SEVENTY-FOUR

Lucy was checking the shelves above and took out some alcohol, vinegar and hot sauce and Thomasina thought she was about to start cooking as she shoved some newspapers and already baked pie into the oven then turned it to three hundred degrees, before looking intently at a knife.

The girl asked what she was doing then she looked at her and smiled and said,"What does it look like I'm doing? I think the plastic storage boxes will be in the pantry, why don't you go have a look?"

Thomasina nodded and left, intending to help her mom cook whatever she set her mind to after she had placed Sally in its Aquarium, but the moment she entered the room, the door was locked behind her.

She banged it as hard as she could, calling for Lucy, but she didn't respond.

The three men looked at Lucy, while slowly sharpening their weapons.

Lucy frowned and used a ladle to hold the door shut then asked,"What do you want?"

"A friend."One said.

"Then you're only getting them over my dead body."She said.

One of them pointed a dagger at her then said,"It's funny, that's exactly what we wanted."

***

I yelled and leaned backwards with my chair as a javelin flew over my head, then toppled over and rolled backwards under a table as one of the men landed on mine and smashed it to pieces.

The people scattered, screaming and running while Drake at that moment realized how much he had wasted his life to this point, if he survived this, he was going to change, enjoy life to the fullest...and be a little less charitable...

I stayed below the table as the people caused a distraction, till I heard a booming sound which made my ears bleed and turned out to be one of the men yelling for the people to keep quiet, in the least courteous way possible.

The people kept silent in fear as one of the men made a signal and the other two moved towards a desk, one of them began a count down, but before he could finish, the table was turned over onto one of them and I grabbed a chair and smashed it on the chest of another, before throwing a cross at one of them.

He caught my fist mid air and literally started crushing it, I fell one of knee and the other two men had gotten up, without a scratch, till I grabbed a pen from the mess I made on the floor and jabbed it at his neck, but he caught it too.

He grinned as he lifted me into the air by the arms, pulling them apart as I yelled, till I kneed him in the chin while distracted, then spun the pen and stabbed him in the knee and elbowed him in the cheek, before one of them tried to spear me into the floor but I back flipped right over him as he landed on the other man, then just jammed his spear into the man's head.

The crowd screamed again, then I snatched the nearest book to myself and used it as a shield as the third man tried to hack my head open with his khopesh sword.

I twisted it out of his grip then wrapped my legs around his front one and tackled him down then got up and heard a scream as Candace was about to be killed.

The man lifted his sword then immediately stopped it midair, took a breath then asked,"Why do you smell like food?"

I have him a close line to the neck then yelled,"I have no idea!"

I have her a hand and told all the people to leave till I realized Drake was still stuck.

I dashed at him but one of the men beat me to him then I slid over the nearest table and wrapped my legs around his neck, before throwing him to the floor and smashing a chair over his head.

I was about to get up when the man grabbed my ankle, then someone stomped hard on his face.

I looked at Drake then smirked before removing the spear from the book and freeing his hand which seemed mashed beyond recognition.

I cringed then quickly changed my expression when I found out he had no idea what the problem was and despite my monumentally silver tongued deceptive skills, he looked at it, and then the pain set in.

He screamed in pain, rolling over the floor and making it harder for me to beat up the last man and the one he stomped on after he got back up, a few seconds later.

I was still able to hold them off for long enough for the appropriate security personnel to arrive on the scene, then fled, with one thing in mind; Rose...

***

Mack was holding it down with all the strength he could muster when Luis abruptly stopped the car because of traffic, then Mack puked into his mouth and was about to evacuate the payload when Luis glared at him, then he swallowed it.

Luis looked in the rear view mirror, then drove in reverse to get out of the scene before cars could block his path and Mack relieved himself onto the street, right before a street racer drove over it.

After a while, Mack asked where he was going because he was only going round in circles, but Luis just said,"Brace yourself."

"What?"

At that moment, a spear pierced into the front wheel of the car then Luis turned it to face a parked car, then tucked his knees above his head but before Mack could process anything, Luis had pulled his seat back and the collision took place...

Two men came to inspect the damage and saw Luis lying on the seat, they felt his pulse, he was dead.