Oh, wow. I'm back from the dead peoples! I had a bit of an overload and my brain pretty much fried because of all the schoolwork…blech…
Anyways, I'm back now and I hope to update a bit more regularly…hopefully…
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Disclaimer: Do you honestly believe that a fourteen year old girl really owns Danny Phantom? I'm not insanely rich, so I think not.
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Isolated
Ch.3
Walls were pressing in on all sides. The ceiling and floor seemed to try their hardest to meet. There was no air to breathe, and no space to exist in. There was pressure everywhere and the darkness choked him. He couldn't move, he couldn't breathe…
The dark haired boy gasped, his chest heaving as he shot up out of bed. His eyes roamed wildly about the room, becoming more panicked with each second that passed. He scooted backwards until he hit the wall. He suppressed a scream at the feeling of the wall behind his back.
His fear retreated to the back of his mind when the routine knock sounded and his breakfast was placed onto the floor. But it was still there, lurking and waiting for the right opportunity. There was something profoundly wrong about this, this imprisonment. He couldn't exactly place his finger on it, but it was as if there was something he had to do.
He had to get out of here somehow, but there didn't seem to be a way. He had no real, practical knowledge about the outside world, assuming he could even escape in the first place. There was just no way. He was condemned to stay in this place, this place were he shouldn't be. The fear started to creep up again at these thoughts. It was like it sensed his intent…
The cheap plastic fork stopped in midair by the hand that held it, a piece of indistinguishable food hanging off its end. The light faded, the darkness appeared. He couldn't move, he couldn't breathe…the fork dropped out of his hand and fell silently to the floor. The plate of uneaten food slid off his lap to stain the carpet. The boy sank into unconsciousness.
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The teenaged boy with the red beret sat at a giant supercomputer, typing furiously. It was a miracle that the keys survived the onslaught. The one with beady eyes hovered over his shoulder staring intently at the screen although he could make no sense of the gibberish. The boy squinted in concentration. He tried his utmost hardest to ignore the looming and uncomfortable presence of his superior lingering threateningly over him. His forehead started to glimmer with perspiration at the nerve-wracking nervousness that consumed him. After a few intense minutes, the boy sighed wearily and practically collapsed onto the back of the chair.
"Well?" The man asked impatiently.
The boy answered, the barest hint of a smile set upon his face. "It's working."
The man smiled narrowly.
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Sam lay on her back on the dingy carpet, which was once cream but turned brown with the filth of decades. A small, threadbare scrap of a blanket managed to cover most of her frame. Her eyes stared unseeingly upwards. Her mind turned and thoughts rolled over in her mind. She looked out of the small window and grimaced. The sun was rising. She hadn't been able to get any sleep the night before, no matter how hard she tried. The floor wasn't so comfortable and the blanket wasn't much for fending off the cold of the night. Not to mention the fact that the person in that one room intrigued her to no end.
She still tried to suppress her thoughts with the simple logic that it really might be a storage room and she was over-reacting and blowing things out of proportion. Her curious side would have none of it. It insisted that she investigate, and find out once and for all what the heck was really behind the curtain. Hey, it wasn't like there was anything better to do.
So, she stiffly got up off the floor and fixed her rumpled clothes, and stepped outside, extremely careful so as to not wake up anyone.
Of course, being careful doesn't always save you.
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"This isn't good." One short, stocky man spoke grimly, "There is interference from outside, and I can't stop it."
The other figure's lips thinned in displeasure. "Try harder. We can not lose."
"But-."
I don't care how. Just do it."
He walked away imperiously and the other man sighed heavily. This would be difficult, but there would be unpleasant consequences for failure…
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Drip.
Drop.
Drip.
Drop.
Drip…Drip…Drip…
Red. The sky is red. Everything is red. So is blood. But not mine.
Red. The color of my blood as it flows from my veins. The sky is red. Blood is everywhere.
Death. Is this dying? I'll find out. I'll find out soon.
Death. Will this be the day? The day I finally die? I'll find out soon.
The darkness…will it never leave?
The darkness never leaves.
Drip.
Drop.
Drip.
Drop.
Drip…Drip…Drip…
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The nondescript man fidgeted under the superior's questioning gaze.
"Are… are you sure we should go through with this?"
"Now is not the time for an attack of the conscious."
"I know, but-."
"We have been planning this for so long, and it is moving perfectly. There is no reason to fear and if you don't remove your infernal conscious and keep on pestering me with nonsensical ramblings than I will do so myself."
"Y-yes sir."
"I have worked too hard for this to come to pieces now." He said under his breath.
"What was that sir?"
"Nothing. Absolutely nothing."
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Whew! Yay, another finished!
Give a round of applause to my new beta for this story, Silent Faerie 64!
I hope you all liked it! I'm starting to develop the plot now…finally, after a couple set-up chapters. So please review and tell me how you liked it! I really want to hear your comments/suggestions/etc. I want to know how to improve this and I can't do that without some input. Thanks so much!