POV Maple
I feel like I am floating as I hear nothing but silence as I sleep on my bed everything is so peaceful. But then I hear something weird something that disturbs the silence in my room.
I look around my room but it's so dark I can't see anything as I look about, my room is in complete darkness besides the one window that lets moonlight in.
My room is small and it's more circular with there being enough room for my bed and dresser with two doors one that goes to a bathroom that is connected to my room and the door into my room.
But before I can keep looking my door to my room is slowly opened making a slight creak as it hasn't opened for a while.
I quickly lay back down on my bed and I try to act like I'm sleeping as I keep my eyes open slightly so I can see what's happening.
I try to keep my breathing slow as I wait for who it is to walk in but I just see a a tall person with a hood on as they quickly move into the room as they make almost no noise.
I squeeze my fist as my body fidget, like it is telling me to get out of the bed and run out of the room.
But I can't move, I feel paralyzed by fear. The figure slowly makes their way towards my bed, and I can feel their gaze on me. I try to keep my breathing steady as I feel their presence looming over me.
Suddenly, the figure reaches out and grabs my ankle, causing me to scream out in terror. But something odd happens, as soon as I scream, the figure's grip loosens and they take a step back. It's almost as if they weren't expecting me to react.
I quickly jumped off my bed as I run to the open door.
But as soon as I reached the door, the figure quickly grabbed me from behind, and I felt a cold object pressed against my neck. I gasped and trembled as I realized it was a knife.
"W-who are you? What do you want from me?" I managed to stutter out.
The figure didn't respond, and I felt the pressure of the knife increase against my neck. I could feel my heart racing and my mind racing as I tried to think of a way out of this situation.
Suddenly, the figure took a step back, and I heard a low chuckle. "You're quite the fighter, aren't you?" a voice said.
I turned around and saw the figure pull back their hood, revealing a woman's face. She had piercing blue eyes and dark hair that fell in soft waves around her shoulders.
"You're not going to hurt me?" I asked, still unsure of her intentions.
The woman laughed again, a sound that sent shivers down my spine tried to not shake in fear as I looked up at her as she was way taller then me.
"No I'm not going to hurt you kid I'm just looking for something that's all"
Her hair glistened like liquid obsidian in the moonlight.
Fear raced through my body as the adrenaline pumped through my veins.
She moved silently as she moved around the room, her dark cloak billowing behind her as she moved lithely, like a cat stalking prey.
I slowly moved back towards the door as I try to escape without her noticing.
"Why is a little girl like you locked in this room huh that doesn't sound like a normal thing to me" as soon as she says this she turns towards me and walks towards me looking down at me directly in my eyes making me shake in fear.
Before I can open my mouth to say anything, I hear people running as it sounds like they are getting closer as I can hear someone yelling. In a blink of an eye the woman is at the door as she closes it and looks at me with a creepy smile as she holds the door closed.
"Well it looks like I'm almost out of time and I haven't found what I'm am looking for so I am going to have to grab the next best thing" as soon as she says this I hear people at the door as someone is yelling at them to quickly open the door.
I look back at the woman and I seen her smile is gone as she does a quick scan of the room before she stares at the only window in my room before her smile comes back, seeing this I can't help but get a really bad feeling but before I can speak I see her pull out a metal ball.
But before she can do anything I see the people room try to kick the door down making the wooden door move a little but the sudden kick nocked the metal ball out of the woman's hand making a loud thud and rolling on the ground a little away from her.
"Damm it" I hear her say as she puts more of her weight on the door before she looks at me.
"Look kid I know you in a weird situation and all but can you do me a solid and grab that metal ball for me"she says all of this as I move away from her and the ball as I don't know what to do what would a normal person do in this situation what should a normal kid do.
" hay kid I don't have a lot of time right now" I hear her grunt out as I see her start to struggle to hold the door closed.
"Ok ok what's your name"she says as she looks at me
"I'm Maple" I say unsure if I should even tell her my name but this is all weird right now.
"Maple huh nice name my name is Alex, Maple I need you to grab the metal ball so we can umm, we can go on a adventure ok" she quickly says as it doesn't look like she can hold that door much longer.
I look at the metal ball and I look outside my window as anywhere out there can be better than being here,I quickly grab the metal ball on the ground and I give it to Alex, who smiles as she shakes the metal ball making it start to glow purple before she through it at the window, I watched as the now glowing purple metal ball stuck to the window.
" what was the point of-" but before I could even finish speaking the purple ball quickly expanded and started to cove the window and some of the wall in a purple bubble before it quickly shrunk back down making everything in the bubble disappear in a flash.
Before I could ask questions that flooded my head I felt a pair of hands grab me as I felt my stomach dropped as wind started to blow my hair up as Alex jumped out of the room with me in her arms.
"Aaaaaaaaaahhhh"
I couldn't help but scream as I felt my stomach spin around as I held on to Alex as we fell down.
"Hahahaha" I looked at Alex as she just laughed as we fell.
"Hang on tight" I heard her say as she stopped laughing I quickly hugged her tightly as I saw Alex pull out a gun but it had a very pointy metal head and four claws on the head of it, Alex aimed it above her head before shooting it at the tower we are falling from, the hook pierced into the tower making a long black rope that was connecting to the gun in Alex's hand.
As the rope tightened, Alex and I swung back and forth, dangling midair high above the ground. I couldn't believe what was happening. I thought I was going to die just moments ago, and now I was flying through the air with this mysterious, dangerous woman. My heart was pounding in my chest as I looked down at the ground below, realizing just how close to the ground we were.
Alex was grinning from ear to ear, her eyes sparkling with excitement. "That was fun, huh?" she said, looking at me with a mischievous glint in her eye.
I glared at her, still struggling to catch my breath. "Fun? Are you kidding me? I thought I was going to die!"
Alex just laughed as she pushed a button on the side of the gun that had a soft blue glow to it out. suddenly the rope had blue lines on it as it began to retract back to the gun.
"What is that thing and what was that purple thing that, those thing shouldn't be possible" I asked as I was able to catch my breath from the fall.
"Kid what you on about this stuff may be fancy but it's nothing crazy well except that purple one that was my first time using a atom bubble, I must say I can see why they call it a bubble and not a atom bomb" I just stared at her as I couldn't understand half of the things she just said as I my attention was moved to the ground as I felt the grass and I looked around as I felt the wind move around me and I couldn't help but wonder.
When was the last time I felt the grass.
Back up the tower but instead of the big hole in my room I saw people with with black suits and white shirts as they looked down at us as one of them yelled.
"DON'T MOVE"
Before I could react Alex picked me back up and threw me on her shoulder and started running as I heard her say.
"We better move now I don't want to stick around to found out what they did with the last raven they caught here"
Raven? What that, there is too much happening I just got out of that room this is all moving to fast "wait were are we going" I asked her as I just being taken by a random person is definitely not normal by any means.
She just kept running as I couldn't see her face but I heard her voice as what she said made me regret giving her that metal ball.
"We are going on a adventure kid"
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In a room with almost no lights as the windows are covered by long red curtains, except for a lamp shining down on a metal table that sits in the middle of the room with beakers and vials of liquids.
"Mmmm something is missing what is it I have the blood and the right formula why is it not mixing" a man in black lab coat was siting at a metal table as he mixed together many different vials of liquids as he wrote stuff down on a notebook he had on the metal table he was so focused on his work that he almost didn't hear the soft knocking on his door .
With a deep sigh the man spoke " enter and it better be important I am working"
As seen as he said this a man in a black suit quickly opened the door causing the man in the black lab coat to raise a eyebrow as he looked at him.
"Sir there is a intruder and-" if you came into my lab to talk about some pest then leave you are wasting my time.
"But sir they got to the tower-"but in a flash the man in the lab coat was standing in front of the guard as he looked down on him as he said "Which tower"
The guard started to sweat a little as he said " project Rain lily Sir" the guard felt like his life was about to end as the man in the black lab coat said nothing as her stood there.
"Hmmmm interesting do we know who the intruder is" the man in the lab coat asked as he walked back to his metal table as he looked over his notes.
The guard released a breath as he said "no sir but we believe it is the ravens after their multiple attempts to sneak in" the man in the lab coat just nodded his head as he put his notes down and walked past his table as he walked to the windows and threw the curtains open letting in the light from the moon to shine into the room.
"Send the hounds and bring back the girl I still need her" the guard quickly left the room after getting his orders leaving the man upon the black lab coat alone as I stared at the moon.
"It's a bit late for bird hunting is it not"