Chapter 5: T is for Torture

O.C P.O.V

Wow… I must've had like, at least, two cans of beer… because I'm soooo hung-over…

Easing my eyelids open, hurt, like hell. The sudden burst of sunlight instantly made me close them again. "Sign" please don't let it be me in the foreign kid's bed…. again, I had only just recovered from that embarrassing party mishap.

Slowly, I raised my head off the cold, hard floor, my arms pushing me into the lounging position and carefully opened my right eyelid. I'm in the rugby field? No, that can't be right… wedging open my second eye, to get a proper look around, seemed to be futile, I was still in the rugby field, I was use to the sunlight now, fully opening my eyes now, I looked at my surroundings properly.

I was in a crater, a big ass crater….

Distorted chunks of earth were everywhere, I was a few feet just below the field, I could, just about, make out the big posts to the right. My head hurt, it was pounding on all sides, and the throbbing was in time with my heart beat. My hand was shaking as I raised it to the side of my head, to ease it a bit. Okay, what had happened last night? Sitting upright seemed to help my recalling abilities, a bit.

O.K. last night I remember being in the library…with jack…than

"OH MY GOD", the shock realization hit my head like a well, placed punch. I dragged my hand to my mouth, force of habit when I was scared or excited, and right now I was both. Easing myself up onto my feet, I noticed my eyesight was just level with the unscarred ground above. Turning my gaze back to the centre of the crater, the rock was gone, the giant ball of mushed up earth that had formed in space for maybe like a million years ago, had disappeared. It had looked dark red with veins of silver warped around it; it reminded me of the ginormous natural rock monuments in the pictures of the Arizona desert of America that surrounded my room, pinned to the walls.

So many places…

I washed away that afterthought and began looking for any signs of the rock or of that weird blue box thing.

I used the big toe end of my grey pumps to flip over a slightly large pebble that was jutting out of the ground slightly.

Hmm, not under there…

Oh look, there's another large pebble that a giant meteorite and blue cube can probably hide under, idiot, I thought sarcastically. Even though the sun was just about streaming through the treeline, without a cloud in sight, it still felt like the deathly cold of last night. I shrugged both my hands in to the pockets of my purple jacket that was zipped up, to cover my embarrassing captain America t-shirt.

I dug my feet into the side of crater and eased myself up so that the ground above was just below my waist. "Gasp" the grass that just yesterday was a beautiful dark green, was now black. Not even in patches. Everywhere, the grass is just black.

The trees around the field seemed fine, their green leaves swayed gently in the wind…wait where are my glasses; I shouldn't be able to see that far.

From around 5 or 6 years old I was cursed with poor eyesight not even the luxury of short or long sightedness, I rubbed my eyes out of disbelief yet my glasses weren't there but there was no fuzziness. I looked around and noticed the thick, black lensed spectacles, shining in the sunlight, the right lens was broken. Oh, well.

Huh, what was that? it sounded like a whirring noise.

Oh come on, I was just about to do a super cool fist pump and run about shouting hallelujah, what the hell? can't a girl celebrate.

I eased onto the side of the crater, lying on my belly, just peaking my head over the edge.

Holy Christ on a stick!

There were giant avatar people. I wasn't sure what the whirring noise was but it must have bought the giant blue guys here because not even the nerdy guys Cosplay costumes are that realistic. There were seven of them, all of them were bald, save for one who had dishevelled raven black hair; they all had scars zig zagging their faces and bared chest. They were all around 8 or 9 foot tall, there skin a dark ice blue. Eyes as red as blood…

What were they?

Great, I'm about to meet an alien species… in my Captain America t-shirt.

Whoa are they naked…nope just had some cloth over their private parts…wait do aliens have private parts? They also had weird knives or swords, they were curved and had different extensions, and the swords themselves looked exotic, foreign and… dangerous.

I dragged my eyes from their weapons, towards the burliest of the blue giants; he was saying something I had just missed, to the rest of them. They all nodded back to him at once, with grim facial expressions, except the full head of hair one, who looked a little wide eyed but nodded back all the same, after a minute.

They started to separate, three went to the top, near the beginning of the impact tail, two examined the blackened ground beneath them, the young one waited patiently near the spot where they had been gathered, holding a spear close to his side…I had to get away I wasn't prepared to greet E.T let alone some blue avatar giants. I looked over to left where I could see the brown science block in the distance above the hill, if I could run across the crater, climb the side of the ledge and run across the field I could alert someone near the window and…. Wait there were seven blue guys.

I turned my head back to the front. A pair of huge feet was in front of me; I slowly looked up, the feeling of dread hung heavy in the pit of my stomach. There were more scars on him than the others they seemed more like patterns than just random cuts, but I couldn't tell because of the sunlight glaring at me.

His chin was big and stuck out a bit, his nose was rather large and slightly bent at a right angle, and his cheekbones stuck out a bit, as well. His mouth was slightly agape, revealing yellow, fanged set of teeth.

I stuck out my hand slightly, and waved a little, giving him a shy smile.

"Hi"

He gave me a dark and terrifying smile, his eyes bulged and I saw the sharp, rotting teeth within his mouth. Before I knew it his hand struck out and grabbed me around my hair, pulling me up, pain streaked around my head as an unbearable pressure stamped on my head.

Screaming, oh GOD, this fucking hurts.

"Stop please, please oh GOD"! he set me just a foot above the ground, get the hand out of the hair, own…owwww, I just tried to get his hand of my hair but it hurt, it hurt a lot, like a burning feeling. But I couldn't feel it too much; my head was just hurting too much…oh god please makes it stop.

"Shut up, pathetic creature"! My body paralysed with fear, it can talk, how? It gave a gruff laugh, after seeing my expression, that laugh made me want to cry, what does it want?

"Where is the Tesseract?" The creature's red eyes stared so hatefully at me that it felt like he was staring into my soul. Wait… the what?

He stared at me for a few seconds, what the hell is a Tesseract?

His patience didn't last long, he soon released the hold he had on my hair and grasped my torso in his hands… "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" HIS HANDS, THEY'RE BURNING ME!

HE SHOOK ME WHILE SHOUTING, CAN'T UNDERSTAND HIM, EARS HURT SO BAD, OH GOD.

I'm suddenly on the…ground again...black grass in … front of me… can't think…ugh…

"Where is it?"

"Don't know, can't find it" I heard the other giant growl, it was the black haired one, they spoke English but it was rough and strangely accented.

"Take the mortal, it has probably taken it" seriously I'm the 'it'.

"She's injured; she might not survive the trip"

"'It', 'it', might not make the trip, and 'it' is the only one here, I know 'it' has taken it and hidden it somewhere than returned for more treasure"

"At least wrap a cloth around her…'it', our touch affects it" he muttered that one.

I felt someone lean over me, I tried to crawl away but my arms the pressure of the ground on them hurt, I was badly burnt, I squinted at them, and almost cried, they were blackened and cracked, black pus and blood seeped out of the cracks. I felt something being wrapped around my torso and arms, than my weight was lifted and I was flung over one of their shoulders. I tried to look but when I opened my eyes I was face to face with a blue back, I had to keep my body tense so when the creature walked I wouldn't slam my face into his back, I guess it was their skin that was burning me.

The temp dropped. My eyes shot open. The ground below was now covered in snow? What? I can't lift my body up to look around.

So much pain…so…tired…

"What's this, then?" I tensed, that voice wasn't like the other two… the blacked haired ones voice was a little high pitched, the burly leaders voice was deep and heavy tongued, this new one sounded scarier.

I'm on a different planet, the thought was the most intelligent thing, I was thinking right now.

"My lord, we could not find the sacred Tesseract that you crave so much, and we are truly sorry" the burly one said, god, kiss ass much? "But, I have the mortal who stole it" I wasn't being held by the burly one, because I didn't feel the chest rumble from the giant I was on…wait, what? I don't even know what the hell a Tesseract is?

Shrugging me off, I was forced onto my knees, gasp, ice was everywhere and giants were everywhere as well, all around watching and staring, watching me. Everything was made of ice, the walls, the weird statues and the throne… oh wow…oh crap… the giant, upon what I assumed was a throne because the ice chair had jewels and was spiked at the back, looked threatening, his legs were gone up to his knee. There were scars running over his head like waves, chest was covered with them… did everyone here have a cutting issue or what?

His face was similar…

"Where is the tesseract?" he said it so calmly and coldly that shivered even more in the cold. I kept my eyes on him but I noticed the bloody pool forming around my knees.

"I don't know what… a Tess...er...ract is?" my voice was quiet and inaudible to even my own, but somehow he heard it.

"You lie" he said simply, than nodded to the giant behind me, the one who had his hand on my hand.

Sharp pain shot through my back, I fell forward into the soft snow, again and again the pain in my back repeated, I can't shout, my throat, it hurts, someone was shouting, can't make it out, about to black out.

"Not yet" the burly one whispered in my ear. I felt the ice cold fingers of the giant slip into my mouth…oh no my braces FUCK… I tried to move but he had pressed his knee over my back and arms.

"GOD NO, PWEASE NU, GOD"! I felt his finger wrap around my wisdom tooth, and heard the crunch before I felt the pain. It felt like I was chewing broken glass, he was still pulling… oh god no… thank god the blackness is coming…

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Sorry these chapters are a bit dark will get funny later, just adding a back story is all.