Spark In The Night

Teaching A Guard

Neon P.O.V

It's been a couple of hours, I think, Wingman left and now I'm laying down on the cold hard floor with my hands encased. I've been tossing and turning trying to sleep but it never coming. So I finally sigh giving up and lay there with my eyes closed before I hear a conversation.

"So how long till we send two of them to the arena?" I hear silence for a second before another man speaks up "boss wants two ready in two days. We train up 964 and 958 and get them ready for the arena. Boss will pick one and that one will go fight the supreme champion in the arena. And the other will die. We need the best to bring in the money."

The conversation quiets as the sound of chains are being moved and doors are being shut. I swallow hard and curl up in my cell, and sleep slowly takes over.

I jolt up at a loud bang and footsteps coming near my cage "alright, get up we have tests to run." I push myself up and the man cuffs my legs together then my wrists and finally puts a muzzle on me. He then leans down and un-chains me from the floor and drags me along.

He leads me down the stairs before I'm blindfolded again and I'm pulled a little farther and sat down in a chair and I feel the chains tied to something and finally I hear a door shut. It takes a minute before the door opens again and my blindfold is taken off.

And it's a familiar face, "Iselin?" The woman looks at me and realization settles in "965, hello again. Today I will be giving you some ejections then sending you out to the field." She pulls out a folder and opens it on the table revealing a bunch of needles with fluids in them.

I pull at the chains expecting to pull the table but it's nailed down. I stand and pull hoping a miracle to happen and the chains break, but, no such thing happens and she nears holding out the needle to my arm. She grabs my arm before poking in and slowly ejecting it, I jerk back yanking it out before it's all in and she gives me a look.

She aims again and sparks roll off my skin shocking her and she pulls back looking and her hand, now red. She gives me an annoyed look and I roll my eyes, "look. Iselin, you don't want to hurt me and I don't want to hurt you. I have radiant powers you have deadly tech I'm sure we won't break anything. But you may try something and all it takes is a little more power and you'll be on the floor while I steal your keys and escape with my friends possibly killing others getting you fired."

She stares at me in disbelief "what are you blackmailing me?" She glares with an annoyed tone "if you want to call it that then sure but I want you to see who we radiants are, as normal people like you." She gives me a poker face and I roll my eyes "okay fine lets start with this, how much do you trust me?"

She gives me the most unimpressed face I've ever seen in my life "okay here how about this, Tala Nicole Dimaapi Valdez, 21 and from the Philippines." I reach out my incased hands to her and she looks at me confused "shake my...hand" She reaches her hand out and places it on the gauntlet and shakes it.

"See? I trust you not to give that away, now can you trust me even slightly?" She crosses her arms and I sit down with a huff "Iselin, 29 I'm from Norway" I perk up and give her a grin "see? Now, can I show you something?" She looks around and sighs "fine, make it quick" she grabs my chain and pulls me to the door and looks around before pulling me out.

I follow her looking around the place a bit before she pulls us back behind a tarp. I'm about to say something when I hear footsteps and hear a girl struggling "bitawan mo ako! What did I do to you!" I look around the tarp recognizing that language, I nudge Iselin forward and we watch a young girl, 17 is my best guess, being dragged along harshly.

Her hair is dark with a yellow streak through the front of it, her eyes a dark brown almost black. She has honeycomb print down her arms and a little on her face. She's wearing a pastel yellow t-shirt that has a little bee on it with black pants on, she's small compared to the guards and she is trying her best to fight them off with no success since her hands have the same gauntlet over them and her ankles are chained together.

"Look, you see that. She can't be more then 17 and you see how their treating her right?" Iselin is quiet watching them and seeming to think things over "but she's a radiant-" "so? Would you treat a human girl like that?" Her mouth opens to say something then it closes again and she looks towards the ground. "That is what I thought, so why is she different."

She sighs and looks around for a second before she pulls my chain along pulling me along to another room and shutting the door. "Wait here" she leaves so I sit down with a sigh thinking about that little Filipina girl as I examine the gauntlets trying to find any way to get them off when the door opens and Iselin walks in holding a chain.

I watch her carefully and she roughly tugs on the chain dragging in Hazal. I jump up and when Hazal sees me her eyes soften, Iselin hooks her chain next to mine and I rush over to her. I rest my head on her chest inhaling her much welcomed scent.

I glance over at Iselin and she stands next to the door looking away from us "Neon are you okay" I nod into her and hum "I am Fade, what about you?" I look her over best I can and give her puppy eyes. She gives me a soft smile as she rests her gauntlet on my head gently before removing them and leaning down for a gentle kiss.

When she pulls back and I look her over spotting a gleam of red on her, I kneel down and examine her leg and there's dried blood soaked through her clothes. I stand and give Hazal a worried look she shrugs and I glare over at Iselin. She looks over confused and I roll my eyes "how did this happen."

I snap and Iselin puts her hands up and Hazal puts herself between me and Iselin "spark, it wasn't her" I hold my hard glare for another second before I give up looking back at Hazal "then who did?" The door is flung open and a tall man walks in in full armor and guns strapped to his hip. "964, let's get going, time to see if your strong enough to keep your life."