Thanks for all your submission guys, all your character are great! I'm so excited to write this, I have some great twist and turns for each of them, and I hope I do your characters justice! Anyways, without further ado, here's the first chapter!


Clara:

Hot sunlight cast over her, causing her eyes to flutter. A sharp pain pulsed through her head when she tried to open her eyes, and she quickly snapped them shut. With a groan she rolled onto her side, her body running cold when she felt lush grass underneath her. Where was she? Trying to rack her brain for an explanation she found herself coming up with a blank, why couldn't she remember anything either? She focused trying desperately to remember something, anything as she reached into the recesses of her mind. Clara. After some time that was the only thing that sprung to life. A name. But whose was it? Was it hers? A dark shadow cut off the rays of sunlight warming her eyelids and a shrill excited shriek made her flutter her eyes open with a start. A young-looking girl with enormous doll-like blue eyes, porcelain white skin and white blonde hair, that was tied up in pigtails, loomed in front of her vision.

"Hey there dahhlin'"

She giggled in a sugar sweet high-pitched voice, before turning over her shoulder.

"JJ get over here, we got one wakin' up"

Completely alert now, Clara flung herself up into a sitting position trying to scramble away from the girl in front of her, but her limbs were feeling too heavy to lift. Here eyes darted across her surroundings seeing normal scenery of picturesque blue skies, green grass, trees and a few animals, and then she saw the oddities of a few shabby little buildings and endlessly high towers of concrete and stone wall surrounding them-each direction with wide openings.

"I told you my names Jack, and get out of the poor lass' face before you freak her out Blondie"

Clara snapped her head around so fast and sharp that her chestnut hair whipped her face as she turned to the source of the male voice, her brows creasing at hearing a hint of almost cheerfulness in his tone. A teen significantly taller than her-but definitely was around her age -was stepping over the dark shapes on the ground and making his way over towards her, occasionally running his hands through messy brown hair to push it out of his blue eyes. He gave Clara a warm smile, but she was still on edge, and instead of returning it she narrowed her eyes sending him a scowl, which made his expression drop. The blonde girl puckered her red lips into a childish pout, and immaturely picked herself up from the ground, folding her arms over her chest.

"I'm Jake this is Hallie, sorry about her forwardness, apparently she's rather excitable"

He must have picked up on the confused expression on Clara's face, because she was immediately met with a sympathetic smile as he held out a hand to her.

"If it makes you feel any better neither of us have a freakin' clue where we are, how we got here, or what the hell is going on. Heck when I woke up everyone else was all scattered on the grass, I thought they were all dead, until Blondie woke up"

Clara looked to the girl stood not to far from them, who had her head cocked to the side and was looking to an invisible space and muttering animatedly as if someone was there. A fearful shiver passed through her and she cast her gaze on the ground around her. A sickening jolt twisted through her gut and her face drained of colour. Those dark shapes on the ground were not dark shapes. They were people. Teenagers like her. She staggered back letting out a yelp when she almost stepped on a hand. How had she not noticed them before?
Jack still had his hand outstretched for her to take, and when realizing she wasn't going to take it he lowered it back to his side and crouched down next to the girl.

"What's your name then? I know this is all messed up, but if we wait for the others to wake up then there might be someone that knows something or can remember anything about why we're here"

He spoke kindly trying to reassure the confused girl, but his words were falling on deaf ears. While he was talking, Clara only had one thing on her mind. Get out. Her eyes stopped on the opening in the concrete wall that was the nearest to her, and without even realising it she was on her feet and hurtling towards it, ignoring the protests and shouts coming from the two strangers . She fixed dark brown eyes on the opening, seeing it as her only chance of escape. She could hear frantic footsteps hastily rushing through the grass to catch up to her, and forced herself to push forward faster, sparing a glance over her shoulder for a fraction of a second. The boy Jack was hot on her heels, and not before long she felt a hand roughly fist the back of her jacket, pulling her to a stop.

"You can't go in there, we have to stick together, we don't know whats through that opening!"

She give a harsh push at the boy screaming at him and thrashing to get him to release her.

"Get off me! I need to go! I don't belong here!"

"Hey dahhlin calm it, JJ is right!"

The crazy blonde began, and Clara shook her head as tears filled her eyes. Refusing to accept that she was to stay with these strangers in a place she didn't know anything about, Clara's boot came crashing down on the tall boy's foot, causing him to yelp and let go of her.

"You're crazy, both of you. We can't- I can't stay here. I need to go home!"

She yelled, as the tears leaked out of her eyes and this time no one was able to stop her as she disappeared into the darkness through the stone walls.

Jack:

His eyes widened in horror and shock as he watched the tan girl disappear into the unknown, her rippling caramel waves being the last thing he could see. Just as he put a foot down over the invisible barrier of the west opening- he didn't know how he knew it was west, just that it was- a tiny porcelain hand wrapped around his wrist.

"You can't go after her, not yet."

He turned to the petite girl beside him, who had her head craned up so she could meet his blue eyes with her giant orbs. He almost felt the urge to laugh, this girl-the one who had woken up after him and came across as nothing but more than a little mad when she kept muttering 'i'm a blonde' and giggling before bursting into tears and crying saying she needed Thomas because he could help her find her friend- was totally right, and she was acting saner that the girl that had blindly took off, and even himself right now.

"We don't know whats through them doors it could be bad, really bad and we don't how many people will wake up either JJ. What if we're the only ones? "

With a sigh he nodded, knowing she was right.

"Okay, let's wait for some more people to wake up, but if she doesn't come back-"

The blonde girl cut him off before he could finish.

"Then we can send someone in to find her, or at least see if there's a way out through there."

Jack watched as the tiny teen skipped back off, towards a stirring girl with chocolate coloured hair that had caramel coloured tips. His eyes glanced over every character unconscious on the ground, and he noticed that the waking girl had hair that was shorter than the other sleeping girls, stopping just below her shoulders as it fanned around her in pin-straight locks. He joined the blonde, waiting for the girl to come to. She surprised them both with an agonized shriek and a sudden painful jerk awake, and her eyes set on his, causing him to gulp and his jaw to fall slack in horror. While her right eye was a pretty deep blue, the other was an abyss black which bled into her sclera, and curling around her eye and framing the left side of her face, were startling black spidery veins.