Fiction Friday: Chapter 24

The girl's Dad through the strap of the gun over his shoulder. He liked the heft of the metal, it made him feel like a hero. He looked over at his wife, the girls Mother, she was holding the wood from the bed frame like a baseball bat. Her adrenaline had her twitching at every should. She looked warily at the woman on the floor. Sienna stood in the doorway of the room.

He tried to think quickly. They needed to get to the rest of the children and they didn't have any time to waste. They couldn't take Sienna in gun's blazing. There was no right answer.

"Sienna," the girl's mom said, "let's see if we can find a good hiding spot.". The walked into the room and begun looking around. Wood splinters and metal pieces were all over the floor. Mattresses were against the wall. Sienna selected the mattresses to hide behind. She wanted, more than anything, she had a power right now.

Knowing they had to move, her Mom and Dad left her there, saying they would be back to get her, nice they had her sisters. They said like they were going to pick them up from the park, when nothing could be further from the truth.

Sierra was moving slow, with the weight of her sister on her back. She could her the man coming up the other stairway. He was growling with anger. They had to get Sarah out of the safe. With her lightning they should be able to shift the fight to favor them.

Shelby looked through the building, plotting their path and seeing where everyone was at. "The big guy is just outside the door at the bottom of the stairs." When they got to the bottom they waiting. Invisible. Sierra began to think this as the longest horseback ride ever. Suddenly a voice came of the man's radio and he burst through the door. When he ran up the stairs, the two girls went out where he came in.

They did not have to stop all the way to the safe. Shelby could see Sarah pacing inside. How would they get it open? They circled the giant metal box and Sierra started playing with the metal knob. It was much harder to move than her lock at school. Shelby watched the mechanism in the thick wall. Then she saw it, there was a circle that had a notch in it and one circle would stop moving when Sierra started moving the knob in the other direction. "Stop," she said in what could be best described as a yelling whisper.

Sierra started again, this time going slowly, waiting for Shelby to tell her she had gotten to the right number. It took a few tries to figure it out, but in a few minutes the two of them had popped the safe. The heavy door of the safe swung open and there stood Sarah, ready to drive a lighting bolt into somebody. When she saw it was her cousins she sighed and they hugged.

Thirty seconds later, they heard the door to the room that held the safe swing open. Sarah and Shelby dodged into the open safe, out of view. Sierra vanished. "Mom," Shelby screamed, realizing who it was who had made it into the room. It was her Mom and Dad.

Things were looking up, but they would not have long to celebrate.