Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Intensity ❯ Lost Hope? ( Chapter 13 )

Chapter 13.

Squall saw another item that may come into use when he went outside and he grabbed a helmet to protect his head from the dogs. He ran a quick check in his mind of what he was going to do and looked down at his feet mumbling. "These boots are not that good of a protection, but they're gonna have to do right now." The gunblader walked over to the little girl and knelt down beside her. "I'm going outside to get the RV for us okay? Then we'll get out of here and he'll never ever touch you again I promise but for now you stay here and sit tight I'll be right back."

He stood up and walked into the living room but then paused lowering his head as he turned around. The gunblader took the helmet off and knelt down beside Chyna again. "I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you, there's a good chance that I won't come back and I'll be killed and he's gonna come home and see this mess and then throw you back into the cellar but Chyna listen to me..." He held her face and turned it to his. "There will always be someone there for you. Because I came this close and someone else will come along and they're gonna be the one or maybe not but believe me when I say what ever darkness this guy puts you into, what ever hell he may bring to you I'll be there and I'll help you... you just yell Badger, Badger just like in the book and I'll be there."

He smoothed her hair down and gave her a quick kiss on the side of her eye then he stood up again and walked out of the room. When the gunblader was outside he started loosing his nerve just a bit. "Come on Squall calm down, relax yourself and move quickly." He said to himself.

Just as he started across the yard for the RV that wasn't parked too far away one of Edgeler's dogs ran around the corner behind Squall. Luckily it had made a slight inner throat noise alerting him to it but unfortunately it wasn't soon enough to keep him from getting jumped. "Aahh!!!" Squall was yanked instantly to the ground and the dog tugged viciously at the suit; the gunblader tried like anything to at least sit up but the dog kept him pinned. He suddenly remembered the squirt bottle and he aimed it at the dogs nose then sprayed it right up the nose with the bottle set on stream.

Edgeler's dog backed off scratching it's paws to it's muzzle and rolling over yelping in the pain that was going through it's nose. Squall watched absent mindedly then he got up and ran across the yard to the RV. Just as he hit the door and held the key in place to turn it he was attacked by the second dog from the left which was joined by the third dog at his right.

They both leapt on him tearing into the suit. Squall was pulled down again pinned to the ground only the hand with the squirt bottle was being bitten up as well. 'What am I gonna do?' He thought trying his hardest to yank his arm free so he could spray the dogs and get them both out of there.

The dog he had sprayed before returned at his feet and Squall waited until he got close enough to him and he kicked the mutt right in the mouth. It made a sound of pain but wouldn't let up and bit into the gunbladers boot. Squall shook his foot trying to get the dog off and he wriggled back and fourth trying to yank his arm free. He pulled as hard as he could and freed one arm. The gunblader instantly started to Squirt the dog at his right arm and it backed of yelping in pain. He then switched the bottle to his now free hand and turned squirting the other one at his left arm.

It scratched it's nose trying to scratch the liquid out then he rubbed his nose into the dirt to stop the sting. Squall then sprayed the one at his foot again and the second it moved he stood up and unlocked the door of the RV. The dogs were rolling all over the lawn flipping over in pain and crying out, but when they heard the vehicle start up they pulled their selves together and leapt up on the doors barking.

Squall put the car in reverse and backed up. He planned on crashing it into the house but the RV hit a rock built wall that only came up from the ground at maybe waste level. Squall seemed to not believe that the RV couldn't knock the wall over so he kept backing it into the wall. 'Shit, this isn't working.' He looked into the side view mirror and noticed a balcony behind the vehicle.

Squall drew in a sharp breath from startle when a dog slammed into the window on his side of the vehicle. He exhaled and went in back, when he opened the door to the tiny bed room he saw Laura and wondered if he should move her but didn't have time. The gunblader looked up at a window above the bed and he stood up on it so he could reach; pounding on the window the hardest he could he didn't seem to be phasing it at all.

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In a building kind of out of the way a man walked into a room hearing a beeping sound. "What the hell is that?" He asked and Edgeler smiled to himself and looked at the beeping device that said RV on the side of it.

"Looks like my dogs got to the groceries I left in the car." He lied and the guy nodded then Edgeler went on. "I swear I'm half way convinced that my dogs could find a quarter pound of steak if it were buried 50 feet in the earth of an abandoned mine shaft." The guy laughed at the thought and Edgeler smiled turning to him. "I'm gonna check out early okay?" The man nodded and the killer left his job.

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Squall hopped off the bed and went to the front of the vehicle; looking through the glove compartment he found a hammer and smiled at it. Going to the back again he stood on the bed and shielded his eyes from the breaking plastic glass. When the hammer hit it nothing happened then a crack went through it and he hit it harder breaking it away around him. When enough of it was moved he yanked the rest down and jumped up slightly to get a good grip on the roof of the RV and he pulled himself up.

Standing on the roof he noticed there was a slight slant so he walked carefully so he wouldn't fall off. The dogs seemed none to happy about what he was doing and two of them ran around to the kitchen window to try getting into the house. Squall walked to the end of the RV and saw a tiny drop that was being guarded by the dog that hadn't gone anywhere. 'Great.' He backed up a bit then ran forwards leaping across the space over to the balcony, the jump was smooth but his landing had a slight problem and he crashed though the glass door of the balcony falling to the floor.

"Uuugh." He groaned in pain but pulled himself up brushing glass away from his clothing and he ran downstairs to where h'd left Chyna; she was still sitting in the chair but she was watching the dogs at the door in the kitchen bark at her. "Don't worry about them." Squall said putting his hands on her shoulders. "We gotta go, hurry." He steered them both upstairs and into the room with the balcony and he sat her down in a chair.

"Okay, we're gonna go out that window and-...." His words were cut off because he heard a crash downstairs. "The dogs." He panicked and ran over to the door closing it just as the two of them bashed into it. Squall rushed back over to Chyna and saying. "All right, looks like I'm gonna need your help again." One of the dogs was barking louder and scratching at the doors knob while the other one rammed into it. Squall saw the knob moving and turned his attention to a dresser sitting beside the door. "Okay, you're gonna go out that door and only take two steps because there isn't that much room out there to walk and you could fall off."

The little girl was listening and Squall thanked Hyne for that. "Okay, you go on over to the door and wait for me I'll be right behind you." He ran over to the dresser and started to push it but from exhaustion it felt like it weighed a ton. Chyna watched him a second then stood up going over to the doors, opening them. She took two steps out of it and Squall was nearly done pushing the dresser in front of the door but he ran away from it going out the door and grabbing her shoulders to stop her from walking but she already had and was just standing there.

"Okay," Squall sighed out with relief. "that was- that was good. You did exactly what I told you too but next time wait, you always wait for me, okay?" He said to her and let go of her shoulders going back into the room grabbing a ladder on the side of the wall that was used for the balcony. When he came back outside he lied it on the balcony deck across the distance of the drop onto the RV roof. "It's slanted okay so try not to fall off." He said to her and she placed her feet on the step of the ladder and started walking feeling Squall's hands still on her shoulders as they went across together.

When the two of them hit the roof of the vehicle he helped her over to the broken window a few feet away and he helped her down inside. As he started to go inside himself the door in the room broke open and the dogs slipped inside and ran over to the car. One of them made it onto the roof but slipped right off to the gorund. The other dog saw what happened and crossed the ladder carefully and Squall dropped inside the RV going to the front grabbing the hammer, the dog peeked its head inside the window and then fell in himself.

Squall tried closing the door on it to keep him from getting up front with Chyna but the dog was persistent and strong so he opened the door letting him attack but didn't give it the chance to as he slammed the hammer into the dogs head with the pointed end. The dog cried out in pain and Squall bashed it's head in until the dog lay still. Chyna had been watching the whole time and she pulled her legs in rocking in horror.

Squall wiped sweat from his forehead and turned around seeing that the girl had seen him kill the dog. "Oh no." He said to himself walking over to her. "Ssshh" He hushed her. "I'm sorry, it's okay.… we're gonna get out of here all right we wasted too much time." He pulled her up and walked with her to the front of the RV placing her in the passenger seat then he climbed into the drivers side and started the RV back up and he pressed the pedal down as hard as it would go.

They arrived at the metal gates at the end of the path to Edgeler's house and Squall looked around for where he kept the remote. Chyna looked up at the sun visor and Squall glanced at her following her eyes then he reached up finding it and smiled a thank you.

"We're out of here." He said when they were moving again. "We're out of here, huh Chyna?" The girl had a shadow of smile he could tell and he looked out the window in triumph. "Chyna and Squall untouched and alive." He said smiling and then they drove through the gates, when they hit the end of the street there were two separate ways to go and Squall looked down both of them. "Which way did I come in, Gods I wish I was awake then." He looked at Chyna and asked. "Okay Chyna, which way are we gonna go?"

The girl looked to the right but there was a car coming. "Shit it's him." Squall said, the car drove by quickly and spun to a stop, an arm came out holding a shotgun and the person fired at the wheel of the RV popping it. "We gotta get out of here." Squall said and then there was another car coming. It was a cop car! "Hey!" Squall began to shout while beeping the horn.

The cop car turned on it's siren and drove up faster, but Edgeler was getting out of his car. Squall turned his head and looked down at the ground where a boot landed. "Wha-..." The cop car skidded to a stop and Squall noticed that the officer wasn't even a cop- it was Edgeler! "Than who-...?" He wondered too late and saw Irvine standing there.

"Irvine!" He shouted and beeped the horn but he wasn't paying him any attention. "Boy am I glad you're hear officer." Irvine said.

"Irvine!!" Squall kept calling.

"I called you guys a million times and no one seemed to care." He said.

"Don't worry, always here to provide some service." Edgeler said pulling out a very strong hand gun.

"What are you doing?" Irvine asked but Edgeler fired sending the cowboy slamming into the glass of his car on the hood. "Uuugh."

Edgeler turned and looked at Squall who was looking at Irvine in pain. When the gunblader turned and noticed Edgeler he had switched to a bigger gun and was walking over to the RV aiming he then paused and fired..........