Chapter 5

Soleil



     My ears picked out the sound of everyone getting up.
     "Soliel!" Ciel called, and I got up and jumped over to her branch, "I need you to stay here, in case Lily comes back."
     "Why do I have to?" I whined, hoping I would sound just annoying enough to go. "It's because I'm blind, isn't it!" I pouted. Okay, so I knew that wasn't why, but I wanted to go with them, not trapped here. "I could sense any danger, help find food, stand guard, fight, and--"
     "No, hun, that's not why," Cora said in a soothing voice, interrupting my tirade "We need all those skills, but for something else. Well, maybe not the food thing, 'cause we have some back at our place, but still," She went on, "We need someone here to hold down the fort. In case Lily shows up, the people who took her, or we come back."
     I crossed my arms, and turned away a little.
     Ciel sighed, "Please, we need you to do this."
     I muttered something under my breath and started walking away, throwing over my shoulder, "Fine. But you owe me!"

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     Here's a list of some of my favourite hobbies.

Surprising people

Defeating the baddies

Hanging with my friends

Making bombs

     So, as you can imagine, I'm gonna combine 1, 2 and 4! I love to make bombs; I can always tell which wires are which, so I don't have a problem.
     "Hmmm......Ace's alarm clock, check; car battery", now where did I get that, you may ask? I collect them for an emergency, but only 3 or 4, and I keep a stash here.
     I finished making the bomb about half an hour later. You may be thinking 'Aww, why don't you tell us how you made it?' There is no freaking way I will tell you how to make a bomb! I think the world has enough crazy people, like my mother.... My eyes dull and I shake my head. Now..... Let's see.....
     I rolled by cloudy blue blind eyes, "Oh wait, I can't!" I say out loud. Snap! My head whips around at the sound of a braking branch.
     Where is she! I hear from someone's mind. I can just make out a radio,
     "-Pssh- I -Psssh- the target -Psssh- in -Psssh- house." My head starts to spin with all the toughts that are coming from the people outside. 1, 2, 3- 5- 8! Eight people out there surrounding the house and a truck with 4 people in it. Wow! I feel so... wanted... but they should know by know they need more people. I pick up the bomb and climb up the stairs, locate the door to the roof and climb out.
     There she is! Up on the roof! One of the men thought. I hold the bomb over my head and chuck it down-wards.
     A man screams "Bomb!"just as another man is screaming "Oh fu-!" and I'm thinking Any second now...and they're cut off with a --

BOOOOOMMM 

     Even though I can't see, I can still feel the shock waves, the sound, the heat... It was a pretty good bomb. I step off the roof and land neatly on the ground without a sound. My mind scans around me. Seven of the men out of twelve dead; I could have done better. Note to self: Work on aiming under pressure. I realise that I'm not the only conscious person here, and before I could run, or even kick them, two men grab my arms. I've never been shy of using crotch shots, so when I start kicking, and my foot colides with a satisfying Thump and a short cry of pain, I smiled and was rewarded by being slugged in the face, and I think it cracked my cheek. I know the skin split. Jerk! I think. Well, I didn't actually think jerk, but let's just say I thought jerk. Then I let out a cry as one of the men twist my arm in an awkward angle. Stop! I think desperately, You're going to break my--! Snap!. I let out a chocked sob. And there it goes! I keep struggling even if one of my arms is crying out in pain and useless.
     "Mr. Zlo wants to see you...." One of the men snicker in my ear, my eyes widened in horror. Not him! I think quickly before a sharp pain exploded in the side of my head and I black out.
     Not him....