READY TO FLY DOWN THE STEPS.BUT THERE STOOD STRIKER.HIS TOOTHY
         GRIN IN A MOCK EXPRESSION CF THE TIME CF HIS LIFR.SHE JUMPED UP AND
         KNOCKED THE GUN OUT OF HIS HAND.SHE RAN LIKE THE DEVIL WAS BEHIND
         HER TO THE GROUND FLOOR.
         
              MILLI STEPPED CUT OF THE WATER CHECKING THE GAS.IT WAS OK.
         SHE CLOSED HER EYES AND PRAYED.
         
              LEE RAN STRAIGHT TO THE LIBRARY. SHE OPENED THE DOOR AND ~UICKL
         SH T IT.THERE SAT JAIVIIE KNOCKEDCUT AND MITCH SNORING.SHE STARTED
         UN G THE ROPES.JAMIE ARCUSED.LEE WARNED HER NOT SCRE.AM.SHE MOLT!
         ED THE WORDS NO SOUND.SHE THEN UNTIED MITCH.SUDDENLY THE DOOR OPEN)
         ~A AROUND TEN GOONS POURED IN UNARMED.LEE WISHED MILLI WAS THERE.
         111 CH MADE TOW GUYS BUTT HEADS.CNE WAS ON LEE PRESSING A KNIVE ON!
         HE CHEEK.SIIE FELT HER BLOOD TRICKLE OUT.
             “RACHEL~ “ MITCH SCREAMED.LEE BARED HER TEETHAND BROUGHT H-ER
         Fl T DOWN ONTO HIS HEAD.SHE TOUCHED HER CHEEK AND LOCKED AT HER H.~
             T WAS DRENCHED WITH BLOOD.THE NEXT GUY CAME STRAIGHT FOR THE WU
         WO D.SHE HELD CUT A FIST AND HE R.AIJIMED INTO IT.THEN DARLENE RAN 1
             “MILI~I” ~TAMIE CRIED.
         “ T’S DARLENEL” LEE SHOUTED.
         
              MILLI ROUNDED THE CORNER WAS FACED WITH HER HORROR. THERE STOC)
         CA~RINA AND STRIKER.SHE STOOD IN FIGHTING POSITIONAND DOWNED CATRF
         INI A SWEEP • THEN SHE PIN CHERTHE CENTRAL NERVE IN CATRINA’ S NECK
         AN~ SHE SLUMPED TO THE FLCOR.STRIKER WASN’T PLAYING GAMES ANYMORE
         D         SOT HER ARM AND IVIILLI HOWLED.SHE FORGOT SHE WAS FAKING
         4tLEN!.SHE PUNCHED HIS MOUTH HARD AND BLOOD SPIRTED CUT. SHE GRAB
         BE~ HER INJURED ARM AND CLAMBERED DOWN TO THE LIBRARY.BUT THERE W.~
         A PARTY GOING ON THERE TOO.THE RED,CRIMSICN BLOOD LEFT A DRAK STAN
         ON THE SUIT.JESSE I-lAD MOST OF THE GOONS DOWN.ONE LFT.MITCH DECKED
         H HARD.LEE SAW MILLI’S BLOOD AND FORGOT HER OWN .SHE RUSHED OVER
         J IE DISSAPPEARED UPSTAIRS TO GET A COLD CLOTH.MILLI’S VWSION WAS
         BL RRED,SHE WAS COLD AND WEAK.JESSE CAME TO HELP HIS FRIEND.AS HE
         LO KED AT HER,HE NOTICED THE TEARS BUT SHE DIDN’T WINCE.JUST THEN
         ST IKER DECENDED FROM THE CAVERN.HE LC( CKED SNUG.HIS GUM HAD BEEN
         RE WED.DARLENE WAS FUMING FOR SHE HAD LOST HER GUN TO HIM.HE
         LO ~KED AT THEM ALL HUDDLED AROUND MILII.HE WAS SURPRISED TO FIND ~
            SOF A TIGER EVEN THOUGH A TOTALLY DIFFERENT PERSON.HEP FACE SHO
         WE NO FEAR,NO PAIN.JUST HATREX.-STRIKER LAUGHED MERRILY.
            “ YOU ALL KIDS.YOU WERE WARNED NOT TO NESS WITH ME.CH YES BUT
         YC DIDN’T LISTEN,”
         
              JAMIE HAD HEARD STRIKER NOW SHE LOOKED FOR A WEAPON~SHE GRABB7~)
         A ~‘RYING PAN,SOME COCKING SPRAY AND CREPT TO ~IE LIBRARY.STRIKER W
         
        AT~MILLI. ON PROUDLY ABOUT HOW HE HAD WON THIS WAR.THEN HE LOCKED’
                   “KID IF YOU HAD STAYED AWAY’,YCU’D HAVE GROWN LIP TO BE ONE
        GOOD SPY’