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Chapter IV: Escape!

It was many days, at least three weeks before I could actually feel again. With the tortures, our minds became so hollow and empty, thoughts of anything else but pain proved to be impossible.

Leo had faithfully tended to my wounds, inflicted daily and maintained hourly. My flesh had become a very precipice of pain. However, with this numbness had given birth to whispers of a rebellion among the other human prisoners. The ones who had managed to signal to me, as my body was dragged unceremoniously through the hallway, signed that the time was soon.

Leo was against it, "This will only end with more bloodshed,"

"So I must endure this torture forever?" I whimpered, in more pain than ever before.

Leo purred, "My dear child, I have no desire to see you die, do you think you are this maddrag's only victim?"

"Clearly not," I muttered.

There was a knock on the cell door; I grew silent, bracing myself for the worse. It slid open with a loud clang, and I smiled at the person who stood there.

"Kyle," I whispered.

Kyle Foren had been taken like me, from his home in the dead of the night. His father was the president of a small shipping company in the Caribbean, on the Island of Jamaica. It was possibly for this reason that he was taken. He had mentioned his plans of escape which came to him once while being dealt with by the Dark Dragon.

"It's time for us to get out of here," he whispered fiercely, there were about half a dozen other prisoners behind him, "come with us if you wish to escape,"

I grinned for the first time in weeks as I grabbed his hand, it was scarred from the tortures that he had endured like me. But he had been captured long before I had ever been thought of in this stinkhole.

Leo hissed, "This will only end more terribly, head my warning child, stay here,"

"Shut up you filthy feline," spat Kyle, his disdain for the Animal Guardian had been evident long before this encounter, his distrust for all magical creatures borderline sadistic in nature, "you are one the reasons we're in this shithole,"

Leo didn't flinch, "In the end though, I am probably your only means of survival,"

Kyle swore and pulled me by the arm, leading me outside, "Let's keep moving, the guards were killed on their last rounds,"

We climbed the granite staircase, passed the torture rooms and a room which seemed to be a small dining hall. Resistance wasn't present in any capacity. It almost made me wonder, exactly how were we being restrained. The wheels within my tortured mind began to turn slowly, there was something very wrong with what was happening right now. It was all too easy. We exited to the battlement, atop a steep drop. I could hear the waves of the sea crashing against the base of the cliff. We were in a castle, of medieval sorts. It was pitch black, the foamy waters bubbling forth in the possibly hundred foot drop.

Then it hit me, the thing that didn't make sense at all, the reason why all the guards were so easy to off.

"Kyle," I whispered fiercely, tugging at his arm.

He was ignoring me.

"KYLE!" I shouted.

"What?" he responded, looking around for a way off the battlement, the other prisoners were following his lead.

"How did you get the idea to escape?" I said.

He frowned at me as if I were crazy, "Why is that important?"

"Just answer me!"

He scratched at his chin, "The last time that bloody dragon dug his claws into my skull,"

"No-," I said, backing away slowly. The figure of the Dark Dragon landed roughly on the end of the battlement, making all the prisoners freeze in almost a petrified state.

"Ah, so you were the only one to figure out this plan of mine?" he bellowed in booming voice.

"Attack him!" screamed Kyle, "Better free dead, than prisoners alive!"

The serpentine creature ripped through the six prisoners easily, slaughtering them without hesitation. Kyle ran at him, still attempting to fight. The dragon batted him aside with the back of his claws, I could hear his bones snap as he was hurtled through the air and into the pitch black night, to slash in the cold harsh sea.

I was trembling when the Dark Dragon drew closer, I could literally feel his aura of evil touching every inch of my flesh.

"She is the one?" said a voice from behind me, I glanced to see his servant Chang shake her head in disbelief, "I would have thought Adia would have been the one," she motioned to one of the dead prisoners in front of me.

"It matters not," said the Dark Dragon, as his claws cupped my chin. To say that I was scared would have been a lie, I was terrified, "she will be the one we train, my deadliest assassin,"

His code of murder would be etched in my heart, for as long as I lived.