Chasing Daylight 5

Chapter five

The moment she heard the sirens begin to blare; Cheyenne knew they had to get out of there. Quick. She looked at Warning, who was standing boldly up on a tall bank. She gave a small wolf’s smirk and her thoughts rung into Cheyenne’s head, whenever you’re ready.
“What going on here?” The lead police man shouted in bad English. He was carrying a small coffee cup and then, Cheyenne had an idea.
She leaned into Sam and whispered so no one else would hear, “Warning’s going to jump from there and attack when you give the signal.” Sam nodded. Cheyenne concentrated hard at the coffee cup for a few seconds. She gave a small snap of her fingers and the glass sup shattered and spilled boiling coffee all over the man.
“Now!” Sam ordered Warning. Warning took a running leap off the building and the crowd silenced. She had estimated her distance well because she landed right on top of the fat police chief. He shrieked and fell over. Warning was quick and grabbed the man’s police badge and hair and ran off at a human pace with it. Her thoughts once again rang into Cheyenne’s head; we have to get out, they could haul us off to jail.
“Warning drop it!” Cheyenne commanded and Warning comprehended instantaneously. “Cover your ears,” She murmured to Sam and they both did as Warning stopped and let out a tremendous bark. Sam ran and scooped up Shade while Cheyenne walked over to the English reporter.
“Give me that,” She muttered as she yanked the camera out of her hands. The woman let out a surprised gasp but didn’t fight back.
“Come on Warning!” Sam yelled as they ran off once again.
***
“Let’s rest here,” Cheyenne told Sam. Warning nodded. Sam put Shade down and they all stopped and Warning gave herself a quick shake and changed into a human.
“What’s with that look?” She asked Cheyenne as she stared at her transformation.
Cheyenne shook her head, “Sorry, I’m just not used to it quite yet.”
“That’s all right.”
“What you did back there was remarkable,” Sam complimented her. “You saved all of us.”
“Look whose talking. You were the one with the plan. And you,” Warning turned to Cheyenne, “That was a brilliant escape plan you had there. It was pretty fun taking that guys hair and jumping off a building.”
Sam was looking down, “I didn’t think, I just did. And I paid the conscience.”
Cheyenne knew how Sam felt and her thoughts rung into her head, I killed her. I’m a murderer.
“No your not!” Cheyenne blurted out.
“Yeah, I am,” Sam stared down.
“She was till breathing!” Cheyenne insisted. Sam looked like she felt a bit better.
“We should get going,” Warning told them urgently. Sam picked up Shade again and Warning transformed back into a wolf. They started east again and before long Cheyenne could pick up the scent of blood heavy on the air. She quickly overtook Warning and headed towards where her senses told her to go. They came to a dark forest and the scent grew still stronger.
“Split up,” Cheyenne told the others. “Look for Dawn. Sam, take Shade with you. Warning, bark the loudest you can if you find something.” They all split up in different directions and soon enough, a bark came, followed by the ground shaking from Warning’s sound waves. Cheyenne ran toward the center of the barking, stopped and drew in a sharp breath. Dawn was lying on the ground with a large wound on her left arm and a black and blue face. Blood lapped at Cheyenne’s feet and she heard something crashing though the underbrush.
“Whose there?” She shouted. “Show yourself!”
Her reply was a pair of light blue eyes in the shadows and someone’s breath quickening, “Wh-what happened?” Sam emerged from the bracken and underbrush and Shade, who’d seemed to regain conscious, followed her. He collapsed onto his knees when he saw Dawn and took her hand in his.
“This is my fault!” He wailed. “Mine.”
Sam came to stand beside him, “And how would you have foreseen it? You could do nothing.”
Warning sat down and tipped her head up and let out a loud, unnatural howl. Cheyenne jumped and there was more crashing bracken. She looked at Warning and saw she’d transformed again. There was more barking and six wolfs appeared.
“Come on, Cheyenne,” She beckoned with her tail and sat on one of the wolf’s backs.
“Don’t do that, you’ll hurt it!” Warning got up, picked up Cheyenne without any struggle and dragged her onto the wolf.
“Hold on tight!” Warning told her as she got on behind her. The wolf began running faster than any animal on earth.
“Is this a wolf or some kind of science fiction animal?” Cheyenne yelled over the wind.
“No,” Warning laughed. Cheyenne let out a screech of terror as bright, flaming, fire colored wings unfolded from nowhere and the wolf took off in full flight. “It’s a phoenix!”
Cheyenne screamed again as the winged wolf- or phoenix- broke from the top of the forest and soared high into the sky. Cheyenne clung desperately onto its furry, silver neck.
“Tell it to go left!” Warning told her. Cheyenne lightly poked the phoenix/wolf with her left heel of her shoe. It changed its course and flew a little to the left.
“Cheyenne!” She heard someone call behind her. She turned and saw Shade on another wolf with Sam holding onto him. Good God, she’s fearless! Cheyenne thought as Sam smiled and waved. They were gaining on them and so was Dawn who was on another wolf, barely conscious. Dawn pulled up behind her and Warning whispered in Cheyenne’s ear, “You’ve got it now. I’m going to ride with Dawn.” She leapt onto the other wolf and took the control from Dawn.
“Where are we going?” Cheyenne asked, raising her voice over the wind.
“To the nearest Time-Space hole!” Shade answered her.
All of a sudden, Cheyenne found herself tumbling out of the sky as the wolf she’d been riding on got shot down. She fell rapidly but was grabbed by Sam who was also holding onto Shade.
“You’ll have to thank me for saving your life later,” Sam told her sarcastically.
“What the?!” Warning seemed startled. She and Dawn were the only two still up in the air.
“It’s all right I know where to go!” Shade called to her as him, Sam and Cheyenne fell in a triangle formation. They landed in the middle of Kyoto a few seconds later, Shade first, Sam onto Shade, and Cheyenne falling on top of the two of them.
“Hi there,” A voice said. No! We’ve had too many encounters today! Shade stiffened, got up and ran. Cheyenne didn’t even look back. There was more than one of them. Seconds later, they were in an intersection and with a zap six others appeared in front of them. The three rapidly glanced around.
“There!” Cheyenne exclaimed as she spotted a man getting out of a large silver Ferrari.
“We’ll be taking that!” Cheyenne shoved the man out of the way and stole his keys.
“I’ll drive,” Shade said as he got in on the left side. He looked surprised when he saw the steering wheel on the right side.
“I don't know where you come from,” Cheyenne got in, shoved the key into the ignition and floored the gas. "But, we're in Japan." She heard the backdoor slam behind her and Sam flop into the back seat just as the car shot down the road.
“They’re on us!” Sam told the two with large, panicked eyes. “Cheyenne, you don’t have a license!”
“Well, I’m not waiting around for four years! We’ll be dead by then!” Cheyenne told Sam as she concentrated hard on driving. “Where do we go from here, Shade?”
“I-I don’t quite know!” Cheyenne slammed on the breaks as she almost ran a red light.
“You said you knew where we’re going!”
“Cheyenne!” Sam pointed and Cheyenne swerved to narrowly avoid hitting a small car.
“Don’t you have a GPS in here or something?” Shade asked sounding scared of Cheyenne’s driving.
“This isn’t my car!”
“Cheyenne!” Sam yelled again as the glass shattered in the back window shattered and a bullet fell just short of Sam’s head as she ducked.
“Cheyenne, does this thing go any faster?” Shade asked Cheyenne urgently.
“Here we go!” Cheyenne pressed the petal to the floor as hard as she could. Hope no one is watching! Cheyenne thought as the speedometer reached three-hundred kilometers per hour. She took a sharp turn down a dark ally and heard glass shatter in someone else’s car. Good, it worked.
“Your phone!” Sam suggested randomly.
“My what?” Cheyenne burst out of the ally and onto a street with little shops set up on it.
“Your phone, the one Mr. Wolf bought for you!” Cheyenne understood. She dug around in her pocket and threw her phone to Shade who flipped it open and began playing around with the touch screen.
“Alright, take a left up there,” Shade said calmly. A big truck rumbled down the road to Cheyenne’s left.
“I don’t quite think that’s possible!”
Unexpectedly, Shade rolled down his window and ripped a piece of metal from the top of the speeding car and held it to the left of Sam’s face. A bullet burst though the window and slammed to a stop against the hard, bulletproof metal.
“Sam!” Shade crawled into the back seat and hugged her tightly. There’s no time for romance right now! Cheyenne thought coldly. She could feel strong emotions of worry and love coming from both of them.
“We need to lose them!” Cheyenne told them, swinging a wide left. “Where now?”
“A couple miles this way,” Shade answered her from the back seat.
Cheyenne could hear sirens behind her but didn’t stop. Out of the front view mirror, she saw the six being hauled out of their truck and into the police car. Cheyenne heaved a sigh, they’d lost them. She slowed down a lot and drove at a normal speed out of Kyoto.
***
Hours later, Cheyenne looked at the clock. 10:52 PM. Shade was leaned against the right backseat window and Sam was leaning on him. They were both fast asleep as they’d been for hours. As soon as the clock turned to 11:53, Cheyenne’s cell phone rang, playing Curse of the Moon. She picked it up after the first couple words.
“Hello?” She asked quietly, careful not to wake up her two sleeping companions.
“Where the hell are you?” The person on the other end said loudly. Cheyenne recognized that voice.
“Keep it down,” She told Warning. “I’ve got Sam and Shade asleep in the back.”
“In the back? Cheyenne, did you steal a car?!”
“I told you to shut up! Yes I did steal a car; it’s a very nice car, in fact. How’d you find my cell number?”
“Shade.”
“Figures. I should be there in an hour or two. More if I get pulled over.”
“Don’t.”
Cheyenne hung up the phone and picked up speed a little bit. What’s going to happen now? Cheyenne questioned herself. Her life had been turned into a fantasy book in two short days and Cheyenne wasn’t sure if she liked it or not. I’m doing this for the best. She thought as she reached a speed of a hundred kilometers per hour.

“Hey, wake up,” Cheyenne shook Shade and Sam. “We’re here.”
“What time is it?” Sam questioned as her and Shade climbed clumsily out of the car. Warning was there waiting.
“Took you long enough,” She said impatiently, throwing Cheyenne and Sam their duffel bags and tossing Cheyenne the camera she’d stolen. “Now, open the trunk. If Shade’ll rewire the car we can most likely get through the portal.”
Cheyenne opened the trunk and Shade climbed into the driver’s seat and began to take the ignition apart. They had come off road to one of the most northern parts of Japan. They had the car parked about three meters from a meter high cliff that led to the ocean. Dawn was sitting at the edge of the cliff with her feet dangling over the side.
“Hey Dawn,” Shade called. “Could you get me my hacking tools, please?”
“Sure,” She answered and walked over to the pile of three bags still on the ground and heaved up the one that was black.
“Thanks,” Shade took out a bunch of wires out of the bag and fumbled around for a few seconds before he removed the entire dashboard.
“Shade, don’t destroy the car!” Cheyenne protested.
“It’s all right, he knows what he’s doing,” Dawn told her, taking the dashboard from Shade. Shade took more wires from the bag and hooked up every one of them to the wiring already in the car. Lastly, he removed a large, heavy duty laptop and hooked the last wire up to it. He booted it up quickly and began typing what seemed to Cheyenne as random codes.
“All right,” Shade muttered to what seemed like himself. “Initiating auto heal sequence.” First, the car glowed and then the glow swept over it and then the all the broken windows and dents in the car had disappeared and been replaced with shiny, new paint and windows.
“Everything’s a go!” Shade stated proudly.
“Sam, Cheyenne, get the rest of the bags into the car!” They did as they were told and they all piled into the car with Cheyenne driving; Shade in the passenger’s seat with his computer and all his wires, and Warning, Dawn and Sam all in the back.
“Ready to take off?” Shade questioned Cheyenne with a gleam of mischief in his eyes.
“Just what do you mean by that?” Shade handed her the keys and Cheyenne jabbed them into the ignition.
“Now what?”
“Go.”
“But I’ll-!”
“Go!” Cheyenne pressed on the gas, careful not to floor it and they took off, falling off the cliff.
“I told you!” Cheyenne said defiantly.
“Are you trying to kill us all?!” Sam raised her voice from the backseat.
“Shade, come on. This isn’t funny. Don’t scare the poor girls,” Warning told him with a dry tone.
“Oh, alright,” Shade typed in more random code and just as Cheyenne floored the gas they went flying across the water. Cheyenne didn’t let up on the gas.
“How fast do we have to go?” Cheyenne asked. If they were going to break the time barriar they would have to go faster then time and sound combined.
"Hold on, girls!" Shade yelled as he typed in more random code. They shot off across the water at a high velocity and then gradually stopped.
"Shade?" Sam questioned. Cheyenne looked out the window and felt like throwing up. The world was a blur.
"Sam, Cheyenne, girls, welcome to the space-time continum," Shade proclaimed proudly. "Now, hold onto your lunch!" More tapping. The car jolted and accelerated faster or, was it slowing down? They were going faster than anything on earth and Cheyenne gripped onto the steering wheel as if her life depended on it. And it probably did.
There was a sound of glass shatteringand then total blackness.