Runaway

Survival 2

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Chapter 5

|We all decide to relax a bit until announcements would come for our next "training" cycle.

Amy was catching up to her reading again and she looked like just how I saw her when we first met. Austin was sitting in the couch near the window staring at the view outside. Gabe got some more sleep and his excuse was that he needed energy for the next "training". I had nothing to do. I fiddled with the small bracelet looped around my necklace while watching the flames as they burned the wood.

I wondered what they would make us do next for archery? Staying in the water while we're supposed to shoot arrows? Shoot flaming arrows? Nearly kill us to death?

I suddenly remembered my ankle which got hit by the headboard and was hit with a knife. I massaged it a bit and cringed while doing so.

Game finally broke the ear-splitting silence and said, "So, where are you guys going next?"

"Archery," I said.

"Fencing," Amy said.

"Archery," Austin said.

"Swimming," Gabe said.

That was all he said the rest of the day. We all remained silent until the announcements came.

"Archery!" a voice yelled outside our door.

Austin and I scrambled to our feet and before we went to that person, we looked back at Amy and Gabe and smiled and shrugged. They did the same too.

We went outside and quietly followed after the instructor. We were soon greeted into a smaller room than the aiming room the by what seemed like dozens of people talking to each other.

"Shut it!" she said.

The room fell quiet and immediately looked at her.

"Now that everyone's here, I can give you the ropes to survival. First of all, in archery, we take this seriously. This is not a joke. Second of all, you'll be doing this," she said as she steeped back and revealed a very deep and wide pool with numerous tables filled with arrows. On the walls were knives with balloons taped on the sides and a lot of them.

"Oh. I forgot. You're doing this in the dark and in the pool. Your goal is to hit 50 targets which will only be considered if you are able to split the arrow when it hits the knife, popping the two balloons on the sides. If you pop one, it's not considered. So better pop two. Every breath you take, it minuses four targets from what you actually have."

Great (sarcastic). Another in-the-dark activity.

"Go!"

We scrambled once again to get a hundred arrows and our bows.

After everyone was armed, she gave out a signal to start. As soon as she did, people were leaping into the pool to fight for their dear life. I closed my eyes for a moment to take in what was going on, breathed in, and jumped.

I didn't know how to swim so I was struggling for my life. I went up and breathed in and lost four points. That makes my score......... -4. Great.

It seems like years passes and I somehow got the hang of swimming. People with the highest scores got a 25 - I guess - so I have a lot of catching up to do. Even though Austin and I are friends, we still are against each other.

I got my bow and arrow and shot. I missed. I tried again. I still missed. I tried again. I finally got it because of the buzzery pulse I felt in my hand. She signaled the time if ending and we all went up - one by one.

Unlike "aiming", I had no scratch marks. I was completely fine.

She announced our scores. Austin came in first unlike me who came in last.

Out of nowhere, an arrow was fired and I fell to the ground groaning. I felt around my back and there it was. When I looked at my hand, I was losing blood and fast.

I heard screaming and crying and panicking. Austin went in front of me and pulled the arrow. I groaned. and he pulled out some cloth and used it to stop the blood.

"It's okay. You'll be fine. Trust me," was all he said.

Trust. That's what Zeke said.

I thought I was dying. I thought this was it.

Our instructor ran off to get help for me.

I gave him a weak smile and said,"Thanks."

Doctors came and said I had to be laid down on my back. They turned me over and I scrunched up my face in pain. They left me for a while and went to the instructor and were talking to her about something.

She then came to me, held my hand, and said, " Don't worry. You'll be fine."

I tilted my head. Looked at Austin and everyone else in the room who gathered around me who were behind him and I felt my hand fall, my head fall to the floor and I closed my eyes.

"Charlotte!"

I remembered the time Cody did that....

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I opened my eyes, shocked I was even able to. I realized I was lying down on my back and in the hospital. I got up and my back ached. I lied down again. I pinched myself to make sure this was real and this sure was.

I fell asleep again, thankful, I'm still alive.