her friends.
DJ looks at me with a smirk and raises an eyebrow. "You like the blonde one don't you?" She asks cheekily and points to Niall who is poking the tip of his arrow with his finger.
My cheeks get a bit hot and I know I'm blushing. I laugh a bit and nod. She just smirks and stands up. "Ok! I'm awake! What now?"
     "Well, let's put as much distance between us and the Military in case they're trying to follow us." Harry says in a demanding voice.
     "And we are supposed to trust you?" Alex speaks up and raises an eyebrow, taking a step closer to Harry.
     "We saved your asses back there didn't we?" Harry retorts in a voice no where near as sassy as Alex's.
      "Everyone shut up!" I speak up and roll my eyes. "We can trust them. Just do what they say for now. Ok?" I look at my friends with a scowl.
     They all nod and look to Harry. "We're waiting..." Alex groans and rolls her eyes.
     "Shut up." Harry growls and looks Alex dead in the eyes.
      "Uh oh..." "Oh shit." "He's dead." are just some of the comments my group make as a smirk reaches across my face. Before Harry starts speaking again, Alex pounces on him and shoves him to the ground, about to punch him before I speak, telling her to stop. "Don't cross her again. Or I won't stop her next time." I say cockily and watch as he gets up, brushing off his pants.
"Let's go." He grumbles and starts walking grumpily.
After three or four hours of trecking through the woods, we find a spot that's covered by trees but wide enough for us all. "We'll camp here for the night." Harry says and looks at us all.
Everyone sets up their stuff and gets settled around a lantern be carried so we can all talk for a while.
We all sit and chat for another hour or so before we hear a branch snap behind us. I instinctively grab my bow and loaf an arrow and whip around to see where the noise came from. A man in a military uniform with an M sewn on the chest and the same M branded on his forearm. "Damnit!" He grunts and tries to jump at me but I swing my bow at him and hit him right against his head so he falls to the ground in pain.
I pull some rope out of my bag and tie him to a tree. "How many of you are there and how far are the rest of you?" I ask in a demanding, almost frightening voice.
The man scoffs and smirks. "You really think I'm going to tell you?" He laughs at me.
I smirk back and pull my knife from my belt. "Don't tell me, and this knife will be down your throat." I say in such a way that the man knows I'm not kidding. I start to inch my knife closer before he stops me.
"Wait!" He shouted and closed his eyes. "There's a small battalion of men about an hour from here. I was sent out as a scout to find you and tell them where you were."
     I smirk and stand up. I look at Alex who nods and steps towards the man. I stop smirking from my small victory of getting the information because I know we can't let him go back to the army or he'll tell them where we are. I know we can't leave him here because they could find him and he'd tell them where we went.
     I'm snapped from my thoughts when I hear the knife being plunged into his body and pulled out. I hear his last breath and bite my lip.
     This is what the world has turned in to. In the year or so the power has been gone, my friends and I have turned into murderers. It's all because of the Maxwell guy. He's the one who turned everyone against each other. We've got to stop him.
     I'm snapped from my thoughts again when I feel a strong hand on my arm and I look to see two bright blue eyes looking at me. "Cmon Cameron. We need to get out of here." A blonde, handsome guy named Niall says.
     "Uh... Um... Ok." I say nervously as I stare into his striking eyes. I quickly grab my stuff and begin to run with the rest of our 'pack' I guess you could call us. We go for a while until Harry says we can stop. I fall to the ground and catch my breath, leaning against a tree.
     DJ comes up to me and smirks playfully at me. "First of all, softball and sports help a lot for running. Second of all, I saw that little exchange of yours with lover boy over there," she motions to Niall and I instantly blush.
     "Just leave it." I say quietly and look around. "Where's Kala?" I ask and start laughing as I see her dragging herself through the brush, gasping for air.
     "Never... And I mean never! Make me run the fast again unless you want to be flattened like a pancake."
     We all laugh and look around before getting everyone and everything settled and slowly drifting off to sleep.