Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Will do.” She nodded in agreement with Reagan’s words.
“The rest of us will split into groups and search for the bombs and start the evacuation. Rika, you and Lyssa team up, Alexa and Elias, Cypress and Levi, and I will go with Luka.”
“Got it.” Everyone nodded in agreement. “Cypress and Levi, you two start to evacuate the student buildings. Alexa and Elias, you let the staff know what is happening, get security involved. Tell them that the FBI is already on the way.”
“Understood.” The others spoke in unison.
“The rest of us, we are going to go to all the places listed on this device. Take a picture with your phones and get moving. We need to find all of these bombs and make sure that there is no one near them. Don’t touch them though, that is for the bomb squad. Just evacuate the areas around them.”
“Will do.” Rika and Lyssa said as they nodded.
This was it. We were about to head out and do our best to save these people. And of course, I was scared shitless. That didn’t mean that I wouldn’t do it though. I was brave, despite my fear I would do what needed to be done.
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Rika
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Our group split up then. We needed to head in different directions and protect the people of the campus. We had stumbled upon this man with explosives, and it was up to us to make sure that no one was hurt at all. This was our duty. This was our responsibility. At least, that was how the ten of us saw it. We wouldn’t let someone do something so evil to innocent people. Not on our watch anyway.
Lyssa and I were running toward the places that were at the bottom of the list first. Reagan and Luka were starting at the top of the list, because some of those bombs were located on some 鈥榖oys only’ floors of a dorm. They needed to be the ones to get in there and save the building and the people around them.
I noticed that one of the places that the man had put the bombs was near the fountain, where we were heading to kill time until class started. That was when I knew that this was a targeted attack. And that the main targets were me, Reagan, and our friends and family that were here with us. That man, that monster, had wanted to kill us.
Just thinking about that made my blood burn and boil in anger. I wasn’t scared. I wasn’t worried. I was pissed off. This man had tried to kill me, and that made me angrier than I have ever been before. If I wasn’t a reasonable person, I would have hurt him for just thinking about hurting me and my family.
Trying not to let him get to me, I hurried to where I needed to be. I had told Ashle about the bombs at the fountain, which was close to her. She said that she would confirm them and get the people in the immediate vicinity to leave the campus. She, being part Fae, had magic that would be able to convince the people around her to listen. I wasn’t at all worried about her succeeding. I knew that she would be able to handle it.
Lyssa and I found a bomb that was near a group of pretty girls. The girls, not at all suspecting that something was wrong, got angry at me when I intruded on their conversation. However, when the bench they were sitting on was moved, they saw the bomb and the danger that they had been in.
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Their screams of terror echoed long and loud through the open air. Several students that were nearby stopped to look in our direction to see what was wrong.
“THERE’S A BOMB!” One of the girls screamed in panic. That took a moment to settle into the ears of the other people, but the moment that it did, mass panic and hysteria started to ensue. Everyone was running away from the center of the campus and toward the parking lots and exits.
It wasn’t the mass exodus that we had hoped for, but at least it was getting the people out of the way. They wouldn’t be in danger if they left. And even the clerks from the stores that were nearby were running out of their businesses. They didn’t even take the time to lock up, they were all too worried about their lives. I didn’t blame any of them one bit.
“Come on, Lyssa.” I told her as we marked where the bomb was. “We need to find more.”
“I know.” She nodded at me, a firm line set on her mouth as she looked around seriously. “We will find them all. And hopefully, no one will get hurt at all.”
As we started to search out the bombs, and looking at the list of the locations, I could tell that there was something wrong. The thing is, the guy had labeled where he had put all the bombs, but they weren’t always the most coherent of words or locations. It was like some of the places were only of some sort of significance to him and nothing else.
It became clear to me that the asshat that was targeting us was just using us as a front. He was also targeting what appeared to be people or places that had angered him. I didn’t know who he was, or what his life was like, but I knew that not all of these locations on the list had to do with my people. Not specifically anyway.
Lyssa and I had only found two bombs when we heard the sounds of the sirens in the distance. We had moved fast, and the fact that they were all here within two or three minutes was proof that they had taken us seriously. That was good, because this was a serious situation.
“Should we go and find the police? We can help them find the bombs while they are here.” Lyssa said as we ran toward the next bomb location.
“No, if we go to them first, they won’t let us help. And not all of them are super naturals like us. They will not be able to find them, but they won’t let us help them either.”
“Are you sure?” She looked perplexed.
“They aren’t going to be like my parents.” I explained to her. “Unless it was Uncle Devon, or Aunt Rawlynne herself, we wouldn’t be allowed to help. And if we met anyone else first, they would force us away. We will do what we can right here and now.”
“OK.” She nodded with conviction then, running along next to me with determination and knowing that we needed to keep moving.
The sounds of the sirens didn’t fade behind us. In fact, they only got louder. It almost seemed like every police officer and FBI agent within a fifty mile radius was flocking toward the campus. That too was understandable. They needed to make sure that something like a bombing didn’t happen at a school, not even at a university. That would be devastating to the world, not just us here locally.
I didn’t stop, and neither did Lyssa. We found four more bombs before we ran into one of the cops that had arrived. It was Andrew Masterson, a detective at the local police department that had worked with Uncle Devon for a long time.
“Rika? Alyssa? What are you two doing here?” He asked us with worried eyes. “There are bombs all over the place.”
“We know.” I told him. “We have found half a dozen of them already, and we have marked where they are. We have been evacuating the campus and exposing the bombs so that the bomb squad can come in and handle them.”
“Wow, you’ve been busy.” He laughed lightheartedly. “I saw your friend at the square. He was restraining the suspect until we got here.”
“Good. That was what he was told to do.” I told Andrew firmly. “Come on, Lyssa and I will help you find the rest. We have a list of where he put them, but not all of them make sense at first. It’s taking us a while to figure it all out.”
“Would it do me any good to tell you to leave it to the rest of us? You know, your parents are almost here.”
“Yes, we know, we called them. That doesn’t change anything though. We are going to help you find these bombs. We were trained in scenting them out just recently. An FBI agent even brought the most common chemicals for us to smell. Given our sensitive noses, we are able to find them easily.”