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Crystal Smee

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“You should thank Barron, man,” panted the other medic. “We woulda had to amputate the leg, but he wouldn’t let us. We stopped the bleeding. You’ll be all right.”
Lucas licked his lips. “Thirsty,” he muttered. They tipped a canteen over his face and dribbled water into his mouth. He coughed. “My letter,” he gasped suddenly, and bolted upright. The medic tackled him back down.
“Don’t move, you idiot!” he hissed.
*Where’s my letter?” he cried.
“That piece of paper? Barron’s got it.”
“Okay….okay.” He lay back, and tried to catch his breath. “I need to get back out there.”
“Kid, you ain’t in any condition to fight.”
“No!* Lucas closed his eyes. No, he couldn’t be injured. He couldn’t be out of the fight. This couldn’t be the end! He felt sick to his stomach with relief, and gritted his teeth in anger. No, it was too easy, if he just got to sit the rest of it out. And the mission – what if he was still injured and couldn’t fight even then. “I have to fight.”
“You’re no good to anybody. You fight, you’ll kill yourself. If you move the leg it’ll start bleeding again.”
He was silent for a long time, drinking in the sounds of the battle outside. The explosions continued, making the walls of the warehouse quiver every few minutes. His heart screamed for him to go back out there, to keep fighting, to prove he wasn’t going to be sidelined by a stupid injury, but his head processed just how injured he was, processed the agony in his leg, and he knew he couldn’t fight.
What had happened, anyway? The last thing he remembered was being on the cart, reading the letter, while the battle flowed around him. When he pictured it now, it felt like he had been moving in slow motion, while everything around him moved with incredible speed, and he couldn’t keep up any more. He must have passed out…and what? Someone had ran by and stabbed him in the leg? That was ridiculous. He was missing a major chunk of events, and he couldn’t retrieve it.

19-Aug-2009 21:58:06

Crystal Smee

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He felt reality slipping away, black creeping in from the edges of his vision. Tired and defeated, he welcomed the darkness, and it washed over him, taking him back into unconsciousness.

“…evacuate the royal family, but we just got that drawbridge up…”
“…better plan…should just leave it there…”
“…no…need to get them…Varrock is safer…”
“…brought reinforcements…”
Lucas opened his eyes, focusing on the voices, using them to wake himself up. Slowly, he sat up, gritting his teeth with the effort. The medics were at his side in an instant, supporting him and fussing over his leg. “You shouldn’t be moving, kid.”
“What’s happened?”
“Reinforcements arrived from Varrock, compliments of the Prince.”
“How are we doing?”
“They’ve taken back the streets around the hole in the wall, and cleared the other side. It’s a big effort, but we’ve got enough lines to hold them back. Engineers are trying to clear the rubble and patch up what they can.”
“So what does that mean?”
“We should be able to save the city,” the medic said, grinning, then he sobered. “But it*s still gonna take some time. There’s a hell of a lot of Kandarins inside the walls, wreaking havoc. They’re attacking civilians, like they just want to kill as many people as possible. It’s vicious.”
“Why would they do that?”
“Most folks say it’s because they’re just evil. I think they’re just trying to wear us down. War of attrition, my friend. Kill as many folks as you can and maybe they’ll cave in, just to make it stop. They do it because they can, and ‘cause they want it to stop, and maybe this is a faster way to win the city.”
“That’s awful,” Lucas said sadly. ‘What if the war reached Varrock?’ he thought, before he could stop himself, and his mind was filled with an image of Justine’s house, Justine fleeing down the stairs with a Kandarin barbarian hot on her heels.

19-Aug-2009 21:58:53

Crystal Smee

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“How long has it been?” he asked quickly to distract himself.
“Sun’ll go down soon. This’ll be the third night we’ve been fighting. Gods, it needs to end soon.”
“Let me fight,” Lucas pleaded. He felt better now. The pain in his leg was a dull ache, but everywhere else was fine, just a bit sore. He needed to be out there. He needed to stop the Kandarins, before they reached Varrock. He needed to find Jonah and get his letter back.
“Not yet, kid. That needs to heal more.”
“I’ll be fine!” he insisted.
“Sleep. We’ll talk in the morning, all right? Don’t you worry, there will still be plenty of battle then.” Lucas sank back down onto the table at the medic’s urging, finding that sleep came all too easily. Once more, he passed out into darkness, enveloped by dark and terrible dreams.
He was on the walls again, with a bow in his hands. The sky overhead was filled with churning black clouds that stretched to the horizon, so that there was no sunlight, and the entire scene was lit with a dangerous red glow. When he looked down into the city, the battle was still raging, but everything moved in slow motion, as if they were underwater. This thought became reality, and suddenly the entire city was immersed in a flowing ocean, with waves that lapped over the battlements and spilled cold across his feet. With a terrifying sense of urgency, he dove over the edge into the water, and paddled down, but his leg burned, making the progress slow. Strangely, though, he never seemed to run out of air. He reached the bottom and drifted lightly over the streets, his feet not quite touching the ground, weaving between soldiers now frozen and motionless in the midst of fighting. He ducked under raised swords and floated over bodies grappling with each other. Their faces were stopped in various expressions of rage and grimaces of pain, and some bodies were bent at impossible angles, nearly horizontal to the ground as they were caught in the middle of falling.

19-Aug-2009 21:59:33 - Last edited on 19-Aug-2009 21:59:56 by Crystal Smee

Crystal Smee

Crystal Smee

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They weren’t entirely still, though; the edges of clothes rippled in the current of the water, and the blood that poured from open wounds still ghosted through the water, forming a scarlet fog around each of the injured.
He wasn’t supposed to be here, he thought frantically, staring around this blue prison, but as he tried to swim faster, the water seemed to get thicker, holding him back. Then ahead on the street, he saw Justine, running freely, at full-speed, lifting up her skirts to free her feet, hair streaming behind her. Like in all his other dreams, she was running away from him.
“Justine!” he tried to yell, but all that came out was a stream of bubbles.
He squinted through the cerulean gloom and saw she was running towards a figure at the end of the street. Suddenly the water disappeared and he plummeted down, landing on his bad leg, and his cry of pain was like a trigger to start the battle again, as the still figurines around him suddenly came to life, and the battle raged once more. Lucas scrambled to his feet, stumbling once when his leg gave way, and tried to chase her, but his way was blocked by the chaotic fray. A Kandarin barbarian with horns on his helmet and a bushy red beard filled his vision and he saw a club fly out of the sky, felt it crunch into his helmet, and then the world went black.
Lucas woke on the floor, with medics surrounding him, who carefully hoisted him back onto the table. He was aware of a great commotion all around him, of cheers and shouts of triumph. “What’s happened?” he mumbled.
“You were out a long time, kid,” the medic from before said, smiling, as he checked the bandages on Lucas’ leg. “Night passed, and the fighting continued, but come dawn, we began to take control of our streets again. It’s near to midday now. And the Kandarins sent a white flag about an hour ago. They’ve surrendered the city, and they wawant to retreat. We’re clearing the rest of them out as we speak. It's over."

19-Aug-2009 22:02:33

Crystal Smee

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No worries. There may not be any more adds for a while...I'm taking a break to just relax, enjoy the rest of my summer, and do all the summer homework I've been putting off. Once school starts and I'm resettled, expect some more adds.

24-Aug-2009 17:27:17

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