Lizards vs Drifters

Chapter Three

Gabby was hitching a ride on the pick up truck that was taking her to Tucson by a friendly old couple that was going up to that state as well. She offered to pay them, but they said it was needed. Every night the couple would stop at a hotel, and pay for their room, but also bought Gabby a room to stay in. She felt like she had a family once more, but she knew it wasn't the same. Her dreams were haunted by the death of her parents and the lizard people who were still out there. She got less sleep every night, but it would only last so long until they finally got to Tucson, Arizona.

The old couple gave Gabby a backpack with some camping gear, some clothes, and food as they watched her walk away towards the center of the city. Gabby never thought it would be so hot in this place, but she was almost to downtown where she saw people walking around everywhere. Some people were wearing business suits, school uniforms, or just a simple T-shirt, and blue jeans. It was strange to her, but she knew it would be home for two months before leaving once again.

Downtown was amazing in Gabby's eyes before she saw a group of big guys coming towards her. At first they walked past her like it was nothing, but then she heard them mumbling underneath their breath as they turned to watch her walk. Gabby started to get worried because she had seen this happen to her mother, but nothing would happen to her, because her father would stand up to the guys. That was perfect, but Gabby didn't have anyone stand up for her, so she started to walk fast before breaking into a run.

Gabby ran down the street as fast as she could for a short amount of time, but once she started to slow down, she heard several footsteps behind her. She turned to see the group of guys running at her, as she turned back to run again. No one was helping her stand against these people, and she thought about her parents. What would they do? She was running out of ideas as she ran, but soon got cornered at a dead end. She turned to see the guys closing in on her as tears rolled down her face. Who would save her?

Two blocks away from Gabby, Rico and his team were driving to school when Rico had this feeling that someone needed help. This was new to Rico, because it has never happened before but he was interested on what it could be. John noticed this and decided his radio.

"Rico what are you doing. School is almost about to start." said John.

"Hold on, I think someone needs help. I can hear a girl's voice calling for help over in this direction." said Rico.

"What are you talking about? I don't hear anything." said Johnny.

"I don't think you guys can hear her, but I can. I'm going to check it out while you four go to school. I'll be there as soon as I can." said Rico.

"Alright, but watch your back. I have a bad feeling about this." said Josh.

"I will. Now go to school, and make up an excuse for me." said Rico as he drove towards the girl's voice as his team went to school.

Rico was hearing the girl's voice getting louder in his head as he came up on an alleyway where he saw a group of guys surrounding one girl who was crying. He pulled into the alleyway, and got out to see what was going on to see a girl whose clothes were almost ripped off her body covered in bruises who was crying, and saying someone help me. The guys on the other hand were like NFL players who were on steroids who had a knife on each of them, and evil thoughts running through their minds.

One of the guys went to reach for the girls chest, but was grabbed from behind as he was thrown to the ground. The other guys turned to see their friend on the ground with a high schooler standing above him with a pissed off look in his eyes.

"Who the hell are you?" asked one of the guys as they turned their attention away from Gabby who looked up to see Rico.

"That's none of your concern. What the hell are you doing to this young girl?" asked Rico as he stood up straight facing the guys.

"We were having some fun before you had to stop it. How about you leave before you get hurt little boy." said the guy.

"How about you leave before you get hurt old man." said Rico as he clenched his fist tightly.

"What was that little boy? Do you want to die in this alley?" asked the guy as he walked up to Rico with his knife gripped tightly in his hand.

"You refuse to leave so now you will be on the ground." said Rico.

"I would like to see you try boy. You couldn't take us all down by yourself if you really wanted to. Your weak!" yelled the man as he started to laugh.

"Weak? I'm weak? That was the wrong choice of words to use against me." said Rico as he threw a quick punch at the guy's guts.

The guys then charged at Rico who barely looked up with his eyes closed as he dodged every attack they threw, but made every punch he threw and kick he made connect with one of the guys heads, or ribs. The fight didn't last too long, but he didn't know that some bystanders saw the fight as they videotaped it, and some called the police. The fight was over in a matter of minutes before Rico walked over to the girl who was wrapped up into a little ball.

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