The Bryne Runaways (Updated)

Chapter 40

I didn't think what just had happened is actually real. It all seemed bias, it felt fake but I knew it wasn't that's what why it hit the hardest. It's all real. I'm thinking Dr. Meredith is still alive and that I am just sleeping. Also being the cure. The cure of what?! I'm just a boy. This is just crazy talk. I'm no one to world. I knew I wasn't dreaming since I couldn't wake up. I run behind Uncle Ben as we make it to our cabin in a hurry.

We need to leave the camp says Dr. Meredith. That it is not safe here anymore. Not for me and not for anyone. Gordon is outta his mind. He will kill me if he sees me.

That's why we need to go but I don't want to. I'm not ready.

The thought of leaving the camp rips me into pieces because this is where I grew up. This is my home. My life.

Uncle Ben opens the door quickly, shutting the door behind us right when I enter. He runs to the bedroom grabbing my backpack and his.

"Hurry and pack, we need to leave immediately" He says in such a flash and begins packing clothes as well as as supplies. I'm much slower than him at packing, I'm just in shock of what has happened. It's too much to take in all at once. I put in my notebooks and clothes in here but I begin to get slower until I stop. I began feel myself shake. I look at my hands tremble and I can't, this is hard for me to take in. I'm way too scared for all this. Uncle Ben looks at me and begins to pack my stuff since I stopped and was wasting time.

The camp alarm goes off and I begin to hear loud shrieking screams come from outside. I look over at Uncle Ben who went faster now that he knows something bad is occurring. All I know from the screams outside is that things here have all gone downhill. Gordon is looking for me and he's doing anything to get to me.

Killing people if he needs to.

"Norman?" Uncle Ben calls and I look at him with welled up tears. Instead of having them bottled up, I release them and they stream down my cheeks so warm and so tragic. I think of the death of Dr. Meredith. I've spent so much moments and years with her and to lose her in an instant is tragic and hard to deal with..

A pair of arms wrap around me and of course they're Uncle Ben's.

"It's okay, we are gonna be fine. I'm going to protect you from anything" He coos me and I fist his shirt, wiping my tears on him. Pull yourself together Norman. You need to do what Dr. Meredith said to do. You need to be brave.

Do it for her. Don't let her sacrifice go to waste.

"Come on, let's go" Uncle Ben says and throws me a new raincoat that I have never seen, it also says for Norman. This must've been my birthday present from him. It looks nice and it's my taste too. I put on the coat and we put on the hoodies for nobody to see us. We finally finish and I take a final glimpse of the bedroom that we have here. Goodbye.

Once we have entered the other room we see wooden planks burn and everything inside the furnished living room is all torched. I awe at the bursting flames begin to incinerate our cabin of memories. It all burns right in front of us.

I react quickly, they have found us!

"The back!" Uncle Ben says as we run to window. I leap over it rolling down a hill of leaves.

Once I have met ground I pick myself up and see the entire cabin of mine abrupt into a huge fire bringing everything completely down to the ground. It's saddening. I turn myself completely around where I am exposed to mayhem, it's much worse to take in to what I'm seeing go around the camp now. There's a fire that begins to scorch throughout everything, innocent campers getting attacked brutally by guardians and a lot of chaos everywhere that weakens me. Our own men fighting off innocent civilians. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and children. Punch after punch. Blood and more blood.

There's punishment for all.

Uncle Ben takes my hand and we begin to run outta the flames that gets bigger and spreads toward both of us. We run into the center of chaos dodging guardians that are after us. We look for an escape way but the fence are all now powered on, once we come in contact with that fence, over a thousand volts will end up paralyzing us. So no one can leave this camp. There is no place to run to and no place to hide.

We are trapped.

Out of nowhere came upon the man who wanted to take away my life. He hauls me to the ground and I see the knife in his hands that he wants to insert in my flesh. He jumps on me and my head is being forced to stay put, readying his knife to be punctured in my flesh. My hands push back his face away from me but he really wants me dead so it didn't stop him. Uncle Ben gets all over him beginning to brawl him but then Gordon took control of it. I crawl backwards to see that Uncle Ben in need of my help. He can't handle Gordon by himself. He needs my assistance.

My hands grab the first thing I see and it's a hard piece of wood. I wanted a sword but this can work. It's enough to hurt someone. I make my way closer to him and I feel so much courage move inside me. A raging fire in me. I then think of everything Gordon has done to me, Uncle Ben, Dr. Meredith, Jacob, Margaret, Bones, Dean, Daisy, Codes, and all campers here!

"Off my uncle!" I yell and he looks behind to see what he wanted all along and guess what?

He got it.

The piece of wood in my hands collides with the delicate skin upon his face with that he falls onto the ground. Uncle Ben gets up from the ground and I can see that he isn't hurt. I throw down the piece of wood and we step away from all this chaos inside one man.

Gordon retrieves himself from the ground where the large slash on his face is noticeable to me and to others. It goes across his face and it begins to bleed. His face expression changes into a furious one then a variety of high ranked guardians regroup with their commander and they all look at their targets. Us.

"Kill them!" Gordon commands and they all follow. Every each one of them with this treacherous face that show no mercy within their wickedness. Uncle Ben nor me couldn't handle all of them and I thought we were goners, it is until a huge explosion steals the attention.

It came directly from deep in the trees catching fire with all the others. The atmosphere around right now has faded into a darker and unsatisfying mood. The entire world began to feel so slow. The traumatic cries of the world that echoes is neverending. A suffocating pressure that chokes the harmless. It's a world that revolves around one. An intense sudden feeling in my body reacts like I'm meant to stick. A distinguishing and odd feeling that raids my disturbed body. Coming straight from the trees in gushing flames are five figures who enter the camp unwelcome.

"They are here" Gordon says with fear in his clear voice as he reloads his pistol.

They walk in slowly and I see with my naked eye that they are dressed in the blackness with unusual type of clothing. It, who stands center in a thick cloak blocks it's hidden identity. The strange feeling returns again I take another glance at it in the very center on as it takes a whip at the air and enjoys the scent around. I begin to get uneasy when the guardians step closer to them and they were ready to attack and finally they did. I look upon with my very own eyes, gazing at everything that gunfire has done simply nothing to them. More guardians arrived and it began this big target fire.

Uncle Ben grabs me and takes no time to grab an explosive from a guardian chucking it at the fence where it detonates, killing the entire power here in camp. Uncle Ben takes my wrist and that's when we were off, getting some bullets shot at us by Gordon's guardians. We run fast and we finally pass the fence, finally out of this camp and into the danger zone where anything lives, that is our world now.