Children of the Underground

3

We continued to walk along alleyways and street corners until we reached what seemed to be a small cave. Everything went silent. "What is this place?" I asked in a hushed whisper. No one responded. A few moments of silence pass. "Well, lets get going me and Bebs have to head out again." King says as if talking to himself. Bianca and Felix walk forward into the cave.

"Now before we go in I just want to warn you. We don't get visitors so it might be a little bit messy." King says embarest. I just nod in response not knowing what to expect. We slowly move inside the cave but I can't see anything. I hear Bianca and Felix arguing quietly. "Go clean that up!" she whisper yells. "Well I can't if the lights are off!" he silently shouts back. "Than turn the bloody lights on!" "Just someone get the bloody lights before I have to drop the bleeding kid and do it myself!" King yells getting annoyed. "Sorry." they mumble as there footsteps get lighter and lighter. King sighs under his breath.

And then a blinding light shines in my eyes, but I don't move a muscle. King slowly steps forward into the blinding light. "Don't worry. It's just getting warmed up." He whispers. In about five seconds the lights slowly die down. My eyes widen as I take in the sight before me. It was a big open place. Like a warehouse just emptied. There where pillars, cat walks, small cots with pillows, a corner of crates and a mountain of filth. Besides the architectural beauty of the place it is just piled with dirt and dust. "You weren't kidding when you said it's messy." I smile. King just gives an embarrassed smile.

Bianca and Felix were making what looked to be a makeshift room/hut. "Get the sheet!" Felix says with urgency in his voice, and Bianca runs off to find one. "This is the old one." King says as he looks around the place. "It was MERCY'S original bace until they relocated." Bianca came running back with the sheet. I look back at King. "How do you know this?" I ask. He waits a moment. Felix pulls out a box with a red cross on it. "Felix will tell you all you need to know." He says solemnly. " King, get the nothing juice!" Felix shouts across. "Allright!" King stumbles over the sheet with me gripping on to him. He sets me down on the sheet and walks away.

"What's going on?" I ask. "Kings getting the nothing juice." Bianca replies. She looks over to Felix, he looks back at her. "It's self explanatory." she retorts. 'What?' "How can something be nothing?". She rolls her eyes. "The actual nothing juice isn't nothing, the juice makes something nothing.". I stare at her in even more confusion. "It numbs the pain of your bullet wound." Felix says focused on a pair of welded scissors that go flat at the end. "You need to get better at your descriptions Bianca." He looks at her intently than back to the scissors. "Whatever." She mutters.

King comes rushing back to us sliding on his knees with a vial of clear liquid in his hand. "Here you go." he says handing the vile to Felix, and sitting himself next to me."Again what is going on?" I ask. "Felix needs to get the bullet out idiot." Bianca mutters with annoyance." "Beb's that is not how we talk to people." King lightly whacks her on the head. "I don't need it out, It feels perfectly fine." I try to tell them and try to sit up.. "Nonsense!" King exclames pushing me back down on the sheet. "Do you know what could happen to you if it stays in you?" He asks staring at me. There is silence for a solid 5 seconds. Just the noise of Felix with other metal objects that he probably shouldn't have. "No, do you?" "Felix" Without a moment's notice he snaps his fingers. "If the bullet is deep enough it could cause internal bleeding and or cause nerve damage to your calf." he said without a moment's hesitation. " If the bullet is infected it could infect your bloodstream forcing us to amputate your leg thus killing you within three days due to blood loss." Felix adds. "He's just joking." Bianca says semi reassuringly. "Nope" The color slowly fades from my face.

"Felix has always had an interest in the medical field so no need to worry. He's seen it done many times before." King tells me. "Wait he's only SEEN it done before?!" I say Anxiously. I try to sit up again but am forced down by King. "Don't worry your pretty little head over it he's done the surgery on both me and Beb's many times before." King pulls up the sleeve of his shirt to reveal a nasty scar with seven stitch markings on his pale skin. I winced at the thought of the pain he went through.

"At least you get the Nothing Juice. The first three times we had to suffer through it with no relief." Bianca said and rested her head on Felix's shoulder. Felix than grabbed a knife and began to cut my pants short so my knee was fully out in the warm air. "Well" King says lightly tapping my shoulder. "I think it's time me and Bianca head back out. "See you after the operation." King bounced up and headed towards the door. Bianca quickly snaked her arms around Felix's neck than letting go and proceeded to follow King out the cave. Before he left, King shot his head out the side and gave me a quick wink.

End Of Chapter 3