13.Thirteen

26. Twenty Six

Thirteen couldn't believe what he had done, his hands had gone blue from squeezing Alex's and Twelve's necks. Azrail and Maximus were off at the Arena. Thirteen wandered the halls, being careful of guards. All his friends were dead thanks to him, Thirteen was certain that Maximus had something to bring Alex and Twelve back. Thirteen was walking blind, be careful not to fall through a hole in the rotted wood floor. Thirteen saw a light coming from one of the vacant room. Thirteen walked into the room and saw a huge computer screen taking up a wall, what was on the screen was truly unsettling; the selected children for the new generation of stock. A hundred faces of kids took up the screen. "They've gone international again", Thirteen said in disbelief. Their kids were from England, Russia, Africa, Malaysia and other countries. "Alex was the first international kid brought in, I guess they're feeling brave now", Thirteen said, scrolling through the pictures and the names. While scrolling down the page, a name was starred. Curious, Thirteen clicked on it to see the profile. "Ashley Parker, 15, Country of origin, Australia", Thirteen read to himself. "To replace thirteen as she has the same gene composition". Just as Thirteen finished that sentence, he heard the scrapes of claws on wood; Azrail and Maximus were back. Thirteen jumped off the chair and hid under a desk full of test tubes. He could hear their awful evil laughs, wondering what terrible atrocities they committed together.

1 hour earlier

Azrail and Maximus were at the arena, they almost never visited unless it was very important. The guards saluted Azrail and Maximus as they walked past them and into the viewing room. "There's barely any left", Azrail said, looking at twenty miserable, walking skeletons. "Sell them off and get the new stock as soon as possible", Maximus said to the chief guard. "If you can't sell the,, you know what to do", Maximus said, bearing a horrible smile on all three of his heads. The chief guard saluted him and went to tell the other guards. "No ones gonna want to buy these skin and bones", Azrail said, turning to Maximus. "There isn't enough meat on them either to turn them into glop". Maximus got an idea, "What if we put our special sauce on the glop tonight?", he said to Azrail. "This is why I haven't killed you off Maximus", Azrail said. "Perfect, I'll tell the cooks that. Now let's go get the special sauce". They both walked out the Arena, pleased with themselves of being so smart.