Dandoon: Hello people! This is my first story, so please forgive any mistakes I make! Thanks for clicking on my story, and enjoy...
Simca- Pink-haired girl/twin/sister
Kilik- Smart-alic
Sora- Friendlier/lighter of the dark-haired twins, the boy infatuated with the sky
Nike- Darkest twin, Hinata's enemy, darker of the dark-haired twins, shadow of the dark-haired twins, more cunning of the dark-haired twins, etc.
Falco- a boy with really long hair, computer wiz/genius, blonde-haired one, blondie
Dontores- another with even longer black hair who had unusually big muscles for his age, muscle-boy-man-person, muscle-rap-boy-person
Black Burn- Pervert who likes wearing a mask
Hinata-An OC, lightning new queen of stupidity (Although it was crossed out...), queen of fools.
Kenji- other OC, King of idiots, bipolar idiot…
Spitfire- flame-head
Rune- blonde haired, expressionless guy that threatened to cut off Hinata's arms
Disclaimer: Sadly,Ito "Oh Great" Ōgure owns Air Gear.
Spitfire's POV
"Something bad is about to happen, most likely one of us is going to get hurt soon," my five year old sister says.
"Don't say that, it might actually come true!" I whisper-screamed.
We were in the Trophaeum Tower, we lived there ever since my sister was born. I was too young at the time to remember the details of how we got here, since I was only six when we came here. Trophaeum tower is a huge geothermal research center. My sister and I live in block 73 with a few others. There are the two sets of twins, a boy with really long blonde hair, another with even longer black hair who had unusually big muscles for his age, a bipolar idiot, and pervert who likes wearing a mask.(1)It was horrible here, and we barely got enough food. All of our eyes are the same, with cross-shaped pupils, and everyday we are brought out of our prisons to be experimented on. Apparently, my sister thinks today, something especially bad will happen. It's very unlikely, but my sister is always correct. "She has Bard's tongue," I heard #31460, the bipolar idiot say once. He's the oldest of the group,but my sister is more mature than him, and she can't to sleep alone! After the experiments, she refuses to tell me what they do to her, so I do the same. Mine aren't that bad though, just some fire/speed-based experiments. Suddenly, one of our experimenters called out my number. I went out obediently, unaware of what my sister was going to do.
Hinata's POV
Something is going to happen today and I know it. I have this bad feeling in the pit of my stomach and I can almost feel the maliciousness in the air. I voice my thoughts to my brother.
"Don't say that, it might actually come true!" I heard him whisper-scream.
'It's not my fault I trust you with some of my thoughts because I trust you,' I thought angrily.
Well, I maybe my argument isn't valid, since I refuse to tell him what they do to me. I shivered at the thought of it. I hope his experiments aren't as bad as mine are. Suddenly a mischievous thought came to my five-year old mind. ' How about we "skip" today's experiments.' Out of Nowhere, they called my brother's number, breaking me out of my thoughts. Time for the fun to begin! When they opened the door to let him out, I used my small physique to my advantage. I hid in my brother's shadow when they left the room. My brother always follows his torturers, unlike me, so the torturer walked without a glance to see if he was following. I felt my other roommates staring at me, and I could see that the bipolar idiot was about to call out to me. I turned back slightly and put a finger to my lip, telling him to shut heck up. I waited until they were out of the hallway before I stopped unconsciously holding my breath. I looked into the small window that now separates me from my fellow torturees.
"+10 points for the smart plan, but -50 points for rashness and not thinking your plan through. What about when they catch you? " I heard the smart aleck twin ask, well, more like stated. "Too late for that know. I'm goin' adventuring today! I'll just sneak back in later." "Oh, can I come too!?" I heard his twin sister ask. "No, you can not." he answered for me. "Hurry and leave before they can catch you. Maybe you will stumble upon the data they have on us." said the darker of the other set of twins. "Okie dokie" I said in my carefree sort of way. Suddenly, I bolted the opposite way, the way I see the doctors going after finishing the experiments on us. A creepy smile came to my face, let the fun begin!
1 hour later
OK, I admit it was a very bad idea on my part, like the smart aleck said. My path led me to a dead-end with only one door. I had opened the door, and to my luck, nobody was occupying the room. It was the most humongous room I had ever seen. On one side, it was filled with desks, computers, and filing cabinets. On the other was shelves. In neat rows on these shelves were pieces of paper bound together, with a cover. First, I went to look at the computers. They were super big, even larger than my brother. I touched one of the objects on the counter, a mouse I think it's called. Almost instantly, the computer turned on. I jumped back in surprise, what happened? I looked at the screen. The screen was titled Gravity Children Project. It had a picture of one of my jail-mates, the bipolar idiot., the one who taught me everything I know about the world. It went along the lines of #31460, status: failed, age:15, height: 5"6, weight: 130 lb., and etc. Failed, what did that mean? He certainly is not a failure, he is the most intelligent person there, although a little childish. He taught my brother and I how to read ! If he's a failure, what would they do to him? to get my mind off the endless questions, I searched my number, I knew it because it was what they always used to call me for my experimentation time. Unfortunately, what I found gave me an endless pit of questions. It said #10094, status: partial success, age: 5, Height: 40 in., weight: 41 lbs, and etc. At the bottom it showed a picture of me screaming during an experiment. I flinched seeing the picture. It was of me strapped to a special machine that increases the pressure around me. While they kept increasing that, they shined the brightest of lights in my eyes, threatening to make me blind. I hurriedly typed my brothers number to get away from the picture. My eyes immediately went to status. I was wondering if he was like me, or if he was like #31460. What was there surprised me to no end. Status:pending. What does that mean? I looked down at the picture. It showed my brother running while under pressure, and wearing weights.
I hurriedly went to the other side of the room to give me a distraction from my thoughts. I looked at the tall shelf filled with "books". I know remembered the term. I picked out the first book I saw, It was a blue book with a picture of white puffy things at the front in an endless blue plain. A sky, I remember the more cunning of the dark-haired twins told me. Flying in the sky was a single white dove. On the ground, it was a grassy plain with a single sunflower facing the sun. The title was The Sky's Sunflower by Brandon Gifford(2).
I opened the book, and was immersed within the pages, lost in another world. It told about the "sky" and wonders called "clouds" made from evaporated water. I wondered if how vast the sky was. It talked about birds, animals, and flowers, or my favorite the sunflower. Shining yellow and facing the sun, taking anyone out of a bad mood. I wished I could be like a sunflower, free, cheery, and full of life. Almost at the end of the book, my bad feeling suddenly came back. I turned around and looking at me was a torturer. I screamed, but he slapped me to shut me up.
"Now, now, what's a little girl like you doing all the way over here?" he said in false sweetness, looking at me.
I looked back with wide, scared eyes. "You escaped, didn't you? Well bad girls, get bad punishments," he continued. My eyes filling with more tears by the second. He threw me on the floor and hit me on the head. he then proceeded to kick me in the side. I heard a sickening crack. He suddenly started dragging me to an unknown location. I struggled, but it was useless against a grown man. 'What were they going to do to me? I let my guard down and was caught, so it's my fault. What could be worse than the experiments!' were some thoughts running through my frenzied mind. That's why I was surprised when I got thrown back into my cell, the other jail-mates watching as my beaten body go thrown back. He closed and locked the door. Once his footsteps faded, I ran, well more like limped, to the corner and huddled into a ball.
Omniscient POV
The jail mates watched with surprise, the usually happy-go-lucky girl, was now broken, beaten, and crying on the floor. New thoughts like ' When are they going to punish me?', 'What's so horrible that he would have to prepare it?', and 'Am I not going to be punished?' ran through her head, the last one being very unlikely. One of the torturees, the smart aleck to be specific, sighed while placing a hand on his head."What happened?" the simple question broke through the silence. She looked up with teary eyes and spoke" Let's wait for brother to get back." And that's where they are now, waiting for her brother to return. The ominous feeling still in the pit of her stomach. "What could be worse than what already happened," She cried out loud, earning stares from everyone. She blushed and ducked into her knees. After another 20 minutes or so, the door finally opened and her brother walked in. She immediately ran to him and gave him a hug while crying.
"What's wrong?" he asked. He saw many glances his way, and more importantly stares directed at his sister, to which he knew was going to need a lot of explaining.
Spitfire's POV
"What's wrong?" I asked out of concern.
"Brother, please don't be mad, but today I sneaked out of the cell. " she whispered. The other members of the room fell flat on the floor with sweat drops.
"WHAT!" I practically screamed, looking at her with anger and disbelief. How could she be such a moron! When she winced I softened my gaze just a little as I said in a hushed tone, " You're in major trouble now. Didn't I tell you to always listen to the experimenters and to never run away! You're in major trouble now. What happened while I was gone?"
"I told her it was a bad idea, but a good way to sneak out. She ran away and you can't open the doors from the inside. She is a real idiot, other than #31460" said the pink-haired ones twin brother.
"Hey!" cried #31460 ."I taught you all how to read!"
"That's where you're wrong my friend. There are two kinds of stupid, the lack of intelligence, and the lack of common sense. While you have the intelligence, you have no common sense." said the boy with the really long blonde hair (Falco).
"Agreed/ +50 points for superior information, but -10 points since I thought of it first" said everyone and the smart alic.
"Why didn't you stop her!" I shouted, but my question went unanswered as my sister continued.
"When I ran away, I was curious to what was on the other direction of the hallway, so I went there. There was one door, and I opened it..." she started when I interrupted her.
"You opened it without knowing if anyone was there!" I screamed.
"Don't worry, the room was empty, so I was fine." she said quietly.
I face-palmed. "Continuing, Inside it was humongous," she opened her arms wide and stood on her tiptoes to illustrate how big it was. I tried to keep my giggle in, but barely succeeded. While the lighter personality of the dark-haired twins laughed openly.
"On one side there was a bunch of computers and filing cabinets and on the other side, you wouldn't believe it, but there were millions of things called books. Remember, #31460 taught us!" she continued excited.
"See, I taught her common sense" said #31460, trying to regain his self dignity, though he was completely ignored. I thought about it for a moment before it entered my head what it was he taught us. Books, pieces of paper, with words telling a story on them, bound together, usually with a cover. She saw one, no one million! Lucky! I was now even more interested in her story.
" but first," she teased, "let me tell you what I saw on the computer." A seriousness in her voice I rarely heard. "There were files on all of us experiments," I looked on waiting for her to continue, " It said our age, height, weight, and all those things, but what really surprised me was… "
"I'm not sure I want you to keep going, but say it anyways." the black-haired boy with many muscles told her.
"It said our 'status', #31460's says failed, mine says partial success, and yours says… pending." she said reluctantly. Pending… which means I could turn out to be a failure or a success.
"What happens to failures?" she asked in a small voice. I couldn't tell her what I expected and instead gave her a comforting hug.
"It'll be ok, I'm sure it's nothing too bad." I spoke, not sure if I was trying to convince her, or myself.
"You must have read it wrong. I am not a failure! I am a Success!" screamed a frightened #31460. He was the oldest and he saw what happened to failures. They get "put down" you could say.
"How did you get caught, and what were the books like?" I asked to distract her and everyone else.
She wiped her tears, and replied, "I picked up a book called The Sky's Sunflower. It was so cool. On the front there was a vast blue that never ended called the sky. In the sky, there are white, puffy-looking things called clouds. You can't touch them though, since they're made of water that turned into a gas or precipitated. Also, it talked about plants. They need water, oxygen, and sunlight. Naturally, they face the sun. It was so awesome, until my bad feeling came back."
"Don't predict when something bad is going to happen, because, for some reason, all your predictions come true." I stated.
"I can't help it, it's natural!" she retorted.
"Sure it is.." I said being 110% sarcastic, earning a few giggles from the rest. Hey, it's my duty as an older brother to make fun of her.
"ugh," she shouted, hitting her head on a wall a few times, "continuing before you so rudely interrupted, I turned around and a torturer was standing there."
"There not torturers, there experimenters, how many times do I have to correct you?" I said
"Too me they're torturers, who else would hurt poor, sweet, innocent children like us, well, like me at least. The rest of you are kind of ugly, except for you #33" she bragged, screaming conceited. She was referring to the twin of smart alic, a pink-haired girl, who I have to say was her definition-sweet, poor, and innocent.
"-90 points for lack of common sense, selfishness, bringing my sister into this, and stupidity." guess who said that?
"Dude! You have never taken away that many points." said the perverted boy who for an unknown reason loved masks.
"Yeah, sure… Torturers are way worse by the way, they do it to get information from you, then they will most likely kill you afterwards." I said cruelly.
"The torturers are collecting information from us, and some of us will get killed in the end, I expect." she said, her voice breaking near the end.
"Trust me sis, even #31460 uses the word experimenters!" I said.
"Actually, I am from now on calling them torturers, since I'll probably be murdered in cold blood." said #31460.
"No one asked for your input!" I shouted, annoyed.
"You call them what you want, but to me it will always be torturers." she said angrily.
"Fine." I agreed.
"Anyhow, the torturer," she started
"experimenter" I continued to correct.
"The torturer said he would punish me, beat me up, but then left me in this room?! Do you think that was the punishment?" she said putting emphasis on the word torturer.
"I expect not, but we can hope. Although, the answer can't be good," I said, my face frozen. I decided it at that moment. I would take the fall for her and say I told her to do it. I can't let my little sister get hurt. She's the only family I have left. "Time to get some rest now. I think it's been an eventful day." said the darker twin.
Hinata's POV (a few hours later)
Everyone was sleeping and it was the dead of night. Tonight was one of the nights I couldn't fall asleep. My upcoming punishment scaring me was the reason I couldn't sleep this time. Suddenly I heard the door's opening, and my fears came to life. There in the door was the head torturer in all his infamous dark glory. He screamed, "Get up now you dirty little brats!" Everyone got up with frightened, wide, doe-like eyes. "File out of the room and follow me!" he screamed while taking my arm. No! not know, not with everyone watching. I could usually cover up my tears by the time I got to my cell, and now they will be watching something worse than my usual torture. I squirmed and kicked trying to free myself to no avail. We reached the place I usually get experimented on, but we passed it. We kept going, taking lefts and rights, until finally, we reached a door. It was no different from the rest, white and nondescript. The door opened and we went inside. He pointed to a few seats overlooking the experiment area. They were tied to their seats when they sat down. "This is to keep you from interrupting." the experimenter said with an evil chuckle.
"Noooooooo! I told her to do it!" screamed my brother. Unfortunately, his pleas were ignored. I gave up on my struggling by now and gave what might be my last look to my brother. "I'm sorry." I said to him before the head experimenter laughed and carried me to my evident doom.
A/N: Haha, Cliff Hanger! So how bad/good was it? Please comment. If I have any grammar/spelling mistakes please inform me. I'm not sure if I rated it correctly, do you viewers think it's correctly rated? Also, I am looking for a beta. If there is anyone willing please contact me. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day!
1: They did not name themselves yet, so I described them. If you can tell me which one's which, good job. Hint: One is actually an OC.
2: It's not a real book or a real name. I made it up off the top of my head.