Cinder and ash was as that's left of town square. The limp bodies of families burning were all over the place. Including some that were still alive, and writhing in pain. Lukas' fist clenched, as he watches shop signs fall to the ground and burn. A woman, with third degree burns all over her body, reached out with all her strength towards Lukas' leg; saying: "please… save us…" whilst struggling to stay alive.
Lukas backed away for a second, not wanting to get burned himself, and watched as she took her last breath.
They were all reasonably horrified, especially Arthur. He decided the best course of action would be to go deeper in. Drew grabs onto the back of his shirt, just before making it over there.
"What are you doing?!" Drew was flabbergasted. The same said with Ethan.
"Did you dumbasses already forget?! Braxton's most likely in there somewhere!!" He frantically was trying his best to make Drew let go; he wouldn't budge at all though, which is crazy for him. Ethan and Lukas both noticed it too, seeing that he all of a sudden got some sort of power boost.
Lukas, like a drone, walked forward. Drew tried to pull him back as well ,but he just moved his own hand away, and slapped Drew's pretty hand. He was shocked, until Lukas walked further in, and flipped him off halfway through.
The smoke and ash filled up Lukas lungs. He was coughing like an absolute maniac. Then, he noticed that Ethan was right next to him. With him holding his breath as long as he could. Drew and Arthur were also behind them, not wanting to split up so soon this time. Especially with how dangerous this place is right now. With every single building, and person outside burning to death.
The streets were filled with the chard and scared remains of people who were doing nothing wrong. Innocent people who have committed not a single crime, or sin. What such people deserve such punishment, the world will never know.
Arthur was going through it with the sights to behold. Drew had to put a hand over his eyes, and guide him through. Or else he would glance with curiosity like he didn't know what he was going to see somehow. He was just torturing himself for no good reason, and it was pissing Drew off a little on the inside; he had to stay calm and collected though. He had to be a leader through thick and thin, no matter how hard it got. So that's what he did, he took charge for once.
Lukas gets shoved to the side, and bumped into Ethan. He looks forward to seeing that Drew was now in the front, in charge. Arthur also came up from behind, and walked parallel to Lukas. With him now having to take the role of guidance for Arthur.
They make it to a specific burning building. It looked to be a car repair store from what Lukas could tell. His heart dropped, and memories came flooding back in. All that was happening right up until Lukas could feel Arthur shaking violently behind his hand. He looked down a little bit, and this was the first time that Arthur showed an exceptional amount of emotion, way more than he could ever muster if he tried.
Before they could dare stop him, Arthur was already on the move.
"Wait! Stop right there mister!!" Drew tried to yell at him, and stop him; but Arthur was determined, he wasn't going to let another one like her die in his hands. Not again, never again.
He got over to the open garage door, and saw that the entire area was engulfed in flames. He wiggled his way through the none deadly passage that was conveniently there like some firefighter, and made it to the back door. With a couple hard kicks at the door, it swung open, with smoke bellowing out like crazy. His lungs were going to have to take weeks to recover from this.
A couple of random beams fell down when he opened the door also, and he heard a muffled scream following it. He recognized that voice, being from Charlie. He didn't hear anyone else though. He followed that same voice that sounded like heaven in his ear, over to some wooden planks.
He struggled to move them at first, but when he heard the whimpering of Charlie, he knew what to do.
With all the strength he had, he managed to move those two wooden planks to the side. A little bit of burning in the process unfortunately. We move to though. Charlie, with crazed eyes, looked up at Arthur, to see half of his shirt on fire, and with a worried look on his face. She looked around, and made some weird noises, but Arthur didn't care at the moment. He picked her up, and wiggled his way back through the fiery mess, wondering where the other two were. After some more fire, they made it out unscathed, or at least for Charlie.
"Holy shit!! What the hell is wrong with you?!" Drew ran to him, and looked at half on his torso and right arm being burned. Arthur just sets Charlie down the best he could, saying: "See… I fucking care about people… you dickheads…!" before coughing, and falling onto his knees, that's when he saw the fire engulfing half of his body, and he was horrified. Ethan thought quick, and poured some water that he somehow had on him, onto Arthur's body. The fire dissolved, and what was left was a burned shirt, and a charred up torso. It honestly looked pretty badass, if it didn't hurt this much.
"No… no, no, no no no nonononono!!!!!" Charlie screamed, as she started to crawl her way back over the burning repair shop. "CHARLES! CRANDPA!!!! Get out of THERE!!!!" She wailed, as tears streaked her face.
Arthur tried to come over to her, and give her a hug or something, but she just frantically pushed him away, and onto the ground, saying: "how could you! HOW COULD YOU NOT SAVE US ALL!!!!! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!!!!" He backed away at the sound of that, before changing his mind, and forcefully wrapping his arms around her, whether she liked it, or not.
"They're already gone! I didn't hear them—"
"Liar! LIAR!!!" She cuts him off before seeing Lukas, and Drew, and screaming. "I KNEW IT! IKNEWITIKNEWITIKNEWITIKNEWITIKNEWIT!!!! You're with them!! You want to kill us all!!! You traitors!!!" Arthur covered her mouth with his hand, and put his head onto her shoulder. Age tired to protest, but his grip tightened.
"PLEASE! Listen to me! I would NEVER hurt you! I-I swear!!!" This was all way too much for someone like him, but as long as she stays like this, he won't stop any time soon. "Let me help you!! For fuck sake! LET. ME. HELP. YOU!!!"