Black Wings A Cast of Magic

Chapter 2

When I awoke, I couldn't figure out what had happened, it all came to me in a flash, school, the lockdown, blue-grey gas. My head ached, but when I tried to hold it I realized my hands and legs were tied and there was a thick cloth gag in my mouth. On either side of me were my classmates, five of us in all. The people who I assumed had kidnapped us where talking quietly in the corner. They wore hooded cloaks, and that combined with the dim lighting made it near impossible to see their faces. I struggled against my bonds and bumped against another girl, causing her to wake up and attempt a muffled scream. This attracted the attention the cloaked figures and one stalked over, replacing our gags. Great, I thought, just gr-

I must have fallen asleep again, the gag was most likely drugged. When I regained consciousness, gunshots were exploding, sounding a bit closer than I would have liked. My head felt like it had been run over, and I could barely hear anything because of the ringing in my ears.

I was still tied up with thick ropes but the ground under me seemed to be moving, I suddenly realized that I was in the back of a truck, one that was moving quickly over unpaved ground. We had to be out of the city, and the only light that filtered in through a small window was faint, it was after dark. How much time had passed while I was unconscious?!

Something bumped my leg, and I craned my neck to try to get a good look at it. It was a boy about my age!

"Mmmmmm!" I tried to catch his attention, but my gag made that a bit difficult. Pushing myself up, I nudged whoever-it-was with my tied together legs. He sat up and looked at me with wide eyes.

I didn't recognize him, maybe he was the new kid, or didn't go to my school at all, but it didn't matter now. What mattered was getting us out of this truck, and a solution didn't seem to be presenting itself.

"Mmmmmphmmmmm?" He mumbled looking at me like I was crazy. Well, I'd had enough of those looks to last a lifetime. I ignored him and started searching for an escape route.

A gunshot rang out, and I ducked as the small window in the corner shattered. I screamed through my gag as it rained shards of glass, a few of them cutting me even in my hunched up position.

"Shut up back there or I'll shut you up myself!" a voice from the front of the truck said, I recognized that voice... It was Mr.Trysten!

Mystery-kid stared at me with frantic eyes, I probably looked the same, and for good reason. We were alone and helpless, tied up and gagged in the back of a truck headed who knows where in the middle of the night, and now that I listened for it, I noticed the police had given up on trailing us! I could feel my heart rate speed up, and my breathing grew ragged.

I turned around and saw that there was a small sharp piece of glass from the gun that had shot the glass and broke. I tried to get the gag off but only succeeded in getting a mouth full (or fuller) of cloth. I scooted over to the piece of glass, but couldn't get it into the right position, so I just slipped it into the back pocket of my jeans, hoping to be able to use it later. On the way back to my original position, my foot hit the side of the truck.

"Alright, there movin' around back there, stop the truck and I'll shut 'em up." The guy said as the truck pulled to a stop. He got out, and pulled out a plastic bag filled with a pinkish liquid sloshing around inside. He pulled out two new bandanas and put them inside of it, letting them soak. "It won't kill ya! Quit yer squirming!" he pulled out the gag and again replaced it with another.

No! Don't Breath in, don't breathe in! I thought, But I couldn't hold my breath forever and slipped back into the cold, terrifying darkness.

When I woke up, we weren't driving anymore, and I was tied to a pole in the middle of a small, cement room that seemed to be a basement. There was Mystery-kid tied to one next to me, and both of our gags were gone. A small window near the top of the corner in the room, and beyond the doorway I could see some stairs going both down and upwards, and another room. We were standing there for what seemed like millennia (probably only a few minutes). Then some guy appeared at the door. "Well, well, well what do we have here?"