Ashes

Part Four

"Cassie, wake up!" said Ruby and shook me to wake me up. "Wakey, wakey" said Prune and smacked my face. "What is it?" I asked as I rubbed my eyes, still feeling sore from the shock I got.

"Why were you in my office!" yelled Prune as he helped my off the floor, only to push me down on the floor once more. "WHY WERE YOU IN MY OFFICE!" yelled Prune once more and picked me up from the floor and smacked my face again.

"Stop it!" yelled Rubie from beside me and watched as the man who were supposed to help us, attacked us.

"Hey, lets calm down" said one of the guards and tried to calm Prune, who had completely gone mad! "Did you get it?" asked the tattooed girl and broke her silence, "Yeah, the guy in glasses is delivering it to Sam" I replied and enjoyed her pleased look when she said: "We'll better get ready then"

Harry, Rubie the tattooed girl and I, sat on the floor and watched as Prune somehow tried to control his anger issues. We all sat and waited for something to happen.

"Just get them back to their cells!" yelled Prune and waved his jeweled hand for his guards to take us back to our cells, only if he was fast enough!

With a small beep, all of our collars fell off to Prune and the guards' surprise.

"Well then" said the tattooed girl and rubbed her forearm to animate a small sword from her skin. "Run!" she yelled before she swung her sword around, hitting and slicing the guards as we ran out of Prune's office.

"Rubie, get Sam and James!" yelled Harry as he ran down the stairs, trying not to stumble.

Rubie gave Harry a nod, just before she jumped off the bridge and fell down five floors and stuck her landing.

Harry put his gloves back on before he started running down the stairs, while I tried to follow him. "Hey! Wait up!" I shouted as I tried to catch up to him, but he was too fast! "Harry wait for me!" I yelled once more, but this time it almost seemed like he started slowing down for me?

"Hey, Harry! Wait!" I yelled as he turned around and blasted an ice beam right by my head, hitting a guard who started rushing up behind me. "You need to look out for yourself, use your powers" said Harry and sighed before he turned around and started running again.

I followed him and watched as Rubie threw many of the guards in the cafeteria around like small puppets. Rubie was quick to stop herself though, when she saw Harry and I ran past her and further down the many hallways to my old cell, where the small boy with the collar around his head was.

Rubie caught up to Harry and I who now stood by the entrance to D-block. "Which cell is it?" asked James and came up from behind us and started looking around. I realized that we didn't have as much time as we all had hoped, so I was quick to point to the exact cell that he was in.

James ran over to the cell I had pointed out and the rest of us followed. We got to the cell and saw the little boy crying as he counted all the marks I had made on my wall. "How many years have you been here?" asked the little boy as a tear ran down his face.

"Not now!" barked Harry and turned around to see that a guard had activated the alarms inside the cellblock. Harry angrily took of his metallic glove to shoot an ice beam out of his hand, completely turning the guard to ice! Rubie grabbed the young boy and carried him out of my old cell and out of the entire cellblock.

"Come on! Let's go!" yelled Rubie and punched a hole in the wall for us to get out of. Harry was one of the first ones to escape from the facility building. We ran down the cold and wet hill outside the of prison walls, leading into a gigantic forest I've only seen from the inside of the prison. "Come on!" yelled Rubie and dragged me along as the prison turned on all its alarms and sirens.

"We need to hide somewhere!" yelled Rubie to Harry and the others, unsure if they heard her or not.

The sound of helicopter engines turning on and flying over us horrified us all, but the poor little boy was the one that was the most scared out of all of us. He fell out of Harry's grip, but Rubie was quick to pick him up again, just in time as the searchlight from the helicopter passed above us.

"Harry! We need to hide! Now!" yelled Rubie and took the 'leader role' out of Harry's hands. Harry only gave her a nod as she started pushing both the little boy and me under a fallen over tree, while Harry, the tattoo girl and another guy hid in a bush.

The second wave of helicopters with searchlights passed by as we all were still hidden, but the little boy was quick to notice that a bunch of cars were on their way towards us.

"Harry, we need to move! The guards are probably on their way" said the James, while the sounds of car engines roared from the entrance to the forest. "Where do we go?" I asked as I saw the headlights from a car started catching up to us!

"Up there!" yelled Rubie and pointed up to the mountain, to a small cave we all could fit in. "Ok then, all of you get up!" said James and grabbed a hold of Harry as they both walked further away from us. "What are you doing?" asked the little boy as he tried to climb up the rocks which led us to the cave, "We'll hold them off for you Sam" replied Harry and removed the metallic gloves.

Harry and James took their stands across from each other and turned their back towards one-another. James screamed of anger and reached his arm out to grab some of the rocks and debris around him and threw them towards the cars, denting some of the cars and threw the rest of them over. While Harry shot beams of ice on all of the vehicles getting close to us.

"Come on!" I yell as I grabbed little Sam's hand and helped him get to the cave. "Take care of them" said Rubie just before her skin turned into ruby, "Oh, you don't get to have all the fun!" grunted the tattoo girl before she rubbed her skin, only to turn her tattoos into weapons!

Rubie jumped down the small mountain and turned around and watched as one of the cars started steering towards her. The engine got louder and louder as it started gaining speed, ready to crush Rubie! But Rubie wasn't afraid, Rubie took her stands and punched the car as it hit her, sending it flying back in the air!

The tattoo girl however had grabbed what looked like a whip from her body-tattoos and whipped it around, pushing the guards who had gotten out of their vehicles. The tattoo girl rubbed her arm once more and dragged a knife out of it! She whipped one of the men and cut him down with the tattoo-knife.

"Go!" yelled James as he threw cars in the air like rocks on a pond.

Harry put his gloves back on and grabbed a hold of Rubie as she used her strength to jump up to where we were. James threw around some more of the rocks and debris laying around to hide our escape. I watched as the boy grab the girl in tattoos, before he threw himself up to the cave and covered it with branches and leaves.