At Dawn,We Rise

Temple of a Madman

Well...I'm not dead...

Amber rubbed her eyes.The wounds from Silencer had been healed somehow,but there was a small cut on her palm.

She was in a jail.It was made of iron bars.Iron blocks were the floor,but the sides and front were bars.

There was so many sounds...most of them not good.

What was that?A howl of pain?

What about the growling in the jail next to her?Petra?

Those weird flapping sounds...they couldn't be chickens.

The moaning?What about that?

Amber shook her head,almost trying to clear her head of the noise.Soren's temple.It had to be.

She looked at the jail cage next to her.Petra.Still a wolf,but Petra.She was scratching at the bars.

An iron door.That's how she had been put in here.

I should've fought harder.Sorry,Petra.

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Pain.It was a world of pain.It was cold,but Olivia held back the wolf.Barely.Her eyes were closed,it was too much to keep them open.

There were muffled voices.Olivia remembered Petra,as a wolf,looking down at her,singing...what else?

Lukas's blank face.

"How could this happen?Why?"

"I don't know,Axel...Lukas was nowhere."

Jesse.Axel.Olivia tried to say something but it only came out as a croak.

"Olivia?Olivia,can you hear me?"That was Jesse.

"Perhaps your friend could tell us what happened." Gabriel?

"Of course she will,if she knows what's good for her." Magnus?

"Is that a threat?" Axel.

Olivia tried to open her eyes.It was a lot warmer now.

It was blurry.Very blurry.

"Jesse..."Olivia whispered.

"Olivia!"One shape leaned over her."Olivia,are you okay?"

No.No she wasn't.She hurt all over.

"I'm not dead."Olivia offered.She shapes were becoming clearer.

"God,Olivia,I thought you were going to die!"Jesse sobbed.

It's okay Jesse.I'm not dead...

Olivia wanted to cry with Jesse.

She could see clearly now.

"Greetings."Gabriel came into view.

"Hey."Magnus smiled."You gonna tell us what happened?"

Axel scowled at him."Olivia's okay,and that's what matters."

"What matters is punching the person who did this's face in."Magnus cracked his knuckles."I don't think she just went whoopsie and fell over the edge of the ravine."

Olivia tried to sit up and winced as her head throbbed.Her wounds were covered by leaf bandages.Jesse held Olivia's hand.

"Lukas."Olivia groaned.

"What about him?"Jesse's eyes showed concern.

"He pushed me over..."Olivia remembered how blank his face was."...And started talking about...freedom from the world?He's not right in the head."

Magnus didn't look pleased.Jesse was horrified,her mouth opening and closing but saying nothing.Axel's hands curled into fists.

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There were more cages.Cages everywhere.Below Amber,above her,to her right,to her left.She heard other prisoners talking about an iron path below them.

Occasionally things would fly past.They were human but...they had a tail.And wings. Black wings.

As other prisoners whispered,part Ender dragon.

Eventually, one visited Amber.

It-no,it was a girl-came in,tail swishing,wings twitching.Her eyes were purple.

"So,you're Amber."The girl regarded her with curiosity.

Amber was silent,hugging her knees.

"I have food.I would escape if I could...but the Silencers are strong."The girl sighed,showing Amber raw porkchops.

Silencers.Plural.

"You can't shift.Soren made sure of that."The girl continued,throwing a porkchop in front of her."I'm sorry."

Amber chewed the porkchop slowly.

"So...I'll be the one to give you food and stuff."

Okay.I can deal with you.

When Amber finished,she asked "Do you have a name?"

The girl threw her a porkchop and hesitated.

"Your blood saved me."

You didn't answer my question.

"Saved you?"Amber echoed.

"I used to be an Infected."The girl explained.

So that's what the cut was for.

The girl threw Amber another porkchop and turned to leave.

"My name is Maya."

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Oh look.Maya.

I'm so mad at people who think being gay is bad,aka,almost everyone at my school.GEEZ PEOPLE!One of the staff is lesbian so...I heard that Taylor Swift is lesbian...or maybe not...