As we tore through the under brush of the woods that surrounded the compound we could hear the distinct sound of rumbling engines behind us. They started quick; quicker than their normal response time to people leaving. Maybe it’s because we’re “special”, maybe it’s because we knew too much and they were afraid if we did come back it wouldn’t be alone. Either way we have to make it, we have to esc...

I open my eyes to a misty walkway in a grassy field covered in fog.

“I hope the passing was peaceful.” A gruff voice whispers next to me and I jump to look at them. It’s a young man, no older than 24, in a light grey tshirt and black jeans; but there is something about his eyes that gives me a moment of pause.

“Who are you and where am I exactly?” I ask as I take in the rest of my surroundings. ...

I heard the screams of people before I could completely peel my eyelids open. The heat from the fires raging around me, the bite of broken glass digging into my body. When I finally do manage to open them I wish I would’ve stayed in the peace of unconsciousness. There was buildings lying in rubbles heaps, and the wounded and dead were scattered amongst the wreckage. The sky was a hazy red, like al...

I felt the drying blood making the skin around my mask taunt,

“Her blood.” I whisper to myself, feeling the distinct prick of tears welling behind my eyes. My nemesis, Dread, knew what attacking in daylight meant; and he used it to his advantage. I had gotten too lax with keeping my lives seperate, he must’ve had someone tailing me to figure out a weakness.

“Lifegiver?” A timid voice draws me out...