Little Organization Mix: Book 1; The Beginnings

Chapter 3: Scared

PERRIE’S POV

Yumm! I was chomping on some berries I found on a bush.  I had found the most important thing; food!

These people where clearly crazy sending me down without having breakfast first.  I was lucky to find this bush.  God knows that I can’t stay without food for long.  As I continued munching I wondered about these other contestants.  I’d woken up a few hours ago now and I hadn’t seen any sign of human life yet.  I wondered how many contestants there were.  This must have been a huge place for me not to have encountered anyone.  But then again like I said it’d only been a few hours and I hadn’t walked that far from where I woke up.

JADE’S POV 

There was this once when I had taken a survival class in secondary school just for fun.  I never thought it would come in handy, but now I’m really happy I did it.  Some of the berries here were actually quite poisonous and I recognized them from a book I read. 

LEIGH-ANNE’S POV

There were really weird fruits on the bushes here.  Some of them had sort of sharp-edged leaves while others were smooth.  I was not sure why I thought so but something told me that the sharp ones were no good for eating.  I think it was my older sister Sarah who told me this.  She was always into nature and stuff like that.  My thing was animals. . .

JESY’S POV 

My head spun with numerous flashes of the girls going through several gruesome deaths.    There were knives and daggers and blood and screaming and crying.  I could hardly go two steps without suddenly waking up on the ground with a headache from hitting my head somewhere.

What the hell is going on?  How am I supposed to survive if I can hardly stay out of my head enough to find food?  Relax, Jesy, you can do this.

When I could finally see again I started moving hoping to find some form of food.  So far all I could see were these strange looking plants and I was not sure if they were safe to eat so I left them alone.

PERRIE’S POV 

I had basically lazed around for the whole day stuffing my face with different types of berries.  This whole surviving thing was not that hard.  As the sun started going down I was trying to figure out where would be best to sleep.  The weather seemed warm for now but who knew what would come with evening.

I was in the process of getting up from my resting position near a tree when I heard a sound.  It was like a leaf being crushed under someone’s boot.  I froze.  The sound shouldn’t have scared me so much but there was something ominous about it.

The next thing I knew though I heard breathing from behind me.  I jumped to my feet and turned around suddenly seeing a silhouette of what looked like a man.  I shrieked and took a step back.  The man came closer and with the bit of lingering sunlight I saw that it wasn’t a man at all.

It was a creepy looking creature which was shaped like a man but with skin that looked like black wool and silver metal shoulder and chest pads.  Its face was a bit mousy and it had eyes that weren’t really eyes.  They were just these yellow orbs that glowed when I looked into them.  It had weapons in each hand that looked like guns but had electricity sparkling from the tips.

I was frozen for a moment as I looked at it but then my wits returned and I screamed.

JADE’S POV