Kelvin
Spending time at the bar room with the rest was so relaxing. Gabriel wasn't as protective as I feared. He was a cool guy and could relate mostly to what I was saying. It was good to know we had established a good connection and I was very proud about that. Later on, we went to the dining room to eat and we continued our conversation there.
Mr. Hanson called for us and we met him in the living room with his wife and I managed to avoid talking with her. Luckily, she also didn't noticed me that much in the room, so that was good for me. Delilah cut the cake and they had a family photo. The next minutes took everyone by great surprise and it left me blank.
Mr. Hanson was going to kick the bucket ? I even doubted if I heard it correctly cause it was totally out of the blue. As Mr. Hanson left, he instructed me to follow him and I obeyed without thinking it through. We left the house and got to what looked like a big office. Mr. Hanson was just about to tell me something important when Sonya came crying to him.
Seriously, it was heartbreaking watching it unfold before my eyes. Sonya can be such a mean, difficult and hardheaded lady but seeing her break down like that in front of her father made me realize that she indeed had a soft heart. It was truly emotional but of course, someone had to ruin it and I didn't for once expect to see the people who barged in to ruin everything.
Right before our eyes, the kidnappers I had beaten days ago appeared in the hallway and shot the bodyguards, who fell down dead on the spot. Before they could now focus on us, I yelled at Mr. Hanson and Sonya and we took off running in the hallway. I thought the kidnappers would come after us immediately but they weren't behind us.
I found an office on the way and I waited for Mr. Hanson and Sonya to get in the office before I closed it shut. The three of us immediately closed all the louvres and we went behind the desk in the room to hide. Sonya looked terrified and Mr. Hanson was in disbelief as well.
"Who were those men and what do they want from us ?" he asked in a low voice.
"I know those men," I said to him, also on a low tone. "They were the ones who attempted to kidnap your daughters before. If my guesses are right, they want to either kill or kidnap you two."
Sonya shuddered in fear. "What are we going to do now ? This can't be happening."
"Listen," I began. "No one should panic. They have guns but our advantage right now is that we are hidden and they have no idea where we are. So this is what we are going to do."
Mr. Hanson and Sonya listened to me attentively, so I spilled out my plan. "First thing you are going to do is call the police. Tell them of the ongoing situation and they will be on their way here."
"Alright." Mr. Hanson nodded.
"We can't just sit here and wait for the police to come." Sonya muttered. "The men might find us first before that."
"Good point," I noted. "That's why I am going out to stall them and hold them back before the police arrive."
There were looks of shock and worry on their faces and Mr. Hanson spoke up. "You are going to stall them ? Men with guns ? That's dangerous, Mr. Walters. It's better we wait."
"I would also like to wait, Mr. Hanson," I replied. "But someone has to take the risk and make the sacrifice. I'm the one going to do that. Please understand that..."
Sonya couldn't utter a word. She just shuddered occasionally and avoided eye contact with me the whole time. It looked like she now felt ashamed by how she had treated me the whole time. I didn't say anything about her. At that moment, we were in a life or death situation and someone was going to have to step up.
"Look, just call the police, Mr. Hanson." I stood up and faced Sonya. "Please, when I leave, lock the door immediately."
She nodded and I went over to the door, opened it, poked my head outside and checked the two sides of the hallway. There were no men in sight, so I got out of the room and Sonya came up and locked it as I asked.
Now, I was all alone standing in the hallway. Before I could move, I heard noise from a distance and it seemed that the guys were arguing about something. I slowly began to sneak up on them and I got close enough to hear their actual conversation.
"Bill Gates, we can't all be searching for them." one voice said. "One of us need to go and stand at the exit. Just in case they try to escape after dodging us."
"You guys always want me to do the lame job." I suppose this came from the so-called Bill Gates.
"Just listen to Tupac," another voice said. "We will be done very soon."
Tupac ? Bill Gates ? These guys were using fake names ? Funny enough, they weren't wearing masks and I'm sure that there were CCTV cameras in the building that might have captured their faces. But they are using fake names to hide their real names ? These guys almost got me on the verge of laughing.
"Fine fine," Bill Gates accepted.
I heard the sound of someone going downstairs, which meant that I had to deal with two armed men.
Luckily for me, the two men splitted into two and they all took different directions. Luckily again for me, none of them were heading towards my location and I waited in my hiding spot for some seconds before I was sure enough that they were gone. When I felt they had gone far, I came out and checked the hallway again. No one in sight.
I tiptoed through the hallway and made sure to peep for any armed man before branching into another hallway. With this sneaky movement, I retraced my steps back to where the bodyguards were shot and I met them lying on the ground. I rushed towards them and searched them for any guns.
Unfortunately for me, the kidnappers were smart and they had taken the guns from the men already. I groaned quietly in annoyance and leaned against the wall absentmindedly. I had no lethal weapons and somehow, I had to take out two armed men roaming around this big building. Well, I was up for the challenge. It's either I succeed or die trying....
I got back to my sneaky movement and I left that hallway, branching into another one that was silent at first. I moved through it quietly as usual and I was thinking of how to get a weapon quickly till I heard some noise come from a room on the hallway I was moving through.
I stopped immediately and contemplated on what to do. Do I sneak up and attack or I wait for the guy to come out and ambush him ? These options all had the same weight of consequences if I failed my attack, so I just decided to sneak up on the guy and attack him instead. That would make everything quick.
I tiptoed quick to the door and I peeped through the louvres. The armed man in the room was facing the opposite direction and it seemed he was reading something. To my surprise, he had placed his gun on the table and this gave me the perfect opportunity to attack.
With all the energy bottled inside me, I released everything at once and barged into the room with full speed and hurled myself on him. We both fell down and the guy was very shocked by the sudden attack. I wasted no time in delivering two punches to his face once I was on top of him. I gave him another and another and another and a last one on his nose before he finally retaliated with a punch to my ribs.
He punched me again on my ribs and I fell back from the pain. As I groaned in pain, he managed to reach for his pocket and I saw him bring out another gun. This meant he had taken one gun from the bodyguard and he had two guns with him. I reacted immediately and slapped the gun out from his hands. I sat on him well and gave him another round of punches to his face.
I then focused on his nose and gave huge blows there which made him bleed. To finish everything off, I punched the side of his neck three times with all my strength and he went seemingly unconscious. My knuckles were covered in blood and I wiped the blood off with the guy's clothes. I got off from him and took the gun on the floor. I also took the gun from the table and I left the room quietly.
I went through the hallway, hoping I would see the second guy in the other hallways but I didn't. I continued searching as I passed through three hallways. There was no sign of him. Then, I heard a gun shot. My heart skipped a beat. Has he found them ? Has someone been shot ? These questions raced through my mind and I became worried.
I started running through the hallways towards the direction of where the noise came from. As I got closer, I realized that the noise came from the area where Sonya and Mr. Hanson were hiding. My worries heightened. I peeped in the hallway that led to the room where they were hiding and finally I saw the second guy.
Apparently, he was shooting at the door of the room where Mr. Hanson and Sonya were hiding in hopes that it would open. I took a deep breath and started to think of what to do to the man. When I peeped again, I saw that the guy was going to shoot again at the door and I had to think fast. Do I kill him or not ?
It was a no brainer. I would just immobilize instead. I pointed my gun at him and shot his thigh before he could shoot again at the door. The guy fell down with a loud cry and his thigh started bleeding profusely. The injured guy started shooting in my direction and one bullet got to my gun, which made it damaged. I hid well behind the wall of the hallway I was in and I disposed of the first gun and brought out the second.
"Come out you coward." the guy screamed.
He stopped shooting after some seconds and it seemed he was attending to his wounds. I peeped again and I was right. He was clutching his thigh in pain and was groaning excruciatingly. I was about to approach him when a chair connected with my back and I fell down on the floor with serious pains. When I fell down, the second gun got out of my hand and I came into view of the guy clutching his thigh. He was in so much pain that, he didn't pay much attention to me or attempted to take his gun at first.
I turned back and focused on who attacked me from behind and I saw the guy I had beaten earlier in the office. He had a chair high up in his hands and was about to strike again. When he attacked, I swerved with all the strength in my body and just as I did so, I saw the groaning guy on the floor taking his gun. To make matters worse, I heard the third guy coming our way and I knew I had to act quickly.
I got up on my feet grunting from the pains all over my body and I sprinted through the hallway before the injured guy shot in my direction. The third guy came and I heard his friends order him to come after me. I then heard him following me behind and he was catching up fast.
I got into the washroom and hid in one of the stalls. The third guy also came in the washroom and started walking slowly across the stalls. I had to breathe slower to make my breath quiet and I waited to see what the third guy would do.
He walked to a stall and opened it. He walked to another and checked in. He was slowly coming towards mine and I got ready to attack. Finally, he got to mine and he paused for a second. Suddenly, he barged in with force. The first thing I did was to kick the gun out of his hand and it fell in the WC. The guy cursed in pain and I gave him a sharp blow to his chest.
This pushed him out of the stall and I got out to attack him. He regained his clumsy stance and charged at me recklessly. I stood back and waited for his attack. He aimed his first blow at my face and I tilted my head to evade his attack. He tried to use his other hand to punch me in my stomach but I redirected it out of harm's way. I jabbed him in his guts and gave another to his jaw.
He stumbled but came back to me again. He tried futilely to land a hit on me but I didn't give him that opportunity. Just as I was about to land a finishing blow to end the fight, I heard another gunshot. This startled me and I froze in shock. This gave the guy the opportunity he was looking for and he gave him a hard hit on my face. I became very upset.
Moving quickly, I launched successive attacks on him, giving him serious blows his his chests, ribs, face and neck. To finish it all, I headbutted him and he fell down whimpering in pain. I wiped blood from my face and looked down the guy on the floor with pity. I went to the stall and took the gun from the WC. I left the washroom and made my way back to where the guys were.
Using my sneaky strategy, I peeped and saw that the guy I shot was still groaning on the floor. The first guy I had beaten was up on his feet and he was the one who shot at the door again.
"Guy, come and help me, I'm bleeding." the guy on the floor pleaded.
"I'm not going anywhere till I get hold of those two," the other responded.
He was about to use his leg to try and force the door open, then I pointed my gun at him and shot him two times. One in his thigh and the other in his ribs. He fell down, letting go off his gun and started shouting undecipherable words in pain. He was rolling around in pain and there was blood all over the floor. When I saw that none of them had their guns, I came out from my hiding place and stood before them.
"You!!!" the first one screamed.
I went over and took their guns from them.
"You'll see what I'll do to you." he went on.
I sighed and decided to take some deep breaths. I was dumb enough to let my guard down so quickly. Before I could react, the third guy appeared, tackled me on the floor and we were struggling for the possession of the gun I held. As we struggled, we shot around the hallway accidentally and luckily, it didn't hit any of the two guys.
I was losing my strength and the third guy was about to get possession of the gun. Just as he was about to do so, I used a last ditch effort and kicked him in his nuts. It wasn't fatal but it was enough to force him to let go of the gun. I tried to get up but the third guy gave me a strong blow to the back of my head. I fell down, the gun escaped from my hand and I almost passed out.
Just as he was about to take the gun from the floor, the approaching sound of police sirens filled the hallway with noise.
"Damn!" the third guy exclaimed. "The police are coming. I can't afford to go to prison."
He forgot about the gun and started to make his way towards the exit of the hallway.
"Bill Gates come and help me," the first guy I shot on the thigh cried out.
Bill Gates hesitated at first but he came back and helped him on his feet. Bill Gates totally forgot about the other guy I shot in the thigh and ribs and he was calling out for help. Bill Gates didn't have time to help two people, so he left with the first guy.
The guy who was left behind attempted to get up but there was no way I would allow him to leave. He could help us find out who is really after Sonya. So I crawled to him and gave pulled him down. He tried to kick me but his injured leg didn't allow it. With all the strength left in my body, I crawled to his head and gave two sharp blows behind his head. The guy fell down immediately.
Seeing that he was unconscious, I got off him and laid on the floor. My whole body ached terribly and my head felt like it could burst open. Before I realized, my eyes closed and everywhere became dark.