The Angel Track

Chapter Four - Araspeek

So the first 5 chapters were written when I was 14, so not some of my best stuff but I'm working on it, the later chapters are better in my opinion. Point is, bare with me.

Chapter Four - Araspeek

   Ari was silently fuming as she sat on her bed in the shack. They had packed all the food from the kiosk that Sam had broken into and brought it home-along with Sam’s attacker. Despite Ari’s protests, Cale had insisted that they take her back before the situation got even worse. He was so stubborn, Ari had only known him for a few hours but he was already getting on her last nerve.

    Ari surveyed her surroundings, Sam was outside for the moment, disposing of that girl’s nasty weapon. It was ridiculous. Not only did it bring to mind images of a zombie apocalypse, it was definitely not a good choice of weapon, she thought. How could you attack someone from far? Or fine tune the degree of injury?

   Ari was much more practical than that, which was why she loved her daggers, aside from the fact that they were family heirlooms her mother had given her. She looked over to the table where Cale sat next to the girl’s unconscious body, he appeared to be working his healing powers.

   "Oi! Pretty boy. Stop that!" Ari told Cale.

   "Did you just call me pretty boy?" He asked, he looked faintly amused with his mouth upturned at one corner. His hand had stopped moving at the girl’s head, when Ari had interrupted him.

   "Yes, pretty boy, did I hurt your feelings? You want me to apologise?" Ari mocked in a high pitched tone.

   "I think I’ll be okay," he replied, shaking off Ari’s taunts.

   The wood of the door stuck to the frame as Sam pushed it open and walked in, looking a little damp from the snow. He gave a little wave at Ari and a polite nod at Cale before he sat down on the bed beside her.

   "Anyway, just to clear things up a bit for you human folk, this," Cale continued, pointing at the girl. "Is Bella, she’s a member of the Ragner’s horde like me--"

   "And what exactly is that?" Ari interrupted, she was getting tired of Cale not explaining anything properly. She couldn’t do anything with the scraps of information he was giving her.She couldn’t be in control of the situation.

   "I’m getting on to that," he said with a deadly glare directed at Ari who looked back with narrowed eyes.

   "Firstly, if you, human, tell anybody what I’m telling you I will personally take care of you." He told Sam.

   "You mean that in a threatening way right?" Sam queried. Cale just, looked at him stonily. "Okay, okay, it just sounded like you were volunteering to be my baby sitter." Sam said, Cale gave him one more chilling look and continued.

   "Well, as I was about to explain, the Ragner’s Horde is a secret institution --"

   "An institute you say. I knew you were crazy!" Ari interrupted again.

   "Would you care to stop interrupting me?" He said menacingly.

   Ari mimed zipping her lips and throwing away an imaginary key, she finished her pantomime with a salute.

   "Good, anyway an institution of some remaining Valens, you may think the war between us and humans ended but it hasn’t. Our race won’t die out as much as they’d love that to happen.-"

   "Hey, stop stereotyping, I don’t want you all to die." Sam said and Ari fondly patted him.

   "Will you let me finish?!" Cale asked looking exasperated.