The Bryne Runaways (Updated)

Chapter 48

We were getting closer to our destination said Uncle Ben giving me little hope to continue on even though my leg aches. I am in so much pain because of this wound. It's holding me back from moving faster. I look down at Roxy who is beside me, she's very quiet, patient and awfully scared. She's just like me but she's a good dog much capable than I am. It warms my heart looking at her really, I'm growing a lot of love for her. I can already tell by now. As we were walking we caught a sign on the floor. We were getting closer to where we were heading. It gave me a sign of hope.

I look at Uncle Ben and then we continue moving a bit slow due to my injured leg. The sun will fall and soon nightfall will rise. We needed to move quickly. Who knows what kind of crazy things go on at night down here. Anything can occur at night.

As we kept on moving we spot three cars, it looks like it hasn't been searched yet.  We go over to them and I take one car with Roxy. I limp over and this didn't feel right. The air thickened and the atmosphere is so outta place. It didn't feel good nor safe. I look at the car for awhile, I needed to be safe so I took out my pocket knife which Uncle Ben returned to me. I open the car door and nothing occurred. It still didn't feel right it's way too quiet.

I look at Roxy as she sniffs the vehicle and I just stay frozen, this doesn't feel right. It's awfully quiet here. When I'm about to say something a spear lands on the hood of the car and then detonates the engine in a huge engulfing flame. I fall back at what occurred and from the backseat steps out a tall thin man with mud smeared on his demented face with this bright purple hair that is struck in different areas, he steps out with a hand crafted weapon aimed at my face as his nasty grin grows wide along with his spirit. Uncle Ben sees the guy and drops his axe to the ground in surrender.

"Get on the fucking floor!" The man yells and more people arrive who were hiding around here. It's a mob of crazy men and here one of them has their gun aimed at my head.

"Look what we have here!" The man grins madly to his friends who seem to enjoy the new merchandise.

"We have a kid with us here!" The man looks at me and touches my face softly and I move away from his hand but his filthy hand comes back to my face but with much more control.

"Don't touch me" I say to his face then spit at it. The crazy man smiles demonstrating how yellow and cracked his teeth are.

"You and me kid, we both know what will happen if you did that again" He says very close to my ear disgustingly.

"Got that?" I nod showing my understanding. He smiles again then grabs my face to lick it showing a deep urge.

"Alright then boys, kill the other one and we'll have ourselves a good night!" The crazy man says and I look over at Uncle Ben and he gets taken by a couple of men. I'm wanting to move but the tip of his pistol reminds me to stay down. They had guns aimed at Uncle Ben's head for any further movements. I began to get worried. I didn't know how to get out of this one. I look at Roxy and she's hiding under the car afraid like me.

"Please leave him alone" I say to the man who didn't seem to care. He just enjoyed what he's going to witness.

Suddenly I see movements in the trees, a hand that waves at me. I look over to the hand and I see the archer who helped me in the forest. He puts a finger on the rims of his mouth and I nod making sure I'm not being watched. Uncle Ben gets hauled to his knees and whatever the archer's going to do needs to hurry before I burst or they'll kill my uncle. They pick up Uncle Ben's axe and forcefully play around with it so they can use it on him. In very slow motion I see the axe get lift in the air but never inserted in my uncle's flesh due to the heavy sharp arrow that flies directly into the throat of the ludicrous man exiting the other end, he collapses on the ground dropping the axe onto the concrete as squirts of warm blood gushes out his throat and from the vehicle next to me the outsider gets kicked directly to the face causing him to stumble backwards.

Uncle Ben runs over to me covering me from the bullets going around. I look from the window and the silent archer dodges through bullets using his bow at the crazy people. He drops his bow and takes out his sword and slices off the arm of one of them in a swift movement, revealing the pinkish thick flesh up to the knob of bone that bulges out through the center of his arm. He leaps over people dropping them on the floor, sticking his sword in between their eyes where they roll up endlessly. I see a bullet go through his shoulder but that doesn't stop him from fighting but makes him much stronger. Uncle Ben enters in the fight and goes after the guy with the wicked bright purple hair who I spat at. They went axe versus double knives.

The archer gets pushed to the car I'm behind of and he then pushes a scavenger through the window and the glass shatters into pieces. I feel a pair of arms go on me lifting me up in the ground. It's one of the crazy men. His raspy disgusting chuckle sends raging uncomfortable feelings. I try fighting back from his grasps on me but his grip on me is strong. He then suddenly drops me when the archer took care of by sticking his sword right through his wicked heart tearing it apart. I fall on my bad leg and I release a painful whimper.

The archer looks at my leg and up to me. "What happened to your leg?" He asks me cleaning the running blood of his intimidating sword.

"A piece of glass fell on me" I say sheepishly and he shakes his head at me. He goes back to the fight helping Uncle Ben out as I stay with Roxy keeping her close to me only hearing the tortuous yelps of the main man who attacked us.

They finish up and I walk out into the open where the bodies of the lifeless were on the ground bleeding to death. I had trouble breathing due to all the death around me. I never seen it nor wanted to go through it.

"We need to move, these aren't safe grounds for two"

"I think I can handle myself" Uncle Ben informs.

"I know you can but not him" The archer points at me.

"You guys need to go, before the others find out about this, you can guarantee they will try to kill you" He talks about the mess we caused. He hands Uncle Ben a rifle that belonged to a scavenger and began to walk till I stopped him.

"Where are you heading?" I ask.

"Anywhere far from here"

"Wait...what's your name?"

"That's not important anymore.....try to stay alive" The silent archer says and leaves into the trees.

We began moving but away from the road as much as we can and to a shortcut away from the open as possible. Things here have gotten much more worse here since we have made it to the road. From what we got out of this is a rifle for Uncle Ben with an extended mag and a battle scar on my leg. We needed to move far away from the road as much as possible, we made way too much noise for someone to hear. We could've been caught in the middle of an airstrike if we continued to move by road.

Nightfall arrived and the weather got much colder. My coat isn't really helping me out. I look down at Roxy and she's shivering. We needed to make a fire and find shelter. Other than the freezing cold wind, the darkness around me terrified me. Every little noise frightened me. Things were much worse with no type of light. I hear a noise come from the trees and I look over clutching my knife ready for anything that haunts me beyond our sights and senses. No one's there just the trees that mock me.

I smile down at Roxy of this joke and kept on walking.

We kept on walking till we met an abandoned car which had back seats for us to rest on. This is where we're gonna sleep for the night. Luckily the windows of the car are tinted so no one can spot us resting. I lay down vertically on the seats with Roxy beside me who guards for whoever dares to step a foot in this vehicle.

Even though how warm the car is I'm still cold. Basically the entire time it's what prevented me from falling asleep. But it's until I feel a jacket go on me and it is Uncle Ben's. What is he doing?

"How's your leg buddy?" He asks going over the seats and I get off my back as Uncle Ben sits down beside me.

"I can still feel it" I say to him and he begins to unwrap the bandages from my leg. He analyzes the wound and I wince when he moves it.

"It still hurts?" He looks at me and I nod. He disposes the dirty bandages and wraps around cleaner ones.

"It's gonna get better" Uncle Ben says to me and I hope so. I really do. And with that I drift into quiet undisturbed sleep, being with my two favorite people in this mysterious world.