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Rated T for violence

CH. 3

Some time later, only Kimiko was in the cavern, chained to a column. Many men had surrounded her, watching smugly from a distance. She had stopped struggling awhile ago, realizing it was useless. She looked up when she heard footsteps. Down the stairs came the leader.

"Hello, Kimiko," he said. "My name is Sheeno."

She raised an eyebrow. "How do you know my name?"

He grinned. "Your little dragon friend is easy to get to talk."

"Leave him alone!"

Sheeno laughed, circling her.

She glared at him, blue eyes on fire. "I demand to know where my friends are."

"Pushy, aren't you?" Sheeno said. "They're fine, at the moment."

For a second she lost her defiant expression in a look of worry, but she quickly replaced it. Sheeno saw this and smiled.

He stopped in front of her. "You know, you're very pretty."

"And you're very ugly, what's your point?"

He shrugged. "It's just a compliment."

"I'm not flattered."

He handed small cup to an extremely large, muscle-bound man. "It matters not, you're going to serve me anyway."

The large man gripped her jaw like iron and tilted her head way up. His grip hurt, and she squirmed. Then he forced the red liquid in the cup down her throat. He held her nose.

As she tried not to swallow, she saw out of the corner of her eye a huge skull in the wall. It had three glowing stones in it. She recognized them as the sacred stones, but then the liquid went down into her system, and she blacked out.

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Omi was thrown to the rocky ground, the chain around one of his ankles attached to another rock.

The man threw a shovel down at him. "Start digging."

Omi took it and watched him walk off. He looked around. Hundreds of children were everywhere, chained and digging. He was in some sort of cave that had probably been dug out by the children. Dirt was carried away in bucket and ladders were used to reach higher levels. The painted men were walking about with whips, cracking them across kids' backs. The air was dark and dirty, and Omi didn't like it. He'd had his monk robes taken and wore dirty gray clothes, similar to all the other children.

"Partner," someone said.

Omi looked up and saw, a few feet away, Clay also chained to a rock with a shovel. He was wearing gray, but remarkably still had hit hat.

"Clay!" Omi gasped. "You are here, too!"

"Yeah," the cowboy nodded. "But where's Kim and Rai?"

Omi glanced around. "I do not know. Why are we here? What are we digging for?"

"Dunno. But we're not going to stay here." He began beating on his chain with his shovel.

Omi smiled. He made sure no one was watching, and then beat on his own. Sparks flew into the air, but they weren't noticeable, and the sound was muffled among all the other noises.

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Kimiko stood in the cavern as it became more and more crowded with . She was up on the platform beside Sheeno. The gold band that held back her hair shone in the firelight, and she wore all black. Sheeno smiled at her and nodded below.

She looked. Being dragged towards the coffin-shaped cage was Raimundo. But her mind didn't register who he was.

He was locked in by his wrists and ankles, but the doors were left open. He wore clothes similar to the last man that had been in the cage: loose white pants, gold bracelets, and a gold medallion on a white band around his neck.

Sheeno calmly walked down and in front of him. He started slowly chanting. Raimundo saw him and gasped. He began violently struggling with his bonds.

Sheeno smiled at him as he chanted. He reached his hand out, then stopped. He looked back and Kimiko and nodded, stepping away.

Kimiko walked towards Rai.

"Kim!" Raimundo gasped. "Help!" He frowned. "What's wrong with you?"

She stopped in front of him. She slowly began chanting and running her fingers through his dark brown hair.

"Kimiko!" Raimundo said, breathing hard. "Please . . ."

Her eyes dropped to his heart. Her hand moved down towards it.

"No!" He shouted, eyes filling with tears. "No, Kimiko!"

He inhaled sharply and blew out. A rush of wind knocked her back, hitting a column.

A couple of the painted men punched Rai in the stomach and face. Kimiko quickly walked back, pushing them away. She paused, then snapped the doors shut.

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