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Chapter Six

Don't stop

Hannah dodged the crowd of Meridian's in the Market as she ran as fast as she could.

Meridian eyes bore into her face, but that didn't stop her from pounding down the cobble streets. Her heart beating in her chest, louder and louder. Her breathing was raspy as she breathed in the thick Meridian air.

Her dark blue boots felt too heavy on her feet and her long, layered side fridge was poking her in her eye, making it hard to see.

'If only I have the practice, if only I knew how to fly,' She thought, as her long indecent, blue and green wings holding her back from top speed.

"HEY, GET BACK HERE," An angry, raspy male voice shouted from behind.

'Don't look back just keep running don't stop, don't stop,' Hannah thought, 'what ever I do I just can't stop,'

Hannah dodged another Meridian and pushed herself to go even faster. She had never ran this fast or hard before. She could feel her heart pounding, harder with each breathe.

Her feet stomped over the oval bricks.

She could hear the surprised gasps of those who turned just in time to get a glimpse of Hannah's wings.

'Just keep going, don't stop,' Hannah thought, pounding forward.

Hannah felt her muscles ache and her throat dry up. She couldn't stop, she had to keep going.

"STOP THAT GUARDIAN," The many guards that chased after her bellowed.

'One problem, I can't stop! I can't stop,' She pushed herself to place one foot in front of the other.

Despite the fact that the air of Meridian was icy, she felt beads of sweat making her brown-black hair stick to her skin.

"Mummy, what's happening what's that?" She heard a shrill child's voice ask.

"Guardian, don't worry The Queen will take care of her," She heard a woman say.

'Gee, they make me sound bad,' Hannah thought as powered forward. Using all her strength to push a head.

Surely light, little Hannah could be able to out run the guards? After all their thick leather and metal would weigh them down. Hannah would use that as her advantage, as long as her wing resistance didn't get worse.

As long as she didn't stop they couldn't catch her.

Luckily those who were in way got out of her way, they wanted nothing to do with her…

As long as she didn't have to stop.

Hannah was running at top speed and she had to keep going, maybe if there was a big enough gap between the guards and her she should risk an escape.

Hannah couldn't decide, risk it and (hopefully) be safe for a few mere moments, or just keep running and don't stop?

Things just kept getting more and more complicated, and things just kept getting bigger and bigger and Hannah had to face that fact.

'Urgh, I don't know how much longer I can keep this up, I don't think it could be much longer,' Hannah thought, turning the corner sharply and kept pushing forward.

'I should try for track team,' Hannah thought, 'that or I figure out how to use these wings hanging off my back, seriously, it's not easy like they show in the cartoons, how misleading!'

Hannah couldn't keep this up, for much longer, something was going to give.

"DON'T THINK YOU WILL GET AWAY FROM US!" The guards cried.

'Not going to stop,' Hannah thought.

She felt her left foot fall from underneath her, luckily her right foot place itself correctly. She had just stumbled, she hadn't fallen, nor had she stopped. Just powering forward, she would not stop running.

Hannah was going slower though. She'd fallen out of pace, she was going slower than before. She was struggling to regain her past pace. She didn't have the strength.

Hannah would not give up, 'I will get out of this maze,' Hannah thought as she noticed the same stall she passed a while ago. Hannah needed a new approach. She could keep going forward and she couldn't go back- what about up?

Metamoorian housing, with it's old, bulky, big stones made them easy to climb. Hannah had managed to get the hang of flapping her wings, slowly and but rarely. It wasn't easy but whenever she needed a boost up, that came in handy.

'With their heavy battle armor, it'll take them a while to get up here!' Hannah thought as her hand clasped to a painfully sharp stone. "Ouch!" Blood dripped from her palm where the brick pierced a hole in her hand.

"GET DOWN FROM THERE!" The main guard yelled, panting. His big, thick green hands on his knees. He was leaning on his knees in pain.

Hannah pulled herself onto the roof. She sat there for a second, taking in deep breaths. She couldn't just stay there though, she had to find the others. Immediately. There was no other way. There was no other option.

"Never!" Hannah cried, her pigtails bouncing. She poked out her tongue and stuck her thumbs in her ears, her fingers fanned out around her head.

She dashed off. She wasn't going to stick around.

She managed to jump from each roof top with the help of a powerful flap.

"Who knew I could practice flying while being chased," Hannah whispered as she noticed guards following her from below.

"Just shows you that you never stop learning," Hannah laughed. 'Laughing at a time like this? Bad Hannah,' she scolded.

Hannah felt her left leg slide from beneath her. Several of the tiles on the roof had slid from under her feet causing Hannah to go plunging to the ground. She desperately tried to grabbed the gutter… but she missed by an inch.

"Air!" Hannah cried quickly, a thick gust of wind slowed her falling, not quickly enough to keep her suspended out of the guards way.

She was within arm reach. The main guard grabbed her by her ankle, his thick meaty green hand had a good grip of Hannah.

"Hehehe, finally caught you. You didn't make it easy did you?" He chuckled. He held her upside down, at his face level.

'Wow, he's ugly,' Hannah thought commenting on his green squinty face. She felt her blood rush to her head. She felt her heart pounding. Her throat was like sand paper as she felt the air go down her throat with each raspy breathe. She felt her right ankle swell with pain from the guards' clutch. She felt the world spin around her head.

'Urgh, why is the world spinning? Ouh, I'm not feeling too good,' Hannah thought as she blacked out…

"Hannah, Hannah, wake up!" Hannah felt her body being shaken.

"Ugh," Hannah managed to lift her hand to her head.

"Hannah wake up, hurry, we are seriously in so much danger, I don't think I can get 3 people out of this cell by myself, wake up!" Hannah recognized that voice.

"WANNA!" Hannah cried, shooting up.

Yep there was the pink haired leader, with a look of worry and pain in her big brown eyes. Hannah grinned as she wrapped her arms around Wanna's neck.

"I can't breath," Wanna chocked. Hannah let go.

"Were are we?" Hannah asked, looking around. A cell?

"This is the Meridian Underground Prison," Wanna said, getting up. She had a big mud stain on her pink and orange Guardian dress.

"We have to get out, Hannah this is Princess Ariel!" Wanna said, pointing to a small elfin looking girl with sandy blonde ringlets and wide blue eyes.

"Why is the Princess in Jail?" Hannah asked, she couldn't get up, her thighs were throbbing with pain. And her ankle felt swollen.

"I don't know, we just have to get out of here and find the others before there's anymore trouble," Wanna said.

"You seem to act on 'not knowing' anything a lot," Ariel stated slyly.

"Well, unless we get out we ain't going to learn anything else new," Wanna said, calmly.

"How?" Hannah asked.

"Well, I was hoping you would have some ideas, cause I've tried all mine," Wanna said, honestly.

"Ideas? Wanna I spent that whole time running at full speed, I'm beat," Hannah lay down. Her temples throbbing and her heart beating as she panted.

"Hannah, you can sleep when we get home, we have to get out of here," Wanna said, Hannah opened one eye; Wanna had her fits on her hips and her eyebrows in frowns.

"Gimme 5 minutes, that's all I ask," Hannah offered.

"Alright, but then we are planning an escape!" Wanna said, sitting down on the cement and hay floor.

Hannah let herself take deep breaths. Her heart hadn't stopped beating though, it properly wouldn't. Not at time like this.