LA DIOSA ➪ RICHIE GECKO

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"Masina," a voice says, shaking me awake. "Masina."

I open my eyes and see Seth standing over me with a nervous expression on his face. I sit up. "Where is Richard?" I ask, looking around.

"That bitch took him." he sneers. Kisa. I now remember everything that happened. Kisa trying to convince Richard to come with her, him being shot. Oh my god. Richard. He was shot.

"We need to find him." I say.

"We will." Seth says nodding. I pick up my arm to see if the veins are still green and they're not.

"I'm not green anymore." I say in relief.

"About that..." Seth trails off and I look to him. "Your eyes still are." he tells me and I gasp. Picking up a piece of glass, I look into it and see that the green has died down, but still there.

Groaning, I place my head on the ground. I'm feeling well which is surprising considering I just got thrown across the room and hit my head and back on a bar.

"We think we have a way out." he tells me and I nod. Helping me up, he walks us over to a trap door.

"Do you think you can stand on your own?" he asks asks me.

"Yes." I say nodding.

"Good." he says and opens a trap door.

"You and your brother are going to dangle for a rope." a voice yells and I look to see the ranger tied up.

"We can't leave him." I say and Seth shakes his head.

"He's been bitten. We have to leave." he says and I give the ranger a sympathetic look. We all crowd over a trap door where the dancers were throwing bikers into. Taking a steak, Seth pries it open. We can hear a machine of some sort working below it.

"'All right, hold on a second. Let me think out loud. There was a chain hanging from the pool table. We can wrap that around a crossbar and use it to cantilever each one of us down. If we double the chain up, should give us about 200 pounds of tensile strength." Tanner says.

"Yeah, you keep working on that, MacGyver." Seth states, dropping down into the hole.

"Or... You could do that." I shrug.

"Come on in, guys. Water's fine." Seth yells up. "I guess."

Tanner drops down next and I can hear yelling. It's my turn next and I drop down into the hole. There is blood covering everything and I almost slip.

"'Careful. Careful." Seth tells me, holding out his arm. "This is a grinder." Tanner has a bag in his hand and Seth tells him to throw it. Just as he does, I slip and fall into him. Tanner drops the bag and it goes into the grinder.

"Oopsie Daisy." I smile innocently.

"Oopsie Daisy? No. You don't get to say "Oopsie Daisy". You just friggin' killed us." he yells at me and I hold my hands up in defense.

"I'm sorry! I slipped!" he just glares at me. "It's not like this place isn't covered in blood or something." I say obviously.

"Yeah. Just come on." he says. I jump across the gap and just as I'm about to fall into the grinder, Seth catches me and pulls me to him.

"Hey, guys!" Kate yells.

"Kate, I got you girl." Tanner says as Kate slowly drops down. "See? Chivalry isn't dead." she rolls her eyes at the comment.

"Come on, Dad." she yells to her father. "You got it."

Jacob falls down the tunnel, injuring his foot. "Oh, God. You okay?" Kates asks and he nods.