We trekked through the deep jungle for hours before we found a lonely mansion. The mansion was spotless on the outside, which made me wonder, who had enough time to clean it.

Upon entering the mansion, the guards forced us to take showers. The only clothes we got to wear was underwear, socks and a white robe that Daoist wear. Their fashion sense awful.

The walls in the mansion were grand. Everything was decorated with gold and shiny jewels. It was very bright in the house. All the shiny objects created glares that hurt the eyes or sharp piercing rays that burned the skin. It was truly unbearable. Charles led the group down a large hallway to a single room with a door over 7 feet tall. When we arrived at the door, Charles turned around and glanced at us. He didn’t say anything, he just stared. It was very creepy.

“Why are you doing that? Its totally unnecessary.” [Anthony]

“I wanted to scare them. What’s so wrong with that.” [Charles]

“Its not scary. Its just annoying and creepy. This is why I don’t hang out with you.” [Anthony]

Charles opened the door while grumbling about how it was scary.

The inside of the room was very different from the rest of the mansion.

There was no gold or jewels, there was only black and purple decorations. It screamed hardcore goth in the room. The walls were painted black and bloody red. And the floor was purple with bits of red in it.

There was a lonely figure sitting in a red chair. The chair was unimportant, but it was made from the bones of a ferocious creature. The girl had purple hair, and when she turned her head we saw that she had red irises and sharp teeth.

Anthony and Charles hurriedly bowed and ran off. They deeply feared this eerie girl.

The girl slowly stood up and walked over to the first boy, sizing him up with every glance. She checked if he was strong or weak. She even checked his blood.

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She did this to all 10 of us, making us feel very uncomfortable.

The 9-year-old couldn’t stand it and ask the girl “Are we done here”.

“You aren’t done until I say you’re done” [Young missus]

“My name is Siva, and you children are my victims. If you ever disobey my order I will feed, you to my pet.” [Siva]

She snapped her finger and a giant dog ran in. This dog had 2 heads and was over 4 feet tall.

“This is my pet. Its name is cat.” [Siva]

“But that’s a dog.” [9yr old]

Siva pointed at the boy and the dog slapped the poor kid. The slap sent the boy flying. The kid was clearly crippled. He would be unable to walk on his legs for the rest of his life.

“That was a warning” [Siva]

I was so scared that I couldn’t even breathe. Many of the children cried out in panic, some even double over and threw up. She then commanded us to follow her. We went through several hall ways before we came to our destination, which was behind the mansion. Behind the mansion was a small machine that looked like an aneroid sphygmomanometer and a catapult.

As I glanced around nervously, Siva called her first victim to the stage. She had one of her ninja assistant, that was blending in with the green landscape, drag the first boy up. The assistant strapped the device around the boy’s arm to measure him. A number appeared, and it quickly jotted down the number and pushed the boy aside.

She quickly got the rest of the children’s numbers.

My number was 0.

She handed the paper to Siva and disappeared.

I wish I could disappear like that.

Siva sized us up and chuckled.

“These numbers describe your potential to become greater than a human. Some of you have very great potential, others not so much. Sadly, I have a quota to meet, so some of you got to go. That’s what this neat catapult is for. Bring me that 9-year-old kid.” [Siva]

The guards dragged the still bleeding kid to the catapult and loaded him in. The kid screamed and cried, but he was no match for the steel nerves of these dangerous people.

Siva gave the guard a thumb up. The guard pressed the button and the child was launched into the air.

He didn’t make it very far before a predatory bird snatched him out of the sky. The rest of the kids were scared shitless. I was to. She loaded up a few more children and launched them.

These children met gruesome ends. One of them hit the predatory bird and was turned to paste, the bird was completely fine.

Another one splatted all over the ground.

The third hit a tree and was sliced in half by the unbelievably sharp tree leaves.

She loaded more up and 4 more met gruesome fates. The only people left were me and a green haired girl. I think her name was Alle.

“And the lucky winner is… Alle. How does it feel the that out of 10 people you are the only one that’s going to live?” [Siva]

Alle couldn’t give a reply, because she was completely traumatized.

“Okay let’s rap this up, it was fun till about the 6th one” [Siva]

The guards loaded me into the catapult and pulled the lever.