Raeth(ON HOLD)

Chapter Three:

Lunch sucked by the way, I know y'all were going to ask. At the parts that weren't an interrogation it was an awkward silence. They stared at me all day, waiting for the day to end so they can go to another poor soul's house to kill their hopes and dreams. The only good part is that Papa told me that Mathias and Luke are coming and staying with me.

I'm surprised not one White Coat decided to jump in and say hi. But then even the King is afraid of the Elders.

Yes, yes I will answer all of your questions. Let me ease into my lifetime of suffering, huh?

I'll explain the basics: orphans are not loved. They are all gathered together then one is picked from each house. That kid picked is then is put in the lap of luxury and trained to kill.

The goal then is to kill as many orphans you have on a list that they give you. You are a dog of the state. Sounds great, right? Well, it's better than starving on the street or becoming a sex slave. Anything is better than becoming a sex slave.

Ding, ding, ding. You won the prize; I was one of their many orphans picked to become a assassin. I was in a orphanage on the North side. I was twelve years old and the first girl to be picked in years. Not the youngest, but I surprised many when I didn’t die on my first mission.

But how can that man be "Papa", he's not my real father but he's close with my original family. My first family(I'll explain soon).

I’m the “Jewel” in the business. Hence why my code name is Jules. *Flips my very long, very annoying hair and adds a valley girl voice* Well, I am just so amazing. If y’all didn’t get my sarcasm, you really need to find a cliff note somewhere.

I live on Raeth, a planet on the very far end of the solar system. We only have the heat from the sun come every other year or so. Our planet is on the verge of death, so I understand why we kill so many people. More people=more deaths from starvation. We kill those that wouldn’t help our survival.

I should probably explain Matty, shouldn’t I? Well he’s called a ‘Custos’, a keeper and/or guardian. All Canes need a Custos to keep us from harm and other Canes. See some go rouge, we call them ‘Alt’s, and they attack us Canes and the Custos job is to stop them from killing all of us.

A long time ago we weren't like how we are now. Does that make sense? Things we different (this is the part I explain Raeth's history, skip ahead if you choose not the listen). I remember it like it was yesterday; people our people lived underground. It was horrible. Dust filled our lungs and a few died everyday. But in the middle of the city, the one city there was, was a building that led all the way to the top soil. The building contained scientists and doctors.

They were trying to find to make a generation of kids able to survive the harsh weathers outside. Not many have been either out of the underground or outside the building. But their was something called a sky. Supposedly it was big and never ending and changed colors by the time you went to bed and got up.

I've heard it be called beautiful. Isn't that strange, no one has really ever seen a sky before. Kind of sad, really.

Anyway, the first generation of children that were chosen to be tested on basically failed. Nothing worked on them, so they went to younger ages. A new batch of children. Back then I was chosen, well kind of me(I'll explain that soon). A lot of the first gen kids bonded with the second so they wouldn't have to go back downstairs and suffer.

One of the few succeeding children of the first gen bonded with a failing first gen and second gen. His name is Shark, aka Ark. His 'gift' was easy to master. The gift of snapping, (wow big deal, right?) it could alter things that were and made them not and vise versa. Shark had his "brother" Coyote, aka Ky. (Everyone around had names of what was outside the cave: tree, flower, bunny, ect.) Ky was a failed project they tried to make him see what others couldn't. He has the scars to prove what they attempted. The second gen is called Sky. He dreamed of getting out and smiling up at the sky and dancing in the sun. It was all he wanted; the doctors got him to see what others saw at the cost of him losing his eyesight. His eyes were forever whited out. And he cried and he begged to see but it never happened.

He wasn't the one who got us out, he isn't the one I hate. I hate Shark as many others do. Shark did something that no one should have done, maybe because it was a selfish wish. He made a deal with the devil, and didn't have to lose his soul. But sacrificed one of our own and much more.

His name was Canes, how we got our names as dogs. His Custos was named Wolf. Wolf was a failed kid, but they attempted to strengthen his hearing to hear what others couldn't. He didn't have the scars like Ky does but he remember everything and swore he would kill everyone that hurt him. Canes was a sweet kid, he could hear only the highest or high pitches and other than that he was deaf. Forced to wear hearing aids and unable to hear the joy of other singing.

In the end, Sky ordered a gun to Canes's head and Shark pulled the trigger.

That's how we ended up living forever. Yes, of course we can die. And we can alter the way we look to others. Then we grow until we change it again.