***Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. Fox does. Actually I own Jaela, and Colby
Notes: This story is all about creative license. I explain more at the end. Hope you enjoy. Also, the *** means it flips from the present to past and vise versa.
This was supposed to be an easy game of escape and evade. Zack was leader of my team. We had Jondy, Tinga, Syl, Zane and Eva. We were escaping and evading Jace's team. She had Krit, Brin, Jaela, Colby, Ben, and Syd. Everyone was sure we'd win easily. Maybe that was the point of this game, prove to us that being cocky and confidant wouldn't help us win, we'd lose. We won't have a chance now to learn what Lydecker's plan was, though. Jondy's lying on top of me, trying to keep me warm. I'm so cold. I've lost feeling in my left leg.
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Our team had split into two groups to get away. Zack, Jondy, Eva, and I went to the east. The others went west. We were running quickly and silently away from the enemy team. Suddenly the ground gave way beneath my feet and I slid down a steep hill with Jondy right beside me.
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"Max. Max hang on. Zack went to get Lydecker. Max please don't go." Jondy sounded so sad and desperate. Somewhere far away I herd Eva tell Jondy to keep me warm and still.
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"Max, Jondy don't move," Zack warned us. I quickly realized why. A large black and yellow snake was coiled on a rock less than two feet from my left leg. Jondy was pined under me. Her right leg was even closer to the poisonous snake.
"Zack, Eva, what do we do?" Jondy asked.
"Stay still. Don't even twitch a muscle." Eva tried to sound sure, but I could hear she was worried.
"I'm going to distract he snake. I'll make sure you have time to get away, just wait for my signal," instructed Zack. Usually Zack wouldn't tell us to wait for his signal, but since Jondy and I were worried he reminded us.
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"Jondy, it hurts a lot."
"Just hang on Max. Zack'll be here any minute. Try not to move, or the poison will spread faster," Jondy tried to assure me. Eva and Jondy had taken off their jackets and wrapped them around me, but I still felt cold.
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Zack started to distract the snake. It worked for a few minutes, until Zack told us to move. When the snake sensed us moving, he spun around and went to bit Jondy's leg. I couldn't let that happen and I pushed my sister out of the way. As the snake sunk it's fangs into my leg, I herd Jondy scream my name.
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"Zack's back Max. Hang on."
"How bad is she?" I heard Lydecker ask. Everything sounded funny and far away. I guess I blacked out after that because the next thing I knew I was being put into a hummer to get taken back to base. I suppose Lydecker gave me some kind of anti-poison medicine, because I quickly started to feel better.
When we got back to base I was taken to the infirmary. The doctors poked and prodded me to make sure I was ok. When the doctor were sure I was perfectly healthy, they sent me back to the barracks to join my sibs.
"Max are you sure you're ok? You don't have to be all tough and strong with me," Jondy whispered. Everyone else was fast asleep.
"Don't' worry. I'll be fine Jondy. I just hope I never see another snake again. I didn't really like them before and now I like them even less."
Jondy nodded her head in response before she hurried back to her bed. Every hour the night guards walk around the barracks to make sure we're all asleep. They know Jondy and I don't sleep much, but we aren't supposed to talk.
The next day Lydecker put me through fear training. Fear training is the one thing we're all really scared of. It involves putting us in a small room with something we are scared of. In this case, it was a snake.
The snake looked a lot like the one that bit me yesterday, but I could tell it was different. I to stay in the room with the snake for a couple of hours. At first I was very scared, then I started to relax. I might not be scared of snakes anymore, but I still don't like them. That's the point of this exercise, to teach us to face our fears. It works, but we all hate it.
*** I don't know anything about snakes and poison. If there aren't any poisonous snakes in Wyoming then it escaped from the zoo or something.
If you know that some of what I made up in this story is wrong, then can tell me, otherwise, don't complain. It's called creative license. Also, if you'd like to hear this story from other character's POV's, then I could do that.
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