My head aches… I think I was being carried. I can only hear little things.

Who….Okay…..

Hey...Partner….

This is…. BEGIN!

I felt that I was being put down and created a sound of small thump. I can't open my eyes… I think I was drugged out but at least, I can hear little things and feel. I can't take it. I think I'm falling asleep.

My body itches… I quickly opened my eyes.

I'm in a barn? At least that's how I portrait a barn when our mentor describes it. Full of hay and stuff like that. A typical barn… But no animals whatsoever.

I quickly sit down and was shocked to see a guy beside me.

A ginger… just like Lizzy…

"Oh you're awake!"

What?! She's Lizzy but…. She cut her hair!

"You… you cut you hair!"

She hit me in the head with her hand. "That's all you have to ask? Jeez…"

"Well, what happened?"

"Now that's what I call question… "

"Okay, guys. We need to stop for a bit. If you wanted to pee or buy some food, you can do it now." said the driver of the Floater.

"Hey, Lizzy… I need to pee. Will you do me a favor and guard my things?"

"Sure!"

Before Molly could go down the Floater, the driver announces something again.

"It seems that our vehicle is overcapacity. We need to reduce at least 5 people to go walk in the dome… that old hag! He should've rent at least two Floaters!"

The old hag that he mentioned is our mentor…

"I can volunteer only if I left my things here." It's Molly who volunteered… Of course, I was shock for the least.

"Uhh, sure…"

Then she wave at me and long gone. What!? She left me here all alone like that! I would never!

"So… anyone?"

I quickly raise my hand. "I volunteer!"

"Okay! I need three more!"

I quickly get my things and Molly's and follows her. As long as I can remember, she turned left.

Wait… Why did she leave without me? I'm her shadow! She can't leave without me! Maybe she's hiding something? Only to know is to follow her…

I run as fast as I could and immediately saw Molly in the street. I follow her under the dark.

She's just walking… Wait she's being dragged out in the alleyway… I run to the side so she can't see me and can hear him. It's too risky to go run and save her like that…

I should eavesdrop…

"Make one peep or I will kill you. Just keep quiet."

Wait… it's a girl's voice! Her voice is too familiar… wait! Is she the one who I think she is!

"Okay, don't freak out. I just need to trade. I need your identity, let's trade it."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't ask questions. Give me your bracelet or I'll kill you!"

I quickly run and go in the other way because I bet that she would run through the alleyway… I need to confirm this…

Sorry, Molly. But she's more important right now.

"So… it is you!"

I knew this would happen eventually but I rejected the fact that it would. I know I'm a coward but Molly is important to me and I don't want her to get hurt. I'll do anything for her…

If you do love her, as a friend, I mean… protect her… Do whatever it takes to make her alive… That's all I have to say…

I gulped down the lump in my throat… I have to cut my hair if I wanted to help her and disguise as a boy… I opened my pink bag pack and quickly get the things that I needed… Scissors, a pair of loose jeans, a white shirt… It's pretty easy to disguise as a boy since I'm just a kid and my voice is not a problem… I don't have overgrown breasts and besides an undeveloped male looks quite a girl so I'm safe…

I cut my hair without styling it… I know it's a mess but I don't care. I don't have enough time…

After I prepare myself, I emptied my pink bag pack and put it on Molly's green shoulder bag with cute little stickers… She's still a kid… She doesn't have to witness this but we both have no choice… I, then, left mine and carried Molly's...

I run through the path on where I have left Molly and I saw her being carried by The Elitists…

"Excuse me, sir… I'm her partner and I think I need to join her. I know she's a little bit persistent on these things but sir, she don't want to participate but we have no choice, do we. So as a friend, I wanted to be with her side…"

The girl in a high class military outfit look at her subordinates and nodded…

"Ok little boy… come with us and you'll be deported in the southeast part of Asia through helicopter…"

Perfect.

"Ohh btw, drink this tablet… It'll help you survive the place… You know about the virus, right?"

She gave me two tablets and I quickly swallow it…

I give Molly her tablet even though she's asleep….

The drive to the helicopter was quiet… There was a bunch here who also will participate… Some are just staring everywhere, some are sleeping, and some are repairing and checking their weapons… Thank god I have a lot of weapons in her shoulder bag… It has guns, knives, grenade, bullets and a lot of sharp material…

I always carry these things with me. Call me paranoid but I've been trained to do this and they all know that it's necessary to bring these things and now, it's completely helpful…

We've finally arrived in our destination… A bunch of helicopters are in place along with the participants…

There are post speakers all over the place and the place is hot and there is neither grass nor plants growing in here… There are a lot of old structures in here… Maybe it's for the sake of hiding place…

The girl in the post speaker started to speak.

"Okay… There are a bunch of cameras all over the place in which you can't find it… I'll tell you the rules and regulations in Decada Juegos… First, you need to follow the objectives every day… There's no particular deadline on when this game will stop and it will depend on the objectives…

Second, you can kill your partner but if you don't want, both of you will win in the end… But this rule might change in terms of the objectives…

Third, you need to find the map somewhere in this place and go find the main starting point of the game… That's where the real Decada Juegos will start…

All of you can cooperate to get there since; you're not allowed to kill each other yet. Fail to complete this sub-objective in 30 mins will result to elimination… By elimination, I mean, death. Thank you and good luck."

After that, everyone started running… I tell you it's a complete mess… I tried to calm down since I'm carrying Molly behind my back.

It's a stampede in here since it's overcrowded. Most people get stamp on and a lot of crying…

Shit, it's getting worse… I need to get out of here.

But before I could run…

"STOOOOOOPPPP!"

A voice above us suddenly screamed. It's so loud that I made my ears bleed, I think. Of course, everyone stop.

A girl in her 20's is above the roof in my left and she's just standing her with the megaphone in her right hand.

She's tall and she really has busty boobs and a curvy body… She wears white tank top and a military pants with her military boots.

She's quite tan and her hair and eyes are pure black…

"We can't find what we're looking for if we did this thing like this!"

The guy in the background clearly disagrees. "We don't take orders from you. You little bitch!"

"Huh! What did you say!? You do realize I have a grenade in my left hand. And if you disagree, I'll fuckin' blow up this whole place and yes, I'll be the winner among you! But I didn't because I'm a little compassionate about you people! If this goes on, a lot of you will die… See that girl in the ground!?"

She pointed the now dead girl in the ground…

"She's dead… If you don't want this to happen again… Then shut up and agree with me"

The guy now shut up and another guy speaks up and raises his hand. "I think I do agree to her idea…. Those who agreed please raise your hand!"

I raised my hand along with other people.

"Now, it's settle then… Don't run…We have 15 minutes left before the time runs up… Please divide yourself in the groups of three and enter every structure that you can see in here and search for it… If you happened to find for it, go here and tell it to me and I will shout through this megaphone… Me with my partner over there…"

She pointed to a guy at the front right who is probably in his 40's.

"I will guard the place if some causality has been inflicted, now go and don't go running!"

We all walk quietly not bothering to talk with anyone. There's no point on talking with someone else when you're gonna kill each other.

Molly… she's still asleep…

I can hear sound from the distance…

"The…..map…it!"

The…map…it? Maybe they've found the map. I'll better get back… we only have five minutes left before the appointed time. Hope we get there in time.

I quickly run and I can see some few people who did the same.

The place is now crowded just like a while ago.

I saw our so-called leader at the roof trying to decipher the map. We have five minutes left.

Shit. We have no time. She's too dumb to even decipher that thing.

I raise my hand and shout as hard as I can.

"I can help decipher that thing!"

Everybody looks at me and she just raises her eyebrows.

She picks up her megaphone. "And what on earth would a kid help me in some way?"

"Well, the fact that I have confidence in myself that I would decipher it and also we have five minutes left and yeah, that's the only reason I need to tell you!"

"What a cocky boy you are! I like it! Come here!"

People give me the way since they knew that we have no time left.

I run and when I arrive, her partner helps me boost up through the roof. But before that, I give Molly to the guy first since he can't really boost me up when I'm carrying her.

I look at the map and saw that it's so easy to decipher…

"I might know where's the start of the Decada Juegos." I said smirking to myself feeling fulfilled.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Tell us!"

"Just follow me. I don't think we will make it through if we walk. We need to run as fast as we can. We're probably gonna make there in three minutes if we ran as fast as we could. To precise, it's the maximum number of minutes… if you know what I mean."

She just nodded. She gets the megaphone.

"Hey guys! Listen to me! We need to run through our destination and we follow him! No more questions and let's run… NOW!"

I go down to the roof and quickly run. I need not the map because I memorized it already. I have photographic memory.

I'm just curious. Why did they want us to go in a deserted place where there's only sand and no structural thing whatsoever? I guess, we will find out.

Hmmm…. Just as I thought, this place is completely and utterly nothing!

"Hey, are you fucking with us boy! There's nothing in here!"

I ask the guy to let Molly lie in the sand.

I didn't respond to her statement I just find something. There must be something in here.

There's only ten seconds left. Shit.

"Hey boy what are you doing!?"

"Yeah!"

A lot of them started to nag and whine but I don't pay attention on what they are saying.

Ha! Jackpot! There's a button thingy in the middle of all it. It looks like a sculpted stone with a button in the middle.

"Guys! Stay close to me!"

I quickly carried Molly in my back and started to push the button.

"Wha—"

Of course, that shut her up.

A big metal wall is starting to emerge in circle. There are two choices. First, you need to go inside this metal walls or second, you'll be left behind outside. I chose the inside because I have a feeling that it's the right choice.

There are only few of us who actually entered including that nagging black-haired beauty and a lot are outside. Some are actually afraid of entering here. They're just a bunch of incompetents who's afraid to take risks and I hate that kind of people. They should just die there.

The walls stop moving. I can hear murmuring. The wall is so tall that I think it's a hundred foot long. I don't know, I'm a little bad at measurements but it's too long. Well, at least I can see the sky above that made me safe a little inside.

"As you can see, I gave you two choices. And by the way, congratulation on fulfilling the sub-objective. The right one who made it to the Decada Juegos are those who are inside the wall. Those who are outside will be killed immediately. As for you guys, just stay there and we'll contact you later. Please don't kill each other yet." I can't see the source of the voice but I can feel that it's near. It's the girl's voice in the post speaker that instructed us thirty mintues before it all happened.

I carefully put down Molly in the ground. Jeez, the effect of the drug they gave her must have affected her so much. I'm getting worried about her. I lean on her chest and hear her heartbeat. Well she's still alive and that made me glad.

I shiver when I heard a bunch of people screaming and crying. They're torturing them. I scan for the people who made it here and they all have these pained and hopeless expression. Some don't even care but most of us are. It's true that they'll die in the end but just hearing them scream and cry like that makes me think that they're killing them in a different way and that makes my teeth grit.

A/N:

So this chapter is getting longer lel… I'm stopping it here and putting it on chapter 3. I'm sorry for the mistakes… I don't know on who on earth I should dedicate this chapter so if you're a new reader, just vote for my story or whatever so I can dedicate you in this chapter :P Hope you like it. BYE

~Sophie