Eye of the Storm

Eye of the Storm

*****

Peter's idea of a BBQ under the stars was met with cheers and a few meaningful glances from most of the girls who immediately started to imagine all kinds of romantic scenes with them as the star of their imagination. That is until Peter said the idea was to go back to the ranger station. Some of the girls weren't keen on returning for various reasons and they started to argue about it. Chloe ignored the argument and walked after Zack. She knew something was up the moment she saw him enter the cabin with the boys.

Zack and Gavin went back to their room and quickly started packing their backpacks. Chloe walked in right after them. Zack and Chloe looked at each other, their gaze communicating so much more than simple words ever could. Chloe's eyes grew wide as she felt the fear sink in.

"It'll be alright," Zack assured her, making a promise he didn't know if he could keep.

Chloe nodded, understanding what he meant, "I'll get ready, and tell the others to hurry," she said and ran off.

"When did she start using those shorts?" Gavin unknowingly asked out loud as he stared at the pair of tight shorts stretched across her ass and the sliver of flesh exposed below the bottom hem of her borrowed shorts.

"Dude!" Zack said giving his friend a sharp look.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to say that out loud," Gavin said sheepishly as he blushed, "It's just that I never... she... I'll shut up."

"No. It's okay, I'm sorry, it's not your fault. I'm just really worried about all this." Zack said he realized that the situation was making him really tense and that his friend was probably also processing the change in Chloe, "So yeah, I get it. Seeing her, like really seeing her like that... It surprised me too." Thinking about Chloe made him close his eyes as he remembered her naked body wrapped around him. "She's just so hot," he whispered in awe as his mind took him back to Chloe.

Gavin nodded in agreement as he finished with his backpack. He mostly agreed with Zack although his mind was also elsewhere with other girls. He wondered if he should let things happen and let them play out or if he should take the lead.

"Look, it's just that... It's been really crazy," Zack said, the tone in his voice clearly showing he was sorry for snapping at Gavin.

"Yeah I know," Gavin said shaking his head, "Tell me about it!" He was still trying to wrap his head around everything. 'Does a blow job count as losing my virginity?' he asked himself.

"I... I don't know? I don't think so," Zack said looking at his friend, "Wait! Who was it?"

"Nothing!" Gavin answered way too quickly. He hadn't realized he had spoken out loud.

"Who gave you a blowjob?" Zack asked looking at his friend with renewed curiosity.

"I... I can't say," Gavin said as he motioned zipping his mouth and throwing away the key.

Zack squinted his eyes as he looked at Gavin with curiosity. He wondered who could have been the girl that gave him a blowjob. The only girls he had with Gavin had been with, besides Chloe, were Meagan, Ashley, and maybe Heather. He couldn't ever imagine any one of them giving him a blowjob. "Okay, maybe you can tell me later," Zack said chuckling, "but next time, don't think out loud, she might not like you spilling the beans like that."

The two finished repacking their backpacks, and the last thing they did was strap on their sgian dubh. Gavin was strapping his dagger to his to his belt when he saw Zack strap his own to his ankle. "Isn't it uncomfortable there?" he asked.

"A little, but you get used to it," Zack said with a shrug, pulling his pants over the dagger, "besides, it's the traditional way they used it."

"Oh right!" Gavin said remembering the story Chloe's father had told them about the sgian dubh and the tradition behind them when he gave them as a gift. He quickly readjusted his own sgian dubh and strapped it to his ankle before following Zack back to the living room.

Just before they left their room Zack gave Gavin a sly glance and asked him "You think Chloe's hot?" Gavin just bit his lower lip and nodded in admiration. Somehow it made Zack feel proud knowing that his girlfriend was really hot.

*********

"Well! Well! Well! Going somewhere so soon?" a tall masked man asked from the patio doorway.

The teens turned around and looked in confusion. The tall masked man entered from the patio doors flanked by another two men and a woman, Across the room another three men entered from the front door and a giant bear of a man was blocking the hallway to the garage. All of them wore masks to hide their faces.

The teens were shocked by the sudden intrusion, for a moment none of them did or said anything. It was as if their minds refused to accept the reality their eyes were seeing. Brandon was one of the first to react and he made to charge the tall man who happened to be in the closest group to him.

"I wouldn't do that Brandon!" one of the men next to the tall guy said, he was pointing a gun at him.

Some of the girls screamed and Brandon froze, partly from seeing the gun, but mostly because he thought he recognized the voice coming from the second man. 'It can't be.' he thought in disbelief and confusion. A part of his mind refused to believe what the other part was telling him.

"Not a great idea." the second man said, almost laughing at the football player. Brandon's eyes narrowed in fury as he realized that he did, in fact, know him. He balled his fist as he stared down the barrel of the gun pointing at him. He briefly wondered if Dylan would really pull the trigger on him. He felt Ashley grip his arm and decided not to test it as he stood in front of her.

"Shut up!" the first man said to the second man. He gestured with gun over to the side, "Now, everyone calm down and nobody gets hurt, much." They couldn't see his face under his mask but they could all imagine the sneer on his face. The masks made it impossible to see their reaction but the way a few of them were rubbing their hard-ons in their pants was enough to make it obvious what they had in mind.

"I'm gonna kill you!" Brandon shouted at Dylan.

"Temper Temper! Is that any way to treat your guests?" the tall man mocked Brandon while he made a show of racking his pistol and pointing at him, "We're just here to pay a visit, who knows, maybe we can all have some fun. But if you're going to be such a bore it's really gonna kill the mood."

"Shawn," Hannah heard Peter hiss under his breath as he recognized the voice. Hannah had guessed that the woman next to the tall man was Kendra, or someone who had the same shapely figure. So if that was Shawn then yea, Kendra was here.

The girls clustered behind the boys in the center of the room, the terror in their eyes was enough to bring a grin to some of the intruders. The boys tried to keep calm but even they felt helpless with so many guns pointed at them.

"Now C'mon," Shawn urged them as he pointed towards Hannah and Taylor's bedroom, "Girls to the left. Boys to the right," he said almost cheerfully.

"What do we do?" Zack heard Gavin whisper next to him. He could hear the fear in his voice, the same fear that froze his blood.

"I don't know," Zack said as he watched the men with guns. It didn't seem they could do anything against them, not with their guns pointing at them, not with the girls behind them. All they had were a pair of sgian dubh. They had to surprise them, but how?

From the corner of his eyes, he saw Gavin try to bend down to reach for the dagger. Zack grabbed his elbow to stop him, "Don't let them find the daggers," Zack whispered to Gavin, "We got to find the right moment," he added just before their captures started to herd them into the bedrooms.

As if to hammer home the point, Trent tried to push back against the single tall guy coming from the hallway that led to the garage. Only for him to easily block Trent with a clothesline across his chest and slam him into the ground. He picked Trent off the floor and easily shoved him toward the rest of the teens while some of the girls screamed in fright.

Shawn, Kendra, and Dylan laughed as they shoved the girls into Taylor's bedroom. "Make sure they're tied up like I told you!" Shawn ordered as he pushed one of the intruders away, a thin lanky boy, one who had been rubbing his hardon through his pants and seemed all too eager to follow the girls. "Move Arty!" Shawn repeated himself as he shoved him away. "Help them out."

****

The boys were shoved into Zack and Gavin's room and made to sit up against the wall. They were terrified, not only of the guns pointed at them but more so about what would happen to the girls in the other room. Then they started by putting duck tape on the boys' wrists.

"Didn't Shawn say we had to tie their hands behind their backs?" one of the masked intruders asked.

"Will you shut up Tommy," The large man ordered him as he kept his gun pointed at the teens, especially at Brandon and Trent.

"Sorry Matt," the intruder called Tommy apologized to the large intruder.

"Don't worry about it!" the intruder using the duck tape said, "Instead of just hanging around like a rag, help me out so we can get to the girls faster."

"Ok John," the intruder called Tommy mumbled as he clumsily tried to wrap the ducktape around their ankles. He didn't notice how Zack and Gavin turned their feet inward giving them a little extra room for the sgian dubh tied to the inside of their ankles.

"Who do you guys want?" the last intruder said and he came into the room, "I want that big titty blonde."

"I think Shawn wants her," the one called Matt said, his eyes focused on the two football players.

"Damm," the newest guy said slightly disappointed, "who can I have?"

"I call dibs on the redhead," the one called Matt hissed as he bit his lip, "Love to break in that cherry and paint her tits," he closed his eyes and gave a little shudder in anticipation, and he completely missed the way Zack's eyes narrowly focused on him even as he felt a low growl of fury rumble in his core.

"Can I have that short girl?" the one called Tommy asked

"Dude, you can have whatever you want," the one called John said looking over his shoulder as he hastily and clumsily finished wrapping the duct tape around Gavin's ankle

The intruders left the room and the teens could hear them lock the door. They also heard them bicker for a while on the other side of the door but they were too busy trying to undo their binds to listen to what they were arguing about.

Most tried to tear off the duct tape on their hands with their teeth but Zack and Gavin were working with something else. Zack struggled to pull up his pants to get at his dagger while Gavin had a much easier job because he had managed to keep his ankles spread wider than his toes and that let him reach his sgian dubh faster. That and the sloppy job the one called John had done in his haste to go after the girls. Haste that the boys needed right now to save them.

The first thing Gavin did when he freed his sgian dubh from its sheath was to cut the tape around his ankles. For a moment he wondered how he could cut the tape around his hands when he remembered that the others could do it for him. He quickly spun around and helped free Zack's hands and feet before his own.

"Hurry up Gav!" Brandon desperately urged him to move faster, his sister and girlfriend were in the other room about to have the unthinkable happen to them.

"Free them, then follow me!" Zack told Gavin as tossed his dagger at Brandon's feet. He ripped off the rug in the middle of the room. To everyone's surprise, they saw him unlock the latch on a trap door almost nobody knew the cabin had, except for Gavin and Peter.

"Where're you going!" Brandon cried out in horror as his imagination started to run wild thinking Zack was going to flee and leave them there.

"I'm going to get Chloe," he said as he started down the stairs. He paused for a moment, looking at the wall, looking towards where he knew they had taken the girls. Fear and worry were written all over his face. He knew they didn't have much time, Chloe didn't have much time. "Hurry!" he said before he dropped down and ran knowing Chloe was terrified and needed him.

****

Shawn and Dylan pointed their guns at the girls, shoving them inside the room while Kendra started filming with a portable camcorder. The girls squealed and screamed as they were pushed and shoved into the bedroom. They all huddled around each other against the wall. Taylor swallowed hard as she put herself in front of them and tried to put on a brave face for all in spite of the terror she felt. She wanted nothing more than to curl up in a corner and disappear but she couldn't abandon her friends like that.

"Relax," Shawn said soothingly, "We're just going to have some... fun. It's not like you haven't been having any fun. Cause... you have been having fun right?"

"Fuck off Shawn!" Hannah yelled at him.

"Tsk, tsk, What a potty mouth you have," Shawn shook his head as if he were disappointed, "And here I thought You had learned something from Kinkaid." He added taking off his mask and sneering at her, "Well, I guess it's no surprise coming from the dirty slut you are. I think it's time to teach you some manners." He started unzipping his pants, "Like learning when to keep your slutty mouth shut!"

The other intruders came and joined them at that moment. "They're all tied up." one of them said.

"Did you morons at least leave someone to guard them?" Shawn said with disdain.

"Relax," Matt said looking at the girls, "Tommy's back there."

"You should have stayed back there," Shawn said.

"And miss my chance with the redhead?" Matt shot back at Shawn, "No fucking way. I'm not taking sloppy seconds with her." The two stared at each other for a moment before Shawn shrugged and gestured toward the girls inviting him forward.

Matt started moving towards Chloe while the others started taking off their pants. Their crude comments only added to what they already feared was about to happen. In their haste, most just dropped their guns to the floor to take off their pants.

While the girls quivered in fright and Hannah boldly stepped forwards and struck a seductive pose as she cocked her hips sideways and pushed her breast forward. "No need to rush guys. If you want I can give you all the fun you need." She licked her lips as she looked at them seductively, her hands tracing her curves for them to notice her and hopefully ignore the other girls, "Willing pussy is much better than what you'll get with them." she added gesturing to the other girls.

Heather saw Hannah move forward and entice the guys. She was confused as to why she would do such a thing till she got the gist of what Hannah was trying to do, distract the guys and maybe give the other girls a chance to escape. "HEY! Don't hog up everything!" she cried out as she pretended to be offended. "You're always taking everything!" she added moving up next to Hannah. She looked at the guys and struck her own pose, hefting her full breast and jiggling them towards them as an offering, "I'm the best you guys will ever have."

The rest of the girls looked at Hannah and Heather in horror s they wondered how could they offer themselves to them. Taylor was the first to understand what Hannah was planning and whispered to the girls, "Get ready to run."

'Looks like that compound is working with some of the girls,' Kendra thought as she filmed the way the two cheerleaders pretended to try and seduce the guys. 'Of course it would be the cheersluts' she giggled to herself. She never found out till much later that Dylan had totally botched the use of the Aphrodite compound,.

Most of the guys stared at Hannah and Heather, drawn to them like moths to a flame. Like a pack of hyenas, they started to circle their prey. They were about to pounce on both of them when something else distracted them.

"Fucking bitch" They heard Matt curse and saw Chloe standing before him, her trembling hand holding her sgian dubh straight before her for a moment before Matt easily slapped it out of her hand. The girls started to scream again as Matt grinned with lustful hunger, "This is going to be fun."

****

"Where did he go?" Brandon cried out in horror.

"SHH! They're listening outside," Gavin hissed as he finished cutting Brandon's binds. "Keep quiet!"

"I think I know what Zack's thinking," Peter added. He knew all about the hidden basement, the tunnels, and where they went. He knew there were two exit tunnels down there and the other entrance to the basement. He felt sure that he knew what Zack had in mind.

Gavin gave Brandon Zack's dagger and whispered, "Free the others and follow Zack."

Brandon and Gavin quickly cut through the duck tape and freed the others, a little surprised at how easily the sharp daggers cut through the tape. They jumped down the trapdoor and found themselves in a well-lit, but almost empty room. It was easily half the size of the cabin's footprint with two tunnels leading away and a door that led to another area of the basement.

Gavin ran, leading them through the doorway to another, larger room that seemed to be right under the living room and kitchen and maybe even reached almost under the garage. He led them to another staircase that led back up to the cabin.

Climbing up they found themselves inside the storage area where Zack recovered his sgian dubh and started handing them the handful of gardening tools they had, shovels, hoes, and rakes. They heard the girls scream in fright and Brandon made to bolt before Zack blocked him.

"What the fuck Zack!" Brandon started to say when Zack held up his hand to stop him.

"Someone has to take care of the guy with the gun outside our room while we go for the girls," Zack said looking around, "If we don't he'll shoot us in the back." They all looked at each other. It was a scary idea to have to go up against anyone with a gun armed with just a shovel.

"Fine, I'll do it," Kurt said as he noticed the guys tended to look at him. "But I want you all to say that it was my idea."

Brandon nodded and said "Let's roll!" as they all started running after him. They pounded down the hallway **** to rescue their loved ones. As they reached to doorway they heard Tommy cry out in alarm, "Shawn! They disappeared!"

"What do you mean they disappeared?" Shawn shot back in confusion, but it was already too late, the teens were already upon them.

Kurt made a clumsy swipe at Tommy with his rake. The other boy barely managed to lean back and avoided getting hit on the head but not enough. The rake struck his hand, pushing it down and out of the way but not before the gun went off like a thunderbolt inside the cabin.

Inside the bedroom everything was chaos. With a cry of fury, Brandon led the charge swinging his shovel followed by Trent and Zack right behind him. They struck the intruders around Hannah, forcing them backward as they tried to get away. Matt took a hit on his shoulder but then grabbed Brandon and threw him across the room just before Zack struck him with another shovel.

The girls screamed and scattered, running everywhere sowing more confusion as they tried to avoid the intruders, the swinging garden tools and each other as they scrambled to get out of the room.

Unarmed and taken by surprise the intruders were easily overpowered and knocked out by the boys. They vaguely heard Shawn shout something and with a giant bellow, Matt charged across the room pushing the teens aside and clearing a path as he ran from the room followed by Shawn, Kendra, and Dylan.

Suddenly everything went very quiet. The only sounds were the moans of pain coming from the downed intruders while the teens panted to catch their breaths. They all looked around at each other, relieved at having survived the terror. They reached out to hug each other when someone cried out.

"They took her!" Someone suddenly yelled, "Shawn took her!" Everyone raced outside where they could see Shawn handing off a struggling female figure over to Matt as they ran to the forest.

Zack looked over at Chloe for a moment, just enough to make her understand. "Stay here!" Zack ordered as he ran off in pursuit carrying his shovel like a spear. For a moment everyone looked in shock as Chloe ran off after him.

Brandon hesitated for a moment, It was crazy for Zack to go after them alone. "Stay here! Protect the girls!" Brandon repeated as he looked at Trent and the rest before he too ran off after Zack with his shovel.

The teens stood huddled together in shock as they watched their three friends run off to rescue her. They waited, unsure of what to do. A sound from the lake caught their attention and they soon spotted a boat racing hard towards the small pier the cabin had on the lake.