The Chosen 8

#37

I open my eyes and look over and see my sister looking at me. We both sigh and I ask her in her mind.

Did we really wake up identically again?

Yeah, I guess we did.

We both get up and put on our green uniforms that in mine opinion are disgusting. Seems like something someone would wear in 2021.

I come out of the closet and see my sister in the uniform who always nails the look. We walk out of our room and head to the cafeteria. We walk right next to each other. We get in the line for the cafeteria and the person in front of us looks at us and we can tell they are six. We look at him and he snaps his head forward. I mean we do have that intimidating look.

We get to the front of the line and we put our bracelets on their right next to each other. Matthieu scans the bracelets and says "Ah...Welcome number 37 and 36." We look at him and try to smile but we can't. We know we can't and we never have been able too. We walk in and get our food. We grab it identically. We get an egg omelet and we both take some flavored water. And we go find a seat. We know that no one wants to sit with us since we are 'creepy' I mean we are eight years old. What is so scary about us. We sit down on the empty table in the far left corner.

We ate and got bored so we decided to talk to each other in our heads.

So what do you wanna do today?

You already know what I wanna do. Eye roll.

I know. Smirk. 

I have to say 'smirk' and she has to say 'eye roll' since we can't do any other facial expression.

We finish our food and walk out of the cafeteria and continue towards the training arena. That is the only place where everybody can go. But you can only fight or battle against someone in your category.

As we get closer we hear a lot of commotion and yells. Once we are at the entrance we peek in and see trees and two people in the center and everyone watching in the stands. We see that one of them is in some sort of trance and the trees go down. Then we see her. Number one in the flesh. We decided to watch because it looks like a battle. So we walk in and take a seat in the stands.

We watch the battle go down and at the end of the battle number 1 pulls out a holo-vid and videotapes number 167 saying

"I have lost."

I think she disconnected from his mind and put the video she took for everyone to see. He immediately says

"That is cheating!"

"No it's not." She responds with an innocent smile.

Number 167 gets super red and he runs out when number 1 grins. But her face changes quickly, looks at the crowds and screams,

"YOU SEE THAT! I BEAT HIM! HE IS RANKED NUMBER 2! I AM NUMBER 1! AND WILL ALWAYS BE! NOBODY BETTER CHALLENGE ME EVER AGAIN!"

She walks out and everyone is silent. I look at my sister and she nods. We head out quickly and quietly. We don't want to be caught in the stampede. We walk back to our room and we are about to make the last turn to get there when one of us trips and makes a both fall down.

"OW!" We both say as we hit the ground.

We look at each other. And I ask her,

Was that you or me?

I think that was me. Sorry!

It is fine but we have to be careful .

I know it is just hard to prevent from getting hurt. I know that your skin is weaker than mine. So I am sorry. Luckily I didn't get a bruise meaning you didn't since we share pain and all.

Yeah luckily.

We get back up and walk towards our room.

<<Okay hi guys! Sorry this took so long to post! I have been having some writer's block. Please comment if there is anything confusing! And the next part might be a while too. So please understand! Have a good day/afternoon/night!

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