Chapter 9- Taking Risks

Chapter 9-Taking Risks

     I have been up and around from the hospital for about 3 weeks now. I have a back brace too. What an annoying thing to have. I cant do any back flips, even front flips or back or front handsprings. It's so boring when people try to help you and stuff when you can walk around perfectly fine. I was thinking all of this when I bumped into someone when I was walking down a staircase towards a IM. "Who can this be? I didn't see anyone as I was walking down the steps and everyone else is in there rooms and lounges." I thought. I turned back around and saw Dave. Few, it was only him. Not like that scene a couple days ago when I got stabbed. It was like one of those dramatic horror movies. "Hi Dave! How are you? I haven't seen you lately. Why haven't you been with me since your my, um, bodyguard?" "Well, to be honest, I'm very surprised that no one told you. I have been appointed to Malcom's bodyguard slash supervisor. He has some very good information, you know? Just he has some, how do I explain it, oh yes. Confused and anger management issues sometimes. I guess, maybe, flash backs from being with Hell. Just a guess." "You have been assigned to him? What? But, but, you're my bodyguard. Not his. Who's mine now?" "Well, technically I'm his, now. Your's is, um..." "Who is it?!" I shouted in his face. "Oh, yes! I remember. Your brother." My face was hot red now and I felt like it I touched it I would burn myself. "What? But, he's, he's, my brother?" "Just kidding." he said with a bit of childish cheek. "You such a meany!" I tried to say in an angry voice, but it just came out with a laugh and I started laughing, laughing so hard, I had to sit down. I don't know why it made me laugh so much, it just did, even though it wasn't super funny. Maybe I just needed a bit of humor to brighten my day and that was it. I then realized he hadn't answered my question. I sat up straight and starred him in the eyes. "Who is my bodyguard then?"
     There was a bit of silence. I felt frozen because I wanted to know so bad. I starting unfreeze a little when he started talking, "Your new bodyguard is the brother to one of Gloriana's bodyguards, he was her's too, but she assigned him to you. His name is Liam." I frowned at him. "I don't like him. He's, he's..." "Well your stuck with him. And, wait a minute, you've never even met him, so, you can't criticize him. " "But he's, he's only 2 years older than me." I shouted. Not caring if anyone else heard. "I'm surprised you know that. But anyways, he's been training since he was five and is just as good as me. Don't do anything bad, OK? Or, something you'll regret. Promise me that?" Right when he he was not my bodyguard anymore, I was mad and even sort of furious, but I couldn't say no to a promise from Dave. "I promise I won't do anything stupid." "Thanks." He said cheerfully and started up the stairs. I guess he was pleasantly surprised he didn't have to argue with me to make me promise. Then I remembered something. "Wait! Wait! Dave! Where is my bodyguard now then? I haven't had anyone or any bodyguard with me for 3 weeks, now." And I couldn't help, but add "And it's felt so good. I finally found out what was making me so happy the past few weeks. I haven't had anyone following me around and stuff!" I then realized that could be offensive to him as he was the one following me around. "I'm sorry! I didn't..." "It's fine. I know what you mean. And I'm not just saying it. I have to go. You be good." he interrupted and then walked off. He didn't answer my question I thought.
    After I stood still for a moment or two, I started again walking down the staircase, probably late for IM now, as I was probably talking to Dave for about 10 to 15 minutes, but Gloriana never really minded as long as I was there sometime, so she could start things. I don't know why she wouldn't just get mad at me, maybe she realizes we are both under a lot of pressure. I heard foot steps, coming from below me, on one of the marble staircase platforms. I looked down and saw to boys about 17 and 18. One of them said to the other "Have you seen her yet, Fred?" "No, I haven't Liam. I would of told you if I had. Wouldn't I?" "Ya, I know you would. Which way should we go to look for her?" I little light bulb suddenly turned on in my head. They were looking for me! When I realized they were coming up my way, I decided I needed to hide. They are only 2 staircases down now. There is no hiding space on the wall on one side of the staircase. They're coming nearer, now, I thought. I started to panic.
   I then thought of an idea. I quietly tip-toed, quickly to the railings on the wide, marble staircase. The staircase went down about 70 floors and up about maybe 60. The width between where I was on the staircase to the other side of the open space where the staircase tilted down in a large circle was about, I don't know, 30 feet. I could now see the two boys coming closer and closer. Ideas were rushing through my head. I was thinking quite hard when an idea came into my head. I had heard once there were hand bars underneath a couple of the staircases. So, I decided I would risk it. At just the right moment, when the boys were at there blind spot, which was where I was, I climbed over the railings, and let my legs dangle freely with my hands holding on to two posts. I then ducked my head to see if there we hand bars under the staircase. I couldn't see. Darn it, I thought. I decided I would have to risk it again. I would have to make myself swing, then let go when my body was tilted in towards the staircase platform and stairs below me. And on the count of three I would have to go I thought. Right when the boys were going to pass me. And if I didn't go on the count of three, they would see my hands and catch me. But if I did go on the count of three and there were no hand bars I would fall to the ground. Down, Down, Down... I thought. Then I started counting. One, Two, Three... and I jumped.
    My hands scrambled above me. And I had no luck. I found no hand bars above me. I started falling to the  ground. In about 2 seconds I would hit the railing, with my stomach, and fall, fall, fall... but before I hit the ground, my hand clung onto something.

Chapter 8- No Answers

Chapter 8- No Answers

   There was silence after my question. Dave stopped walking, and his face froze. His head slowly turned to face mine. "We do not speak of their parents." I was stumped. "But, but, but, before I..." "I guess I must tell you. Follow me." So I did. Once we had retraced our steps from the PSCR, we went up a stair case, which made me think we were going to the training center. We were the only ones on the staircase of course, as everyone was, I guess, locked away. Not really, but still.
    I was right though, that we were going to the training center. We went to the right, towards the spy training center rooms, but we went right past all the rooms. I was about to ask "Where are we going?", but Dave must of known I was going to say something and said "Silence." A few moments later we arrived to a door with 6 padlocks down one side of the door. They we all silver, shiny, and a purple dot marked the middle. I was thinking it would take a very long time to unlock all of those locks, when I realized Dave had gone. I turned round and round, wondering where he was. He couldn't be gone I thought, but I couldn't see him. He couldn't have gone back down the hall with all the spy training rooms because I would have seen him go past me, but he could have I guess. Now, I was really scared. I was alone, without Dave. No one to protect me or call to. Then suddenly the bright yellow lights, shut off. A door slammed, but there wasn't any door around me, but that door with 6 padlocks. Then I felt a stabbing, painful sensation in my back. I screamed for help, I screamed for my life. I then remembered though that, yes, Jabu, the person who makes my clothes, had been warned that I might be attacked on when I was alone. He specially installed a hard pic. It had a little camera, it shone a light all around my back, which would protect me for a short while. It would give me time to think up a plan to attack my attacker. I was feeling happier now, but then I thought, why do I have such a bad stabbing sensation in my back? I then remembered something. My happiness drowned. My pic had deactivated for some reason this morning. I was going to tell someone, but I forgot. I then thought, why am I just standing here when I should be fighting my attacker or whoever it was that stuck a sharp object in my back. I did a back handspring, so I was facing my attacker. I was surprised though, that there was no one there. I then heard something behind me. I then realized someone was sneaking up on me. When I felt like my attacker was right behind or close to me, I brought my leg up to my chest and punched it backwards. It must have been a man, because I had aimed for the part between the legs, and now this person was groaning. I guess he didn't expect that. I did another back handspring, landing with one of my legs on my opponent's chest, knocking him down. There was another groan. I leaned down and whispered "Never sneak up on me. It will always end bad." The person then started to lift his arm, I blocked it with my other foot. Then the other hand started up, I was too late though to stop it. The person's hand went up to his black covering on his head, he pulled it down and it was, it was... no that cant be right I thought, but it was. It was Malcom.   
   "What do you think your doing, Mr.?" "Um-mm..." He started stumbling. "What are you doing? I said." shouting now. "It is a long story." obviously trying to avoid the subject. "I'm a good listener." I replied  feeling quite clever now. "Well you might not want to hear it. It might startle you." I gave him a frown. He went on. "Well, it started when I was a spy in training in the Halo when I was 9. You know, with the little kids. Anyways when I was 14, I was captured by Hell and threatened to..." "I know that part. I was given that short story when I was with Inke." "OK then, well you probably don't know the whole story." "Then tell me." I said. 'So, when I was with Hell's spies, the day I escaped from his spy force. Well, I didn't really escape on my own. Inke might of told you something else, but the real truth is, well, I was trying to escape on my own. Hell caught me escaping. He was going to kill me, but he came up with another option for me. So, I could either die or go back home to the Halo, but get information about what is going on and send it to him. Help him. Of course I didn't want to help him, but then I was sort of selfish and wanted to just stay alive, so, I took the second choice. I was the one who glued the earpiece to your ear..." I  frowned at him. "Oh... by the way, sorry about that. I was also the one who helped that guy in black, that sort of barged into your Top Secret Meeting. I also was the one who let that other spy crash through the mirror in your training room. He was the one who just stabbed you in the back. Ya... sorry about that too." I was really mad at him now. "I was starting to like you, and was going to say sorry for hurting you in the Sleeping Problem room, but now, I will never say those things to you You are just truly awful, truly a jerk!" I was screaming now. "Wait, but where is that guy who stabbed me? Where is Dave? Why did you do all this today?" "I have an explanation." "You better have a good one." "I hope it's good then. So, first, Dave is in the closet over there. The guy who stabbed you is dead... So is the guy that I helped come into the Halo through your training room." "What, dead?" "Ya, I killed him, turned on him, because I knew or realized what I was doing was wrong. An by the why your back is dripping blood on me. You might, maybe, want to call the Halo Health Emergency Crew. Just saying." There was a moment of silence. "You're not as bad as I thought. Ya, my back does have quite a bad ache or sharp pain." At that moment it got worse and I couldn't keep my balance, it hurt so much. I feel down face first. Right on Malcom. Awkward. I rolled over to the left to lie on my stomach. Malcom, trying to be nice, called Halo Health Emergency Crew. He turned on the lights too, before they got there. Gloriana arrived too. And Malcom, had to explain the whole story including all the bad things he did. It must have been embarrassing. After hearing the story, Gloriana came over to me. "How are you feeling?" "Not very good as I just got stabbed with a knife in the back." Then Malcom remembered about Dave and let Dave out. Then Malcom had to tell the whole story to Dave. Th Crew arrived a few seconds later and put me on a flat squishy mat and strapped me in. They hurried me to the ER. They had to do a couple surgeries and I had to stay in the hospital for about 3 weeks, with many guards, guarding my room. I felt like a queen, from getting food in bed to many guards protecting my room. The only thing that didn't make me feel like a queen, was the IVs in my arms and my back hurting. And just to mention, I always thought, getting stabbed in the back would be more painful then anything else, but honestly, it wasn't as bad as I thought. But the thing that sucked the most about all this, was I never got any answer or information about Gloriana and Hell's parents.

Chapter 7- Questions and Answers

Chapter 7- Questions and Answers

    I woke up. It was all dark around me. I was scared. Super terrified for a matter a fact. I made out figure in the darkness. It was Dave with his huge shoulders, five times bigger then mine. I felt safe. So, I was still in safety. Few I thought. Dave noticed I was awake. He went over to a control panel and flipped the latch up and typed in a code. The lights suddenly went on. He came over to me and said "How are you?" I replied in a weak voice "I'm OK, but this ear really hurts." I reached my hand up to my ear. The earpiece was gone. The voice gone! I felt so happy, happier than anything to get away from that voice. Dave shattered my happiness though. He began talking. "You see, when you had that earpiece in your ear someone had somehow glued it to your ear. I don't know where that crazy guy is right now, because he escaped at the Top Secret Meeting. And I don't know what type of glue it was, but we did have to perform a little surgery." "What?" I blurted. "Surgery? Surgery  What did you do? Tell me." "The surgeons had to go into your ear to somehow un-glue the earpiece from your ear. One of the surgeons while trying to get it out, accidentally pressed against your ear drum, making you go part deaf in one ear. So then, they had to perform another surgery. So, your ear might hurt a little." he explained. "And Jane, do you know or remember anyone being with you in a room when you woke up, doing something weird or strange?" She was about to say no, but then she remembered. That boy. "That boy!" she exclaimed. I woke up in that room, the sleeping problems room, something like that, from a boy pouring ice cold water on me. He said he thought I was someone else. Oh, and why was I in a sleeping problem room?" I shouted. "First of all, you were in that room because it was one if the safe rooms deeper down where a guard could do double duty. Look after your room and the one next to it. So, back to the boy. He was in your room with no one else around?" "Ya." I answered. "What did he look like?" Dave asked curiously. "Um... blonde, brown hair, blue eyes, about my height, maybe around age, well I'm 16, so maybe 17. I just called him boy because I didn't know his name, but he's not really a boy because boy are from 11 or 12 and younger..." Dave interrupted me. "Why, aren't there video cameras in that room? Let's go to the PSCR." I guess he might have seen my confused expression, so he explained more. "PSCR stands for Private Security Camera Reach. The room is about 40 floors down and only certain people can go in it. Mostly the Importants. Let's go now." I didn't answer just got up and followed him out the door.
    We took the elevator 30 floors down, then took, a door which to get through you had to type in a code. Then after that go through multiple security checks, including eye scanning, finger print scanners and all of that. Then we came to some stairs and went down ten more floors. Finally, we came to a huge metal structure. All around this  structure were video cameras. We then walked up to the door and Dave typed in code after code after code. Then a metal pole came out of the structure, scanning our eyes yet again. Then a big piece of the metal structure slid to the side and we went in.
   I had never been to this room before and was amazed. There we TV screens every where you looked, every square inch. A person who works in this department is assigned to 3 screens each. I would guess there are about 40 people in this department. I followed Dave over to a man with pink hair, extremely natural looking. He was in charge of 8 rooms instead of 3, but then I saw he was the President of this Department, so that makes sense. I was looking at each screen very closely and realized something. All his screens, were my rooms. Next, there was this sign above his screen made out of silver. It read President Inke of PSCR. Screens change depending on Snow Pegasus's location. "What my location?" Dave and Inke both looked at me. "You look into each room I'm in?" I then noticed there was a blue lever to the side of it saying Emergency Snow Pegasus. "And there, you have a lever for me, that you would pull if I was endanger? And if you have a screen for where I am, and can always see me, why didn't you pull the lever when someone glued a earpiece into my ear, terrifying me? Huh, huh?" I was now furious. Inke started talk. He had an animated voice, a sweet voice, like a little kid at the fair, but it didn't help me get past my furriness. "I have been watching you every minute including when you knocked that 17 year old down on the floor and slammed the door on him. I was watching every minute he was in that room and he did not glue anything to your ear!" he was becoming angry now too.
    There was a lot of silence, it felt like hours before I spoke up. "Wait, if you have been watching me every minute I have been here, I have had no privacy at all? Well that's nice... Wait! But if you have been watching me every minute, how could someone have glued my earpiece to my ear without you seeing?" "I'm sorry that your mad about the privacy thing. But your point about the gluing thing, is a good one. I don't know how, how someone could of done all that without me seeing." "Also, one more other thing Inke. Who is that 17 year old?" "His name is Malcom." he replied. "He's actually 17. He is a very important part in our force. When he was in high position in Light Chesna, he was captured by Hell. Taken as a spy and was threatened if he didn't help Hell's spy force that Hell would kill him personally. Gloriana with her powers and things, she was able to rescue him. He has been helping with surgeries, having personal training sessions with his trainer Hatwhy, and going out to spy on Hell. He works with your brother." "What? With my brother? Weird, but why did he poor a bucket of ice water on my head?" I shouted. "That was to wake you up." Inke replied. "And you better make things up to him because you will be working with him." Dave added. I could feel I was bright red in the face and felt like I was about to start fuming. "Working with Malcom? That perosn? I have better things to do then hang around with people like that. I could just do more training with Kaka. Anyways I'm not that good at being a spy yet either." Inke and Dave both knew that was a lie. "Ok. Fine. I admit it. I am better than ready for being a spy. As Kaka said 'She's like the Black Widow in the Avengers'. And yes, I'll find him and talk to him. Happy now? Can we go Dave?" There was silence, but after a minute Dave replied. "Yes. I think we have just been called to an IM." "Goody!" I thought in my head...
    We were walking back up ten flights of stairs, basically the vice versa of the trip down to the PSCR. I had some many questions, I couldn't help but ask all of them to Dave.  "So, Dave. I have a question for you. Has everyone been sent to there rooms and all the people in the cities of Light Chesna are in the 'hotel' under the Halo?" "Yes. You might have seen some people around yesterday when you fainted, you know when your earpiece was stuck in your ear? Well they were around because they were doing population checks, to make sure everyone was safe and in the Halo or 'hotel'." "I get it now. Just don't remind me of that voice. OK?" I didn't wait for an answer, so I went onto my next question that just came to mind. "So, as Gloriana and Hell are brother and sister, and they must have parents. Where are their parents?"

Chapter 6- Earpieces

Chapter 6- Earpieces

   I was woken up suddenly by a cold hand rested on my neck. I jumped up as a cold bucket of water was poured over and my head and I screamed and shivered. Goose bumps appeared on my  arms as I heard laughing behind me. I spun round expecting, Ryan, but it was a boy I had never seen before. "What do you think you're doing?! I'll get back at you whoever you are." I said with a growl. "Sorry Miss. I thought you were someone else..." "Don't call me Miss will ya!" I shouted, getting very mad. He then said "Sorry Miss..." He stopped talking when I gave him a glare. If looks could kill I thought.
  I was soaking and walked towards the door, dripping with water. I just then saw a sign that said "Sleeping Problems. Room 17." "What the heck?" I thought. Why am I in a Sleeping Problem room? Then, I remembered falling asleep, in the top secret meeting. Wait, no. I was hit hard in the head, by someones fist. Dave's! I suddenly remembered everything. We were sitting in the room when a huge ear shattering boom came from above. Then a person wrapped in black, covering even it's nose. Then he said "Importants of Light Chesna, give me her." He was pointing at me. Then he said "Or I'll make her give information and I'll torture her till she gives me the information we need. And then I'll kill her if she is uncooperative. " Then I remember Dave saying "She isn't going anywhere." Then the person in black said "I'll kill her now then." Till that moment I had tried to keep myself together, but when I though of being killed and the agony, I gasped. "You wouldn't be able to kill her. She'd get away. She is like the Black Widow in the Avengers. I'd watch out if I were you." That had been Kaka and you know what I am pretty good, with all that practice over the last 10, 11 years. Then the black man said "I'll inject her with my syrup, my Jak Syrup. She'll then tell me and Hell everything." "Not if she's knocked out or asleep." Dave blurted. "Yes your right. But sad for you, she is perfectly awake." The black man said in a creepy voice, the ones in those horror movies with the vampires, their mouths dripping with blood and their little pointy noses. Then Dave had come over to me. He whispered "Sorry." I didn't know what he was saying sorry for, but then I knew when it came. He had hit me full in the head.
   I reached my hand to the spot where he whacked me. There was a bump, but it was luckily covered by my dark blond, almost brown hair. Or as some people say to annoy me, dirty blonde with a bit of dirt brown. Nice, ah? As I reached my hand back down from my head, I was reaching for the door, when that boy, who poured ice cold water on me, which was why I was soaking, opened the door for me. "What a jerk. You think your gonna get away from pay back by being nice. No such luck boy." I nodded as I went out the door and then when he was about to come out, I did a combat move I learned from Kaka. I lifted my  foot backwards, reaching my arms to hold it like a ballerina and then quickly moving it back and out. I got the boy right in the face. Then as he dared to come out, I lifted my foot and pushed him back onto his back by kicking him in the chest. Finally, as he reached blindly for the doorknob to help himself up, I slammed the door shut. I heard a groan inside. "That's what you get when you mess with me." I thought. I knew that sounds a bit mean, but still I got my anger out and now I felt so much better. I knew someday I would apologize. But that someday or sometime was not now. I mean why would a girl kick someone down and then say sorry? It would be a very awkward conversation.
   I started down the hall and bumped into Daniel! Before I could say anything, thoughts rushed through my head. I hadn't even thought about him the past few days. I hadn't even asked about him to anyone. In fact, I totally forgot about him. But of course, I wasn't going to say that to him. I just hugged him and said "How are you? What have you been doing? I've been wondering." He replied saying "Well in fact, I have been upgraded to first group corp." I gave him a confuzzled look. "Well, you know all the Importants including you?" He then asked me. I started reciting them. "Well I see you do. Well, they have to have a top spy. So, because I was being forced by Hell to work for him they are using me to go against him and give them all the information I can. And because I've been in the spy team for a while and in training, that is why they upgraded me." I could tell in the silence, he wanted me to say something, something nice, and at least say something like "Oh, I'm so proud of you.", but the truth is, I couldn't say it. I cant say things I don't actually mean. So I said "Well. Good job. See ya. I'm called to IM." IM stands for Importants Meeting. I could then see he was a little disopointed. I guess he expected me to say something brilliant. I could tell by the expression in his face. "Well by then." He blurted out. I started walking away and he started the other way.
    Then in my earpiece, a sound, a voice. It was the same voice as the man dressed in black that barged into the Top Secret Meeting and Dave knocked me out. I screamed and fell to the floor. Dave was coming down the stairs and came running and Daniel came running up the stairs back to me. "What is it?" Dave said in his soothing calm voice. "It is the voice, the voice of the guy dressed in black that broke into our Top Secret Meeting, the one where you knocked me out." I said. He went to pull out my earpiece, but it was stuck. It wouldn't come out. I heard Daniel and Dave both swear under their breath. I was soon screaming in terrible fear of this man's voice. Though I did managed a whisper to Dave "Is it? Is it? Is it stuck for good?"

Chapter 5- So much for a Red Lever

   Chapter 5- So much for a Red Lever

    I woke up the next day. The Colden was shinning its brightest and Ryan was already out of bed and pulling out clothes for herself. I said "Hello." in a very sleepy voice. Then she jumped up like 8 feet. She cried "You almost made me jump out my skin!" "Why were you doing something sneaky?" I said suspiciously. "No. I was trying to find clothes." she said. "Is that the truth?" She gave me a frown. "I'm kidding." I said and then laughed. Her frown turned to a funny face. She stuck her tongue out and crossed her eyes. I shouted "Eew!"
  When we had gotten dressed and went down 21 floors to the breakfast area. When we opened the glass doors, a wonderful aroma of sausage and scrambled egg filled the air. I sat down at pink table with blue napkins and yellow chairs. An interesting mesh of colors. Breakfast was served right in front of me by waiter with a yellow apron, yellow socks, yellow necklace, and a white blouse. I realized that no one else was getting served by waiter. Everyone else was getting up and going to the buffet line. This embarrassed me. Did people still think I was weak I thought, but 'I'm not weak.' I thought again. Just to make sure everyone knew that and didn't think I was weak, I shouted out loud "I'm not weak!" Everyone in the room stared at me. Then somebody shouted "Just eat!" I realized it was Kaka's voice. He was sitting at the trainers table. Then everything returned to normal and Ryan came back to the table. "What was that?" she said. "I got mad." I replied. "Obviously." And then we both burst out laughing.Why? I don't know.
   After we ate, we went our separate ways, to our training rooms. When I arrived, Kaka was standing right in the middle of the room, frowning. I wanted to say, "What's wrong?", but I couldn't manage to speak. I thought it might have been because I shouted out at breakfast... But after a moment, I stood star struck, dumb founded. Kaka, he wasn't frowning because of me. I turned to my right, the whole glass mirror, like the ones in dance studios was smashed and a hole, pitch black was in the middle of the smashed glass . Tiny crystals of glass were scattered around the floor, glimmering like ice. He suddenly shouted "Dont move! You'll cut yourself, or slip or worse, slip and cut yourself. Pull the red lever, will ya." He pointed behind me. I turned around and a sparkling red lever was hanging from the ceiling. I yanked on it. A bell started ringing, footsteps hurried by outside the room. I turned to Kaka again. I asked him "What does that lever do?" Silence filled the air for what seemed minutes, but was only seconds. He started talking slowly. "That lever, that damn, stupid lever. We should have never had to use, but you see now, some spy from Hell's side, has some how crashed through our mirror and left a note. It says in pretty little, stupid hand writing, 'we are coming for them.' They mean you and the Colden, but this reflects bad on all of us. This means his army is coming soon, they are going to try to kill you and somehow take the Colden because, you are and the Colden together, are immense power. Our power and they know, they wont stand a chance as long as we have you and the Colden. See, somewhere in the Halo, is a spy and this spy could be anywhere. And that lever, means lock down. See, we have a procedure for this kind of terrible happening. When you pulled that lever, you heard a alarm, right?" He didn't wait for me to say yes. He went on. "That bell is the signal, that we are in danger or danger is coming. Everyone is sent to their rooms and those people stand outside, while a guard checks the room for any kind danger, or in this case something the spy has left or the actual spy itself. Then after that, the people go inside their rooms. Two guards stand outside each door. Then, in a minute now, the Importants and their guides, are called to a top secret meeting, 12 stories deep in the ground. This includes you. Anyways, back to the people. Once all are in their rooms, their will be the opening of the doors. This means the back wall of each room, will slide up. There will be a lounge for everyone. Food will be delivered there, clothes and letters. There is one lounge per resident purpose. Which means, the spies and people training for the army will have one lounge, the people who work here, will have a lounge and so on with everyone else in the Halo." He paused for breath.
   Then finally, I realized this pause for breath Kaka was taking, was a chance for me to ask questions. So, it was my chance to talk, I thought. "Kaka. What about the people in the cities?" He reply so softly, you could barely hear. "In all the cities of Light Chesna, when all the houses were built, even hundreds of years ago, a small passage was built in each house. The passage was placed in a flower pot. This flower pot, once built in, is impossible to pick up. Each house has a different kind of flower and the flower pot is in different places in each house..."   Interrupting Kaka, I said "What does a flower pot have to do with a passage and this lever?" "I wasn't finished. So when you pulled that lever, it did not only set off an alarm in the Halo, but everywhere in Light Chesna.  So, everyone, right now, will be packing there most needed and important things. Then, the  family in each house will go to their flower pot. There is a little, fake, sprout, so small, you have to look so closely to see it. So one of the parents will, touch the sprout and interestingly enough, the sprout is a finger print scanner. Then once a family does this, a number keyboard will appear out of the dirt. The family will type in the secret code for their family and hit enter. The pot will open on one side and a flower, which is a video camera looks at each family member, that is another security procedure. Then the dirt and flower part of the flower pot will rise above. This makes an opening. An opening at the top and then there is the side of the pot that opened a little before with the video camera. This space is just big enough for the family to go in. Once all in, one person will type in their second secret code and the flower pot will close, looking perfectly normal, like it was just a normal flower pot. This tunnel they are in is lit with bright blue lights. There will be officers in the tunnels to help the families get to the Halo. So, all the houses in light Chesna are connected by tunnels underground and they all lead to the Halo. "
   There was another pause for breathe and by this time Kaka was almost panting. I had one more question though. "But, but, how will everyone in Light Chesna, fit in the Halo? It is big, but, but...." He now interrupted me. "Underground, Jane, under the Halo, is a hotel. Imagine, the Halo, um, about 20 times bigger. This hotel sort of thing, is built into the ground, reaching thousands of miles deep. The hotel reaches about, maybe 200 to 400 stories deep. OK, enough questions, I'm tired of talking." "But, wait! I have one more." He frowned at me. "Just kidding." I said with a bit of cheek.
   I was thinking. All the other times I'd been to Light Chesna, it was peaceful and happy. And how had I not known all of these procedures. I had been here multiple times before. A couple seconds after that, a big burly officer barged in. "You two come, now." I realized this big burly officer was Dave. He was my guard. I saw it on my sheet when I arrived here. And I had met him before. He usually had a mellow, sweet voice. But now, he just had a growl in his voice, his face red and angry. And after that moment. I knew things were bad.

Chapter 4- The Colden

Chapter 4

The Colden

    I woke up the next day with the Colden shining through Ryan's bedroom window. You might think that Chesna would have millions of lights instead of a sun, but you're wrong. Chesna has it's own sun, except it looks nothing like our sun and it is not called the sun. It is called the Colden. When Chesna first started, when people first lived here, people didn't understand the sun. People asked, "How could there be a sun underground?" Well later on in Chesna history people figured out the Chesna sun gets its power from the sun above earth, but that's not all. The Chesna sun first started from a asteroid hitting the earth and a fire that was lit on very cold day in Chesna. Where the asteroid hit the earth, that was right over where the Apire is now. It caused a big earthquake, but it was short one. When the cold from the asteroid combined with the heat from the fire in Chesna it made a shining sphere. The Chesnasian people named the shining sphere, Colden. The Colden, isn't hot though, it is cold. That is why it snows so much in Light Chesna. The other different thing about the Colden is it shines night and day. The Colden's light reaches all over Light Chesna, but not Dark Chesna. Dark Chesna has no light and is very hot. That is where Hell lives, the Dark King. He is terrible. Dark Chesna consists of a city and a castle. Dark Chesna and Light Chesna are separated by a huge forest. The forest from one end to the other is exactly 157 miles. Luckily, Light Chesna has a secret way to get to Dark Chesna. 

     Dark Chesna as I said is surrounded by a forest. The city in Dark Chesna is called Weaponry. It isn't really a city though. It is where people are sent by Hell when he or his army capture them. That is also where weapons are made for Hell. Then the Castle where Hell lives is painted black. Underneath the castle is a dungeon where Hell and Gloriana's dad is. Hell captured his dad when he was furious with Gloriana. He thought it would make Gloriana sad and miserable, but he was wrong. It gave Gloriana something to fight for. 

    Now, Light Chesna is literally 6 times bigger than Dark Chesna. It has 4 cities and the Apire. The cities in Light Chesna are happy and light. The four names of the cities are Olip, Crescent, Hallea, and Glory. The Apire is a Chesnasian word. It is one of the only Chesnasian words they use in Chesna because the people of Chesna became accustomed to English. It means The Big Ruler. The Apire has two buildings, both of which are huge. The Palace where Gloriana lives is one of the buildings. The other building is the Halo. This cube shaped building has a hospital, athletic arenas, a mall, training centers for spies and army people in training, a hotel for the people who work in the palace or Halo, and a hotel for people on any of the Light Chesna soccer teams. Oh and a hotel for Light Chesna's spies and officers in the army. As I said, Light Chesna is much bigger than Dark Chesna. 

   This knowledge went through my head. After a minute or so, I looked at my clock. It was 1:00 in the morning. When I decided to go back to sleep, I had no problem as I was still tired out from training. As soon as I put my head back on the pillow and closed my eyes I fell into a deep sleep. 

Chapter 3- Little did I know

Chapter 3
Little did I know

  I woke up in a room that was all white. I was on a white bed with pink sheets. I realized I was in Chesna. I rang the Help bell and a nurse came in wearing a white dress and a pink apron. I said to her "Can I have some food?" "Of course, what would you like?" I thought for a moment and then answered "Can I please have mac and cheese, a slice of goat cheese pizza, a chocolate milkshake and 3 glasses of water. Also what can I call you?" She answered "Yes. I will get it right away. My name is Marei." She went out the door.

  Well she was gone, I was figuring out the gadgets in my hospital room. There were all sorts of buttons and bells. I was delighted when I found the button for the TV. I pressed the button and a big flat screen TV came out of the white ceiling. Then a controller for the TV appeared at my side. I flicked through the channels and found Food Network. Cupcake Wars was on. A little bit later my food arrived. I knew it was coming when I heard a squeaky cart and foot steps coming closer to my room. The white shinning door flung open and delicious smelling aromas filled the air. Once Marei closed the door she went to one of the cupboards with a padlock. She unlocked it and I saw there was a keyboard. Marei typed in some sort of code. Right after she pressed enter, a lap table came out of the side of my hospital bed and over my legs. Marei started putting my food and drinks on my table. I started eating the food. The food in Chesna is the best food ever, I thought. I always got this feeling every time I ate food here.    

    After I had finished eating and the show had finished on the TV, I started feeling tired. I lay down and then I started getting terrible headaches. I rang my Help bell once again and Marei hurried in. I told her I was having horrible headaches and she gave me a Pain Killer. Sadly, my pain killer didn't kick in for twenty minutes. And those twenty minutes felt like 2 hours! 

   Later on, Marei was sitting in a white rocking chair and knitting when there was a knock on my door. A girl came in with long black hair with blue highlights. I recognized her. "Ryan! How are you?" I said. "I'm good. I thought I might just say hello well I have a break from training." She replied. "Wow. I wish I could be doing that instead of being stuck in here all day." I said. "Oh.. And also I was supposed to tell you that you'll be moving out of here soon. You will be released in an hour. You will be sharing my bedroom. I have two beds. I made sure to get new bed sheets in pink for you." I started shouting and laughing saying, "Ryan! You know I hate pink. What color did you really get? I hope you got blue." "Yes. I did get blue with Po-co-dots and... I interrupted saying, "Thank you so much! So you must have been getting my letters. You know, because you know my latest favorite color." "Of course I have been getting them. Sorry I haven't written back. We are not allowed to write letters out of the Apire now, for safety measures. Sorry, have to go now. Training starts again in 3 minutes. I'll help move your stuff over to my place in an hour then." "Ryan, is it really that bad? Here in Chesna?" I shouted. "Yes. It is really bad. Hell is really angry." I felt my face turn red and I didn't want to be stuck in here doing nothing when other people are working their hearts out. So I started shouting. "Help me get up Ryan! I want to come with you. To the training center." "You cant." said Ryan. "That's right. You are not released for an hour." said Marei. Then a message popped up on my screen. It read:

  Jane,

Meet me now in the room 104 in the training center.

Your trainer,

  Kaka

"Thank you so much Kaka!" I thought. Then I said,"Yes! See I need to go!" Marei got up to call Kaka. She dialed the number and once she finished talking, she hung up the phone and said "She is excused. I'll bring your belongings to your room. Wait just a minute." Marei went to a closet on the right side of the room. She pulled out a gray v-neck, a pair of black yoga pants with neon green stitches, and a stretchy, white, athletic jacket. She directed me to the bathroom after unhooking and pressing some buttons. I changed quickly and went with Ryan to the training center.

  As soon as we got out of the hospital room Ryan was her usual self. I did feel she wasn't herself in that room with Marei. Now, Ryan was bounding through the hallways and chatting and laughing. This was the Ryan I knew. After about 5 minutes we got to the training center doors. Once we went through, we came up to a sign. Ryan said she had to go left. Then I realized she was in spy training! "Ryan, you're in spy in training?" I said. "Yep. See you later." she said. Then she went bounding down the hallway, doing flips, cartwheels and laughing. I thought "Ryan, the bounding, happy spy. What a story."

   I went up the elevator to room 104. I went through the doors with the sign saying 104-Trainer=Kaka Meeting Jane/Snow Pegasus.  I met Kaka wearing a all pink outfit in a gigantic room with all sorts of sports equipment. These included treadmill, weights, bikes, elliptical s, etc. The personal gym was painted     white, vibrant pink, neon green, blue, purple and orange. I said "Hello Kaka! Still into colors, are we?" He said "Colors never get old. Ha ha. How are you?' He came over and gave me a hug. "I'm great! Thank you so much for getting me out of that hospital room!" I said. "I knew you would be happy about that, but we really need to get training started too." He replied. "Oh, am I ready for this." I said. Little did I know I was not ready for this. The training even at the beginning was intense and hard and made me sweat as much as much as getting in the shower. Little did I know what I was heading for.

Chapter 2- All the Black

Chapter 2

All the Black

         I stood up, and watched a black creature come out of the portal. I watched silently behind the tree in case there was danger. I recognized the creature as a Pegasus. Suddenly, the Pegasus transformed back into a person. I screamed once I recognized who it was. It was my brother. Was I sure? He was in black. It couldn't be him. He wouldn't be on Hell's side! Maybe it was just someone who looked a lot like him. It might be that it looks like him because I'm dreaming. That must be right. He couldn't of been gone for this long and come back now. But, I was wrong. It was him, he came up to me and said "20064". This was my code name in numbers in Chesna. It means Snow Pegasus in English. I hugged him and he hugged me. We sat down by the tree. He told me the whole story. Starting with that he had been captured by Hell's soldiers. Then he was taken to Hell's castle, but only to the outside of the fence. Then he came. Hell came. My brother, Daniel, was turned into a spy for Hell. Daniel a spy! Wow. I thought he couldn't even go through a forest alone.Then he had escaped on a mission to the White Queen, Gloriana. Once he reached Gloriana, he was sent up here, on earth, to get me. I wanted him to tell me why, but he kept talking. He had been trained by one of Hell's people to turn into a black Pegasus. When he came back to the topic of  Gloriana wanting me to return to Chesna again, I wanted him to answer all my questions. That didn't happen though because Halli came over and flung herself on Daniel. Thinking about being in Chesna again made me feel I felt excited, but at the same time scared like a mouse when a cat is chasing it. If she wanted me down there, something bad must be going to happen. That stuck in my head like glue. Then things started going through my head like crazy. A mix of how I was just so happy I had Daniel back and what was going on in Chesna and why do they want me down there again? All this was going through my head as I watched Halli play and chat with Daniel. Then it occurred to me it was about time to go inside. To explain to my mum and dad about what happened. This was always hard and I had a feeling this was going to be one of the worst times we had to explain something about Chesna. They never took these sort of things well. I then started feeling dizzy. Next thing I knew, my head started to hurt and before I knew it, my top part of my body flopped over and everything went black.      


Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more chapters to come!
Hermione Sharp

First Chapter- The Wind Blew.

Hello!
   I am Hermione. I am a writer. I love to write and hope you enjoy my books as much as I do. So here is my first chapter of a story. I will come out with a chapter each day. Welcome to the world of Fantasy Underground.

Intro of 

Fantasy Underground

The Wind Blew. 

   I was standing with my pen knife and a piece of wood, guarding the portal to Chesna when it all happened. I was thinking about my brother who had been missing for four years now. I had tried to forget him and told myself that he is probably dead. I just couldn't forget him for some reason. As I thought, I sat down by the tree, when it came. The freezing cold rush of wind came by and made my body slam into the tree and bang my head. "Issac Town hadn't had wind for ages!" I thought. "Halli!" I shouted. Not quite knowing why I called my little sister, maybe I had a concussion? I gazed as my little sister ran with her short legs out the screen door to me, the wind blew again. She fell over onto the grass. My name Jane went through my head a thousand times. I really think I have a concussion. My name stopped going through my head and I froze as a green, bright light shot up in a shape of a circle from the portal. I was scared.

Thanks and stay tuned for the chapters to follow!
 
    Hermione Sharp