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CH.9 Friends!

***Artemis's pvo***

Bullets start to fly everywhere, some of the adults have been tackled to the ground from the students. The other adults have seem to forgotten about me and Morgan because their aiming for the other kids now.

I hurried out of their sight as fast as humanly possible, into the park that took most of our towns space. The park leads to everything the schools, shops, home roads and the mall.

Go to the mall, and stay away from the fountain.

Why do I need to stay away from the fountain and go to the mall, Meg?

The fountain is under investigation because some "criminals" were last seen there, you have to go to the mall to meet these "criminals" that's the only way you will live.

Why would I want to meet criminals?! They would kill me!

...Correction one might kill you, but that is your best chance of survival. Unless you're ok with being hunted then tortured for information you don't have.

"Hey M-Morgan we should go to the m-mall." Strange I was scared, I know this outburst only started now but all my fear should have been eliminated. Why am I so scared of these criminals?

"Are you scared of getting shot?" Morgan can't hear you, Meg?

No I am in your head, only you can hear me right now.

Why are you so confusing and mysterious Meg, it's not like anyone would believe me that I have some voice inside my head and it gives me life tips! What's the point on telling me about all this if don't even know who you are.

You gave me a name, Megolo. Meg for short, but that is not important you need to get to the mall.

I was going to the mall, it's just I am finding all this hard to process.

If you need anything I'll always be here for you, I will just be silent for a while.

Thanks, I need to have the head space.

Now I need to head to the mall, but the quickest way there is blocked, passing the water fountain is blocked because of those criminals. I could go around the park? But that will be out in the open and me or Morgan could get hurt.

We'll have to go between the trees and avoid people, but how to explain this to Morgan? I'll have to lie...

"Hey Morgan, can we go through the trees while walking to the mall, the water fountain reminds me of some...horrible memorise." She nods to me and jumps into a bush dragging me along with her.

There are some scattered tree leaves on the floor that have withered, we avoid stepping on them so we are quiet as possible and don't draw any attention. We're very close to the water fountain so I can see all the police people and the guns they are carrying, I see why Meg said to avoid them.

It doesn't look as if killing people would seriously bother them, now it wouldn't bother anyone I think, except those people that still have common sense. Well is not that common now.

"Hey why are those police guarding that water fountain and not the people they swore to protect?" Morgan starts walking over them furiously, she was out of my reach by the time I tried to grab her so I could stop her.

*crunch*

She had stepped on a fallen leaf that made a sound attracting some polices attention, they pointed their guns this way and signalled someone to investigate. Morgan looked happy that they were on their way, but I just grabbed her and started to run faster to the mall.

"Why are we running? They're the police! They swore to protect us!"

"If that were true why are they pointing guns this direction!" I whisper loudly, too bad they already heard Morgan's voice.

*Bang*

Shots had been fired and I couldn't look back to see if they hit, I just sprinted faster than I could before, I needed to protect Morgan.

I had been running for about ten minutes until I realised that I only heard my footprints, Morgan wasn't with me.

"Shoot! I have to back for her." Not if you want to survive, they would have already killed her by now.

How do you know?! You're not some fortune teller, your just Meg! A crazy voice inside my head! And she was my friend, so I have to get back to her...

I... I am your friend Megolo, I have that name because of you. I am here because of you, I need to protect YOU. Not some random other girl, if you go I can't help you. So go to the mall...you will be safe.

"...Thanks...but how will I protect you?"

As I said I'm only here for you, if your alive then so am I. Our lives are intertwined, so I will always be here for you.

"Thanks, Megolo...now what was is the mall?" A small blue flame ignites in front of my face, it starts to form a little sleeping grey wolf with a blue flame on its head. I reach for the small sleeping wolf and it levitates onto my hands.

This is called a servant, it will do anything you ask it. Including fight so don't be afraid to use it.

"That's cool, so I have a servant... I'm going to call you Shadow, can you show me the way to the mall?" Shadow wakes up and starts at me for a second with big blue eyes, then it jumps off my hands and starts walking away from me. So I follow, Shadow avoids all the possibly clearings so that no one will find me.

So meg, I don't know if shadow is a girl or a guy. Care to clear things up with me?

Oh sorry, should have told you that SHE is a girl.

Thanks, that saves some confusion.

After about half an hour of following Shadow we arrive at the malls entrance, there was a surprising amount of dead bodies inside. They all looked drained of blood and their skin was snow white, Shadow went to investigate the bodies but I told it to stay on my shoulder since Shadow could somehow get hurt.

Most of the bodies are gathered in a circle, as if they all charged to something and got killed trying to kill it. Others are just scattered a bit, almost a meter distance between those ones.

Shadow noticed how no body had a drop of blood in their bodies, shadow closed her eyes and the flame on Shadow's head started burning brighter. The head was a little much but I should learn to handle changes, then Shadow opens her eyes and points her little paws towards a furniture shop.

The furniture shop had some light in it and it looked as if their were around four people sitting on something, I'm presuming beds. Are these the criminals Meg?

Yes I think that they are, prove you aren't hostile. They wont trust you easily, stay safe...Arti.

What did you call me?

Sorry, its just you gave me a nickname so I wanted to give you one. Arti is a cute nickname, don't you think?

It is quite a cute nickname, maybe it will catch on.

I slowly approach the store and shadow lowers her paw, then climes into my hair hiding her from view, smart.

As soon as I enter the shop I can feel fear brew inside of me. No one had longer felt any fear that I was aware of, why was I feeling scared of these criminals? Who are they, and why am I scared of them?