New: Worlds

New: Worlds (Chapter 1)

Chapter 1: Runaway (Clay's POV)

The drums pounded behind us as Connor and I pushed the mine cart. “Clay! I don’t think we’re going make it! They’re starting to gain on us!” Allison screamed. “We’ll make it! We’re almost there! We just have to find a way to slow them down. Ellie! You’re the smart one you’re supposed to think of something!” I screamed. “I don’t think there’s any way to slow them down. If we stop to fight, they’ll basically just run us over. The only way to stop them would be to-” Ellie stopped. “I have an idea!” She whispered something in Connor’s ear. “Clay, Connor and I have to do something. You have to keep pushing the cart. Don’t worry about us. We’ll catch up in a second. Allison, Bri. You guys know the way to the cells?” Allison and Bri nodded, as Connor kissed Allison goodbye. Connor grabbed Ellie by the hand and super-leaped. They crashed through the cave ceiling.

The hole they made got smaller and smaller as I pushed the mine cart. Who makes a mine cart with no engine whatsoever, and a track with no hills? Wait. Why was I running? I jumped up to lift my feet off of the ground. I willed my fire to come out of my feet. The fire acted as mini rockets and we shot off. Just as I thought we had lost them, the army of monsters got faster as well. It seemed as if they were getting closer than they were before. I could hear footsteps on the metal tracks, and the drums growing louder and louder. The human drones were drumming in the front. In the back was the real problem. First came the vampires. Then the wolves, then lizard-men, then the dragons, and finally the one man who was a mutation of all of that: Lexan. We might’ve had the fire-power and the mine cart, but we were still outnumbered, and the mine cart was barely as fast as they were.

Just then I heard a crash from the cave ceiling. Ellie dropped from the sky and landed on the track, right between us and the monsters. I stopped the mine cart. The monsters didn’t hesitate; they charged. Ellie willed the water from the bottom of the cave to rise, and the army was doused in water. In ten seconds, the entire army was inside a humongous frozen ice cube. “Alright, Ellie!” Bri cheered. We couldn’t celebrate for long though. Cracks were starting to form in the ice cube. The monsters were starting to break free. Finally, Lexan was the first to breakout. “CONNOR, NOW!” Ellie screamed over the jeers of the army. We waited in anticipation for something to happen. Then, I noticed what Ellie was trying to do. There were cracks in the ceiling; cracks that connected to make a gigantic circle. I heard Connor yell, a loud thud, and the ceiling fell. The monsters were instantly hit and buried by the enormous cave block. Connor was on top of the pile, breathing heavily. “So…” he said, almost gasping for air. “What’s next? COME AT ME NEVER WORLD, COME AT ME!” he screamed victoriously. He leaped toward us, grabbing Ellie in the process and placing her in the mine cart with my sister and the other petals. We were almost to sublevel 50. I could see the gate. Connor and Allison switched places, so that my sister and I could shoot the mine cart through the gate. The gate was starting to close. “WE NEED MORE FIRE POWER,” Allie screamed in my face. “THE ONLY FIRE POWER IS US!” I screamed back. We just barely made it through. We stopped the mine cart and helped everyone out. We were in a hallway of prison cells. An extremely long, weakly lit, smelly, disgusting hallway of jail cells. Bri groaned. “I don’t believe it. We came all this way just to find that there a million identical cells that Diana could be in, and there aren’t even labels on the sides of the cells. Seriously, this place needs to organize.”

“Well, believe it,” Allison sighed, as she sprinted down the hallway. “Hey. Go ask that guard drone over there,” I suggested to Connor.

“How do you know it’s a guard drone, and not an army drone?”

“Because if it was an army drone, we’d be fighting right now, oh and also the fact that it says Guard Drone on his arm.”

“Got it.” Connor walked up to the guard and asked him. “Hi. Do you know if there’s a prisoner here named Diana?”

“Calculating…” the drone said in it’s metallic voice.

Allison came running back. “I didn’t see anyone. But I didn’t go all the way down. I couldn’t even see the opposite wall from where I had stopped. This thing could be endless.”

“No prisoners with the name Di-ana.”

“No. No, there’s gotta be some mistake. Diana Gilden. We were told she was being kept prisoner here.” Allison clarified for the drone.

“Recalculating… there are no prisoners by the name of Di-ana Gil-den.”