'Not a newcomer? What do you even…’The sudden clang of swords cut through Joshua's thought, forcing him to widen his eyes, and just then, he saw Kelvin struggling to push the man's blade back.'Damn.' Those were the only words that filled Joshua's head upon seeing what had just happened. His head could have been rolling on the floor had it been Kelvin was not fast enough to stop the attack.“Give them a second and the attack will be lethal,” Joshua muttered under his breath as he quickly pulled Kelvin back from the huge sword of the robust man that previously labelled the women ‘things.’Two people were going to have to take two guys from the look of things since Joshua and the clan leader were already approaching each other.As for Matthias, he seemed intrigued since he finally saw someone of his own size. It was the huge man with the thick sword.“Matthias, don't forget to stay away from ROCKS!” The force of the man's blade against Joshua's made him stress the last word with a s

Joshua's knees trembled as he came close enough to Natasha's body, and he dropped beside it, letting out a shaky sigh that made his brows come inches apart.“How long?”He demanded without turning to Kelvin who had gained consciousness a few minutes back, as though he had only been waiting for the fight to be over.Kelvin dragged his feet against the floor while closing the gap between himself and Joshua before muttering the answer with a bit of uncertainty in his tone.“I don't know, maybe thirteen minutes or more. I can't remember how long I was out for.”Joshua nodded gently while taking her hand in his. It was just like he had expected. Cold and freezing.“What do you suggest we do? Bury her here or take her back?” While hiding the pain in his voice, Joshua managed to ask, without looking back. Not even once. Not even when he recognized the familiar cries emerging from the people behind him.Before everything began he had always known this place was going to eventually root out t

“Ashford, the boy's going through a lot already, he can't beat that thing,” Lauren's voice was instantly filled with worry when Brandon crashed against the floor with a sharp grunt, and as he tried to pick up his sword he fell to the ground once again.While Brandon kept falling to the floor the creature stepped forward, making low clicking sounds that seemed to intrigue Ashford who watched from a distance.“It's a shame that it's not my fight,” he muttered under his breath, but still, he was audible enough for Lauren to hear.It was a scorpion. One that was around seventeen to eighteen meters long with its body alone towering several meters above the ground. As if that was not the only thing to be scared of, it revealed its armored-like exoskeleton that had light glowing beneath it.“It's smart enough to know that we're not going to attack,” once again, Ashford smiled when the creature took its eyes off him and Lauren.It had eight eyes in total, two larger ones at the front and thre

Despite everything that had recently happened, the atmosphere was oddly calm back at Derek's shelter.“I just have to admit, but this seems like a huge loss to me,” Andrew said, as he walked towards one of the huge windows at a measured pace.“I don't know about the rest of you.”On the outside, he smiled at Lucas and Molly, but inside his head he kept wishing he was one of the people the opposing clan's leader picked.Opposing?Well, if they were, then they'd have wiped them off the surface of whatever this place was.'Well, screw it! I just really hate the fact that I've got to be alone with these guys.’Catherine, Theodore, and himself, were among the first set of people Derek picked, and now that they've gone he was going to have to get used to them.Anyways, Lucas seemed tolerable but Molly? She was—“I'm pretty sure he knows why he did that.” Her voice severed his line of thought. “It can't just be for some vain reason.”Since he got better, Lucas had been unsurprisingly calm. N

“Well, since there are no questions left then I guess that's the end of this…” Gina threw her hands in a circle like she was trying to use it to make up for the uncompleted words.She brought nothing to the room, and that was the same way she left, but the sudden scrape of a chair against the ground told her someone was coming behind her.“Ari?” Gina called out before she even turned to her back, and the sigh made her shoulder sag.“Gina, what have you been doing behind my hack?” Ari demanded while she took Gina's hand in hers as they continued walking towards wherever Gina was heading.For a moment there was silence between them like she was struggling to come up with the perfect answer to tell Ari.'You were always with someone in your room?’ she shook her head slightly with her eyes briefly shut before biting her lower lip when the second option entered her train of thought.'I needed some time alone with Joshua?’“Look, I came to your room on several occasions but there was this t