aA/N I apologise for the huge delay, my internet went down and I had to convince my parents to get a new one. And they now have, so yay me. I should be updating quicker now, so review and make me happy. XD
Chapter 3
I hated them so much. I was fed up of being the weak one, always afraid, always crying, always paralysed by fear. But no more. I would be like my sister and live my life in the enjoyment of rebelling. Any and all repercussions would be welcome, because it would mean I was annoying them.
The Wing Beater, who had carried me back to my cell, had left with a cheery comment on how he would train me to be like him. To become a Wing Beater, that was if I didn't die of course. Which seemed very unlikely, and it was more unlikely that I would willingly join the ranks of one of the moronic monsters who guarded me.
Sky had been taken to a detainment cell, so I was with Chase. I was curled up on his lap while he played Incy Wincy Spider on my arm. He kept tickling me and making me giggle. After a time though his spider fingers made me sleepy, in a hypnotic way. I yawned.
"You tired Max?" He asked gently ad he wrapped the gray sheet around me, like a cocoon.
I nodded slightly and curled closer to him as he wrapped his arms around me and rocked me gently. He hummed a tune to me and it was the only lullaby I had ever known. I drifted in a gray cloud that was warm and comforting. That was, until, the metal clanging doors and rubber booted footsteps reached into my dreams and pulled me awake.
I woke up and felt Chase tighten his hold on me. Metal clanged as the doors were threw open, a blur as someone was thrown into our cell with us.
"You ungrateful sods, is that the thanks I get for making you work out every day? For breaking your noses and keeping the plastic surgery companies in business?" Sky yelled as they closed the door, one of the Wing Beaters actually growled at her.
Chase started laughing. "What did you do this time?"
Chase put me down on the bed and went to help Sky to her feet. I wrapped the scraggly blanket around me, the temperature had been turned down, and they did that sometimes. I had even seen some experiments die from hypothermia, it was a slow painful death.
But that's off topic. Chase helped Sky to her feet and she just walked up and kicked the door.
"Jerks! I'm going to break your nose again."
Chase just shook his head and came and sat down next to me on the metal bunker. "What did they do this time?"
"The usual, I kicked some of them in the balls cause what they did to Max, so they threw me in the Ring with a new bear hybrid. You okay Max?" Sky walked over to me and gave me a tight hug.
They put her in the Ring because of me. The Ring is where they put you if they want you to fight. And you can't refuse, you have to fight the experiment in there with you, cause if you don't you die, it's a fight to the death.
"I'm sorry." I whisper to Sky as she hugs me. I wrap my hand in her hair as she holds me close. Her hands run over my body, noting all of the new wounds and badly done stitches.
"There's nothing for you to be sorry about. It was my choice, and it was my choice to fight. Even if they think they take everything from us we have a choice still. To fight and do something, or nothing. It's still a choice WE make."
Chase sits with us and we all curl up together on the bunker, Chase wraps his arm around us and I try to share my blanket, but Sky just wraps it back around me.
"Banid reko jeheesh mokil?" Sky asks quietly. I translated in my head, When are we going?
"Garnul frenda." Chase replied with steel in his voice.
I tried again to translate the strange language they were always teaching me, but my mind was fuzzy, I was so tired. Maybe the experiments were wearing me down. Perhaps I would fall asleep and never wake up. I didn't really mind, death would happen if I wanted it to or not. It was an everyday occurrence here.
I snuggled closer to Chase's side and so did Sky, she was beginning to shiver. Chase lazily extended one of his dark brown wings and wrapped it around us. He never shivered and he always took care of us.
"Love you both." I mumbled barely awake.
Chase kissed my head and Sky tightened her arms around me, she was already asleep.
"We love you too." Chase said answering for both of them. Before I fell entirely asleep, my mind managed to figure out what Chase had said.
'Tomorrow morning.' At least that's what I thought he had said. I didn't care, I was partially safe for the time being. And we had all survived another day at the Arena, that was all I cared about.