Shadows Arising *ON HOLD*

Chapter 2 - Causing Havoc

‘We’re all in the same game; just different levels. Dealing with the same hell; just different devils.’

‘Fire flickers between visible and invisible, it eats away anything in its path yet it keeps those who need warmth warm in winter. It creates utter destruction with nothing more than a breath of flame, it can be the cause of destruction of your enemies orit could be the cause of your own destruction. Dangerous it is so it needs caution and making something small explode into flames and bringing bigger destruction then it would be by itself is an art in itself.’

Bright blue eyes and dark blue, almost purple, eyes looked at Raven. “We’ll be off makin’ some trouble, see you guys back at the ‘ouse? I don’t be wishin’ ta be caught again.” Eb, whose blue eyes stood out in the semidarkness, said. “We’ll cause enough trouble fer a while, just don’t get caught when you make yer escape.”

“It’d be a good idea to leave now, don’t let any of them follow you,” Tony said in his soft voice, raising one hand to brush his black hair out of his eyes.

The two set off jogging down the stone hallway, Tony leading the way as he had been in charge of remembering the map of the prison and which cells were filled and which weren’t. Tony who was the more serious of the two boys spoke, “how far down do you think we should go?” He asked Eb, referring to the way the prison was set up. The prison had been set up so that the most dangerous criminals and torture rooms were on the bottommost floor and with decreasing dangerous criminals as the levels went up. The prison was made up of ten levels, eight of those were below ground and two above. On the ground level the interrogation rooms were, which was were the pair currently were.

The two boys started heading down the stairs, Eb through the keys into the air before catching them. “I’m thinkin’ that up ta three will defiantly listen to us. ‘Owever if we ‘ave time the fours should listen ta us ‘specially considerin’ that we ‘ave three other floors backin’ us up. ‘Owever I ‘ighly doubt the fives will bother ta listen,” Eb said as they reached the first floor below ground level, which was commonly referred to as level one.

Eb grinned, as Tony and he, found themselves facing a hallway with cells lining the walls. Eb turned to face Tony, “shall I do the ‘onours or do ya want ‘em?” Tony either didn’t think that the question desired an answer from him or just didn’t care. Eb didn’t seem to mind and as Tony looked at the cells that lined the walls he spoke. “Listen up all of ya, we’ve got an escape plan and if ya don’t do as we say it won’t work.” Eb paused to add the sought after melodramatic effect to his speech. “Me and my partner ‘ere are part of the Claws an’ I’m pretty sure ya don’t want ta cross us or else you’re dead along with everythin’ ya love.”

Eb stopped once again with nothing to say, Tony on the other hand had moved off while Eb had been talking. With the keys that had yet again changed hands Tony unlocked the doors to the cells. Half of the cells had been unlocked when one of the prisoners who had been unlocked spoke up. “Did one of you kill the upper inmates?”

Eb and Tony looked at each other, slightly unsure of the answer the question however they knew what the answer probably was. “That sounds like Raven alright, always tryin’ ta get the attention.”

By now Tony had unlocked the majority of the cells and was currently unlocking the last two. The free inmates turned to face Eb who in turn turned to face Tony. Tony glanced up after unlocking the second last cell. As he was unlocking the Tony started speaking, “okay, listen up all of you. We need to get this done quickly and without a hitch. People from the left cells head off with my friend ‘ere, right cellmates come with me.”

Finished unlocking the cells the black haired boy turned to face the prisoners which were muttering amongst themselves. Most of them were trying to figure out whether to go with the two boys or not, however having heard of the one fatality already they decided it was in their best interests to move. Most of the convicts moved and separated onto their respective sides of the room. However a small amount of the convicts remained, one of them was the prisoner who had spoken earlier.