Part 1: Prologue

The Beatle stood in the cover of the trees opposite the run down laboratory. The over-sized shed stood in a small clearing, on the edge of some rich guy’s estate and could have easily passed for a forgotten shack. The complex was entirely deserted and the only security is owned was a small, barbed wire fence that could be easily defeated. The Beatle was not familiar with the habitants of Earth and their folly ways, but she assumed that this was one of the less attractive sights; in fact she wouldn’t have been surprised the same building could be found in the Warren’s of the Sky Realm.
She stepped out of the shadows, sure that she was alone and went inside the building, readying herself for trouble. She could feel the presence of the object she had been sent to acquire. It was close. Very close.
She made her way through the wooden rooms of the lab. The previous occupant had tried so very hard to rid the place of the research that had been done here, but she was certain the young scientist had not been very thorough.
The Beatle stepped into the next room when she heard something shift behind her; it sounded like the wind, like the air, but when she turned, there was no one there. Putting it down to paranoia, she carried on until she got the main room, now empty except for some rubble, old furniture covered in white cloths and foliage that had crept inside.
Once again, there was the sound of wind rushing past her and the Beatle whirled round to see nothing. She was not alone!
A black shadow rushed through a pool of dim light from the moon and then it was behind her. She turned, but as soon as she did, it was behind her again.
Whatever it was, it was fast. Ignoring the threat, The Beatle concentrated on finding the relic. She looked around the room, the shadow still moving, trying to distract her, when something hard hit her from the side, sending her to the ground.
Shaking the disorientation from her head, she looked around, both for the intruder and the relic. She spied the relic across the room on top of a table, the tiny rock imbedded in the shadows. She leapt to her feet, leaping towards the relic, but she was knocked back again.
“Who are you?” she shouted at the darkness, getting up again, readying the Beatle inside her. “Is it you, Goddess of lightening? Is it the telepath? Is it the assassin or the dragon?”
“Guess again, biatch!” she shadows snarled. The Beatle followed the voice, but when it spoke again, it was from the other side of the room behind her! “I don’t belong to that little posse.”
The Beatle turned to see a silhouette of a woman stood in front of the threshold of the door, the silver moon light illuminating the room behind her.
“Then who are you?” asked The Beatle, backing towards the relic while keeping her eyes on the intruder. The Beatle squinted in the darkness, trying to get a better look; she wore a long, leather coat, skin tight leggings and boots.
“Guess.” The assailant pulled something from her coat and pointed it at The Beatle. The Beatle put her hand down on the table behind her, missing the relic and as soon as she looked back up at her attacker, she was gone. She looked back down at the table and so was the relic.
“Shit.”


Part 2: The Plot Appears

“Once, in the First Year of the Sky Realm, there existed dragons. They populated the entire realm and humans lived in fear of them below the ground. Back in those times, only magic existed to help the human’s live stable lives; it was almost their life force. They relied on it to grow food and for water. They had lived in the presence of dragons all their lives and the dragons used to frequently attack colonies of humans and enslave them. The dragons thrived on the human’s fear. However, one day, a boy who practiced in destructive arts decided he wanted change. He went to the dragons and, using his tricks, he stole some of their blood. He used this blood to become a dragon. Using his new, found other half, he destroyed billions of dragons and banished the ones who were left, leaving himself the last dragon. He freed the human race made sure the dragons could never return to the Sky Realm, trapping them in a fiery hell. He gave the humans the power of the dragon’s magic, rendering them Gods. With this extraordinary power, they ruled the Sky Realm. No one knows where the dragons went; some believe the words of the human that they are now living out their punishment in fire, some say they all died, some say their blood lives on in other worlds. The boy grew into a mighty wizard and he was worshiped. The dragon in him died with him. That was the last dragon any of us saw.
Until now, I guess.”
Holly leaned back in her chair and Georgia, Daniel and Verity all closed their mouths and blinked for the first time in half an hour.
“So Nicki’s the last dragon. Thank god she was so clumsy and got stabbed with a needle!” Verity’s comment slid between the four of them.
“Hey, it wasn’t her fault. Anyway, that’s not a good thing, it’s given Lorna a reason to try and kill us.” replied Georgia, leaning back in her arm chair.
“Well, I still think it’s her fault for playing with needles, you know what she’s like with drugs.” Verity spat back.
“Oh god, let’s not start this again!” sighed Daniel, standing and leaving for the kitchen.
“She knew she was stealing from my stock! And now I have to pay the price because the Chinese aren’t happy with 1 gram of cocaine missing!” Verity stood.
“Just leave it, ok, she’ll make it up to you!” Georgia sighed, weary.
“Oh lizard girl will pay alright!”
“Speaking of, where it the last of the dragons?” Georgia glanced out of the window.
“Oh, didn’t you know, she’s got a job!” replied Daniel from the kitchen.
Verity, Georgia and Holly all turned to look at Daniel with shocked expressions.
“Is she ok?”
“Is she ill?”
“What have you done?”
Daniel winced from the salvo of questions and murmured, “Nothing! Even I don’t know where she’s got a proper job!”
He was just about to turn and open the fridge when the doorbell rang, it’s shrill cry freezing everyone in the house. After a moment of thick tension, Verity moved to where her bow was stood behind the front door with silent grace and slid an arrow from her quiver. Georgia stood in front of the door and Holly stood behind her. Daniel went to the door, shaking and put his head up to the peep hole.
The doorbell went again, making Daniel jump and open the door a crack. “Who is it?” he whimpered.
“Me, will you let me in, I’m not gonna hurt you guys!” came an angry voice from behind the door.
Daniel turned, relief clouding his face. Verity tensed slightly, not putting down her bow. Over the threshold came Blur Fury, her black leather jacket billowing out behind her.
“Hi guys, I have news.” She chirped, walking into the lounge and plonking a small, aluminium box down onto the table. Daniel closed the door and followed her, Georgia and Holly mirroring his actions. Verity remained in her position, still aiming an arrow at Fury’s head.
“You can put that away, I’m on your side!” Fury murmured, sitting in Georgia’s arm chair. Georgia raised an eyebrows and Verity stared, icily at Fury.
“I don’t trust you. You turn up when we’re sat in a pub randomly and now you show up again with no adequately explained reason.” She sneered from behind her mahogany bow.
“Well, each to their own. I’m just trying to help you guys as the Red-haired Maiden seems to have a great interest in you guys.”
“What about your company?” asked Georgia.
“Paracorp is there to help people like us, people who have unexplained super-human abilities. Our second priority is to keep our little community hidden from the normal humans to ensure that chaos does not break out.” Fury sat, smiling.
“So it’s like Harry Potter combined with X-Men? Since when was this a super-hero film?” spat verity.
Fury paused before steering the conversation in a different direction. “I came here because I’ve been following what you call The Beatle. I followed her and found out that she was after this.” She gestured to the box on the table. Georgia reached out and lifted the lid off the box. Inside was a small, metallic stone with lines engraved into it that looked remarkably like one of the dragon runes from Daniel’s research. Georgia gasped, lifting the small relic from the box and handing it to Daniel.
“But that’s...” murmured Daniel, taking the relic.
“Isn’t that the focus of your research?” asked Georgia.
“Was.” corrected Daniel. “This was locked away in my lab before it got exploded.”
“What is it?” asked Fury.
“It’s a dragon rune; I was using it to translate the dragon alphabet to English, but the stone is a completely new mineral. I tried to analyse it but it’s not of this earth and has continued to baffle me ever since.” He explained, handing it back to Georgia.
“So, The Beatle might know what this does or what it means.” added Fury.
“Are you sure we should be trusting her?” asked Verity from the corner.
“Too late for that. Anyways, I have to keep following The Beatle. You can keep that. I’ll be back with any other news I acquire on my travels.” Fury stood and made for the door, followed only by Verity’s arrow. “You keep that, I’m sure it’s safer with you.” And with that, Fury was gone and speeding away, leaving only a cold breeze.
Verity put down her bow.
“Well, that was random and rather informative.” murmured Daniel as Georgia carefully placed the rune back into the box.
“How was that informative? She just came out of nowhere and gave us a rock, expecting us to figure it out!” shouted Verity. “We have nothing to do with her!”
“She gave us what the Red-haired Maiden was looking for. If she has a plan for world domination, then this is obviously it. We’re one step ahead now.” reasoned Georgia.
Verity went quiet.
Behind them, the front door burst open to reveal a crest-fallen Nicki storming in and throwing herself down onto the sofa.


Part 3: The Plot Thinnens.

Fury peered round the corner and watched as The Beatle went into one of the 12 warehouses. Armed guards waited outside the doors, so she turned and sped up a fire-escape and leapt up onto the roof of the building opposite. Fury took a running jump towards the warehouse roof and landed with a soft thump on the tin roof. She stooped slightly to see if the guards had noticed and, satisfied that they hadn’t, she went to one of the translucent roof windows and peered down.
The warehouse was filled with wooden crates stacked high to the ceiling with only a small floor space in the centre. Narrow alley ways were running through the wooden crates and Fury noticed one that led to a small back door.
“Are you sure it’s working?” the voice of The Beatle attracted Fury’s attention to the centre of the warehouse, where a huge metal crate stood. She noticed it had dragon runes engraved into it and the front of it was open. In front of the crate stood The Beatle and several guards dressed in black carrying rifles.
“Positive.”
“And once activated, it’ll open one huge gate?”
“Absolutely!”
“Good. Now all I need is the rune that bitch stole from me.”
The Beatle stormed away from the guards and made her way to the front entrance. Fury followed her, pausing on the roof above the entrance.
“We need to hide this crate in another warehouse. We need to make it as inconspicuous as possible. Guard the exits lightly, have no guards inside. Move the crate between the warehouses each night. Don’t tell anyone where or what it is.” The Beatle told the guard.
Well, this is interesting, thought Fury.

“So what is it you actually did, exactly?” asked Georgia.
“Do I have to explain again?” mumbled Nicki.
“Oh go on! It’s hilarious every time I hear it!” chirped Verity.
Nicki scowled up at her. “Fine. I was waitressing at the Golden Lion Pub and I may have sneezed and char-grilled some one’s fish and chips, to the point where there was just a pile of ash on the plate.”
Verity burst into fits of laughter.
“It’s not funny! I got fired for sneezing! SNEEZING!” growled Nicki.
“It’s pretty funny!” giggled Verity.
“Quit it guys!” snapped Georgia. “Anyway, where’s Daniel?”
“Outside working on his secret project.” mumbled Nicki.
“What’s his-”
“Don’t ask, he’ll go into a 24 hour long rant about how it’s top secret and of the upmost importance to be kept that way.”
Georgia leaned back in her newly-reclaimed arm chair and took a sip of tea form her china tea cup.
“Shouldn’t you be at work?” asked Nicki.
“It’s Saturday. We’re closed.”
“Oh. So, is that what Fury gave us?” Nicki reached for the box and opened the lid.
“Yeah. We don’t know what it does.” replied Georgia.
“But it’s something dragony because it’s got a dragon rune on it.” added Verity.
“A dragon rune?” mumbled Nicki. She reached in and slowly took the rune from the box. As she did this, a low rumble started top reverberate the walls.
Georgia stood, immediately cautious and Verity had her bow at her side in an instant.
Before the three of them, blue energy began to flow from the rune that Nicki clasped and formed a ball in the middle of the lounge. It slowly grew until it became the size of the room; Verity pointed a loaded bow at it and Georgia stepped back, trying to sense what this anomaly was. Nicki dropped the rune back into the box with a gasp and tensed, ready to change.
The three of them stood there in silence, staring in horror at the blue ball. Through the silence, a low growl came from the energy, making the three of them jump slightly, but ready themselves. Something stirred in the energy and a huge, black shadow burst from the ball, causing the whole house to shudder. Nicki squealed and Verity yelled, pelting it with arrows.
The beatle’s beady blue eyes searched the room and found Nicki, who met his gaze for a moment before turning for the front door. The beatle roared and followed Nicki, getting caught on a light hanging from the ceiling.
“Run Nicki!” yelled Verity, aiming at it’s eyes. Nicki reached the front door and fell through it, Georgia and Verity following the Beatle as it tried to fit through, but only crashing through the wall, taking an electric lamp that had got tangled round one of it’s many, skeletal legs with it. Bits of wooden wall went flying through the air as the beatle managed to take flight and come crashing down on top of Nicki.
Georgia and Verity paused, fearful that it had killed Nicki. The beatle gave a triumphant roar, blue phlegm flying from it’s mouth.
Silence one again filled the air as Verity and Georgia were glued to the spot. Georgia felt out with her mind and sensed a single, tiny thought of annoyance from beneath the huge, bumbling mass of childish pleasure.
Nicki?
As soon as Georgia had uttered the thought, the Beatle was thrown into the air, letting out a groan of pain as it went and from beneath it emerged the huge body of a dragon! Nicki caught the Beatle mid air, clamping her jaws round it’s thick, squidgy neck and pushing the Beatle’s body back down to the ground, right on top of Daniel’s green house.
Nicki nose-dived towards the ground, just before impact turning back into her human self in a shower of scales. She looked at the body of the Beatle, a guilty look on her face.
“Oops.” She mumbled.
“What in the name of all that is sane is going on?” asked Georgia.
“It was a gate.” Verity murmured, realization clouding her face. “You touched it and opened a gate to the Sky Realm and let through a beatle.”
“So it’s not The Beatle?” asked Nicki.
“No, just one that happened to be passing a gate to Earth.” replied Georgia.
An almightily roar echoed behind them and the three of them looked at one another in horror.
“Did it close or it the gate still open?” asked Nicki.
“Nicki, go close it, quickly!” yelled Verity, running towards the house. Georgia and Nicki ran after her. Once at the house, Nicki dived over the sofa and leapt for the rune just as a dark shadow began to appear through the blue energy. As soon as her fingers touched it, the blue energy dissolved into nothing and silence fell once again.
“I’m never touching that again. Never.” announced Nicki, firmly.
As she turned, from outside came the distressed yells of Daniel. They went to the front door and immediately saw Daniel, on his knees, yelling, “NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO, MY CUBE MR.2, THE HOURS OF BUILDING, HOURS OF PLANNING, ONCE AGAIN, GONE, SHATTERED TO PEICES! NOOOOOOOOOOO.”

Fury held the phone to her ear and after a moment, heard Georgia answer, her voice slightly muffled and a high pitched, wailing somewhere in the background.
“Hi, it’s me. What’s going on in the background?” Fury frowned.
“Erm, it’s fine, Daniel’s just scared for life again. What is it?” she asked, concerned.
“I’ve been following the Beatle and found something big.”
“What?” asked Georgia, impatiently.
“I followed her to a bunch of warehouses and in one of them is a piece of soft ware. I don’t know what it is, but I found out that, when activated, it’ll open up a huge gate to the Sky Realm. I think it’s a computer, but the Beatle needs something to activate it and I think that’s what she needs the rune for.” explained Fury. Georgia went quiet.
“What is it, what’s happened?” snapped Fury.
“Erm, well, we found out what the rune is.”
“What is it?”
“When Nicki touched it, it opened up a gate to the Sky Realm and a beatle came through. We killed it, but it crushed Daniel’s Cube again.”
“Again?”
“Don’t ask.”
“Ok, well, now we’re one step ahead, we need to destroy the software to ensure that the Red-haired Maiden can’t use it.”
“Why can’t we just not let her get the rune?”
“Because she’ll find you, kill you and then summon an army. We need to be sure she can’t do that.”
Georgia sighed.

Part 4: The Bit with the most action.

“Just so you know, I still don’t trust you.” Snarled Verity form the other side of the kitchen table. Fury sat on the opposite side, staring right back at Verity with equal dislike.
“Guys, not now, whether we like it or not we have to trust her!” snapped Georgia. “Now, explain the plan.”
Fury spread a map out on the table and once everyone was sat at the table, she began.
“So, there are 12 warehouses in a line and in one of them is the computer. They move it each night, so we have no idea which one it is in. Each of us will split up and search a warehouse each, Holly, you’ll search the first two, Daniel the next two, Nicki the next two, Verity, the next two and I’ll do the last three. Georgia, you’ll be patrolling outside. When one of us finds the computer, we’ll relay a telepathic message to Georgia who will alert the rest of us. Upon that massage, we will all make our way to that warehouse and Georgia; you will go to the car and position it opposite the warehouse. Nicki, you will stand guard t the front door, taking out the guards who stand there and Verity, you will patrol the balcony inside the warehouse so you have a view of the whole place. I will patrol the back door. Daniel and Holly, it’ll be up to you to disable it. All you have to do is upload this virus. Just stick it in the port that fits and let it do it’s work. Once it is done, we’ll all make our way to the car and Georgia will speed us away.”
Fury plonked a memory stick down onto the table and pushed it towards Daniel.
“We’ll have to be subtle, there’ll be guards guarding the entrances only so, Nicki, you’ll have to distract them and then take them out so no one notices.”
No one spoke.
“Well, we better suit up then!” sang Daniel, excitedly.

Georgia pulled up behind a line of buildings opposite the back of the warehouses. Letting everyone out, she breathed in the cold, night air and checked the pistol was still snug in her gun holder. Verity adjusted her quiver on her back and Holy flexed her fingers.
“Right everyone, good luck. Remember, Georgia, you’re connecting everyone, you are crucial.” Whispered Fury and with that, she sped off into the night.
“Later guys.” Mumbled Georgia and watched as everyone disappeared into the darkness.

Remember everyone, we’re looking for a metal crate with dragon runes on the sides.
Nicki confirmed Georgia’s thought and continued into the first warehouse through the back entrance, careful not to disturb any unsuspecting guards round the front, just a few yards away. Nicki came to the back door, a small, wooden frame locked with a pad lock. She cupped the padlock and crushed it in her hands, brushing the debris from her palms. She entered the warehouse, eyes pealed...
Shit! Nicki thought as she stared in horror at the thousands of metal crates all with dragon runes on the sides, piled high to the ceiling.
Fury didn’t think of this did she? Nicki stabbed the thought back at Georgia.
It’ll be in the middle, just look around, stay calm .Georgia replied.
Nicki made her way through the narrow alley way formed between the towers of crates to the middle of the warehouse, where there was a small clearing. Scowling, Nicki turned to leave the warehouse, turning from the empty clearing and made for the back exit.

Verity stood in the middle of her warehouse, looking around. The clearing in the middle was empty, but it made her smirk how Fury had not anticipated the hundreds of identical metal crates. So she’s not perfect after all!
Verity paused for a moment, convinced she heard something scuffling along the concrete floor, but dismissed it and was about to leave when Georgia’s voice filled her head.
Holly’s found it! The second warehouse along! Go, go, go!
Verity was on the move immediately, moving silently to the back of the warehouse and moving along the line.
Hurried footsteps could be heard behind her and Verity was suddenly sure she wasn’t alone. Her blood turning to ice, she backed around the next corner and stood in the shadows, silently taking an arrow and sliding it into her quiver. Listening, the footsteps got louder and more hurried; just as they were around the corner, Verity moved from the shadows and was met with a stifled squeal and something hard, knocking into her and whatever it was, fell to the ground, leaving a small throbbing in Verity’s elbow.
“Do you mind, I thought you were a bloody guard!” hissed Nicki, getting up. Verity put her arrow back and rubbed her elbow. God, her dragon armour is hard!
“Come on!” Verity whispered, helping Nicki up. The two made their way to the second warehouse along.
They came to the warehouse second along and they both stopped.
“Wait.” Mumbled Verity before Nicki disappeared around the front. “Are we sure this is the right one, because it’s so dark I can’t see past the end. Are we sure there’s not another one that way?”
“I’ll go check.” Nicki jogged into the darkness and re-appeared a moment later. “It’s not the right one; it’s the next one along.”
“They all look the same, and it’s so dark!” gasped Verity, following Nicki to the next warehouse.
“Let’s hope the other’s are at the right ones.” mumbled Nicki before disappearing around the front of the warehouse.
Verity got into the warehouse through the back door and made her way to the nearest ladder that lead to the metal balcony above. One in the rafters, she could make out voices from the middle of the warehouse. She started to patrol, looking out for any sign of disturbance.

Nicki made her way to the front of the warehouse, pausing just round the corner. She could hear the mumbles of the two guards and the soft clicking of their machine rifles.
“So, how’s the wife? Did she get the job?”
“No, apparently she tasted too much of banana and they wanted someone more peachy.”
“Ah, too bad man.”
“How’s Celeste, did you pop the question?”
“Yeah, the weddings gonna be in Greece, but you know Big Dave?”
“Yeah.”
“He’s only gone and invited himself, so now we’ve got to find a place to put him up.”
“Ah, yeah, they’re a bit short of padded rooms in Greece aren’t they, you know, the recession and all.”
“Yeah, so now we’re...wait, you hear that?”
Nicki froze and coughed again.
“Yeah, someone’s here.”
Nicki, still concealed in the shadows, stepped out into the dim light of the moon.
“Hey you!” shouted one of the guards who stepped out, pointing his heavy machine rifle at Nicki.
“Hey.” Smiled Nicki, before leaping forwards, the dragon bursting from the alley way and taking the guards head off before he could cry out. Nicki immediately turned to the other guard and locked her jaws around his head before he could even think about screaming.
Her work done, Nicki changed back to her human form and ignored the two bodies, sat cross-legged in the entrance and gazed around, bored.

Fury sped to the warehouse, the back entrance empty and deserted. She took her place and stood sentry, sending a mental thought to Georgia to say that she was in position.

“No, it goes in there, look, it fits in there!”
“Yeah, but that monitor isn’t connected to that big, wiry thing that looks all important.”
“But that’s the only place it fits!”
“Daniel, that monitor is off and has no wires attached or anything.”
“Well you do it then, go on!”
Holly stooped to look at the software more closely.
“Look, it might fit in this red port.”
“Just coz the memory stick is red doesn’t mean that it’ll fit in there. And look, it’s far too big!”
Daniel tried to push the memory stick into the port.
“Daniel, that’s my hand!”
“Oh.”
“To hell with this, Imperia, get Fury in here right now!”

Fury froze when she heard Georgia’s worried voice in her head.
Fury, they can’t get it to work, get in there, now!
She turned and, within milliseconds, she was in the middle of the warehouse....
...and stood, alone in the clearing, staring around in terror.
“Shit!” she mumbled.
“Did someone just say a naughty word?”
Fury turned to face the cruel, silky voice. Lorna was stood, leaning against the metal crates, a cruel smile on her face.
“You should watch your mouth; someone might come along and cut out that dirty tongue of yours.”
“You bitch, you planned this!” yelled Fury.
“No, I just happened to notice 5 people sneaking onto my property and snooping through my stuff. Oh don’t worry; your friends are all safe. And I’ll find that telepath that’s skulking around somewhere.”
Fury turned to leave, but was greeted by several machine-gun-wielding guards.
“You really think you’re fast enough?” smiled Fury.
“No, but it’ll delay you. Just enough time to incarcerate your friends who call themselves the Warriors.” Lorna turned to leave and Fury tried to follow, but the guards stepped closer, completely surrounding her.
“Hi guys...” Fury mumbled.
Behind her, one of the guards was about to pull the trigger when Fury disappeared. The guards stood, dazzled, looking around before a black blur shot between them, taking two of the guys with it. The guards shot at the blur, but were too slow as the black blur cut through them in the other direction. The guards shot their guns in all directions, the black blur shooting in all direction creating darkness. The shooting eventually stopped and as the darkness lifted, the bodies of the guards covered the floor.
Fury came to a halt in the middle, took one of the machine rifles and raced from the warehouse.
She came to the warehouse second along and, sure that it was the right warehouse, came to a halt in front of the entrance.
“Nicki?” she spoke to the darkness.
Imperia? Imperia! She shouted the thought out, but got no reply. Where were they?
She entered the warehouse, slowly, brandishing the rifle, tenses tingling.
“Where is it? I know you have it!”
“I don’t know! I swear!”
“Liar!” the sound of bones breaking echoed around the warehouse.
Fury backed up against the metal crates and slowly crept towards the centre of the warehouse.
“Now, you will tell me where the rune is or I will cut out your tongue!”
“Bitch please! You come anywhere near my mouth and I’m gonna char-grill your face!”
Fury leapt up to the top of the crates, leaping off the walls of the narrow alley way and peered over the scene. Nicki was tied with chains to a crate and Daniel, Holly and Georgia were all held at gun point, on their knees. The Beatle stood, towering over a beaten Nicki.
“Knife!” ordered the Beatle, holding out her hand to a guard. The guard dropped a silver knife into her hand.
“Just you try!” growled Nicki.
Fury looked up, hatching a plan and her gaze came to rest on Verity, who was stood on the balcony above, aiming an arrow at The Beatle. Verity met her gaze and pointed towards the guards. Fury nodded and made her way back down the crates and doubled back, moving around the outside of the warehouse, coming up behind the guards.
“Don’t!” screamed Holly, her yell stifled with a hard thump.
“You shout out again, and they’ll shoot.”
Fury stopped for a moment.
Imperia, it’s me, I’m behind you, don’t react!
Hurry up, Fury, please!
Fury readied herself, and then dropped her gun and sped towards the guards, the world around her moving in slow motion!
She moved around the first guard, pushing his gun up into the air and reaching for his head and twisting. He was about to fall to the ground, when she moved to the second guard and, reaching for his shoulders, leapt over his head and down the other side of him, taking him with her and propelling him towards the last guard. The two guards collided and landed in a heap on the ground.
Fury turned to see the Beatle on the floor with an arrow in her eye, blood seeping down her face and onto the floor.
Another arrow shot down and lodged itself in the concrete next to Nicki, the chains that bound her clattering to the ground.
“Where were you? You were s’posed to be here!” yelled Verity, jumping with grace to the ground.
“I’m sorry, I had the wrong warehouse! And besides, I just saved everyone!” yelled Fury back at her.
“Guys! Stop it! Will you just stop arguing!” yelled Georgia, silencing the two of them. “We need to get rid of this thing!”
Fury stepped up and took the memory stick from Daniel. She tried to find the port, but after searching through the wires and trying several ports, she turned and said “Sorry guys, I misjudged the technology.”
“You better be sorry! This was all a wild goose chase!” spat Verity.
“Guys...” mumbled Nicki.
“You brought us here and made us search all the warehouses, sent us into a trap!” shouted Verity.
“Guys!”
“You come in here, expecting us to trust you!”
“GUYS, GET OUT OF THE WAY!” everyone looked at Nicki, before, “ACHOO!”
Flames burst forth, narrowly missing Verity and Fury and totally engulfing the software.
As the flames died, everyone stared at Nicki.
“Job done guys.” She grumbled, wiping her nose on her sleeve.

Part 5: The boring Aftermath

“They are beginning to really irritate me, to the point where I want them all dead. Especially my sister.” Lorna stood in the middle of the warehouse, gazing at the black, scorch mark on the floor.
“What would you have me do?” asked the Beatle, holding a bloody bandage to her eye.
“Go to plan B, send him in, it’s time we sent him into battle.”
“But, we don’t know it we can trust him yet!”
“We must. He is our only hope. Or, and while you’re at it, start recruiting. Humans will have to do. Even though they won’t be at sophisticated as your kind, they will still obey us as mindless beats!”
“As you wish.”


“So, I’m going home and I’m going to bed. I’m angry and tired and I want a bath.” announced Verity, turning to the front door of Daniel’s house.
“She’ll come round. Her insults art to grow on you eventually.” Nicki said to Fury, who sat with her face in her hands.
“You sound like you’re speaking from experience.” She mumbled.
“Oh I am!”
“So, we’re once again one step ahead of the Red-haired Maiden. I’m rather pleased with tonight’s events.” smiled Daniel, sucking on a strawberry flavoured ice lolly.
“You’re always pleased.” mumbled Nicki.
Bruno sat, his tongue hanging from his mouth, facing Daniel, his gaze fixed to his ice lolly.
“Well, now all we have to do is find a way to send them back through the gate, right?” asked Nicki.
“She’ll find a way to come back. She always will.” replied Holly, gazing meaningfully out of the window.

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Tag der Veröffentlichung: 01.08.2012

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