The Battle for Freedom

Okay. Just so all are clear with my post. Every time they find two male exiles, they have them fight in death games. I will explain the one Zeke is put in before he does it though. And let you decide which you want him to play. It will be a long post.

Zeke

"So you here about the exile they found," I heard from my tree post.

"Yeah. To bad he got away. Love it when they do the games. But they only have one," A second voice said.

"When was the last game ring any way?" The first guy asked.

"Think about, five years ago. They played Whippen the first one. Love that game (Whippen is like polo, and lacrosse combined. Three people on each team try to get soccer sized balls into large lacrosse nets. They use pool cleaning like nets to grab the balls, and ride on horses. There are also three people for each team on foot, they can kick and grab the same ball, and they also try to get it in the nets. The people on foot usually die. Also this is not the game Zeke will play.)

"Yeah, but we had to wait so long to see it. Hope they just skip to Tato. Or have this one play Tok."
(will describe in Dt.)

"Yeah that would be gre-"

snap!

The branch under me gave way while the man talked. I hit the ground with a thump. Every pore of my body shoot out ice crystals.

"Looks like we might get that Tato match after all" one of the guys said. Then I blacked out.

April

I was still a little tried. My strength was returning. Really fast. I knew it was because of Mikael. That was really nice of him, but I was concerned about Zane. She hadn't said a word to me all day. She hadn't talked to hardly anyone.

I gave Mikael a little smile and walked towards Zane. He seemed to understand. This was a girls thing.

"Zane," I whispered. Her head snapped up.

"Yeah?" I sat beside her.

"You okay?" I asked.

"Of course," she said, giving a weak smile. I bit my lip. Poor thing.

"Zane, what's wrong. Is it because he left?" There was no need to varify who the 'he' was. She looked away. I knew she didn't want to think about it. We all cared about Zeke, but she and Zeke had always been close. Closer than most of us.

"I'm sorry," I replied. I wrapped my arms around her shoulders and hugged her tightly. She needed a freind now more than ever. God I felt so horrible. I had only been thinking of me all day and I hardly noticed how much she had been hurting. I was such a bad freind. I knew I didn't deserve her.

"He'll be okay," I whispered to her. "We will find him."

Kimberlee

I looked at Jack. His eyes were absolutely gorgeous.
“What?” I whispered. I hadn’t kept my attention to what he said, only to his gorgeous eyes. “Did you say something?” I shook my head to come to myself.
He smiled. “Yeah, can you try to find out what’s wrong with Zane?” he whispered. I smiled back, while I read her mind.
I leaned toward him. “It’s Zeke,” I whispered. “She’s afraid he’s hurt or even dead.”
I looked over at Zane, and so did Jack. “Poor Zane,” he whispered.
“Mhm..”

*Know it's short, but I need to help my mum now. I'm going to celebrate my birthday 3 o'clock..*

**Happy Birthday then!**

April

I walked back over to Mikael. I didn't know how to cheer her up. There was nothing I could do. I ran a hand through my hair and sat beside Mikael. He looked a little surprised.

"Zane is having a tough time and there's nothing I can do to help her," I frowned. "I don't even know what to say to her." I laid my head against his shoulder. What was I going to do?

"Mikey, I just want to go home," I whispered. "I just want to find Zeke and get out of here. There something about this place that isn't right." I know I sounded like a little kid, but I just wanted to go.

"Me too. We'll find a way to get out of here," he said. I smiled. He was right. We needed to find a way to get out of here.

"Tomorrow, we need to leave. Today we can rest or whatever, but we really need to start looking for Zeke. Then we need to find that mirror. It called to us before and it will do it again," I responded. Mikael smiled.

"I think your right," he said. I yawned a little. I was really tired but I needed to stay awake. For Zane's sake. Just in case she needed me.

Guys. This can be at any time later then the last post. But I was thinking that they see Zeke do these things. Cause they are broadcast over the cities. That way they see that these people hate the, are cruel, Zeke is in trouble, yadda yadda yadda.

Zeke

Where was I? What had happened? And most importantly, was I going to be playing those games? I didn't know what they were, but if I was an "Exile" and they were rare, and games rare as well, I was guessing they died in the games.

"Hello," I finally called. I had no idea if I was alone, because I was in the dark. Literally. As far as I could tell I was in some sort of cell. I knew because I could fell bars behind me, but no light came through them.

"Oh no!" someone said, and I turned to see a light. Not an electric one though. It was a fire.

"What?" I spun around to look for something.

"It is you," The voice called again. With it also came more light.

"What about me?"

"You being here, means that we will be playing soon."

"And that means?"

"That means, I just took a step closer to deaths door. I'm at the edge of Limbo now. You too."

"So How will we die?"

"We die in the games. They are deadly."

"Death games?" I said. I was right. Why did I have to be right?

"Yes. The people here think of us as beasts. They don't care whether we live or die. They prefer us dead actually. But they stopped executions long ago. to boring. They invented to game for a exciting way for us to die," the other said.

"Oh," Was my only reaction. This was to much. I had been away from the group, for about a day, and already April was right. I was going to die. Well at least I would die playing. No, I pushed that thought from my head. I wouldn;t die, I would win, or escape. But If I won, that would mean killing the other guy in here. I couldn;t do that, no matter how close to death I was. A killer I was not. And I would not be one. Escaping was the only option.

Suddenly the room was flushed in light.

"Fuck," the kid across from me said.

Now I could make out his face. Or what i think was face. The kid across from me, well he was...covered in hair. His head was just a blond mess of hair. I let out a squeak, then the head turned. Oh, I was looking at the back of his head. Good. But the new sight was not much better. He was not in a fit state, that was obvious. His skin was pulled right on his face, as if he had been half starved. His eyes were brown, and had a crazy look to them.

He also wore rages around him. Maybe rags were the wrong word though, these were the rags of rags. They were covered in holes, with dark stains, that came from at least a years worth of meals. Small meals though. The rags hung very loosely on them, at first I thought they were just big, but then I realized he was just bone skinny. And I mean it, this guy was lucky to be standing up. But barley could do that, he was shaking from just standing up. Maybe I wouldn't have to escape. Because if this guy was my opponent, he wouldn't even be able to stay up long enough to keep in. Oh and also, he was covered in flames, did I mention that? Yeah, blue flames covered his body, and it illuminated the whole room.

"Fuck," He repeated. "You just came here, didn't you?"

"Yeah. Name's Zeke."

"Ray," He said and sat back down, letting his flames die. Leaving us in darkness again. "Just so you know. you still don't stand a chance," He added.

"Really?" I said. "Because from here, it looks like you won't be able to move."

"For now," he said, then there was another flash of light, and the room was light again, but this time it was lit from fire drifting in the air. " I only look like that in my fire form. it drains me, so I can't stand easily either."

I take that last part back. This wouldn't be easy. This kid was around my age, but way bigger, muscle wise. He looked like a body builder. This cell didn't seem to effect that.

"They have us keep in shape. make it more interesting," Ray said, reading my mind.

"So when do the games begin?" I asked. I tried to sound confident, but I was actually afraid.

"Probably in a few minutes. They want to see how we get along," Ray said, and collapsed again.

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Ray was right. I few minutes later the two of use were dragged off. And only then did all this really hit me. I was going to die. This had all seemed like a bizarre dream up until now. Up until they dragged me to the stage. They place me and Ray on opposite sides of a large room. And it was a bizarre one. Around it were mountain! Yeah you read right, mountains! Not full size ones, but still, they were at least three stories high each. Also, the top was dotted with large silver disks. they were just hanging there like stars. I wondered what they were doing there.

I didn't have time to wonder. Because a moment later there was a buzzing. And the game had begun. But I just stood there. Confused, with no idea what to do. No Idea where I was. And no idea why I had even come here peacefully. Again though, there was no time to think. The reason, a moment later the floor moved under me, and I was propelled forward, right into a hole. Maybe dieing in a game wouldn't be as cool a way to go as I thought.

Yeah, I'll continue later.

Mikael

I looked up away from April's reassured face to see what looked like giant TV's floating across the sky.
"Ok" i asked looking around at the others. "Any idea what the hell those things are?" Nobody said a word. They were all staring at the screen. I looked up to see our missing friend surrounded by mountains.
"Guys grab a hold of me. Lets go find out what these things are."
"Mikael are you crazy. They might kill us." Cried April clawing at my leg.
"We have to save him" i said standing up and preparing energy incase i needed it. "I'll go and if it's safe i'll come right back."
"And if not" she asked fearfully. I made a small explosion in my hand for a reply before shooting off straight at the screens.

*So, is everyone entering the games? If so, we need to find a way of getting them there.*

Zane

I didn't even noticed when I got sleepy. Neither when I fell asleep.
I only knew I had slept, when I woke up the next morning,. Everyone was sleeping around, Mikey with April, Jason and Cappy. I felt happy for them. After so many years together, I was sure someone would hook up. At least, I wanted someone to hook up.
The sun was bright, giving me this hopeful feeling. I didn't want to wake everyone, so I searched for a font of water, in the surroundings, paying attention to every detail, avoiding to make the same mistake I had done about a day or two before. I shrugged at the memory of that bastard.

*Short. I don't know what to post. My creativity is lacking.*

I'm not going to post yet. I'm a little confused. I posted a few questions in the DT so it would be nice if you would look at them (: I just want to get the questins answered so there's no more confusion.

Jason

"shit" I said looking up at the TV with Mikael.

"Mate I don't think you want to were they are" A familiar voice said and we all spun around. Their stood Tom but he looked older he had a lot of stuble and his once close shaven hair was now Long and shaggy. Weird it had only been a couple of hours. Mikael not knowing who it was through a ball of pure energy but Tom vanished reapering almost instantly next to me.

"wow Mikael it cool this is the guy that saved my ass, by the way Tom you look bloody awful" I said and Tom smiled.

"well I've been busy" He said sitting down and taking out a sringe he jabbed it into himself. He sighed a blissful smile before falling backwards asleep.

"a bloody Junkiee saved you" Javk said stumbling a bit I guess re bliss Tom was feeling was really strong.

"hey he didn't look like this when I saw him last" I said devensivly. Then Tom grunted and got up.

"I'm not a junkie this just means I get as much sleep energy value in about two minutes as I can seven hours, now girl could you conjure me a pair of siccors and a raisor please" Rom said smiling through his beard.

"it's April" April said passing Tom what he wanted who shrugged a second later Hair was at his feet and he looked cleans and fresh like he had before.

"Shit" I mumurred and I saw someone Nid out of the corner of my eye.

"but what's wrong with Zeke why is he their" Zane said standing up and Hack wince probably at her emotions.

"very simple my dear we are Exiles and this civalisarion Hates us, when they find us they make us fight to the death it's actually quite entertaining I saw a exile a few years put up a real good fight, Edward his name was could heal he just kept getting back up, well until they burned him alive can't heal when yours cells are destroyed can you" Tom finished I felt like hitting him the way he'd spoken so freely about it. He turned to me and smiled. He grabed my hand and I felt the feeling of transporting but we didn't go anywere instead the world around us froze.

"it's very simple how it works realy if your wondering, you see when were teleporting time freezes so were their instantly so by starting to teleport and but not going any were we enter this world were Light particles move for us but for no one else with out Light particles moving nothing happens but it dose for us, that's how I got a bears and long hair in two hours cause time still move for you normal but for me it's very slow, I guess you to actualy anyway only telepprter a can enter this dimesion as I like to call it." Tom stopped to breath and I looked around even the fire didn't ripple anymore.

"but that's not why I'm here Jason a close friend well my wife actually she had a vision if you stay with the group things arn't gonna be to good for you okay" Tom said an I was stunned.

"I can't just leave them" I said hate and anger in my voice.

"I'm not gonna force you Jason but but, well I told everyone about Edward" Ton said and I nodded.

"how he died" Tom asked and I nodded again.

"worse than that" He said and was about to teleport away.

"were are you going" I cryer despretly and Rom patted me on the shoulder.

"let's just say if I stay with you the vision isn't too good for me, you can find me on creast road if you bee a place to hide" Tom said and I nodded before he vanished and every thing started moving again.

"let's save Zeke anyway" Zane said and I nodded.

"but how" April said.

April

I didn't like that guy. I didn't like him at all. Jack obviously felt my feelings but I didn't even look at him. I had a feeling he wasn't telling us everything he knew. Besides how did he find out I was the one who could conjure?

Jason looked angry ans confused. Well what was going on with him? Kimberlee gave him an odd look. What had she read in his mind? I sighed. Zane was right. We needed to save Zeke. We had an advantage. We had many powers here. The only one we didn't have was healing. One that was really needed.

I looked at Mikael. He could give us an unlimited source of power. Well, almost. I didn't want him to weaken himself. I could conjure weapons for defense and Lulu could create illusions to through others off our course. Zane could definetly help us with her fireballs and if things got really bad Jason could teleport us each out of there. We had an advantage with Kimmie and Jack by sensing thoughts and if something hostile or dangerous was near us. We could get out of there safely. I looked at the others. This could work...but it would be dangerous. What were we going to do?

Jack

I didn't like this one bit, and I knew most of the others felt the same way. Jason, however, seemed scared and worried about something, and I knew that it wasn't Zeke. At least, not at the moment. It had to be something to do with that junkie who'd rescued him. Not a junkie my ass...he was shooting up, wasn't he? If he relies on a drug to live, that makes him a junkie.

Needless to say, I didn't like their kind too much. I could always feel them coming from miles away, there was so much emotional confusion. Manufactured bliss pulsing through their veins, a feeling of being on top of the world while, in their heart of hearts, they hated it, and they hated themselves even more.

No one seemed to speak for a while, fear and sadness emanating from Zane. Sue seemed to think that the other teleporter's visitation meant that we'd been told not to go after Zeke. "I say we still go after him." I said, "We can't just leave him to die. We have to go this civilisation eventually anyway, to find a mirror to go back. I say we go now, while we can still save Zeke."

It sounded a lot braver, a lot more foolishly heroic, than I felt. I had no real desire to go, I wanted to help Zeke, but I didn't think any of us would survive. For that reason, I was glad no one could sense my feelings. Even if Kimberlee was reading my thoughts, the closest she would get to discovering my own cowardice was my terror, even greater than that for my own life, that she would be killed and I would not be.

After the Tato match feel free to try and save Zeke. Go to the Dt for my plan before posting it though.

April

I sat on the ground and clutched my knees to my chest. So many things were going wrong. I just needed to be alone.

I sighed. The forest around me seemed creepy. It was odd how silent this place was. Almost as if we were the only living things here.

My ankle was purple but healing quikly. I had to remember to thank Mikael for that. I looked down. On Earth you would see a few ants, or a beetle or some sort of insect near you. Normally they creeped me out, but now, I missed. them. I missed Earth.

It felt like I was in Hell. My ankle was twisted, my friends were in danger and Zeke could actually...die. I choked the words out, mentally. I buried my face in my hands. I couldn't take this. Why was this happening to us?

I had a feeling that the guy Tom knew. I wanted to know everything. I pressed my back against the tree and hid my face from veiw. I wasn't going to cry, but I sure did feel like it.

**NO! Don't die!**

**Is this dying?** ):