6 years ago

Stressed Ashley woke up to the darkness waiting for her presence.

She felt the softness of the mattress with a cover and... a blanket?

As a response, she started to touch her clothes. She wasn't wearing her usual uniform with synthetic nylon, which was uncomfortable to wear. She was wearing an old orange-coloured shirt with a torn-out styled short jeans. While she was inspecting, she found her left eye to be covered up with bandages. She then sat at the side with her bruised legs dangling above the floor. She was quite relieved but confused to find her BranX missing from the right wrist. The live-GPS- gadget inbedded in her skin or so she thought. It was suppose to be unbreakable.

Despite sensing the room to be safe, she decided to just leave before anything happened to her.

As Weak Ashley tried to stand up, her legs gave up.

She fell to the floor with a thud. Loud enough for the people outside to hear it.

Before she knew it, the door opened with light overflowed over her. Its luminous almost blinded her eye as she bent her head over with her hand covering her face. It took her a matter of seconds to realize the person went on their knees and started to call out.

"Hey, it's going to be fine, just stay down. They are coming right away. Wait for a few seconds, Ash." A stern yet calm voice spoke out. As her eyes got adjusted to the light, she looked up and saw a strong-looking girl who could be perfect enough to be your bodyguard.

Well, if it wasn't for the greyish-blue eyes and a small portion of the brown freckles around her nose, Young Willow might've had her hands covered in blood.

"Hey, you... I.....", she said with a weak voice indicating that she needed some time to regain her energy to speak with her regarding that incident. Since she couldn't complete her sentence, she used her hand to point out to the girl, and back at herself as if to say : do you remember me?

She nodded.

Then it hit her.

Screams in agony

Bloodshed every corner

Dead bodies here and there

"Run Ashie! Run! " she screamed

Rocks falling around

She then fell, just to see her get-

"DAYA! WHAT HAPPENED TO HER? Is she even all...", she bombarded her with questions while holding back her tears.

Her bunker buddy, her caretaker, her friend...

"... I don't... even know how to break the news to you, but I got this from her just before that...", she broke off while she took the thing out of her left pocket. It was an eye-patch. Made out of black leather. Until she flipped it over and saw the initial 'E.T.B'.

As always, an obedient and a ruthless rule-follower.

She continued, "Since we were in the same training session she thought... that I ...um mm... Could give it to you.... While she....", even though she looked so strong with her palm roughed out through rigorous practice, she couldn't help but let tears drop in her green torn pants. She clashed her hand over her face, trying to prevent cautious Willow from seeing her vulnerable side.

"I am so sorry, I should've just taken the... job...", she sobbed out.

Pity Ashley looked down with tears streaming down her face. She knew where her friend was.

She doesn't need to worry about her fragile friend any more. Daya finally found the peace with honour she wanted.

Regretfull Willow could've just lashed out her anger at that girl but...

"Aren't you are mad... at me?" She gave her a confused look as Considerable Ashley hugged her and shed tears with her head on her shoulder.

"I know I can ... but we don't have time for that, do we? Also, Daya would be pissed if we still are like this.", she chuckled at the last line she spoke out.

"You're quite mature for your age, and you're right. Daya DEFINITELY will be mad if we cry over her sacrifice like this.", she broke out in laughter as she wiped her tears off her face.

Both the girls sat down in tears, laughing about the good old days they spent with their dear friend and then they had to grow up the next day without her on their side. They both agreed that she wasn't the ideal friend with whom you could do mischief, but she was the one that no one would forget.

After a while, her eyes got adjusted to her room and.... She was amazed. Just a single bed in ONE room! Unbelievable! She thought. Then she saw a small table barely passing by her waist height with a mirror attached. On it, she saw a pale-coloured dress folded neatly. She pointed it out, to which the older girl replied that it was for her.

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Little Ashley couldn't believe her ears.

A gift?

The last time she got a gift, it was...

"Should I help you with that dress....?" the older girl voiced out.

Thoughtfull Ashley nodded.

It took a while to dress her up as her bandages got in the way. Luckily they found the Med kit right next to the dresser, Ashley found out that it was a piece of furniture, not a portal. They continued their chit-chat without any pauses in between. The room was filled with giggles, scolding, and rants at times.

After dressing her up and changing her bandages, Beautiful Ashley looked better than before. Though her bruises were visible, the dress was round enough to block a viewer's eye from it.

"Screw this! I mean, yeah..... I get it. People are dying every day by those monsters but someone gotta keep doing research that is safe for the people but not to be used as experiments on them!", Furious Ashley fierce-fully exclaimed.

"We can't just let her hold us back. We have to move forward." she ended the statement with her hand going through her blond dyed hair with the left side of her touching her shoulder. It was a habit of hers as Punctillious Ashley had noticed so far by now.

"Anyway.... When are they gonna come up?", Curious Ashley asked the long-awaited question.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about them. It seems that they may not have heard my call, but I do hear some noise down there, thou.", she answered back.

"Should we go to them? Probably we could get some aid over there." Annoyed Ashley suggested as the girl tried to carry her on her back. She had no problem carrying her as she was fairly lightweight.

"Did you just actually read my mind? Damn.", she joked with her just to get her laughed out and to get her comfortable with her after that.

"It's just common sense...umm", it then hit her that she has not-

"Felicity, at your service.", she replied to the Blushed Ashley.

As she was carried out of the room, the girl closed the door and carried Light Ashley from the end of the hall. Meticulous Ashley had already guessed that it was an abandoned house. With cobwebs and specks of dust around the corners of the halls and the 3 other door-frames, the floor creaked with each step taken on its wooden pieces. It was quite evident that it was getting renewed and cleaned as buckets of water with a cloth hanging on its handle were kept between the two doorways on her left side. On her right side lay a collected pile of mosses. She continued observeing the whitewashed walls with cracks and a few mosses, she looked back at the end of the hall to see two dark velvet curtains drawn back by white ropes allowing the moonlight to illuminate the whole hall. They started to descend the stairs when the noise they both were curious about started to sound.....like instruments?

Nevertheless, the staircase was lighted up by the fluorescent light that was attached to the ceiling. It was then that Shocked Ashley realized her dress wasn't pale, it was yellow..... her favorite color.

By the time they had reached the ground, they were quite surprised to witness what they had never imagined in their wildest dream.

"Can't we return?

This is the chance,

Tonight is the might.

We'll stay till it's over,

So we put ourselves up!

Like this party can't hold us!"

People were singing and dancing as if there was no monster lurking around and taking lives.

As if life was back to what it used to be. Peaceful, joyful and lively as it was.

Their entrance did not go unheard as upon the arrival, the lead singer's eyes lit up in their way.

"Look who's here! We got some special guests folks! What are you standing there over, come over here!" The lead singer was addressing the girls through the microphone to bring the special attention towards them.

The crowd then eloped around them and welcomed them warmly as they should. As the confused duo went towards the center, they finally got the picture perfectly.

There were so many people playing instruments like piano, drum, trumpet, what-was- that-big-circle-instrument, etc. The trumpets hitted those high brassy notes while the pianist played the piano with accurate speed and energy, on the other hand the drummer synchronized with the lead singer's foot beats, the music the band produced was so vibrant that even a deaf man could dance to the beat. You could feel the music deep within your bones as they played it so rhythmically that you couldn't resist yourself to get up and get down on the dance floor.

Well, you could say that happened to Ashley and Felicity. They danced as if it was their last day on earth!

All of the emotions that they both experienced the last 24 hours were washed away by the beats the drums hit. The sharp note the pianist hit did make them jump at times but the crowds cheered on for them thinking it was a new dance move. If it wasn't for the snacks that lay around, Ashley would have fainted to the ground causing commotion around her. While Felicity made excuses for Ashley's drool-mess over food, it didn't seem to hinder their liking for the young girl at all.

'Poor kid must be starving ' was the only sentence that came out of their mouths.

The crowd went on dancing for hours until all the people got exhausted and decided to clap for the young girls to dance on. They then got into a competition as to who would stay standing at the last. As the crowd's cheers started to get louder per minute, the duo started to speed up their dance. Some even started to bet and gamble on the girls. At last, the duo got tired by dancing in circles, gradually toppling down onto the floor as exhaustion took over their bodies. Giggles and laughter filled the air. All the misery that loitered around their face disappeared to show dimples and wide smiles on their face. As they lay down on the floor with their backs, sleep overtook their mind. Both curled up against each other and embraced in a hug in their sleep.

"It is so obvious that they are sisters. I mean...look at those cuties!", the host announced ironically, "and as sisters, they shall be the winners!"

The crowd went wild but was shushed quickly by the band so as not to disturb the sleeping beauties. Eventually, a tall, muscular woman got up from the couch near the wall. She was wearing a full black leather uniform with the mutiny symbol of two spears crossed with a sun in the back. With an undercut dyed in white, she had a smooth jawline and a sharp gaze that dominated the whole living room. But she had the same delicate greyish-blue eyes as Felicity. Hinting that she is the guardian of the duo, she scooped up both girls with each of her hands and disappeared from the crowd.While the crowd called them cute and lucky kids, they had no clue how much they had endured for the past 24 hours.

If only destiny had shown some mercy, the trio could've been together.... forever?