Shadow in the Dark

Chapter Five

The crowd turned wild with fear. People started running down the streets, even the back street that Kiera was hiding on. The people were sprinting away from the scene of the death of the king. Kiera smiled. She looked at the sky, and a light began to shine around her.

Then everything went black, and she heard the stimulator slowly rolled to a stop around her. Kiera reached up and pushed the box open. She climbed out.

Deadstreak was there, with Thunderice, Silentmoon, Redsign, and others Kiera didn't know, but recognized from the raid of her house. They all were watching a screen on the wall. Kiera saw herself fire at the king, and she saw the king fall. Then the screen went blank and everyone turned to her.

She looked at them, and they looked at her. Then everyone began to clap. Thunderice nodded, approval in his eyes. When the applause died down, he spoke.

"Welcome to BMR 7H, Kiera. Or shall I say, Shadow."

Kiera nodded. Thunderice passed something to Deadstreak, who walked forward to Kiera. He held up an AR-15 rifle. Her very own gun. She picked it up, turned it over in her hands, cocked it, then raised it.

Kiera fired the gun once at the ceiling. Then everyone else raised their guns at the ceiling and fired. Then Kiera nodded, and everyone walked out of the room accept for Deadstreak and Thunderice. Thuncerice walked towards her.

"We have been in great need of an assassin, Kiera, since our last one got killed in a mission that was much harder than any of us thought. Kiera, though you may think that we are evil, we use a method to find out when a leader or important person is going to bring down a country. Then we send anyone that we can to kill them or disable them. The stimulator has the same scenario every time. We use the mysterious death of King George the Seventh as a guideline. All of the other assassins that we put in here went inside the crowd, were found, and were killed. None of them tried the approach that you did. Climbing on a roof. Very creative. Very effective." Thunderice nodded.

The door opened behind Kiera, and she turned around. It was only Silentmoon, however. Silentmoon nodded to her and walked past her to Thunderice. He murmured something in Thunderice's ear, then walked back out.

"Well, Kiera, looks like you will have your first mission before you know it. Police have found us. They are in the garage. Come on." Thunderice began to walk out of the room. Deadstreak began to follow him. Kiera hurried to stay with them.

"Police?" she asked. Thunderice nodded.

"Police have been after us since we first started. They have found us numerous times, and each time we have had to fight them off and relocate. Hurry."

Thunderice began to pick up the pace. Kiera had to run to keep up with him and Deadstreak. They headed for Kiera's room, then turned and went down a long hallway. They turned again, then that Thunderice turned right to a door. He pulled out a key, fit it in the lock, turned it, then placed his finger right above the lock. Then he opened the door, grabbed the key, and beckoned Deadstreak and Kiera in. Deadstreak went in first, and Kiera went in second. Deadstreak was going up a ladder that was the only thing in the room. Kiera sighed, and began to climb up behind him. Thunderice came in behind her and closed the door.

When they reached the top, Kiera found that they were in a small, short room, with a small opening on one wall. Kiera crawled up to where Deadstreak was crouched in front of the opening. She noticed it looked out over the garage. There were policemen all over the garage, scanning the walls for any door. Kiera saw one on one wall, but Deadstreak whispered to her that they had locked all exits from the garage.