The S.T.F. Files, Book 4: DIATON

Brains Over Brawns

Wisteria

It's been a week since we were locked up in here. Dimitrius, Theresa, and Lu were probably having a lot of fun not being around a bunch of idiots like these people.

"I could hear that," I could feel Cole glaring at me through the darkness.

"Light's on!" a loud voice yells and I jolt up, hitting my head on the side of the wall.

"Ow! That hurt!" I yell crying.

"Breakfast time," a security guard opens the huge black door and a bunch of scientist come in handing us each a plate and walking out.

"What is this crap?" Mel rubs his eyes, clearly not awake. Nevermore touches it with her finger and tastes it.

"That's oatmeal," Nevermore spits it out onto the floor. "And there's a biscuit, two pieces of bacon, and a cup of orange juice."

"Smart kid. Now eat," the security guard slams the door shut and leaves.

"Waffles... waffles..." Isabella moans, poking at the oatmeal with her spoon.

"Isabella. You should eat, please..." Emily looks at her worriedly.

"This bacon is cold!" Gaea sits back and crosses her arms. Blade, being the showoff he was, uses his fire and warms up his food.

"Can you warm up mine too?" I ask. Blade looks at me and sighs, taking my plate and heating it.

"Mine too please!" Helena smiles sweetly.

"No. I've wasted enough of my power anyway," Blade slides my plate back to me.

"You're mean! The only reason you warmed up Wisteria's is because you like her!" Helena yells at Blade. I look at her shocked and look at Blade, who seemed ot be ignoring her.

"I'll warm it up for you," Simon offers.

"Thank you. At least someone cares," Helena sticks her tongue out at Blade.

"Kronos, what are you doing?" Olivander raises an eyebrow.

"Shh.. I'm almost done," Kronos looked like he was meditating. We all watched him intently, since we obviously had nothing better to do. The ground started to shake a little bit and a hole opened in the bottom of his cage. Out came a plate that was filled with pancakes, bacon, sasuage, and Isabella's favorite ~ waffles.

"Now I know you're going to share that with everyone, right?" Jet says to Kronos, but it sounded more like a demand than a question.

"Where did you even get that?" Rosaline asks.

"The break room for security. As long as I'm earth, I know where everything is," Kronos grins, opening his eyes. He gives everyone something from the platter.

"Waffles!" Isabella's face brightens up and she smiles at Kronos.

"It's cold.." I whine.

"Put your plates in the middle," Simon orders. Everyone does so and he creates a huge flame, that covers all the plate. When he done all the food is sizzling, but it looks and smells good.

"I love you so much!" Isabella smiles at Simon and Kronos as she eats her waffles happily. I notice Simon's face turns red and he looks down, eating his food. Kronos wasn't paying attention.

"So, how are we going to get out of here...?" Alexander finishes.

"That's easy," Blade stands up and uses his fire, slamming his fist onto the bars. Nothing happens and he plops back onto the floor.

"Nice going hothead," Gaea rolls her eyes.

"Shut up mutt," Blade's hair turns to fire again.

"What? You can't even get out of your cage. How the heck are you going to get me?" Gaea smirks. Blade throws a huge fireball at me and the cage  bars melt to the ground.

"Wow, anything else flame brain," Cole leans back in his cage as Gaea steps out of hers.

"Thanks for summing up my plan," Simon rolls his eyes. "Aim at someone else's cage and break it."

.....15 Broken Cages Later...and possibly some security guards.....

Simon

"You children..." Eclaire groans, tapping her foot. Blade went on a rampage after the guards came and now... each one of us were behind held by a security guard.

"You shouldn't have put us in here in the first place," Blade rolls his eyes. Nevermore kicks him in the shin.

"Shut up. Not only did you destroy the cages using your brains this time... but you stole from the break room and nearly killed some security..." Eclaire smiles. "Congratulations! You passed!"

"We.. passed?" Helena and Rosaline say at the same time, looking at each other confused.

"I knew you guys would break out so there was really no point in putting you in here in the first place. You guys finally worked together," Eclaire claps. She turns her attention to the security. "Let them go and take them back to their dorms."

"But what about what the boss said?" one the of security answers back.

"You follow what I say. Now do it," Eclaire orders and leaves. The security guards let us go and we all return to our dorms.

"Hey, Simon," a voice whispers. A hand tugs at my arm and I'm pulled outside my dorm. I turn around to see who it was.

"Isabella? What do you want?" I ask her.

"Umm, thank you," Isabella mumbles.

"For what?" I lean against the outside wall of my dorm.

"You know.. the food and the plan.." Isabella's voice gets quieter. "I really like you."

"What did you say?" I look at her. I heard the food and plan part, but I seriously didn't hear the last part. Isabella looks at me and kisses my cheek.

"I'll tell you later," Isabella says quickly and runs off to her dorm. 

"What just happened?" I sigh, running a hand through my hair.