Artemis Child

Artemis Child Ch28

This endless walking led us to many places, some abandoned others full of people. Although we looked around them anyway. I had a feeling that we were being trailed or something. Gena was getting senses of the thread where Serena had been, mostly because what ever had her was doing a good job of hiding most of her presence.

   The peoples faces were priceless, as we walked into one of  adult clubs. The enterance was made to block out any sunlight, and the neon sighns made it seem like night. There were four A.T.M.'s by the door, and a bar to the left. Toni took a seat as if this was his normal place.

    There were multiple stages that had long poles near the end of the stage. 'Did we just walk into a strip club?' I asked my self, but was answered by an anouncer. "Next up is Cinnamon, the sexy mocha wonder." Was heard from our left. But we didn't turn or look for a mic. A curly-haired mixed woman in a Firefighter costume, came out from behind a curtain.

   She did a small dance to the song that was playing, then unbuttoned the costume. She opened the suit to reveal a white with black poka dots bra. I turned away after she did that, mostly because I was only interested in one person. "Cory. Do you have any ones?" Toni asked me without looking away, and I think he was starting to drool.

   "Cory why aren't you watching her like Toni is?" Gena asked me confused. "Are girls like that, not your type?"

   "No, they aren't. My type is comp..." I was cut off by a large pat on my back. "Let's go." Andrew said, started to drag Toni out behind us because he wasn't complying.

   As we got closer to Serena, Gena would start twirling her weapon. I guess that she has grow attatched to Serena. Which was good, cause we were all friends now, brought together by our sweat and pain.

   After all the buildings were no longer in view, and there were barely any cars we reached our destination. Gena turned onto a dirt path that led to a large abandoned scrap yard.

   There was a main building, who's roof was collapsing onto the interior with the passing years. Piles and piles of machines, cars, and random assortment of items littered the place. Towering at least fourteen feet high, they provided perfect cover for anything that were to happen abnormally.

   "She is here, I can feel it." Gena said and took in a heavy breath. "Creepy place to be in." Toni said in a low voice. "Hey drew, you have been really quiet all day. You okay?" She asked Andrew who was scanning the area.

  "Yeah. I am just on edge today." He answered. "Lets look around." He said as an order. "So do we split up?" I asked trying to throw options into view. "Split up? Split up? Why does everytime a group of  people go into creepy places they say: 'Guys lets split up.' That is a stupid idea." Toni said with a hint of fear in his voice.

  "Whats wrong dude? You have guns remember?" I asked him confused. "Well on the way in, I saw a bunch of Spi-dur webs everywhere." He said back, and made sure that the word spider sounded weird. "Now we definetly ain't splitting up." Gena agreed with him and looked around for spider webs.

  "Fine lets go as a large group and go check out the building over there." I said surrendering to their ideas. We walked into the building from one of the rusted up doorways, that was warped and disfigured. Which brought us into the den of at least six red giants. They were asleep, and they were wearing scrap metal as armor. Mostly on tender muscle areas had the armor on it. Serena was inside a makeshift cage, and unconsious on the ground, that was located in the middle of all of them.

   "Ok this is bad. So what ever you do don't fart." Toni said in a low voice. Groaning from the red beast started, and some started getting up. "Red giants have amazing hearing you idiot." Andrew snapped at Toni and made a backwards motion to escape. I summoned my gauntlet and followed them out.

   We got to a clearing that we were previously at and armed ourselves. Soon the junk piles started to basically spit out red giants, as they came from all angles. "Attack!" They shouted before they swarmed us. I had my Wyvern blade in my left hand, Gena made flames from her palms, Toni slammed his pistols onto piles of metal to load up, and Andrew picked up a tire rim to use as a makeshift shield.

   Gena had so much fire energy to she didn't want to attack with her axe, so her and Toni covered me and Andrew. I dodged an horizontal swing, and clipped one monsters hand. Andrew sliced the one I disarmed and killed it.

"One for me." He said to me as if it was a game. "Hey that was a kill steal." I said as I killed one myself. Toni and Gena were picking off anything that Andrew and I didn't. Soon there were only four left, but they didn't attack. "Stand down." I heard from behind them, it sounded like Gaia's raspy melancholy voice that seemed passive aggressive. They moved out of the way to reveal Trisha, who had Gaia's eyes.

   She had Serena's sword in one hand, and a crossbow in the other. "Cory I challenge you." She said and motioned for me to come forth. "No, Cory. She is mine." Gena said passing me up, but not seeming to be in the best condition.

    "Awe Cory's little goddess wants to protect him." Gaia said in a mocking tone. "Gen..." She stopped me. "Cory don't try to stop me. I need to get back at her for what she did to my soul thing. So dont stop me." She said with confidence.

   "I wasn't going to stop you. I was going to tell you." I paused to give the moment tension. "Gen, give her hell."