Here's the second chapter. Sorry I made you wait. I thought that I would post as many chapters as possible before I become engulfed in schoolwork and violin exams. Plus, I'm moving soon, so don't be surprised if there's a large time gap between chapters.
The teenage boy opened his eyes to see a large cell in a dank, foreboding dungeon. There were only two torches that were lit. Their feeble flames threw flickering shadows on the walls. Sitting up, the boy looked around and saw that he wasn't alone in the cell. There were nine others accompanying him. A black-haired girl was sitting in the corner.
"Ummm…excuse me?" She looked up at his voice.
"You're awake," her voice was soft and quiet, almost like music.
"Do you know where we are?" the boy asked, hopeful for information.
She didn't reply but continued to stare into his eyes. The intensity in her eyes made him shiver, and he quickly looked away. A guard walked past the cell, and the boy attempted to get an answer from the guard. However, the guard merely told him to shut up and walked on.
"You won't get anything out of them," he jumped at his companion's voice.
He whirled around. "Can you not scare me like that?"
"My apologies."
Silence. "What's your name?" the boy asked, wanting to break the awkwardness.
"Karasu. And according to that sign, your name is Tenchi," she pointed to the wooden plaque nailed to the wall.
A groan came from the group of unconscious teens. A red-haired girl was slowly rising. She blinked a couple of times.
"Who are you?" she asked Karasu and Tenchi.
They introduced themselves, and the girl found her name on the board, which was Ningyou.
One by one, the others woke up as well with similar reactions as Ningyou.
The girl with short and spiky orange hair claimed the name of Itami. Then, there was a group of green-haired twins, except one was black and the other was white. The black one's is Kuroi, and the white one is called Shiro. Nendo turned out to be the boy with long blonde hair, and the girl with long gray hair is Fumetsu. Sutetchi had stitches all over his body, and his eyes didn't have pupils. The last one, Sakan, had blue skin and hair and gills under his eyes.
"Does anyone know where the hell this is?" Fumetsu asked, sounding very impatient.
"If I knew, I would have told everyone by now," Sutetchi retorted.
"It's so cold," Shiro complained.
"We should find a way to get out of here," Itami started to say but was interrupted by Karasu, who had stood up and was examining the stone walls. "Karasu-san, what are you doing?"
"Looking for a weak spot," Karasu answered, "And I found one."
Pointing to a spot on the wall, she said, "An explosion should be able to get us out of here through there."
"None of us have explosives," Ningyou stated.
"We can steal one from a guard." Sutetchi sounded excited. One of his stitches had worked loose and was waving around.
Footsteps echoed through the dungeon. Sutetchi quickly withdrew the thread before the guard saw it. As the guard walked past, the thread swiftly and silently snuck a paper bomb from his pocket.
Tenchi stuck the paper to the wall, and everyone quickly scurried away from the spot.
All of the replacements have been introduced. I'm sure you'd be able to guess who is replacing whom from their descriptions. Third chapter is soon to come!