Haha. Well then, I finally updated! WOOT! Finally. My inspiration came back.
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As everyone left the large assembly area, Wing, Shelby and Laura began to praise Billie for her performance.
Which she hated.
"Honestly guys, you don't have to be so—"
"The way you dodged that Kent guy was so cool! Honestly, if I could move as fast as you could, I would be able to kick any bastard right down!"
"No really, it's no biggie—"
"I wish I could be as calm as you! I always have a twinge of fear when I shoot stuff, I just don't get why you can suppress that!"
"No honestly, I was a little scared—"
"You really were amazing Billie, I can no doubt say that you are truly—"
"GUYS. LISTEN. TO. ME." Billie said, finally exploding. Maya just bounced beside them, waiting for her sister's reaction. Otto just walked alongside Maya.
"I'm not that good, okay? I was caught off guard, I wasn't as fast as I should have been, and I didn't react properly to his first attack! You get it?" she said. Maya sighed.
"You know that it was good to them, sis. Maybe not to you, but comparing yourself to him won't do any good. He's not here." Maya said calmly. "Besides, our training was more… extensive than theirs. It was pretty good, considering."
Wing looked at Maya strangely. He felt a little insulted, and very much curious. Who was he? What did she mean by extensive training?
He looked to Otto, who just shrugged.
Before Billie could reply, however, they got to the Shrouds. It would have been best to keep their mouths shut for the moment.
"They seem to get worse every time."
Shelby ran out of the Shroud, just to get fresh air. Otto was also gasping outside the thing as well. when they got their composure back, they all headed back to their rooms, for a good night's rest.
Wing looked through the website of the Island, and as Otto got out of the bathroom, he noticed something.
"Hey Otto, I do not mean to poke or anything but… where'd you get those scars?" he asked.
"Training." He replied quietly.
"I thought we got over the 'stoic Otto' phase. Just tell me. Come on…" said Wing. Otto sighed.
"Training with my master. Is that better for you?" he rebutted, and suddenly, Wing laughed.
"What?" Otto asked confusedly. "Nothing. You just have a dry sense of humor." His friend replied.
"But… Your master really did give you all those scars? Even that one?" Wing asked, pointing to a long gash from the base of Otto's neck to the left side of his back.
"Y-yes." Otto said. "But that was a long time ago." He added. Wing sighed.
"Ah well. I guess different people have different trainers." Wing muttered. He promptly went to sleep.
After an hour or so, Otto woke up. He sneaked out of his bed, and took a small glance at the sleeping form of his friend, before leaving the room.
Wing's eyes shot open.
'This had better go well." Otto thought. 'I'm already in deep water with master.'
He quietly slipped down the corridor, past the many rooms of the sleeping members. He faltered, as a night watch passed by. He hid in the crevice between two of the halls, and the night watch passed in silence.
Otto dared to give a sigh of relief. He pressed onwards to his goal.
His goal was one of the information blocks of the Island. The one that held all the information about the competitors.
Though unnoticed, Wing quickly followed his friend.
Many turns and halls afterwards, Otto reached a dead end.
'What could he do here?' Wing wondered. His musing was his mistake, as after a few seconds of not looking, Otto had disappeared.
'What the hell?!' he shouted in his head, going to the blank wall and feeling for something. He couldn't find anything. No bumps, no crevices, no nothing. Wing sighed.
"I guess I'll just go back." He told himself.
'Thank god I lost him.' Otto thought, as he walked further into the maze-like structure in the wall. He'd found a very, very tiny pinhole in the wall, and shone a very thin laser light into it. The laser, having a specific code embedded into it, opened a small hole in the wall, small enough for a grown man to crawl in. Well, he wasn't fully grown yet, but he was tall enough to have to crouch low into the hole.
Once Otto had lost Wing, he found himself in a large maze, probably to lose any person who would have been able to find that hidden room.
'Courtesy of Nigel, thank you very much for making my life harder.' Otto muttered in his head.
He entered the giant thing, and instantly felt something wrong.
Otto jumped upwards, only to dodge two large, metal spikes from either side of the hedge. He stepped out of the maze, and saw a small metal slat on the side of the hedge.
"Duh." He told himself quietly, and quickly went on disabling the thing.
When Otto entered the maze, he was relatively unbothered. Except for the grueling maze, Otto had no troubles in the middle of the hedge growth.
Finally, after a few minutes comprised of dead ends, forked paths, and crossroads, he got to the very end of the maze: a blank wall.
'Of course.' He thought, and passed his fingertips over the wall. He felt his fingers land on a small bump, and the wall opened for him. A large monitor, with a blank blue screen, dominated the room. A keyboard the size of two normal ones lay on the metal table.
Otto rapidly started on hacking the thing; it was almost 2 am. The staff would start waking by then, and according to his informant, someone would check this very room. Otto still had to fix the slat he hacked before. He was running out of time.
He downloaded every file of the computer, including the information on the employees of the Island. Better to be safe than sorry.
After a few tense minutes, everything finally transferred to a thin metal thing. Otto sighed in relief, and headed back to his room.
Wing was thankfully asleep. Otto tiredly clambered onto his bed, looking at the digital clock on the wall. Two o' clock. Perfect.
Otto closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.
"I swear, this is safe!"
A small boy that looked like Otto ran across a rough terrain, an even smaller boy following him.
"Are you sure? These rocks don't seem very safe…" the other boy replied. "Did you even ask your parents if we could go here?"
"Of course!" lookalike Otto replied.
"What did they say?"
"They said 'NO YOU CAN'T GO THERE'."
"…"
"Well at least I asked." Lookalike Otto replied. The other boy sighed.
"I don't understand why I hang out with you. I could easily get into trouble because of you." He said
"Aww, but you know that you like hanging out with me!"
"That's why I don't understand it." The other boy said, then lookalike Otto laughed.
"Wake up Otto."
Wing was shaking him awake, as it was fairly late.
"You should shower already, you have ten minutes before everyone goes to breakfast." He said, and Otto stumbled out of bed, muttering things like 'yes' and 'tired'.
Lalala. Otto memory... or is it?
FIND OUT IN THE NEXT CHAPTER OF BATTALA DE PAZ!
....Not really :P
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