On the Run

"Shit! Shit! Shit! Why the fuck is this happening to me?! Where is my good luck when I need it?!" I shout out as I carry an injured Stella on my back as I run through the bayou down here in Louisiana.

Why the fuck are these assholes hunting us down?!

This was supposed to be a simple trip to have me bond more with Stella not have a dumbass game of cat and mouse between us and some kidnappers!

How the hell did this even happen?!

*Flashback*

1 Week ago

"Mom, do I have too? You know me and Stella don't get along right?" I say trying to get myself out of having to go on this dumb trip with Stella.

It's still my summer vacation and it had only been a few days after the 5-way between me and the girls that I was suddenly told I was going on a trip down to Louisiana to spend time alone with Stella to get close with each other.

"I don't care what you say young man! You are going on this trip with Stella and your going to like it! Do! I! Make! Myself! Clear?!" Mom Karen said to me as I saw what looked like an Oni face appear behind her as she looked angerly at me.

"Okay! Okay! I'm going alright? I'll pack my stuff, sheesh…." I said as I held my hands up in surrender before I walked back up to my room to start packing my bags as I would soon be flying out to Louisiana of all places down in New Orleans for a week.

It would be just the two of us for a week on our own, it's our parents hopes that our relationship will blossom and bloom as a result even if that chance is less than one percent.

Let's just say when I up and told Stella I was officially starting a relationship with Ruth and the rest she immediately wanted to break off the engagement, which would have been wonderful but our parents said otherwise so we were still engaged and they made this plan for us to spend time in their summer home for a week to fix things.

So I packed my things and got on the private jet to New Orleans along with her, but let's just say we ignored each other along the way their and in only a couple hours later we arrived before we were brought by our chauffeur to the residence of our parents summer home.

Now the first few days were uneventful as we didn't do anything and for the most part ignored and stayed away from another, if we had meals we would eat them in our rooms and not interact at all with one another.

On the third day of our vacation let's just say our parents forced the servants to make us go out and have fun together and so we weren't allowed back until night time.

That's when the trouble began….

*****

"Haaa! Haaa! Haaa!" I was breathing heavily as I was making my way through the bayou as I was deftly jumping from one patch of solid land to another so as to not be pulled into the swamp and maybe get attacked by crocs in these waters the normal one or the Beastmen ones.

Sun up what happened earlier, we went out on the town but not long later group of people snuck up behind us and pulled us away into an alley.

I was able to break free but then one of them bashed Stella's skull knocking her out cold before drawing guns on me and her making me have to come with them quietly.

So I was brought and tied up before putting me and her in a van before driving off, but they seemed to underestimate my strength as I easily broke free of my restraints when we hit the highway before I smashed both the guys, yes men, skulls into eachother before opening the doors and kick them out of the moving van before I jumped into the driver seat and took the wheel and began driving.

Problem is I was apart of a convoy so they quickly realized I broke free and began to chase after us.

I wanted to call for help but they broke our phones and I had no time to search the assholes pockets before kicking them out so I was on my own as I used my driving skills from my old life and used them to the max to get away from them which I was able to when I took risky moves like going down the wrong off ramp to make the chase harder for them to catch up as I made a break for the swamps to lose them.

And when I did make it to the swamps I couldn't see them anymore which I thought I was all clear and planned to use the van to just drive back towards Texas, easy.

But then I saw something near the dashboard that I finally noticed, something from all my time driving in my past I never saw before so I used my strength to pull it off before looking at it.

And in small fine print I could see the word 'Tracker' and at that moment I needed to ditch the car as this was probably not the only one, not only that they would have people looking for this van specfically.

So with a bit of quick thinking I decided to ditch the van and let the swamp swallow it up, so after getting the unconscious Stella out of the van before putting it in drive before dropping the head rest I ripped off and put it on the gas which made it speed up before going into the swamp.

After doing that I picked up and looked around before seeing the less swampy areas of the bayou to hop from one to another with Stella on my back.

Good thing too as I could hear cars in the distance where we were at before and I could just tell they were after us so all I could do was just keep running and hope they don't find us as this isn't a place where you can send hounds to chase easily which the swamp and crocs getting in the way.

By now it was getting close to dinner time, and the servants won't even worry if we don't come back for the night so I need to find a place to make a phone call or something that will let mom and the others know what's going on.

"But will my luck pull through for me to find a bayou house soon? I'm running on fumes already." I had been running and long jumping nonstop for an hour and a half and it was getting harder and harder to go from one stable patch of land to another, we need to find shelter and soon.

*Growl* "Damnit, I'm getting hungry to, this overexcertion is making me use up what little energy I have from the lunch we had hours ago." If only I could find some food, I mean there are crawfish and crocs here but it's not the best idea to eat those raw in this situation and smoke will make those chasing us, if they still are at this point, find us.

"Damn…. If only there was someone *sniff sniff* cooking?" I was saying before I smelt something that didn't smell the same as the swamp.

"Is that? *sniff sniff* pie? Smells like apple pie *sniff* with cinnamon too?" I said as I smelled the intoxicating scent of the pie.

"Which direction though?" I say before I lift up some grass and let it go as I see how it drifts and sees it float to my left which the breeze was coming from my right and smelling that way the scent was stronger so it was definitely that way.

So willing my tired body I made my way towards the smell as it's my only hope for food and hopefully a way home.

*****

"You bastards! Where the hell are they?! How the fuck did you idiots lose track of two teenagers?! One which you fucks knocked out, which need I remind you wasn't apart of the plan!" They hear the sound of an very pissed off woman on the other end of the line as she scolded her subordinates.

"The Monroe's have a large share in Steele Industries(TM by artist Fellatrix, if you know you know) and holding their daughter hostage would have made it easier for our plans to proceed along with the Bradamante kid too who would have easily earned us even more and your telling me he's the one who got away and ran into the bayou to escape?! What am I paying you assholes for huh?! If you don't get them in the next 24 hours consider your asses fired got it?!" They heard her shout at them before abruptly hanging up leaving them agrieved but there was nothing they could say.

"What do we do boss?" One of the subordinates asked the leader of this part of the operation.

"We do what the lady said, if we can't find the brats in the time limit it's safe to say our asses are cooked as the boss lady has a meeting with the CEO's along with Annabelle Steele, and if they get wind of this stunt and link it back to us it's best we get the hell out of the country and head south or there will be hell to pay for what we're doing here." He said as he lit a cigarette to calm his nerves.

"But boss, he could be anywhere, where do we even look?" Another asked as trying to find them in the bayou would be like finding a needle in a haystack.

"Until those guys with the drones show up we do it the old fashion way and search, we don't know which way he went but my bet would be wherever the land isn't that marshy would be where he goes and the best bet would be that way." The boss says as he points in the exact same direction Ash ran off to.

"So get going!" He barked at his subordinates who quickly began the search for the two rich kids while he smoked.

"I doubt they went far, even if he is fast, him having to carry girl will make things for him difficult." The man easily deduces as he lets the smoke escape out of his mouth as he looks towards the slowly setting sun.

"If the pat wasn't worth it theirs no way I'd take on this job." I mutters to himself as he waits to see the results to come.