The Race Against Time

Chapter 7

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Lucas

My eyes opened scanning my surroundings, I watched as Xiomara, Yori, and Tyler were now waking up from the sleeping gas. We were still in the same place where we had encountered the two men but the area was now vacant.

"How long were we out for "

I checked my watch and realized that we were only out for 10 minutes.

"10 mins," I said, answering Yori.

I heard a noise coming from the end of the corridor. We all heard it as our head was facing the direction of the sound.

Standing in front of us was a huge boy around our age, probably at least 6 ft. 5 inches. He had absolutely no expression on his face. Huge muscles covered his body. We all stood there not knowing what to do, either run or fight. Our stare diverted to Tyler who was now groaning on the ground fully awake. The boy helped Tyler on his feet stabling him with his arm around his shoulder.

"Come on we need to go before those freaks come back." He said breaking the silence.

"Why should we listen to you?" I answered, "For all, I know you could be one of those freaks."

"Why would I try to get you out if I was one of them dumbo."

That boy had the nerve to call me dumbo, I felt like just punching him in the face but Brooklyn wouldn't want me to do that. If I wanted to win Brooklyn over, I can't make her disappointed in me.

"We can't leave Brooklyn here, we have to find her," Yori replied.

We all agreed to this except for Xiomara of course, she didn't have to say it. I could see it in her eyes all the time.

Well, most of the time when she's not doing this.

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Xander

I came here because I work at a nearby police station and there was a call a week before that something strange was going on in this building and today, they finally sent us to check it out. My friends Juanma and Alvaro were on the roof waiting for me. When I heard the gunshot I immediately came to this floor.

The boy Lucas' didn't have a vivid description of the direction the man carried the girl Brooklyn but we worked with what we had.

We went up to the third floor, there was another glass like on the third floor and we saw a girl and a man.

"That's Brooklyn."

We all quietly went towards the door of the room. Surprisingly the door was open, maybe because they weren't expecting anyone to just burst in. I pulled out my gun from my pocket, tensing my fingers around the trigger just in case I needed to use it. I slammed the door open with my gun raising it towards the man. I smirked seeing fear in his eyes. When I watched, the girl was tied up to the wall with her head hung low and her leg was bleeding. She needed to go to the hospital urgently because her wound could have an infection. Seeing her like this made me feel angry even though I haven't met her before. I just felt so drawn towards her.

The man was about to shoot with his gun but I swiftly pulled the trigger on my gun and shot the man in his head, his lifeless body dropped to the floor. By now the whole group had crowded around the girl. I quickly took the keys from the man's pocket and unlocked the chains from her hands. Brooklyn was blacked out by now maybe because of too much bleeding because the shirt around her leg wasn't doing too much justice. I picked her up to carry her when the boy who I believe was Lucas grabbed her out of my arms staring daggers at me.

I feel like he has a thing for her or he's probably the possessive boyfriend. Anyways that's not my problem. I just came here to check out the strange happenings. At least I found something and I didn't waste my time.

We had no choice but to go up because there would be too many of them by the entrance to get a pass. I just hope that the Brooklyn girl would be ok. I quickly took the lead, there were about two floors left to get to before we reached the top so it shouldn't be too hard since my friends were waiting on me on the top floor. We ran through probably 100 corridors by now I think because even I was panting for breath.

I could hear a groan coming from the group. Apparently. Brooklyn was awake now. I rushed over to her side where Lucas and Tyler were trying to hold her up. I eased the pressure for them and supported her by her waist.

"What happened." She said in confusion.

I was going to tell her but Yori and her friend beat me to it.

"You were knocked out, cold girl."

She was so beautiful, she's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. But we needed to go now before they caught up with us. Plus, I shouldn't be studying any girls now.

"You all we need to go or we'll be dead meat in no time."

We carried Brooklyn supporting her by her feet and arms. In no time we reached the top floor with my strength of course.

We climbed on the roof and I saw my friends Juanma and Alvaro.

"You guys these are my friends, they'll take you all home, I have a mission to complete."

They all shouted in excitement. They forgot we were on the run.

Brooklyn

I woke up with an intense headache. I was being placed on the ground. As I opened my eyes, I realized I wasn't inside the building anymore. I was on top of it. I saw a helicopter hovering overhead.

Tyler was there next to me.

"Brooklyn it'll be ok we're going on that helicopter to go home."

My face lit up with joy knowing that I was leaving this horrible place in no time.

BANG! I watched towards where the noise was coming from and saw men clothed in black coming toward us. My heart palpitated in my chest, fear overtook me, I was struggling to breath thinking that they were going to take us again. I watched as two people jumped from the helicopter. Tyler and Lucas went to help them fight them off while Yori and Xiomara raced to the helicopter to hide. I lay on the ground defenseless. I eyed Xiomara suspiciously as she got out of the helicopter and was walking towards me with a smirk on her face.

"Now you'll be gone forever and nobody will save you. I'll have Lucas and you'll be dead."

She gripped my arm and pulled me to the edge of the building. I kicked and screamed but no one heard me, no one took me on.

"Any last words." She said mercilessly.

"You stupid fool, you'll never get away with this!" I spat in her face.

"Well, I already did."

She used all her strength and kicked me off the building.

I ended up grabbing her shirt and pulling her down with me.

Did she think I was going to go down by myself? Ha, stupid I wasn't even going to let her get the chance.

Anyways, I closed my eyes thinking we were going to go splat on the ground at any moment.

But we didn't.