《Broken Pieces》


 Awake

    I woke up in pitch darkness, I couldn''t remember anything besides my name and age. I tried to think of how I''d gotten there. I couldn''t. It was like trying to read a book with a hole in it... It just doesn''t give you all the information. I looked around the room, and couldn''t see at first but after what felt like a lifetime later they started to adjust to the darkness.


    I saw two other dark shadows crouched over just like me in two other corners of the room. I started to panic. Memories suddenly rushed through my head, of a family, friends, a hike that we took that ended up getting us¡­ I didn¡¯t know anything past that.


    I tried to think harder but I couldn''t. I tried to keep racking my brain for what happened but I couldn''t get past just taking a hike with two of my best friends that ended supposedly very very badly.


    A rush of chills spiraled down my back. I looked back over to my two friends who were now frantically looking around too. I tried to speak but i couldn''t, no words would come out, i was about to open my mouth and try again when i heard a creak by the door. And then after that came two whispering voices,


    ¡°Be more quiet or else the children will wake.¡±


    ¡°But don''t you want them awake?¡±


    ¡°No not until he¡¯s here, he¡¯ll want them asleep to make sure they''re actually capable of what we told him.¡±


    ¡°Oh of course I forgot he wanted to test them first.¡±


    ¡°Yes now come back to the main entry to talk and we¡¯ll wait till after he tests them to wake the children and prepare them to exit the dungeon.¡±


    I heard their footsteps walk away mumbling stuff to each other so quiet I couldn''t make out the words. After another minute or so i couldn''t hear them anymore, and ten minutes after that i passed out.


    I had a terrible dream. I was looking at the ground through my own eyes, I just couldn''t do anything, like I was watching through the eyes of someone else but couldn''t control anything of what they were doing. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw two kids running. The kids looked oddly familiar but then again lots of people look familiar. Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.


    They looked like they were scared. Super scared. They were looking back to me calling my name telling me to run. I could see the fright in their eyes, but I didn''t know what they were scared of. I was still kneeling down in the grass trying to look for my phone. I found it stuck under some dirt and yanked it up,


    ¡°Ha ha! You guys thought i would never find it huh?! Well guess wha-¡±


    I was yanked backwards.


    I tried to turn around to see what happened but something held me in place. I saw my friends turn around and start running back yelling at my attacker but within a few seconds some other dark figures pinned them to the ground too.


    They gaged all three of us and hoisted us onto their shoulders. I tried to scream out but then I remembered I wasn''t in command of this person''s body, and even if I was, there was knowone around to help anyway.


    After a few minutes of walking they set us all down and took something out of their bags¡­ a blindfold. After a couple minutes we were all blindfolded. Out of the blue I heard a big whack! At first I thought it may have been our savior, maybe someone had noticed us and came to save us!


    The person I was watching managed to get part of the blindfold off by rubbing my face against the ground to see what was happening, and i was met with the ugly truth to find that there was no savior, the three men were still there only now one of them was walking towards me with a baseball bat.


    I shot awake. It was still dark in the room just a little lighter. I assumed it was mourning. I looked over to see how the other kids in the room(my friends) were doing. I looked over to the one on my right first only to find he was gone with a bleeding pile of chains on the floor.


    I quickly looked over to my left and saw the other one was in a bleeding sprawl on the floor with one of the people wearing black that I had seen in my dream leaning over him.


    He picked up my friend and yanked him so hard the chains around him broke and his ankle was torn and bleeding.


    ¡°Hey! What are you doing?!¡±


    I screamed,


    ¡°What''s wrong with you?!¡±


    the figure looked over at me still carrying my friend.


    ¡°Oh good mourning Daniel,¡±


    they said in a cruel but soft voice,


    ¡°So nice of you to join us.¡±

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    I held my breath for the pain i knew was coming. It was like laying at the bottom a cliff and not knowing when the huge boulder fall right on top of you, and as soon as it did it felt like being stabbed in every part of your body.


    This was even worse. I felt like screaming every cuss word I knew in all six thousand five hundred languages.


    There was a fire in me that wanted to kill everyone and everything on the planet. But I knew I couldn''t¡­ i knew i couldn''t let them know what pain i was feeling, because if i did they would take advantage of that too.


    I was already unlucky enough to wake up right before they ¡°unchained¡± us, I didn''t want them to know that their pain techniche had actually worked.


    They took me and my two still unconscious friends up two flights of stairs and into a large open area. It was filled with trees, and flowers. There were at least a hundred benches all circled around a single wood platform that had a cloth over it. We were filed out of the dark gloomy staircase and over to one of the benches.


    Me and my friends were all slammed onto the top of the table. I could feel everyone''s eyes looking at us.


    I looked over at one of them, but their eyes quickly darted away pretending they hadn''t been looking at me in the first place. I looked over at my two friends who were now rubbing their heads. Apparently getting thrown onto a table after also getting your ankles almost torn off is enough to wake someone up.


    Suddenly I felt a small sting in the back of my hand. I looked over and saw there was a small tube connected to it circulating up my arm. I could see a little needle inside poking me over and over multiple times, each time getting a little more blood out of me. I was tried to pull it out but i couldn''t. Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.


    I was starting to get a little nervous when I remembered what one of the people said from the previous night about the Boss testing me.


    Could this have been what they meant. Attaching something to test me with, and if it was why did they do it while i was asleep. Putting on a test tube doesn''t have to be done while asleep. There must be something I''m missing. I looked closer at where the test tube entered my skin. It was a little shiny at the end where it suctioned cupped to my skin.


    But it wasn''t suction cupped. The reason I hadn''t been able to remove it was because of a metal razor sharp lining was connected to the end of the test tube allowing it to seep into my skin and not be taken out.


    I tried once again to try and pull it out, but a guard put his gun next to my head signalling me to stop. I did. I may have been kidnapped but that doesn''t mean I wanted to be killed.


    I tried looking at my friends again, they were still bleeding but looked better. They were glancing warely at the guard who had just pointed a gun at my head skeptically like they weren''t totally sure what was going on either. Once they saw me looking at them they looked away quickly as if trying not to show their fear. I looked away too, still wondering what was under the cloth up on the small platform we were all surrounding.


    ¡°I would tell you but you''re going to find out soon anyway,¡±


    one of the guards said as if reading my mind,


    ¡°Just be careful of what you say or else they¡¯ll show you sooner."


    I didn''t know what that meant, and i didnt want to know.


    Twenty minutes went by with nothing happening. Then suddenly a voice boomed all around us, ¡°Now The Moment You''ve All Been Waiting For!!!¡±


    a shower of sparks shot in front of the curtain and it dropped. Behind the curtain was a gallow. We were being hung.

 The Gallow

    We walked up to the gallow. Our test tubes were ripped from our arms, and our hands tied behind our backs. I was silently praying, hoping by some miracle I would make it out alive. The curtain was rehung to block us out as we were getting up by the ropes.


    I was about to be tied in by the guard who had put a gun to my head earlier that mourning.


    I lost all hope. I knew there was no way I could survive, no chance. I was already wishing that I was back in my cell. Back where at least i wouldn''t be killed. I was wishing that these people in black wouldn''t have taken me from my home and abducted me.


    Wait¡­ I looked over at my friends, they looked exactly the same as the ones in my dream.


    I was the one in my dream¡­ the one looking for the phone. I was the reason we were all here. My friends stood up for me when i was getting kidnapped and because of that we were all sentenced to death. If i had not ignored their calls for me to run, if i hadn''t been so desperately looking for my phone the attacker wouldn''t have been able to sneak up on me.


    We would have had a chance to run, maybe even make it back home¡­ home¡­ The bad thing about having your memory taken away is that you only remember certain things. Your parents, family, friends¡­ but not always your house.


    I couldn''t remember my house. The one place on earth you feel totally safe. Free from all fear and concern. The place you can always think of when you want to feel safe. The place you can always go back to nomadder what. Well¡­


    I didn''t have one. Or at least i don''t remember if i do or not. It''s like having rain but with no clouds in sight. You just don''t know where it came from¡­ and i don''t know where i came from.


    I was still thinking about home when someone pushed me.


    I fell off the back of the gallow but instead of hitting the floor I went straight through like it was a hologram. I kept falling for another ten seconds until I hit the ground with a crash.


    I looked around a little dazed¡­ everything looked fuzzy. I couldn''t see very well¡­ I stood up and tried to look again. My eyes were still fuzzy but they were better. I saw three doors. I started towards one when I heard a deep voice from behind me, This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    ¡°I wouldn''t go in those if I were you,¡±


    I turned around. It was the guy from earlier who almost shot me. I raised my hands,


    ¡°I''m sorry please don''t kill me! I didn''t mean to come down here...¡±


    A tear trickled down my face. I knew the end was coming.


    ¡°Oh don''t worry about that. I was the one who sent you down here.¡±


    He took a step forward and I could see his face a little better. He was a middle aged man with black silky hair.


    ¡°You helped me escape?¡±


    I asked,


    ¡°Yes but if we don''t hurry my deed will not help you and we¡¯ll BOTH be sentenced to death¡­ okay?¡±


    ¡°Okay,¡±


    I said, trying to sound brave.


    ¡°We don''t have much time,¡±


    He said,


    ¡°So I need you to grab my hand and I''m going to try and help you escape! Okay?¡±


    ¡°okay,¡±


    I said,


    ¡°But what about my friends?¡±


    ¡°Im sorry but i can¡¯t help them¡­ they haven''t been hung but they will be used as bait against you soon. Now you have to promise me you wont try and go back for them.¡±


    I stared at him. How could this guy tell me to leave some of the only people I remember to die?! I was upset, pissed, whatever you want to call it. I wasn''t going to leave my friends. So I braced myself and spoke the truth,


    ¡°No.¡±


    He looked stunned,


    ¡°What did you just say?!¡±


    ¡°I said no.¡±


    He still looked stunned but i could see him trying to relax a bit,


    ¡°Im sorry but i cannot help you unless you leave your friends. Here i''ll lay it out for you either escape or die with your friends.¡±


    ¡°Die with my friends,¡± but as i said this i could hear the unsureness in my voice. He heard it too. A crooked smile wrapped around his face,


    ¡°I knew you would go with me. Now come grab my hand.¡±


    I knew the only way to save my friends was to not die myself.


    I looked up to where my friends supposedly were, then looked back at him, and took his hand.


    In a flash of light we were gone.

 Electricity Deposit

    My heart felt like it was being pulled from my chest, then pushed back in, over and over again. We were moving through walls and buildings at the speed of light.


    ¡°Wherererere arrrrrrere weeeeaa goooooeiing???¡±


    I managed.


    ¡°Far far away from here,¡±


    he said in a calm voice. Apparently he does this speed of light thing a ton because it didn''t seem like it was affecting him.


    After another minute we abruptly stopped.


    ¡°What is it?¡±


    I asked.


    ¡°I didn''t fully introduce myself¡­ my name is Dane.¡±


    ¡°oh um¡­ cool.¡±


    i said awkwardly.


    ¡°Oh and someones following us,¡±


    He added.


    ¡°Wait¡­ they could only follow us if... all of those other people can travel at the speed of light too?!¡±


    I said.


    ¡°No, only your father can.¡±


    He said, like that was supposed to help me. I had never known my father. He had disappeared when I was little. Or maybe the day I got my memory taken away I just forgot.


    ¡°I don''t remember my father,¡±


    ¡°No shit you don¡¯t. He removed all memory you have of him leaving you when you were young. Anyway y¡¯know that guy who was talking on the loudspeaker?¡±


    ¡°yea,¡±


    I responded,


    ¡°Is he my dad?¡±


    ¡°No, your dad is his assistant. You and your father both have extraordinary powers beyond anything you can imagine,¡±


    we started moving again while he talked,


    ¡°He has just had years of experience harnessing them. The Boss captured your dad and was going to torture you and your mom if he didn''t join us. That was enough to get him. So he left you guys, and got transferred here. He can''t use his powers to full capacity because they put a chip on him keeping his power level low.¡±


    I was stunned. I always thought my dad left us cause he found another woman, or maybe he couldn''t deal with us anymore. I was always so pissed at him.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    But he left to protect us.


    ¡°Yea he did,¡±


    he said. Reading my mind again.


    ¡°Now c''mon we have to escape.¡±


    ¡°Wait why, he won''t capture us. Im his son! ¡±


    ¡°I know that''s why we have to move as fast as we can! If he catches us, and lets us go he will be killed, and I don''t think you want your dad dead too.¡±


    Before I could ask what he ment we went zipping even faster than before! I could see a dark shadow way behind us zipping this way and that. I couldn''t believe the guy back there was my dad.


    I was still daydreaming about all the fun I could have with my dad after this was done when I was pushed for the second time that day. Falling from a hovering person moving at the speed of light is bad enough, but doing it above an electricity deposit is one hundred times worse.


    I fell for about a minute, crashed through three electricity wires and ran straight into a generator. I stood up and found I was somehow still alive. All of my bones felt like they were cracked and reshaped.


    My clothes were burnt and torn. And my hands were bleeding and scraped¡­ but I was very much alive. I looked around to find I was now in a nicely lit room with electricity workers all around me staring in disbelief. I looked over at them and they didn''t bother looking away (which I kinda liked for a change).


    One of them finally racked up enough courage to ask how I''d managed to fall into an electricity deposit.


    ¡°Er.. um¡­ Free falling accident,¡±


    I lied,


    ¡°My parachute kinda didn''t work¡­ heh.¡±


    They all kept staring at me. I tried my best to walk over to the exit and found I actually felt totally fine.


    I was still wondering how had somehow survived a five hundred foot drop, from lightspeed, into an electricity deposit when I reached the door. I looked back at the workers one more time. Then left. It was a nice sunny day, with not a cloud in the sky. But i didn''t enjoy it or even look at it till i could track down a vehicle, and make a plan of how to save Dane, release my dad, and then save my friends.


    And on top of that I had pretty much the entire base¡¯s recruits looking for me. I felt screwed. But then again i survived a fall from five hundred feet so at this point it was like anything could happen.


    I looked around for the first time since I''d been outside and I saw nothing. Literally nothing. Well i mean except for a highway¡­ but still. I felt upset, mad, angry! I had gotten almost killed twice already and on top of that kidnapped, oh and don''t forget tortured.


    Me and my friends had suffered so much pain, only to be put in the middle of nowhere!!! I punched a wall, and it cracked. My anger was immediately replaced by amazement. I didn''t know exactly what my powers were or how many i had¡­ but damn was i strong.


    I decided not to give up to anger and emotion quite yet. I had to believe in myself. Dane, my dad, and both my friends were all counting on me, and Dane must have had a reason to drop me here. Well besides saving me and being captured himself.


    I started looking around for anything I could find. I punched the dirt seeing if i could kind of search under the concrete for(at this point) ANYTHING i could find. I punched it multiple more times. Each time adding another 2 inches into the ground.


    Eventually after an hour and a half of digging I hit something hard. I reached down and felt it. It felt like handlebars.


    ¡°Uhhhhhgh,¡±


    I said, straining to pull it up. It took me another ten minutes to pull it out. It was a kids bicycle. Don''t ask me why a bicycle was down there i don''t know.


    It was a little small for me but it would have to do. I started towards the road. It was almost nightfall but I had to ride as far as I could before going to sleep. I knew if the tortured Dane enough either him or my father would have to eventually confess my location.


    I started biking. It was nice, I could feel the cool breeze on my face, relaxing me. I almost forgot about saving my friends¡­ almost.


    About an hour later it was too dark to see. I managed to find a dumpster I could sleep behind. I put my bike down, and layed down on the ground.


    It took me a little while to fall asleep but when I did I had the worst dream yet.