The Arising: Our Community

Chapter 14

GABRIELLA

"So know we have a missing leader as well as three others?" Anastasia said.

"Yes" I said.

"And what happens when everyone finds out about this?" Cooper said.

"Well, I'm going to tell everyone now, and we will see" I said.

They all nodded and walked off gathering everyone together. I saw everyone in front of me. Waiting for me to say something.

"Three of our people were taken by a group of people. Soon a few of us will go get them. That's basically it" I said.

Everyone went quite. All of their faces went blank. They all looked scared and hopeless. They all looked at each other.

"So we are possibly going to war? We are going to war without Sam? What are we going to do? How will we win?" A man said.

"Sam isn't just the kid who kept us alive. We all played apart" I said.

"We did. But Sam kept us together. Happy, he gave us motivation. He lead us the right way. Without him we would of all been dead. So without him, how do you think we could win this?" The man said again.

I stood up on the stage and tried to think of what to say.

"We don't know if these people mean violence or friendship, and we aren't leaving our people behind. So it may be dangerous. But if we don't go they could die. All they want is guns and ammunition" I said.

"It's not worth it. Threatening our lives like this. It's stupid. It's dumb what if they follow you back and find us" a woman said.

"Sam would of saved them. I know he would of. But most likely they know where we are already. We don't know enough about them. But you can trust me. We will come back with all three of those people and ourselves" I said.

I walked off the stage as the crowd started to yell and a few were crying. I guess they couldn't bear to get into another war. I saw Cooper walk up to me.

"So who's going?" Cooper said.

"Anastasia I think, probably Hunter and I" I said.

"Can I come?" Cooper asked.

"No. We need more people here. There's not many of us left. You need to defend this place" I said.

"Ok. I will" Cooper said leaning in to kiss me.

I quickly pushed him back and looked around for Anastasia. Luckily she wasn't around.

"That was only a one time thing. Don't think that I would do it again" I said walking away.

I saw Hunter and Anastasia getting ready to leave soon. I sat down next to them.

"Hunter I don't think you should come. You're pregnant. Something might go wrong, and..." I said as I was talked over.

"I'm going to see if Sam is there. They might have him or they might even have seen him. That's the only reason. I just want to see him" Hunter said.

I held her arm, and looked her in her eyes.

"You know Sam wouldn't want you doing this. He would want you to stay here safe. You know that's true" I said.

Hunter angrily moved her arm making me let go of her. She slowly looked up at me. She gave me a quick look. She looked angry and desperate. She then walked away towards the gate and sat down next to it waiting for us.

"Ignore her. She just misses him a lot" Anastasia said.

"I think she really needs to look after Megan better. Ever since he went missing she's been sitting in his and Hunters bed. She never comes out" I said.

"I think you should forget about all of this for now and let's go get your friends back ok?" Anastasia said hugging me and giving me a kiss on my lips.

"Ok" I said.

We both walked over to the gate. Mitch walked out with five bags full of weapons and ammunition to make the trade. Mitch looked over the weaponry and assessed each and everyone of them. We chucked the bags into our van and got in. We then drove out towards TheBarton. We were all quite the entire way. I started to sweat majorly as we drove up to the park. We drove the car onto the grass and all got out. We stood at the van and waited for the people to show up. Hunter kept looking over at the plaza.

"Are you ok?" I asked.

"That's where Sam and I first met. He saved my life" Hunter said as a tear went down her cheek.

Anastasia walked up to her and pat her back trying to comfort her. But as she hugged Hunter three cars came racing down the road. Each of them were rusted and had some sort of metal armour all on it. They stopped right in front of us and eight people all rushed out. They all were wearing torn clothes and metal armour like on their cars. Then a man walked out of the middle car. He walked to the back and took out Tyler, Audrey and Luke. He pushed them forward and his men held them.

"Do you have what I wanted?" The man said who looked like the leader.

"We do. Five bags full of guns and ammunition. For those three" I said.

He looked at me with a blank face.

"Show me!" He said.

I walked to our van and pulled out all the bags. I threw them on the floor. The leader swayed his head to get one of his men to check it. He checked it and counted all of the guns. He then walked over to the leader and whispered something into his ear. The leader pushed Luke and Tyler forward. So I handed him two bags.

"And the rest?" He said confused.

"What about her?" I asked.

He pointed at the bags.

"Not the right amount of guns. It has to be even. These tow bags have ten guns but the others have a mixture of five to seven. I wanted more. You don't get your friend back. I keep her" The leader said.

"You never told us a number of guns you wanted. Doesn't that make it your fault?" I said.

Audrey started to squirm.

"Shit Gabriella you shouldn't of said that" Luke whispered behind me.

"Are you blaming me? You think that it's my fault?" He said.

He grabbed his knife from his holster and stabbed Audrey in the neck.

"No!" I yelled.

He looked at us. He kept stabbing her over and over again. Audrey's face was still moving. Her mouth was opening and closing like a fish out of water and her eyes were looking straight upwards. Finally he stopped stabbing her. But then he pulled her hair. Her head came off as her body fell to the ground. He kissed Audrey's now decapitated head and threw it to us. Her head rolled towards me and stopped at my foot. I looked up and saw him smiling. I quickly grabbed my gun and aimed it at his people. They all quickly got into their cars dropping one of the bags accidentally. I shot at them crying. I killed a few of them at least three. They all quickly drove away and retreated.

"He fucking got away!" I yelled crying and falling to my knees to see Audrey's head.