I stared blankly at the black ink note scribbled onto my arm, and couldn't find the words to talk. Then I felt him staring at me. You can tell when someone is looking at you directly, because your brain has a natural survival mechanism to be able to tell when someone is looking directly at you. He stood up and held a hand out.
"Name's Sires, by the way. And I didn't quite catch yours."
"Alex. My name's Alex." I said as I reached my hand out and took his, shaking it. How odd...we both had a name that correlates with a forgotten planet...and here we were forgotten from life. His grip tightened, and loosened as he let go of my hand, and stood up.
"It's a pleasure to meet you. But we need to get moving. We tricked the T.D.F.G. Into thinking you're dead."
"How'd you do that?"
"No time to explain, let's just go." Sires said as he kicked the chair I was sitting in over, and put a hologram up. It scared me. The hologram did at least. I walked over and looked at the hologram, and noticed it was me. But a dead version of me. And it's not like the typical holograms that you'd expect, you know, the ones you think of from Star Trek. No this one didn't phase in and out, it stayed like that. And looked a lot like a real dead body. I started leaving the cave with Sires, chilled to the bone, because I couldn't get the hologram of my own dead eyes out of my head...
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The Awoken Trials.
Mystery / ThrillerImagine a world where people with natures abilities were hunted down and put into an arena where they kill each other...well, this is Aris's story. Aris is fifteen, and has the ability to...meh maybe I'll let you read and find out...anyways, he was...
