The Turn: Chapter Thirty

The Turn

Chapter Thirty

~Clash of the Titans – Part 1~

Two Years Before The Turn

Chaud drove on the highway, easily going twenty above the speed limit. Hina and Naru were right behind them. Zara sat in the back seat keeping an eye out. She was nervous. This was a hurried plan that they had put together. But it was all they had so it had to work. They had to make it work or they would be dragged back to the Island in shame.

“You alright?” Chaud asked.

Zara looked at him, “I’m fine.”

Chaud looked in the rear view mirror, “You don’t look like it.”

“I said I’m fine,” Zara huffed, “Just focus on driving.”

Chaud didn’t say anything more. He looked ahead at the road. There were three lanes. He sighed. As he drove in the center lane there were two semi-trucks on either side that he would have to needle his way through. He looked in his rear view mirror again and saw Hina driving the jeep behind him. Chaud accelerated to get though the situation as fast as he could.

Hina shook her head and looked at the speedometer, “How much do you think his car insurance is charging him?”

“Well considering it’s Chaud we’re talking about…probably every penny they can make stick,” Naru stated.

“Be careful,” Hina said into her ear piece, “We wouldn’t want you two to get squished.”

“Yeah,” Zara looked at Chaud, “or I’ll kill you myself.”

Chaud looked over his shoulder, “You can’t do that! We’d already be dead so you can’t kill me again!”

“Oh, I can and I will if you don’t keep your eyes on the road!” Zara shouted at him above the sound of the semi-truck’s tires.

Chaud shot his gaze forward and kept quiet. Zara tried to sit comfortably in the back seat. She looked at one of the trucks. It looked like it was delivering supplies to a popular grocery store. There wasn’t anything really interesting about the design but for some reason Zara stared at it. She narrowed her eyes as if to see something just beyond her vision. Zara sat up and looked closer.

“Hey, Chaud,” she started.

Something shot out of the side of the truck and arched over the car and disappeared into the opposite truck. A dagger nearly struck Chaud and lodged in the shoulder of his seat. He swerved between the two trucks. The tires rubbed together temporarily causing spoke to rise. Chaud swore as he tried to straighten the car’s path.

“What the heck was that!?” Chaud shouted

“That’s what we would want to know!” Hina called.

Zara raised her submachine gun, “I think we’re in for a bit of resistance.”

Naru grabbed a box from the back seat and opened it. He started constructing a long ranged sniper rifle. Hina glanced in to the rear view mirror.

“Hey, bro, we’ve got company,” she stated.

Naru looked at her a moment, “You only noticed now?”

“Sorry,” Hina muttered.

Naru set up the sniper rifle and looked through the scope. He pulled off the scope and tossed it on the floor.

“I don’t see why they have scopes,” Naru sighed, “It really impairs one’s vision.”

“Your vision,” Hina stated, “It usually helps everybody else’s.”

Naru looked again and saw Raven running up the road, “What are our parameters here?”

Zara looked back, “Aim for the limbs. Kill only if necessary. If we get caught I don’t want to be accused of killing off the best Black team the Tower has.”

“Got it,” Naru said just before firing.

Raven drew her sword and deflected the bullet. She darted to one side behind a civilian car keeping the car between her and Naru’s aim. Penelope appeared on top of another car. Naru shifted his weapon and fired again. Penelope dodged clumsily by stepping backwards. Naru fired at her again, she teleported to another vehicle. While Naru was supposedly distracted with Penelope, Raven ran past the car she was hiding behind and charged at the jeep.

Hina saw her from her the left side mirror, “I see you.”

She set her cruise control and leaned out of the car. Hina’s arm started to glow a hazy purple. She threw her hand in front of her creating a huge shockwave. The wave traveled on the ground. Raven jumped over the initial wave. While Raven was in the air Hina created another blast. Without anything to defend herself, Raven was knocked out of the air. She crashed into an oncoming car.

“Ha, ha! Didn’t see that coming, did ya!” Hina said triumphantly.

“I had everything covered,” Naru looked at his sister.

Hina rolled her eyes, “Yeah, but I took care of it first.”

A competitive spark was in both of their eyes. Right at that moment the score was Hina 1 : Naru 0.

Shadow jumped out of the side of the truck again. Zara took her submachine gun and shot at him as he sailed above the back seat. Three daggers nearly struck Zara as she lay with her back on the seat. Shadow disappeared into the side of the opposite truck.

“Did you get him?” Chaud asked.

“Just drive faster!” Zara called back.

“Fine!” Chaud stepped on the gas and sped up.

Zara whipped blood off her face. The blood wasn’t her’s, “And, yeah, I got him.”

They had pulled out in front of the two trucks. For a moment, Zara though they were out of the worst of it. When she looked back she saw Shadow standing on top of one of the trucks. A smile stretched across his face as he licked the blood that trickled down his arm from a wound. He threw a dagger at the car.

“Chaud!” Zara called.

As Chaud turned the dagger struck the front tire. The car flipped front first. At that moment, time seemed to go on at a sluggish pace.

Zara was thrown like a catapult. She felt herself falling through space with the pavement still rushing below her. A numb feeling took hold of her and she couldn’t think. Chaud jumped from the car. He turned his body so he faced her. Zara landed into him.

“I’ve got you,” Chaud said and put his arms around her.

Zara closed her eyes. Time seemed to catch up with itself. Chaud’s wings spread opened and folded around Zara as both he and she struck the ground. Zara screamed as the car crashed just in front of them and the semi’s tried to avoid a collision.

One of the semi-trucks tried to break and the trailer started to slide to one side. It passed over Chaud and Zara, missing them by less than an inch. As that happened, the road became deadly.

Hina swerved toward the shoulder of the road. She grazed the railing trying to avoid the tail end of the trailer and to avoid a crash. Naru looked behind him to see what was going on ahead. When he did a bullet passed his level of vision. Naru ducked down and looked at where the bullet came from.

“I said not to kill them!” Fang called up from the driver’s seat, “We’re supposed to bring them back in one piece not a dozen!”

Alister was more than half way out of the car window, “Yeah, yeah, I just wanted his attention! You should be telling Shadow that!”

Lumin shot his hand out as a car ahead of them flew into the air. An ice barrier deflected the car and shattered. There was a loud crash behind the car. Arisa looked out the back window.

“Blue,” she called him by his old name.

Lumin pulled her close to him, “It’s alright.”

Naru looked back at his sister, “Get off the road!”

“What the heck do you think I’m doing!?” Hina called back.

She broke through the railing and drifted on the loose gravel. Naru looked at the series of explosions as car hit truck. Hina tried to make her way back to the road. The car that was firing at them made it through the same gap they did just before a truck slammed into them.

“Get down!” Naru shouted.

The jeep was fired upon. Hina tried her best to avoid getting shot and still be able to drive. She smashed into the railing again when it was clear and drove faster. The other car followed them closely.

“Get them off my tail!” Hina yelled at her brother.

“What about Zara and Chaud!?” Naru questioned as he reloaded his sniper rifle.

Hina’s shoulders fell, “There’s no way they could’ve made it.”

Naru raised his weapon. There was a cold and calculating look in his eye. A coiled snake was always dangerous to the person who stepped on it.

NO CIVILIANS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS CHAPTER.

IT SHOULD ALSO BE MENTIONED THAT IF YOU ARE NOT A MUTANT WITH SUPPER POWERS THAT YOU SHOULD WEAR A SEAT BELT.

THANK YOU.