You're Never Alone

Chapter 31

Word Count: 2146

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Dan lands on the ground of the dungeon with a thud. He coughs harshly as the wind is knocked out of him and a sharp pain shoots up his torso. He probably has a couple broken ribs now. It's a few days after he saw Phil but somehow Alfie and a couple of the guards knew it was him.

    "Who was he?" Alfie demands but Dan shakes his head, refusing to respond. A soldier grabs him from the ground and throws him across the room. Dan slides and his back slams into one of the cement walls. He groans and coughs, blood coming out of his mouth.

    Skye walks over and lifts him off the ground by the front of his shirt, pressing his back against the wall and holding the blue dagger against his throat. Dan only laughs.

    "You couldn't killed me if you tried," he says with a smirk and Skye looks back at the king who's just walked in. Alfie runs over and catches him up on what's happening. Dan's father looks at Skye and nods. She slashes Dan's thigh open and Dan screams as the icy blade burns through his flesh.

    As the white pain blinds him, Skye drops him on the floor and walks away. That's when Dan's eyes start to glow a bright red through all of this pain. Adrenaline fills his veins and he lunges for Skye's neck. He tightly chokes her and she claws at his hands, desperately trying to get air in her lungs. Soldiers pry him off but now his flight response kicks in.

    He ducks under people and runs out the doors of the dungeon, sprinting as if he'll die if he doesn't which is honestly the truth right now. Flames start to fly around him and bullets wizz past his head. Dan finally reaches the back doors to the kitchen and bursts out of them, turning down an alley and starting to zig zag through the city. He pulls out his phone from his waistband and dials PJ's number, grateful that's it's nighttime and he'll be harder to catch.

    The phone rings and Dan turns left as PJ picks up.

    "Hello?" he answers and Dan laughs in relief before ducking as a bullet flies over his head.

    "PJ, you have to help me now," Dan demands as he sharply turns a corner.

    "Dan, what the hell is happening?" PJ asks, concerned now. Dan gasps, sprinting faster down the street.

    "Well," Dan starts. "The soldiers found out that it was me that helped you guys and now I'm being chased through the city."

    PJ sighs before Dan hears him burst into some room. "Okay the rest of us are listening too. Where are you?"

    Dan gives a small screech, making the five of them in the warehouse jump slightly. "Sorry! Okay I just turned down Queen's Ave. Oh my god!" Dan yells as a soldier jumps out from nowhere. He quickly beats him down before putting the phone back to his ear.

    "Dan?" PJ says and Phil jumps as a loud crash can be heard from the other end. They all look at each other before scrambling up and running to get in a car out back. As they wait for Dan to respond, PJ, Phil and Adrian jump into a Jeep while Louise and Joe stay behind.

    Dan just barely dodges a bullet as he responds. "Help me!!" he yells. The three of them begin to quickly drive towards Queen's.

    "Where are you now?" Phil asks frantically and Dan stutters as he looks around him, pausing for a moment.

    "Main Street and Urban!" he responds as he starts running again. PJ takes a sharp turn down Main. Dan is losing speed as his bleeding leg starts to slow him down. Gunshots ring out from behind him and one hits him in the back on the bottom of his ribs. "Fuck!" he screams and the three in the car look at the phone in Phil's hand in fear.