Chapter 15

Passing threw the blue light made his skin feel like it was being stabbed with thousands of tiny needles, by now he couldn't tell if it hurt or felt good. When they reached the other side they were in a large coliseum and it was raining, it was quite refreshing compared to the stuffy room that he had been staying in, that wasn't to say that he enjoyed being in the rain becouse to him it was like being submerged in water, he turned over onto his stomach so that he would be able to breath without getting water in his throat, after about a half hour the researchers walked out of the rain into little three sided stalls were they set down the two baskets each that they were holding and then walked off, the voice jumped out of his hand and fallowed them to see what was going on. 96 sat up in his basket he was soaking wet as were his blanket, basket and clothes, he was rather annoyed by this, did these people think that children could survive in an environment like this? Then an idea came to his head, that look he had seen in the reasurchers, the voice's words came back to him and he finally knew why it had bothered him, the reasurchers had been forced to go threw with the experiment but now they were no longer under military supervision which ment that they had only one obstacle the head researcher, 96 hoped that he was wrong but he rather doubted it especially since they had just left the children like they had. 96 threw away any reservations about being potentially caught, after all he just had to die and come back if his bet was wrong. firstly he pulled out two fire magic stones from his hand and after putting scales over his hands struck them together which started a blaze without damaging his hands, he was quite happy that he had collected the stones from the other rooms and not eaten them all like he wanted to since now he wouldn't have to worry about fire for the foreseeable future, using his makeshift rope which he had started storing in his hand, he strung it over the fire by stacking up the dirt and stones from his room, when it was set up he removed one of the magic stones which made the fire lower, he then wrung out his blanket and hung it up on the rope to dry. He then remembered that he had someone with him, he went over to the basket that had been put next to his, the three eyes child was unconscious and shivering 96 turned into his snake form and pulled the child out of the basket and over to the fire were he laid it down near enough to warm it but far enough away to not have to worry about it rolling in, then he changed back to ring out the others blanket and hand it to dry, it was about at this point that the voice returned looking rather grave "well they've done it now" 96 started to ring out his clothes "you mean killing the glasses guy? or abandoning us to die?" the voice was visibly angered "right on both accounts, you saw this coming didn't you?" 96 shook his head "I only had a feeling, now get yourself dried of and warmed up by the fire when you're done we need to get to work on our next course of action"

When the voice had dried and warmed itself the two of them sat down by the fire "so then the biggest question is what do we do about them?" the voice was still annoyed but he had calmed down a lot, 96 had been thinking on that idea a good deal himself, "I think that the best thing to do would be to wait until the rain stops and then see who has made it, and we can decide what to do after that" the voice nodded its head in agreement in the end if they would help any of them it would have to be a smaller number, letting natural selection take its course was the best thing that he could think of for now, the next thing was to make shelter for the both of them and find a food and water source. Noting that his blanket had dried he folded in half and wrapped it around his waist while he hung out his clothes to dry. He looked around the floor which was stone, he went to the left corner of the three walled stall and held out his hand. He began carefully absorbing the ground in a stair like pattern, it took quite a while to do but he powered threw, the voice had gone out to find some food and he really didn't have anything to do but wait. He got alittle carried away and ended up going some seven meters down, after he had done that he began to hallow out the space into a small room, he figured that he could use this place as a storage area or shelter in case of an emergency, but for that he would have to add bracers to prevent the rooms collapse. He had just finished the perimeter and the walls one meter up when he desided that he should check on his clothes.

The voice had not returned and it was getting darker, or at least it seemed to be getting darker but with the storm it was hard to tell, as he redressed himself he noticed that the three eyed child was still shivering, he turned the child over in order to let it's back dry, he didn't know why he cared but he had to remind himself that it might prove beneficial later on. "well look at you turning into such a caring individual" the voice was back and he was dragging a small animal in his mouth, "say hello to dinner" the voice pulled the corpse over and 96 absorbed it, and then emidiatly brought it back out again to clean and cook it "yup its edible" the voice turned its head on him angrily "what do you mean its edible, why wouldn't it be edible?" 96 laughed and wrapped the meat up in scales before pushing it into the fire "soooooo how long till it's ready" 96 smiled "overnight" the voice sighed "well then let's go to sleep, I'm hungry" 96 made two small beads with the blanket near the fire one for him and one for the three eyed child, and then he and the voice curled up and went to sleep with dreams of meat to come.