Julie Pov
I entered the room and ran to Sally and Aisha, but Aisha was clearly unconscious, and Sally was clearly not ok, she didn't even notice me entering but she's always so observant, i wonder which fucker am i going to have to pound.
"Sally, Sally, are you ok?
I make my voice gentle so I don't startle her. Something was clearly wrong with her, I move closer and shake her with force, and finally, she snaps out of it.
"Julie, heyyy, l are you, I'm ok,"
"Sally, it's clear that you're not ok. What happened at the award show and who do I need to pound, talk to me"
Sally sighs, and tears drop slightly from her eyes.
"Julie, why? Why is it so hard? I've harder than anyone, yet I'm still not where I want to be, and some old bastards sit and just decide everything in ways that benefit them at my expense. "
More tears fall from her eyes, and I sigh, I take out my phone and text Emma, Khloe, and Steph the location of the hospital.
"Sally, tell me what happened,"
Sally's Pov
We were taken to a dressing room, and they did a total makeover when they were done. They left us by ourselves.
"Aisha, I don't but I don't like the vibe I'm getting, first we are allowed to have assistants but they chased away Julie, I know Julie isn't our assistant but they shouldn't have chased her away. Their expressions were weird when they were doing our makeup, and something just didn't make sense about this room."
"Sally, you're probably being paranoid. It's time to play my criminal case, Ahhhhhhh."
"What? What is it? You found something strange, right?"
"Nooo, I can't play my criminal case,I took the wrong phone,"
"You big idiot,"
I stand up and start pacing around. Something is weird, but I don't know what it is.
"Sally, would you quit it already?"
"Aisha, I can't stand this anymore, I'm gonna access the area,"
"Okayyy, good luck, I'm goinna download my criminal case on this phone."
"No, don't do that, Julie will kill you, I'll be back."
"I went outside, but I didn't see anyone suspicious Julie."
More tears started coming out, and I couldn't hold it anymore.
"Come on, continue, gambari (You can do this in Japanese)"
"Julie, are you seriously taking notes right now? You'll never change, ok I'll continue,"
I decided to head back in to tell Aisha that I didn't see anyone not even our guards, which was weird, Immediately I turned my back, something hit me with force and at the same time I was injected with something, my eyelids felt so heavy and before I knew it, my body fell and hit the door.
"Aisha, runn" I bit my lip hard to stay awake but it was hard and it all went dark but before it did I felt someone lifting my legs with force and then the sound of the door, it seemed like someone was locking the door, why? I bit my lip with even more force, but it was pointless. Eventually, it all went dark.
I woke up to the sound of coughing and thick smoke everywhere. It was hurting my eyes, and it was hard to breathe. The smoke was clearly toxic, I could still survive for a while, but Aisha clearly can't, I struggle to see and tried my best to hurry to her but it was clearly getting harder to breathe, the smoke was clearly increasing, I hurriedly grabbed her and pull her to the door, I hit the door with force but it was weak, I suddenly felt more weight on my body, Aisha, she wasn't breathing anymore, I hit the door with more force but it still didn't budge.
I moved away from the door and decided to seal the smoke points or should I give Aisha some air or should I try the door, I felt tears running down my face because of my major problem, my indecisiveness and then it hit me, my gun it's in my bag, I gently place Aisha on the floor and perform a mouth-to-mouth resuscitation ( l basically gave her air through the mouth).
I leave her and run to my bag and grab my gun, and I fire at the door, two shots, and it's open.
I hurriedly grabbed Aisha and moved out the door, we are finally out, but I still can't let my guard down, I'll have to find Julie, she's the only one I can trust right now, it's too suspicious that no one came to look for us since or are they being held hostage, I need to find Julie quickly. I hurried quietly to the pillar, i quickly push a part on the wall and a plank came out and covered us but it also squeezed us in the pillar but they were holes, i use the holes to see. I am so glad that those attendants were so nosy and that they told us about this place. I gently dropped Aisha at the back while I scope the area. It's quiet, too quiet,
I wonder what's going on, just then, men in black rush in to the area, armed men, I used two bullets I have fourteen left and they are a total of twenty three armed men and women. I waited with bated breath for the first sign of hostility, but they clearly couldn't see me. They hurriedly burst through the door of the host room, but obviously, it opened easily. I strained my ears to listen to them, and I heard
"Boss, the room is empty, what should...., ok guys, scout the area until you find them."
The goons started moving quickly. At this rate, they might find us, but this pillar isn't something that they'll easily suspect but just incase I'm ready for them, they checked the entire area and somewhere close to the pillar but luckily they didn't find us, this is one of the times that I'm actually grateful that Aisha and I are very very slim.
The goons moved back to their boss to clearly inform him that they couldn't find anyone when Aisha decided to snore loudly.
They stopped their movement and turned back, shit shit shit, Aisha why, I positioned my gun to ready myself for these bastards.
They moved closer to us, but they weren't sure of where the sound came from, and Aisha decided to do it, but it was louder this time around, I was sure that they already knew where we were.
They spoke louder this time, clearly with a speaker.
"Hello, is anyone there, we need to know some can help you, please."
He then turned off the speaker or mic or whatever, but I heard him say, "Ready your guns just in case."
I clearly couldn't trust their words, I'm going to attack them, and that's was exactly what I did.
I pressed the stone and it opened and like a machine out of control I just kept firing but just in case this was all a misunderstanding, I fired at strategic spots that will immediately stop their movement, but shit, I'm almost all out of bullets.
I was about to shoot the next guy when someone shouted my name, my military name "SFORZA"
It's the name of a great female warrior in Italy since I know Italian but the only problem was it wasn't used to praise they used to mock me and to remind me that no matter how hard I try I'll never be as great her and so I love the name but I don't like being called by that name, but still it was enough to make me lose focus and I expected bullets but none came.
"SALLY, LIOTS HOLD YOUR FIRE"
What the, no no no, I don't know the voice, but there is only one person in our entire army force that looks like that.
Light brown hair that flows with the wind, chiselled jaw that just makes you look, a crooked nose from so many fights, Hazel eyes that seem to always see through you, and pink kissable lips,
Nathan Jackson Crane, my number enemy, my main obstacle to becoming a general, he was here and he was smiling at me, I knew then and there that I was fucked.
Julie's Pov
Sally told me the rest of the story after she ate some food. So, turns out, the military got an anonymous tip that something big was going to happen and it was going to affect either the judges or the host. They thought it was the judges and mostly stayed close to the judges while they sent two guards to the hosts but they didn't do their job properly and they put Sally and Aisha in danger.
Sally is in a bad mood because she knows that the council of devil well elders will use as another reason to delay her promotion. Since she shot at innocent soldiers and failed to realise in time that there was danger and Sally wasn't wrong, she received a letter few days later stating reasons she couldn't be promoted and the award show was nicknamed, the tragic award of the year, some pics of Sally and Aishs being transferred to the hospital circulated, some commemorated their ability to survive, others mocked them for their gross misfortune, arrests were made but luckily no one died well except the historical building which went up in flames but nonetheless we were all grateful to be life and the police force promised to bring the criminals to book, Aisha, Sally and the rest of us sighed and went home quietly accepting our fate but we had no idea that the worse was yet to come for Aisha.