Page 32 of The White Rider
They’d left my riot gear on, but had taken my helmet off. The pink that was still in my hair pretty much marked me as Isaiah’s daughter. He had made it clear to everyone that they were to bring him a pink-haired girl with tattoos alive. I used tolovehaving pink hair, but now that it had gotten me kidnapped, again? If I could find it when this was over, I was so switching to purple.
I remained motionless on the floor and pretended to be asleep. I didn’t need these assholes knocking me out again. Where did they even find chloroform during the apocalypse? I had questions.
I surveyed my surroundings and found a bonus. They were using this warehouse to store weapons and extra bullets. Note to self. However I got myself out of this shit, don’t blow up the building until the Horsemen see this and claim all this for the resistance.
I didn’t have anything handy nearby that could be used as a weapon. Maybe I didn’t need one. Asher had no problem whipping his wings out to make a point. Aeron could glow so brightly, everyone died instantly, and their corpses turned black.
I didn’t have wings, and I wasn’t the Horseman of Death. But I had figured out how to glow in Costco, and I intended on using that. Sometimes, someone would say something to me so stupid, I wished I could just explode glitter all over them and sashay out of the room. I wouldn’t mind barfing glitter all over these assholes, but I was going to glow as hard as I fucking could and hope for the best.
Then, I would think about it later and laugh about how I escaped some armed Bubbas by fuckingglowing.
I remembered everything they taught me in Costco and let it build in my gut. I let it go way past where it had when I was just lighting my way in the dark and forced it outward.
“What the fuck? I thought you frisked her and took away her weapons. What is she doing?”
“Make her stop! It’s hurting my eyes!”
I rose to my feet, grinning and glowing like a vicious little glowworm. All the Bubbas were cowering away from me and shielding their eyes. Oh, I could get used to this.
“Shit, kill her!”
“We can’t! We sent someone ahead to tell the president we had her and would move her when it was safe. He’ll be furious if she dies under our watch.”
“Well,weare going to be the ones to die if we don’t. She has one of the terrorist’s weapons!”
I just laughed. I had no intention of dying or going back to my father. I started whistling theBenny Hilltheme and picked up Smurfette. They were just going to let me kill them because they were too scared of my father to hurt me. That, and I was blinding the shit out of them.
Time to bash some Bubba brain in.
I felt arms wrap around my waist, and the next thing I knew, I was standing outside the warehouse. I whirled around and started punching. It had to be Asher behind me, and I practically broke my hand when it made contact with him.
“What are you doing?! I had that! They weremykills.”
Asher rolled his eyes and grabbed me again. I was back in the warehouse. Dice, Aeron, and Leif were in there. They had taken the guns away, and it looked like they were going to take their time killing them. They were pissed. Probably not as pissed as I was. I was the one that got chloroformed and left on the floor.
I stuck my hands on my hips and glared at them.
“No, you don’t! You go take care of the other factory. These idiots are all mine. They sent word ahead that they had me, and that you were here, so we’re going to have company real soon. Do what we came here to do, and let me have my revenge. They already know we are here. If you want to take this away from them, you need to hurry.”
“She’s right,” Asher said. “Go take care of the ammunition factory. I’ll stay here with Speedy while she gets closure by taking care of these assholes. I’ll watch her back while moving these supplies out. I didn’t know these were here, and the resistance could use them.”
Aeron pointed his sword at Asher.
“If she even breaks a singlenail, I’m going to beat the shit out of you.”
Asher just rolled his eyes.
“You saw how strong it was when she was using her grace. I think she can handle herself just fine. You just handle your own shit, Aeron. We need that factory shut down and the bullets with the resistance.”
Just then, bullets started flying through the warehouse window, and Bubbas were shouting about killing terrorists. The stunned Bubbas who kidnapped me pressed their faces to the floor and were trying to scream that they were alive and were on their side.
Asher tackled me and shielded me with his body.
“Go deal with that, would you? More of them are on their way.”
“Ihateit when people shoot at me,” Dice grunted.
He drew his sword and disappeared into thin air. Leif was equally pissed off and went after him. Aeron was the last, but he finally went with them.
