Bailey
I woke up to a shearing pain in my left shoulder and two teenage boys standing over me, both of them only several inches away from my face.

I recognised the younger of the two. Justin Ross, son of Hecate, he had been with Alex the first time they took me. He was a year older than me and although he looked nice he wasn't, he had a nasty streak almost as bad as Alex's.

As I sat up both boys stepped away but didn't take their eyes of me.

I looked around to see that I was in a small room. There wasn't much to it, just a rickety old bed that I was laying on, a chest of draws next to a window and a wooden chair next to the bed. A bare light bulb hung from the ceiling but wasn't switched on, the only light came through the cracks in the boarded up window.

I felt a sudden chill and looked down to see that I didn't have my top on. However my shoulder, chest and wrist were wrapped in clean bandages.

"Hey Finn," Justin yelled turning his head towards the closed door, "he's awake."

"You know, he probably can't hear you." It was the older boy I didn't know who had spoken. He was looking at me still, a massive grin on his face.

"Shut up," Justin replied his voice sounding annoyed. "Finn!" He yelled again, this time louder.

“What did I say?” The older boy teased, turning to look at Justin who was by the door.

Justin sighed, “I'm going to have to go get him, you stay here and make sure Bailey doesn't try to escape.” He was talking like I wasn't even in the room.

Before the older boy could reply Justin left the room, slamming the door and shouting Finn's name as he walked way.

They boy turned back to look at me, a smile still on his face. “So how are you feeling?” He asked.

I've just been burnt, stabbed and kidnapped how do you think I feel? I didn't say what I was thinking, I didn't say anything.

The two of us sat in silence for a while until the boy started talking again. “Does your shoulder hurt?”

“Who are you?” I didn't want to answer his question, I thought it was kind off obvious it hurt considering I'd just been stabbed.

“Haidyn Tavares,” the boy held out his hand for me to shake, which I did. “Son of Hades,” he continued, a massive smile still on his face.

“Where are we?” I asked looking over to the boarded up window. From the light coming through I could tell it was still day time but not where I was or the time of day.

“Sorry but I can't tell you that,” the smile fell from Haidyn's face.

Before I could ask anymore questions the door bust open and Finn strode into the room. He looked the same as I remembered him, tall, light tan, brown hair tied back and dark eyes. At twenty five Finn was the oldest of the group who had taken me, he was also the nicest, but it still didn't mean he wouldn't kill me in an instant if Alex told him to.

With his thumb Finn pointed to the door, signalling Haidyn to leave. When he had gone Finn pulled some grey material out from the back pocket of his jeans and threw it at me.

“Glad to see you're awake little man,” he said as the material landed gently on my lap. I picked it up to see it was a clean T-shit. “It'll be a bit big,” Finn continued as he leant against the bed post, “But that's your fault for being so small and skinny.”

“Thanks,” I replied quietly as I pulled the shirt over my head. Finn was right, it was huge on me but it was better than nothing.

“I hope your feeling better, orders were that as soon as you woke up we were to follow.” Finn moved away from the bed and towards the door, the floor boards creaking under his weight.

“Follow?” I questioned as I swung my legs off the bed. My feet hit my shoes as I slowly stood up. I'd figured out we were leaving so I put them on quickly.

Finn chuckled, “I see you still have your accent.” I stared at him, waiting for an answer to my question. “Sorry buddy I'm not allowed to tell you anything,” he continued whilst gesturing for me to leave.

Once I had done my laces up I did what I was told and left the room. I found myself in a small hallway that wasn't unlike the room I had just been in, it had the same creaky wooden floor and wallpaper peeling of the walls.

Finn put his hand on my right shoulder and guided me quickly through the building to the front door. He gently pushed me outside into the hot sun before reaching back into the building and grabbing the sword and backpack that were by the door.

“Here, you might need this?” Finn handed me the celestial bronze sword he just grabbed before closing the door and locking it. I was surprised that he trusted me with a weapon, he obviously didn't think I was much of a threat.

Silently we stood outside the door for a few minutes, the whole time I studied the surroundings, looking for an escape. We were in the middle of nowhere, trees surrounded the building and the ground was dry and dusty. A dirt track lead away from the building but I couldn't see where it lead to.

I didn't understand why we were waiting until Justin and Haidyn walked round the side of the building, both of them with a backpack and their weapons.

Without saying a word Finn started walking down the dirt track, Haidyn ran to catch up with him.

I thought for a moment about trying to run, but before I could Justin gabbed my shoulder and leant down so his head was level with mine. “Don't even think about running,” he said, holding his sword in front of my face. “Now get moving,” he pushed me forwards making me stumble.

Once I was balanced again I turned to look at Justin, he had a menacing grin on his face. I wasn't scared of him, not like I had been before. Justin wasn't threatening or scary just mean. Without realising it I had started to point the sword at Justin. The smile on his face dropped, replaced with confusion. He didn't expect me to go against him.

“Hey you two, come on,” it was Finn who was yelling at us. I did as I was told and started to follow Finn and Haidyn, ignoring Justin.

As we walked I saw there wasn't much to the landscape, about a mile down the track we had come out of the trees and I found myself in a dry, barren landscape. The track kept going into the distance, I couldn't see the end. It was obvious we were going to be doing a lot of walking.

After walking in silence for almost three hours Finn stopped and looked up to the sky. Haidyn did the same, only looking a bit more confused. Justin kept his eyes trained on me.

“Four more hours,” Finn said as he started to walk again.

“Until what?” Haidyn said jogging to catch up with Finn. I quickened my pace a little as well, wanting to hear what was happening in four hours.

“Until Alex and Lily meet us.” Finn pulled a water bottle out of his backpack and began to drink.

“What happens then?” Haidyn asked. It seemed to me that he had no idea what was going on just like me. I didn't understand why.

It was Justin who answered Haidyn's question. “Bailey here gets to learn his fate,” a huge smile had crept onto Justin's face again.

Haidyn and I both froze, the hot sun beating down on us. What on earth did he mean by I was going to learn my fate.

Notes

I just realised there was a massive mistake in this so I have fixed that. It should make more sense now, I'm so sorry. How embarrassing.