RHG: Inheritance Reclaimed

Chapter 15

"Sonya, get your-" Ginn pauses mid sentence as a pale girl steps forward, a long orange scarf trailing behind her.

"Swift? Get down! He has a gun!" The medic calls out. 

The new girl ignores her warning and leans over to scoop Leif up into her arms, her eyes crusted with sorrow. 

"Look, Gi- I really don't want to repeat this whole ordeal and get more people involved." Ginn takes aim towards her. "So if you could just put her back down and get your friends out there to leave for a while, I promise you can have her back soon. I don't intend of killing her, no worries. But I may be forced to slip up and do so if you keep getting in the way."

She doesn't listen and instead closes her eyes in deep focus, holding Leif close to her chest. The temperature in the room drops rapidly. A shiver races through my spine and all warmth in my body wisps out in a shuddering breath. 

Wind whips around the room and I see Sonya flinch at the sudden cold. 

"S-S-S-Sony-ya!" The cold rushing air stings my eyes and dries up my tongue the moment I open my mouth. I try to rush to her side but my limbs are stiff and rigid. I realize ice has encased my arms and legs and I'm swiftly being turned into a frozen statue. 

The room is shimmering as its walls turn frigid and slick with pilling frost. A slowly developing 3D photo, a moment frozen in place, a snapshot of time. 

I get ready to activate my boots again to melt it all but I stop. As much as it hurts me to see Sonya in distress.. This could be the only way Leif and the others could have a chance of escaping.

So I power down and let the cold consume me. Ginn doesn't look too bothered, maybe he knew this was just a minor setback? Or.. Wait, does he even fear death? What if this is not a temporary entrapment but a frozen tomb? Am I really willing to let myself die here? Let Sonya die here..?

But remembering our tormenting of Leif earlier eases the guilt of leaving us to possibly die. If we die here.. then we deserve it. Maybe I could at least rejoin Sonya in the afterlife.. Afterall, wouldn't that.. be better than letting her continue to become a monster under Ginn's influence?

I'm disgusted by my thoughts but my choice stands firm. The cold burns against my skin and I quake uncontrollably from what little part of me can still move. But I restrain myself from activating my boots, gritting my teeth until the frost completely devours me.

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Storm POV

AGH THE ASSHOLE SHOT ME!

I grip my shoulder where the wound still leaks blood. That no good little-

I feel myself crackle up with static as I vibrate in anger and totally not pain. He messed with the wrong gal. I feel my electricity buzz into the bullet and in a few moment later, it's repelled from the wound and falls with a small click clack onto the ground. Well that's new.

"Let me see your wound." Pax speaks behind me, turning me around and already having a small medic kit in her hand. Where the heck did she even keep that thing??

"S-Swift and Leif are st-still in there!" Saurus stammers. 

I know I don't trust the girl but I also don't really wanna hear her eat a spray of bullets. But the door was thrown shut when she ran into the room.

I try the door handle and it barely moves. I push harder and ram my other shoulder against it but it feels like its been flex taped in place. 

"OI! SWIFT!" I scream through the door. "ARE YOU OKAY??"

I don't.. actually want her dead. What was she thinking running into that room when we knew he had a gun and clearly wasn't afraid to use it?? She's an idiot!

An idiot who just risked her life to save my best friend..

Shit..

I suddenly feel really bad for not cooperating more with her earlier

"SWIFT?!" I call out again, desperately pressing my ear to the door in hopes of hearing a sound. 

The door shudders before being thrown open, letting me flop to the floor. 

To my painful relief, Swift comes through, gripping Leif in her arms.

"SWIFT!" I bounce back to my feet, grabbing her by the shoulders. Ow my shoulder.

"Swift!! You're okay!" Saurus cries in relief. Wuss.

"WHAT WERE YOU OW THINKING WHEN OW YOU RAN INTO OW A ROOM WITH A GUN??" I shout as I shake her.

"We need to get away." Swift simply replies. "Leif and you need to get to a hospital.. quick."

I looked back down at the bloody mess of my friend. Normal liquid blood soaks her head and body while also sprouting her red blood petals. 

"What if they chase after us and attack us from behind??" 

Swift just gestures towards the room, where I see it has been completely encased by a layer of ice.

Holy-

"It won't hold them for too long." Swift uses her body to push me towards the corridor. "Come on!"

I shut the door for good measure and joined the rest in fleeing the building.