"You wouldn't want to be shot Master Quince! Nor would you want your pretty fiancée to be hurt." Noah said, his eyes wide.
"You already killed Mr.Bernard. I can't allow you to kill anyone else." Quince said slowly. He shielded Queen with his body completely.
As for Queen, she wanted to move in front of him. To protect him if need be. But the stubborn man clutched her arm too tight, she couldn't make any movement afraid it would make Noah agitated.
Suddenly, Noah shot towards them and Quince instantly turned his body around to hug Queen before falling on the floor. Noah ran out the door and shot the two guards in front.
"Quince! Oh gosh! Quince are you alright?" Queen got up immediately and help Quince up.
"I'm fine, the bullet grazed my arm." Quince replied.
"Where did he go?!" Queen asked hurriedly. Her body shaking a bit at the scene she just witnessed.
"He is trying to escape. He most likely ran to the life boats. My men are alerted by now and on him." Quince said as he walked over to the door.
Queen immediately followed after him. Before she could leave however, Quince turned and looked at her,"You're not coming along."
"I am!" Queen yelled loudly.
"It's too dangerous. It was a mistake letting you come in the room. You were almost shot!" Quince yelled right back. It was the first time he yelled at her with such an angry and worried expression.
"I'm not letting you go alone Quince! I'm not a weak damsel in distress!" Queen fought back.
"You are not are you?" Quince narrowed his eyes as he asked the question.
"No I'm not!" Queen imitated his action and gave him the answer.
Quince immediately made his move. He walked over to Queen and carried her to the bed.
"Let me down you stinky cat! What do you think you are doing?" Queen yelled and used her hands to punch him on his back.
"Keeping you safe." He said before throwing Queen on the bed. It knocked out the wind from her and rendered her beyond any movement for one moment.
But it was enough for Quince to take out his tie and tied her hands to the headboard.
"Stay here. Be good. I'll be right back." Quince patted her head gently before going out the door.
"Quince! You cannot...!" Queen yelled at his back but before she could complete her sentence, he shut the door. And soon enough she heard the 'cluick' indicating that the door had been locked.
"Quince you smelly cat! How dare you lock the door?!!" Queen yelled but Quince was no longer in front of the door.
"Ducking cat!" Queen cursed out loud before wriggling on her bed. She was trying to get her hands out. But he tied it way too tight for her to manage it.
"You think I can't take care of this?!" Queen said angrily before twisting her legs up. She tried to create friction by rubbing her upper thigh against the bed.
Her outfit may seem like a normal military print skirt but it had its gimmick. Hidden beneath her skirt up at her thigh was a pocket sized knife. She was now wriggling and trying her best to get it out.
"Damn it come out!" Queen said as she twisted her legs, trying to contract her muscle and create fiction. It took her 10 minutes before the knife came out.
She kicked out her boots and used her toes to reach for the knife. Her body had undergone training so it was highly flexible. She twisted to her right before successfully managing to clutch the knife.
She used her toes to position the knife before raising her leg up and threw the knife straight to the headboard. The knife cut the tie into two pieces and Queen was set free.
"Finally! I can barely feel my arms!" Queen complained before quickly wearing her boots and ran to the door. Picking a lock wasn't difficult for her and she soon got out.
Outside she saw his men running towards the back of the boat where the guests were not allowed in.
"Is he there?" She quickly asked one of the men running back and forth. They saw her and remembered her as the girl their master brought along so they gave her an answer.
"Yes Miss. Mr.Noah ran to the back of the boat where the life boats are located." One of the men quickly answered her.
They didn't know that Quince prevented her from going with them.
"He knows this cruise like the back of his hand because he was the engineer. It's good he's running back where there are no guests." Queen said as she began moving towards the area where the guard told her.
'Damn it! Smelly cat! Wait for me!' Queen thought in her head as she ran towards him frantically.
Quince's side:
Soon enough Quince arrived to where Noah was. He was standing beside a gas tank.
"Come near and I will shoot you all!" Noah said, going berserk.
Quince was standing in front of Noah with a pistol in his hand as well. His men and him were aiming at Noah.
"Drop the weapons!" Noah yelled and swung the gun around madly. He was in a room full of explosive chemicals. If a mistake occur, it is possible for everything to blow up.
He already had a life boat in his hand. Now he simply needed to run out to the deck to get going. Noah knew that if he ran to the deck from the very start, he would have been shot. He wouldn't have made it far enough to take a hostage before Quince's men hunt him down.
So he decided to come to this secluded place on the boat. Being its head engineer he knew exactly which gas tank to shoot to destroy the cruise.
He planned to shoot the one that would cause the cruise to burn within 15 minutes. If he did that, Quince's priority would be to rescue the people and would have no time to chase after him.
Right now he was in a dead lock in. Noah sweated as he waited for the chance to shoot the tank and run out. If he wasn't fast enough, Quince's men would shoot him down and that would be the end of him.
Quince knew what Noah was thinking. Even though he had Noah surrounded, he couldn't shoot. The chemicals in the room were too deadly. It was too risky to make a move.
"Drop the weapons!" Noah yelled once more. Quince gritted his teeth before signaling his men to make the move. The men put the weapon down except for Quince.
"Now, now, Master Quince. Why don't you lower down your weapon as well?" Noah said as he pointed the gun at Quince. He had a mad smile on his face as he put his hand in his suit pocket.
Quince narrowed his eyes at his action but he refused to move the gun away from Noah.
"Why don't you...be good?!" Noah suddenly screamed before throwing something at Quince and turned his gun towards the gas tank.
As soon as he was about to shoot the tank, something hit his hand hard.
"Aww!" Noah screamed out in pain.
"Arrest him now!" Queen yelled as Noah's gun fell to the floor. Quince's men immediately wrapped their arms around Noah and tied him up.
Within 15 minutes they were all back to Noah's room, without any of the guests knowing the better.
They confined Noah to the room and had the guards watch over him inside the room.
Queen and Quince went to ask Albert about what Noah told them. Albert looked guilty and nodded his head about it.
"At that time, I knew it was crazy. But I never thought he would die." He said sadly. He had been secretly sending money over to Tom's family every month to make up for his mistake.
As for Stuart, he looked really really sad about everything. "He helped me when it was the hardest time of my life. I wanted to return the favor and protect him. But instead, I helped him in becoming a criminal."
Queen and Quince left Albert and Stuart in their rooms. They decided to hand the matter over to the police when they reach the shore.