Missing in Action

Chapter Nine

Missing in Action

Chapter Nine

Cassidy's P.O.V

The world seemed to move in slow motion. I could see it going wrong, but I couldn't speak to tell him to stop. I couldn't speak. What if I caused him to crash?

I pictured Mrs Oak, James' mother. If James died, I would have to be the one to tell her, and although it was selfish, I couldn't do that to the poor woman. Her son was her world, and I wouldn't be able to tell her that he had died.

It was like my worst nightmares were real.

"Go James, go!" Henry exclaimed.

I looked over to him. Despite the darkness of the night, I could see that his gaze was transfixed to the plane that was speeding downwards at an impossible speed.

"Four isn't a prime number James," I whispered quietly.

Henry had always had this outrageous theory that prime numbers are lucky numbers. We had once spent a week trying to work out as many prime numbers as we could find.

So far, his theory was proving to be correct.

James plane was now travelling so fast that it was just an incredibly fast moving blur in the sky.

I held my breath as he reached the distance that he needed to fire from. I pictured the determination that he always had on his face whenever he was approaching a target.

I heard the faint click of him pressing the trigger button. The bomb fell out of the belly of the plane.

I seemed to stop completely. All I could see was the bomb falling and James still hurtling towards the building.

James pulled up, and the bomb penetrated the roof of the building.

And now for the moment of truth...

One of the middle floor burst out scattering debris in all directions. The building began quaking and then, it fell. It fell taking the lives of the demons with it. It took some of the bad out of the world.

"James?!" I shouted. "James!"

But he didn't respond.

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James' P.O.V

I swerved away from the building, flying straight following the path of a road, but I was going to fast.

The building pasted in a blur. I was going too fast.

"Warning! Warning!" the automated voice said. Warning lights were popping up everywhere, but I couldn't focus long enough to work out what they were.

The edges of my vision began to blur and go black. My eyelids became heavy.

Everything went black.

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The voices seemed to fade, and the lights didn't affect me. Maybe this isn't a bad way to go. It's peaceful. I couldn't hear anything.

James!

It was like a voice was calling me back, but I didn't want to go back. I didn't want to go back to a world of war.

James!

It sounded like Cassidy's voice. She sounded frantic.

"James!"

It was Cassidy. Cassidy was yelling for me to wake up.

"James, listen to me! You have to wake up James!"

She was giving up. She could see something that I couldn't.