A/N Kay here is the next chapter. The next one will take me a while. But for now enjoy and a HUGE thanks to everyone for all of the encouraging reviews.
Chapter 14
I woke up with a cold draft blowing my hair into my lips and my body shaking by the freezing numbness around me. I opened my eyes slowly and registered I was in a cold room. These were specially designed metal rooms to drop to zero degrees Celsius and test our body's capability with harsh environments. My eyes took in the metal panelled walls, the cold mist rested at the bottom of the floor and I could see a body lying two feet from me.
Realisation and memory dawned on me, causing me the crawl forward with what felt like frozen stiff muscles. I scrambled on the floor till I reached the still cold form of Azra. Her chest was barely moving with the slight breath she still had, it was so cold that her wet clothes were icier than snow itself. Her damp hair seemed to be slowly freezing in clumps on her head. She wasn't even shivering anymore, she was beyond that.
"A-a-azz-ra!" I shout past trembling lips.
Her wide eyes flicker to me and her cracked lips whisper slightly as she inhales. "Ssssssssssssssooo coooooold-d-d."
"I know." I try to say steadily as I rub her arms and try to wrap her more up in her baggy clothes. There no blankets no source of heat. I needed to get us out of here soon. Her blue skin was scary to look at, and I didn't know how to deal with frostbite or hypothermia or whatever else was wrong with her. I just knew I needed to get us out of here. I had to try, I had to succeed.
I looked to were I could see the air compressed sealed door. I needed to rip it off its hinges and get us in the warmth. I reached for that space in my mind where so much power waited, when I felt like I was grasping it I imagined the door folding outwards, crushing and making a way out for us. But instead of a reassuring warmth and strength in my mind searing pain shredded through my mind. I fell forward and held my head feeling as though someone was ripping a knife through my skull and stamping on it at the same time. After moments of clutching my head for dear life I raised my eyes to the door to see nothing had happened. After three more tries and three more rounds of feeling my mind seize in pain and clutching my head on the floor. I gave up. I couldn't use my mind anymore. My one weapon had been taken away from me. I couldn't save us.
My eyes snapped back down to Azra and I could see her breaths stilling in the misted air. I wrapped my shaking form around her and held her close rubbing her arms and back, the way Sky did to me. "It's going to be okay Azra we just gotta stay awake for a bit longer then they'll come and take us out." I tried to reassure her but there was no escaping the lie. We would probably die here. But I wouldn't give up till the last moment. Till the very end.
"I'm tired." I heard Azra barely whisper and I tried to get her to stay awake to talk to me, to peel open her eyes. But no matter how hard I tried her eyes wouldn't open. And the quiet gentle breathing stilled permanently.
Silent tears traced down my cheeks as I tried shaking her awake. But nothing I did would wake her. She was dead. Azra, sweet Azra who acted younger than me had been killed because of these MONSTERS treatments of her.
A burning rage welled up in me, wiping away the numbness of the cold. I ran up to the metal door and heedlessly started pounding it withy my fists. Screaming wordless curses at them all. I couldn't blame Jethro for turning on us. It happened and who knows what training they had put him through. But to drown a kid and when she survives to freeze her to death. It seemed so…..cruel. More cruel than what they had done to me, I could deal with the pain and experiments, I was Maximum Ride. But to treat someone as sweet and charming as Azra, it was too cruel. Even my mind couldn't comprehend it.
My knuckles pounded till they ached, then the skin cracked and blood ran, I could feel myself crushing my own bones with the force of my hits, my knuckles shifted position painfully with each strike, but it didn't stop me, if anything it fuelled me on. "I'm going to kill you!! I wont stop till we're BOTH DEAD!!!!" I scream as hard as I can, making my voice sore.
Too soon though the cold returns back and seeps into my skin. My banging grows sluggish and I slowly slide down the metal door. My fist still slowly and lightly banging in a futile rebellion. My eyelids felt heavy, my breath fogged up my face and my thinking seemed to practically slow down. NO!! I couldn't sleep. I couldn't let them win. I just have to stay awake a bit longer. They would open the door. They always did after a certain time. And when they did I would… I would… I would get back my ability and I would never hold back again. There were just some people in this world who needed to die. Then I would………………. I never finished the thought as I just slipped away for what felt like the thousandth time in my life. And I was just FOUR!! Well, I think.
A/N Right I know its short but the next chapter will be longer and this is also where the surprises and disaster kicks in. And soon the School shall come in to play. Enjoy as always and reviews are appreciated. =]