The Caravan of Hope

Chapter 13: Attack

I would like to dedicate this chapter to pawan427, who is my first non friend who voted for this book.

I'm back! I made "Terror" much shorter than I wanted, but I really wanted to return to this story! All six parts are up, check them out!

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"Road trip! Onward to the next city!" It was a week later, and Daiko was excited to get going.

Mary smiled a little more than what she did that week before, but she was sad that George and Hearthfell were still fighting.

"I bet that you don't have a biological father!" Hearthfell was seeming to get George back.

"You know that you're insulting Mary too, right?!"

"Well, you're probably not even related to her! Maybe you were adopted!"

Alex coughed. "Actually, Hearthfell, George is right."

"See?" Hearthfell glares at George.

Alex continues. "You see, babies only come when a mother and a father are married, because the stork only brings babies to married couples!"

George and Hearthfell just started at Alex.

"Err..., how old are you again?" Jarred asks, finally looking up from where he was hugging Bella. He was not in his Diego costume.

Daiko turns around. "He's nineteen." She smiles and starts giggling very hard. "But I forgot you don't know the true way of how babies are made!"

Alex widens his eyes. "You mean Uncle lied to me? But he never lies!"

Daiko tries to stop herself from giggling. "True, but I think that he was too embarrassed to tell you this time." She then stares at him incredulously. "And what makes you think that I'm going to tell you how babies are made?"

Hearthfell and George cough at the same time, but it also strangely sounded like they were saying, *virgin*. They looked at each other and said, "Stop copying me!"

Alex blushed. "I know what you guys are saying." He looked over at Daiko and blushed even harder.

Bella saw this and smiled. Aww. I know Alex is in love with Daiko. He's always embarrassed of talk like this in front of her. But... She frowned. I don't know if Daiko is in love with him. She's never shows what she feels about him in her face, even if it's negative. She also always treats him like a friend.

Daiko opened her book and started reading. Silly Bella... She thought. I'm not telling just yet. <3

Then she remembered what happened next. "EVERYONE, GET DOWN!" Putting her book away, she sang, "Ayuda, ayuda me! El bailo del Magíco Azul!"

All around the caravan, except for Daiko, there was a blue circle that was around them. That was when the ground exploded with ice.

All around them, the ice was parted by the circle. And all that could be heard were Daiko's screams as she was hit by it.

"NO! Daiko!" Alex cried out, but it was too late as she hit the floor.

That was when someone emerged from the ice and picked her up by the neck.

It was a woman. She had short black hair. She was wearing a black tank top with a tweedy brown jacket and long black pants.

"Oh my, master was right. Eliminating the top girl brings the others down," she said.

"YOU BITCH! DON'T TOUCH HER!" Alex ran to her, breaking the blue circle in the process.

She just smiled and snapped her fingers. Two men came out of nowhere and tackled him.

"Now, now, Silver, Tiger, don't hurt him!" The woman smiled while the two men grumbled in response. "Now, Caravan of Hope, we're going to either do this the easy or the hard way! The easy way is you easily surrendering to me. The hard way.."

She threw Daiko to the ground and, with magic, made a gun of ice and pointed at Daiko's head. "Well, I am only saying that ice kills as good as a real bullet."

Alex widened his eyes. He looked at Bella, who nodded. He said, "I would prefer the easy way. But I want to have Daiko by side at all times."

"Okay! But one false move and either Silver or Tiger could kill you within seconds." She nodded at the men, who smiled greedily.

She then looked at Hearthfell, who had his mouth open this whole time. "Oh, I'm so rude, aren't I? Hi Hearthfell!"

He was very surprised. "Ur?"

He looked at Mary, thinking, I don't want Mary to get hurt by her. Then, he walked slowly up to Ur. "He-e-y, Ur," he said, trembling and raising his hand. "Did you dye your hair? I didn't recognize you!"

"I know! Isn't it pretty?"  She bobbed her hair a little.

Hearthfell laughed a little. "Say, Ur, these are my friends. Can you let us go."

She smiled. For a moment there, Hearthfell thought that she was actually going to do it, but then she said "No," and pointed the gun at Jarred. "I'm disappointed. You should know better than having friends!"

Hearthfell looked at Mary again and, hoping that Ur didn't see that, said "Just kidding. They're not my friends."

Mary's eyes overwhelmed with tears, but Ur smiled and said, "Excellent! Follow me, Hearthfell."

He did, while Silver and Tiger led the others, with Alex carrying Daiko on his back.

Hearthfell looked back at them and mouthed, I'm sorry.

But no one saw him.

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First of all, I said that I want updating for three days,  but I'm on a bus that has signal!

Second, I'M SORRY PAWAN427 FOR GETTING RID OF DAIKO! :'(, but it's important and I will have a whole chapter with her fighting! (Yes, she is not dead.)

Third, tell me I'd