TAUT - Through Fire - Finale

Hi everyone!:D

I'm so excited to make this post! It's the finale of TAUT - Through Fire! SO EXCITING!:D It's also sort of sad, but I'm excited to finish it as well, so I can focus on finishing Sadie's Hope.:)

Remember that?;D

Okay, now...for the finale...

Dmitri sprang out of her bed. Her ears were deaf with the sound of the sirens, and her burns ached, but she somehow ran down the hallway to the meeting room.

"What's going on, you guys?" Dmitri asked.

"Somebody broke out of the organization," Logan said.

"Who?" Dmitri glanced uneasily at the workers and guards running around.

"I don't know. It wasn't anybody that was supposed to be here though. They say that somebody broke in when we were gone on our mission and disarmed the alarms before anybody noticed," Chris replied.  

Dmitri's eyes widened. "How did they know our passwords? I didn't know anyone knew them!" Logan and Chris shared a confused look. 

"Get back inside your rooms!" Sara yelled, her voice booming. She pushed them back to their quarters. 

Chris managed to slip into Dmitri's room and shut the door softly behind her.

"Why are they putting us into our rooms?" Dmitri asked.

The lock snapped shut from the other side. The girls twisted to face the newly locked door. 

"They locked us in!" Chris shouted and pulled at the knob. "How dare they?"
Dmitri snatched a stray bobby pin and went to work at the lock. 

After a long moment,  Dmitri flung the bobby pin across the room.

"The stupid lock is too advanced for a bobby pin," Dmitri said and flopped onto her bed in exasperation.

Chris pursed her lips, her anger diminishing as she thought.

"Who do you think broke in?" she asked and sat on the bed.

"I have no idea," Dmitri muttered. She and Chris waited on the bed in silence, each pondering who it could have been. The lock clicked, and Sara walked in looking upset. 

"We were too late. We only saw a flash of her red hair, then she was gone," Sara said. 

Dmitri rolled off the bed.

"What-but... How?" she cried. 

"We don't know if she'll ever come back, but if she does... we'll be ready."
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OwO

*evil laugh*

I'll just leave you with that...

-Emma-



TAUT - Through Fire - Part Three

Hi everyone!:)

I know that some of you are desperate to know what happened in the last part, and I can't wait to reveal what happened!:D

Fire.

Dmitri breathed in pure smoke and her eyes burst open wide as she coughed. Her eyes watering, she tried to gain her thoughts.

How long had I been about? she thought. She scanned the area, but all she saw were flames shooting up all around her, trapping her. Why had I fallen unconscious? 

"The spray!" Dmitri cried then realized too late that speaking wasn't a good idea. Her mouth went dry which made her cough harder. The spray must have made them fallen unconscious. It must have been toxic.

"Chris!!" she called. She could barely hear herself above the roar of the fire. "Logan!!!" Dmitri stood up and a wave of dizziness flooded over her. She pushed her fingers into her throbbing temples, telling herself to get it together.

Be the leader.

She grabbed her phone out of her backpack. There wasn't any signal. She pushed it back into her bag and looked around at the fire encasing her. As she looked up at the burning trees, she heard a sickly crack. Her gaze shot to a nearby tree, screaming as it came crashing toward her. 

Barely missing the fiery tree, she jumped to the side as the tree burst to life with sparks. Her legs burned with the heat of the fire and, once she snatched up the fallen spray and stuffed it into her backpack, she called out to Chris and Logan, wherever they were. She had to move. They weren't around here. Dmitri stumbled away, dodging flames that threatened to overwhelm her.

"Help!" a voice called out over the sound of the fire. 

"Chris!" Dmitri exclaimed and ran to a burning bush, which Chris was stuck in. She grabbed her arms and pulled her out.

"I'm so glad you're safe!" Chris said. 

"Where's Logan?" Dmitri questioned and dragged her away from the bush.

"I don't know," Chris coughed, shaking her head.

"We need to get out of here or else we'll burn to death!"

"But what happened? I fainted!" She cried.

"I can't be sure, but I think that spray we used somehow caused it."

"It could be poisonous," Chris added and Dmitri nodded.

"We need to leave. Now."

They tramped through the burning remains of a forest, desperately searching for a way out and to find Logan, whom they called to every now and then. Chris fell onto a slippery, wet rock, saying, "I need water."

Dmitri handed her a hot bottle of water, still looking at the fire around them. Soot lay on the floor like sand and smoke smothered the sky. Neither one of them could stop coughing for long.

After Chris drained most of the bottle, they picked up their trek through the forest, but their hopes diminished as the fire started to get too large around them, blocking paths.

"Wait!" Chris shouted and grabbed Dmitri's arm. "Sara said they'd be waiting for us!"

Dmitri gasped. She was right.

"Yes! If we can find that circle we began in, we could find them!" she exclaimed, her hopes flaring like the flames around them.

"It was this way!" Chris pointed to the left. They ran for what felt like hours, but they didn't find the circle.

Dmitri panted and breathed in heavy smoke as she brought herself to say the two words circling in her mind.

"We're lost."

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Another cliffhanger? Ooh...I'm bad....;)

I hope you are enjoying the series!:D

Since these were all the pictures I took when I was at the park, the next part will take longer to get up, but I hope to have it up as soon as possible!:) Thanks for being patient.:)
-Emma-



TAUT - Through Fire - Part Two

Eek! It's finally here!

I am so sorry to keep you waiting for so long! Literally, I feel so badly!:( I just had no time to go to the park until yesterday.

Okay, anyway, back to TAUT!:D In case you need a refresher, which I bet you will, here's the link to the first part- LINKEDY LINK LINK

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Dmitri sat with her eyes shut, her simple plan running through her brain. She tried to think of every possibility, every kink in the road that might occur.

"Gee, it's smoky!" Chris coughed as she gazed outside the helicopter.

"That's what fire produces," Dmitri stated, having to shout over the noise of the helicopter.

"Great, thanks! I totally forgot!" Chris replied sarcastically. 

Logan sighed and stared at the spreading fire beneath them.

"I wonder what caused a fire that water doesn't stop? Maybe a science experiment?" he wondered aloud.

"I'm guessing a science experiment that went rogue. That's usually the case for us!" Dmitri guessed.

"Okay, we're gonna propel the rope ladder down now! We'll wait from the air until you're done!" Sara shouted over the noise. Chris snatched off her glasses, since she only needed them for close up, she would rather be free from them for the mission. Dmitri, Chris, and Logan climbed down the ladder and landed in a circle that was free from flames....for the time being. 

"Okay, I got the stuff." Logan handed the spray to Dmitri. 

"Great, let's get this over with," Dmitri coughed. She began to mist the air all around them, then stepped closer to the flames and sprayed repeatedly at it. 

"That should be good for now, we have to wait for the chemical to make its way through the fire," she told them and sat down on the wet ground, as far away from the flames as she could.

Chris and Logan mimicked her and also sat on the ground.

"The ground is soaked! They must have used tons of water!" Chris exclaimed as she dug her fingers into the wet dirt. Dmitri nodded. A nauseating smell filled the air and Dmitri gagged. It must be the spray. She felt the taste of metal in the back of her mouth and scowled.

"Mmmhmmmm uhmmmMmmm?" Chris mumbled something, but Dmitri only heard mumbles. Breathing in the putrid air, her eyes blurred and her head fogged over. 

She scrambled up, desperate to escape the unconsciousness she knew was grabbing at her. Not again! She thought. Dmitri heard two dull thumps as Chris and Logan's head hit the ground. Clawing at her last strands of consciousness, Dmitri's world went black. 

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CLIFF HANGER!XD YES! LOL! I hope you enjoyed this part, I would love to hear your thoughts on the story so far.:D

-Emma-