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Arabella x Jrek

Anabella (maybe a magician?)

Andrew x Saffron?

Erin (Whoever...)

Xavier x Ammy?

Silver?

Kaleigh's POV

I ran as hard and as fast as my body would limit me to run with out throwing up. My pursuers were hot on my trail, no matter how fast I was going. Just shows to go you, Kaleigh, said my no-good-dirty-rotten voice of reason. If you hadn't decided to get separated, you wouldn't be in this mess! Oh, shut up. I jumped over a fallen tree and glanced behind me. Styx! My pursuer just cut through the log and continued to run ahead. My lungs were screaming for air and a nice, long rest, but I had to keep running.

I could hear other people up ahead, if I could just make it, I would be home free! We could take it out. I just couldn't deal with this all by myself! All of the sudden, I heard the voice, the voice of the instructor:

(Blah, blah, blah... I already wrote it in the LAST chapter, so go and read it there if you haven't read it!) Just. Like. Alex.

Suddenly, there was a searing pain in the center of my back. I cried out in pain tried to wrench myself away from its metallic grip. Instead, the heat grew worse, and I felt myself having the desperate urge to exhale. No, I wasn't going to give this Instructor drone my power. No, it was out of the question. My vision was starting to blur and I was swaying on my two feet. With one last breath I exhaled and passed out.

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I woke up in a metal room full of people. I knew them; they went to the school with me. There was Darcy, Jrek, Bella, Shana Rose, Jake...and Alex. If I had gotten around to eating dinner, it would've certainly been on the ground after I saw Alex. He was unconscious and had been severely beaten to a near death point.

When I woke up, I was bombarded with questions. It took me a while to sort them out, but I managed. The conversation went a little something like this:

Jacob: Hey, guys, Kaleigh's up! How're you feeling?

Me: Fine, a bit shaken, but as far as I can tell, not beaten badly.

Bella: Do you have any ambrosia or nectar, for Alex?

Me: Ah, yeah, a couple squares in my jacket. Here

Bella: Thanks, Kaleigh! Come on, Jake, let's try and heal Alex a bit more.

Shana Rose: Are you feeling alright? I can't believe they're sinking so low as to take prisoners now, well...never mind. I actually can. Did you hear anyone? I heard screams, but I couldn't put my finger on who the voices belonged to.

Me: Yeah, I'm alright. No, I didn't hear anyone, I just woke up, and I was alone when I was taken.

Shana Rose: Hmm, thanks anyways.

That's just about how the conversation went. I couldn't blame them for being so...unfocused. With Alex, and trying to think of an escape, I'd be the same way. I went to go check on Alex, and see if the ambrosia was helping.

The ambrosia was doing little good. His cuts were healing, but Alex still had ragged breathing, cracked ribs, and bruises all over himself. Still, at least most of the blood was gone. The hems of our shirts were soon ripped up once the bleeding stopped, so we could clean Alex up as well as we could without water.

"So..." I said, "You guys have any game plan for getting out of here?" I saw a lot of looks exchanged.

"Um...no...We don't want...t...to leave." said Shana Rose in a very quiet voice. That shocked me. How could they not want to leave? It's all we were focused on for years!

"What?" I practically screamed at the top of my lungs. "How could you not want to leave? We planned, and preformed so many escapes for years before Janie, Silver, and Erin came!" They looked down, with guilty, lying expressions on their faces. I glanced at Jrek and saw, almost indistinguishable, but a finger discreetly pointing behind me, and another hand signal everyone started using to get by the Instructors. Jrek's signal was a thumbs up, but his thumb was in between his middle finger and his finger next to his pinky. (What is that finger called? There is the middle finger, pointer finger, thumb, and pinky, but what is that finger? The useless finger?) We're lying. We're lying. The sign was we're lying! But, why...

Slowly, I turned around to have my back to them. Only to have myself run straight into an Instructor, oh joy.

"Well, Ms. Di Benedetto, come with me. I hear you're planning an escape. Well, first you need to see something...rather interesting.

Derek's POV

Things haven't been going too well for me. I've been having blackouts and I keep waking up in a completely different place! I'm afraid I'm going insane! Sometimes, I don't blackout, but then I start hearing these voices...I'm scared! If the Instructors plant a bug in your brain, you're a goner. They'll manipulate it so that they can take total control of your body at any time anywhere!

I was in the forest with Kaleigh, walking around, keeping an eye out for monsters when I gave a small cry of pain. There was a jolt in the back of my skull, like there was a cut there, but there wasn't any blood. Suddenly, I started feeling weak, I swayed on my feet, so I dropped down to my hands and knees. I was about to cry out for help, when I blacked out...

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I woke up in a white room. Nicely furnished with a hammock swing, (my sister has one!) white plushie beanbag, the skin of an albino tiger on the ground (which was my least favorite part), and a nice white leather couch. While looking around the room, I unsteadily got to my feet. I was wondering where I was. I wasn't in the school. We have some sort of color in every room, so every room is original. I almost jumped out of my skin when I heard a voice.

"Nice, isn't it, Derek?" Derek? Why my name? Why not my number, 14? Instructors gave us numbers, so they need not bother with our names. They only used them when...when...they were offering us something.

"What do you want?"

"Oh," chuckled Jezzie (He's kind of like the instructor who can talk his way in or out of anything) "Right to the point, are we? You certainly haven't changed much, Derek."

"Quit stalling and tell me! What do you want?" I was fuming. Count on an instructor to stall when he knows he's going to get a 'no.'

"We have a...proposition for you. Join us, Derek. We'll grant you unlimited power, Kaleigh will not be hurt. As long as you help us crush our replacements, and turn everyone back onto our side." Power, that was tempting. A trait I get from my dad, I'll do anything for power. Nevertheless, that certainly didn't mean I was just going to cave and let Janie, Silver, and Erin die! (Yeah, they can do that. Just take away all their power, and, since their still young, crush them to the point of no life, no return. I can't believe I remember all that!)

"No, I'll never join you, Jezzie. Erre es korakas!"

"Language, Derek!" chuckled Jezzie, "But, as I see it...you don't have a choice."

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