--Alexis’s POV--

“So, Life and I are to shadow travel to the outside of the camp, and keep a look out while all of you travel through the air chutes?” I ask.

“Yes,” Kolton answers. “Except that you will shadow travel when I give the signal.”

“Ok.”

He hands Life, and me an ear piece. I put it in my pocket for later.

“And this is going down when?” I ask.

“Tonight.”

I nod, as the bell ring .

“We should get to class. Or we’re going to be late,” Love blurts out.

Everyone nods. We all shuffle out to our next class. Love leads me to my English class. I sit down in a desk at the back of the class.

The girl named Cal walks up, “Now that you’re alone, you’ll be easier to beat up.”

I slump back in my chair, and sigh. This girl maybe taller, and look more muscular, but I’m like 99.9% sure I can beat her.

“What no comeback?” she questions.

“Nope. I don’t need to waste my time with you,” I answer.

She glares at me, "Sooo, I hear you beat Gary. Ya know he was the third best in the whole school. You wanna know who the second best is? Me."

I turn to her, "Oh my gods. You're so good. I wish I was you...Not!"

Her jaw clenched, "You, and me newbie. One v one after class in the gym." She practically shouts so everyone can hear.

The bell rings again to let us know that class is starting.

The teacher walks in, and may I just say she is hideous. She has a mole on her chin, and even from far away I can see a little curly- q hair sticking out. Gross. She has her grey hair in a big bun on her head, she wears eye glasses that has slipped down her nose, and don't even get me started on her face. If a monster could take a human form, she would be it.

"Class," she begins. "It looks like we have a new addition to our class. Alexis would you please come up here?"

"Naw, I rather not. I'm comfortable right here," I say relaxed.

She frowns, "Then just tell us a little about yourself."

"Well let's see. Where to start?"

"How about your parents."

"Well, I was told they were killed in a car accident. I would like to know when the funeral is. I wouldn't want to miss it. Mrs...."

"Elders," she ends my sentence.

"Yes. Thank you. Why would you ask about my parents? Why not a hobby, or a passion?"

"Ahh. Weeelllll." She changes the subject, "Today we will be working on grammar. You kids are all using slang these days. It's time you actually start to speak correctly."

We start on some worksheets. It's all in ancient greek which is good because I can't
read english at all.

I think about the plan tonight. It's only going to work if there isn't a spotlight. Since Kolton said this is a prison camp, I'm guessing that there is one. I haven't seen the outdoors yet so.

The bell rings. We turn our papers in, and I earn a evil glare from Cal.

I go strait to the gym. I see a ginormous crowd standing around. Wow. Word gets around quick in this school.

Cal is standing in the ring waiting for me. I take off my sweatshirt, and grab a sword. I walk into the ring.

Everybody starts cheering, “FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!”

She charges, “AAHHHH!”
I side step. She runs right past me. I dodge her attacks for about five minutes.

She leans up against the ring ropes, breathing heavily. I run at her; she tries to side step. I trip her. She face plants; I can’t help but laugh.

She gets up, and grabs me by my hair. I elbow her in the stomach, and use the hilt of my sword to hit her in the face. She falls over with her nose bleeding. I get down, and punch her in the face. She tries to grab my throat. I punch her in the face again. I get on top of her to hold her down. She tries to get up. I punch her again. She rolls over, so she’s on top of me. She punches me in the face multiple times. I anaconda her(I reach my legs up to her neck, and pull her off me with my feet).

We get up, and do some hand to hand combat. She tries to punch me. I catch her hand, and twist it. I hear a pop. Oww. That gotta hurt. She kicks me into the ropes. I lose my balance, and fall over.

“STOP!” someone yells. It’s the coach.

I get up, and charge at her again. I kick her in the stomach. I attempt to punch her again, but the coach grabs me; he lifts me up off the ground. I struggle to get out of his grip.

“THAT’S ENOUGH!” he yells.

Cal glares toward me. She has blood running down her face. I probably do too.

“Who authorized this fight?” he asks.

“No one,” says someone from the crowd.

“Then all of you get back to class! NOW!”

Everyone goes back to class. Love, and the others are the last to leave. She gives me a caring look.

“As for you two. You both have detention for the next week!”

“And if we don’t show up?” I ask.

“Then the principal will personally escort you to it.”

“Hmp.”

“I’ll walk you both down to the nurse,” he offers.

“I don’t need to go to the nurse,” I say.

“Fine; Cal come with me!” he demands.

I walk to the bathroom(Love showed me it earlier). I wash my face, and look perfectly normal.

“Alexis Dambrosi to the principal's office. Alexis Dambrosi to the principal's office,” the intercom states.

I walk to the principal’s office(Love showed me that too).

I get a lecture about fighting in school especially on the first day.

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I meet everybody in Kolton’s room after class. They ask me if I’m ok. I answer fine, but they are skeptical. We talk over the plan again twice.

We all go back to our rooms, and make it look like we are sleeping by stuffing pillows under the blankets. Love showed me my room a while ago. I get my own room, which is good, but bad. Good because I get privacy, but bad because I’ve sorta made a bad impression today, so if I’m quiet too long, teachers will be suspicious.

We hang out for the next nine hours in Kolton’s room. I look at the air chute map, and the map of the whole school that I “borrowed” from the janitor's’ closet. Life, and I figure out where the spotlights are. We plan out how to avoid being spotted. Between the two of us, we are going to shadow travel everybody to Manhattan once they get out of the air chutes. We can’t shadow travel to many times or we’ll get exhausted. Well, Life will. I trained a lot at home.

“Alright,” Kolton announces. “It’s time.”

We all get up. Life, and I shadow travel outside. No guards. We shadow travel back to the room.

“Clear,” I announce.

“Okay. Head out,” Kolton says.

Love, Forest, Tess, Christian, and Serg follow Kolton out. I keep watch as they file into the janitor’s closet. We close the door. Forest busts open the air chute door using water from the open pipes. They file in one by one.

I shut the vent as much as I can. I put a trash can in front of it, so hopefully nobody sees it. I grab a flashlight from the shelf. I climb the shelf to the top, and remove the false
ceiling(usually schools have them, and office buildings).

“What are you doing?” Life asks me.

“I’m making sure that we don’t get caught. Now get up here!” I demand.

She starts to climb. I sit on the rafters, and turn on the flashlight. Life does the same except ya know, minus the turning on the flashlight. I put the false ceiling back in place.

“Now what do we do?” she asks.

“Now? We sit, and wait for the signal.”

Notes

Hope you like it!

-A.D.R