Special thanks to ZaneWalker for letting me use this story idea, full credit is given to her.

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Fallen, Lost, and Alone

Chapter Nine: Trust Me?

ZJ's POV

When I woke up, my arm was still numb, and it was really beginning to scare me. Slowly I shifted in the net, trying not to have my leg slip through one of the gaps and then have to rely on my one good arm and leg to pull it back in.

My leg slipped through anyways, and I sighed, pushing back against the rough twine-like rope that made up the net. Down below, it seemed that they were fighting, training against each other.

'Iron sharpens iron' A memory said, and I sat up suddenly, the net swaying back and forth. Who had I been? Why had someone told me that iron sharpens iron at some point?

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move. I twisted in the net to see what it was. The rope above me suddenly jerked to the side, and I couldn't help but cry out suddenly, both of my arms now through openings in the net. The fighting didn't stop, and none of them even glanced up for a second.

"Calm down kid! Do you want to get out of here or not?" A voice said, and I rolled onto my back, wincing as my numb limb seemed to stay twisted in the rope, refusing to unbend from it's unnatural angle. Above me, there was a ninja, the blue one. He pulled out a knife, and started severing some of the ropes. I pushed myself as far from him as possible. "Relax, I know what I'm doing. I'm not going to let you fall." He said, some of the ropes gave way, and we were swaying.

"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" I whispered, and he looked at me, shock flashed on his face. "What?"

He shook his head. "You just sound like an old friend." Satisfied with the gap in the top of the net, he pulled it open slightly, and held out his arm. I accepted it, and he helped pull me up.

"Now what?" I whispered, trying not to look down.

"Now? We're going to jump." The blue guy said. His hand gripped my numb arm, and he jerked me forward, sending me to a skittering landing on a platform not to far away. The noise it made was loud, and I knew that there was no way they didn't hear that. The blue guy landed next to me, and grabbed my good arm this time. "Dude, you okay?"

The Serpentine were starting to come after us, and I stood up, brushing myself off. "I've been better, and I've been worse." Looking around, I started running. The blue ninja quickly caught up.

"Good to know ZJ, but do you even know where you're going?" I shook my head. I hadn't been down here before. "Oh, well you just seemed like you did." We passed a poster for a game, and I felt my knees buckle, and everything changed. I was running down this corridor, running from the snakes. I had pressed myself flat against it, and waited for them to pass by.

"Jay," I said, blinking, and pushing myself up using the wall, and he turned to look at me. "Jay I've been here before."

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