Female Warrior [COMPLETED]

Chapter 20

Ava: I'm walking behind Luna and there's been silence ever since we took the photo, because we're both very hungry at the moment. But the closer we get to New York, the more up North we go, the cleaner the cities and towns look. "Now that I think about it...it was a bad idea to eat up everything when we were in the car..."

Luna: "Don't worry we'll find something soon...just keep praying." And right when I say that a mall appears to our left. "Am I hallucinating?" I rub my eyes and when I open them I see Ava running to the doors. "Hey! Wait for me!" I say as I follow behind her. We get to the doors and start to pull on all of them and can tell they're locked and boarded up from the inside. "Someone could be in there?"

Ava: "Well we just took on a group of cannibals so I'm not worried about any other group."

Diego: "Is that so?" Ava and Luna both jump and turn around and see me and some other guys holding guns at them. "Who are you and what do you want?"

Ava: I look at the guy and see he's about somewhat our age, of course. "Well...Ava and Luna, and we want food."

Diego: I look you guys up and down. "What are you guys doing out around here?"

Ava: "Just trying to survive..."

Diego: I look at the both of you one more time. "You two a couple?"

Luna: We both blush and talk over each other saying that we're not a couple at all. I see him grin and chuckle softly.

Diego: I look at the guys. "Lower your guns." They do so. "So, my name is Diego and I'm the leader of our resistance group. There's more of us inside."

Ava: "Resistance group?" I mumble to myself.

Diego: "Usually people give up when they see the door is locked and boarded up, there's another entrance. Just follow me...well if you want some food." I say walking off and the guys follow.

Ava: We look at each other and follow after him, staying close to each other just in case.

Diego: I go to the back entrance and do the secret knock, we're let in and we all enter and head for the Main Commons area. I look back at you two as I'm walking. "Everyone here is from different states. Almost everyone here has either escaped or their parents hid them.

Ava: My eyes widen a little hearing that other people have also escaped. When I hear the parents part, Luna looks down at the ground and looks sad about the topic at the moment. Eventually, we get to the Main Commons area. We see tents set up although-out everywhere and old abandoned restaurants turned into storage for weapons, food, clothes, and other necessities.

Diego: I bring you guys over to a table and sit down in front of you.

Ava: "Nice place you have here...you guys have it all."

Diego: "Thank you, you guys are welcome to stay."

Luna: "Thanks, but after we eat we have to get back on the road."

Diego: "I understand." I nod my head at one of my guys and a few minutes later he comes over with a plate of beans, corn, and mashed potatoes. "Sorry it's not much but we find a lot of beans and corn out there. Whenever we go searching."

Luna: "No, no you're fine." I say while starting to dig in alongside with Ava.

Diego: I eat also. "So what's your guys' story?"

Ava: I take a minute to catch my breathe and swallow my food. "From Sector 804 and I escaped."

Luna: "Parents...hid me."

Diego: "Guessing you escaped for the same reason as some of us? Just couldn't take the dumb rules and the brainwashing they tried to do." Ava nods her head in agreement. "Still don't know how everything went to shit. Maybe when all that Commander stuff came into play. But we plan on going to New York and try to make a difference...once we get more people."

Luna: "So...what's your story?"

Diego: "Well I'm from Texas and I escaped with my boyfriend but after I tried to tell him my plan, he just...didn't like it. So he left. This was a couple years ago." I said shrugging it off.

Ava: "Oh my god you're gay!" I say a little too loudly. "I know the perfect guy for you his name is, Luc-..." I get off from a loud banging noise coming from the front boarded up doors.

Diego: I get up quickly and draw my gun. "Everyone get away from the doors and draw your weapons!"

Luna: Ava and I decide we should at least help since they fed us, so we get up too and get our weapons out. The loud banging noise keeps on going and we see the doors start to make a dent. "They're trying to ram the door down..." Right when I say that a big truck comes busting through the doors along with 2 others. The guys in the truck all start to jump out to fight. Bullets and arrows start flying everywhere from everyone trying to defend their home. Everyone starts to get separated from each other, I grab Ava's hand and try to make a run with it. "Diego, come-...!" I get interrupted by a man trying to grab my arm and bring me to his truck. I try to hit him across the face with my bow, but he catches it, rips it from my grasp and hits me, knocking me out.

Ava: I clench onto my throwing knife about to attack him, but he then hits me across the face too with the bow. Like it was nothing. I fall to the ground and my vision starts to get blurred as I see the man picking up Luna. I too myself start to feel like I'm being picked up. But as I try to fight my eyes start to close slowly, everything around me fading to black.