The Sorrowful Rebel Rise Of The Rebel Part Six

 The Old Couple

She woke up on a beach with crimson sand beside a river. It was clearly morning and the sky was bright scarlet. She felt like a stone and she was incapable of doing anything. Except just lie there, letting her body twitch. She felt like all of her strength had been robbed of her.

She saw two coming at her. One was brown with white eyes and green horns and the other was white with brown eyes and red horns. She was helpless to stop them from picking her up. They carried her to a hut that looked similar to the other old couple.

Maybe they have the same story as the old couple too.

Still I need to-

When she woke up again she was in bed. She felt the old lady feeding her. However she could do nothing to stop her. She could then feel her strength returning to her slightly. She then felt her stomach being filled. After she was finished, the old woman placed the bowl down. 

"Thank you."

She smiled cheerily.

"You don't have to thank me, dear."

"Tell me, did you take a book off me?"

"No, dear. It is still in your pocket."

Good.

"Who are you?"

"Oh, that doesn't matter anymore. Our names were stripped from us during this time and me and my husband were sterilized too."

"Oh. Sorry." She said looking down.

"It's alright. We don't need children. After all, they wouldn't have names either. The Emperor has commanded it. He doesn't think we should have children and told us that having them would be a nuisance. Also he told us that our names would be a nuisance so he took them. In fact he took all our memories too as they would have been a nuisance too." 

"What? How?"

"He gave us a pill and when we woke up everything except the ability to talk was gone. He then gave us this lovely home and looked after us our whole lives. Thanks to him we need nothing."

"And if he told you to jump off a cliff would you?"

"Yes." Said the old man.

"After all, there would be a good reason for him to do it."

"And does it not bother you? That you don't remember anything before the pill?"

"No."

"Sometimes."

"Husband!"

"Wife!"

"What if you were a rebel?" She asked. "What if before the pill you hated him?"

They looked at each other and laughed.

"Why ever would you think that?"

"And even if we were, I think that we would be wrong to do so."

"How come?"

"He has shown us such good kindness and if we were, then that would mean that he has shown us not only mercy but more kindness than we ever deserve." 

More like to leave you alive like a bird in a cage. 

"And what happened to the rebellion?"

"Oh, they were all taken down. Now they all should be in the slave camps right now."

" Oh."

Should have known. They waited long enough, time to take them all down.

"How long was I out?"

"Oh, a day or two."

She nodded.

"Right. Urm, tell me, would it be alright to use your loo?"

"Of course!"

"It's just down the hall to your left. The door nearest the door."

"Thank you."

She climbed out of the bed and walked to the loo. She then saw it. It was opposite the door to the bathroom. There was a bath on the right and a sink to the left. She sat on it and as her urine was released.

Right, now what?

Well I can't stay here. It would only be a matter of time until they recognize me and they will inform Wolf Raven. After all, even though they seem to be kind, that loyalty will become a liability. So the sooner I can get out of here the better. 

After all, I can't stay here.

She soon finished her business and washed her hands. She then heard two guns go off. She looked at the door. She ran to it to see that there were soldiers everywhere and the old couple were all dead!

Anger entered her heart and she ran to the one closest to her and kicked him in the side. She grabbed his gun and fired at him. She then pointed the gun at another and fired shot after shot at one after another. She ran to the bed and threw the blanket at them. They fired at the blanket as she ducked. She used where the bullets were coming from to fire at the soldiers behind. She fired and soon the blanket was nothing but a pile of cotton on the floor.

Yet this revealed that she had only taken down four and had missed eight. She then dived as they fired at her. She felt the bullets skim her left arm as she reached the lamp. She grabbed it and threw it at one of them she then fired at it making it explode. She then grabbed the chair and threw it at another group. She fired at one and another as they dodged it.

She soon took out the eight. She ran down the corridor. She saw two on the left and fired. She quickly spotted three on the right. She fired again. She soon ran out of the house. She then saw fifty soldiers pointing their guns at heart.

Too many.

She ran to the right and then saw a body of water behind the house. She could see that it was still and vast. So she ran back and ran and ran. She then felt more and more bullets in her back. Yet she still ran on and on. She dove into the water. She then ducked under and kicked the sand again and again before she ducked and swam. She then swam on and on.

She then swam to the left and swam on and on as deep as she could. She kept swimming and swimming. She soon swam across the large river and washed up the red beach. She got to her feet and ran on.