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Chapter 12 - Barging In

''You're insane!'' Ava shouts while coughing the dust around them. ''Do you think it'll be that easy to rob this place?''

''You're thinking about it too much, let's get going and look for the money.'' 

The dust clears in the room and they see it filled with artillery and military weapons.

''Looks like we've already found my jackpot. This is advanced stuff.'' She picks one of them and looks through it thoroughly. 

''You seem to know your way around a weapon. So I'll leave you to it.''

''By the way do you know where the money is?''

''Oh no I didn't think of that...'' He scratches his head. ''We'll just go around until we find.''

''What the heck?!!''

Kami runs out the room and towards the passage looking at a line of doors. Ava doesn't even bother will calling for him and gets herself armed with the different weapons in the room and decides to move forward with a rifle on her hands.

She moves swiftly through the passage way, a group of soldier run into her while trying to go to the weapons room, she points it at them and they're all frozen with their hands up. 

''Where do you keep your gravetreads?'' 

''Down the passage and turn left... the last door there.'' 

''Good.'' She steps closer to one of them pointing the gun at their forehead. ''If you follow me, I won't hesitate to shoot your sculls inside out.''

They nod tensely and watch Ava as she runs down the passage, when she's far enough they look at each other and run towards the artillery room and get themselves ready with weapons. Ava finally arrives at the end of the passage.

She looks down left and an army soldier see her, she sighs before running the opposite direction, she meets two more soldiers with their soldiers running at her with the swords out. She uses the rifle to hit the two of them one after the other while still running. 

Kami is busy kicking down every door in his path, trying to see where they could have stored the money. He enters a room where a number of soldiers are also preparing themselves for whoever broke into their base. 

Someone sounds the alarm where the whole kingdom can hear it, and it gets the attention of all soldiers Kami left at the bar. 

''Code red! I repeat, we have a code red!'' 

The civilian hear the announcement and all of them jump to protocol, fathers get their children with the wives and hide in their basements. In fear of what happened to them four years ago is happening again. 

Lushen gets up and looks from afar at the big Mason base from where the noise is coming from, the gravetread that Kami and Ava crashed into the building finally explodes. Lushen can't believe what he's looking at, the fire and smoke coming from the base triggers the memory of four years. 

A slight image of the castle burning down and it finally disappears. ''That idiot! What is he doing?!'' 

He looks at the building and takes a sip from his bottle, and shrugs. ''Stupid kid, I guess I'll see him in the after life.'' 

He walks back to his spot and throws himself on the floor. 

Kami is running from the soldiers shooting at him, he moves around so that they don't hit him. He moves up the wall and they shoot up the wall. Now on the ceiling upside down, he laughs at the soldiers beneath him while running on all fours. 

''It looks like he has relics powers, thread carefully and don't get near him!!'' One of the soldiers commands his comrades.

Kami laughs as he gets out of their sights and runs to the second floor of the building, they take the stairs following after him. Ava barges in a room, and no one's inside it. She gets herself to a hiding spot where controls her heavy breathing from the running.

''Look around here. Go into every room if you can't find her. And if you find her, make sure to shoot on sight.''

Footsteps run around outside the room, some go further and further, while others walk slowly around just outside the room she's hiding in. The soldiers that stayed behind kick every door around, and she can here them getting closer and closer. 

And after kicking down a few doors there was silence, no sound at all and just slow steps approaching her room. She could feel everyone was outside the room and they were planning on barging inside the room together. 

She takes one of the grenades in her pocket and patiently wait for them to open the door. The soldier grabs the door handle and turns slowly, and Ava holds the pin and is ready to pull it.

''Hey!! There's another one of them that's upstairs, and he also has a relic power! We might need help with him!''

The footsteps start running until they are no more, Ava lets out a huge sigh of relief. ''Kami, you idiot.'' she whispers.

She goes out of the room and runs the direction she came from, looking for the room that's said to have the gravetread. She runs until she finally arrives at the room and finds the door, when she opens it the room didn't have gravetreads. Instead it was the base cafeteria. 

''Those bastards tricked me!'' She hisses.

As she's about to run out of the room a round of gun shots come at her door and she closes the door again. It was the group of soldiers that she had on gunpoint earlier. 

''Idiots, why would we ever give you the gravetreads to help you escape.'' The soldier mutters with the gun pointing at the door that Ava's behind.

''I knew I should've killed you scum!'' Ava shouts.

''Too bad, now we'll kill you.'' He scoffs.

Abigail's mother is in the house and she takes her husband from their room down to the basement, carrying him and putting him on the bed.

''Honey... is everything, okay?'' He utters the words out barely able to open his mouth. 

''I don't know, I don't know. I think it's another attack.''

''Where's -- *cough* *cough* where's Abigail?''

The looks around the basement shocked. ''I thought she'd be here, I told her to come here when this happens... let me go fetch her!''

The mother runs back upstairs to the house, she looks around the house. Shouting Abigail's name while charging into every room inside the house. She realizes that Abigail's not in the house and runs outside across the street to look for her at the store. Abigail is not at the store, she rushes out the store.

''Abigail!! Where are you?'' She shouts through her lungs, anxiety of what happened to her daughter. She starts shivering and running down the street looking for her.

''Abigail! Abigail! Please Abigail where are you.'' 

Shouting at the silent streets of Pheonix Kingdom not being able to bare the possibility of her daughter being under suffering circumstances. 

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