Not long after seeing the other kids, their eyes were drawn to them and the fact that they were covered in blood, and without much of a second thought they could all already tell that they were all suffering, they lived a life of dread here, far away from the prying eyes of any one who may happen to witness such a tragedy that can simply be described as their life. When they finally look away from the badly battered kids they notice a mountain and trees everywhere, and a cliff with a waterfall with a roughly seventy foot drop, they also seen a bear that was bigger than normal, it had a rather bulky looking shock collar around its neck, and it had a rather glassy black appearance, it looked as though the bear was in the same situation as the children around it, a prisoner of these people, these kidnappers. Everywhere they looked it gave them less and less hope, but still they felt like they had a chance to escape, they then continue as they see another couple of kids around their age fighting each other with knives, as they watch one kid is reluctant and hesitates to stab the other, and for that simple human emotion, that hesitation to take another person’s life, he got shocked by a man holding a stick as a form of punishment, followed by saying “Showing mercy breeds weakness, hesitate again and you’ll face worse punishment than that.”

After continuing they see a door in the side of the mountain, They start being led to the door and everyone gets a bad feeling just by approaching the door causing them all to sweat a little as they continue to the door. Upon reaching the door they got sprayed by something but Nessa assured them all saying “Don’t worry it's only sanitation spray.“ As they continue forward they head down a corridor to see several rooms, while walking down the hall a man passed byNessa and told everybody that those rooms are different medical rooms and one is the surgery room and a little bit further down the corridor is another door that leads to Dr.Radon’s lab. They then go down a different corridor and they appear to enter a cafeteria, they then see a few kids and adults sitting at different tables within the room. After they look at the cafeteria for a bit they decided to get some food, with Nessa monitoring them of course, so they didn’t talk much about the important topic at hand, which would’ve been all for naught under Nessa’s observant eyes and instead talked about the strange place that they had been abducted to.

Thomas: Have y’all noticed some of the people look odd? I swear I saw someone with an octopus tentacle, thought I was watching some sort of cheap Japanese porn with no plot.

Chris: I know, some of them just make me uncomfortable.

Shawn: I don’t like this place not one bit, do y’all think we’ll end up like them?

Jaylin: We might, or maybe even worse, I don’t know.

Thomas: I would be terrified, but right now I'm a little more concerned with the whole freak show we just witnessed, like, how does that guy talk? Does he speak octopus? No way he still got human vocal cords right? .

Jaylin: Yeah could you believe we just started the school year and now we gotta deal with this crazy ass shit.

While they were talking Nessa walked over and told them that it's time for them to go observe the training ground so she could explain it more to them. On their walk back Jaylin notices a wolf cub in a cage, the cub is low to the ground and growling and baring its fangs, which look almost metallic and it’s fur almost looked identical to silver with its pure white colour, but as quick as it appeared it was just as quickly pushed in to a separate room. After seeing the wolf cub Jaylin asks what the room is, and Nessa quickly responded saying “It's a testing room, try to stay away from that room, it’s not exactly the safest.” Jaylins then gazed at the door and thought about that wolf cub that looked as pure white as silver, and thought to himself that they weren’t so different. They then continued down the corridor and noticed some people walking down to the training area, they walked for a short while and then seen a ring of kids and adults surrounding two people fighting. It looked as though the kid and an adult were fighting and the kid was losing rather badly judging by the fact that the man didn’t have a scratch on him and the kid was bruised up bleeding it was obvious to anyone that he was hurt pretty badly. The kid then produced thin blades from his forearms and ran at the man, but the man quickly avoided it and kicked the kid to the ground and then quickly delivered another swift kick to his side, possibly breaking some of the boy’s ribs with his tremendous strength. The boy rolled maybe once or twice leaving a few drops of spilled blood on the ground and then stood back up holding his badly bruised arm but despite his horrible condition he still wanted to continue the fight, but the man trying to discourage him said, “Give up you won’t beat me.” The kid then got visibly pissed off and shouted, “Not until you apologise for what you did to Ema!” The man smiled cruelly, pausing for a moment and then calmly saying no, and then proceeded to bury his fist in to the kid's stomach causing him fall to his knees and puke, not long after throwing up the adrenaline from his fight soon wore off, and the boy had collapsed, now unconscious from the previous gut shot the man had delivered to him mere moments ago.

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The man points to Jaylin and then tells him to take him to the infirmary so he can get treated, but before Jaylin grabbed him he said to Thomas “Go to the room, I’ll be there when I’m done.” Jaylin then picked him up, struggling at first and then took him to the infirmary. Upon Jaylin entering the infirmary he sees the nurse and she tells Jaylin to lay him down on an open bed, while laying the boy down he notices other kids laying down in other beds with bandages practically covering their whole bodies. Just before Jaylin was about to leave the boy woke up and asked where he was. Jaylin then told him “You’re in the infirmary and I brought you here, my name is Jaylin, what's yours”. The kid introduces himself as Diego, he is a skinny light brown skinned boy, with curly brown hair, and silver eyes. Diego tries to get up after he introduces himself but flinches from the pain from the ass whooping he had received from the man.

Jaylin: Lay back down, you can’t fight in your current state.

Diego: I need to make him apologise for what he did.

Jaylin: What did he do to make you wanna fight this mother fucker so bad?

Diego: He knocked my friend over on purpose and made fun of her.

Jaylin: What did they say to make you that mad?

Diego: He made fun of her dead parents.

Jaylin: … Well damn. Well you're clearly not strong enough to fight him as you are now so all you can do is take the hits or run away … or maybe get stronger.

Diego: No! I must make him apologise now!

While they continued to talk they heard someone approached them, they looked and saw a girl around their age, with long blue hair slightly shorter than Jaylin’s. When she sees Diego clearly badly beaten from head to toe, she immediately has tears form in her eyes and runs over to him while saying “You didn’t have to fight for me, I don’t like seeing my friends get hurt.” While this is going on Jaylin leaves to go back to his friends, back to their room to talk about what they need to do from here on out while trapped in this hell. Once Jaylin got back to his room he saw Chris, Thomas and Shawn waiting for him.

Thomas: What are we supposed to do now?

Chris: We definitely need to get out of here but we need a plan first we can’t fight them, they are a lot stronger than us, we would get stomped, no questions asked.

Jaylin: You're not wrong, we need some time though, and we are going to need help.

Shawn: We need information first.

Jaylin: Ok we all need to focus on different things. Thomas, you work on a strategy to get us out, Chris, you’ll map out the area, Shawn will get some info about the guards rotation and what routes they all take, and I'll get some help from the other kids. Ok it's getting late, we should head to bed soon so get ready, and we’ll talk again in the morning.

Everyone then goes to their beds, but before Jaylin goes to bed he thinks to himself that this place is dangerous and that no matter what he will save them from this terrible predicament.