Chapter 5

"That was way too close," Erick mumbled as he shoved a towel up his hair to make sure he did not get any stain from the river. The water smelled, though. Not so bad, but it was not comfortable. Smelled like fishes.

"Yeah, you should have been able to run from it faster if it was not for your freaking oxygen tank," Skylar added.

"Hey, I'm scared of drowning, okay?" Erick defended himself. "I can't just let myself trust any of you to rescue me there. You guys would have left me alone there if I got swallowed by the crocodile. Or, if I was drowning, I am pretty sure you guys would go for the drone, not me."

"What the **** is this guy talking about?" Lauren barged in as well as she felt like the rest of them had been looked down by Erick, the young FBI agent.

"You are awful. Terrence saved you just now." Madison said, her voice calmer than Lauren.

Hana just stared at them as she felt that she was too young to even meddle with their problems.

Terrence cleared his throat, which finally caught everyone's attention to be looking at him.

"Enough, now we pack. Tonight, we are going in there where we know there are people with weapons. So, who is going to stay with Madison?" Terrence threw a towel he used and sat on a chair in the living room. He took a case the drone had delivered and checked for its content.

"I am in no mood for-"

"I will stay with the doc!" Hana cut Skylar off. "I am the perfect one to stay with her because all of you are best to go into the fighting theme. I am so new to this."

"Says the one who masters five martial arts. Wushu, Kung Fu, Taekwondo, and Silat Gayung. I don't even know what the hell does that mean." Erick, who learned everyone's profile, commented.

"Well, that's four. About Silat, I learned that when I was in Malaysia. Don't judge me. I am so new into this fighting for the country thing." Hana tried to smile as wide as she could to get everyone to let her stay with Madison. She wanted to stay with her for no other reason but to make sure she would not be given too much risky task.

"I don't understand you guys. If you master the martial that much, that means she is the perfect one to protect Madison because there will be more guards in the circus." Erick sighed.

"That's why I will be the one deciding from now." Terrence smiled a fade, one who made everyone grow silence. "Erick will go in there with Madison. You are the one hacking the gates, you should go with her, and you are good with your gun. Use tranquilizer-reloaded bullets. Only shoot when they become a threat. Same goes to the people."

"This fight is so pure that we will not see blood." Skylar chuckled.

"I doubt that Miss Genovese. It is purely proven that you will bleed a little even just by a tranquilizer." Madison spoke as she filled the liquid in every bullet.

Skylar rolled her eyes. "I knew it that I will always hate working with doctors. Even you."

Madison just glared, but she did not look bothered at all.

Erick shrugged. "So, what about the others, commander?" He asked.

"Skylar will fake a robbery with... Lauren."

"That will leave you alone, commander. Are you doing something that you think we are not able to do? Just because you are a freaking Navy?" Skylar did not like the idea asked out.

"I don't want to look down to anyone in this place. I have to settle something." Terrence did not want to start the topic.

"This is nonsense." Erick denied the idea, as well. "We can't just-"

"Let the man talk. HE IS THE FREAKING LEADER HERE!" Hana unexpectedly raised her voice. Everyone grew quiet.

"I have to stop someone from stopping what we are going to do. There is an assassin in there whom I know very well. Whom I know what he is capable of."

Skylar looked up. "Who?"

Terrence sighed. A secret until he tells a name. "Camden. It does ring a bell, right?"

Skylar was stunned. Everyone was so confused.

"Who is he? Your ex or something? Ex from the assassination club?" Lauren chuckled an evil laugh.

"Worst, he is my brother, whom I have not been able to kill."

Hana shivered. Madison gulped. Erick's mouth went pouting.

"So, you are going to her brother? Don't you think it will be best to let her go there?" Hana asked.

"That's an idiot move. I will get distracted and start killing everyone who gets in my way. Well, commander. You see that piece of shit. You kill him." Skylar walked away from the group.

Lauren smiled. "I will discuss the plan with her and report later."

"Erick, follow me." Madison patted his shoulder. The young man just nodded, glancing at Terrence once before he followed the doctor.

Terrence let out a huge sigh he kept. He took out his phone, and the wallpaper broke his heart again. Each time he opened his phone, his heart would break again and again. Camden, Skylar's brother, was there. Together with him, hugging each other. He turned off the phone and looked at all the guns. He would be the only one going in there tonight with real bullets. He would be the one shedding more blood than what Madison said. His blood, or Camden's.

Maybe, there would be dead as well. Who knows?

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