Chapter 2

"Is this the human?"

"It looks kinda small don'cha think?"

"It's also pretty young too."

Trying to determine the voices of the people around her, Sara struggled to open her eyes. Her vision was a bit blurry at first but it seemed to clear up eventually. She was in shock to see that she was no longer in her neighborhood… she didn't even know that she was even in her world. Her hands were heinously bound tight together by a rope made of rough material. She was surrounded by bio-mechanical beings of all sorts of shapes and sizes. Sara glanced around wildly at the people around her as they continued to chit chat.

One of the figures stepped up to the front of the crowd. Judging by its characteristics it was a female. She had black and silvery-white armor along with blue eyes, long (and dangerously sharp) fingernails and a long blue headdress-like object attached to the back of her head. She picked up Sara by the back of her khaki brown jacket (decorated with teal, light blue, brown and light green polk-a-dots) and examined her.

"Is that all?" she asked the creatures who kidnapped Sara

"Thisss wasss the only one that wasssn't actually sssurrounded by her own kind," replied the red creature "Ssso yess; that'sss all."

The woman quickly examined Sara head to toe and then toe to head. Sara felt nervous and confused at what the current situation was. Many questions flooded her head. Who were these people? Why was she here? What did they want from her? Sara had a bad feeling that she would soon find out. And the answers were not going to be pretty.

"Hmm… you'll do," said the woman who then turned to her allies "Take the human down to the dungeon. Then, we will prepare for the ceremony at nightfall."

"We're one step ahead of you, Roodaka." said one of the allies who tightly gripped Sara by her bonds

The soldier, along with three others, took (more like shoved from Sara's point of view) Sara from the grey, cold world that she found herself at to inside a massive, dark-stoned fortress that seemed to be a lot bigger and longer than ten football fields put together. On the inside was also pretty dark except for some torches that gave off little light. After entering a hard (and of course, darkly colored) door and then going down a series of long, narrow staircases that seemed like it would go on forever, the soldiers got down to a large, dimly-lit room with thousands of rows of cages built only to hold prisoners. One of the soldiers opened up one of the empty cages, cut off Sara's bonds and kicked her in causing her to do a somersault into the wall. The soldiers simply slammed the door shut, locked it, laughed and walked away.

"What a bunch of asses," muttered Sara who was rubbing her head in pain "They're worse than those crazy eighth grade boys at school."

Sara just sat up against the wall and glanced at her surroundings. The prison she was in was completely empty except for herself. And there weren't any keys hanging on the walls outside the cage. Hell, she didn't even have a long pole. So all she could do was sit there and wait for a sign. Sara simply sighed and stared at the door.

"So," she said "What now?"

"Everything is running smoothly, Roodaka." said a tall dark armored figure

"Excellent," said Roodaka "And the girl?"

"Silent as death itself."

"Good. Things are going a lot easier than I had imagined them to be; Too easy."

"Apparently so,"

Then the armored man changed the subject.

"What of the traitor who belonged to the 'third player'?"

"Oh, him? I took care of him a while ago since he refused to tell me who he was working for."

"Do you think he may have told his faction the location of our base?"

"Why do you concern yourself with such questions?" asked Roodaka "The only ones who know about this place are the Brotherhood and the Brotherhood only. So don't be so apprehensive."

BOOM! An explosion slammed against the side of the wall. Roodaka and the assassin looked over the edge of the balcony only to find a huge armada of ships heading towards the base. Roodaka slammed her fist down on the balcony ledge with fury. This definitely wasn't the best time to fight at the moment.

"Dark Hunters?" asked the assassin

"Highly doubtful," muttered Roodaka "Ready the troops!"