Stealth5

STEALTH
Chapter 5: Prisoner of the Nightmare

I was a prisoner. I didn't know where I was exactly. I didn't know how long I had been
there. I didn't know if Shade was still alive. I prayed he was, because life without him
meant nothing to me. I couldn't reach out to him with my mind, because Gorvani had
blocked me. He seant a servant to me everyday, with a tray of old food and water. I
always checked the servant's mind to see if she knew there was poison, and I would
check the food itself for poison. But I never found anything.

Then Gorvani finally decided to check up on me himself. hello, my dear Nao. He greeted. I
replied by spitting in his face. hm...a fiesty one, I see. ::I'll have to break that spirit of
your's:: He mindspoke, grinning his eveil grin again. If only I wasn't changed up, I would
have ripped his body to shreds with my bare hands! But all I could do was glare.

::Where is Shade::I demanded. I knew he would lie.

::I killed him:: He replied

::Liar::I spat back at him.

::Don't believe me, do you?::He pulled my face closer to his, as if he was going to kiss me
again. ::Perhaps I should show you::

He went into my mind, causeing everything around me to go blank. I saw nothing but
darkness fo ra while, until images came to form inside my head. It was back to the day I
was seperated from Shade. Back in the empty hallway. I saw Shade crumpled on the floor,
and I saw Gorvani lift the knife above his head before plunging it into my Beloved's chest.
My heart screamed in pain, my head spun around the world, and I screamed until I
coughed up blood. I tried to run to him. Maybe there was someway I could bring him back.
But I could not feel his soul. I held him in my arms, crying until there were no more tears
left. And his body slowley faded from my arms, and he was gone.

I sat in the darkness for a long time, so far into grief that I was past crying. Gorvani would
pay. He would pay for it with more than just his life. And then I came back to reality. And
Gorvani was still holding my face close to his. ::You f---ing bastard::

::Now,now, you would have just run away from me if you knew he was still alive. Then
how could we have rebuilt the Gaizelion empire?:: He kissed me, and I did not refuse
because I knew I was dead anyway. ::You will have a child of pure Gaizelion Blood:: He
treid to start taking off my clothes, but I kneed him hard in the sensitive area.

::Get away from me you f---ing pervert bastard:: He was bent over in pain now, and the
expression on his face was priceless. ::Try that one more time and you won't be having
any children, got it?::

He sucked upt the pain for a moment, and then punched me in the gut. Still in pain, he
slowly walked out of the room. The servant came in a little while after that. She gave me
food and water, as usual. And as usual, I sacanned her mind for betrayal. I picked up the
glass, confident that it was not poisoned. I kept my mind contact with the girl-servant, and
dropped the glass when her mind began screaming, please don't drink the water. The
glass crashed to the floor. He thought he would kill me now? Bastard.

Things became clear to me suddenly. I knew how I was going to get out. :: Go tell Gorvani
I'm dead:: I mindspoke to the girl-servant, who gave me a stunned look, but went off
anyway. While she was gone, I set the illusion that I had actually drank the poisoned
water. I disguised myself, though I was still in chains, and I picked up a sharpend piece of
glass, and I waited for him to come.

He walked through the door, and walked over to where my illusioned body lay. When he
bent down to touch it, I jumped from where I was and plunged the peice of glass into his
back.

Give me the keysI told the girl-servant, who had followed Gorvani in. Without saying a
word, she reached into Gorvani's jaket and pulled out a ring of keys. I had to go through
each one before I found the one that fit the locks.

Once I was freed, I noticed Gorvani was still alive. ::You'll never escape:: He called after
me. ::My security is already on the way.::

I kept running. I kept running until I ran into the Security Gorvani was talking about. But I
could have cared less.The only thing they could do to me was kill me, and since Shade was
gone, that really wasn't all that bad. They came towards me, guns pointed at me. I kept
running at them. I had no intentions of stopping. And when they opende fir, I jumped over
them. I was so filled with adrenaline, that I failed to notice that my shoulder was bleeding.
But I kept running, until I found some sort of Exit. Once I was out of the building, I ran in a
random direction.

I kept running until I simply collapsed from exhaustion. I noted that my ribs were probably
cracked from when Gorvani punched me. And it was then that I noticed my shoulder. At
the sight of so much of my own blood, I passed out.

When I came to, I was in a dark room. A woman was hovering over me. She looked like
she might be a nun or something. I was completely delirious, and decided to go back to
sleep. I slowly got my energy back, and found out I had been taken to a local church. The
nuns had cleaned up my shouldr and wrapped my cracked ribs. They gave me one of their
spare uniforms. I stayed there for a long time. I didn't talk to anyone the entire time I was
there. Most of the women stayed away from me, but some ofthe older ones seemed to
like me for some reason, and they were never far away.

I had woken up one night screaming out Shade's name, and I guess I woke up some of
the old-timers. Two of them came to my room to find me sobbing. They held me in their
arms, telling me it would be okay. One of them told me her story, of how her husband had
died a horrible death in some sort of accident. Htey stayed with me until I cried myself
back to sleep.

My shoulder finally healde back up. It was kinda stiff, but it was still functional, which was
all I needed. I became close friends with the old timers that had helped me through the
nightmares. I learned a lot from them. My heart stil held some sort of hope that Shade
was still alive, though I had mostly given up.

One day, unexpectedly, one of the younger girls came running into the work room I was
in. She ran up to one of the old-timers and started talking excitedly. I figured it was just
another guy that they had seen in the church who happened to be particularly attractive. I
payed no attention. My heart still ached for Shade.

Then everyone in the room turned silent, and they all stared at me. I looke dup from my
work. did you say that thisyoung man could not speak? one of the old-timers asked the
girl. She nodded. Nao...could it be...?

I was out of the room before she could finish what she was saying. I burst into the church,
startling some of the people there. they were in the middle of a sermon or something, and
everyone stopped and looked at me. All except one, who sat in the corner.

I whispered. He looked up then, and his tear streaked face lit up. He stood up
slowley. ::Shade:: I repeated in his head. We ran towards each other, and he caght me
as I jumped up into his arms. We held eachother tight, fearing that if we let go, we would
both dissappear again. Our minds were a jumble of questions, but over all, we didn't care.
We had been reunited again. The church exploded in aplause, as people clapped and
whistled thier approval. We just held eachother close, and trhe moment lasted forever...