The Golden Prison

Chapter One: I have Made So Many Mistakes

The silence was deafening, each silent tear fell softly onto the burnt ashes below her. She and her three best friends were hiding in the pile of debris outside of the area that used to be the city. Slorchians are determined and they would be back, and the four of them wanted to live to see one last sunrise. Her timer went off and she proceeded to wake up Zim. It was his turn to watch so she cold get some well needed rest. He slowly opened his eyes and crawled over to her, being careful not to wake the two sleeping girls that were next to him. She did not look up but simply kept staring at the ground. If you looked for a long enough time you could still see the imprint of where an innocent person fell upon their death. She let the tears fall freely.

"May," Zim asked softly, "Are you okay?"

"No Zim," May said slowly, "My whole life has been destroyed, I have nothing, and no I'm not okay."

"May," Zim, replied, "You need to sleep, go I'll cover here."

She gave him a grateful smile and moved over to her friends to sleep. She was almost glad Zim got stuck here, when he came to re-supply the Slorchians showed up and destroyed every Irken ship which stopped anyone from leaving the planet so he was stuck there, but she was glad since she didn't know what she would do without him. It seemed so long ago that the four best friends sat on her bed in the darkness of the orphanage talking of their dreams and ambitions, so long ago that they shared so many laughs, so long ago that they were happy. She glanced over once at Liz and Kim and seeing their safety began to fall into a dreamless sleep, thought of her once so simple life roaming around in her head.

Zim sighed for he knew he had a long night ahead of himself. He closed his eyes, just one nap couldn't hurt............

Hours later he felt a strong hand grab his shoulders roughly from behind, he was surprised and quickly got thrown over the monstrous creatures shoulder. Several girls screams pierced the night as May, Liz, and Kim were scooped up at well. Suddenly he felt the creature begin to walk. But instead of screaming he kept silent, for he knew there was going to be much more screaming later.

They were thrown roughly into a jail cell, standing up and gazing around Liz saw that the place they were in was no ordinary cell it was all for invaders. Five of them stood huddled in the corner trying to revive Zim, May, and Kim. The last one was a girl, she had her back turned to them and was scratching a check mark into the side of the jail cell.

"What are you doing," Liz asked approaching her.

The girl turned to face her and Liz could only stare. The girl had welts all up and down her arms, obvious she had been abused. Each red splotch seemed to leave a mark that screamed with its own pain, she was small and appeared to be very unhealthy, a frail girl lost in mound of her normal sized clothing.

"What the hell did they do," Liz asked.

"Well," Said the girl in a soft voice, "Slorchians are curious about how some Irkens react to substances."

"So the use us as experiments."

"That's right," The girl said," We are the lucky ones who are going to get experimented on instead of killed."

"YOU CALL THAT LUCKY," Liz shouted.

Then the guard stomped in.

"The next test subjects needed are Zita and Zim," He shouted.

Immediately he stomped in and grabbed Zim and a short girl from the back of the cell, he flipped both of them over his shoulder and slammed the cell door closed. He then began to walk away.

"ZIMMMMMMMMM NOOOOOOOOO," Liz shouted after him.

She then turned to the girl.

"What can I do to save him," Liz asked her.

The girl gave her a sad look.

"Pray for his soul."