CYRON (Completed)

Chapter 18 -S.

      It was night now and the street was beautiful. Cables ran across the street from building to building. Along the cables were little bulbs which glowed white and lit up the night. This place was beautiful.

Gokan was out on the small balcony attached to his little bedroom at the Sanchez Hotel. The town of Guarin was a small one, thus they had no big, fancy five-star hotels out here as they did in the big cities. Gokan's room was on the second floor of the motel building. Below the balcony was a classic black Ford SUV parked at the side of the road. Gokan had his camera, but he was not taking photographs. He was still worried about what had happened out on that cliff earlier in the day. He had called his sisters and they were alright. His father and mother were fine too.

"I should take a picture of this," Gokan spoke, looking at the beautifully lit-up, empty street.

He stared at the street a while longer. He didn't even have his camera on him at the moment. He was still shaken.

"Man, I gotta get back to the U.S. and see them," he said now, taking out a cigarette from the breast pocket of the white flannel shirt he had on.

"Where's my lighter?"

He turned around and walked back into his hotel room.

The room was a small one, with a single bed, a wide, low dresser, a small desk and a chair. The TV was a small wall-mounted one and there was a small fridge where the customer could store things. The light in the room was produced by two fancy light fittings, one over the bed and the other over the door on the opposite wall. Gokan's bags sat on top the dresser and that was where he went now.

Gokan unzipped one of the small, front pockets of his travelling bag.

'There you are.' He thought as he saw the lighter sitting right there.

He picked up the lighter and just as he made to flick it, his door was kicked open with great force.

The lighter fell out of his hand and he quickly opened the top drawer of the dresser from where he pulled out a gun and aimed it at the door, but someone rushed at him, snatched the gun, and tripped him over so he fell on his back.

The person squatted down before Gokan and when the Turk sat up, he saw the girl from earlier in the day. She was dressed in black pants, black Kevlar vest, black gloves and black boots. She had his gun in her left hand and was removing the bullet clip from it.

"You again?" The young man asked.

"Yeah, me again, you idiot." She replied in a hushed tone, then rose to her feet.

The girl took out a small metal rod and with the push of a button on its side, it grew longer. She ran to the door, lifted into the air and flogged the light over it, blowing the bulb.

"What the hell?!" Goakn screamed.

"Shut up, idiot!" She replied in a hushed tone as she ran across to the other side of the room, leaping onto the bed and off it so she could take out the light above it also, plunging the room into darkness.

"Somebody help!" Gokan yelled, rising from the floor and heading out to the balcony.

"Idiot!" The girl snapped as she ran after him.

Gokan got out to the balcony and began screaming for help, but the girl came up behind him, and kicked the back of his knee, while pulling him backwards. The guy fell on his back and she dragged him back into the room before striking the front of his gullet with her fingers.

Gokan began choking and gasping for air. His eyes bulged as he tried to rise to his feet, but the girl kept him down with a hand on his chest.

"I am going to release your esophagus now, but you need to promise to shut up and listen to me." She told him as he nodded his head quickly, desperate for air.