Strikers by Chelsea Rae and Earon Lenea (romantic books to read .txt) 📖

"Hey how are you doing?" She asks sleepily. I just now noticed the pain that was emitting from arm. Moving my arm i winced and gritted my teeth.
"Fine." I said through clenched teeth.
She looked at me with a worried expression and stood and walked to the other side of me and crouched down looking at my arm. She slowly untied the shirt and unwrapped it.
"Shit." She mumbled.
"Whats wrong?" I look down and my breath caught in my throat. My blood had turned black. Not just dried blood black. The blood that was coming out of my arm was pitch black. That can only mean one thing, Onyx. A poison made to only kill us worriors. It kills us in about a weeks time unless you get the antidote. But the bad thing is, is that by the third day you are completly paralyzed. If i'm going to survive this we need to get the antidote that they always kept at the school.
"Jay. We need to get to the school. It looks like you have had a huge dosige which will become extremly painful in a few hours. If we're going to go, we need to go now." She got up and then helped me up then we walked out of the cave. I had to lean heavily on her because the poison was effecting my legs making it hard and extremly painful to walk. We walked to the edge of the woods and started to look around to see if anyone is coming. She started to walk out into the clearing dragging me along with her. AFter a few steps she gasped and tackeled me into the woods. My hole body erupted into pain. I grited my teeth trying not to make a sound.
"I'm so sorry Jay." She wispered. I nodded my head. After a few minutes we heard the sound of foot steps. Alissa shifted into a tiger. She growled lowly to where it even freaked me out. After a few more steps Alissa was growling loudly with her teeth bared. I look around her and there was a guy standing there wearing the same uniform as the attackers.
"I'm here to help guys. I saw you get hit yesterday and I wanted to help. I'm not one of them."
Alissa shifted back and walked up to him. "If your not one of them then why are you wearing the same uniform?"
"I needed the money. But when I found out that they were trying to kill innocent teenagers, I wanted out. But they wouldnt let me."
I saw Alissa hesitate and look back at me, then she nodded, "come on, he can barely walk."
"Do you need me to carry him or do you want help, what?" he asked
"I carried him this far so i think im fine we just need in the school."
Walking back over to me Alissa lifted my body, "shit," i mumbled that really hurt. I put my arm around her shoulder and we started to walk but I collapsed to the ground. The guy came on the other side of me and lifted me back to my feet. We walked back out to the clearing and started to walk across. The school was close to destroyed.
"Okay we need to hurry. They can come back at any time. Just a warning though, its really bad inside." The guy said. We got the rest of the way across and then went inside. The first thing that hit me was the overwhelming smell of ash. It started getting really hard to breath and i started coughing. I collapsed to the ground and kept coughing. After what seemed like forever of painfull coughing i looked at my hand. My stomach dropped. Black blood was covering my hand. This isnt supposed to happen for a couple more days. I definatly had a huge dosige.
"Jay whats wrong?" She pulled my hand away from me and gasped. "We need to hurry. The onyx is going to kill him in a matter of hours the way its working through his body."
"Where do we need to go?" the guy asked.
"The imformary." Alissa answered. "Here you come take this side. I can't take a chance with the blood thats on his hand."
They switched sides and then helped me back to my feet and started to drag me along with them. It seemed like forever until we got to the imformary but we finally made it. They set me up on the medical table. The cold metal made me shiver. I saw Alissa walk over to a cabinet and get out a few sirringes but then i slowly began to pass out.


THREE

Alissa's point of Veiw.

I grabbed the shots of antidote out of the cabinet and walked back over to Jay. Shit! He passed out. I set the stuff down on the medical table and start to try and wake him up.
"Don't just stand there! Help me!" I yelled at the guy. If Jay stays asleep to long the onyx will take over his body in full. "Jay! Jay! Seriously Jay, wake up!"
"Splash water on his face." I ran over to the sink and got a cup of water and then went and dumped it on his face. His eyes snapped open he took a deep breath.
"Okay Jay. I'm going to give you the shots now. There going to have to go right into the wound so it will hurt worse." He slowly nodded as sweat began to bead up on his forhead. "Your going to be fine Jay." Again he only nodded. Flashes of pain cross over his face and then his eyes rolled back in his head. His body started shaking uncontrolably.
"Strap down his arms and legs he's goign to hurt himself!" The guy did as I said and secured his arms and legs. I grabbed one of the shots and jabbed it into the wound. Injecting the antidote into his arm and he began to stop shaking. I gave him another shot and he woke up.
I smiled at him and wiped the sweat from his forhead. I unstrapped him from the bed and he sat up.
"How do you feel?" I asked him.
"Better. A lot better. I dont feel like my body is rotting from the inside out." He laughed and i joined in.
"Okay well I'm going to clean up your wound. Hopefully your blood is clean now and back to normal."
He nodded. I walked over to a counter and grabbed some gause and hydrogen peroxide. I walked back over and wet the gause with the peroxide and started to clean the cut. It started to bubble as it cleaned out any other infections. After i got done cleaning it i walked back over and threw the bloody gause away and put the peroxide back up. I grabbed more gause and some antibiotic oitment and an ace bandage. I rubbed the oitment on the cut and them put the gause over it then wrapped it with the bandage.
Once i was done we walked out of the informary and started to walked through the rest of the building. Practically evrerything was destroyed. Jay was walking beside me protectivly and the other guy was on the other side of me.
"What is your name anyway?" I asked.
"Luke." I nodded and we kept walking. I heard somthing crack then all of a sudden Jay grabbed me and blocked me.
"We need to get out of here. And Fast!"
Jay grabbed my hand and we started to run and weave through the debree. Once we made it back outside we ran across the clearing and back into the forest.

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Publication Date: 06-25-2012

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