"Hey guys, I might have just found our way out!" I say. Soon the word spreads and everyone is trying to push their way into the tunnel. I lead the way with Emma and Coral close on my heels. We travel down the hall until we come to a heavy Iron door. I push it open, it leads to yet another hallway. We keep going and aside from the occasional cry of a child or a cough, everything is still and silent. Even what would be thundering footsteps seem light as if everyone is scared the Keepers could hear us.
The path goes down and gets steeper until after thirty feet it goes flat once more. We travel for hours until we come to a dead end. Nothing. No doors. Not even trap doors. Just a brick wall or dark stone. We are trapped. If the Keepers don't find us we will starve or die of thirst.
Then I notice the pattern on the wall. All the bricks are one of four sizes, with a large crack between the last two on each side. Large enough to use at foot or hand holds, although barely visible.
I start climbing the invisible ladder. Soon I am followed. I come up and open a trapdoor disguised as a vent. I open it and climb out. I am in one of the shacks in the village. I wonder if it was always meant to be a passage or if the owner even knew. Either way we're out and that's what matters. The helicopters are hovering on almost the opposite side of the island. They think we are still inside the hospital, but not for long, soon they will send out ground troops and odds are they will once again find us. I dart out and to the safety of the jungle. I turn and signal Coral to do the same, and she does. Then Emma, then more and more people come. Lilly and Tyler come towards the end and run together. I'm glad to see they are both ok but I still can't find Faith.
We had built the armory near the helicopters but as long as we move through the jungle we shouldn't be spotted. We reach the armory after half an hour of painfully loud people trampling through the dense undergrowth, as if they were trying to snap every branch, or required to cry and whine,about every little thing. I am glad we left all the children and people unable to fight at the heart of the jungle, or else we would have never gotten here. We unload our fireworks which seemed to work best, along with our rifles and slingshots and every other thing we could use.
We all surround the helicopters without going into the clearing and Coral screams out at the top of her lungs.
"NOW!" signaling every person to fire their weapons. It didn't even scratch them. The helicopters are heavily armoured, and as we would soon discover, heavily armed. They shot into the canopy of the jungle and we were forced to run from it. They must have had thermal readers or something because they followed us. The people we left behind caught up and tried to stay with us, they must have thought they were safer with us, but that was their fatal mistake. We ended up near a cliff and every sincable person hid in a hollow tree, under a fallen log, behind a rock, or at least tried to climb a tree. The helicopters landed in a clearing at the edge of the labyrinth of trees and we all ran away or hid like frightened animals scurrying from a hunter. Hiding worked better.
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An Inch Of Infinity (Short Version)
AksiIn the near future the entire world is conquered by a group of people known as Royalties, or the Royals for short. They declared war on the planet. If you were not with them, you were against them. by the end of the 21st century the world was utter...
