“Run them up,” I tell her and she shakes her head. “I’m not leaving my sister,” she says. Unlocking another cell, the teenagers start grabbing keys, helping free more while my men start grabbing kids and dropping them on the stairs leading up. The room filling with water when the sprinklers in the main area start turning on, raining wolfsbane down on us. My men are screaming as they become drenched, yet they still don’t stop.
“What’s your name?” I ask the girl, “15. But my real name is Melena,” she says rushing to undo the next cell while I undo another. I growl as water seeps into my boots and up my legs burning through my flesh.
“Get out. I will find your sister,” I tell her, snatching the keys from her. Tate grabs her as she thrashes, not wanting to leave.
Tate passes her off to another one of our men who drags her up the stairs. “Do you know a girl called Lucy?” I call up to her as she is being dragged away. She shakes her head before shoving Tate’s third in command off and stalking up the steps. “We are never going to get them all out,” Tate says as we make our way up the long line of cells and I could see Elias and Drake through the glass on the other side doing the same. Drake grabs Elias’s arm and pulls him upright as he screams, the wolfsbane burning him. Tate was also breathing through the pain, though now we were having trouble pulling the doors open against the water.. Men having to bail out or drown as they collapse in the water.
“Elias, get out of here.” I command when I see him drop again only just being caught by Drake’s hand before he plunges face first into the water.
“Find a way to cut the water off! Tell Aamon to get in here!,” I yell for Tyson through the link.
“Only 130 cells to go! Don’t think you’re gonna make it!” Danika’s voice rang loudly through the PA. Brax growling menacingly. How the fuck was she alive when I killed her myself? Aamon rushes in, taking in the scene, unable to mist to something he hasn’t seen before. “Fuck! On it!” I hear him call as he starts misting into cells and grabbing kids. They jump away from him, their senses running rampant that a demon was in the cell with them. Aamon ignores them as he starts grabbing them one by one and misting them out. When he suddenly drops in one of the cells, smoke comes in through the vents trapping him.
“Oh, I prepared for you! Demon!” Danika taunts over the PA.
“Aamon!” I scream rushing over and banging on the glass. “Devil’s bane,” he gasps, choking on the air steaming up the room. The children coughing on it and Aamon slips below the water.
Tate rushes over with keys trying to find the right one, dropping some in his haste, and I scramble trying to retrieve them under the water. My hands burning, the flesh bubbling and melting off.
“Got it!” Tate calls, and we both yank on the door, pulling it open. Tate squeezed through the gap, grabbed him, and pulled him above the surface. I rush in, grabbing the three girls on the bunk and rushing to the stairs.
“Where out of time! We are dropping like flies!” I hear Drake sing out, as he too had kids tossed over his shoulder dumping them on the steps. His entire body blistered and burned, as I see all our men forced to retreat with the rising water.
“Unlock the cells Danika! They are fucking children!” I scream over the water running into the room from the pipes above us.
“Now where would be the fun in that?” She retorts. Brax growls so loud it was more of a roar, as it echoed off the glass and filled the room.
R eika
Something was going on inside. Aamon suddenly disappearing from beside me, and kids were running out from everywhere. Pack warriors coming out with burns all over them, and the strong scent of wolfsbane.
Tyson runs off and I go to chase after him when Ace grabs my arm.
“He is just going to turn the water off. You can’t go in there,” he says. I race around looking at all the kids but none of them were Lucy. Kids rushing out everywhere, and I would guess nearly a 100 or so spewed out through the doors.
We continued to wait, Amanda pressing forward after more and more kids came out. None of them her.
“Where is he?!” I ask in frustration. I could feel his pain, feel he was just as badly injured as the pack warriors and children that come out yet Tate, Drake and Ryker didn’t come out.
“Found it!” I hear Tyson yell out. Two men rushing toward his location. I take advantage of the gap, racing toward the door and into the building.
“Reika! You can’t go in there!” Ace screams at me. Chasing after me and trying to stop me from entering the building.
I raced down the stairs toward the basement trying to remember my way around this maze of a place, before coming to the door which was wide open. Another four girls racing out and down the corridor. They give me weird looks as they race past me, escaping the building.
“Reika! No!” Ace says, grabbing my arm as I run down the basement steps toward my old cell. Ace on my heels. This floor was completely empty when suddenly the doors started swinging shut and locking. Ace runs for the basement door and it shuts in his face before he can reach it, and stop it from closing.
I race into the cell to see the bed moving, sliding across the floor. “Ace!” I scream trying to hold it as the steel brace snaps. Ace runs into the cells and grabs it forcing it open.
“Find something to brace it!” he screams and I race back out finding a metal chair. I run back in,pushing it in the gap just as Ace let’s go of the bed door. The door slamming against the metal, bending it under the pressure.
We hear footsteps running before more kids come out, this time with Drake. His entire body burned and he wheezed as he breathed, sliding his body through the gap. He only just managed to squeeze through.
“10 more cells left,” he gasps.
“We’re trapped! The basement door closed, locking us in.” Ace tells him when he notices me in the cell.
“Wait! What are you doing down here?” He snaps before coughing up blood.
Ace mind links someone, his eyes glazing over just as two more kids come running up the steps. I grab their arms, pulling them through the gap.
“You kids stay in this cell,” Ace tells them before looking at Drake “They are going to try and blow up the door,” Ace tells Drake and he nods trying to catch his breath.
More kids come out, when we hear alarms start blaring loudly. Ace and Drake covering their ears and screaming at the deafening noise, but Amanda and I were used to the deafening torture of loud music.
The door creaks trying to shut, the metal bending further, and I rush out just as Tate slips through the gap. I looked for something to brace the door, yet there were no more chairs. When suddenly the cell doors shut. I turned racing back and saw Tate pulling kids from the hole, just as the door snapped shut. Locking me out and locking them in. I could hear Tate screaming for Ryker to hurry up.
“Aamon is still down there. I need to go back.” Tate says just as the door strained before smashing shut under the pressure. The chair snaps sending pieces everywhere.
I bang on the glass, Drake and Ace also banging on the glass trying to break it when suddenly the door to the basement makes a loud bang, yet doesn’t budge. Smoke seeping in the cracks as pack warriors tried to get in and open the basement door.
“Reika!” Drake calls me over.
“The computer! You can unlock these cell doors from the computer!” he says, and I look at the desk. I rush over to it, trying to figure out how to turn it on.
“The red button on the box under the table!” Ace yells pointing underneath. I look down and see a black box with buttons and press the red one like he said. When suddenly a cell door opens behind me, from inside. A woman walks out before she runs toward the wall. I stare at her and she hasn’t seemed to notice me standing there. She pressed some buttons on a black panel before placing her hand to it, the wall opening up to a corridor, when I heard Ace speak.
“Danika?!” He says and she looks back into the room before spotting me standing there.
I ran my eyes up the length of her. She was quite pretty with her raven black hair tied in a ponytail. She had a top that showed off her midriff on and jeans with black boots on. Scars running across her chest, face and along her arms like she had been put through a blender, yet they didn’t take away from her beauty. Cold red eyes peering back at me and fangs protruded from her upper lip.
One of her arms was missing and she had a robotic arm with a hook attached to the end.
“Well, well, well. You, must be Ryker’s mutt!” she sneers, before looking over her shoulder at the corridor door behind her.
I growl at her and step away from the computer, and her eyes dart to the cell behind me and she smirks.
“Oh. I am going to love, killing you! Let him feel the pain he put me through when he killed my entire family in front of me,” she says, dropping her black bag on the floor.
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