Hey guys. Sorry I didn't get to upload in such a long time. I was so busy. I had to go to drama rehearsals and with production week coming up, I'm going to be more busy then ever, so I'll upload when I can. I also have two more basketball games that the band has to play for, but after those two games, there will be no more high school games I have to play at. :)
Chapter 4 (Gemma's P.O.V.)
I was still hanging limply from the chopper and all I could see was the deserts below me disappear to huge, green forests. I could see little rivers wind their way through the dense greenery. The Nightwatcher had attached me to the chopper to make sure I wouldn't fall off, then he had deployed wings that curved around him with a menacing look to them and he had flown away, leaving me to gather my thoughts.
I must be somewhere in the northern regions of California or the southern regions of Oregon. Wherever I may be, I know we are still in the United States since I haven't seen the ocean at all. This Nightwatcher probably made his base in an abandoned warehouse or something, I thought.
Turns out I was wrong about the abandoned warehouse bit. I could see the chopper hover in mid-air above the ground below and then, it descended. Instead, of a helicopter pad above ground, I saw the forest floor below me open up like a huge monster opening its mouth. The trees and the surrounding ground moved with the movement of the hole opening up. But the ground didn't look at all like it was being disturbed. We descended into the darkness. Only, it wasn't dark for very long. The chopper landed smoothly and as soon as it did land, lights suddenly turned on, blinding me. I could hear cars rush forward and unhook me from the chopper. I was put into this crate that looked a lot like a dog kennel on wheels and the cars rolled me through the halls of the underground fortress. Since there were holes in the "cage", I could look out of them to see white halls and closed doors. It looked like a hospital or a mental institution, but I doubt that this place was used for helping ill cars. The cars finally wheeled me into a room filled with strange looking devices. I felt a bang against the entrance of my prison and the cage door opened. I was pushed by the cage wall behind me and I was put into this huge glass tube thing. I looked around the room. My eyes scanned the room until they landed on the only car that wasn't working. The Nightwatcher. He was polishing a blade for one of the contraptions in the room. The room had all sorts of strange and terrifying thingamabobs. Of course, I wasn't scared. I glared at him until he finally looked up. He told the cars, who were 2006 Grand Prix GTs, to go away. At once, the cars drove out of the room and only the Nightwatcher remained.
"Did you enjoy your flight, Gemma?", he asked with a smirk.
"Oh yeah. I always enjoy hanging hundreds of feet in the air from a helicopter with only a grappling hook to hold me.", I said sarcastically, still glaring at him.
The Nightwatcher returned my glare with one of his own. He wasn't entirely happy on how I was speaking to him.
"Oh good. I'm glad you enjoyed your journey here.", he spat, "It might have been the last pleasant thing you could've experienced."
I was confused. What did he mean by "the last thing I'll experience"? The Nightwatcher dove over to a keypad beside my prison. He typed in a few numbers and letters into the keypad. Then, I saw green mist coming into the glass tube. I felt an intense pain and I started to scream. I sunk low on my wheels; my eyes squeezed shut from the pain. I clenched my teeth, trying to endure the pain. I felt myself slip away into darkness as if my personality was changing; as if I was becoming someone else. The last thing I remembered was hearing a cold, cruel laugh before slipping into darkness; floating in a completely different world I could not see.
I must be dead by now if I can only see blackness. I can't feel pain anymore, but it certainly feels like I'm alive still., I thought. Then something occured to me. If I'm not dead, where am I?
Where is Gemma? That you can find out in the next chapter! I will tell you guys this: she is NOT dead! I would feel horrible if I did that. Now, with that clarified, review? :)
