Puppet Master

Chapter XXVI: Young Blood

Ace walked back up to camp holding his head. "Ace what took so long?" Bandit asked. "I ran into this women called Young Blood. She was mean and she had fire." "Wow that sucks for you!" Chris said laughing. "Shut up Chris it's not funny she broke my shadow possession. And she caught fire while being wet." "Dang!" Sara said. "let's just have a nice evening."

It was late at night and they were around the campfire singing and laughing. Chris was telling one of his famous stories. "And then she opened the closet and.... "Chris was thrown from his seat across the camp site. "What the hell!?" Bandit said sanding up. Young blood walked out from behind the trees. "You your Young blood!" Ace said walking up to her. "She flipped him over and had her foot on his stomach. "Young Blood what's going on? Did you dispose of them yet?" the voice from her ear piece said. "Not yet just give me a moment. They're weak just like you said they would be." Young blood said. "You do talk and wait a minute were not weak!" Ace said flipping her off if him. He grabbed her ankle and throw her into a tree. Chris wrapped vines around her, and Bandit held a knife to her neck. Sara had a stone handcuffs on her hands and feet after Chris let the vines go. "You can't win!" She said. "Of course we can we just got you. Wait your called Young Blood but what's your real name?" Ace asked. "Kt hats not your business son." She said breaking the stone handcuffs and pushing Bandit away. "All I know is you people are trouble and must be stopped."

"Who sent you?" Bandit asked." "Classified ma'am." She replayed. "Tell me or I'll kill you!" she sows coming closer with the knife. "Young blood throw your war piece on the ground I'll talk to them." The voice said. she took the ear piece and threw it on the ground. It turned into a hologram of a man, It was Mikey. "Mikey I should have known it was you!" Sara said. "Yes, yes hello everyone! how are you all. I see you met Young blood, she marvelous isn't she?" he asked. "No she's mean and rude!" Sara said crossing her arms. "Thought you might say that Sara." Mikey said. "Mikey leave us alone or she dies!" Bandit said holding a knife to her neck. Young blood didn't make any moves. "You want her to die twice then?" "What do you mean?" Ace asked. "We'll everyone thought she died she didn't. Say hello to Courtney but better!" Mikey said smiling. Everyone froze Bandit dropped the knife. "Mikey how could you! She was dead and now you have brain washed her!" Bandit said. "She can't be alive!" Ace yelled. "Don't believe me Ace take off her Face mask." Ace took it off and sure enough it was Courtney.

"Courtney?" Ace mumbled. She showed scared and helpless eyes and then back to anger. "Who?" she asked. Ace froze and just walked away. He knew she wanted out but she couldn't get out. "Mikey let her go!" Chris yelled. "Can't I finally have the perfect sister who has the same hatred towards you all! bye everyone, and Young blood attack!" Mikey said leaving. she smiled and threw fire at everyone. The all ducked and it was a huge battle everyone throwing everything they could at her and she throwing everything she had back. When she fell and didn't get up. Ace had returned and hit her in the head. "He flung her over his shoulder and carried her to his apartment. I'll watch her." he said.

He placed Courtney on a guest bed and locked the door. A couple hours later he here'd screaming from there. "Here we go again!" He said walking up the stairs." He opened the door to see her sitting on the bed with her head in her knees. She looked up, she looked pitiful and helpless. She slowly lifted the back of her shirt up to show him something. Her back was burnt and had so many scars on it. His eyes grew large. "Who did this?" he asked angrily. "Michael." she said quietly. "Do you remember anything?" "I remember Mikey finding me and hitting me and burning me, and fighting people. And a man that looked like you but from years ago. Mikey said if I ever thought about the past he would kill me. you're not going to kill me are you?" she asked. "No Courtney I'm not, just come here." He gave her a huge bear hug.

"You just hugged me and you don't even know me." she said. "I know you better than you know yourself!" he said moving closer to her. "Oh okay." she said. He kissed her on the lips like a long kiss to. She opened her eyes and was still kissing him. "Ace your shirtless, by the way happy 18 birthday!" she mumbled out during the kissing. he stopped and pulled away. "Courtney do you remember everything?" "I remember a knife in my head and Mikey." she shivered at the name. "And now I'm here." He jumped back swinging her in his arms. "You remember!! You remember me!" He said. "Yep now Ace I wanna be able to touch the ground so put me down." She said.

"Are you okay?! Wait what did Mikey do to you!" Ace demanded. "Ace it's not important, I'm safe now and alive so let's not talk about that." She said. "I need to know what he did to you!" He said pulling he close. "Owe Ace stop!" she screamed. "Oh my god Courtney I'm sorry I didn't mean to!" he said hugging her. "It's not you it's just." she pulled down her sleeve to show him a mark. It looked like a 'M' with a 'X' through it. "What is that?" he asked. "The mark of Michael. Every time it heels he does it again. It means I belong to him. Since I was we'll I am Young Blood I still work for him. Ace please get me out of his grasp." "Trust me I will."

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Chris cleared his throat "Sara would you like to go get some coffee? No that's stupid Chris think of something better!" Chris was in his room thinking about how to ask Sara out. He still hadn't. "Sara would you like to go out some time?" "Yes!" Sara said giving him a hug. His face was bright red. "You here'd me?" "I tried to say yes the first time but you kept going!" "oh haha." "So let's go now!" She said holding his hand and guiding him down the stairs.

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"Bandit she remembers!" Ace said carrying Courtney down the stairs. "Ace omg that's great!" "it's nice to see you Bandit." "You to young blood." she said smirking. "Thanks Bandit." Courtney said sarcastically. "So how do we take Mikey, if he made Courtney this strong imagine what he has now." Bandit said. "Actually it's this thing that makes me strong." Courtney pulled up he pant leg and there was a metal plate about 4 inches all around. It was glowing blue in spots. "It makes me stronger and have no emotion when I have it on. We'll when Mikey turns it on. He usually turns it on about 7 o'clock. Which is in three hours." "Should we lock her down?" Bandit asked pulling Ace to the side. "Ya she could hurt someone. Courtney come with me." Ace said leading her up stairs.

"Ace is this really necessary?" Courtney said while being chained to the wall. "Yes Courtney you could have seriously hurt someone so this is necessary." Ace said. "Ugh okay." Ace finished hooking he into the wall. She was chained with two on her feet and two on her hands. "Courtney this one is your choice, do you want me to out this one on your neck?" "Ya, just in case." So Ace put the final one on her neck. "I'm sorry about this Courtney." "It okay it needs to be done until we can get rid of this plate."

Three hours later Mikey had turned on the machine. Courtney could not control it, she began fighting to get lose. "Ace I think Mikey turned it on." Bandit said looking upstairs at all the noise. "Yea I'll go check on her." Ace walked up the stairs and opened the door to see Mikey was in the same room as them. "Shit why are you here?" Ace said. "Because I wanted my sister back." Mikey said caressing Courtney's face. "Courtney if you can here me attack him!" Ace yelled. "Please Courtney!"

---Courtney's POV---

"Courtney please!" I herd Ace yell. I wanted to attack Mikey but the stupid chains had me down. Mikey looked at me with a smirk. He still thought I was under his control, he was wrong. I had gotten it under control finally. When "bang" I broke lose from the chains. I looked at Mikey and then at Ace. Ace's smile was so cute. He looked scared. I looked back at Mikey. He had a cold smile on his face. I lunged at him. He punched my gut hard. I fell to the ground. I took my knife and jabbed it into his leg. He screamed and fell to. My anger was getting the best of me I could tell. My fists were going crazy on him. I kinda felt bad until he said what he said. "You worthless bitch. I should have let you die. I should have killed you. Your a monster! You killed our parents!" That's when I was thrown off of him I hit my head on the wall. I looked up to see Mikey all on fire.

"You thought you were the only one with fire! you were wrong bitch!" he yelled at me. I couldn't move I knew he had me with his puppetry. "Let go of me!" I yelled at him. He just put his hand on my mouth and before I could do anything he was burning me. It was like he was absorbing my power. I couldn't do anything I was already weak enough but this made it worse. I bit Mikey's hand off my mouth. "Ace please kill him!" I screamed. Just before I passed out I saw Ace lunged towards Mikey. That's all I saw. I here'd him say "Courtney hang on please!" Then I passed out.