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Urstanian condemed (story)

Urstania
17-06-2008, 10:07
It was extremely dark. no one could see more then a meter infront of them.

It was cold and damp. the sound of drips echoed throughout the area.

Y98L woke up slowly. She was unaware of where she was.

She was a slim woman. Suiting to the Party's image of atractive humans (Urstanians) she had wavy brown hair, dark brown eyes and a tanned, light brown skin complection. She was currently wearing a black, skintight uniform. it was not like the red national uniform instead the dark black uniform was used on prisoners.

'What the hell is this place?' she thought. trying to see to the otherside of the room, but it was too dark.


"Hello?" she said Cautiously

"What!? another person thankgod, are you free?" said a voice from the other side of the room. it was a mans voice. a really frightened, quivering voice

Y98L tried to move but found she couldnt. she was being held back by some kind of force. against some kind of metal column.

"No I cant move! whats going on here?" she said

"Were dead, the Party is going to kill us" said the man

"Why are they going to kill us? where are we?"

"My guess is that we are in some kind of dungeon, But I dunno, maybe a cave" said the man

Y98L heard something faint

she remain quiet, there was a silent, beating hum from one corner of the room

"What is that?" she asked

"What? what do you see?"

"Its not what I see, its what I hear.... Some sort of silent hum"

"What does it matter?"

"Maybe its the machine holding us in place or something that can help us"

"And I supose your going to tell me you have special powers to switch it off.... if it even is the thing holding us in place"

"I can sort of move my legs...... What about you?" she said

"Yeah I can move them from the knees down but its hard"

Just then a flicker of light shinned out from a pole in the center of the room and then it turned on fully lighting up the room.

Y98L shut her eyes. the sudden bright light gave her a quick, sharp ache in her head.

She then slowly opened her eyes. she saw the man on the otherside of the room. he must of been in his late 40's, balding and quite gangly.

But there was also another man, held against another colum with the same force. he was still unconsious

"Did you know he was there?" asked Y98L

"No i couldnt see anything before"

"Look, theres that machine thats making all the humming, think of a way to disable it" she said

The man across the room just gave a small laugh to himself and then starred at unconsious man held at the other column

Y98L viewed her surroundings.

the ground was quite uneven and rough, by the looks of it they were in some kind of cave. the stone was a dark red like the Urstanian surface. there were some lose rocks on the floor.

"see if you can manage to kick one of those rocks by your feet to hit that machine" she said to the man

The man had a look on his face of dispear and pessimism but he gave it a shot. He swung what he could of his leg kicking the rock. it flew thorugh the air and hit the side of the contraption. it let out a fizzling sound and the humming temporarily stopped and then with a cracking sound continued on

"Its working, we just have to keep on at it" said Y98L optimistically

The two continued kicking smaller stones at the machine

"ARGH we need bigger rocks!" said the man

"Look you have the better aim. I'll pass this rock to you" Y98L stretched her led as far as she could to pull over a near by rock. she pounded it with her feet. it hurt but it only just got the rock over to the man

The rock was just bigger then her fist in size.

The man gave another pwoerful swing. CRACK.. CRASH

the machine gave a few crackling noises and then the felling of having no support struck Y98L and the other two men. they dropped to the ground

"Were free!" He said

Y98L ran over to the other man.

He was quite muscular, short black hair the same light tan and probably the same dark brown eyes. the perfect party patriots they would of been if it werent for thier over independent thought

Y98L knew from the beginning that using her knick name around her friends would get her into trouble. she just didnt think it would get her the death penalty (Names were abolished in Ustrania decades ago)

She slapped the man across the face

"Oi, wake up!" she hissed

The man slowly sat up, dazed and confused

"Whe...where am I?" he said

"Were in some kind of cave, prisoners of the party, we have to get out of here" she said

Just then a deafeneing scream could be heard down the hall. it was a lady's scream but there were 2 other screams also

"They must be getting tortured by the authorities! we have to get out of here!" said the man

Y98L quickly walked over to the metal contraption and ripped off a dented plate of metal. it was thin sheet which she bent and curved into a simple cone with a sharp tip which she could use to stab into someone.

There was a small handle attached to the side of the machine she kicked at it until it fell off. it could then be used to bludgen someone.

She handed the steel handle to the man in his late 40's.

Y98L was only 26. the other man looked in his late 20's or early 30's.

There was a door to the room but it was re-enforced and sealed shut

Then they heard some heavy stomping and scretching coming up the hall

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