Chapter 1: Leo
My name is Leo Anderson, and to understand what I'm about to tell you, you have to listen very carefully. This is a story of how my life got turned upside-down when I met an extraordinary girl named Georgia.To be fair, my life was never really upside-up. When I was 3, my parents died in a war, and I was sent to an orphanage. I have heterochromia, which is where one eye is a different color than the other. Because of this, I got bullied a lot. When I was 7, I had enough, and I escaped. I lived off hunting small animals, like rats, with a sharp stick. When I was 9, I got a job and was actually able to buy weapons to hunt with. I got 2 daggers, and I trained myself to use them.
When I was 12, I finally got sorted and got my powers. I got into the heart quadrant. Once I moved to that region, they gave me a bow and some arrows in a quiver, but it was still the same thing; scavenging for food, and making just enough money to survive. When I was 15, I had saved up enough money to get trained by a real professional on how to fight and heal.
But that was then, and this is now.
I was just walking through the woods, looking for an animal to hunt. That was when I saw a deer. I slowly crept up to it and lunged. And I missed it! I was so angry at myself, that I barely realized the strange thumb, thumb sound. It was coming from one of the dividing walls. I believe it was coming from the wall separating us from the spades.
And that was when BOOM! The area of the wall that the sound was coming from, exploded. I just had enough time to cover myself behind a tree. I still, somehow, got hit with a few big concrete pieces of rubble. The force of the rocks was so hard that it knocked me out.
When I finally came to, I felt a harsh sting coming from my head and my eye, where I already had a scar. I must've been hit really badly because when all the dust cleared, I saw the form of a girl. I thought I was hallucinating. She stepped forward, and that was when I saw more of the defining features of her, then passed out again.
When I woke up for the second time, I saw a short girl with frizzy brown hair, seeming to be my age, tending to my wounds. Instinctively, I backed up from her.
“Who are you, and why did you blow up the wall?” I asked her.
“I’ll explain later, but first you need to get stitched up. Now, I don't know as much about surgery as you people, but you are in no shape to do anything, and I don't want anyone else knowing I'm here, so hold still.”
Now, usually, I don't trust people, especially people that weren’t hearts, but something about her voice, her strong, confident, yet soft voice, made me think I could.
“If-if you are planning to escape out of all of this complete crap of the four suits, I'm coming with you,” I said, trying not to sound so scared.
“Oh yeah, and why is that?” she said, mockingly.
“Because I've spent 16 years in this horrible place, where all I've known is misery. All I've had is a life of grief, pain, and unfair judgment. So if you are going on the run, I'm coming with you.”
“Well, can you fight? Because we’re going to need to get through 2 guards for my plan to work.”
I showed her my 2 daggers and my bow with a quiver full of arrows, and said, “Of course I can, it's all I've been doing for my entire life.”
“Ok, my plan is to, once the guards are knocked out, disable the electricity on the fence, then climb over.
“Oh, I forgot to ask, what is your name?” I questioned her.
“I'm Georgia, Georgia Louise. And you are…?”
“My name is Leo Anderson. Shall we get started?” I asked. I wasn't too excited to attack 2 of my own kind, and I wasn't excited to be working with someone I didn't know at all, but I NEEDED a way out.
I decided the best plan of action would be to sneak up to 1 of the guards, and hit him over the head with the pommel of one of my daggers. Then, while the other one was distracted by Georgia, trying to get a hold of what was happening, I’d hit that one with the pommel of the other dagger. We waited for the right time, then we attacked.
I snuck over there, then while I knocked out one guard, Georgia distracted the second guard, then I came over and knocked him out. Georgia then crept behind and rewired the electric box for the electric gate. We climbed over the gate and saw the unknown. The ‘unknown’ looked cold, and for all we knew, there could be a whole lot of rogues out there waiting for something, or someone, to attack. There was a thin layer of permafrost on the grass. It looked like a desolate wasteland, there was nothing there but a few patches of trees and other plants. I hoped the terraform would change when we walked farther. After a little while of standing there in sheer awe, we stepped through.
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