City of Suits (not completed) By Reid H and Mira H

Chapter 8: Georgia

“So what do I do?” I asked Leo, confused.
        “Well you have to put your left hand here,” Leo said as he grabbed my left hand and directed it towards the weighted grip.
        “Okay, so where do I put my other hand then?” I asked cluelessly.
“Your right hand is the one that will grab the arrow, so when you aren't using it, it can just rest limply. When you are shooting, though, you will have to bend it over your shoulder and pick an arrow, like this,” he said while guiding my hand to the quiver, and closing my hands on an arrow.
        All I was doing was just practicing with the bow and its arrows with Leo for a while. He took me just far enough from the guards so that we could practice without alerting anyone.
        “Maybe we should practice with a moving target,” Leo suggested.
        “There aren't any animals around here. What would I try to hit?” I asked.
        “Me,” Leo said, flatly.
        “What do you mean?” I asked, alarmed.
        “I can be the moving target,” Leo said as if it were nothing.
        “No way! I’m not gonna aim at you with a deadly weapon,” I argued.
        “It’s fine,” Leo said, repositioning the bow in my hands, and walking in front of me about 10 yards away. He began slowly jogging back and forth. I aimed the arrow at Leo with shaking hands. Seriously, if I wasn’t so stressed I would read this boy’s mind to see what was wrong with his thought process.
        It all happened so quickly. I pulled the bowstring back, closed my eyes, exhaled, then in one instance I just let go.
        Unexpectedly, Leo stuck his left hand out, shifting the rest of his body,  and grabbed the arrow as it was spiraling inches from his face. I was amazed.
        “How did you do that?” I asked in wonder.
        “I have my ways,” He said, walking over to me and sliding an arrow back into the quiver that was on my shoulder. We did that a couple more times, every time Leo caught the arrow. I surprisingly got pretty good at aiming and shooting. All of a sudden we heard footsteps.
        “Hey! Who’s over there?” A deep threatening voice came closer and closer.
        “Come on!” Leo whispered.
        I picked up my bag and ran towards a tall thick tree that looked like it had been struck by lightning. Half the tree was missing. It was the perfect hiding place. I stepped into the trunk of the tree and pulled Leo in beside me. We stood in the broken tree trunk for what seemed like a million years when we heard the same gruff voice mutter to himself, “My mind must be playing tricks on me again.”
        Once the man was far enough away, Leo said, “Could you let go now?”
        “What do you mean?” I asked.
        I looked down at my hand and realized that it had interlocked with Leo’s. “Sorry,” I said in a slightly embarrassed tone.
        He just laughed. We walked over to the place we had been practicing before the guard heard us.
        “Okay I think we should come up with an actual plan,” I said, trying to get back on topic.
        “You’re right,” Leo agreed.
        “Okay, so I think that we should use the same plan that we used before. All we need to do is take out the guards and then blow up the walls, but the only problem that we have is there are a lot more than two guards blocking the wall this time,” I explained.
        “Yeah. I agree. It looks like there are eight guards over there. At least that I can see.” Leo said, trying to look around a tree.
        “Okay. how about I try to uproot another tree as a distraction, then you start a fire over there,” I said. “Then we can take out the leftover guards.”
        “Then we can blow up the wall together,” I said happily.
        “Perfect,” Leo said, just as happy as I had.
        We walked over a bit closer to the guards. I focused my eyes on one large tree as Leo walked over to the other side of the guards, and began to light a fire. After a couple of minutes, some smoke appeared from the direction that Leo had gone. Three guards ran away getting their high-tech guns ready. The commanders shouted a couple of demands to the remaining guards. I focused as hard as I could.
        Then a familiar thing began to happen. The tree started to vibrate as Leo ran up behind me. The tree was coming loose from the ground. I was expecting the tree to fall away from the guards, but it fell in the opposite direction. It hit two more guards. It at least knocked them unconscious. Two of the three guards ran in the direction of where the tree was previously rooted in the ground.
        “Keep watch!” One of the guards that were running away shouted.
I could tell that the remaining guard was new because he looked terrified.
“Come on!” Leo said in a rushed whisper.
Once we were there, Leo knocked out the last guard the same way that he did last time as I set up my bomb contraption. I lit the bomb and grabbed Leo’s hand. We ran. We ran as fast as we could.
The bomb went off. BOOM! It was just as loud as the last two times, but this time it seemed different.