Chapter 1 - Hyperness

"Hyperness!" Lauren jumped out from behind the bush next to the door and bleated out her favourite word in the world. "Oh… and potatoes."

James jumped a mile as his sister did this, then lunged at her, subconsiousely knowing all to well that the bush she'd jumped out from was a rose bush, that had a lot of thorns.

"Ow-w! Thanks a bunch! Cow!" James fell backwards, revealing a blood covered top.

Lauren looked shocked. "How did you do all that? It was only a few thorns?"

She came out looking genuinely worried and he examined his navy CHERUB shirt and remembered what had happened in his last class; Kerry had been climbing up the rope ladder when some jerk had swung it around a bit and she'd fallen off. James saw the whole thing and beat the living daylights of the kid in one swipe before running over to her…

"Are you ok?" He knelt by her side and stroked her face.

"No. I can't feel my leg…" She grimaced as she looked down to find it lying at an unusual angle. "Now I can!"

As her groans were heard by the supervisor, he headed over and ripped James roughly from her.

"What did you do, vomit?" Mr. Large revelled in blaming him ever since Lauren had whacked him over the head with a shovel in basic training.

"It wasn't him, sir. It was Jason," Kerry lifted her head up and spoke as loud as she could endure, "But could we do this later? My leg kinda hurts."

Mr. Large shot James a glare, and then quickly rushed to the emergency phone. Within seconds a team of four men and women had rushed into the room and carried her off.

"Get back to work, scum!" Mr. Large yelled, while James stood gawping at where Kerry had been. "And you! Clean up that blood."

He threw a bucket and mop at James, and grabbed Jason by the collar. Carrying him to his office, all the students could hear was Mr. Large dishing out numerous punishments.

"Oh, yeah." James took his shirt off, exposing his muscular figure to some passing red-shirts. "Kerry broke her leg… badly."

Lauren gasped. "What? Is she ok?"

"Some kid is never gonna live this down." James ignored Lauren's questions and began muttering to himself, "Jason."


Kerry opened an eye. She was in a huge empty room with bright lights overhead and some loud beeps ringing through her ears. She opened the other eye, gathering more information about the space.

"Hello?" She asked nervously.

When no reply came she lay there for a moment, and decided she was thirsty. As she attempted to get up she remembered what had happened, but only when it was too late. She screamed in agony and rolled back over to briefly relieve herself from the pain.

"Hello?" She asked again, but still no reply came.

As she turned her head around she saw an entire wall covered in a large mirror; a sign she knew to be from interrogations, but this was different. She thought about the last time she'd been in the CHERUB hospital and it hadn't looked anything like this.

Kerry glanced over to a cupboard in the corner and caught sight of crutches with a note attatched. She couldn't make out what it said, meaning whoever left it expected her to go over and get it.

"Son of a..." she shouted, and slowly sat up, preparing herself for pain. "Right..."

She acted as quickly as possible to shorten the time she had to endure the twisting of her leg. She was shocked to realise that it hadn't been put in a cast. Any normal hospital would have slung it up within seconds of them coming through the door... It raised her suspicions even higher.

Once the pain had mostly passed, she hobbled over, clinging desperately to any nearby ledge.

She finally reached the crutches, and once she'd positioned them under her arm, she read throught the note.

Down the corridor, pass the toilets - third door on the left. Go through and you'll see another note.

It didn't say any more, so Kerry took a moment to get used to using the crutches and headed off. It felt like a treasure hunt...

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