The Game's End

Chapter 6

That night I actually slept, dreaming about Xhòn. Though Kat sees it as a legend, I see it as more. It is a story of a woman so great it couldn't possibly be true, but I know deep down it is. I get up and inform Kat and Shawn to start packing. They immediately start packing while I start to tidy up the cottage. Twenty minutes later we are on our way to the Rebel Underground, leaving no trace as to where we stayed the past few nights. The guilt is building up inside me, practically screaming at me to just tell them my secret. There has always been a lot of guilt I carry with me but never this much. Then it hits me, like a slap to the face, I am pretty much leading them to their deaths. The Rebel Underground was established so we could take down Tyrant. They have never questioned me before, even though I'm the youngest of the Trio, and I'm leading them to their graves, and they don't even know half of the actual reason I'm so into taking Tyrant down. Maybe I should tell them? But what should they think? Even if they did understand I've been hiding it from them for five years. Without realizing it I had stopped walking and was now repeatedly banging my head on a tree. To any normal passerby this looks like an act of insanity and I would be granted instant admission to the 'mad house', but to the Trio it was just me reducing my stress for the time being.

"Where are we going Sarah? You never did tell us." Shawn asked.

"You remember the legend right? and how Xhòn died but left a rainbow in her wake," he nodded, "well, have you ever seen a rainbow in the country," he shook his head, "Exactly, but you've heard of rainbow fish. Well they only live in one place. And I figured that's where the Rebel Underground would be, because it is fairly dangerous to get there and that's exactly the kind of place they would be."

"But I thought rainbow fish were just a myth, created by parents to soothe their children." Kat said.

"That's just what they want you to believe." I replied.

"Oh," Kat and Shawm replied at the same time.

I nodded and started to walk in the direction of the rainbow fish and Rebel Underground.

Two hours later, and we still had 100 miles to go, give or take. We stopped to rest, because it was getting hot outside and the physical exertion wasn't helping. We sat under an old tree and rested. I guess we were extremely tired because we were jolted awake by the sound of leaves crumbling under the weight of a pair of rubbed boots. I looked up to so the boots belonged to a tall man with a bulging beer belly. I heard Shawn stifle a laugh at looking at this man as well, because on top of his lip was a twisting moustache, that thing was at least five inches long off of his face.

He cleared his throat and said, in a nasally voice, " aren't you adolescents supposed to be attending the school at the moment."

I looked at him in amusement before saying in a mock nasal voice, "I do believe we aren't supposed to be in the school at the moment because there is nothing left for those idiots to teach me. Unless they would like to teach me how to avoid annoying people like you from asking stupid questions like that I think I'm good."

"How dare you disrespect me like that. Did your mother raise you in a barn with manners like yours I doubt you even had that luxury." He snootily said.

Something in me snapped at the mention of my mother.

"How dare I disrespect you?! How dare you talk about my dead mother like that?! you know what, why don't k just take you to her grave so you can dance on it!? Huh?! You'd like that wouldn't you?! You don't know what I've been through or what I've seen so don't you dare talk bad about me or any of my family members!"

"well aren't you a little brat," he mumbled under his breath, but I still heard him.

"You want to see a brat? I'll show you a brat!" I yelled, the I socked him right in the nose, feeling the cartilage snap under my fist. I repeatedly punched him until Kat and Shawn both had to pull me away from his crumpled, bloody figure. I was breathing heavily and there was blood all over me. I heard yelling and saw more police running towards us. I quickly made a run for it, Kat and Shawn right behind me. Images flash through my head of when this happened before, only I'm not sure I'll be able to run any longer, just as I thought my knee gave way and I fell to the ground. This is going to be annoying. The police grabbed me and handcuffed my hands behind my back. Kat and Shawn were allowed to walk behind because they didn't cause trouble. when we got to the police hut they sat me in a room all by myself probably to 'think about what I've done'. Yeah right. ten minutes later the chief police man walked in.

"do you know what you've done young lady."

"yes. I punched a police dude because he was insulting me. Now, do you realize your wasting your time?" I responded casually.

He asked me a couple more questions before bringing Kat and Shawn into the room to see if what I was saying was true. When he was done ranting he left the room again. When he came back on he was holding a piece of paper; it was one of the wanted posters.

"Is this you?" he asked pointing to the horribly drawn picture of me.

Sh*t!