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Chapter Eight

Bek was just wandering around the attic when she noticed a red haired rat dash away. Being mildly curious Bek followed.

"Watcha doing?" Bek asked as the rat neared the exit to the attic.

Noticing Bek's presence the rat screamed in fright.

"Oh, you're one of the humans that are staying here" the rat observed.

"Yep! The names Bek, what's yours?"

"I'm Apo"

"Apo... I knew someone named Apo once, anyway you haven't answered my question yet, what are you doing?"

"Oh I was a bit hungry so I decided to get some food, do you want to come with me?"

Bek shrugged, "why not?"

Apo and Bek made their way across the house with Apo leading the way.

"You're quite fast, you know that?" Apo commented, "where I come being fast is key to survival"

"That makes sense"

Suddenly a figure dragging a net appeared in front of them.

"oh god, RUN!!!!" Apo shouted and the two fled back the way they came.

"GET BACK HERE YOU SMELLY RATS!!!!!" The man demanded with a terrifying Scottish accent.

"FOLLOW ME!!!!" Apo shrieked ducking into a room. Bek tried to follow, but she was scooped up in the man's net.

"AAAHH!!!! HELP!!!!!!!" Bek cried, "GET BACK HERE YOU FUCKING TRASH ANIMAL!!!!!" The man shouted as Apo ducked under a bed that seemed to belong to a child.

"APO RUN!!!!" Bek shouted as the man reached under the bed to try and grab him.

"BE-AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!" Apo screamed and Bek looked in horror as she saw a struggling Apo in the man's hand.

The man tossed Apo into the net with him landing on top of Bek.

"OW!!!! You could've at least been a bit more careful!" Bek snapped

"HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN MORE CAREFUL!!!!!???? I WAS FALLING!!!!!!!! YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHERE YOU FALL!!!!"

"Well you at least could have made a bit more effort to not squish me!"

"HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO THAT!!!!!????"

"I DON'T KNOW YOU'RE THE RAT!!!!!"

"AND WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!!!!!!????"

"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD QUIT YOUR YAPPING!!!!!" The man shouted and the two shrank back in terror.

"Bek..." Apo said now incredibly scared, "where is he taking us?"

The man who had ginger hair now that Bek got a closer look at him wasn't leading them to one of the cages Scott had talked about.

In fact he was leading them under the house.

"I... I don't know, didn't Scott say they would always put you in a cage?"

"That's true, why isn't he doing it now!?"

Apo curled into a ball clutching his head, and Bek put a comforting hand on his back.

"Hey, I'm sure it'll be ok"

"But what if he kills us!?"

"If he tries I'll just stab him!"

Apo looked up at Bek and gave her a look.

In return Bek pulled out the blue sword.

"What the!? Wait! Maybe you could use that to cut the rope!"

"You're right! Why didn't I think of that!?"

"Whatever! Let's just get out of here before we die!"

Bek nodded and started to cut away at the net.

The net was made out of a thick material that was hard to cut through, But Bek was no quitter. If she was she would have fed herself to the greiver a long time ago.

Or she would have stayed with Angel in the slowly burning clearing.

Unfortunately for both her and Apo the man took them into a room filled to the brim with pipes and other machinery before dumping them both into a cage.

"Shit!" Bek cursed as the sword stabbed into her hand.

"Are you ok!?" Apo asked trying to pull out the sword before realizing that it was firmly stuck in the floor of the cage.

"Blasted rats" the man muttered, "always a pain in my ass! Well I don't care cause I'm gonna prove you're all sentient, and become so incredibly rich and famous I could get a better job then some dumb rich woman's janitor!"

"That's quite rude calling a woman dumb" Bek commented, deciding to ignore the pain in that moment.

Apo nodded in agreement, "and what does he mean by us being sentient?"

Bek attempted to shrug which she found was quite difficult considering her hand was stabbed by a sword, effectively pinning her down.

"The janitor must be out of his mind" Apo muttered and Bek nodded awkwardly considering it was basically her slamming the back of her head on the metal floor.

Suddenly The Janitor picked the cage back up and stomped outside to a giant white van.

He attempted to toss them both in the back of it, but ended up only getting Apo in. "The fuck!?" The Janitor muttered.

Bek was trying not to scream as the sword tugged on her skin, threatening to slice straight though it.

The Janitor then tugged out the blue sword with only a bit of struggling sending Bek falling down, down, down. For some reason this seemed to actually be a lot worse since she was falling to what would most certainly be her death.

She could faintly hear Apo scream her name, but it's not like it would do much considering she was about to fall.

But it was ok.

She could briefly see Apo running out of the van with The Janitor chasing after him. Hopefully he would escape.

She just hoped the others would be alright without her.

Her last thought was of Magic, her best friend. The one she had betrayed and left to die.

Hopefully this would be her way to finally redeem herself for the trauma she had put her through.