“I have hated you ever since I met you. You make me sick. How could such a man treat his family like a group of cockroaches? Only a fool would act the way you do.”
“Listen here you spiteful little rodent. I am a well respected man and if you want to live, my sweet, I suggest you start changing your atrocious attitude towards me.”
Swiftly, Mercedes rapidly ran and lunged towards the Captain’s back without a second thought.
“This is from your wife.” She whispered. She stabbed him in the top right of his back.
“This is from Ofelia.” She said with her voice raised slightly louder and stabbed hard at the bottom left of his back.
“And this is from me!” She shouted from the top of her lungs. By now, she turned the Captain around and slit his mouth from the right side. His shirt was a bright scarlet shade, and his back and mouth leaked with fresh blood. The Captain was silent for a split second, as the blood glistened from his face, but then he replied,
“You can run, my sweet, but you can’t hide. I will get you, you stupid pathetic runt, if it’s the last thing I do.”
Mercedes, petrified, backed out of the old dusty barn and stumbled straight past the 2 guards from earlier.
“Hey, you!” One of the guards shouted.
Mercedes knew he was shouting for her, but her heart told her to keep running. As she ran tiredly up the hill, the Captain had caught up.
“GET HER YOU USELESS PARASITES!”
Within 2 minutes of the Captain’s screaming catastrophe, there were 20 men on horses charging up the hill for Mercedes.
“I will kill that Captain, even if I have to die trying.” Mercedes whispered to herself.
Mercedes ran and ran, faster and faster, as the hill got steeper and steeper. She came to an abrupt hold as the hill began to flatten. The Captain was right; there was no-where she could hide.
“Hello my pretty, what a surprise to see you up here?” Cooed the first guard on a huge horse twice the size of her. He was also armed with several ferocious guns.
“If you come any closer, just watch…” Whispered Mercedes. She was shaking with fear. She had the knife in line with her delicate throat.
“Don’t do it, Bonita, you’ll regret it…” Murmured the first guard.
“Just let her kill herself, she’s useless anyway” Advised the second guard. There were now 20 huge brawny horses circled around her. Mercedes could hear her head thumping intensely. Out of nowhere, all 20 of the guards were shot off their horses one by one. One minute the empty hill-top was surrounded with tough guards on great big horses, and the next minute, every single guard was shot down from their horses. Mercedes felt as shaky as a leaf. Then, out of the empty surroundings, her brother, Juan, and his army slowly wafted towards her.
“Oh Mercedes! I was so worried about you.” Mercedes turned around and playfully hit her muscular brother.
“Don’t you ever scare me like that again! I was petrified. I never knew where you were, of where you were staying, how you were eating.”
“Don’t worry sis’, I had the whole thing planned out. We were going to attack the stupid Captain anyway, so we thought why not now, and just when my baby sis’ needed me too!”
Mercedes’ brother sniggered with laughter with the alongside rebels. Mercedes blushed a shade of rosy pink. Suddenly, one of the quieter ones from the group decided to speak up.
“Sir, when are we going to attack again?” He piped
Mercedes and her brother both looked at each other.
“Well, Son, we have just finished attacking, so we shall just wait and see.”
By now, Juan was sitting on the bare ground smoking a cigar, with his incredibly long legs up and resting on a huge rock.
“How many times have I told you to stop smoking!” Screeched Mercedes.
“HEY! I’m the one who just saved your life, give me a break! I do the hero thing for once, ad I still get told off!”
Juan took a long puff on the cigar, and the passed it onto another rebel.
“Look, I don’t want you getting hurt, so make sure you take care of yourself. I won’t always be there to look after you, so remember that.”
Mercedes stood straight, smoothed her creased up dress and gave her brother a hug.
“I will go and finish my duty, and you go finish yours, ok?”
“Si, si, mi hermana, I will succeed. Do not worry,” Reassured Mercedes’ brother.
Slowly, Mercedes walked off into the sunset, where a huge mission awaited her. She and her brother would just have to wait and see what would happen.
