New Age

Chapter 22 ~ I Will Find Her, I Will Save Her, And I Will Keep Her Safe.

Mika’s POV

That scream. It shook me on the inside. I didn’t know who it was; therefore I didn’t go towards it on purpose. I keep on walking, don’t know where, I’m just walking. Then I walk past a group of people, it’s obviously where the scream came from, I can’t see past them and frankly I don’t care. I go to carry on walking but then I hear a familiar voice say,

“Everyone go on, there’s nothing to see here.” I freeze, what is he doing here? I tell myself to walk away, to leave and never think about him again, but then the crowd clears and I see him kneeling next to a bloody, torn apart woman. So that’s the screamer. I back away slowly, eyes still on them when he turns his head to me. Our eyes meet and I see him inhale sharply. He quickly turns back to the woman, closes her eyes and stands up to face me. We stand there, unspoken words in our eyes, I see his hope and I know that I can’t have him, and he can’t have me. So I run, I turn and run away from him. He calls out my name as he follows me, but I’m not turning back, I can’t.

Lucas’s POV

Mika. She’s just standing there, Mika. She doesn’t talk, she doesn’t move, she’s just there. I want to go to her, to hold her in my arms, but I won’t. The noise of the woman on the floor taking her last breath distracts me; I turn around and kneel down on the pavement as I close her eyes. Then I turn to face Mika again; she’s still standing there. Questions fill the air between us; we’re just standing, watching to see who’ll make the next move. Maybe she’ll talk to me, maybe she’ll come back to us, to me. Then just like that she turns and runs away. I run after her calling her name but she won’t stop. Stop! Please, stop. Mika.

Then BANG! I grind to a halt, just managing to stop myself from falling back. I look ahead in pure horror; Mika’s stopped too. She turns to me slowly, clutching her heart. Then I see the blood.

“NO!” I yell as I race towards her and I see her fall to the floor, leaning against a lamppost. She still looks alive, for now.  

“MIKA!” Then the most unexpected happens, as I run to Mika, a Robo pushes me back. A group of them are crowding around Mika and this one won’t let me anywhere near her. How dare they! I bet they shot her! What do they want with her?!

“LET ME PASS!” But the Robo in front of me doesn’t respond, and since it’s wearing a helmet I can’t see its eyes. You see, Robo’s are made from plastic and have a flesh looking appearance, but the only thing that’s not plastic are the eyes, the people who made them seem to have somehow grown them and put them in the Robo’s plastic faces. That’s their weak spot. I try moving around it but this bloody Robo keeps blocking my moves! Good time to not have a gun on you Lucas Knight!

I stand up on my toes and watch over its shoulder, I see the Robo around Mika. They’re picking her up and taking to her to their white van. She’s still alive; I can see her chest moving up and down with her breaths. One of the Robo on thee side yells something and the Robo in front of me goes to the van. I run after them but it’s too late, they’re placing her in the van, I can’t do anything, I can only watch. I watch Mika and just before the doors are closed she looks at me, she looks so tired, like she’s dying. Then her chest stops moving and her head slumps. No.

I run to the van but the doors are already closed and the van is speeding away, I run after it for about two streets when I finally stop, realising that exhausting myself won’t help Mika. I won’t believe she’s dead, I was seeing things, she was breathing fine when they left. But whatever her condition, I will find her, I will save her, and I will keep her safe.

Sparrow’s POV

Lucas has gone out after her, who ever she is. When I was told I had a mission, I never expected it to be this strange. But now I can have my prize, the one sitting at the kitchen table.

Spencer’s POV

I’m still at the kitchen table.

I heard a scream.  

Who was it?

Why can’t I move?

Lucas?

Is that you?

Oh it’s Sparrow.

She’s looking at me strangely.

Like she could eat me.

Sparrow’s POV

All I can think of as I walk towards Spencer is:

After this, I won’t be able to eat for a few weeks.

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