"How much did you get paid to take her out?" Mr. Kingman asked; seeing how tortured she already was and wanting to torture her some more.
"I'm not doing this," Bella said standing up and wiped her tears away as she headed for the door.
"Where are you going Ms. Knight?" All the henchmen standing in the corners pulled their guns out and pointed them at her and she stopped. "I don't believe we were done talking."
She turned to him. "I'm not going to have this conversation with you."
"Yes you are."
"No I'm not."
"Ay! Sit your ass back down on that chair or I am going to have my boys bring in your lover and shoot him in the head. Right in front of you!" Mr. Kingman said with his voiced raised. "Is that what you want? Because I will do it. There is nothing I would enjoy more than putting a bullet through his head, go on Ms. Knight, make my day. Make my day."
More tears ran down Bella's face and she just wiped them away as she walked to the
"Seriously," Reggie said; looking like he was going to jump right out of his own skin. "You're going to say that now with us in the water.""No, no, I'm not even trying to scare anyone I'm just saying what I heard, I heard something moving in the water," Mark said. "Didn't you hear it?""No I didn't hear anything," Mandy answered, she was the one walking closest to him."Well I heard something.""Don't worry man I heard it too, saw something in there too. There is definitely something in there," a boy watching on his laptop said."O.k. well I'm sure it was nothing, let's keep moving," Den said and they moved on."Nothing? Are you high? You are in a game where there's stuff on each level that has literally been programmed to kill you and you're going to say it was nothing. No, it was not nothing, it was most definitely something and whatever it is is seconds away from jumping out of that water and eating you alive," a girl watchi
"Oh my gosh he's dead. Mark's dead," Hannah said with tears in her eyes. He was there and alive less than a minute ago and now he was gone. And not just, he just had his head completely eaten up by some freakish fish creature."Ah!" Emily screamed pointing forward and when they all looked to where she was pointing ice cold shivers ran down their spines."Oh my gosh," Den said; with eyes all the way widened like he had seen a ghost; the others too as they looked on at the sight before them, a sight that had them instantly fearing for their lives."What? What is it? What's there?" a girl watching on her tablet asked; eager to see what it was that had scared the living daylights out of them.It was more of the creature that had just killed Mark; a large group of them swimming towards the players leaping in and out of the water like dolphins and shrieking like wolverines."Quick, everyone through that door move, move, move!" Den shouted and the players began to run and swim towards the do
The players reached the elevator and Den pressed the button and unlike the other one this one actually worked. The elevator was on deck 5 and began to come down; with each one looking at the display giving out quiet sighs of relief. Finally something was going their way.The elevator reached deck 3 and dinged open."Alright let's go," Den said."Hold up," Bella said."Oh my gosh what now?""Look at the capacity, it says 5 people only, which means only 5 of us can ride it at a time.""5? That'll leave one of us to ride it alone," Mandy said."Yeah.""Not it.""So not it," Reggie said."Who's riding first?" Sue asked."The women will go up first," Den answered."But there's 6 of us," Hannah said."You guys go. I'll take the next one," Bella said."Are you sure?" Sue asked."Yeah.""And then who's going to ride alone?" Grayson asked."It's not a problem, I'll ride alone," Den said. "Come on inside go," he then said and all the women except Bella went in. The elevator doors closed and ins
More water poured in with more creatures in it. They leaped out at them but the players held their on; except Reggie who was still down and went on hiding. "The room is filling up, what's the plan?" Emily asked."Up," Den answered and they all looked up. "The lights, everyone get up onto the lights, quickly!"There were hanging lights made of a thick wooden frame right above them that was about a meter long and they all began to climd up onto them; all except Reggie who was still cowered by the table, shaking even like he was out in the cold."Bro what the heck? Get up," a boy watching on his laptop said."Reggie! Get up," Bella shouted."No," Reggie responded."Reggie!""Reggie get your ass up onto the light now!" Den shouted as the creatures tried to leap out of the water at them but couldn't get them."No!" Reggie shouted and started crying."Oh my gosh crying, is he crying?" a girl watching on her laptop with her friend asked."He's crying," her friend answered."Oh man dead, Reg
***Bella was swimming in an Olympic sized pool from one end to the other with Mr. Henderson waiting for her to reach him with his stopwatch in his hand timing her swim from point A to point B and back to point A. BOOF! She reached and popped her head out of the water."How did I do?" Bella put her goggles over her swimming cap and asked; breathing in and out heavily."Good but not good enough," he responded."What was my time?""1:10. I need you to get it down to fifty seconds.""That's twenty whole seconds," she said."Yes it is.""You want me to get from here to there and back here in fifty seconds?""Yes," Mr. Henderson answered; like there was nothing at all extreme to what he said."Goodness what does swimming even have to do with being an assassin?""Sometimes things go wrong and you need to get away and what if the only means for you to do so is through the water, you will need to know how to swim. And not just but fast, because how fast you get away could be the difference be
Bella hit the shower and as she walked out, freshened up and dressed in a bath robe, suddenly her TV went on, and looking at it she was immediately shaken by what she saw. It was a live feed coming in from the morgue with Mark's and Grayson's lifeless bodies on steel beds. Their bodies were in tact and they were still in their suits but their skins were as pale as clouds."Oh my gosh," Bella said, throwing her hands over her mouth as tears immediately came to her eyes like she had a tears switch and it had just been turned on."Sad to see your friends dead isn't it?" a voice came in through the speakers. Mr. Kingman's voice. "Especially Grayson, you really did try to save him but your efforts were just not good enough, shame.""Oh my gosh." Her heart sunk. "They really are dead.""Yes they are.""I thought . . .""What? You thought I was bluffing," his voice said and laughed. "Oh no Ms. Knight, I may do a lot of things but the one thing I do not do is bluff.""They're dead.""Yes. Lik
"Well we're all here so whoever this Bobby friend is he's probably an NPC," Bella said. "And those can be a whole lot of work when they want to be," Sue said. "Yes they can." "Well let's hope he's not one of the dumb ones or else we're in for one heck of a brawl," Den said. "O.k. so how are we doing this?" Brian asked. "We find our buddy and we rescue him." "How do we find him?" Hannah asked and Den looked around. The forest was dark with a few rays of the full moon's light shining here and there, through the spaces in the tall trees. And it was quiet; nothing but the sound of a gentle breeze blowing through the leaves, crickets screeching in the grass and an owl hooting about in the distance. "I don't know, it's so dark out here we can barely see a thing." "We have light," Mandy said. "Yeah but it would help if we knew where we were going; he could literally be anywhere." "True," Roy agreed and Bella looked up. "A tree," she said. "Climbing one will give us a good scope of
Den and the rest moved back and took their position as Bella, Sue, Mandy and Emily crept around the settlement, using the trees and the bushes as their cover, and stopped right opposite where Bobby was tied up; hiding behind the large bush that was there. "Girl squad let's go," a girl watching on her phone said. "There he is," Bella said. "You got your knife ready?" she then asked Emily. "Got it," she responded; holding the very knife strong in her hand, ready to use it to cut Bobby loose. "O.k. Sue you're going to take out these two, Mandy the two to the left and I'll take the ones to the right." They nodded their heads. "Alright, let's move." The women took their positions and after signalling at each other, BANG! BANG! BANG! The three opened fire at the six guarding creatures as Emily ran up to Bobby to free him. He was sitting on the ground with his hands tied behind his back and her knife sliced through the rope like a sword fish through the water. "Oh my gosh you found me,"