Entry: 5

Entry: 5
  - Go!


Almera chuckled at her dad's P.S. She shoved the paper into her pocket and shut the drawer.

   "Moving on." She said quietly. "We'll just look at the rest of the paper for now." She continued. "If possible, try to take a close up picture."
   "Well that might be hard. I don't think they like people taking pictures." Liam pointed out.
Finn grinned and once again, dug through her bag.
   "Yes. But they have nothing against a girl freshening up."
She showed a small case of blush.
The object jogged a memory in Jay's mind.
   "Hey, is that the camera Kaden gave you?" He asked with that lopsided grin that made Almera feel funny.
She nodded.
When she was with the agency, Kaden - Liam's foster brother - had given her a few gadgets. Including the blush travel kit. Which was actually a hidden camera.

   "What about weapons?"
Naturally, the question came from Sage.
   "I hope not to use them," Almera said slowly. "but we can stash a few int he car. How's that?"
SAge nodded and pulled out the leather gauntlent.
   "Can I wear this one thought?" He asked.
   "Uh...what is it?" She still hadn't figured that out yet.
Sage clipped it onto his left wrist and pulled the silver buckles tight.
Intrigued by what he was doing, Liam and Almera moved closer.
Sage suddenly flicked his wrist back and a blade shot silently out.
Shocked and taken by surprise, Almera gasped and jerked back.
   "Dude." Liam muttered. "He's like, an eleven year old version of Ezio Auditore! From Assassin's Creed! That is so not cool."
Almera shook her head.
   "No. He looks more like Desmond Miles."
Liam was shocked that she knew what the heck he was talking about.
She just grinned to herself and walked over to the guns. She pulled out a familiar set of guns and felt the familiar weight of the Assassin’s Fury. She knew they were dependable, and not to mention, fast. She also noticed that these were slightly different then the ones she had been issued in the agency.
There was a red button near the thumb. Not knowing what it was she pressed it. A holographic screen came up, it seemed to scan the room until it found a target. Then it shot automatically, with out her even pulling the trigger.
The guys cried out in alarm and everyone ducked with their hands over their heads.
The bullet lodged it’s self right into the wall behind Almera.
There was silence.
Her heart raced as she slowly moved her hair out of her face.
   “What the heck was that?!” Sage yelled.
   “Sorry.” She whispered. “I didn’t know what the button did.”
   “So you pressed it?!”
   “Well what would you have done?!”
Sage got a guilty look on his face.
   “Pressed it.” He mumbled.
She cocked an eyebrow.
   “Uh-huh.”
She shook her head and rose to her full height.
Liam slowly rose to his feet as well, still slightly shaken, but other wise ok. Same with Sage.
Almera walked back to the drawer and picked up the holsters. She noticed black slots on the outside of them and wondered what they were for.
Then, seeing a pink sticky note on one of them, she ripped it off and looked back at her dad’s hand writing.

The slots are for knives incase you get into close combat

   
Nodding she walked over to the knife drawer and picked out several ones that would fit. She slung the holsters over her shoulder and grabbed her bag with her free hand.
   “Ready?” She asked.
Liam slipped a samurai sword out of it’s sheath and swung in around experimentally. With a satisfied nod, he grabbed it’s twin.
   “Ready.” He responded.
She looked to Sage.
   “Ready.” He answered quickly.
Almera nodded and walked out of the door. The boys followed her and they stood by the car.
Almera pressed the button and the storage unit’s door slid shut, there was a hiss as it sealed it’s self up.
   They opened the trunk of the car and they stowed their weapons in it. Then Almera used one of her few powers to make it become invisible. Sort of.
   “So you can make things invisible?” Liam asked.
   “Sort of.” Almera said, tossing him the keys. “You drive. But please stop by a gas station.”
He grinned and had a hunch on why she wanted to stop.
   “Alright. Hop in squirt.” He said, turning to Sage.
   “Stop calling me that.” said Sage as he climbed into the back.
Liam laughed.
   “Fat chance.”
He started up the car and couldn’t wait to see what this baby could do. But before he could let it rip, he felt a small hand on his arm.
Glancing up, he saw Almera’s strong and demanding stare.
   “We’re not on a race track. We’re on busy streets full of other people with old ladies with dogs crossing the streets. Now is not the time to see what she can do when you put the petal to the metal. ’Kay?”
His disappointment must have shown on his face because she laughed.
   “But if you feel like paying forty bucks to see what she can really do, you go right ahead...Later!”
He laughed and shook his head, then went the speed limit.

++++

After Almera had gotten her Cherry Coke and Sage had his Twix, and Liam had his Hershey bar, they headed out to Washington.
   With Almera in the front seat, it was hard for the two not to talk.
But it was more like the old times, they chatted about the most stupidest things, laughed like crazy, and were just friends. It felt nice, for the both of them.
   Sage was in control over the radio. And the first thing that rolled through the speakers was ‘Tonight, Tonight’ by Hot Chelle Rae.
It was a lively song that kept the up beat feeling that everyone had at the moment.

If anyone saw them now, they would look just like a couple of kids full of life and fun. Yet of course, that wasn’t true, but at the moment they could have been just as good as.
But they all knew it wouldn’t last long.

   “Who do you think will come after us next?” Almera asked quietly.
Everyone was asking themselves the same question, she was just the first to say it out loud.
Liam sighed.
   “I don’t know.” He answered honestly. “Both sides are getting restless. The humans just want to get rid of us Hyvens, and the Hyvens want this war to just be over. They’re counting on us, to get it done.”
Almera sighed.
   “No pressure or anything.” She muttered.
   “Exactly, So I honestly don’t know what to do. It’s not like we can meet with the Presidant of the United States, give him a power point, and say ‘stop killing them off.’”
He had a point.
Almera groaned in frustration and slouched in her seat while she glared out the window.
   “Why are people such thick-heads?” She grumbled.
Liam thought it best not to answer that.
   “Then what the heck are we suppose to do?!” She asked, throwing her hands up. “Neither side are willing to listen. Only a small group of Hyvens even know I exist, the rest are more then willing to beat the crap out of any human that so much looks at them wrong. And then there’s the humans, they don’t shut up long enough to see that the answer is starring them in the face it could slap them, and they refuse to see any kind of sense. How on earth are we suppose to work with that?!”
   “Well the simple truth is,” Sage piped up. “We can’t. Not just us. But that’s what God does. He makes sure that everything goes according to His plan. We wouldn’t be here if He didn’t want us to. We wouldn’t have this task if there wasn’t a reason for it. And maybe we won’t have to be the ones doing it. I mean for goodness sakes, we could be only the messengers and the people that really have to go out there and do it, are just waiting...for us...somewhere.”
As much as Almera wanted that to be true, she had more doubts then anything else.
   “I don’t think so buddy. We’re the only ones that fit the prophecy.”
   “That we know of.” He added quietly.
Almera sighed, and forced herself to calm down and take it slow.
One thing at a time.