Young Writers Society

Tranquility felt more of his bone shatter as he was smashed into the ground by the dragon. However fast they repaired themselves, it still hurt every time that happened. He grabbed at the snake wrapping around his neck, searching for it's head.

His arm bent backwards and he grabbed the creature at the back of his neck, wrenching it free and holding it out in front of him, ignoring it's desperate bites.

"Change back, dragon, or I kill the girl."

Asher froze when he saw his opponent hold up the snake. In his current state of rage Asher was operating on a more primal way of thinking. The gesture confused him, which helped the anger fade a little, but he didn't change back.

Tranquility spoke again, this time louder. "Change back or I'll kill the girl!"

That brought him back to his senses, he could think again. Now that he had the chance to think he realized the snake must have been a shapeshifter, another one of the Center's experiments. His scales slid under his skin and he was human again.

Asher made sure his anger was clear in his eyes. "You are an experiment, too. Why do you side with those bastards?"

The Assail smiled as the dragon changed back, still holding the snake. He thought for a moment at Asher's question.

"I side with them because it seems right. My mind compels me to side with them, it is the best course of action. And I am not an experiment, they did not make me this way. I simply...side with them."

He tossed the snake aside, glaring at the annoying creature.

"You change back too."

He looked around, realizing that the three of them were the only ones he could see.

"Where are the others? Where is the Djinni?"

Tranquility saw movement out of the corner of his eye. Before he could do anything he was on the ground with the dragon man riding him. Asher punched him as hard as he could in the face.

"The best course of action!? These people turned us into monsters! They torture us day in and day out, and for what? These people do horrible things to us and you think it's OK?!" Asher jerked the man under him by the shoulders. "Answer me!"

*Hey! Sorry I haven't been on lately... It's like i'm gone for a day and there's already 2 more pages. Ugh.Ash- can I help be a twist? If no one likes this then I will delete it.*

Katrina-

Not long after I had left my white room I decided that I didn't like the open too much. I felt vulnerable, ever little noise made me jump. I neared a corner and I heard footsteps, I had so much addrenalin in my body I almost screamed. Instead of screaming, I turned my shaddow into a wolf.

"Didn't a wolf escape today?" I heard a man ask.

"No, the wolf was caught, plus there would be sirens. Its just nothing." I heard another voice say. That wasn't my best idea, but it is hard to escape when all you can do is bend your shadow. I tried to make my shadow solid, concentrating on every little black line to become solid. This was not one of my best ideas, since I was concentrating so hard I didn't notice the scientists turn the corner. I felt my head hit the ground but I didn't pay much attention to the pain, I was trying to find a way to get out of here.

"Isn't she the one who Christopher was supposed to bring to the enviroment chamber?" I heard the first voice say.

"Yeah.I wonder what happened. Why didn't he pull the alarm?" The second voice said,"Lets just take her her father." Anger flashed through me, he didn't even have the right to be called my father, he was barely a human being. He had no emotions. They shoved me along the hallway to my 'dad's' familiar office.Cruel memories tried to sneak into my brain, but I smothered them with blackness.
My dad was ready to greet me in his office.

"Hello sweetheart," he said. The men behind me snickered quietly.

"Don't call me that." I said. He just merely shrugged it off as if it was an everyday comment.

"See, honey," he said, enjoying it when I flinched,"We need you to do us a favor." My dad had barely said two sentences to me and I already didn't like where this was going. I sat there silently. "We need you to help us," he continued," There is a reward." I pretended to care for a second.

"And the reward is?"

"Freedom." I had rarely heard that word here, it was like a word that was forgotten ages ago. I perked up a little.

"We need you to be a spy."

"And if I don't want to?" I asked.

"You die," he remarked casually. I nodded my head. I would have to take this job, it was my only way out and its either that or I die. I choose to live. My father explained that there was a man named Asher in there, he was supposedly also helping them. There was also a dijii under orders. I had to betray them all. Trap them like little flies. The scientists then put something on my neck, they demonstrated to me- happily i might add- that if I did something wrong then I would be shocked. I had a little hearing devise in my right ear, so they could give me instructions, it was barely noticable.

"We'll be watching you carefully," said one of the scientists into my left ear. "If we even slightly suspect you will try to betray us then we will give you a deadly shock." I could almost hear the smile of delight in his voice. I nodded. Then I was lead to the enviromental chamber-whatever that was- and I was then shoved in.

(Sounds alright. By the way, he prefers to be called Asher, not Ash.)

Tranquility pounded back at the dragon, simply trying to get away. He literally folded over on himself, rolling out from the dragon and springing back a few feet, his rage having subsided now. He tilted his head a little.

"You call me a monster? They did not make me this way, and though I have been tortured, they know I recover from it quickly. As for you, dragon, I can see why they would treat you that way."

(Hold on, didn't Asher just kill a bunch of scientists? Why would he do that if he was working for them?)

(In my first post I mentioned that Asher was one of their most prized experiments because they were able to use the DNA they found on a dead dragon to create a new dragon. Whether you believe dragons were real or not, the point is that right now they're extinct. Someone must have gotten mixed up.)

Asher growled and his anger started to return. His scales slowly began to form on his body again. "The only monster I see here today is standing in front of me. You may have been born the way you are, but we didn't choose to have this life either! Those men took us from our families when we could barely walk and pumped us full of chemicals! They keep us in cages, treat us like animals! They are the true monsters! If you're siding with them, I'll kill you along with everyone of those goddamn scientists!" He bore his claws and lunged at Tranquility. His anger had come back full force, there was nothing human left in Asher's mind now.

(This is what you would call Asher's frenzied rage, you won't be able to stop him without either killing him or calming him down. Of course, attacking in anger leaves a person more vulnerable to countering.)

Tranquility's eyes narrowed, his body having expelled enough of the drug to return the Forkrul Assail's logic to him.

"Monster? My kind only seek peace. The scientists granted it to we experiments through isolating us. I now see why."

He surged back towards the dragon, slamming into his midsection. He was heavy, but Tranquility slowed his charge and began retaliating, fists pounding into Asher. He moved in close to the dragon, muttering softly in his ear.

"You realize that through fighting me you demonstrate your power to the scientists,thereby acting exactly as they want you to?"

The Assail suddenly propelled himself backwards to the trees, wrapping himself around one as he waited for the dragon to reply, searching for the snake now.

(I think I understand your character's twist now. He was pumped full of brainwashing drugs, right?)

What the Assail had just said made sense to Asher, which helped his anger fade a little. His scales shifted a little as he said, "...They want me to be like this? To fight, even kill you?"

"That's right," Tranquility said. "You're playing right into their hands."

"Knowing that they don't care whether you live our die in this test you still side with them? You say your kind seek only peace yet you choose to cooperate with people who condone with this kind of madness. We only wish to have a normal, peaceful life without all these torturous experiments run on us. By trying to stop me and the rest of us escape you're selling out your own kind to those monsters!"

The Assail shook his head. "You are not my kind. I was born this-"

"What difference does birth make!? You were an innocent person they kidnapped from your home to run tests on you!" Asher yelled. "You said yourself that they tortured even you. How are you any different to us? Just because you were born the way you were doesn't mean you chose to become a guinea pig in their insane experiments! To them, we're no more than animals, things to be used and experimented on! If that doesn't make you one of us, what does!?"

Asher charged at the Assail wrapped around the tree. His body shifted back to fully scaled as he struck, not the Assail, but the tree. The tree shuck with such a force that Tranquility was forced to jump down.

Tylana-

Tylana slowly got up. She had changed back to her normal form, the impact of falling had nearly knocked her out. She blinked a few times and then changed to a flea and jumped towards where the two were fighting. She changed to her human form once she had gotten up in a tree. If the dragon needed help she would give it, her whole body ached and she was tired but she wasn't going to give up.


Trent-

Trent followed them back down, he watched as they fought. He hurried back to where the others were and pulled the Djinni aside,

"What if your master was killed, would that free you?" He asked quietly.


**She could've already been killed if you want, if that would it that is.**

Amber

I hovered into the air and floated opposite the observation booth. Now look who the observer is, I thought with a wry grin as I watched the battle.

"Aren't you going to help?" One of the other experiments called up to me.

"I'm not much use in this form, however if one of you would allow me to borrow your body, our powers could be combined," I suggested, "though I'm afraid I'd be in control."

"No... thank... you," A girl repressed a shiver. I shrugged and slipped closer to the booth, phasing through the cracked glass to enter the room.

"Mind if I take a body?" I asked Asher who seemed to be in command of the situation.

"Do us all a favor and take his," Asher replied, indicating the creature known as Tranquility.

"I could try it but I doubt I can hold him for long," I whispered. Edging closer, I passed through his flesh and settled into the bony structure, flexing his limbs experimentally.

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Hope you don't mind, feel free to over-power her mind and throw her out if you do.

Selina

I had taken the form of one of the guards again, and was trying to find the source of the commotion. Pushing through a closed door, a confused scene met my eyes.....


<< Not sure how I can get in on the action...... Help?>>>

((Lana))

I followed the others out of the cave and into the environment room. Quickly I withdrew into the thick, tangled jungle. I waited for ten or so minutes, crouched in the bushes, building up my anger and letting it settle deep into my body. I opened my eyes and quickly let them focus to the incoming twilight. Shit. This'll be tough. I told myself, taking in the dark. I looked up at the glass ceiling which led outside. The real outside. There were no trees outside of the confinement. I was told it was moorland for a mile or two and broke off at the sea cliffs.

I stood and started walking, cautiously of course, towards the loud fighting. Maybe it won't be so difficult. I told myself. I came to the ground below the observation booth. I observed the Assail and the important experiment at the bottom of a large tree.

Dragon boy whipped around to see what I was. He examined me from head to toe. He growled and charged. I held out my hand in a stopping motion. Dragon boy quickly stopped and flew back into the tree. I started to develop a headache which told me I was exerting myself a bit. I didn't care, I was furious.

"Stay there and shut up. I'm here to help. If you don't calm down I'm going to have to use you to break open the ceiling. Your head would crack it.

He roared. and squirmed against the tree. For a moment her started to drop but I held my focus a bit tighter. He was strong. I prodded his mind but he refused to admit me. I wailed at his subconscious. It wasn't going to let me in anytime soon.

The Assail looked at me curiously. Its eyes looked like ti was fighting itself. I looked back at the dragon boy. "Give me your name or you won't have an unbroken bone in your body."

He sneered at me. "You should not be fighting me. You should be fighting those bastards who've been keeping us here."

"Will you kill me if I let you go?"

He thought about it for a moment and shook his head slightly. I lessened my grip to make sure he wouldn't charge. He didn't. I let go fully and lowered him to the ground. He touched down and tensed his muscles.

"Your the one who tried to escape earlier." that was the first time I had heard the Assail speak.

I tuned my eyes to it, "You know me....how?"

"Amber."

Ah. I remembered. "You took over that things body?"

Suddenly Amber was gone. A hard edge gripped the Assails face as it spoke again, "Foolish spirit, she thinks she can control me forever."

The air beside the Assail shimmered as Amber came out of the body. She seemed a bit faint. The Assail commanded my attention again, "Do not resist. Trying to escape is now the least of your worries."

Dragon boy roared and lunged at the Assail. It moved to the side as he ran into a tree. How long it this going to go on?

"Stop!" I shouted. The Assail and the dragon boy stopped mid blow as I held them. "What are you two trying to do?!"

Tylana-

Tylana walked over and felt the girl reach into her mind.

Why are they fighting? Lana asked,

Well, the dragon wants to destroy the Assail because he is working with the scientists. And the Assail wants to keep us in here. We need to leave soon before the scientist come in and decided to force us all back to our rooms. Tylana said walking over to the frozen dragon and Assail. The second you let them go they will destroy each other unless something stops them.




**sorry for such a short post, it was all I had.**