"Yo, YO, YO!!... stay back.... or I fuckin' send him parkin'...." I said while using the guy I borrowed his gun as my shield.
"Drop the gun kitten...you know it's one of my guys you're holding hostage..."
I gave P a disgusted look. "Like I give a fuck?"
The fool I was holding tried to move. Without hesitation, I shot his leg.
"Ahhh!!! This bitch!!"
"Hey, whatchu' do that for?" P asked. He wasn't fazed at all. He was just calm like he still had a trump card over us.
While struggling to make the guy I shot stop moving, I answered.
"I told him–"
[ahhhh!!]
"- not to move"
That guy was starting to get on my nerves with his whining.
P probably saw that I and Bella weren't playing. I didn't still know what tricks he had up his ass, but he tried to calm things down.
"Why are you pulling a gun on your people... we are all on the same team here"
"Same team?! You just tried to kill us!!" Bella shouted in disgust.
"Alright, I'll cut you guys a deal. You'll join us in the 1st division and we'll forget about all this."
All heads turned in different directions. Bella's head turned to me. That sounded solid. But in this dead world, solid could also mean trap.
"That sounds like an express way to eliminate us whenever you like." I said, feeling like Sherlock. "Plus what would we tell our teammates?"
"Seriously?, and I was about to think you were smart. Just tell them you got an early promotion or something."
"What about Ezekiel?" Bella asked.
P smirked. Why did he smirk after hearing us talk about Ezekiel?
"Don't worry about Ezekiel. Now, do you accept?"
"Um, P? Why are your hands shaking?" Bella cut in.
I noticed it too. He was standing crossing his hands behind his back. Yet he was shaking it in a pattern. That could only mean one thing. He was sending a signal
"That's because there are men outside!..." I shouted. It was high time I booted outta there.
[click......
Was that a damn grenade??
......Bang!!!]
Shots flew everywhere. Honestly, I was perplexed. All this firepower for just 2 girls? don't they care if they mistakenly shoot each other? Sure enough, that's exactly what happened. The first guy I saw die was my shield. It was his fault anyway so I wouldn't even state how he died. But the person that fell next was the reason behind my life's plot twist.
"Hey Jules, I'm out!" Bella whispered from a distance.
"Way ahead of you!! How are we gonna fuck outta here? You know we're homeless now right?" I replied.
We had already killed most of them, but we were pushed further into the warehouse. We managed to take cover, but it was really hard to see in the dark, amidst listening for footsteps . Remember, they took all our stuff. All we had were our knives and empty guns.
To make matters worse, Percy was on the move.
"Honestly, it's a marvel you guys are still alive," he said.
[step, step!!]
As his shoes echoed in the dark. some of the guys we killed were starting to rise again.
"Especially you Bella. Juliet was kinda a rascal, but you... Perhaps I trained you two too well."
[step......step!!]
"You should have just taken my offer...now I'm forced to 'x' you guys myself"
[step...Step...STEP.]
[CLICK!!]
[ BANG!!!]
[THUD!!]
I blacked out.
Opening my eyes again, I couldn't tell whether I was still alive. You know they say it all happens in a flash. Last I could remember, that 'click' was a gun cocking on my head. Then I heard a really loud gunshot . Then a body dropped. Was that my body?? Am I dead, then my ghost trying to play one last trick?? I needed to verify. How will I-
"Juliet!!"
I came to as I heard someone shouted my name while pointing a torch at my face. At that moment all I saw was a bright light.
"Oh Jesus, is that you?? Since when you carried guns?" I asked while stretching out my hands, feeling so happy.
"Hey, you high on gunpowder or somethin'?"
I started regaining my senses. That face didn't look like Jesus. But the voice sounded familiar.
"Dan?? Dannie bear, is that you?"
"Jesus, you are high. Yes it's me."
My eyes finally cleared. I saw Bella standing next to Dan who was trying to pick me up.
"How did you find us here?"
"Rich told me you guys were missing. I put two and two together and found you guys here. Pure luck really."
As we were about walking out, I kicked something. It felt like a body. I looked down. It was P's lifeless body. Headshot. Same was the case with the other bodies there. I felt relieved, still I had to show a lil' concern.
"Jesus you killed P?!!" I asked.
"Yeah, he almost shot you. Plus you really can't go dark like that. Do you know how many had turned by the time I got here? Bella couldn't have handled them alone." Dan replied.
Bella looked unsettled, then she started rambling.
"I'm more worried about Ezekiel. When he finds out what happened here... let's just tell him the truth. His 1st squad was dealing secretly under his nose, they tried to kill us, hey- what about drafters too, them gonna be pissed!! Oh God..."
"Hey, you guys can't go back to camp...you have to leave."
That wasn't news... we already knew that. But Bella wasn't gonna take no for an answer..
"But we have to clear our names-"
"You don't understand. That was Ezekiel's operation. Everything that happens there is all according to his instructions" Dan said.
Now THAT was news. In fact, that was a bombshell. I bottled up my thoughts, but Bella had to speak out.
"Wait- so all those shit about secret deals and whatnot, even up to them tryna' kill us, it's all Ezekiel??"
"Yes. Now we have to move fast. Ezekiel might even be on his way here."
And yes, Ezekiel and troops were well on their way. P's men must have radioed in, calling for help.
"I really hope they don't show up. I'm wounded." Bella said.
"Yah, me too. How are you not wounded Dan?" i asked
" I showed up late. You guys had already done most of the work. Plus they were distracted."
"With?"
"Blues... the guys that were already dead had started turning. Made it easier to sneak up on them."
"Yeah...... Listen Dan, thank you, I-"
[vrooom!!!!....SCREECH!!!] '
as trucks pulled up on the road leading to the warehouse.
Those jerks. They arrived sooner than expected. I could also hear groanings of the blues too, but I wasn't so sure. With our injured bodies, we had to run; but Dan had other plans.
"Hey, you guys go on ahead. I'll stay."
"Are you crazy? You could be killed!" Bella shouted.
"I'm your squad leader, remember, I'll handle it. You just make sure you don't get caught."
I held Bella's hand. She really didn't want to leave without Daniel.
"Bella, he's right. Let's go."
Giving Dan a kiss on the cheek, she said, "stay safe."
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Ezekiel arrived with the rest of the 1st division and the 2nd division, Ruger, Johnnie and rich, alongside the other bishops too. It was a search party. Some kittens just fucked him up good and he was out for blood. Plainly speaking if he found those girls, he was gonna kill them. No doubt about that.
"HEY BOYS!! Some girls thought they can kill their own and run off. They couldn't have gotten far. FIND THEM!!!!"
'YEAHHHHHH!!!!'
Thus the search party went out. Ezekiel noticed a bishop was at the scene already. Maybe he knew what went down.
"Hey Daniel. Noticed you were here." he said while lighting a cigar.
"I wasn't exactly hiding, was I?" Dan replied.
Ezekiel looked at him. "You know what happened here?"
"Not really, I was looking for my girls when I came, and I saw this mess."
"Your girls huh. I wonder how other bodies are here except theirs." Ezekiel said, his tone beaming with curiosity and suspicion.
"Seriously sir, do you really believe those two girls were capable of all this? It's Juliet and BELLA."
"You and P trained them. So you really think they couldn't pull this off?"
"Maybe something else went down here."
Ezekiel stopped walking. He turned around and faced Dan.
"Or maybe they had help. You wouldn't know anything about that would you?"
"You didn't hear anything I said before? I said I came, and I saw this mess "Dan said, feigning annoyance.
Ezekiel took a stricter tone this time, "Careful dan, I'm still your boss...remember?"
"....."
"Go out and join the guys. Bring those girls to me." Ezekiel said, taking a normal tone this time.
Dan left and joined the search party.
Ezekiel looked back and smiled. "They definitely won't get far."