The Last Wars by Bianca Gray (suggested reading txt) 📖

why the little twins were part of this elite group…they happily killed. I went to go help Valora but suddenly someone was holding me back. I struggled but this person was stronger than me. I gathered that he was a male. I looked up angry and frustrated. It was Nick. Then I just felt shock. Why was he holding me back when I could save my friend who was being slowly cut into pieces by monster twins? He shook his head no. Then he leaned in close to my ear.
“Don’t get into the middle of that. You’ll just die with her, trust me, it gets confusing with those two,” he said. But I couldn’t just stand there and watch. Snow White was sort of turning her head away from the thing. Venus looked like she was being tormented along with Valora, conflicted about whether she should go in and save her best friend or not. I saw Fawn pick up a piece of glass. I didn’t know where she got it, but I looked at it terrified, as Fawn was about to throw the glass into Valora’s chest. I struggled to take the knife out of my back pocket and in a second, the knife made contact with the piece of glass, knocking it away from Valora. Nick just looked at me with a mixture of anger and annoyance.
“What. Did. You. Just. Do??” he hissed in my ear. Suddenly, I noticed that Valora’s screams had died off. Bambi had finished the deed but now Fawn was looking at me curiously. She had a slight smile on her face. No, I thought. I was now her target.


CHAPTER 4

The only sounds I heard was my heart beat. I was aware that Venus was crying over Valora’s dead body; that Fayre was sort of standing there, white in the face and that Snow White was trying to wrestle the sharp stick from Bambi. But considering that Snow White seemed like a mother to both Bambi and Fawn, Snow got the stick and threw it as far away as possible.
Fawn stared at me and kept doing it. I have only been terrified one other time in my life, and that was when I was about three dozen moons old, or in other words, three years old. We had encountered saber tooth tigers. My leader said that he thought that they had died out earlier on, went extinct, but they were back, and he didn’t know how or why. But they had really long canine teeth that stuck out of their mouths. They looked at us all like we were something to eat, but especially me. One lunged for me, and I didn’t know what to do but a fox sacrificed their life for me. She was the same age as I. She died quickly. Soon enough everyone was fighting. But the same saber tooth tiger still stared at me, with hungry yellow eyes. I remember being frightened…and then I realized I was as terrified as I was that day when we encountered the tigers. Fawn was staring at me in the same way.
I looked up at Nick and he kept his eyes on Fawn, slowly moving his body in front of me in a protective stance.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“Shh,” he simply said putting a finger to his lips. I wasn’t going to let another animal sacrifice their selves for me. I moved his arm away from me as Fawn picked up the glass that my knife knocked away. Then she dropped the glass and picked up my knife. Oh, God, I thought. She looked at me with big brown eyes, eyes that you’d normally couldn’t help but trust. But she and her twin focused on killing Valora, and now she was dead. Fawn seemed to be very focused on killing me. I knew that Nick wasn’t going to be able to stop her unless he broke her neck, crushing her windpipe, and killing her quickly. He looked at me confused and angry as I pushed him away. I wasn’t about to let Fawn kill off someone that I cared about….
Great.
I just thought that I cared about Nick.
I’m insane.
Do I WANT to be helpless because I’m in love?
No.
So, that never happened in my mind.
…. But it did… I groaned inwardly. Fawn threw the knife when a dart sunk into her arm. She looked at it, and then fell to the ground, unconscious. I stepped to the side to avoid the dagger, about to push Nick away and then I realized that he had already sidestepped the dagger. I smiled at him and he slowly returned it. Then I felt a prick in my arm and saw a dart go into Nick. We both fell to the ground, blackness taking over.

CHAPTER 5

I woke up in my confinement room thingy. It was so cold and lonely there. Then I remembered, Valora! I banged on the walls of my confinement center. I needed to see Valora. She had to have lived through that. She had to! I cried out and then sunk to the floor in defeat. Tears started to flow fast down my cheeks. I had lost a friend. One of the first ones, who knew that you should be wary of new comers. If only I had seen Bambi with that stick. I just only focused on Fawn. I cried harder. It’s my entire fault. If only. If only. Then I wiped the salty tears off of my face. I am supposed to be strong. Crying shows weakness. And I’m not weak. I got up and I shouted at the top of my lungs, “YOU DIDN’T COME SAVE VALORA! YOU COULD’VE! I KNOW YOU SAW THE WHOLE THING, BUT YOU DIDN’T! AND YOU’RE GOING TO PAY!” I knew they saw me yell out like this. I just faced the ceiling, a look of determination on my face. Jane didn’t let me out for two whole days. I counted the seconds, the minutes, the hours, and I waited for someone to let me out of this room. But I wasn’t going to give in by going insane or anything. Then suddenly on the third night, my door opened.
“What? I get to come out now?” I asked sarcastically. Then someone said sharply, “SHH!” I looked up with big eyes. What’s going on? There was a silhouette of a person standing at my door. I walked up slowly looking at it. Were they going to kill me? I thought, a moment of fear creeping through my body. Then I saw it flash a smile. The moonlight caught a pale strand of hair. Bright green eyes winked at me. It was Fayre!
“Fayre!” I whispered, joy filling me. Then Venus pulled me out of the room and closed the door almost silently.
“You know how to walk the forest floor silently, right?” she whispered. I nodded my head.
“Good, ‘cause you’re going to have to know that to survive,” Venus whispered. I nodded my head again. This was serious. I think we were breaking out. Odd, I had only been here for a week. Now, I was leaving this God forsaken place. Then I saw Snow White carrying Bambi and Ida carrying Fawn. I bared my teeth and a growl escaped my lips. Venus looked over at them and then Fayre and her had me down.
“Don’t,” Venus ordered. I looked up at her, betrayal clear on my face. She sighed.
“They did something to their brains. They put some chip in it. To make them lethal weapons, to make them think that killing is fun. Zanita knew how to keep the chips in their heads neutral. Some kind of leaf that they have to eat. And now they’re perfectly pleasant. They cried for days when they found out that they killed Valora,” said Venus trying to hide her choking voice. I frowned.
“Whose Zanita?” I asked. Then a girl with bright scarlet red hair and copper eyes grinned at me.
“Hi,” she said. I glared.
“Zanita means long teeth,” I murmured. Zanita nodded.
“I know. I was given this name when I was younger. Apparently I liked to bite things,” she said then she rolled her eyes. Huh, she grew up with humans, figures, I thought.
“Oh so you were raised by humans huh,” I said making it sound like an insult. Zanita shook her head slowly.
“No…I was raised by saber tooth tigers,” she said. I stared at her like a doe being hunted. Saber tooth tigers? A chill went down my spine. She stared at me curiously. Probably wondering why I was so frozen. I think everyone was wondering that. I slowly went out of it and then smiled back.
“Great,” was all I said.
“Yeah, well, I’m apparently better with technology than biting things…. Although I’m very good at that,” she said flashing me a smile. I made a mental note to stay away from those teeth.
“Anyway, let’s get out of here,” hissed Fayre getting impatient. We ran down the corridor and then Fayre ran into someone.
“Daniel! What are you doing?” she whisper-yelled. I saw the guy shrug.
“We saw you guys leaving, thought we would too,” he said. We? I asked. Then I saw the rest of the guys. There were six in total but each looked extremely strong. I saw Nick’s sparkling blue eyes and felt myself blush. Thank God it was dark.
“We’re not just leaving for fun like last time, Daniel,” Fayre said. I could hear the impatience and anger seeping from her voice.
“I didn’t think you were,” he grinned.
“After we saw Valora die, we knew you guys would at least try to break out. But we know the area better than you six so…” said another guy. He was sort of small, taller than me though, but smaller compared to the rest. I saw that he was one of those guys who always have a sarcastic grin on his face. He had dark eyes and jet-black hair. I could see he had a darker complexion than the rest of us. So, he saw Valora die, too. And didn’t do anything to stop it. I glared at him. All of them. He stared back at me. His dark eyes mirroring black holes. Venus stepped up to talk to them.
“Well, you guys do know the area better than us, but don’t think you need to protect us,” said Venus.
“Not for a second,” smiled Daniel. So, with no time to lose, we found a way out. Apparently there was some trap door that led to the roof. When we were on the roof, Fayre threw a rock off it. It came flying back at us.
“Figures,” murmured Fayre. Force fields, I thought not knowing what the word meant.
“They must have the security up,” whispered the small dark boy. In the moonlight I could see he had freckles sprinkled across his cheeks and nose. He was tan and good-looking of course but there was something off about him that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Zanita stared across the roof at what was presumably the force field really hard. Then she panned her eyes across the force field and fixed her eyes at a single point.
“That,” she said pointing at a small round nail.
“What about it?” asked Nick looking at what she was pointing at.
“That’s where the force field is coming up from. Smash that, and we’re home free,” she said. Huh, I could tell why she would think that. She had to have been looking very carefully at it to know. I panned my eyes across the force field, following