"Oww! Be careful! I bought this skirt recently!" The eldest red head growled in annoyance and pain as she was thrown at the asphalted ground. Trying her best to control the anger inside her, she looked up and faced the six pipo monkeys who had bought her into a small, dark room. Her legs were sore, her arms were aching because of the rope and she was hungry and tired. The journey had been long, and Natalie wasn't sure she was happy to finally arrive at the final destination or saddened.

The pipo monkeys tilted their head to the side, looking at her curiously. "Uki uki," one of them spoke up, handing her a paper. Natalie glared at them, but accepted the paper anyway. What else could she do? She let her hazelnut brown eyes skim through the paper, her eyebrows rising in surprise.

"What? What kind of... form is this? She questioned. Indeed the paper looked like some sort of a form, with random questions and pop quizzes. "Do I have to fill this?"

"Uki," a monkey replied, pointing at the form. He pulled out a pen from his pant pocked and gave it to her.

"You know what, screw this! I don't understand what you're saying anyway, so I'm leaving!" Natalie spat out, making an attempt to stand up. Her sore leg prevented her to do so though, and out of pain she fell back on the ground. Growling out in pain, she sighed in defeat.

The moneys, on the other hand, didn't take any chances. Quickly they ran to the exit door and blocked it. Then they pulled out guns from nowhere and pointed it threateningly at her.

"UKI UK!" The monkey who seemed like the leader yelled at her angrily, nodding towards the paper.

Natalie rubbed her temples, trying to keep her cool. She realized walking out of this place was not an opinion without filling out the form. She did not have any gadgets or the experience of catching monkeys. 'I wonder how the others are doing,' she thought, grabbing the pen and paper.

"Okay, let's get down to business," she thought out loud, reading the first sentence. The monkeys watched her with interest, happy that she had obeyed them.

Name: Natalie

Age: 14

Height: 155 cm

Weight: xx

Male ( ) Female ( X )

Why are you attending this Academy:

Natalie smacked her forehead, shaking her head in utter annoyance. 'Because you pest of some monkeys forced me!' But as she realized she could get in trouble if she wrote that, she wrote something else that came into her mind.

Why are you attending this Academy: Because I can, literally.

Any special interests: Computers, movies, cooking...

Natalie filled out the form as fast as she could, not caring about what she wrote. The faster she was done with this crap, the faster she could get out. The small room didn't have a window, and the heat was getting worse by each minute that passed. The questions mainly consisted of what she would do in dangerous situations, and about her health.

Natalie wiped her forehead as she finished the last question and breathed out in relief. "Done!" She chirped, smiling for the first time after being kidnapped.

"Uki," the monkey who seemed like the leader demanded, walking over and grabbing the paper. Natalie crossed her arms, watching him as he looked through the paper carefully. After a while he nodded and gave her a thumbs up. "Uki ukiuk!" He yelled to the others, making them step aside. Natalie carefully got up, and to her surprise her legs didn't ache anymore. "Oh sweet freedom!" She smiled, walking towards the blending sunlight outside.

Covering her eyes with her hands, she walked out the door. Slowly opening her eyes and peeking through her fingers, she saw something that looked like a school campus. Removing her hand completely, she took a long look around the area, amazed by the sight. It was an extremely large outdoor area with many different buildings spread out amongst it. There were many court yards spread around, all with bright green grass and a few piles of leaves from the threes scattered around. Natalie saw some signs spelling 'Gym', 'Pool' and 'Practice room'.

There were also many different sport fields. And for those who wasn't fond of sports, there were large threes with benches under, making a perfect reading spot. Some stone pathways that had bark chips spread on either side to help the threes grow were also around the grass yard, each pathway leading into the various buildings. Even through the area was beautiful, Natalie couldn't help but feel depressed about the extremely large wall that surrounded the academy. The wall was made of concrete, completely blocking the sight of the 'outside world.'

Natalie noticed that there were many people, actually all about her age, walking towards a large hall. Some monkey guards were leading the way, making sure nobody sneaked out. For a second she was worried about that all her friends had been placed in another section of the Academy, judging by her being four years older than them. As she was deep in thoughts and worries, someone nudged her back.

"Uki!" An angry voice yelled, making Natalie jump in surprise.

"Hey! I'm not deaf," she replied, rubbing her ear.

The monkey kept nudging her with his gun, giving Natalie no other opinion than follow the crowd of humans into the hall. Out of worry, she looked around for her friends. But all she saw was scared teens, some even crying. Not that she blamed them. If she hadn't known Specter herself she would be scared to death too.

As they all gathered together in the hall, the light dimmed out. Now everyone was frantically looking around in the dark hall, wondering what was going to happen. Soon enough, loud bang was heard from the stage, followed by thick smoke. All the spotlights were being aimed at the smoke, and as expected Specter floated out of the smoke with his floating chair. Taking a good look at the frightened teenagers, he gave them a small smile.

"Welcome to my Academy!" He announced, spreading his arms. "I know most of you have arrived here in such a short notice, and many of you are possibly scared, yes?"

The mass of humans nodded immediately, looking hopefully at him. Like he was supposed to save them. Yeah right

"Then I have to tell you, there isn't really anything to be scared of," Specter said calmly. "The World is currently facing a lot of difficulties. Wars are about to break lose, the World Leaders are arguing, and to keep you youngsters safe from all that we have decided to keep you safely here in this Academy. Here you will learn to survive in the outside world, and after being here for a month, you can all reunite with your families. There's no need to worry about them now, as they are all safe in other temporary camps."

"As you understand, this is an Intensive Academy which will make you qualified to survive the harsh outside world as it is now. Together, we can fight against the unrighteous World Leaders who do nothing but declare wars on each other and hurting innocent civilians!"

Some of the teenager nodded at each other, suddenly being calm about the situation. Natalie on the other hand, was gaping at the white monkey, not believing what she was hearing. 'He got to be kidding me!' She thought in disbelief. 'How dare he lying to all these innocent people like that! He's obviously trying to making himself look like the good guy to calm them all down. Little do they know they will all end up like .. like pipo monkey slaves!'

"So what do you say, my fellow humans," he asked, looking through the crowd. "Join me, and we will all rule the world together, in peace and harmony!"

"YEAH!" Some guys yelled beside Natalie, making her roll her eyes. Others continued to nod at each other, not so scared anymore.

"Good," Specter said. "In that case, let me introduce you to my five top teachers, all specializing in different areas." He floated to the side, making more room for five other colorful monkeys.

"No, it can't be," Natalie said quietly, biting her lip. Oh how she wished she was wrong...

"Let me introduce you to Ukki Yellow, Pink, White, Blue and Red!" Specter announced, nodding at them.

"Hi, my name's Pink and I'll be your fabulous music and drama teacher!" The pink monkey introduced herself, waving sweetly. A couple of boys nearby whistled at her, making her blush and flip her blonde hair. "I can't wait to meet you all!"

The white monkey spoke up next. "Hillo my fillow ztudentz!" He said. "I will be yur zcience and math ticher."

"And I," the red muscular monkey spoke, "Will be your Gym teacher! Hiyah!" He broke a large three in two, earning claps and whistles from the crowd.

"I will be your history and geography teacher," The blue monkey said, crossing his arms. Some girls giggled at this, nudging each other.

"An Iiii-" The yellow monkey said, spinning around the stage. "Will be your English teacher! Oh my, oh my, I can't wait to meet all of you cute guys! Let's open a world of learning toget-"

"Yes, thank you teachers," Specter interrupted Yellow, not wanting to scare the students as they all had calmed down. He gestured them to get lost and faced the teenagers again. "I hope you all will have a good stay. If there's anything you need, I'll be in the Principal's office. Remember, this month will be one of your most memorable months of your lives, so make the best out of it. Good luck."

And suddenly, Specter disappeared in thin air. Everyone looked amused at the stage, well everyone except Natalie. 'I got to find the others,' she thought, running through the mass of students and towards the exit. As she was about to walk out of the hall, a pipo monkey blocked her way. "What do you want!? I'm in a hurry!" She growled, looking down at the monkey.

"Uki uki?" He asked, noting something down on his notebook.

Natalie scratched her head, not understanding anything. "Huh? I don't speak ape."

The pipo monkey pulled out something that looked like an ID card, and pointed at her.

"Oooh you mean ID card?" Natalie laughed dryly. "I haven't got mine yet."

"Ukiuk uki," The monkey explained, pointing towards a large stand with many monkeys behind. "Uki uk," he then said, pulling her towards it.

"Okay, okay, I get it!" Natalie said, "I'm getting my ID card."

"Uki!" the monkey said satisfied, walking away from her and towards some other people.

Natalie walked up to the stand, facing a pipo monkey behind the counter. "Oh okay, I want to get my ID Card?" She asked a little bit unsurely.

"Uki uki!" The monkey replied, handing her a form.

"Geez I'm so tired of forms," Natalie sighed, but filled out her name anyway.

The monkey grabbed the form as she was done filling it, looking through it carefully, and giving her the ID card.

"Wow, that was fast. Thanks," Natalie said, studying her ID card as she walked away from the stand.

Name: Natalie

Age: 14

FEMALE

Type: RED

Dorm number: 20, Building A

"Type Red?" The redhead wondered out loud. "Oh, they mean which pant color I would wear. Too bad I have no plan to become a pipo monkey," she shuddered. But she got to admit, red pants, not bad. They are usually the strong attackers, and it was no secret that Natalie could be harsh when she was angry.

But before doing anything else, she decided to head towards her dorm. They got in total about a month to defeat Specter, so a little rest would not hurt. Especially after such a sudden and long journey.

Walking inside the A building, she quickly sprinted up the stairs and into the long hallway of the second floor. She studied her ID card again and walked up to the door with the '20' sign on it. Knocking on it once, she grabbed the door knob and opened the door slightly. She peeked inside, but didn't see anyone. "Weird, the door was open," she thought out loud, closing the door behind her and stepping into the room. "Hello?"

The small room looked like a rather cozy living room, with large windows, a sofa pointed towards a TV, a small kitchen by the side and two doors on the other side. On the dining table right next to the red head was a pink backpack and a baseball bat, proving that there had been people in this dorm. "Hello?" Natalie called again, walking towards one of the two doors. She knocked on the door and peeked inside, but no one was there. Only two bunk beds. The two by the top were already taken, with bags and clothes on top of the blankets.

Sighing, she closed the door and opened the other door.

Knocking on it once, she peeked inside. Just the bathroom.

"Gez, I just hope my roommates are okay people," Natalie mumbled, plopping down on the sofa and sighing deeply. She closed her eyelids and was about to drift into a deep slumber when...

"OH MY GOSH KEI! HOW DARE THEY DO THAT! I WAS JUST ABOUT TO RECORD MY NEW SINGLE! JUST ABOUT! AND THEN-"

"Calm down sis, I heard you," a familiar male voice spoke, interrupting the female one. Annoyed, Natalie looked up and faced up the two loudmouths, only to gasp in surprise.

"Kei! Yumi! You're both safe!" She beamed, instantly forgetting about her nap and hurrying over to the two younger twins.

"Of course," Kei scratched his nose. "We have beaten Specter's tail before and we can surely do that again."

"That filthy monkey can count on that!" Yumi stomped her feet. "Those pipo monkeys kidnapped me right before I was about to record my new single!" She continued to whine.

"Don't worry," Natalie sweatdropped. "You're one of the city's greatest idols, Yumi. I'm sure you'll get another chance when we get back."

Yumi crossed her arms, muttering something under her breath.

"So are the others okay?" Natalie asked hopefully, looking at the blue haired male.

"Oh, you mean Spike, Jake and Jimmy?" Kei asked. "Yeah, they're fine. At least the last time when I met them in them in the hall. But there's no need to worry. They're experienced monkey catchers after all. They'll be fine."

"I guess you're right," Natalie sighed, walking towards the large windows. "In that case, we'll wait for them. I just hope Grandpa, Casi or Aki will manage to contact us soon," she said as she glanced on her cell phone.

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