*Apocalypse Now* (Criss Angel & Klayton Scott Story)

*7*(Kc's P.O.V.)

Three weeks after Little Christine was born, everyone living in the warehouse became like a close-knit family, looking out for each other...I was beginning to think maybe just because the world changed dramatically...that some of the people just wanted to live in peace.

Another thing I noticed was that we were getting new people wanting to join our family day after day...some of them Mickey ran off, and other's he believed to be safe to keep around...Criss and I didn't argue with him, for he was a pretty good judge of character when meeting people for the first time. By the end of the month, we had several new members making a home out of the spare rooms in the warehouse.

In one of the groups, there was two guys and two females, that asked to join...their names were Billy, Dallon, Danielle, and Nellie...Mickey asked them questions then ended up telling me that they were just a couple of newlyweds that were looking for sanctuary...but it was up to me if I wanted to let them stay...but how could I say no to average people afraid of the other type of people that are killing people just to take what they have...so, of course, I let them stay...

Johnny and Kiefer were really excited to see a whole lot of new faces in their home...but after running through the rooms and peeking in, they quickly got sad realizing none of them had kids...Criss followed them and picked them both up, and told them to stay in their room, and stop pestering the neighbors...plus he still wasn't sure about the new arrivals...for it was a fact that Criss was becoming more and more paranoid with a lot of strangers living so close to him and his boys...I just rubbed his back and told him that Houdini would protect our boys...then I added that I would protect them, and he would protect us all. Criss winked at me, and kissed my neck, and said you got that right baby.

That night, something happened that no one expected...Mickey never would have thought a few rebels would storm in and attack a group of people as large as ours...but they did...I quickly grabbed the boys and Houdini followed me instinctively as I ran to Ronnie and Zoey's room, for it was the most secure, and asked Ronnie to keep the kids safe...then told Houdini to protect.

I ran back to where Criss was and grabbed my rifle...Mickey and Mark were fist fighting two of the rebels...Criss was fighting off another one, that had Dallon up against the wall and beating his head in...Rachel and Abby were fighting one of the rebels off with a stick, for they had knocked out Billy and were about to kill him, and they were trying to save him...I held up my rifle and got the rebel in my sights, and lightly squeezed the trigger...the sound of my gun alerted the rest of the rebels, and the leader ordered them to scatter...for I was packing heat. 

By the time the ruckus was over Mickey had three of the rebels unconscious and tied up...Criss went over to the rebel that I shot...then looked at me and said this one was dead...Billy hobbled over to me and said thanks for saving him...I gave him a gentle pat on his arm and told him he was family now too. Mickey checked on all the wounded in our group...and helped me patch them up...Criss ran into the building to check on his babies...when he got in Ronnie's room...he saw Ronnie knocked out and bleeding very badly...Zoey was holding her baby and crying hysterically...Criss ran over to her and snapped her out of it and asked where his boys were!!

Zoey looked up at him and pointed to the closet...Criss opened the closet and saw Kiefer hiding in there...but Johnny was nowhere to be seen...Criss grabbed Kiefer and asked him where his brother was...but all he could do was cry...Criss held him tightly and ran through the entire building screaming out for Johnny...I heard Criss and ran to his voice...he was now panicking...I grabbed Kiefer and calmed him down...while Criss searched outside...he knew it was bad when he found Houdini with a huge knife sticking out of his side...then laying on the ground next to his body...was a note...telling everyone in the camp to hand over everything or the boy dies...once they had everything we owned...they would let the boy walk back to the warehouse.

Criss dropped to his knees and cried...then he picked up Houdini and asked me through tears for a shovel...that he didn't want Kiefer to see their dog dead...Mickey came out with the shovel, and dug the whole for Criss then helped him bury his dog...then Mickey grabbed the note from Criss's hands and read it...then he put his hand on his shoulder and said he would help get Johnny back...Criss jumped up and told him no!! Not under any circumstances was anyone to go after him...if they did...those bastards would kill his baby on sight...

Back at the rebel's camp two of the men dropped the kid at their leader's feet and said this kid came from a very wealthy group of people residing in an old warehouse...and that the boy would make for a good trade/ransom. The boss ordered them to throw the whelp into the cage, and if the group of people didn't meet their demands...to kill the boy...then take a full force of men back to the warehouse and kill them all.

Just as the boss ordered that...one of the lookouts came running shouting to the boss that a man was heading this way and that he was traveling with a lion!!! The boss told him to stop stoking up on the damn weed and to get back to his post!! Then another one of the rebels came out and said a man and a full-fledged 800lb male lion was heading right for them!! The boss asked if any of them knew who the man was...but they all said no.

The man and his lion came up to the camp of rebels and asked for some water...one of the rebels handed him a water bladder, then asked him for his name...after he took a drink, then cupped his hand to give some to his pet...he looked up from under his blood red and black mohawk and said his name was Atom 7K, and that his friend here was King.