Cinch vs. Sabrina
With a ringing still in her ears, Sabrina felt sickened by what she had seen in the Bloodbath. She had escaped with her life but there was still danger absolutely everywhere that she went it left her nervous, and agitated. She was lucky to find herself in the Erudite compound, one that she knew and before she could decide on her next move to make she felt herself tense up. Cason wields his sword in a fighting stance. The metal is heavier than the knives he’s used to, but he can adjust. Finch watches him curiously, her head turned slightly with a puzzled look. He stabs it through the air repeatedly, apparently learning how to use it. He’s still trapped in the emotionless void from the bloodbath. Finch isn’t sure if it’s a good place for him to be. Or if he can control it. But then again, he’s still functioning and responsive. Things could become worse, in a way.
“We need to keep moving.” Finch says. They only stopped momentarily so she could take a breather. The threat of the arena still persists despite making it out of the bloodbath. Cason nods his head, sliding his dagger into his boot, but keeping the sword in his hands.
They walk together in silence, heading north in the direction towards the navy pier. Both their senses are on high alert, ready for any threat. Behind her, Sabrina could hear noises, the sound of two people speaking made her heart pound at an alarming rate. She instantly recognised the two voices, one was Finch and the other, Cason. Both belonged to her Faction Erudite. The idea of asking them for an alliance almost made her laugh, any intelligent person would know that large alliances draw trouble and with three Erudite’s against the likes of the five Dauntless who had already shed blood it was pointless. They all had to die at some point, apart from one. ‘Its time to stop pretending that it won’t happen.’
Finch stops abruptly, her heart clenching for a moment. A figure moves, most likely hiding just a few past the building. She turns to Cason, who slides a finger across his throat, his eyebrows raised. She nods slowly, the adrenaline coursing through her body heightening.
“What’s the plan?” she whispers, keeping her eye on the person that looks to be Sabrina. The gears in Cason’s mind spin, thinking of every possible outcome.
“Disarm and hold her down…” He says. “Do anything to keep her still. Whoever takes the opportunity to kill – kills?”
Finch nods and the two of them race towards Sabrina, who has already realized she’s being hunted. She secures her pack on her shoulder and takes off, her dagger in hand.
Sabrina looked around at her surroundings assessing everything and decided that there weren’t many places to run. So she runs out of view and presses herself against the wall of a building, but unfortunately for her, she had been seen. She hadn’t anticipated them to be so out in the open, so when she stepped out they spotted her, and she just knew that they were coming in her direction. Her breathing became deeper and she could feel adrenaline starting to pump through her veins. ‘This is what real fear feels like.’ She thought to herself as she quickly yanked her backpack off and furiously searched through the pack for anything else that could help her. A dagger wasn’t going to be enough and she knew it. She picked things out of her pack, throwing the useless bacon and muffins on the floor before getting her hands on a wrench. She felt a sickening glee as her hands wrapped around the metal. This would help, but it wasn’t enough. She pulled out what looked like a flare gun and nodded her head. ‘This will do great.’ She thought to herself as she secured it in her trouser elastic. At close range the flare gun will do substantial damage, but it was going to be a last resort.
There was no point or effort in running away, so all she had to do was wait, injure one of them and hope the other stays to tend to their fallen ally giving her time to run away. There wasn’t much of a chance that this would happen but she was willing to try. She didn’t want anyone to die today by her hand. Not only were the voices getting closer, but so were the footsteps and they were so loud in her ears. Everything had gone into hypersensitivity. ‘Deep breath Sabrina, you don’t want to die of asphyxiation.’ she whispered to herself as their shadows approached.
Cason gains on Sabrina easily, turning the corner where he knows she’s disappeared behind. She counted to three and as soon as she saw Cason’s face poke round the side of the wall, she lifted the wrench with every inch of strength she possessed and swung it at his face. The wrench collided with the side of his face sending him on the floor. Sabrina took a step back shocked at what she had done and the Abnegation side of her wanted to see if he was okay, but she knew she couldn’t do that. She turned her back and took off towards the marshlands. It would be difficult to navigate themselves around the marshland and track her down with an injured member of the alliance. It was only logical.
"Grab her!" Sabrina turned around to see that Cason was sitting up, trying to stand with Finch hot on her tail. They were going to kill her. Finch had caught up with Sabrina by the time she had reached the end of the marshland, Finch grabbed onto the straps of Sabrina’s and yanked them as hard as she could pulling her to the ground, sending herself toppling down with her. Sabrina hit her head against the spongy grass of the marshland and groaned in pain. She did not sign up for this, she was not going to die like this. She saw Finch raise her dagger and attempt to stab her in the face but Sabrina pushed her hands out and clawed at her eyes and cheek in a desperate attempt to throw her off. Finch, getting real tired of Sabrina’s shit, pulled out her Taser to shock her when Sabrina’s eyes widened. If she sent those volts of electricity through her body, she was as good as dead. With Sabrina’s dagger too far away to grab, she lifted her knee up and managed to throw Finch off of her the second Finch pressed on her Taser. Finch’s body landed into the muddy water of the marshland. It is common knowledge to all Erudite that water is a great conductor of electricity and as her body hits the water the same time the electricity does, ten thousands of volts of electricity run through her body and a small wisp of smoke comes from her floating, dead body as the cannon signals.
Sabrina took a step back, taking in what she had just done and stifled a sob. She was a murderer, with dirty hands. And just when things couldn’t get worse, she heard the angry cries of Cason behind her. She turned around with a horrified look on her face at the blood still coming out of his head. With a sword in his hand, he charged at her slightly off his feet and knocked her into the marshland water. Almost swallowing the water, she managed to keep her head above water for a couple of seconds before Cason jumped in with her and tried to dunk her head and drown her in the water. By now, Sabrina was panicking. It wouldn’t be long until she gave up completely and let the water enter her lungs, but she refused to do that. She clutched onto her dagger tighter and swung wildly at him and as she connected with skin she felt him loosen his grip on her, and that was her time for escape. She pulled herself out of the water and went to run away when she heard him come after her again. He was now bleeding heavily out of his side and she was out of weapons. With nothing else left to do, but the sudden urge to survive, she pulled the flare gun out of her trouser elastic and shot the flare at him. A sudden bright light illuminated the space between them and Cason was thrown back into the marshland water to where his Finch was lying dead too. Seconds later a cannon fired to signal his death. It took Sabrina a couple of minutes to come to terms with what she had actually done. She had taken two lives, and there was no amount of medicine, or selflessness or acts of kindness that could bring them back. All she could do now was move on. She collected her things again, and the items of Cason and Finch before setting off deeper into the Erudite compound.
