(REWRITE) The 17th Realm, The Maniac Trilogy - Book 1

Chapter 8 - Sic

(the title isn't a typo btw)

EMILY'S POV

My eyes fluttered open and I was instantly welcomed with a headache. I clutched onto my head while I sat up from the bottom bunk.

Well that's just great.

We're in the one place we were trying to avoid. The Ice Palace dungeons.

"Are you okay?" a voice asked. I glanced around but it wasn't Nya's or Cole's or Lloyd's voice. They're still asleep.

It was another girl. Probably Lloyd's age. She had a fringe and her white hair was up in a ponytail. She had a large scar around her eyes. Kind of like a burn or something. She was wearing some black cargo trousers, black boots and a black and purple top that hugged her body perfectly.

I nodded. "Who are you?" I asked.

"Harumi."

"How long have you been here?"

"A few days. I got caught by those ice monsters shortly after I got out of that jungle."

"You were teleported from Ninjago too?"

She seemed a little stumped by the question, but she nodded. "What about you?"

I shook my head. "But they have."

"Yeah... I figured. I know them."

"You do?"

"Yeah..."

Shortly after she answered the question, Nya woke up. "Harumi?!"

"Look, I don't know how I ended up here, okay?! Yes, it's me."

"Oh, do I have a story for you!"

I groaned and dragged my hands down my face just as Cole and Lloyd woke up. I didn't realise how much space these cells have.

"Basically, Lloyd thought it was a good idea to open a scroll which Master Wu literally told us NOT to open, like 10 minutes earlier? And it teleported us here!"

"YOU DID WHAT?"

"Harumi?! What are you doing here?"

"So I was actually living a normal life, and you teleported us to this shitty place?!" she screamed as she grabbed Lloyd's collar and shook him.

"I DIDN'T OPEN ANY STUPID SCROLL!"

Cole split them apart, "We're all pissed off, okay? But we have other priorities right now."

"Cole's right," I agreed. "We need to get out of here if we wanna get to Ninjago."

We suddenly heard clanging at the end of the hallway.

"Your job is to just stand there, and make sure they don't escape or cause a commotion unless you wanna meet the second in command Understand, peg leg?"

"Yes, sir. You said they?"

"Yeah, we've got a whole gang of 'em today. Now, go!"

We heard a set of ascending footsteps.

"Well, there goes our chance," Cole muttered as he sat down on the opposite bunk.

The guard who was assigned to us arrived and glanced at us before turning around, his back facing us. He turned around to look at us again and his eyes widened when he saw me.

"Emily?"

A wide smile spread across my face. "Ryan?" I rushed over to him and gave him a hug through the bars of the cell separating us. "It's been so long!" I said, pulling away.