The Bryne Runaways (Updated)

Chapter 32

We are on the run. Infected were left behind fighting Uncle Ben's teammates and some are after us. They try to take us down. All of us but we resisted. I bare to open my eyes and we were going so fast that I couldn't believe this. Jacob and Dean are in front of me and Uncle Ben leading the way and I look behind where multiple infected jump over rocks and go through trees that haven't even matured yet, crushing them into pieces. In the far distance I see the spot we have been fighting on engulf to a ball of sparks throwing Uncle Ben's teammates off their feet.

What was that? What happened?

When we run we make a bunch of turns and I think that's what threw the infected off our feet. It's till we made a final turn that we finally lost them. Then when we thought were safe but out of nowhere appears to be a falling tree resulting us to fall backwards and I roll all the way over to a log. My head hits the log and I look at a blurry scene. My fingers dig in the dirt and I feel myself grow weak then I regain my sight with the blur that fades away.

I look up from the ground to see the one person I knew I would have to be involved in sooner or later. It is Erik and his group of infected followers. A fist collides to my face and I fall groaning from the punch.

"Pull him up" Erik yells.

I get pulled up and see what's going. Uncle Ben is being held back by a mob infected campers that are on his team. Jacob, Bones and I on our knees with our weapons taken from us.

"How lucky am I to have both of you here, Gordon just wanted you" He points at me and takes me in his hand.

"And the rest all to me. Oh how fun will this be. How stupid are you really to join a game where it is full of pure adults with much better strength than you, you pathetic piece of shit" I wince at those words I have been called.

"Gordon didn't say how he wanted you but I guess we can trim some hairs of ya" He chuckles as lightning strikes behind him with some rain pouring down to the ground, combining with my blood that falls from my nose. It is time. Gordon wants me. What am I that is valuable to Gordon? I don't mean anything. I'm just a boy that has an uncle and a beating heart.

I get thrown into the center of it all and I can hear the yells of Uncle Ben. He is forced to watch as I get ambushed with hits by Erik. They hand him Uncle Ben's axe and I look down prepared for impact as the axe lowers down to me.

"Are you ready?" Erik grins terrifyingly. He brings up the axe and-

"Stop!" A yell is heard and it came from Bones himself. What are you doing? I look at him and he gives me a sad smile. Such smile that affected me.

No. I know what that meant. No Bones. Don't.

"Leave him out of it. Take your anger out on me because I'm the one that made you look like a bitch in front of everyone"

"Bones please! Don't do it" I say and Erik scolds me.

"Well then" Erik grins and accepts Bones offer and I get pushed back with Jacob who broke down to see his brother, partner in crime and friend get brought to the center for punishment.

"I guess this clearly means we will win. You three are the only survivors left" Erik gives a mad chuckle.

"After this one it's your friend there" He points at Jacob. Bones looks at me one last time when Erik finally takes his anger out on him with hard brutal hits. Grunt after grunt and an anger so mesmerizing it's chaotic. Every hit I saw, hurt inside and I didn't want to know what Jacob is feeling. Probably worse than me. It's unbearable to watch. I see Erik's knuckles collide with Bones cheek forming this blue purple shade of a bruise upon his light pale skin. After minutes of getting tortured Bones is out cold and thrown aside to where he lands onto the ground making no other movements. I wanted to go to his assistance but couldn't. I'm not able to. I take in the trouble of Bones breathing and I knew this game has gone way too far.

Then it's Jacob's turn. I pleaded for Erik not to do it but he just enjoyed how I begged for him.

Jacob gets thrown in the middle and I can see how devastated he looks by what he just saw occur. His head falls to the ground as Erik prepares his bruised knuckles again to the same routine.

"Please don't. Just leave him alone" I say squirming in the clutch of an infected until what seems a great fire bursts from out of nowhere taking over now.

This doesn't seem to be a part of the games. This is real.

The flames begins to spread and this doesn't seem to be part of the games in any way. It had this feeling that didn't seem the same as the masked ones. The camp alarm rings and I know for sure this isn't part of the games at all. I look at Erik who is just grinning madly at it. He doesn't care.

Something must've happened. Loud various explosions are heard very close to us causing the ground we stand on rumble. They seem to be coming from everywhere. Everyone began to run away and finally including Erik. I pick up Jacob and we both help Bones who doesn't look like he's breathing. He needed the help immediately.

Everything is going crazy. It's making my head spin.

We begin making our way out of here as more explosions go and what I see they don't come from the sky but from the ground below. We make our way outta the trees and medics quickly take Bones from us and Uncle Ben is helping out then I hear a yelp come from the trees. It's Erik who has caught himself stuck where a small tree is caught on his foot. I knew I couldn't leave him back there so I went back to go help him. I run over to him and I pull off the tree of his foot but I didn't get his thanks just a push that flew me backward where my head hits a log again then I begin to drift into something else.

My eyes stare out into the soothing sky that contains dark clouds. It's what kept me calm even when I'm about to be taken from death. I think I would've been freaking out at this point but no this is helping me. It's taking control. I feel the rain fall on my cheeks and I couldn't move anything at all. I just lay here until I finally drift away as the rest explosives go off.

"I have finally found you" It's what all I heard inside my head when the darkness consumes me.