The New Gaurdians

Chapter 9

        Nova

        The arcade was nothing like how I thought it was. The games were extremely fun, suprisingly. I thought there would be a few cornny games and some cheezy snacks, but I have to say it was extremly fun. I was playing an old game called glactus.. something, or at least something along the lines of that. When Chad came over to me leaning on the machine.

        "Hey," He said. I looked up at him.

        "Hello," I replied.

        "So what you doing here?" He asked me acting all cool like.

        "Uhh.. What?" 

        "Well I know your here because you were taken, but like..."

        "I guess you have your answer."

        "Yah,, I guess I do." He replied the light almost gone out of his face.

        "Well, if your dying to know, Zander kinda set this up on his own."

        "Oh really?"

        "Yep."

        "He kind of more of a sci fi and aliens kind of guy, if you can't already tell."

        "Oh.. I've noticed."

        "Right. Your Chad, right?" 

        "Yep that's me. Chadster." I looked at him and smiled. He smiled back. He took my hand,

        "Hey, come on." He said. He lead me over to the cossesions stand where there were popcorn and candy, and other delcious items. He went to grab for the popcorn, but I slaped his hand away. 

        "You can't steal." I said while looking at him.

        "Relax, you can have anything you want here." He said. I looked at him sceptical. 

        He grabbed my hand and put the box of popcorn into it. He looked right up at me as he gave me the warm box. I smiled and looked down at my feet. He started to walk infornt of me and lead me over to a seat. As we sat he talked about how much he remembered about his past. Which in my oppion was not much. Everyone was like that maybe remember what they were doing before then but not now and I was starting to wonder why.

        Zander

        The gaming room was fun, but boy was Syd annoying. She kept on trying to cling onto me as if I was her favorite toy, that she would never get rid of. I really wouldn't care in any other situation, but in this case since I was the toy, I cared a whole lot. I wish she would just throw me away like any other peice of worthless junk. I knew she wouldn't, but boy.. I wish she would. 

        "Zander, come over here!" She would yell at me and drag me over to some other game, even though I was in the middle of one.

        "Wait! Let me finish this..." I would try to say before she dragged me off, but it was already too late. I was taken into her grasp and now she wouldn't let go. 

        "Come on! We have to try this one!" She would say. I tried it out of course, not because I wanted to, but because I wanted to be nice. I put on a weak smile and look at the machine getting ready to concerante right before she would drag me off. Again.

        I walked over to a booth and took at seat, not before noticing how much fun Nova and Chad were having. She was laughing so hard, her face was turning so red. It looked like an apple. I smiled. In my own greief I hadn't noticed how much fun she had been having. She looked over and her eyes met mine. She smiled and waved, mouthing the words are you okay? I mouthed back fine. Chad turnt around and his eyes met mine. He smiled and gestured over to Syd. It's fine I had mouthed back. He turned around and went back to his converstation with Nova. 

        I looked around. Everything seemed normal. Carpet on the celling, matching the floor. Game systems, speaking of which, Syd was caught up in one right know. Her hand moving furiously as she gripped the joystick. I got up and took a better look around. I found a hallway and drifted towards it. \

        I screamed as something wrapped it fingers around my legs. I jumped back in suprise and bent down to see what it was. 

        I should have known.

        Author's Note

        Sorry for not updating yesterday. Caught a case of writers block and lost insperation for a minute, but i'm good now. You know how it is. Not fun. Hope you guys have a great day and i'll see you real soon.