2 days had passed since Winter had kissed me. He had clearly brushed it off as a friendly gesture, but my mind wouldn't let it go. I was walking again, attempting to regain my strength by training for hours on end, occasionally stopping for a break but immediately training again as soon as I was okay. Delvious appeared to be monitoring my movements and recovery and, according to him, they were in excellent condition and quick. Sometimes Winter would train with me; working on his blocking and reposting from those blocks. But, things seemed different between the two of us, well Winter mostly. We were closer; it didn't feel like we were partners anymore, it felt like we were closer than that. I brushed it off as a stupid thing, but part of my mind wouldn't let go of it. After an intense 9 hour training session, we finally wrapped it up. Winter and I were both tired and we were starving; we hadn't eaten since breakfast at 6am. I walked into the main hall to see the girls in their usual spot, over by the sweet bar we owned. Sometimes we would make the boys complete tasks to get some sweets, it was so funny. I walked over to them with a hungry look in my eyes.
"Hey, look who's finally out of training! Flame, where have you been?! Kicking Winter's ass again?" I shook my head in response to Fall's questions while shoving at least 3 bags worth of cola bottles into my mouth. Storm walked up behind me, examining the bandaged wound on my stomach.
"That looks nasty." She scrunched her face up in detest to the bloody but fresh gauzes wrapped around my waist. I swallowed and pulled on her ear to annoy her. She scowled at me, clearly hinting as to the answer to why I was pulling on her ear.
"Next time don't splat a pie in my face!" I laughed at her scowling face.
"That was 3 bloody weeks ago!" I chuckled softly to myself before I felt a tap on my shoulder. Behind me, Delvious was holding a file with information about a group of bandits who had been pretending to be attracted to women and then taking them to Ghost. He wanted us girls to go to the town of Karabah, a town that was notorious for thieves and prostitutes due to their awful habits and lack of wealth. We all accepted the mission, but I refused to let Rose come unless she stayed close to Topaz; she was so young and I didn't want her to get hurt. Then again, she did have the biggest god damn hammer in the freaking universe but still. It was too far to travel by horse, meaning I got to drive Delvious' van (Hell yeah!). We gathered our necessary supplies before saying bye to the boys and setting off.
It took us a few hours, but we finally made it to Karabah. All of us had changed into clothes that fitted their Arabic cultural style; our only problem with these outfits were they were revealing, not as in our identities, but our bodies. We looked like sluts.
"Oh my god, I looked like Kinga!" Fall blurted out before stepping out of the van. All of us laughed besides Storm, who was taking this mission really seriously, not particularly healthy for an undercover Freedom Fighter.
"Stop joking around. We need to get this right." The rest of us calmed down but were still ever so slightly laughing at her sudden control over the mission. Shade put her hand on Storm's shoulder and tried to hold in her laughter while talking.
"Storm, calm down. You're acting like Topaz when she has a bad hair day."
"Hey! That's rude!" Topaz argued back. I began getting tired of the situation and decided to step in between my now arguing teammates.
"Guys, shut up, we will give ourselves away."
Rose peered around me and raised her cute voice up to my level.
"Flame is right! We can argue later,but right now we need to find those bandits!" I nodded my head in gratitude, and she smiled warmly and in the most adorable way ever. We all continued to walk, before I felt a hand grab my waist and shove me into an alleyway. I immediately fell back onto my wound causing me to inhale sharply at the sudden impact. Seeing my attempt to stand back up, the shadowy figure that dragged me into the alleyway crouched down and planted a hand firmly on my neck pushing me back down.
"You're awfully desperate to get away aren't you? Just relax and let me do the work."
Keeping a tight grip around my neck, he moved his body over me and was about to kiss me. I was unable to move so I just waited for the inevitable to happen, but it never did. Just as his lips were about to meet mine, Rose smashed the side of his head, sending him flying into the wall.
"Are you okay?" She crouched beside me, lifting me up slightly to check my bandages.
"Yeah, I'll be fine." I stood up and bent over my stomach in pain, but I pushed past it and walked alongside Rose. This was going to be a long mission.
