Reds Lag Prt 1, AvM AvA, Alan Becker

The Fall

Once TSC was back, the sticks started there daily fight training.
On her way out, red ran into Reuben, or more like Reuben ran into her. She laughed and bent down to pick him up. But when she touched the pig she felt pain stab through her hands and her vision... glitched out.
Once her vision returned she found herself standing in darkness. She looked around, but all that was there was darkness. "Hello? Is anyone there?" She felt immense sadness, fear, and loneliness. She screamed and cried. "Please! Anyone! Is anyone out there! Help me!!!" She fell to the ground, pounding with her fist.
All of a sudden the ground started cracking like glass. It broke and she fell, tears streaming down her face. All of a sudden something swooped under her and caught her. The person swiftly landed on the ground and placed red on the grass. Red blinked and looked up. There standing before her was another stick. It was a maroon stick who was a girl about red's age, but it wore a flower crown, gloves, and had wings. She reached her hand out to help red up. Red reached up but when there hands touched the maroon stick started glitching. She grabbed reds hand so hard, red felt her bones snapping. She tried to screamed, but no sound came out. She whimpered and looked into the girls eyes. They were black with white centers, but they made red feel so much pain. The girl pulled red up close to her face. Red felt extreme heat flaming off the girl and noticed that the crown of flowers was now a crown of flames, but the flames seemed to lag and glitch. Reds eyes met the other girls.
"I'm coming for you, and once I find you, pain will cease and strength no other can defeat will come." Maroon whispered into reds ear. This scared red so much that she felt numb. Maroon twirled red around then threw her hard against the ground. "Don't forget my words..."

Red woke with a start. Everyone was staring at her. "You ok?" TSC whispered. Red looked around at everyone's worried expressions. "Yeah, just got abit light headed" She said sitting up. "y'all worry to much."
"You sure? You were sweating pretty bad just a lil bit ago."- TSC
"Yeah. How long was I out anyways?"- red
" Bout five minutes. You sure you're ok?"
"Yes I'm sure I'm fine! Red snapped "Stop asking!!"
The way red said that must have scared the others, but they calmed down a little bit knowing that sometimes red would snap when she was injured. Blue came over to her and put his hand on her forehead.
"No fever. Matter a fact her body temp is completely average." Blue backed away. Red was starting to feel annoyed. She was fine, well she wasn't, but she didn't want them knowing. Luckily, right before anyone could make any drastic movements or say anything, Reuben hopped up on the bed. He rubbed his head on red and licked her face. Red laughed. TSC motioned for everyone to leave the room. "You should get some rest." He said before closing the door. But red ignored him and played with Reuben for about a half hour before realizing it was already dinner time. She gave Reuben one last tickle before heading downstairs. Yellow was setting out the plates and blue was serving bread and soup. The others were also heading into the kitchen. Red smiled at yellow when she looked up from placing the plates. "Hi! You feel better?"
"Yeah. Not like I felt to bad earlier." Yellow rolled her eyes and sat down in her seat. Red sat in her seat and waited as Blue passed out the food. Right as he was giving red her bread, it slipped from his hands and fell to the ground. Red blinked and felt a bit of anger well up inside her, but she cept it down. "I'm so sorry! You can some of mine! Here I'll-"
"No no. It's ok keep your bread it's alright. I'll have soup."
"If your sure."
Blue passed out the rest of the bread to TSC and then put his loaf down on his plate. He grabbed the soup and headed towards red. "Since you don't get bread I'ma give you first dibs on this soup." He headed over to red, but right while he had his foot in the air Reuben ran under him, making him trip. All the soup spilled over red. That was enough to make her explode in rage.
"YOU CLUTZ! WHY CAN'T YOU WATCH WERE YOU ARE GOING! YOU STUPID-" She realized how scared blue looked. Red gasped and ran upstairs.

She lay on her bed hugging her knee's. Whenever she had felt bad TSC would come up and talk to her. Sometimes she liked it, but she didn't want to speak. She knew TSC would come close to the truth, but she didn't want anyone to ever find out about her dreams, her sadness, and the strange things she would see that were only images from her imagination.

She heard footsteps coming up the steps. She knew, if she wanted to keep her secret, she couldn't stay with them anymore. She regretted it, but she ran. She broke her window and hopped out.

Once she had entered into Alex's PC she crashed into the corner of the screen and cried. She hadn't noticed that Alex's curser was on, and had noticed her. It came down and poked her. She looked up, teary eyed. The curser typed in " you ok?" Red shook her head. For some reason she trusted this curser, and besides she was to confused and angry to think about what she was saying. She stood up, suddenly feel a rush of strength and typed in "will you help me? I need to meet someone"