The Good from the Bad

Chapter 5- Soon...

Abril's Cell

Abril

I have checked the room for cameras and devices and I haven't found any. Even then, I try to look insane or sick of being here, which would explain my moving around and I don't speak if there is SOMETHING in the room. My door opens and a guard appears. "Lunch time", he says in a flat voice. "Not hungry", I reply. Out of the blue, the guard hits me on the head... hard."Eat you little b***h! I have orders to f*****g watch over you and you haven't made it easy." I smiled to myself, I knew I wouldn't be THAT compliant. This explains the bruises though. The guard says "Eat you goddam food or I'll force feed you like I have done all this time. Maybe I'll be gentle and I won't hit you as much. I should tell John to give you other drugs. These memory drugs make you forget how to obey!!", The guard said. He finished by giving me another blow to the head. I collapsed on the floor and he left, dropping my tray on the floor next to me. If this guy had orders from John to drug me and watch over me, why did he leave? I was right, its obvious he physically abused me ,so I could eat the food and then, I would forget everything with the drugs and the hits to the head. Hopefully, my skull isn't cracked. There is orders to keep me alive, but that doesn't mention anything about abuse. But, I think this guy has to control his blows or something because if he didn't... I wouldn't be here or I would have serious health issues. He could get in trouble with John. Let's not forget he is keeping me alive. Meaning that as long as I live, they can treat me how they like, but John probably doesn't want to deal with a damaged skull. It seems I'm important or of value of some sort. John is a meticulous maniac. He put a lot of effort into the kidnapping. The psycho probably chose a specific guard, with a specific amount of strength, to hit specific places in my head, so there is damage ,but "bearable" damage. John doesn't want me to remember anything. Seems smart. If I don't remember anything, who knows what I could do.

1 Hour later...

I'm waiting. I didn't eat the food. I just kept it in my mouth and then... down the toilet. It seems to have worked because I can remember stuff. Remember the guard? Well, he is right outside the door. He thinks I "ate" and I'm in the shower. I eventually finished my shower, put my clothes on, got the mini knife from the food tray, a pillow and called out, "All done big guy!!!". When I hear him come in and close the door, I jump from behind, put the pillow to his face to muffle his screams, and just hurt him anyway I can. The plan is to leave him unconscious, but if it goes further, I won't mind. I think I finally knocked him out after kicking him in the crown jewels. But I still beat him, just to be sure. Before taking the pillow from his face, I get my food tray to hit him if he is still conscious. I lift the pillow,and the guy looks out. So, I tie him up with the bed sheet on my plain bed and my pillow cover, place his own sock in his mouth and check if he has a weapon or a map of some sort. Let's see a gun, knife, a phone, the key to the vault and ooooh.... cash! I grab his jacket and stuff the goods in it and look if there is a map of some sort on the phone. After I look through the phone for a while, I realize its useless, so I take the guy's clothing to blend in and go off on my own.

I leave the vault, lock it with the key and follow the corridor until god knows when. I don't really know what I'm looking for in terms of the hostages or where they are. I just keep wandering through the halls and I feel there is something about the corridor to the left. I follow it, trusting my instinct. It leads me to the room my family took. The blood is still on the walls, the bodies are gone. I don't think they will have a proper burial. Seeing this room makes me forget why I broke out. I need to free the hostages. I keep walking with tears in my eyes. Eventually, I noticed the difference between the wall of a corridor and another wall. The difference is so minimal but existent, that I almost missed it. Something tells me that is the outer wall of the arena. Heck, it looks like a camouflage electric wall. Perfect, if he was trying to hide them. No one would notice the difference. I put my hand around the gun and the knife as I went through the wall.

When I went in, there was hardly any light, and I came across someone tied up. "Yes... this is it", I thought as I walked around. These people are still asleep. Waking them up is a priority, seeing I don't know how much time I have until they find out I'm on the run. I nudged one of the hostages. When she opens her eyes, she has an expression of pure fear until I take off the guard's clothes, that makes me realize that those assholes have traumatized and tortured these poor souls...even more than me.

"Don't worry", I explain. "I'm here to break you out of here." Just as the woman looks like she is about to cry, I say, "We need to be quiet, I'm an escaped prisoner. They can't know I'm here." The woman nods and helps me wake up the rest of the people. One of the hostages asks as I'm untying them, "Who are you young lady?" I reply with, "A hostage like you." The hostage keeps talking and says "Are your parents here?" This person is really getting on my nerves. I say, "They aren't; they were taken away by the lunatic that put us all in here." That seems to be enough for the person to say, "Princess". I'm like "WHAT?" "Yes", the person continues, "You are the only hope for the kingdom." I'm confused. I asked "Have you been fed? Or attended of some sort?" The person replies," take a closer look, I was at your party." I do and he does seem familiar. "Who are you?", I ask. The person replies with, " I'm Eren, your father's counselor and confidant."

"You knew my parents?" , I ask, still incredulous.

" Yes, and it is my duty to inform you of your new... abilities, I should say.", said Eren.

At this point, I had a lot of questions, so I kept them coming. "Why did my parents know you? What do you mean by "counselor" and "new abilities"? Do my parents know all of these people? If so, how? "

"Slow down, there. It seems you have a clock on your back, so I'll give you the short version. You are an all-powerful being, the most powerful of all. The last of your kind can be traced back to centuries ago. People like this lunatic want your power, and to sum it up, these people are your people. We are your rebellion, your kingdom, and you are our leader, now that they aren't here."

I ask, "you mean my parents, right?'

Eren nods, "We were under a sleeping spell, but we could hear and see everything. The only time we were awake was when HE transmitted your family's death through a big screen," he nodded to the big screen in the center of the arena. "The people saw you too, just for a bit, before the transmission ended. All of us were really down after their deaths. We thought you were dead too, since we couldn't feel your magic. But, it was probably due to the mistreatment and the unbalanced magic. You see, when someone dies we can feel their magic leave, but since we've never felt so much magic leave , especially powerful magic, it may feel like an extra death or two. But all of this aside, I still can't feel you.

I say,"Sorry to disappoint, but I'm not magical. I'm alive because he is keeping me alive for who knows what reason. I did all of this with no magic. And seeing you and everyone else being malnourished, it makes sense for you to go off about magic and stuff like that."

Eren looks at me seriously, "April, you are magical. If not, why are you still alive? You said so yourself. You are alive for a reason."

I have decided to believe him for the time being. Eren continues, "Say you turned 13, didn't you?"

"Yes", I answered.

"Weird", says Eren. "Anyways, as I was saying,.." Eren got interrupted by the first woman I woke up, "Eren, I woke up everyone, now what do we do?"

Eren says, "Don't ask me, Arila. Ask her, Queen Reyn."

As Eren says that, Arilla looks at me with big eyes. She had tears going down her face. She pulls me in a bear hug and says in a half relieved and half happy sobbing voice, "Princess, I'm so sorry, you had to find out like that. Then, experience all of this alone. Your parents didn't want to worry you about your powers, so they hid it from you. God you look just like them." She continued, "I'm your mother's counselor and Eren's wife. We will try to help you in every way we can." She gave me a smile. I can't help but think," Oh this woman, these people have been traumatized, they saw their leaders fall and she still tries to give me a smile."

I break the moment by asking, "Are we all here?" Both Eren and Arila answer, "Yes".

"Good", I reply, " Because its time for part 2."

They both looked confused. Arila asks "What do you mean Princess?"

I say, "I'm breaking you out of here, and please call me April."

" OK April , but how?" I showed them the phone I found on the guard. They look through it and don't have any sort of luck either. They give me the phone and I look at it. How will I get out of here? I looked at the phone again and I sighed. I go to one of the contacts on the phone and look through the messages. I eventually find a sort of map through the messages. The caption says underneath, "ik this place is a maze. Don't get lost." I identified the arena we were in and where I came through. The exit is to the straight left. Then, I tell them, " I found the exit," I lead them there. As I was about to pass through, Arila says, "Its electrified, April. That is why I was so scared and confused when you untied me. Only guards seem to pass through the door like its nothing. While on the other hand, we get electrified. I put on the guard's jacket that was still on the floor. I put my arm through the wall, nothing happened. It's the clothes then. The clothes are immune to the barrier. I tell Arila, " It's my clothing. I think I have to find something first. Stay here, and

tell everyone if the barrier comes down to run to the left, the exit lies there." I go through the wall and back into the pale corridors, I try to find a switch. After frantically looking around, I found something similar, a big metal box. I went over to it, tried to mess with it with the knife and it worked. The box opened. There were a lot of cables and buttons ,so I cut the cables and nothing happened. I took the gun and fired at the button. Red lights started flashing out of nowhere along with the same sound a fire alarm goes off at school. I turned around. The barrier was coming down. I saw my rebellion. I yelled at the top of my lungs, "To the exit!!!!". My rebellion understood and they ran for their freedom through the wide corridor. I made sure nobody stayed behind, and Eren and Arila were right in front of me. I could feel guards coming from all directions, especially behind us. I turned around and shot the gun. After it ran out of bullets, I threw it and went for the knife. Just as I was about to throw, I felt a light covering me in a big circle and when it went down it gave my rebellion a little push to the exit, apart from some much needed strength. Meanwhile, it pushed the guards back, way back. I kept running with my rebellion and we reached the exit. There was nothing there but desert. The guards were on their way. I had to think fast. Now that I know I'm magical, I have to use my powers, but I don't know how. I ask Eren frantically how to teleport people.

Eren replied with, "Princess, it's too much for you. You barely showed signs of magic..."

I replied with, "I don't care. I need to know."

He reluctantly agreed to show me. "Just imagine a bright light around the object and imagine it in another place."

I thought it was dumb , I tried. I imagined them in another place, maybe some headquarters in the U.S, close to home. Then, as I was in the mood, I felt something pinch me and wrap around me then again and again and again. It sent electricity throughout my whole body. It was getting harder to picture home, but I did it anyway and nothing gave me more satisfaction than seeing that big ball of light taking my rebellion elsewhere. I was so weak I couldn't stand up anymore. I fell on my knees and in my clouded vision saw some big black plastic tentacles wrap around me. Then I looked up and saw a blurry tanned face smirking, as I blacked out and fell face first into desert sand.