"Mom?"
Cain woke up but he wasn't the only one either.
"Mommy?"
"MOM!!"
"WAAAAAAAAA!!"
Cain can hear the voice of other kids. They woke up in a container that is dark, stinks, and is cold. Cain looked around but he doesn't find his parents. He slowly talks.
"Mommy? Daddy? -Hicc- Anyone there?" You can hear multiple kids say the same thing.
Cain starts to cry. No matter if he was smarter or more mature than other kids. He was still a kid. A kid that misses his family and a kid that is in an unfamiliar place. He cried. He cried for a long time and then the container opens, a bright light envelops the container, and the kids hear a voice.
"Kids hurry up they are coming. You guy are okay, but we need to leave before the bad men get here." A man with sloppy clothes was talking and had such a kind face. The kids followed the man, and they see a big building.
"it's okay, we need to hide and then we can leave this bad place, but we have to be quiet." The kids nodded silently while trying to keep themselves from crying even more from this scary situation.
Cain and the other kids follow the man into the scary building, and they go into a dark place but then the light shines on them once again but what the kids felt wasn't excitement but dread and lost. "Good job Brian." The secretary says.
"Of course, sir." The man who is named Brian nodded while looking at the kids with a sinister smile.
"Hahaha" Brian laughed "I've been trying to hold it in the entire time, but kids really are fools. I thought that there would at least be one smart one, but I guess they are kids." Cain looks at that man with a hateful glare since Cain knows that that guy has trapped them.
Cain looks around and sees many people around with guns in their hands while they were also chuckling.
"Lead them into their new rooms." the secretary says and then continues.
"In a week, the "Pigpen Culling" will start.
Cain heard what the man said but didn't understand. Brian replied, "Yes, sir."
Cain voiced his opinion, "Hey why are we here, why are my parents, and what did you about pigpen?" The secretary looked at Cain and said, "In time you will know kid."
"HAHAHA lets go. Life will get exciting next week." Brian laughed. Cain and the other kids follow Brian out of fear since even as kids they are scared of the presence of the soldiers around because they look tough and have guns. They are sent to their new rooms, and it was bad.
Cain looked at the room he is staying in and it has a bucket, a bed that is flat and as hard as rock without a pillow and one blanket and just minor sunlight. The room is cold and dusty. Cain goes down in a corner and sits down with his legs tucked in and is arms around his knees with his head on his thighs. He starts crying.
"Mommy, Daddy." He cries.
He falls to sleep in a corner while crying. He had a few hours asleep, and he is woken up by the banging noise he hears. He wakes up, "I-it wasn't a dream? I'm really in this bad place?" Of course, it is hard to come to the reality that you are in this bad place since you don't want to accept it.
"Let's go!" A soldier drags me out and I follow him to wherever he is going but his legs and body are shaking. Cain is led to a place where there are multiple kids. Over 100!
"This is where you guys are going to eat food. and then after you are going to go back into your rooms. You will eat in this place 2 times a day. You should be glad that we are giving you this amount to eat. Your schedule is, stay in your room in the morning until we call you out for breakfast.
Then after breakfast you will go back to your room, you will eat in the middle of the day, and then go back to your room and stay there till morning. Do you understand. Anyone who disobeys will get whipped and not have any food for the day.
That was Cain's schedule during the week. Sleep, eat, sleep, eat.
A week passed and it was time for the "Pigpen Culling".
Not every kid got sent to the "Pigpen Culling", but Cain did.
They are sent into a place where there are weapons around. There are sword, knife, spear, stick, axe, and other weapons that kids shouldn't be able to hold. Cain shivers and says, "Do I have to do this?"
"Yes! Now pick a weapon and get out there already!" The soldier replied
Cain looks around and picks a spear since it is longer, and he can fight more distance. However, he can't hold it. It is too heavy so he picks a sword but while its lighter than the spear, it is still heavy, He picks a knife since he can easily hold it. Cain looks towards the soldier and then the door and then the soldier again who's hand shoo-ed him away.
Cain cries a little bit but still goes through the door. he sees its still sunny out but looks around sees that he is in a box with an audience on the seats watching him like its entertainment for them.
"Hello pigs! This is the "Pigpen" and you guys will battle to survive. No sorry, battle isn't the correct words. You will kill each other to survive. Only one can exit this pen alive. Now Kill or be Killed!"
Cain looks at his opponent and see it's a girl who is holding a knife. He doesn't want to fight but the girl runs to him with the knife and tries to stab him. Cain dodges and runs away. the girl chase after him and Cain looks back and sees that she would really kill him.
He turns around and stops running and prepares to fight
'I have to make it back home to my family!'
Cain looks at the girl and the girl swings the knife at him, but he quickly dodges it stabs the knife in the girl's heart.
The girl falls. Cain cries. He cries really hard. He killed someone! His first kill! He falls down and wails. He looks at the girl's dead body and sees a tag is on her neck.
Some days ago, some soldiers went around asking them for our names and then soon after that they gave us dog tags and made them put it around. Cain also has a tag on his neck.
He takes the girl's tag and holds it. He looks at the people on the seats who are laughing and have entertained expressions on their face. He glares at them with a hateful flare and shoots a hateful glare at the soldier too.
"HAHAH! Good job kid. You are pretty merciless killer, aren't you?" The soldier said with an amused expression on his face. He continues.
"Well let's hope you keep killing like that every week."
My sanity cracks.