Chapter 5 –Search
The next morning at about nine and ten everyone woke up, one by one and sat buy the fire. First was Odie and Herry who made the fire, then Theresa, jay, then Archie and Neil slept in much longer
"With Atlanta not hear we slept in… like four more hours" said Herry
"I didn't mind that, I knew someone was out there… and now nothing its quiet tooo quiet" said Theresa "Plus I get the tent to myself in the morning, but now last night it was scary and lonely, Atlanta was always there beside me"
"For now you're the only girl on the team" said Odie
"No I was always the only girl; Atlanta always was one of the boys at heart"
"Where are we going to look today?" asked Archie
"Everywhere I guess, we need to find her soon we leave in two days" said Jay
"After breakfast we will go out and look" said Odie
They sat for a while eating, everyone was pretty quiet, after everyone was done they looked around for hours and hours
At about four o'clock Atlanta woke up, she was standing up agents the wall with her arms up at a 90 degree angle, the chains around her wrist attached to the wall behind her, then she suddenly got a pain in the right leg, she bent a little forward and she got a pain in her chest. She then looked around the room she was in, it was 8 by 7 meters then on the walls on either side of her where two openings, she finally figured that she was under ground probably because the walls where dirt and there was roots coming out in many places.
The room had a fire place in the center, there where fire pots all over the walls, in the far right corner was a few old mattresses piled up with a few blankets on it, a meter in front of Atlanta way a old blue reclining chair, with a women sitting on it.
The women was the same women in the forest, with blue hair and red dress, the women sat there staring at her evilly "You have a few broken ribs, broken arm, and a sprained wrist" she said
"Who are you?" asked Atlanta dazedly
"I'm Zaha, and you have been sleeping for almost 24 hours" she said smiling
"Odie said something about a Zaha…. Are you the girl that killed someone then a god banished you to this forest…. And if you are I'm guessing Artemis was the god that banished you" said Atlanta
"Well…. Sorta and yes it was Artemis" said Zaha
"And that is why I'm hear… you think if you kill me you will get your revenge"
"Well yes….and no, I will tourcher you tell me where Atamans and the other gods, and I will also get revenge on Artemis and the other gods for not making me a well known myth…. I want people to fear me" she then stood up and walked over to Atlanta and slapped her across the face now I know how Archie felt the other night she thought
"Now lets get started" she said evilly smiling at Atlanta "Tell me where the gods are?" she asked
"NO I will never tell you" said Atlanta with attitude
Zaha slapped Atlanta again "Tell me" she ordered
"NO!"
"TELL ME!"
"NOOOOO!" yelled Atlanta back to Zaha, Zaha looked pissed; she closed her fist and punched Atlanta in the gut, Atlanta's mouth dropped and eyes went wide from the pain
Meanwhile the team decided to go to the bottom of the cliff for clues. At the bottom they all looked around for a while, Odie walked buy a place on the cliff, something caught his eye, he walked over closer to the cliff side for a better look
Her picked up something from off a root "Guys I found something" he yelled to the rest of the team
They all walked over "What did you find?" asked Jay
"A peace of blue fabric?" said Odie
"That looks like a peace of Atlanta's track suite" said Archie
"Well she was hear, it is probably where she fell" said Odie looking up the cliff "I see a few more peaces up there" he pointed
"Definitely where she fell" said Theresa
"But where did she go after?" asked Herry
In the underground room Atlanta still wouldn't tell, she was even more banged up then before
"TELL ME WHERE AETIMAS IS?" Zaha yelled
"NO….. Never" said Atlanta earning another slap in the face
"Know what its getting late, I'm going out to get my dinner… stay hear" she started to walk to one of the openings
"Well where else would I go?"
She stopped in one of the doorways "Maybe if you be good I will maybe bring you something" she said then walking away down one tunnel one on the right
A few hours later she came back, she came out of the left tunnel, she was holding a plastic bag with something in it, and she put it on the mattress, then she pulled the side out the mattress and pulled out a lawn chair
She put opened the flattened chair and placed it next to Atlanta, she then reached up and unlocked Atlanta's arms, she fell forward she had no energy, Zaha sat her down on the chair, she took Atlanta's right arm and put it over the chair arm and clipped and ankle chain to her wrist, she then chained Atlanta's legs to the chair legs, and a chain around her chest and the chair
Atlanta watched as Zaha walked over to the bed and grabbed the bag and walked back towards her, she sat in the blue recliner in front of her, Zaha looked in the bag, she reached in and pulled out a sandwich and through it to Atlanta, then she reached in again pulling out a water bottle and through that to her too, it was a pop open lid so Atlanta used her teeth to open it
They sat there eating in silence for a while then Zaha stood up "I'm going to bed, I'm being nice letting you sit in the chair, but if you try any funny business your going back to the wall" she said blowing out some of the lights leaving one on for light