Chapter 7, A guy with bad luck

*~~Hannah~~*

They had woken up not too long ago and she guessed they were in prison cells. They were in the cells two and two, she and Charlotte, the black haired girl and Arbell’s friend, Vera, Welma or something and the leader and Arbell. Hannah and her ‘roommate’ had woken up last, the black haired girl had told them, she had also told them that she and her ‘roommate’ thought Arbell and the leader had woken up first. Otherwise they shouldn’t have been able to talk to each other like they did.

“…you don’t get why I did that?” Arbell’s voice could be heard. “Seriously?!”

“You got a problem with that?” The leader answered. “How can anyone understand that? You just put your hand over my mouth and then stared at me!”

“You stared back, or have you forgotten that? ‘Course I thought you got why!” At least they didn’t scream at each other, though it was only a matter of time.

She sighed, they didn’t know where they were, the only window was near the ceiling and the ceiling was high up. It wouldn’t be of much help to see what was outside, it would just give them something to do for a little while. Maybe they could see if they could escape, but that wasn’t likely. Maybe she should climb up there? After all, her arms and legs free, the people who captured them couldn’t have known they had powers, otherwise they shouldn’t have placed them here, arms and legs free. Hadn’t they seen the powers, though, when they captured them. She knew the black haired girl had turned her arm into something. Anyways, she should change one of the two beds into a ladder and climb up to the window. She stretched out her arm towards the bed. Nothing happened. She tried to concentrate even more. Nothing happened.

“Trying to use your powers?” Her ‘roommate’ asked. Hannah ignored her and tried again. “It won’t work. It didn’t for me.” Hannah turned her head towards her. Charlotte just sat there, leaning against the wall. “Besides, our next door neighbors said they only saw mountains when they looked.”

“Really? Couldn’t you’ve said that to me sooner?” The girl annoyed her.

“You didn’t ask and I thought you understood. Of course they’ve already looked, they woke up before us.” Hannah thought Charlotte fitted here. She was as cold as the weather, but maybe she could help her to see what was outside?

“Could you then help me to see what’s outside?” Yes, they had already looked, but she would like to see for herself, maybe they had missed something.

“Why? You know what’s outside.”

“I would like to look.” She tried not to sound too annoyed. “It’s not like you have something better to do anyway.” Silence. Charlotte looked up at the window.

“If stand on my back, I might get hurt and if you fall, you might get hurt.” She didn’t sound worried even though her words were.

“The leader can heal us.” When she can use her powers again.

Charlotte took her time to answer this time, too.

“I guess you can stand on my back.”

She bent down on all four below the window and Hannah climbed up, carefully.

“Does it hurt?” She asked.

“No.” Good.

She grabbed the bars and she felt their coldness through the gloves. The view was marvelous, just like wallpapers on the internet. She couldn’t look down, but guessed they were high up, too high up to be able to escape through the window. Sure, it would be hard to do so, but she would rather do that then running around looking for an exit, not to mention that the place probably had a lot of guards. Not that she had seen any. She tried to look to the sides, as much as she could, but couldn’t see anything. She climbed down and said:

“I guess there weren’t anything out there.”

“Told you.” She sat down and leaned against the wall again, with her eyes far, far away.

“You looked outside the so-called window, too?” a voice said. “You didn’t see anything, either, right?” The voice probably belonged to Arbell’s friend. The black haired girl spoke clearer.

“…No” She felt stupid for wanting to see if they had missed something. Of course they hadn’t missed something, they had probably looked more than once, too. She didn’t want to admit it, but she should have listened to Charlotte.

“Too bad.”

How would they get out of here now? If they could attract the guards they could maybe, maybe, knock them out and steal the keys, and then run around and hope to find an exit. Then they needed to find a way to get out of the mountains, but she decided to leave those thoughts for later. She didn’t know how to attract the guards, though, if the argument in the cell in front of theirs hadn’t made them come….She couldn’t think of anything else, in movies they always pretended to fight, maybe Arbell and the leader did that? Then when they got out, they would fight the guards and this time they would win. With or without that Natalie. How could she just run away?!

 “OH, YEAH?! I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU BEING THE LEADER!” the leader screamed and by doing so, disrupting Hannah’s thoughts.

“I NEVER SAID YOU’RE A BAD LEADER!” Arbell screamed back. “I SAID YOU HAVE A BAD TEMPRAMENT!” They did so not plan pretend to fight. They were probably just screaming things at each other now, out of anger of being captured and brought here, or something. It would have been nicer if they, too, thought of a way out instead of fighting.

“LIKE YOU’RE ONE TO TALK!”

“WOULD YOU PLEASE SHUT UP?” A voice screamed. “It’s bothersome enough to be here, you two don’t need to make it worse!” That voice did not belong to any of the girls, it was too dark. It seemed to come from the left.

“And who the f*uck are you?” Arbell asked.

“The same as you.” He, she assumed it was a he, said angrily.

“The same as us?” Leader said. “Really? You even know who we are?”

“From Amal Ialad. Everyone listening to your damn fight would know.” He was from Amal Ialad, too? She pressed her face at the little opening in the door. She had expected to meet people like them, but not this early on! Oh, she wanted to talk to him, where did he come from? How was his world? How long had he been doing this? Why was he here? Yeah, why was he here? She had thought they had been the only group here, what did his group do here? Did Tenso and Ingya think they couldn’t handle this by themselves, or what?

“Then what’re you doing here?” Arbell asked, she still sounded hostile. “And how do we know you’re not lying?” He sighed.

“My group is in the south to make peace between Amessia’s and Rurica’s allies. The fighting is even worse down there. But why am I here, then? I was captured by Rurican soldiers and was brought here…” Captured? Were they also newbies? She had thought he was experienced, or maybe he was just guy with bad luck. He did sound embarrassed, so she didn’t think he was that new.

Arbell muttered something. It was probably something rude.

“Yeah?” Miranda said, the angry tone was almost gone now. “Well, whatever, do you know a way out of here? And why we haven’t seen any guards?”

“I’m not some kind of old wizard that knows everything, y’know. If I knew of a way out of here, wouldn’t I have escaped already? And the lack of guards? First of all, you have only been here, for what? Not even half a day and secondly, there is a war going on, y’know. Almost everyone is fighting in it. It’s obvious, haven’t you ever experienced a war, or what?”

“We’re new, couldn’t you figure that out from our little fight, you…” Arbell began

“No, we haven’t experienced war.” Miranda said. “Is that so unusual for you? And this is our first world.  Heck, I didn’t know I had powers until a couple of days ago! But thank you, for the information.” At least she knew when to stop, unlike Arbell. Hannah liked Arbell very much, but she could be very, very stubborn. She had experienced that when they had practiced for the first time.

“Whatever.” he said, and so the conversation died down. She went back to her thoughts. That Natalie…where was she, anyway? She doubted the girl would come back, first of all, she had been long gone when Hannah was put to sleep, secondly, they were up in the mountains, far away from anything. At least it felt like that.

“Wilma, what do you think that is?” she heard the black haired girl say. What, were there rats here? Great.

“Where? I don’t see anything.”

“Just over there. It’s white and serpentine thing in the air.”

Hannah became curious and went over to the window, but she couldn’t see anything.

“Serpentine? The words you use…You mean that thing that seems like it’s moving towards us?”

“Yes.”

Hannah saw it, it was indeed like a snake and it moved towards them. Fast. Charlotte came to the window.

“What is that?” she asked. “It looks like an over-grown snake.”

“Hey! Do you see it?” Arbell’s friend asked. She must learn her name soon, she can’t call her ‘Arbell’s friend’ forever.

“What are you guys talkin’ bout?” Arbell asked.

“Is that…a person on its back?” the guy asked.

It had come a great deal closer now, and it was a person on its back. He, or she, had white clothes and dark hair. That was easy to see, it was such a contrast to the white everywhere around him. Or her.

“Seriously, what are you talkin’ about?” Arbell asked again.

“Wait...isn’t that a dragon?” Charlotte asked.

“What? Are you sure?” she asked, she looked closer and it was a dragon! An Asian styled one! Holy…

“Get down!” someone screamed. Hannah and Charlotte ducked, and a moment later loud noises came from Wilma’s and the black haired girl’s cell.

“What happened?!” Miranda screamed. “Are you alright?”

“They’re fine!” a slightly familiar voice said.

“Get me to the door, little one.” an unfamiliar voice said, it sounded really weird.

Some moments later she heard another strange sound, she couldn’t tell what it was.

“Oh my god, is that actually a real…?” Wilma asked someone.

“It is.” The familiar voice said. She heard the sound again and the door to the cell went up. She and Charlotte went out, carefully. In front of them was a little white thing locking up Arbell’s cell. The door went up and the thing flew to the right and landed on Natalie’s shoulder. The thing was a little, white dragon. Hannah stared at it and was so astounded she forgot her feelings towards Natalie.

“So you’ve finally shown up now, huh?” Arbell said. “’Bout time.” But she didn’t.

 They let out the guy, too. He had light blond hair, just like Tenso, and had white clothes just like them. He stared at the dragon like he couldn’t believe his eyes and whispered something.

“Well. Let’s get out of here.” Leader said.