Hidden Passage

I removed the bullet from the wound and tied it with a bandage of antibiotics. I started taking some food, I felt a little dizzy because of blood loss and fell asleep. I realized that I slept for 4 hours after watching the time. I took out the monitoring device from the cabinet which displayed the images of the house.

There I saw a man with a hideous smile standing in front of my father's body. He looked around our house and looked towards the passage to where I had escaped. He turned towards his henchman and started scolding them.

He looked very angry as they were unable to find him. He ordered his henchmen to bring something. Four people started getting rdx from outside and the owner pointed towards the passage. I saw that things started getting out of hand.

I could hear the sound of the henchmen walking outside the secret door in a few seconds.

"I don't know where the kid went off. The passage is closed at the end. Rdx will not only close the passage but also destroy the house. It would cause a lot of destruction. I hope the boss will be able to negotiate with the police."

"Let's go no matter where the kid is hiding, this will make sure that he is dead." I could hear those guys leaving the passage. I started panicking as the power of the rdx will destroy the secret passage. I removed a few food items and dumped them into my bag and started crawling from the pipe which is connected to the drainage.

I could see the exit after 1 minute but then I heard the RDX going off.

The owner looked at the house one last time from his car and told his henchmen to start the ignition of RDX. He saw the house crumble in a few seconds. He called the police chief and took off.

The force of destruction and fire came through the secret door breaking apart everything and destroyed the secret passage including all the stored food in the secret room.

I could see the fire coming through the steel pipe,I took the bag and placed it near the legs to block the pipe. The force of the fire dragged my body towards the exit. I could feel my clothes, skin being ripped off from my back.

The bag was destroyed in a few seconds and my clothes caught fire. Pain started spreading through my skin. I started rolling in the passage to put off the fire but it was very intense, I lost consciousness due to the unbearable pain after struggling for a few minutes.

The intense fire which was burning his body suddenly started flowing towards pocket. It was attracted by the ruby which started glowing with dark red color illuminating the dim passage. All the fire was dragged towards the ruby and it was put off in a few seconds, apart from the dim glow of ruby everything in the passage became dark.

After a long time I woke up and started feeling pain all over my body. I checked my body, I could see the fire had burnt my skin on my hands and legs, along with a few patches of hair missing on my head. I felt a stabbing pain coursing through my back, I was only left with my pants which had a lot of burning holes.

I looked towards the passage which was now filled with gravel and mud. I remembered my fathers last words and started moving slowly towards the exit. The burnt marks and the back gave a lot of unbearable pain but I still moved through the passage with determination.

After exiting the passage he fell into the drainage water after his skin came in contact with water it reduced a lot of pain. After immersing in the smelly water for some time he started looking for the exit.

He followed the drain as he didn't want to exit near the house which may still have people who are looking out for him. After taking various turns he exited through the manhole which is near a street with food stalls.

"I could see people moving away from me as I started walking. I slowly moved towards a small clinic to get myself bandaged. As soon as I reached the clinic the patients at the doorway started looking at me with disgust and covering their noses.

I looked towards the glass door which showed my reflection, I could see that I was in a very bad shape. The hair was missing, skin was red in few places, it was black in few places, with the whole upper body not covered in anything apart from having small torn pants.

I suddenly remembered my father who came home once with burnt marks. I could now feel how much pain he would have went through."