Im hungry, its cold, humid, and every cell in my body hurts. I open my eyes slightly and try to take in the area around me with my eyes. It seems like a stone cell. I see a wall of Iron bars to my right. After that there is only more stone. As I try looking up my head starts pounding and I immediately turn to back to the front. I felt something beside me. At first I didnt recognize the person. They were beaten to a pulp. His left eye swollen and purple, they had so many scratches all over their body, and were drenched in what seemed to be their own blood. Fighting my own pain I tried to get a closer look of the person. I shake them up a little and they started opening their eyes.
"Hey"
Said the weak and familiar voice who I recognizes as Lacis. How pitiful, I thought while sighing. I didnt feel sad. I felt disappointed. I tried telling myself that I should be sobbing right now, but Im not. He's weak. If he was stronger he would be able to have beat those who did this to him.
"Not even shedding a tear, eh? I must say he put up quite a fight for that necklace of yours. He was perfectly fine giving his away for your saftey"
Said an unfamiliar voice.
"I hate to admit, but, shes right you know? Shouldnt you feel at least a little hurt?"
Joined in another person whose voise I did not recognize
"There is no need. He is unlike other people. I must ask, however, where is this place? The last thing I remember was being suprred by this girl"
I said as I stood up and turned towards the voices of a young man and a young girl. There age seemed to be between sixteen and eighteen.
"What? You are making no sense"
Said the boy, the girl looked equally confused
"What are your names?"
I sad while lifting my chin up a little
"You know what? Screw this. Im not gonna get this girl outta here if she keeps talking like this"
"Come on bro, we cant just leave them. The guy put up such a fight"
I felt the need to butt into their argument
"Whoever said I needed your he-"
Before I could finish my statement I noticed that Laci was no longer where he had been laying. As I wondered where he could have gone i felt something light drop on my chest. It was my necklace. As soon as it made contact with me it started shinig a bright red. I felt myself being swallowed.
"NOT THIS AGAIN!"
I yelled while falling on my knees. The light grew stronger and I got weaker. As I remembered Lacis face being in the state it was, my eyes filled with tears. I couldnt handle loosing someone else. My oxygen supply was cut off for about two minutes. I couldnt breath and it felt horrible. When I was finally able to breathe again, I saw Laci enveloped me in a hug. Something that I had only exxperianced from Kell. Kell… without thinking I yelled at Laci ad stuttering in the porcess
"WH-WHERES KELL AND TONY?! WE HAVE TO GET TO THEM NOW!"
My tone weakened and I finished off the sentence
"Before its to late"
I almost choked while saying that. I cant, I just CANT bare the thought of loosing such wonderful people. I looked up with my teary eyes and saw the two people that had talked to me earlier, they seemed to be twins.
"Who-who are you?"
Before the boy answered he chuckled in his throught and then started laughing as loud as he could giving me the creeps.
"You should stop before they start blasting you"
Interupted the girl
"Ignore him. His name is Dara. Im Sara. We're changlings or what you would call, shapeshifters. We can only shift into hyenas though. The other two whom you speak of are in a seprate cell. Our people have captured you by the way. You came into out territory."
"Then why are you helping us?"
I asked confused
"We saw the effort that the man beside put in to protect you. Around here thats a very big deal. They here detest it."
Dara picked up where Sara had left off
"Obviously we are the exception to that. Im having second thoughts on saving you though, because of the way that you just acted. Whats up with that anyway?"
"In all honestly. I dont know myself. But, how will you get us out of here?"
"We are the ones in charge of the prison."
Started Sara
"We give out the punishments. Very much like other people, we are tired of our same roles. Nothing changes around here. In exchange for your freedom and your friends, you will take us with you."
While Sara mentioned the terms to our freedom Dara decided to add his own
"And you will provide us shelter, food, and normal lives like the humans, if they really do exist"
Withought thinking twice Laci and I accepted the deal