Kiara POV:
I woke up before everyone else.
The house seemed almost as if it was empty.
I went to Celeste to check if she was ok. Last night she could barely sleep because of the pain.
I stepped into her room creaking the floorboards.
"Shit" I mutter
She turns around facing me.
"Ah ki I was sleeping" she throws the sheet, hiding her face.
"I'm sorry I was just checking if your weren't fucking dead" I sit beside her.
"Can't believe I got fucking shot" she muttered as she got up.
"On a bloody date" she grunts storming up from her bed.
I couldn't help but laugh as I got up and left to the door.
"I'm gonna make breakfast, want some?" I say halfway between the door.
"I'm good" she says prodding her should then wincing.
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The rest of them wake up and tumble down the stairs.
I set the table with the food I made.
"Alright, eggs, beans, sausage, hash browns and toast made by yours truly" I bow as they all take a seat.
They each take a bite in unison and I stare waiting for their response.
"Lacking in the salt department," nikoli licks his lips and takes another bite.
"Decent effort though" he smiles taking another bite.
"Honestly this is really good Kiara, should make You our personal chef" Lorenzo beams
"There's no way I'd work for you" I smirk sipping my coffee.
"Why not?" Raffe chews his bread, hard.
"You'd get good pay" he winks as he picks his food.
"In many ways," nikoli sniggers.
"Shut up, and even though you pay well, I would rather choke myself to death then see you three smirking the rest of my life" I leave the table and start washing my plate.
"Choking you say?" Raffe raises an eyebrow at me then they all burst into laughter.
"Piss off" I say as I walk up the stairs.
The laughter carries on but then Raffe shouts from the table.
"Make sure you wear training gear, we are going to the base today" he yells
I stop and hear Lorenzo whisper something.
Then Raffe starts again. "Oh and tell Celeste too"
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We finally get to the compound and Lorenzo takes Celeste into a separate room.
I follow Raffe into the same room we were in yesterday and he throws me the same gloves.
"So" he says as he gets into the ring.
I join him and stay ready on my feet.
"This mission," he throws a punch.
I dodge.
"Go on" I say trying to match his pace.
"The plan is to go in get what we need and leave without any problem, but" he starts as he tries throwing more punches.
"But?" I try throwing his punches back to him and eventually end up falling.
"But, you can't get hurt or caught," he reaches his hand and I grab it.
"And you guys are hardly trained," he groans as if he's defeated.
"But we need it to be believable" he turns to me.
I take off my gloves and throw them on the floor.
"You're good with aim and strength, but you're not fast enough." He goes to the back of the room and fiddles with a cupboard.
He comes back with a three small knives.
He holds a leather band in his other hand and puts it in front of me.
I put the band around my thigh putting each knife in their slots.
"We have training robots, and you're gonna need to pass to go on the mission" he slowly backs out of the room.
"And what if I don't want to go on the mission?"
He doesn't say a word and he just leaves.
The room goes black but then it's full with light.
I steady myself preparing for what might happen.
Out of nowhere a human like robot comes.
It rams itself into my side shoving me into the ground.
I huff pulling myself up.
I throw punches but it doesn't work.
The robot storms at me and I have no choice but to grab the knife from my thigh and pierce through its computer screen.
The robot buzzes off and falls to the ground.
"YES!" I throw my hands in the air.
But my victory is soon ended when another bot runs into me.
Its kicks and punches me. The screen is almost haunting and the robot seems uncontrollable.
It spins and whacks me right in the face.
Fuck.
I feel my collarbone and it's cut with red liquid slipping out.
Not only am I losing, but by a fucking piece of metal.
I pick myself up and throw a punch. Then another.
The robot falls back and I can't stop hitting.
I take the second knife and stick it to the robots beck, cutting through the wires.
Its head rolls and falls next to the other robot.
I smirk awaiting the last robot.
But I was wrong.
Two more robots come charging at me and I hold the third knife in my hands.
Shit.
I twist the knife in my hands trying to dodge every punch the bots are giving me.
I'm losing again and the robots have me cornered.
"Alright Bob and Steve, I really don't want to hurt you" I say trying to calm the boys but it doesn't help.
They corner me almost suffocating me.
"Fine, no more nice guy" I say I flip myself up
I kick one of them out of the way so I can go into the centre of the room.
"Never new you had a nice guy" the cracking of a microphone fills the room.
I roll my eyes and carry on hitting in every direction.
Both come charging towards me and I have no choice but to run.
They slam into the wall behind me and I laugh.
They stand one behind each other, in front of a board.
Perfect.
I launch the third and final knife and it slices through both of them, hitting the board.
I slump down and breathe.
"Good work" he claps as he walks in the room.
"I guess I'll be seeing you in Venice" he closes the door behind him.
Bastard.
I let myself out and see Celeste at the front of the door.
I run up to her and ask if she's ok.
"Robots?" We say in unison then laugh on our way out.