Serenity - Chapter 13

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___________________________________________ Next: Coming soon! :D Previous: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/797053301/ First: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/712253307 __________________________________________ WARNING! MENTION OF WEAPONS, INJURIES, AND BL00D! IF YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH ANY OF THESE SUBJECTS, I suggest you do not read this chapter!!!! You have been warned, read on at your own risk. __________________________________________ ˜”*°•.˜”*°• Start of chapter •°*”˜.•°*”˜ "So you know," Tiffany said as Harper shifted around in her bed. She nodded. "I guess I always knew, I was just too scared to admit it. But when Daniel confirmed it...." "Do you have any idea what they're actually after?" Tiffany asked, sitting down in a chair by Harper's hospital bed that she despised. "Actually, yeah," Harper said, her mind wandering back to the blonde girl with amber eyes. "Can you pull up the footage from the day I was kidnapped right now?" "Um, we'll try," Tiffany said. "That was a long time ago." "But you can still access it," Harper pressed. "Yes." At least fifteen minutes later, the footage was pulled up. Harper rewound it back to the time when she and the girl were playing, pausing it when it got a clear shot of the girl's face and pointing at her. "They're after her?" Tiffany asked, eyeing the girl skeptically. "Who is she?" "I don't think they're specifically just after her," Harper replied. "I think she's hiding some secret that the Helex want. But yeah. Find her, find out what she's hiding, and you're basically getting a guaranteed win against the Helex." "Huh," Beatrix said behind Tiffany. "Why does that girl look familiar?" Bex stared at the picture, and then exclaimed something Harper would never repeat. "What? And watch your mouth, there's kids around here," Tiffany warned. "There's no flipping way," Bex said, ignoring her and taking the phone. "There is /no/ way." "What?" Tiffany and Beatrix asked. Harper had already realized what Bex had realized and muttered under her breath. "What?" Tiffany asked, and then Bex held up a phone, revealing a portrait of the Helex's main founder, Celestine Helex. And she looked just like the girl in the footage, only older, and wearing pristine clothing from a long, long time ago. "Holy crap," Beatrix said. "And there's your reason why they want her," Bex said. "She's the flipping many-greats granddaughter of the founder. Of course she's got loads of information that they're going to want." Harper snorted. "Isn't it ironic that her, the granddaughter of Serenity's Academy main enemy, and me, also the granddaughter of the person who founded Serenity Academy, were great friends?" "Yes, actually," Tiffany said, frowning. "That couldn't be a coincidence." "I agree," Bex muttered. "We'll have to find her," Beatrix said. "She's our only chance." "And you should remember that she's also just a person," said Harper, annoyed. "Not a tool." "We do," Tiffany told her. "Plus, there is no guarantee that we will find her. She's probably with the Helex, if she got kidnapped with you." Harper remembered the girl's bloodcurdling scream, and felt her eyes darken. "I think you guys should prepare for the possibility that she's not even alive anymore." "Hold up, what?" Beatrix asked, whipping around to look at Harper. "Why wouldn't she be?" "I think they might've killed her. But it's just a possibility. It may very well not be true. But still...just keep it in mind." "And on that terrifying note, we're going to go look for her," Tiffany said. Beatrix and Bex left the room, but Harper reached out and grabbed Tiffany's wrist before she could stand up. "Tiffany, wait please. I know there are bigger things to deal with right now, but I wanted to tell you...thank you. For all that you've done. I know you feel guilty about a lot of stuff, and because I got hurt, but...thanks for trying to protect me." Tiffany smiled sadly. "You're welcome, Harper. I'm just sorry we couldn't save you sooner." Harper shrugged, watching as Tiffany left, wondering if they would really find her. But as soon as she was ready, she would be joining the search. ˜”*°•.˜”*°• End of chapter •°*”˜.•°*”˜