The Night Angel: Chapter 2

July 2015

"What do you think she wants us for?" Stacie asked as she jumped into my bed, grabbing one of my daggers from under my pillow.

"Who knows?" Chelsea, the oldest amongst us, replied from her bed above mine.

It's been almost five years of intense training and also years of bonding with my only friends, my teammates. After the day we had selected our weapons at the beach, the five of us had stuck together as a team. Practicing and doing everything with each other, and I've grown to really love them all.

Chelsea who is also called Arrows in the mob was my personal favorite because of her enthusiastic personality. She was the eldest and also the most beautiful one out of us all, with blond hair, big brown eyes, 5'6 inch tall and a shape to die for. She has a nice body and knows how to use it to get what she wants.

And she was also exceptionally good with bows and arrows, though we all know how to use every weapon we come across, but each one of us has our own specialty.

Then there was Henry, the only guy in the group. These five years have been really good to him, both on his strength and body. He's 19 years old, just one year younger than Chelsea and a year older than me and also the strongest of us. 6'4 tall, black gorgeous hair and those eyes that always weakens my knees.

Stacy, Josie and I were all the same age, so Henry and Chelsea called us the deadly trio.

And just last year, we had gotten our own cell because of a competition we won.

I loved these guys, they were the only ones that I care about in this hole and my only family here. Despite MadamE telling us that we were all siblings.

The last five years have been very tough, but having my team made it easier to stay stronger and fight for survival. We always talked about our dreams, what we wanted to achieve, places we wanted to go once we left this hole one day.

We had no idea why we were all being held here and trained brutally, but we knew one day we would all find out and deep down I knew that it wasn't going to be a pleasant revelation.

These men were training us for something, we were all going to be used one day for their own pleasure.

"I guess we have to find out," Josie murmured, staring out the window.

Madam E had ordered for a meeting which she never does unless there was an emergency or an important announcement.

"It's almost time, we have to go." Chelsea swung down graciously from her bed.

"Your punctuality is annoying babe" Henry teased from his bed that was at the other end of the cell room. "What's the fun in being 20 mins early or prompt?"

Chelsea smiled, walked up to him and kissed him fully on the lips. Soon she was climbing on his lap and making those annoying noises.

My heart twitched a bit and I looked away immediately

"You two really need to get a room" Stacie called and swung my dagger at them, which implanted itself on the wall just above Henry's moving head.

"Thanks for that display Stacie. Don't play with my babies" I scolded and she grinned unapologetically.

"We have to go now. We can't risk being the last ones there. Chelsea get your tongue out of Henry's mouth let's move"

"You are just jealous daggers" Henry drawled looking at me with that delicious smirk.

Oh you have no idea Henry.

We all got ready in a few minutes and left for the beach.

Time to face the beat.

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"When are you ever gonna tell Henry? The way you stare at him is gross."

I laughed at Josie's whisper.

We were all at the beach, waiting for Madam E to come and make her announcement.

"Mind your own business Josie" I teased and she rolled her eyes

"You have feelings for him, go ahead and tell him. You know he and Chelsea aren't even a thing, they are just having fun together"

"I know that. But I don't want to tell him anything."

"So you prefer watching from afar and just wishing than just voicing your feelings? .. never took u for a coward daggers" Josie scoffed and I ignored her. Last thing I wanted was to complicate my friendship with Henry. If it means I'm being a coward, so be it.

"Attention!"

The roar from one of the soldiers had us all running to our respective positions.

Madam E was here. I watched her limo with a racing heart as it circled us before packing in front of us.

Then she came out, looking ever so beautiful in a sleeveless red gown and heels.

"Hello Angels" She called with a smile standing before us

"Good morning mum" we all chorused .

"Hope you all have been enjoying. Well I have an important announcement for you all. For the past few years I've watched you guys grow, get exceptionally better in martial arts and every other thing. And I'm proud of you all. So I would like to announce that this week is the last week of your training. This weekend you will have your last test, then you will all go into the real world" She said and excited screams filled the air.

The girl standing beside me hugged the guy behind her excitedly.

I looked around and caught Henry's gaze, and I shook my head twice.

He nodded in understanding and whispered something to Chelsea's ear who also turned to look at me confused.

Henry knew me more than anyone else. And he could tell that I was having a very bad feeling about Madam E sudden announcement. Something really really bad is about to go down.

"Anyways," Madam E began again and the noise suddenly died. "I'm not done yet. This last assignment is to determine who will be able to cross over the island. Unfortunately not all of you will be able to survive this"

Oh no. Oh no no no no.

I heard a few gasps around me, while some were still looking around confused. Everybody waited for Madam E to drop the bomb.

"Like I have been telling you guys from day one, this is a survival of the fittest, only the strongest deserves to survive. So the last assignment will end only when I have five survivors. You will be facing a group of soldiers that will be coming in from another island. Bear it in mind that these soldiers are all trained to be brutal, smart and fast. They are bigger and stronger than most of you all. They will not hesitate to kill any of you. So to survive, you will have to be faster and kill first. Only five of you can survive and become my personal assassins. Good luck to the best five, and to the rest.... Well, goodbye. Get ready"

She said, turned and got into her limo.

Nobody moved, nobody made a sound even minutes after she left.

So, twenty five of us are gonna die??

Darn it to hell.