Wanted

Chapter 6

     "Put me down!" I exclaim and lightly slap the redhead on the forehead.
      "Whatever ya say, princess," he laughs. "What's your name, beautiful?"
     "Ella." I respond, timidly.
     "Well, Ella, I'm Ace. What brings you here?" He leans his elbow against a pole.
     "Uh..." I still don't really understand why I'm here. "I guess it's cause my last name is Glorian?"
     His eyes go wide and so does everyone else's who heard me.
     "Gl.. Glorian?" Ace asks, shocked.
     "Ya, is something wrong?"
     "Y.. You shouldn't be here." He starts to back away from me. I look around frantically and see everyone's horrified faces.
     What is it that people have against Glorians?
     "They shoulda killed you before they brought you here so we wouldn't have to do it ourselves." Ace says as someone hands him a knife. He twirls it in his fingers, walking closer to me. I back away. Ace is going to kill me!
     I keep backing away, this time at a faster pace. I am stopped by someone behind me who grabs my arms and throws me to the ground. Ace climbs on top of me, still twirling the knife.
     "The Guards should know better than to throw a Glorian in here." He places the knife two inches from my neck. I try to fight him, but it feels like he weighs twice as much as me.
     One inch.
     The knife now rests against my neck.
     "Wait!" I exclaim. Ace is taken aback.
     "What!" He rolls his eyes and removes the knife from my neck but keeps it cautiously close.
     "You said the Guards know better than to throw a Glorian in here. Were there others? What did you do to them?" My plan is to try and stall him as long as I can. I want to live, even if I'm stuck in here.
     "Yes, and we killed them, duh." He says, placing the knife back to my throat.
     "But.. uh.. um." No words come out. I'm terrified.
     "Doing this really does kill me," everyone laughs. "But, we need to make sure the Glorian line is disposed of. I really wish we could have gotten to know each other better." He smirks. "But I need to kill yo--"
     Bang! Bang!
     A gun went off in the air.
     Ace immediately jumps off of me and drops the knife. It hit me in the wrist, but it'll heal. My main priorities are who shot that gun and how to get out of here.
     "What's going on here?" A tall, muscular man in a Guard uniform emerges from the crowd. Everyone's eyes are on me. His eyes meet mine and I know he knows what happened.
     "You a Glorian?" He asks, very directly.
     "Yes," I say pretty confidently. I'm proud of my last name.
     He laughs. "Haven't seen one of you for a while! Come with me."
     I follow him up the creaky wooden stairs on the side of the humongous room. There is no point in fighting him. He has a gun.
     He pulls me into a small, secluded room in the back of the second floor. He closes the door behind him and locks it.
     "Here's the deal. I'm supposed to kill you now," he states, grabbing a hold of his gun from his holster.
Bang!