War Storm Fan Fiction

Chapter 12

Mare

"24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30," I start to hear someone count as they push down hard on my chest. I cough up water and try to sit up.

"You're awake good," I see Iris grab food from the bags.
"What happened I croak," I have no memory after trying to shock the strongarm.
"Well, the strongarm got your foot and wouldn't let go, and then you shocked us both causing me to let go as well as him, but you went unconscious and fell under the water. I jumped in and pulled you out, and I've been doing CPR on you for hours as well as mending other injuries," Iris says handing me a piece of bread. I look at her wrists that are covered by bandages,

"So I guess that's from me," I say sadly. She saved my life and I injured her hand. She nods,

"You're foot is much worse though, the strong arm must have crushed it when holding onto it. It's really badly broken from what I can see, he broke several bones. I tried to bandage it and stabilize it the best I could, but it'll be hard for you to walk for a few months," Iris says. I look down at my right foot that is bandaged with several layers. I couldn't feel below my ankle, or move it.

"How are we going to walk we still have a few more hours of walking to get to the Scarlet Guards base?" I ask. She shrugs,

"You can't walk, we can stay here until you feel good enough to walk," Iris says. I gape at her,

"That could be months, we don't have nearly enough food for that, I can make crutches with our materials," I say picking up a stick nearby.
"No need for that," Iris says pulling a little metal box out of her bag. She pulls a few strings on it and it turns into crutches. She does it again and hands me the 2 crutches, "it's really badly broken you should wait a few days before even using crutches with it because it will get knocked a little and-" I cut Iris off,

"Let's get moving, the sooner we get to the Scarlet Guards base the sooner I'll get my foot healed by them. I have had to deal with much worse than this. I couldn't walk for a few months after Maven's burns. I bet you didn't know that!" I scream, taking out my anger for Maven on her. She cowards back and nods. She gathers up our stuff picks up Harriet then helps me up. She takes my backpack without asking and we walk.

We walked for a few hours before sitting down for dinner, and a night of rest. My foot hurt, but I didn't stop walking and I didn't complain. When we sat down I wrapped my foot with another layer of bandages to stabilize it more. We eat another piece of bread each, Harriet's mashed up. We only had 3 pieces left, which means we have to get to the Scarlet Guard base tomorrow or we'll run out of food.

"How far are we from the base?" I ask. She had all the maps, and the estimated times. She pulls out the map,

"Maybe another 4 hours I'd say." I sigh. That's a lot of walking to get done in 1 day. Especially when you have a baby and an injured girl on crutches. We were much slower today, because of me, so I take the first watch duty tonight to repay Iris. I sit there watching out in the distance, and I think. I think about my family and Cal, and how they are. They think I'm dead and I'm just gonna show up at their home. I hope they are all okay, and Kilorn too. I think about Clara and how big she must be getting. Then I think about Maven, and what he must be telling the country about Iris and me. If he said that I'm alive or not. Is Iris a criminal or being captured by me? There were so many questions that will all be answered soon enough. I hope.

Gisa

The battle was terrible I'd never seen anything like it. I have no idea how Mare, and Bree and Tramy, and Shade dealt with this for so long. Cameron and I walked into what I think was the throne room, and saw lots of fire. I didn't know what was going on until after when I saw Cal lying there, and Maven escaping. They brought Cal's body back, they want medics to see him. See if they can save him. I never got a good look at him. Healers ran in and grabbed him and left. Now we are on the planes. On the way back. I wasn't injured other than a few cuts and scrapes that the healers healed in an instant. Cal was on another plane with the injured and dead. I couldn't imagine what it would be like for Mare if she was still with us. From what I saw Maven is still alive. Which sucks. I never thought I would have the same anger towards him as she did, but he killed her, and he deserved to die. Farley, Kilorn and Cameron were fine too. They were on my plane. We were all sitting there thinking. Some on the plane were crying. I can't imagine what the plane must have been like after the last time the went there. Everyone must have been crying. I could even see Bree and Tramy in the corner crying, knowing they will have to tell me and mom and dad when the plane lands. I remember how I just ran away from them when they told me. As the plane landed I couldn't help thinking about the burns that covered Cal's body, burned right through his clothing. How that was Mare 4 months ago.