Short Story

As he left the apartment and made his way up the hall to the elevators at the opposite end, he tried not to think about the dream that seemed determined to be thought of; but as if from a buried memory that had forcefully unearthed itself from the shallow grave of his subconscious mind, speaking without intending to speak, he heard himself say, "Who was

“Come on, come on,” yelled a man in his late twenties, “I hear you stomping around here!” Slowly, the sounds of footsteps could be heard, its origin coming from the stairway of the house.

Dr. Lee took a deep breath and headed down the stairs, followed by SSG Bell with SSG Wo bringing up the rear. At the bottom of the stairs there were two large double wooden doors, “Do we knock?” Wally asked the two other men. “Can’t hurt.” SSG Bell said, at least he hoped not.

“Looking to you, Princess. What’s it gonna be?” Bellamy asked, the rest of them now calmed down and looking at Clarke as well. “Run and get picked off out in the open, or stand and fight back?”

Retreating, we retraced our steps to the lowest floor, the land we all knew so well, and placed the masks - that fit like gloves - back on our faces. The sound of fast footsteps slowly stopped behind us; we slammed the door behind us and waited to hear the last bodies fall to the floor. This was it. We were finally alone, and

She smirked and walked inside, followed by Chase. The door slammed shut and they both turned around with their mouths agape. Chase sprinted toward the door and yanked at it.

"Okay!" I agreed. All of the kids followed me into the car parked in the middle of the other two. Aksel and a few agents got into his car in the front. Only two agents got into the car into the back that Drew was driving before. Aksel speeds off and I followed him as quickly and closely as I could. For some reason the car behind us wasn't following, in fact they weren't moving at all.

“Well technically we aren’t supposed to be stationed here so we are underground. As long as the Greenpeace can’t see us, they can’t stop us. But honestly, I have a lot of work to do so shut up and take notes on my meeting with Caspian.”

“We aren’t wanted anywhere. We’ll just step up camp again a few miles from here and start again. We’ll die if we leave.” Samuel reached to stop me from packing.

Elizabeth astonishingly looks at him in distress and in her eyes you can tell how nervous she was. He quickly grabs her by the hand and begins to run along with her up flights of stairs. From the 4th to the 5th floor and so forth, they ran up away

“Door was unlocked.” Josh moseyed over to Tyler, and sat down next to his friend. “Why you wearing the ski mask?”

“ Well sorry.” Huck replied, they had about 1 minute before he got to the door so they ran around the corner to hide.

“We will have to get lockers installed and have security guards checking in from time to time.”

"Yep. Doing recon in a new world." Roxas gave Axel their mission report for him to look over. "We're kinda worried about the name though 'Hollow Bastion' doesn't sound like the most safest place to be."

were walking out, there was an eerie silence among them. When they got supplies, they went