Credit Fo the Idea of this Story goes completely to SoftballQueen12. Look up Fighting Against You, its an awesome story.

Chapter 1

I can never remember my dreams, but I know I had a nightmare before I woke up.I look around and blink, trying to adjust my eyes to the darkness. I was lying on the floor of, well a giant cage, and though the metal beneath me was cold, I was sweating. I ignored the knot in my stomach as I tried to stand up. I put my hands out in front of me and took a few steps forward. Soon enough, my feet hit a wall. I felt around.

I was in some kind of box, kinda like the one from...

The one from what? Why can't I remember anything? Where am I? Who am I? Wait, stop, I know this one. I am Mare. I think, it's the only thing I can remember, so it's my name.

Suddenly, the ground lurched upwards, and I fell back to the floor with a groan. This effectively lurched me out of thoughts of my name, and on to more pressing matters.

With sounds of metal grating against metal, the room, or whatever it was began moving upwards. Was I in some kind of elevator?

I'm hungry, but I have a feeling that I'm always hungry.

I huddled into a corner and hugged my knees to my chest, racking my brains to remember something. Anything. How had I got here? What was my last name?

Nothing. My mind drew a perfect blank. I was so close to having a panic attack. Somehow, I knew I was alone in the lift. I know I hate being alone, that's a start. But I'm not afraid, this 'thing' has got to go somewhere, and at that somewhere there's probably people, and food, emphasis on the food part.

I was confused, but I know one thing, I want food, and when this thing stops the people at the somewhere might not be willing to give me food, so I'd better find a weapon.

I scan the dim box, I see in the corner opposite mine, there rest crates, I scoot over to them, and on the lids I can just make out the words: Medical. Doctors use syringes right? Ooh and glass bottles for medicine. I reach out and open the medical crate, I look into the box and see a few bottles, I reach out and take one, it's full, I dump it out on the floor, hope that wasn't important. I scoot over to the wall and smash the bottle against the wall. I barely hear the break as the cage rattles on.

I go back to my corner and plop down with my bottle sword in tow.

Eventually the cage slows, and finally it creaks to a stop. I peer up at a small sliver of light I didn't notice before. As I watch it gradually widens, until it reaches the full length of the walls. I immediately stand and turn to face the wall and I shove my hands into the gaps that make the wall a thick fence. I climb up and out onto fresh grass. I stand brushing grass and dirt off of me with my unoccupied hand and look up.

Around me stand about thirty teenagers. All, of the male category. Well that's just peachy.

"Well hello there," said a voice with an accent from, who know where. "Hope you enjoyed the one-way ride up. Ain't no ticket back."

"Well that's inviting," I croak, I cough, my throat is dry, "Do you happen to have any food that you'd be more than willing to give me?"

He stopped abruptly as I looked up at him.

"Bloody hell, its a girl!" said the boy in the same accent.

"Yes, and a very hungry one too, so could you just lead me to wherever I can find food?" I waited for a response.

Then voices erupted from around me.

"How old is she?"

"Is she cute?"

"I call dibs!"

"No way, she's mine."

I looked around and faces peered at me curiously.

"I have no clue how old I am, nor if I'm cute, no one is calling dibs on me and I belong to nobody but me." I announce calmly. "Now, you keep postponing the giving of food to my mouth."

All the boys just stared at me, but I held eye contact with at least ten to show who's boss.

"Have you guys like never met a girl or something?" I ask, weary of the situation. "You know what never mind I'm too hungry to care.

I walk forward, out of the circle of dudes and I see a homely looking building a ways away, it has tables so I assume that food is what they put on those tables. I jog over to the building and spot a counter. I walk up to it.

"Could I get something to fill my stomach please?" I ask the emptiness.

I hear a bang and see a boy over working by a shelf in the room on the other side of the counter.

"Louisa I just gave you food, you can't seriously be requesting more already." said the boy.

"Um, I'm not sure who Louisa is, but you definitely did not just give me food." I say.

The boy turns around from his shelf to look at me. When he sees me, his eyes fill with shock and his mouth hangs open.

"Who are you?" he asks.

"I could ask the same of you, but since I'm a nice person I will tell you my name. Mare." I say, matter o factly.

"Are you the new greenie?" the boy asks.

"I don't know what a greenie is, but I am new here, and I believe I requested food." I say, now bored.

"Um, right sorry." he said, he takes a plate from one of the various tables strewn across the, what now seems to be, kitchen.

"Thank you very much." I say, taking the plate from the boy and moving away from the counter to a table.

I choose one close to the wall and sit, I look at my plate and see it is laden with a turkey sandwich, potato wedges, and diced tomatoes. Delicious. I start eating at once. After I get halfway through I look up to see the boy with the weird voice limping towards me.

"Hello." I say with a stuffed mouth, as he walks up to me.

"Um, hi." he says awkwardly and sits opposite from me. He eyes my bottle sword, which I had forgotten I still had because of the presence of food, warily.

"I'm not going to kill you, if that's what you're worrying about." I say, annoyed at his suspiciousness.

"What? Oh, sorry. It's just, the first time, also the last time, we got a girl, she tried to kill me." he says.

"Judging by the way the guy who gave me food, mistook me for another girl, I'm guessing that you don't have to worry about her killing anyone anymore?" I say airily.

"Well, you're very perceptive." he says, now smiling.

"I'm also guessing you hooked up with her." I say distantly, still eating.

"What? How did you? What?" he says, shocked.

"Like you said, perceptive." I tap my right temple and smile at the boy.

"Well, that doesn't matter. Right, back to business, do you have any questions?" he asks, still looking flustered.

I stifle a laugh and say, "Tons, but I'm guessing you have plenty, so I'll let you go first."

"Um, great. Well, first things first, what's your name?" he asks.

"Mare, at your service." I say, sarcastically stretching out my hand for him to shake.

"Well then Mare, nice to meet you, my name is Newt." he says smiling and shaking my outstretched hand.

I laugh and look around. The sky is already getting dim and I'm tired.

"Now, I would ask you my share of the question but I'm tired and I want to sleep, so the only question I ask you is: where can I hit the hay?" I say exhausted.

"Oh, well, since you're a girl I guess that you can share a room with the only other girl, Louisa." Newt says.

"Your girlfriend." I say pointedly.

"She's not my- well, I guess she is my girlfriend. Fine, yes, my girlfriend." Newt says, a smile tugging at his lips.

He stands, so do I, picking up my empty plate and bottle sword. I set my plate on the counter and follow Newt inside. He leads me up a set of stairs and into the first door in the right. I walk in to see a blonde girl sitting and brushing her hair.

She looks up at Newt, then me, and exclaims, "A girl!"

"Yes, yes, I am of the female gender. Now, I'm really sorry, but I'm super tired and he said I could sleep here. So if you have questions I'd love to answer them in the morning, my name is Mare, good night." I announce very quickly. I spot the bunk bead left of the girl and climb to the top, seeing that the girl's stuff is strewn all over the bottom. I lie down and pull the covers up to my shoulders.

I look at the two other people in the room, sitting there, probably shocked at my behavior, before I close my eyes, and drift away into the land of dreams.