Lucy and her troops were trudging through the woods, their weapons pointed forward as they crouched and maneuvered the expanse of the forest almost in stealth. Now they were properly in lord Cyrus's territory, and anything could happen. The dogs were already sent out to sniff out any mines nearby. Lucy kept her eyes keen and sharp, following Jax's description they were not too far off from where the soldiers were held captive.“I found something!” a voice broke and they all turned to check.It was a bunch of ropes and footprints scattered all over the place. They were also other stuff like pieces of cloth.Lucy could only deduce that not too long ago a large number of soldiers were kept here. “They've moved them,” she said, her voice sounding bitter.“Let's just take to the skies, I'm sure we'll see them.”Lucy shook her head. “If they see us coming with jets they would probably harm the men, we're supposed to catch them by surprise not let them know we're coming. Plus, we can't per
Lucy had to dive into the ground to dodge the onslaught of bullets that were flying their way. They were completely taken by surprise. The last thing they were prepared for was that the ivarian army would retaliate by attacking them through air fleets. The dreadland soldiers were scattered, trying to run for their lives as the enemy jets soared over them. Even the back up that Lucy had requested for earlier, were foot soldiers. “Retreat! Retreat!” Lucy ordered her men. This was a very foreign order to them, as the deadline legionnaires never gave up in the face of danger. The troops began to fall back and they were rushing towards their territory. Right beside Lucy's foot, just where she was standing, a tiny exclusive dropped with a thud. The man from earlier, Aaron, grabbed his bomb proof glass shield and placed it on top of the explosive and then laid on it. Lucy was dumbfounded by his display and before she could utter any word, the explosion went off. The force knocked her
Ethan cried out as he watched Lucy go down with Cyrus. He tried to leap forward to catch her, but he was too late, she had already fallen.For a moment he was frozen, unsure of how to react. He felt numb, and then soon self-guilt began to eat him up. How could he stand there and let this happen? An almost deafening silence settled upon everyone that was around the vicinity. Nobody had expected this to happen.Just when everybody had given up hope they heard a grunt coming from the edge of the cliff. An arm suddenly popped into their vision as it gripped the plants that were growing by the edge.Lucy hadn't fallen off the cliff, she managed to grab onto something while falling and she was dangling.Ethan immediately rushed forward and grabbed her hand, then pulled her up. “Thank goodness you're alive,” she said when she was standing on her own two feet. “I managed to grab onto a strong tree root protruding from the edge of the cliff, if it wasn't for that I'd have fallen and probably
Valerie and Ethan were standing in the waiting room dressed in their disguises. Valerie was wearing a nurse's uniform and Ethan was wearing scrubs.Ethan shook his head. “This is ridiculous,” he remarked. “It's the perfect way to get you out back without the reporters seeing you two and swarming over you like bees that just found honey,” Natasha said. “Is the car ready?” Keith asked. Natasha nodded. They all made their way out. Keith was the only one that was supposed to come out through the front, to distract the reporters. He wouldn't answer any of their questions but only deflect them to the legion commander. Keith stepped out through the front and just as anticipated, all the mics and camera instantly pointed his way. They didn't even give him time to fully step through the door before they started bombarding him with questions. “Is it true that the legion commander has been rescued?” “Is it true that there was an air raid?”“There's rumors that some dreadlands soldiers we
They were back at home now and Ethan wanted to get to the root of the matter. These people couldn't have just started protesting for no reason. Natasha who had been held up in the mob finally showed up, she made her way through the front door and into the house. “Natasha you're here, finally,” Valerie said, sounding relieved. “The car was bullet proof, we were safe. The only problem was that they almost didn't allow us to move, it took a lot of honking and almost running over people before we could finally get out of that place.” She rolled her eyes, evidently stressed out.Skyler suddenly walked into the sitting room, “you guys may want to see this,” she said, holding her laptop.She placed it on the table and then increased the screen brightness. They all huddled around it, eager to see what she was trying to show them.It was the effects of all the activity, from the cement company that was blasting the rocks from the mountains to get limestone. Continuous explosive activities
Ethan was standing before a mirror, adjusting his neck tie. Valerie walked up to him and stood on her toes to plant a soft kiss on his cheeks. “You look amazing.”“Thank you,” he responded. Natasha barged into the room, unintentionally disrupting their moment. “The car is ready downstairs, we should get moving,” she said, holding her tablet out.Ethan wanted Valerie to stay back, and Natasha even supported this idea, because if Valerie was there, the media would try to rip her to shreds. With another stolen kiss, Ethan made his way out and into the car that was waiting for him downstairs. He was wearing a sleek charcoal suit which had hand drawn patterns. The suit accentuated his features and he looked dashing, Which was exactly how he needed to look if he was going to win back public affection. The car drove off to the conference center where he was going to be having the press conference. When he got there they were already a bunch of reporters seated waiting impatiently for hi
Valerie, Elizabeth and Skyler were watching the press conference on the news. A sharp gasp collectively escaped from their throats as they watched the car explode in an instant. “Ethan!” Elizabeth screamed, stretching her hands towards the TV screen as though she could pull him right out. “Look!” Skylar pointed at a corner, “he's fine.”Ethan had money to jump out of the way pushing everybody back just before the explosion. He got off. I was dusting his blazer as his car burned. Ethan instructed everybody to step away from the car and they did just that. They knew that somebody was after Ethan, but they didn't know that the person was this desperate. Valerie was just happy that nothing happened to anybody. News channels immediately began reporting it and most of them were saying basically the same thing, that the legion commander was being targeted by somebody or a group of people. They awaited his arrival at home anxiously. Soon another car pulled up in front and it was Ethan.
Ethan had insisted that Valerie stay back at home while he visited the community alone, but she was too paranoid to let him go alone; she wanted to be by his side. “If you're worried that something is going to happen again, the rest are sure that I've increased security so you have nothing to worry about. Plus even if something did happen, I'd rather you were far away from the vicinity.”“I know nothing is going to happen because of stricter security measures which you took, I just want to be there with you, by your side. Besides, I don't really have anything to do at home.”Ethan realized that he could no longer argue with her so he just decided to let it go. “Fine, you can come,” he said.They made their way out of the house and into the car that was waiting downstairs to take them to the rural community. As the legion commander he couldn't have his image be tarnished like this, he had to get to the bottom of things.The driver ignited the engines and began to drive them towards t