Mercy

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

***back to Sara & Aron***

"Hey Sara come look at this!" Aron whipser screams at me early the next morning. I rub my eyes sleepily and sit up. "Wha-" I begin to say but Aron covers my mouth with his hand. "Sara! Shhhhhhhhhhh!" he whisper screamed again. I slap his hand and shot him an annoyed look. I throw my hands up in a big 'what the heck?!' pose. Aron grins. "Look over there, one soilder all by himself." I give him another annoyed look. "Uh so you can practice." Aron explains. I jump up and stand on my tip-toes to look him in the eye. "Um I think it was ME who saved YOU last time." I say with a smug smile. He puts his hands on my shoulders and pushes my back down to flat feet. "Whatever. Do you want him or not?" Aron whispers impatiently. "...Fine." I say walking off toward the abandon soilder. He is carelessly pouring water over his arms. I sneak up behind him and quietly pull out my sword. I take a deep breath and prepare to strike stright down by pulling the sword over his head. I close my eyes and strike as hard as possiable. CLANK! My eye pop open to see what that sound is. I step back in surpirse. The soilder had pulled out his sword and blocked my attack in a split second. When I look at his face I'm shocked to see a teenaged boy, who looks nothing like the clone/soilders I've seen before. He looks surpirsed to see me too. As if he thought I was another soilder also. "I uh-uh I thought you-" I begin but the boy stands up and puts his sword back. He's about 5 inches taller than me so I'm looking up at him. I try to take another step back but I trip backwards on a rock and let out a short scream just as he jumps up and catchs me in both arms. Neither of us move from that position. Him, holding me by the waist staring into my eyes, me, tilted back with my arms around his neck. He suddenly speaks for the first time. "What's a pretty girl like you doing in mountains like these?" he asks smoothly. "I-uhhhhh" I stutter trying to say somthing that would make sense. "SARA!" We both look up and see Aron bursting out if the bushes. He stops suddenly and stares with his mouth hanging open at us holding eachother. I can't move so I wait for the boy to stand back, but he doesn't move. "Sara- who-when-I.....WHO IS THIS?!!" He Screams. The boy steps back now, but very slowly as if he is trying to annoy Aron. The boy flips his hair.( which looks like Arons except blonde and...wilder.but still really cute)

"I'm Austin." he anwsered Aron for me. "Austin?" Aron repeats scoffing at the name. Suddenly I realize HE might be the Austine Kai told me to stay with. "AUSTIN?!" I ask a little too loud. "Uhh yeah." He says confused why we repeated it so much. "Do you know Kai?" I ask. "Oh yeah, I used to work at the blacksmith with him." he says coolly. Aron gets a look on his face I've never seen before. "Well, that's nice but we should really get going if you want to see him again." Aron says rudely more to Austin than to me. He grabs my arm and starts dragging me toward the next mountain. I try to get out of his grip. "hey-Wait!" I yell, but he continues to drag me. I drop to the ground so he couldn't drag me any farther. "SARA!!" Aron yells in annoyance. Austin rushes over and helps me up."Dude c'mon what's your hurry?" he says taking my hand put of Arons and holding both of them. Arons face gets red. Is he...mad? I let go of Austins hands. "Hey,are you okay?" I ask putting a hand on his cheek and looking at him curiously. "....I'm fine...let's go" He says glaring at Austin. But Austin grins." Hey I'm heading that way too." he says walking in between me and Aron. Aron rolls his eyes. "Sure you were." he says with an edge in his voice. "I was,and I still am!" Austin says getting a little close to Arons face. Austin is a little bigger than Aron. Taller,stronger,and tougher. Aron looks up at Austin. "Well I never said you could come with us!" Austin laughs mockingly. "Never said I couldn't." I bite my lip. "Uhh guys?" I ask trying to get their attention. But they ignore me. "I'm saying you can't come NOW!" Aron say glaring at Austin. "Oh yeah? And what are you going to do about it?" Austin challanges him. "Austin c'mon. Just stop. Aron why can't-" I begin but suddenly they both stop,glaring at eachother. I watch wide-eye not sure what to do. "Well? What'cha gonna do?" Austin asks stepping closer to Aron. "Trust me you don't want me to do anything about it. Just leave." Aron says tenseing up. "Aron! Why can't he-" Austin lightly pushes Aron." How 'bout you MAKE me leave?!" He dares. I'm just about to cut in when Aron punches Austin across the face. "ARON!" I scream running to Austin, but he puts his hand up to stop me. "Sara,let me handle this." Austin says wiping the blood off his lip where Aron punched him. I step back. "But Aron-" I say. "Sara please just stay back." Aron says. I watch nervously as they circle eachother punching and ducking. Suddenly Austin punches Aron across the face,HARD. Aron flies backwards into a tree and slides to the ground. "ARON!!" I scream running to him and pushing Austin before I kneel down in front of him. I brushs his shaggy hair out of his face. "...,he's out cold...." I say in shock. "HAHA did you see that? he-" Austin begin but I cut him short. "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!!" I scream jumping up and cornering him with the trees. "What? C'mon he asked for it-" he starts to say. "I DON'T CARE!!" I scream pushing him against a tree. "Hey, I was just-" "DONT EVER TOUCH HIM AGAIN!!!" I scream on the top of my lungs. I turn away and run back to Aron. His face is bleeding and he has bruises covering his body. I sit next to him and hold his hand. What could I do? I have no idea how to get him to wake up. Unless I just wait,so I did. "....Sara I'm sorry. I promise I'll never hurt him again. Guess I'll be going now." he says reluckdently, walking away slowly. I stand up and walk beside him. "Stop." I say simply. He stops. "You can stay if you clean his cuts that YOU made." I offer. "guess this is good bye." he says and keeps walking. I grab his arm and sink my nails into his skin. He flinched. "Let me restate that." I say turning him around and getting my face close to his. "GO.CLEAN.HIS.CUTS!" I demand glaring at him. He gulps and opens his mouth but he doesn't say anything. I push him in the direction back to Aron and he walks back to him. "I'm going to get his stuff that he left. When I get back you better be done." I say with a death stare. He nods.

When I get back Aron's cuts are clean and he is half awake. "W-w-what happened?" he keeps asking clutching his head. I sit down beside him and try to calm him down by saying things like, it's okay, and your fine I've got you.but I've never been very good at reassuring people it's okay. Guess it's because I never learned. Aron snaps out of it in a few minutes and then he notices Austin is still here. "YOU." he growls. Austin hold his hands up. "H-hey-" He says defensively. I try to get in between them, but Aron jumps on him and repeatably punches Austin in the face. Austin trys to fight back and rolls over so that Arons under him. "C'mon calm down!!!" Austin screams hold Arons arms down. Aron rolls Austin over and now Aron's on top. He trys to punch Austin again, but this time I dive at him. Knocking him off of Austin and roll him under me. " Stop!" I scream in his face. He goes limp. "Sara!" he say glanceing at Austin with a guilty look. "Aron you asked for him to punch you earlier but you just took things too far." I say. I get off of Aron. "Now, aploagize!" I comand. "......Sorry." Aron mumbles. I glare at Austin. "....sorry..." He says quietly. I sigh with relief. "Okay, can we go now?" I ask. Aron looks at Austin. I make a begging face at him. "Fine Austin can come." he sighs. I smile. We all stand up gather our stuff and walk in silence for a minute. Then Austin starts to groan. Aron looks at him annoyed. "What is wrong with you?" he asks turning around sharply. "Aron!" I say. "what's wrong Austin?" I ask gently touching his arm. He flinchs and jerks his arm away. "My arms..." he says pulling up his sleeves. I gasp,his arms are covered in deep bloody cuts. "What happened?" I ask covering my mouth with my hands. "Some soilders ambushed me back there and I was cleaning the cuts when you showed up." he explains. I take Arons bag and search though it for anything to help Austin. Aron watches me quietly. "....uh...Sara.." he says. "What?" I ask. He takes his bag back and takes out a bottle and some clothe and hands them to me. I soak the clothe and gently rub Austins cuts. He grits his teeth and groans. When I finish cleaning all of them I step back. "Better?" I ask hopefully. He shakes his head. " There's more.." he says pulling off his shirt. Revealing bigger,wider cuts. I glance at Aron and notice he's glaring at Austins abs. I slap his arm. "Help me." he sighs and gets a clothe. We carefully clean every cut in his body. "Thanks Sara." Austin says greatfully. Aron opens his mouth but then shuts it again. He quickly puts away his stuff and walks far ahead of me and Austin. "Whats his problem?" Austin asks innocently. I shrug. "I have no idea.