I AM SO SORRY, GUYS! WHEN I UPDATED, I UPDATED THE WRONG CHAPTER! So, so sorry if you were confused...anyway, I fixed everything, but I feel terrible.

HOW COME NOBODY POINTED THIS OUT?! I know you read this, the number of followers and favoriters (Is that a word?) points it out *very* clearly...

I hissed as my twin slashed my face, leaving a nice long, scratch on my cheek.

"Well thanks." I hissed angrily.

She grinned. "Anytime," I dodged from another swing. "Me."

My eyes widened as she clapped her hands together. When she pulled them apart, a long, bronze spear rested in her grip. She tapped it against her leg, a malicious grin spreading across her face.

"RUN!" I turned and hightailed out of there.

I fled, running in zig-zags so she couldn't figure out where I'd be.

THUNK!

I froze, wondering why something was sticking out in front of me.

"MELISSA!" Someone screamed, but it sounded far away and foggy.

What? I wondered, gently touching the end of the spear. I pulled my hand away and found it dripping crimson.

As if in slow motion, I saw the ground fall to my face.

Then everything went black.

Cole's POV

"MELISSA!" I screamed again, watching as she hit the ground.

This is bad, this is really really bad. I thought, forcing my twin off me and running for her. We're down three people now. Zane, Beth, and now Melissa. Kai and Emma aren't here, so the only people able to fight are myself, Jay, Nya, Lloyd and Solaris. And then we've got the dopplegangers. That makes thirteen people*, since there are no fake Kai's or Emma's.

Crap.

"We've got to get out of here! It's going to be a massacre!" Lloyd yelled.

Solaris shrieked as she got cut across the arm.

"There is no way out!" I called back.

"Zane and Beth made it!" Nya debated.

"The only way to make it is to distract!" Jay said, then shrieked as he was nearly decapitated by the fake Melissa.

"Who will do it?" Solaris asked, clutching her bleeding arm and pretty much playing keep-myself-away-from-myself.**

I didn't let them debate. "I'll do it, just get Melissa out of here!"

Take me instead
I'll stand in the middle
A Martyr once said
Hoping to deliver us

"Oh look, he's going to be a martyr. How good of him." Melissa said sarcastically.

"Interesting." The person behind this appeared from one of the walls. "I will let you all go, on one condition."

"That being?" Lloyd asked as the fake him and Zane stopped fighting him.

"He becomes my puppet."

There was a stunned silence, then a very weak voice said, "Don't...do it."

My head shot to see Melissa struggling to rise. I ran over, feeling helpless as the grass ran red.

Her hand reached for mine.

Take me instead
I'll stand in the middle
When the river runs red
Hoping for deliverance
Defiant
I'll become the shelter in the hope
That my death gives more before oblivion

"'Lissa, I have to. It's for the best of everyone. You'll get help." I said.

"Don't...I'll hurt...you." She threatened.

I am all of who I am
Wear the face of all I know I am
Both the liar and the honest man
I the tested
I the broken stand

"You can barely move, I'm not worried." I said.

I stood up, her hand slipping from mine.

"Cole! Are you crazy?!" Jay screeched.

I didn't say anything. If I did I'd crack, and we'd all be killed.

"It's for the best." I said quietly, walking to the figure shrouded in darkness.

"Now who's a good little boy?" It cooed, making me inwardly flinch.

"You may call me Master of Manipulation, or just M."

Master of Manipulation grabbed me and pulled me in front of him and forced me to stare at my comrades. The level of betrayal on their faces made me want to throw up.

"Dude, that is not cool." Jay crossed his arms across his chest.

The walls went down and a heavy hand landed on my shoulder, as heavy as the guilt that pooled in my stomach.

That was the last I saw of my friends for a while.

*That should be the correct tally, right?

**Lol, that sounds so weird XD

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Again, apologies if you were confused.

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