Peculiar (Under Editing)

~Chapter Six~

I stood there panting, resting on Ley's shoulders, when I felt the moisture consume my side.

"Kas?" I felt Leys gaze on me.

I looked down just as a wave of pain, fierce as lightning, came shooting down my rib cage and to my side. I stumbled back, cupping my hands around the blood.

"It looks like I've been shot..." I mumbled, then collapsed backwards. Thankfully, Tyler caught my head just before it hit the ground, cradling it near his chest.

"Kas!" I heard Ley exclaimed, rushing over to my side.

I felt my cheeks pale. Another shock of pain caused me to writhe and groan.

"How did this happen?" Ley tore both of the sleeves of her lab coat and wrapped them around the wound. "We didn't even hear a gunshot!"

"We couldn't have. With everything going on in there, all we could hear was the adrenaline in our heads." Tyler said.

Ley stood, taking a commanding figure. "We need to get her somewhere safe. There are people on the street and she's been shot," Ley gestured to the wound, bleeding, dirty, and pulsing, "so we can't carry her in public."

"I doubt she's strong enough to walk as well." Tyler added.

"Oh great, got anything else horrible to point out?" Ley hissed.

I coughed. "Think of s-something."

The Kralayan whipped my direction. "Do not waste your breath on speaking, silly, you are going to need every ounce of strength."

"What are you t-talking about, L-ley?... It's only a c-clump of met-tal. I can easily r-regenerate." I stammered.

"Not in a million years!" Lay told me. "It's a waste of a regeneration! Besides, you can be healed.

"Can I?" I mumbled.

Ley stopped. She smiled. "Brilliant!"

Even Tyler looked up at that.

"What?" he asked.
"You know those advertisers on the street?" asked Ley.

Tyler nodded.

"Those ones where you gather the people around to do tricks?"

Tyler's nod was slower this time.

"What if-"

Tyler beat her. "Diversion!"

Ley smiled brightly. "Exactly. All we need to do is get Kas across the street. In fact, there is a bridge not far from here. It's a great shot to the woods."

"How far?" Tyler's excitement died down, replacing it with concern.

"It's a risk, I know, but what isn't?" Ley looked like a nervous teenager caught doing something wrong.

"Will she make it?"

Another rock of pain. I winced. I smiled weakly at them. "I c-can do... it, I p-promise."

Ley shook her head and sighed.

"We are on an alley next to the building closest to the bridge. If we can make it in front of that building then behind, it should work. We can ease our way from there." said Ley, starting to pace in front of us.

Then came a bang from the brick. Blue waves rippled from the center of the wall.

"And then there's them." Tyler muttered.

Ley raised her hands and ran them through her hair. "Ahhh," she breathed.

"What is that?" asked Tyler. "I thought you locked the door!"