REAL FACE CH-3

John: Hey! Come here! You gotta see this.

The girl rushed towards the source of scream. When she reached after crossing forest. She was just staggered. It was a cliff. Not just a cliff, it was god's marvelous creation. From the top of the cliff we could see a beautiful meandering river with ground around it covered with long grass through which came God's few little miracles, fire flies all over flying.

There was a low breeze flowing. In the sky as the clouds moved the moonlight made the scene unexplainably heavenly. Before John and the girl knew, they were clasping each other's hands. Everything was sinking in. The moment was loving.

Soon they both realized, where the moment was leading them and they backed off. They sat there for a few minutes and then moved back towards camp.

John: It was weird! Wasn't it?

Girl: Yeah! Sure, it was.

Both laughed unwillingly and faced the opposite direction with face of regret.

John: I thought you were freezing.

Girl: Yeah, I was and I'm still.

John: So…. Why ain't you wearing the jacket?

Girl: Well…. Um….

They both reached the camp, where there were two tents and a campfire.

John: How'd you started fire. (sat near the fire, with his hand making the most of the fire)

Girl: It was not easy. It took some difficult choices.

John: Really! I thought starting fire was all about burning something.

Girl: That's also true.

(John took a pause and glared at the girl) John: Where's my jacket? I cannot see it here!

Girl: Well….

John: Where is it? (staring at her)

Girl: There! (pointing at the campfire)

John stared at the campfire for a moment then rummaged through the fire and finding his half burned jacket and then turned to her.

John: What! Are you serious? I told you it was my favorite jacket!

Girl: There was nothing else to keep the fire burning. I'm sorry!

John gave a glare and went into his tent with an annoyed face. The girl was sad and slowly went into the tent.

It was midnight when the girl woke up, hearing a scream coming from distant. The girl ran towards John's tent. Before entering she hesitated. She froze and stood there when the same scream was heard again. She rushed in and tried to wake John. He opened his eyes and saw the girl.

John: What now? Want to burn me now? Go ahead!

Girl: No, I don't want to, for now at least.

I Heard a scream! Twice! Wake up!

The scream was heard again.

John: it's Sean! I'm going! (half asleep)

John stood up and ran towards the sound. The girl stood there startled, thinking if she should follow or not.

John ran as fast as he could. In a few moments he could see smoke rising at a distance. That would have been the place from where the voice was coming. Judging from the screams John concluded that something was wrong. When he reached near enough he saw there were three tents, a campfire (which looked really warm), an ambulance and Jones in front of the biggest of the three tents. He was wearing boots, black trousers, a vest, a pair of glasses and had in possession a gun. From far where John stood, he could see that something was dripping from the gun, perhaps blood. This explained how the screams were silenced. Jones was there but where was Ruth? There was no time. Sean was in deep trouble or even dead by now, may his soul rest in peace if it were in heaven, well John knew it was not in heaven. There was no time to be wasted, something needed to be done, but what? John started filling his mind with thoughts and then picked two rocks and a log from the ground. John then threw the first rock far to his left into the forest. Jones heard right away the sound of stone and mistaking it for someone, he ran towards it with his gun ready to shoot.

This was the moment John needed to rescue Sean. He ran towards the third tent for an ambush. Inside the tent there were medicinal and wine bottles kept on one corner, two lamps lit the tent, there was a bed in the centre with Sean on it, tied. Ruth stood next to him in a surgeon's costume and holdings onto a filled syringe in one hand and a surgery knife in other.

On seeing John, Ruth rushed towards John and swayed the knife to kill John. John dodged one after another to Ruth's attacks. Ruth seemed to have great knowledge of knives, as after attacking twenty times, there were ten places from where John's shirt was torn. Ruth stopped to give a grin. John was brought to his knees. He seemed hurt. His white shirt was red now.

Ruth: You're pathetic… I expected more out of you… well let's finish this!

Ruth jumped at John with the knife. When he was in mid-air, John rolled over, caught Ruth's leg, pulled him to the ground and twisted his leg. There was a perfect crunch sound, with a painful scream.

John: Yeah! Let's finish this.

Saying this John hit Ruth on his face with his most powerful kick and with this Ruth's game was over.

John moved towards Sean, who was partially conscious. His head was bleeding.

John untied him and helped him to get up and Sean started walking with the help of John. They came out of the tent and started moving to the Ambulance. Meanwhile Jones came back.

Jones: stop right there or I'll shoot! Well the thing is that either way I'm gonna shoot but you two stay right there…

John and Sean stopped as told and slowly turned towards Jones.

Jones: Thank god!... I wanted to kill you two with my own hand. Now I can! (started laughing)

Jones aimed the gun at John and was about to shoot when John threw the second stone at Jones, but was too late, the gun was fired. John was hit on his left shoulder but also the stone hit Jones' hand and the gun fell. John knew it wasn't the moment to cry over his injury, he charged at Jones, hitting him his right shoulder on his chest, both fell on the ground and started to wrestle and frequently exchanged punches with each other. They pushed each other here and there. They brought down the two tents and moved to the third one. Jones kicked John into the third tent. Jones lifted him while John struggled to escape and, in this Jones, twisted John's injured shoulder. John fell down with immense pain and in this freaking moment his eyes fell on the syringe near Ruth's corpse. Jones reached John for another attack but John stabbed syringe in Jones' leg. Jones fell limped on the ground. John was saved. He took a breath of relief.

Both enemies were down. John moved out of the tent, lifted Sean and started to move towards the ambulance again.

John: It's over now Sean. Now we are safe.

Jones: No!... it's not over yet! And you aren't safe…

Jones came out of the tent with staggering feet. The knife in his hand was telling us that Jones' words were not false. He took a moment and rushed to attack. John and Sean both concluded that it was over for them. Both were exhausted and in immense pain. When all of a sudden, someone shot Jones' leg.

Jones: ahh!... You!... Why?... You!...

And another bullet went through his head. The gun fell on the ground from the girl's hand.

She ran towards John crying and hugged him.

John: Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Watch the shoulder please!

With this John and Sean lost their consciousness and they both fell down. But now they were safe.

After two days John woke up in the hospital and saw someone with a shock. It was 'him'!

Mr. Leorio Hans had come to the hospital.