After spending most of the night tossing and turning and waking up from yet another nightmare, all Serena could think about was sleep, sleep that wouldn't be interrupted. After hours of sleepless boredom, she gave up on trying to go to sleep altogether. Sitting up she started to pull at the covers that were tangled around her body, she only paused to look at the clock, she felt her heart drop when she realized that she had about four more hours until she usually woke up.
Sighing, Serena fell back onto her pillow will a dull thud and put her hands behind her head, it was a horrible night to be up, it was very humid outside, making it miserable for Serena to try and fall asleep again. The storm blowing in didn't help her either, especially when the wind would make a lot of noise and startle her out of sleep. She also remembered that when she woke up from her nightmare she had stuck out her hand to Darien's side of the bed, hoping he was there, only to be reminded where he really was or where he wasn't.
As more time passed, Serena ended up staring at the ceiling and listening to her fan hum as it tried to circulate the warm air around the room. In the background Serena started to hear some sort of noise, it sounded like someone ran into something.
Feeling the back of her neck tingle with something close to fear she started to feel like someone was watching her, confused Serena looked around the room, not one person could get in, she always locked her bedroom door, plus her windows were tightly locked and shut, not to mention she was two stories from the ground. As she ignored the feeling of being watched she was getting increasingly anxious about the small noises that she heard outside of her bedroom door and the need to walk around and check everything grew to an uncomfortable nagging itch in the back of her mind.
Deciding to get up and check her room, Serena carefully got out of bed and quickly flicked the bedside lamp on. When the lights turned on all of the shadows disappeared and absolutely nothing in the room was different than before, everything was familiar and unmoved.
Rubbing her temples and slowly shaking her head as to dispel her thoughts, Serena walked over to her door and opened it. Nothing was out of place outside of her room either, shaking her head again she walked towards the bathroom and went in and she shivered when her feet touched the cold flooring that contrasted drastically with the humid night. Once she was done she headed back to her bedroom, she had some hope that she would be able to fall asleep now that she had splashed cold water on her face and reassured herself that nothing out of the ordinary was inside of her house.
As she was heading to the familiar path of her bedroom in the complete darkness, Serena still felt uneasiness grow in the pit of her stomach. Before she could linger some more on her thoughts she promptly crashed her toe into something hard and some sort of yelp was heard, she wasn't sure if it was hers or someone else's. Blinking and looking around the dark room she saw nothing because the darkness was as thick as a dark cloak and she didn't remember setting anything in the middle of her hallway that she could step on.
Feeling her pulse beat rapidly in her neck, fear started to take over, she tossed her arms out in front of her and felt for something. She expected to touch the wall or maybe even knock some antique to the floor, but she wasn't prepared to feel someone. Gasping, Serena backed away and screamed as loud as she could, in her panic she hit the front of a dresser and lost her balance.
As she fell she was aware that the other person that was beside her grabbed her by the arm and hauled her to her feet. She felt their hands on her shoulders and felt the heat that radiated off of them. Struggling, she managed to say, " Get off of me, now! Help!" She was frantic for help, she didn't know who this was and she wanted them to get off of her. After screaming some more she considered transforming, but decided against it because she didn't know who was in front of her and they didn't seem that dangerous at the moment, she didn't want to hurt someone if she wasn't in danger.
But all thoughts of not hurting the person that was next to her vanished when they put a sharp object to her throat and the other hand wrapped around the back of her neck to hold her still. Serena knew with frightening clarity what type of object was biting into her neck, it was most likely a knife and the hand around her neck was tight, but not unbreakable.
Gathering a few calming breaths Serena went limp, the person behind her was surprised, she could tell. Out of the corner of her eye Serena saw someone else, she hoped that they would help her. The person behind her seemed really nervous, so she decided to act quickly before her neck was slit, she darted her once limp hands up and seized the hands of her attacker in a bruising grip and then with their momentum she threw them as far as she could since the weight of her attacker was pretty heavy, they might not have went far, but they still felt it.
Serena was about to scream again, but she was surprised to find that the lights had just been turned on and she was facing a frightened looking boy. Serena wondered if the lights had been on before and she hadn't noticed them, shrugging her shoulders she was facing Robert. Serena wasn't surprised with his actions because he was a stranger and she welcomed him in her home with open arms, but it did seem weird that he was attacking her.
Images flashed back to her, about her nightmare, she knew that this couldn't be the outcome of it, this seemed too easy. Feeling anger at Robert, Serena immediately shut her open mouth and looked away from the boy, she couldn't believe she was getting worked up over this. Looking over to the door she saw all of her friends and Robert's grandmother, she felt her face grow red and warm as she realized that she may have made a big deal out of nothing, but she was glad she hadn't transformed though, that would have been a mess.
Still she couldn't get the image of young Robert choking her and the cold bite of the knife against her neck that clearly had promised death by an inexperienced hand. The thought of a knife was confusing also, what if it was just her imagination, what if he had only grabbed onto her since he was scared and it was his nails that she felt, did he even have a knife on him, it didn't look like it. She also remembered the shadow that she had seen, but she didn't think about it because she wasn't even sure if Robert had actually did those things, right now it just didn't seem possible, his face looked so innocent, but there was also a glint of something else in his eyes.
Rubbing the back of her neck and looking shyly at the boy in front of her, Serena said her apology. " I didn't know it was you, sorry." Serena seemed to think for a moment and added, " But you should have at least said something when I was yelling."
This time the boy looked down and he just shyly nodded his head in agreement, but she still didn't like the look on his face. " I came out here because I needed to use the bathroom and I couldn't find it." The boy sounded like he was defending himself and Serena didn't know if he was lying or not.
Giving the boy her best reassuring smile, Serena pointed down the hallway. " That is where you can find the bathroom."
As the boy walked away from her, her smile dropped from her face as she turned towards her friends, Robert's grandmother had left when he walked away. " That was strange and the kid acts strange, I don't know why he just didn't say anything when he bumped into me." Tapping her finger to her chin, Serena thought about telling her friends what she really thought. "Hey, I have to tell you guys something, I swear that Robert was choking me and he had a knife to my neck." She felt foolish when she said this out loud, it sounded rushed and nervous. When she looked up her friends seemed to at least partially agree with her.
"I did see how the boy looked at you, do you think we should search him for anything like a knife?" Mina looked increasingly worried as she talked.
" Hm, I think we should wait, maybe we can find out more, I just want everyone to watch out, okay? Now I think we should all go to bed because I might have been imagining things" What Serena really wanted was information about Darien, she knew that he had more information than he let on, she didn't want to ruin her chances of finding out more information by saying that he attacked her when she wasn't even sure he did anything.
With a nod everyone went back into their bedrooms. Serena couldn't help but feel worried, she felt that she hadn't handled the situation correctly. She could remember being choked and then a knife, but then she didn't, she couldn't help but think that maybe the lack of sleep was finally getting to her after all. She hoped that she made the right decision because if she knew for sure that Robert had a knife and that he had choked her he would have been out of the house already.
Sighing at the oncoming day ahead of her, she made her way downstairs to make herself a snack. Once the refrigerator was opened she grabbed everything and anything that looked good to her. When she was younger she used to do this all of the time, she would eat when she was emotional because that's what would make her feel better, now it was no different even though she hadn't indulged on her emotional eating in a while, it felt good. After a long while of sitting in front of the refrigerator she had stuffed her face until she was sick, literally.
Gingerly getting to her feet she stood and looked around, everything was silent, she enjoyed it. After her little binge she felt emotionally better than ever, this is what she needed. Putting a satisfied smile on her face, she forgot all of her fears and what ifs, she put everything behind her for the moment.
Stopping at the downstairs bathroom so she wouldn't wake anyone up, she walked into the large tiled bathroom and looked at herself, really looked at herself. She hadn't changed much in the passing years, in fact she looked the same if not for her face, it looked more mature and her blue eyes held a little more knowledge of the world than before. Holding one piece of her long blond hair, she smiled, her hair was something that never changed. She smiled again and shut her eyes as she felt soothing fingers running through her hair, only to have her eyes open three seconds later. Looking into the mirror again she didn't see someone who was content, she saw someone who had large frightened eyes and a mouth opened in shocked surprise.
The hands that were running through her hair soothingly had stopped and then they had turned cruel. Her scream turned into a light gasp when the man behind her put a hand over her mouth. Serena knew it was a man because of his reflection in the mirror, he was right behind her. He was wearing some sort of full face black mask that concealed all of his facial features and made him look quite frightening and he had his hands tightly wrapped in her hair, making it near impossible to move her upper body.
Light muffled noises came from her mouth due to the mans large hand that covered half her face and her mouth. She suddenly went limp in her captors grasp, he wasn't surprised and she felt like her head was on fire because he kept such a tight grip on it.
Closing her eyes due to the pain and to collect her thoughts she slowly brought her leg back and with accuracy she slammed it into his groin. Instantly he dropped her, clearly not expecting her to fight back and kick so hard. Ripping free of his grip, Serena darted out of the bathroom and started to head up the stairs. Again she was stopped from running up the stairs because she had been grabbed around the waist.
She felt her waist being squeezed so hard that it made her gasp for breath. Again she struggled as she felt her ribs being slowly crushed, thrashing out she hit the man in the face with her elbow and repeated until her dropped her on her backside and then he softy swore at her.
Serena scrambled up and ran once more, her breathing coming in short bursts as she hurriedly turned a corner and slammed right into the man. This time Serena had the enough time to push herself away before she got caught. Her mind was a mess, she didn't know where to go and what to do, the only thing she wanted to do at the moment was stop and rest, but she knew that she would get caught if she did that.
In the mess of thoughts that was her mind, Serena was aware that this had happened before, way too many times. She could almost predict the outcome, almost. As she dashed around her own house trying to outrun a maniac she met face to face with him, or more like mask to face. She faked a left and bought herself some time to get to the front door, the door that in her nightmares she could never open in time.
Just as she predicted she started unlocking the set of intricate locks that she had placed for safety, it was sort of ironic how the same locks that provided her with confidence and safety could very well be the death of her. As she pulled the door open she was rewarded with a light breeze in her sweat drenched face and then in the next second she was facing a closed door.
With a sharp intake of breath Serena turned around and faced her pursuer, who still had their mask on. Her heart almost stopped when the man laughed at her, laughed! Serena was fed up with this, she twisted around in her captors grasp and stomped on his foot as she grabbed her transformation brooch that she always kept with her. Just as she had uttered the words that would transform her into Sailor Moon after years of hiatus, she was roughly grabbed again and her brooch was taken from her and thrown across the room where the bright pink light that had been coming out of it had stopped.
Serena was so frustrated she could almost cry, if she was told all of this would happen in one day she would laugh. Looking up at the man as he looked down on her, she watched as he let out an impatient sigh, like he had seen this all before. With all of her strength she punched him squarely in the jaw and without missing a beat he did the same to her. Serena had never been punched so hard in her life, she was so dizzy and lethargic. With her final burst of energy she yelled and struggled with every ounce of strength. "Help! Someone help me!" But the last part was muffled due to the hand on her mouth again.
Then without notice she was dropped to the ground and her knees made a sickening crack, though they weren't broken, just badly bruised. Serena dimly heard footsteps and yells, someone was fighting with her attacker and losing. She wanted to help them, but she didn't have the energy or the correct frame of mind to get up and help. Falling into darkness, Serena wondered if she would ever get up again.
A Few Hours Later
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Groaning as she moved, Serena put a hand to her pounding head and then lightly touched her face. Pain crossed her features when she did, then everything came flooding back to her in a panicked frenzy. She remembered living her nightmare in real life, well at least she hoped that it was real life because she didn't think she could go through another nightmare that was as realistic as the one she had just went through.
Pulling herself off of the couch that she was on, she sat up and was almost immediately flooded with a torrent of pain. With shaking hands she straightened up even more, determined to get information out of someone.
Carefully standing up and stretching she felt a little bit better, but not much. Glancing over to her right she glimpsed a figure against the wall, who appeared to be tied up. Walking over to them she figured that this was her attacker. He had his mask off and his head was hanging down to his chest like he had been knocked out, and he probably was.
There was just something familiar about him, thought Serena. Bringing her hand up to his face she pushed his head back so that it was turned towards her. The site that she was greeted with wasn't pleasant and to say it was the shock of her life was an understatement. There, sitting on the floor, tied up and bruised was Darien! Serena didn't know what to do, either jump for joy or sit down and weep. Darien had attacked her? She couldn't believe it, he would never do that to her. She felt betrayed, she wanted everything to go back to the way it was one month ago.
Feeling quite used, Serena went up to Darien and slapped him and he actually stirred in his unconscious state, like he was going to wake up at anytime. Looking down again she saw her transformation brooch that had been thrown across the room, bending down she picked it up and then she pocketed it..
With her hands on her hips she glared down at Darien, she didn't know what to do, but what she wanted was for Darien to wake up and talk to her. Turning around so her back faced Darien, she was greeted with her four friends all wearing sympathetic faces. What Serena really wanted to do at the moment was run out of the house and cry because nothing seemed fair, but she didn't.
Serena looked up when Lita tried to get her attention. " I never knew this is how it would turn out, what do you think happened to him because he would have never done anything like this before?" Serena just looked at Lita and shook her head with a grimace on her face.
Thinking her words over carefully Serena asked everyone a question that had been on her mind since she woke up. " Do you know where Robert and his grandmother are? Did they hear any of this yet?" Serena watched as her friends exchanged glances, which was a sign that they didn't want to talk about that yet.
"Come on guys, I think that this is sort of my business and keeping it from me isn't right." Glaring at them she tapped her foot on the floor, waiting for anyone to speak. A nervous Amy ended up speaking.
" When we checked in on both of them, only his grandmother was left, we tracked Robert down and we found him walking about thirty minutes away from this house, he is currently right over there." Serena turned her head as Amy pointed across the room where a sleeping, tied up Robert was.
Serena's mouth was open, she seemed to want to say something, but couldn't get it out.
" So… he was escaping or leaving, did he say anything to you?" Amy shook her head. "No, he didn't, all he said was that he needed to get away from here and we ended up searching for him while you were sleeping and we found a knife on him, it was pretty dull though."
"Wow, I can't wait to talk to Robert when he gets up and I also can't wait for him to get up either." Serena had pointed a accusing finger at Darien. " So you guys weren't going to tell me everything that happened? If I hadn't have asked, you guys wouldn't have told me."
As she looked at everyone's faces to see what they were feeling, she saw mostly regret. "We just thought that maybe we would tell you everything later, but I guess that didn't work out." Raye said while patting Serena's shoulder lightly. Lifting her gaze from Raye, she heard a crash behind her, Serena was shocked to see Lita charging into Darien and knocking him to the floor where she promptly punched him in the face.
"Um, a little help here anyone, I can't hold him down any longer." Lita was panting with exhaustion at having to hold Darien down, when everyone started to come closer to him Serena saw that something was wrong with his face.
" Wait! Stop getting closer to him! Lita get off of him now!" Serena was frantic, something wasn't right, but she was relieved when Lita jumped off of him, she had noticed that something was wrong also.
Just as Lita joined her, Darien's face started to…well…it started to melt. The girls stood together watching as the man who they had presumed to be Darien, started to melt and form into another man. When his face was more than half melted off he started to look like another man with a different body and different eye and hair color than Darien. Once the transformation was complete the man looked nothing like Darien, he didn't sound like him either.
When the man was done 'melting' into a new person everyone in the room was silent and there was absolutely no movement.
" Who are you and why are you here?" In response to Lita's question the man just laughed at her, like she had just said the funniest thing in the world. " Are you stupid? I'm here to obviously take that girl right over there, you know the short blond one." He pointed to Serena and then he crossed his arms in front of himself, he looked like he was thinking. "Oh and I want that boy over there also, the one that's tied up in the corner. He didn't kill you like I wanted and you probably don't want him here anyway, so hand him over." His arrogant voice carried throughout the room as he demanded that the boy be handed to him.
Hearing knuckles crack Serena turned to see Lita, she was ready to fight. " So your not Darien, just what type of creature are you?"
"No, I thought you would have noticed that before, but I guess that's just the human brain for you." The five friends exchanged glances, they all had similar thoughts going across their minds, this was the enemy they were tracking.
Hesitantly Serena stepped forward to the creature in front of her. " Well, where is Darien?"
"I may have him, or maybe I don't. All I know is that I'm supposed to take you with me." And with that last statement he proceeded toward her and then lunged at her. She was surprised when he crumpled to his knees in front of her, he was now sporting a knife in his chest, it was not in his heart though.
She watched as he looked up with a gaze of murderous intent, it wasn't directed at her, it was directed at Robert who was behind her, he had thrown his dull knife that he had tried to kill her with.
" Boy, that wasn't very smart of you, now what did I tell you before? Do you remember what I said and what would happen to you if you didn't listen to me?" The boy shuddered when he said that, but didn't respond.
The man pulled the knife out of his chest with one quick pull and not one drop of blood spilled out of the wound, he then looked at everyone in the room, and to his surprise they looked different this time. They had all transformed after many years of not even thinking about it, the man was so engrossed in the boy that the bright multi colored lights of their transformations hadn't even caught his attention " Now is there anymore surprises for me?" He sounded like he was amused. " No?" He then started to advance towards Robert, like nothing had happened and that was his mistake, he took his eyes off of everyone in the room.
Before he could harm Robert, Sailor Mars had sent a small but strong blast of fire at the man, it made him yell out in pain when the fire touched his sensitive skin.
" Okay, you want to fight? This house is too small for fighting though, so lets go somewhere more interesting, shall we? Oh and Serena, isn't that your name?" She nodded to the man. " This might be your lucky day, because we might be able to see your lover." And with that last statement he grabbed the boy with lightening fast speed and with a motion of his hand a bright light swept through the room that touched all of the girls, making them fell lightheaded and dizzy.
Once the feeling vanished from everyone they found out that they were in a different room, or more accurately, a different building. With its dark and dirty appearance it looked like it was underground, plus the walls were dirt and the smell was almost unbearable.
" Where are we, does anyone know?" Serena's question was instantly answered. "You are in my underground…house…if that's what you call it." Snapping her gaze to the man she saw that he had threw Robert on the ground and was now standing in the middle of the huge dirt room.
"Everyone else should be here soon, so they can join us and then you all will be gone for good and I won't have to worry about anyone of you interfering with our plans. And just like every other 'evil' person out there, there is only one goal in mind, ruling the world, but in my case it would be ruling the whole universe. I'm not so bad, I won't kill many people, what is the point of ruling when you don't have any followers? My group and I just want power, plain and simple, that is the point of ruling over something."
Serena had to resist the urge to roll her eyes, this is the same type of enemies that they always deal with, but these people seem a bit more powerful.
With Darien
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After adjusting to the light, Darien was awed at the room he was in. The rooms that he was in before didn't even compare to the room he was in now. This room had clear glass and some sort of metal as the flooring. But the most shocking aspect of the room was that it was completely submerged underwater. By the look of things, the building had been built underground and then it had been built underwater, but it had to be near the surface of the water since there was a lot of natural light.
Looking over at Meg he could tell that she was just as amazed as he was. Anyone would be after seeing the poorly built building on the other side of the doors.
" It looks like we have some escapees to deal with now, don't we?" Stealing a glace to the new voice, Darien could see a man that looked almost identical to the other one he had killed.
Darien watched as the man looked closer at him. " You came right to us, didn't you? We were given the order to bring you here and look, here you are!"
" No, I was brought here by another man, and he is dead by the way." The mans smirk faded as he heard the news.
" What did the guy look like, the one that you killed I mean?" By this point the man began to look nervous. Darien smiled inwardly.
" He actually looked a lot like you." With that the man looked panicked, but then it was replaced with a smirk."Oh, for a moment I thought that you killed someone else, but if he looked like me, chances are he is probably one of my distant cousins, something like that." The man walked closer to Meg. " I want to know why you are with her, she is supposed to be in her cell." Darien thought for a moment, he had just realized that this man wasn't too aggressive and he didn't seem overly smart.
" I decided that she would come with me, after all he said that I could keep her and I have decided that I would come over and join you on your side." Darien felt Meg nudge his side in annoyance, she had read his mind, but she didn't like his plan.
" Keep her? She was next in line to become one of our mindless servants, it is hard to believe that he would give her to you." After thinking some more, a sly smile spread across the mans face. " To make sure that your one of us and that this girl can go with you, I want to know who told you all of this."
Darien knew this guy wasn't as dumb as he looked, and now he was in trouble, he didn't know some guys name that was the leader of the operation. In fact, Darien didn't even think they used names at all. " Well, 'He' told me that, you know, the leader or boss that's running this operation."
The man actually seemed satisfied with Darien's answer. " Okay, only someone like us would know something like that, so I guess you are free to go." And with that the man left them standing in the middle of the magnificent glass hallway.
Darien stole a glance at Meg, she looked impressed at what Darien did. " I didn't know you were that smart. I thought we were dead when he asked that question, how did you know that they really don't have any type of name? The only reason that I know is because of mind reading. I wish you could have heard what that man was thinking when he asked you the question about their leader"
" No, I don't know anything, I just assumed because they rarely call anyone by name. I think I changed my mind, we are going to look around here and find prisoners, I also have a strong feeling that the way out is in this building and not the other one"
" That's just what I was thinking, but remember, we have to go back and save the other prisoners in the underground building." Darien nodded his head at Meg and then they proceeded to walk down the glass hall.
Once again they were faced with multiple doors, but this time everything was much better quality and very pleasant looking. Turning towards the right, there was a big door that looked out of place among the other, much smaller doors.
This time Darien followed Meg as she walked to the large double doors, he looked at her for an explanation.
" I hear a lot of suffering and many pained thoughts coming from that double door and they are definitely alone in there. From what I hear they are not all mentally stable, they might possibly be the first set of people to be captured"
Darien knew that she was right, he also wondered what type of treatment that these people had gone through to make them unstable.
Making sure everything was clear, Meg and Darien dashed to the large doors and carefully opened them. Once the doors were wide open, a horrible smell went through the air and hit Darien full force, it made him want to gag.
Almost immediately they were faced with rows and rows of miniature cells, with way too many people in each one and the smell just got worse as they walked further inside. The faces that Darien saw were scared, scarred, dirty and sick. Just being in the room made Darien feel dirty and depressed. He turned to Meg and he could tell that she was feeling everything too, only much worse. She looked like she wanted to reach out to the people and help every single one of them, and she would, when they were all safe and out of the building.
Straight ahead Darien saw two guards, they seemed to look like the human zombie that he had encountered when he first met Meg. " Meg, I think this time we don't have a choice, we have to kill those people who are straight ahead." Darien was just waiting for her to disagree, but was surprised when she said the opposite. " Okay, they are too lost to be helped, their sanity is all gone."
" I will take the one on the left and you take the one on the right." They both headed to the men that they needed to kill, they were really doing them a favor in the long run, because the men didn't have their mind and couldn't think on their freewill.
Walking up to the old guard, Darien waited for the man to move, when he didn't Darien took his hand and hit the back of the mans neck, effectively killing him, the man probably felt no pain. After little wait, Darien was joined with Meg and she had keys jingling in her hand. They both walked toward a cell and carefully unlocked it, waiting to see what would happen. The people in the cell looked sick and feeble, they didn't want to move.
Leaving the cell open they stepped to the other cages, but only a few would walk out and even they weren't in the right frame of mind. Once they were finished with all of the cells, Darien and Meg had about half of the rooms occupants following them. Not one word was said as they all filed out of the room and into the great expanse of the hall.
Once in the glass hall, everyone of the people that was in the cells covered their eyes, to them the bright light was painful. Once everyone was ready to walk, they started down a hall that Darien and Meg hadn't been in. Every once and a while they would encounter a guard and Darien would have to kill him, while the silent crowd that followed him shrank with fear.
Darien had acquired a key card and various sets of keys from fallen guards, but the problem was that they didn't know where to use them. Finally after wandering again for another ten minutes a small guard started to walk across the hall and again the large crowd behind him would move away with fear. This time, Darien threatened the small guard, he wanted to know where the exit was and the guy seemed new, so there was a good chance that he was telling the truth when he said that the exit was two halls back and to the right at the eighth door.
He did feel some regret when he broke his promise to the guy and killed him anyway, but it wasn't like he was a good guy. So Darien turned the group around and they backtracked, occasionally passing one of the guards he had killed.
When they were at the door that the guard had directed them to, everyone stood still, they were waiting for someone to do something. "I will open it, so stand back." When everyone was further away from the door, Darien opened it and the room contained six elevators.
Deeming it was safe to go inside, he motioned for everyone to follow him. " I'm going to take elevator number one up to the top floor and see what is there." Darien didn't bother to give them any directions if he never came back, he was hoping he wouldn't end up in a situation where he should have given them directions.
Getting into the elevator was easy and the ride to the top was fast. As the doors opened he saw more natural light and a set of clear glass door, which lead to what looked like the outdoors.
Walking back into the sleek elevator, Darien pushed the button that would take him back to Meg and the others. Stepping out of the elevator and back underground was quite disheartening even though with another push of a button, he could be outside again. " Good news, if you push the top button on the elevator, it will take you outside." Darien expected to hear shouts and yells of triumph, but he heard nothing that suggested they were happy or excited. Again he wondered what happened to these people to make them act like this.
" Meg, I think you should take this group of people up and outside, hopefully a phone will get reception now." She nodded, but then looked at him again. " What about you?"
"I'm going to get the people that are in the building made of dirt, the place that I met you, so you should wait outside for the next group."
Meg had blushed when she realized she had almost forgotten about the other prisoners. " Will you come up with the other group?" Darien looked away, she didn't know that he had some sort of unfinished business, if you could even call it that. " Yeah, I will be up shortly after, but don't wait long, I might not come back, so why don't you just leave right away when you get the other group." She seemed to understand what he was trying to really say, he had forgotten that she could read his mind. " Fine, I will leave, but make sure you are careful and get everyone out of here." With a nod, he hugger her and left her to find the other prisoners, he wished that they would be in better shape than the other people were.
A/N-Wow, another chapter that took me really long to finish, I also kept on editing it. There is only one or two chapters left, I might combine them both because they are looking a bit small, so there might be one chapter left, who knows. Thanks to the people who read and reviewed, it's appreciated. And the next chapter will be here in two weeks or so.