Run & Hide ☠ Sequel

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"Everyone out of the room!" Amanda ordered loudly, before an ear-piercing screeching noise filled the room and the entire building. "We're under attack!"

We all piled out of the room quickly, watching Amanda yell orders at people whom scattered around. Screams and panicked yells echoed throughout the halls as Valkyrie gathered together forming a tight circle before trying to do anything without a strategic plan.

"Do we bail or do we help?" Jade asked sharply, fingers wrapping around her pistol as she tucked her hair behind her ear.

"We help, but we stick together. I am not losing anyone again," Vlad told us strictly, his beady eyes darting to mine before I nodded curtly.

While the people from Obsidian Order continued flailing around like terrified ants, Valkyrie got into formation. We caught someone yelling that αήττητος were on the roof moving onto the floor above us; some people were already up there battling them. Using the stairs, we headed up to the top floor. Vlad and Max took the front, Vicky and Jade on one side, Damien and Seth on the other while I brought up the back. We moved in this formation, holding our weapons up, loaded and ready, eyes wide and alert to spot any sort of movement.

The floor was empty, people were already evacuating even though we were sure αήττητος were still lurking around on this floor. Suddenly a gun shot rang, a figure running across the hallway in front of us, pulling the trigger a couple times, causing us all to duck, before we moved quickly. But something caught the corner of my eye as I passed through another hallway; bringing up the back of the group. It was a flash of gold. The Phoenix.

Without hesitating, I bounded after her, gripping my gun tightly as I sprinted down the hallway. Pressing my back against the wall, I peered around the corner, watching her disappear around another corner meters away from me. Suddenly, I saw her step out, sending an arrow flying towards me. My breath got caught in my throat as I spun away, just as it whizzed past me, nipping the top of my ear. My hand reached up, touching the shell of my ear only to feel blood coating my fingers.

Clenching my jaw and flaring my nostrils, I turned around, firing my gun a couple of times. The bullets hit the corner of the wall as she disappeared around it, making me lower my gun and sprint once again. But as I ran around the corner, I saw her standing on the helicopter pad with her other team members.

I immediately pulled myself around the curve of the hallway just as they fired a round of bullets at me, including an arrow from The Phoenix. Pressing a finger to the small earpiece situated in my ear, I called for Valkyrie to hurry up since they were getting away. Before I heard the loud buzzing noise I remembered from when we arrived here.

I wheeled around, sprinting and jumping, fingers gripping onto the helicopter pad as it rose up. Pulling my body up and sliding onto the pad, just as the assassins from Omega began to jump onto the roof and sprint away. My eyes squinted in the darkness, looking for any one of the members of Omega to shoot. Immediately, I spotted the shimmering gold symbol of The Phoenix in the distance, making me instantaneously raise my gun up and fire it at her.

She stopped in her tracks, turning around sharply before she dropped her bow to the floor, setting her quiver down. My blazing eyes gazed back at the sliver streaks that served as her 'eyes' on the mask. She cracked her head from side to side and got into a fighting stance. A smirk crawled onto my lips, understanding that she wanted to do this the old-fashioned way as I laid my guns down on the floor before bringing my fists up near my face.

Her feet began moving, sprinting fast before jumping into the air and swinging her leg powerfully at me. I immediately ducked low, knees bending as she missed but soon crouched down and brought her fist up to my jaw. A harsh grunt escaped my lips when her gloved hand struck my jaw painfully hard, my mind unable to process the fact that her knuckles had some sort of indestructible metal infused in the gloves.