Animal Masks Book 1 (boyxboy)

Chapter 1

This chapter's all over the place and is probably really confusing. I'm too lazy to edit or re-read.

Also, don't hate me for my cast. I love them all, okay?:)

Zac Efron is perfect for Ethan so...

Magnus is on the side-->

2 Months Later.

"Welcome, animals."

Animals indeed.

All twenty of the men were not allowed to take their masks off, even when showering in the disgusting, mouldy shower that had been further in the tunnel where they'd been held, or they'd get a good beating. Even though the mask irritated Ansel to no ends, he could do nothing about but sit and ignore the itching sensation the mask caused when it dug into his skin.

It had taken two painfully long months for Bryant to gather the perfect men for 'Forever Freedom'. When Aaron, now Ansel, had arrived there had only been ten men but twenty were needed.

Throughout the time he'd spent in the disgusting cells he'd learned everything about what his life would consist of starting now. Nothing but blood and gore.

He was taking part in some 'game' where all twenty of the men would fight to the death and apparently nobody was allowed to survive. What was the point? Why didn't Bryant just simply take a gun and lodge a bullet into their poor brains? It would save a hell of a lot of time. Ansel guessed he was sick and enjoyed the entertainment. When really, it wouldn't have been entertainment for the twenty and instead it would be pure hell.

What about the last man? What were they supposed to do? Kill themselves?

On Ansel's left side, his brother, Harry, looking much more like his new character with his horse mask on, Alvin. His eyes were wide with fear and pain. He could just see them through the eye holes in the mask. The fear, of course, was masked with the confidence his high chin held and it would only take somebody awfully observant to see the true emotion in his eyes..

On his right side, Ethan stood with a rhino mask on. Ethan had been brought into the cells a month after Ansel had arrived. They'd been put together in the same cell as Bryant had been running out of cells to place the men in. Ansel didn't know what Ethan's name had been before he'd been forced into this 'game' but did know that he was only eighteen years old. Two years older than Ansel.

They were all stood in a large room that looked like it was a venue fit for some sort of formal meet and greet. At the front of the room was a large stage and stood on top of it was Bryant and a man Ansel had never seen before. He wore some baggy trousers that looked as if they should be worn in a circus and a pale pink over-sized shirt that he hadn't even bothered tucking in. His brown hair was spiked up into a style that could barely even be considered a style. Even from the distance between him and Ansel, the man's greenish blue eyes bore into him and possibly every over man around him uncomfortably.

"My name is Magnus. I have been waiting for this moment ever since the first game ended two weeks ago. It was very entertaining; not at all a disappointment. I trust none of you will disappoint me either."

Biting on his lip hard until it bled painfully, Ansel clenched his fists as tight as possibly to keep himself from running on stage and kicking the man to the ground. Who did he think he was? He couldn't just grab some random teenagers and older men and decide their future. Everyone had something to live for. Whether it was becoming a artist who could change people's perception of the world they lived in. Or maybe even becoming heroic and fighting for their country...

The older men that were forced to take part in the 'game' didn't even look as if they would be able to survive a jog, never mind a real life fighting game. It was cruel and malicious.