Defiance

By: Kixyelle

Chapter 2: Bang Bang

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A/N: Sorry for the super slow update! D: I rewrote this probably about six times. -.- But it's done now, so I'm thrilled! Next chapter should be up in hopefully a shorter time:)

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The man smiled pleasantly, waved and said, "Farewell." He nodded to the second man and the principal. Clasping his hands behind his back, he strolled over to the doorway, the other man and the principal trailing after him. The last out of the room was the principal, who glanced at the cluster of Al Bhed students with a slight look of disgust. There was a small click as the doorway was locked from outside, crushing all hopes of escape.

Fearfully I faced the ten men again; all of them ready to kill. Each of the men raised their guns, pointing them randomly all over the cluster. Several students crept behind others, planning on using them as shields from the bullets.

My eyes fleetly flickered over towards Rikku. Her face was deathly pale, her eyes wider than I ever believed possible, nervously she bit her bottom lip. Her facial features scrunched up momentarily in pain, a thin trail of blood now dripping down her chin.

Though I was just as afraid as her, I tightened my grip on her hand in a reassuring way. She returned the gesture by quickly squeezing my hand.

As the men finished cocking their guns, they placed their fingers on the triggers. When the triggers were pulled, I shut my eyes, I couldn't bear to look. Even though it would just be seconds before I died, I attempted to get my mind off my death, to allow my last moments to be filled with happy thoughts. In such a dire situation, I couldn't come up with any joyful thoughts, though. Instead I pondered whether or not the afterlife would be cruel to me, and how painful my death—

My eyes flickered open as the students in front of me fell back on to me as they were plummeted with bullets. I silently screamed as hot lead punctured through my skin, the smoldering bullet causing a stinging pain to the muscles surrounding it. Closing my eyes again, I landed on the ground, the lower half on me covered by various body parts of two or three other students. With a major amount of effort, I managed to flicker my eyes open and twist my head to face Rikku, the harsh pain from the bullet wound making it difficult to focus my vision. Her face was also turned towards mine. Blood leaked out of several wounds on her chest, staining her shirt crimson. Her eyes were just as wide as they had been before she was shoot; only now they were bloodshot.

She moved her mouth, trying to say something. It was difficult to hear her over the roar of the gunfire and the horrified screeches of our classmates. Weakly she smiled like she had just said whatever was necessary for her to pass on peacefully, and she slowly closed her eyes. Her head fell limply to the side. I knew that soon I would join her, so there was no need to miss her.

The gunfire stopped along with the screams. I shut my eyes, ready to die. But I didn't. Instead I was breathing, it was slightly strenuous to do so, but I was. Slowly I realized that I hadn't been shot fatally. The pain was coming from my left arm and the lower area of my stomach…where I had been shot.

I wasn't going to die.

A sudden surge of anger passed through me. It wasn't fair that I lived while everyone else died. I didn't want to be the lone survivor. In a desperate suicidal attempt, I halted my breathing, believing that loosing consciousness would be the same as death.

The seconds passed by slowly as I understood that it was good that I was alive. I could seek revenge. I could kill the ten men before me in all my Al Bhed classmates' names. Allowing myself to breath again, I commenced in formulating a plan to keep myself alive.

Noticing that the men were heading toward the pile of corpses, I closed my eyes firmly and relaxed my body, making it go fully limp. Silently taking in a large breathe, I held it. Hearing a small squeak, I could tell that the door was opened, more squeaking and a quick brush of air against my face. Several grunts came from the men along with a soft thumping. I almost squealed in terror when a pair of gloved hands wrapped around my arm. Whoever was grasping my arms, deposited me in some kind of bin that was made of a rough fabric.

A few more bodies were tossed on top of me. The squeaking resumed when the bin began moving, it must have been on wheels. Believing it was safe, my eyelids fluttered open and I permitted myself to breathe a little. Wherever I was, there was a fair amount of light. Flickering my gaze to the left I nearly gagged. I was on top of, next to and below the corpses of my former friends. Even more to my horror, Rikku's lifeless form was to the left of me.

The squeaking paused then resumed, more light leaking through the bodies above me. Between two bodies I managed to see a small speck of the sky. We were outside now.

"Leave it there," A low voice commanded.

"Thanks for bringing them to us!" A higher voice commented. "Okay, let's load 'em into the back of the truck now!"

"Yes mam'!" Many voices sounded back. Resuming the same limpness as before, I inhaled quickly and closed my eyes. Opening my right eye a crack, I could see that the bodies that had once been above me were now absent; I could clearly see the sky. A pair of arms reached down suddenly and seized a hold of my waist, and pulled me out of the movable bin.

Still peeking through the slit in my eye, I glimpsed the truck I was being carried towards. Another man was chucking a body into the back of it.

Oh Yevon, if I end up in there, I'd die for sure. I had to get out of this man's grip.

Squirming around I freed one arm. Surprised that I was alive, the man dropped me out of shock. Grunting from the excessive amount of effort it took me to stand up; I blinked two times and glanced around the area, hoping to see a route I could take to escape. Suddenly I remembered that Gippal always drove himself to school in his shoddy old pick truck and left the keys in the transmission, so he wouldn't have to worry about losing them. He never seemed to realize that someone could simply steal his truck then, but that was beside the point, I could take the truck!

Spinning, I took off towards the student parking lot, located at the back of the school. Practically tripping from the unexpected emergence of pain in the lower torso area of my body, I caught a glimpse of the stunned men regaining their senses and heard the high pitch voice from before shrieking orders to kill me. A few of the men reached behind themselves, removing their firearms from their holsters.

Resuming my half stumble half run pace, I attempted to overcome the pain burning throughout my body. Turning my head around, to see whether or not I was being chased, I noticed the few men with their guns out and cocked. Everything from there on happened at an amazingly fast rate. With my mind hazy from the massive quantity of pain I was experiencing, I missed most of what occurred.

Feeling hard cement under my bare skin, I could deduce that I was lying on the ground. My entire body was numb, and my mind was fading in and out of conscious. Slowly the fading in and out came to a halt, my mind slipped fully into the darkness.

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"Yuna! Hey wake up!" A voice penetrated the dead silence of my mind. It raised my awareness of my current state, and woke me up. "Yuna, come on…wake up…" Cracking my left eye open somewhat, I saw a blurry figure leaning over me. Beginning to move my left arm to rub my eyes to clear away the blurriness, a sudden pain spread throughout my body. Screeching in momentary terror at the surprising pain, my arm twitched and everything blacked out once again.