The Wilds

Chapter 3

Recap:

Crack! I turned, only to be knocked to the ground with a stabbing pain going through my abdomen and blood consuming me. All I could do was lay there and allow the darkness to take me.

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I was awoken to the sound of my brother's voice yelling.

"Stay with me! I said, STAY WITH ME!!!"

I had an inability to speak so all I did was nod and made some weird choking sound. I looked around and found that we were no longer in the re-education room, but was in a strange room I had never seen before. It had a dirt floor and dim light from a lantern in the middle of the room. Derek knelt down beside me and held water to my mouth and tipped it to flow into my mouth.

"We need to move soon, so you need to rest... Kayla, We need to get past the walls, Tonight."

----3 hours Later----

"KAYLA, GET UP!!"

I opened my eyes and shot up from my spot on the ground and grabbed the 2x4 by the wall and ran up the stairs behind my brother. We slowed to a halt until we stopped at the door.

"Ready?"

"Ready!" I replied with confidence.

We burst through the door as shots rang out and swords were swung. I gripped my 2x4 and swung it at my first attacker. It cracked across his face and took him down in one fowl swoop. I fell on one knee as a shot blew through my thigh. I was quickly struck in the face and kicked in the stomach. I swung the 2x4 and hit him across the chest but he smirked and slapped me in the face, causing me to loose my balance and fall to the floor. As I looked up the big man fell beside me. Derek extended his hand to me, so I reached for his hand when a sword slid through his back.

"NO!!!"

I quickly grabbed my 2x4 and hit him once in the stomach and another in the face and cracked it across the girls back. I ran to my brother and propped him up on my good knee.

"No! No! No! Stay with me!! Derek, I just got you back so I'm not going to loose you now!!!"

"Run! Find safety! Leave the compound. Now! Go!! I love you lil' sis!"

I sobbed silently into his shirt as he took his last breath. I ran my fingers through his hair and kissed him on the forehead, then I got up and ran. All the way to the heavily guarded wall in which all the guns were pointed at a target.

Me.