18. Betrayed

When I heard those words out of Kado his mouth! It was as if there was a rage building up inside of me. If I had a knife I had stabbed him.

Xandros is looking angrier at Kado than I ever had seen him angry on anyone. "Shut up," he growls, but he looked straight to me and knew on my look I had heard every word.

"Your disgusting little piece of shit!" I scream at Xandros and run upstairs closing my door with a slam. The voices keep on going loud yelling at each other. I wanted silence, and wanted all his scent off me! I keep on still smelling him on me with an oakwood scent with a little musk in it. I hate it! I hate him!

In the shower, I scrub all of the scent and the gross memories out. When I step back into the room, it shocked me what layed on my bed!

No, no! The uniform is staring at me. Now it is a black uniform just like the night, that black. It had on my arms and legs some parts on the inside of my legs red parts. And on my chest, a logo of what must be The bloody games. It's a logo with a circle where one part is red and the other is copper. Around it is a silver half-moon with a spike-like arrow up.

It was as if it burned me and let it immediately fall onto the ground. I wasn't ready to go already to this next game. It wasn't clear what they wanted now from us. I dress in skinny pants and a purple T-shirt, and I have to sit and think of what I should do. Can I run away and get away before they catch me. Then I get some plans into my head. First I was sure to talk and just ask Xandros to let me go after a while, but that is a terrible plan, that would ask more time and I have to start to act faster.

I had him fall in love with me. This is reckless and stupid, but when he said I was his first human and a couple of other signs he had given me. It's not I couldn't try? Can I find a way out of this game if I suck my pride and begged him? But I don't beg! And I don't want to start with it now.

I walk downstairs, the uniform still laying on my bed. I try to search Xandros who is at his office sitting in front of his desk. "You can't let me go," I say to him putting my hands on his desk, looking straight into his eyes with my amber-colored eyes. It is like it did something with him, till he changed again in this evil monster, "I can't Cara, it is too late," he dared to say this straight into my face. I try not to lose my temper but it has almost happened when Remus saved me from hitting Xandros and failing my new plan.

"They ask where you are and where Cleo is? They are getting impatient," Remus is saying the message that they had sent me a couple of minutes ago.

"Get that uniform on," Xandros said almost commanding me. "No," I said with a steady voice. He stood up and takes my hand, pulling me upstairs where my room is. After we are in he grabs the uniform and puts it into my arms, "put it on!" He yelled now after he first said it in a normal voice. Ok, it sounded commanding at first all, but now he looked angry. I'm still standing there not doing anything. "I put it on you, if you don't do it know!" He is pulling on my T-shirt almost tipping the fabric. "Ok, ok!" I yelled back and take my T-shirt to slow over my head, which made me more restless. He looked at his black with a gold watch and is back helping me unbutton my jeans and pulling it so hard down my legs it burned my skin. "Why? That hurt," I tried to see if this helped him to calm down and it did.

I had the uniform on and again I feel pulling and I am back in this backroom in that arena that still gives me nightmares.

I see one familiar face of the other woman that survived the ecliptic games with me. And it's again her, that woman that is unstoppable. Telling and nagging anyone about the games before she had to take them in.

"Cleo wasn't it? I heard about you. You are the woman of king Xandros?" She asked me in a bitchy tone, how did she find out? Oh yeah before in the ecliptics games they had announced, but I had passed out on that time.

"Yes, I am," I told her with my back straight up, "I knew it! They had let you win," spitting almost acid to me. Now, are all the humans looking at me angrily and distrustful. Great, this starts just great, I hadn't done a thing to get favors from anyone else. I won on my own, but who would believe me. There he is again, the officer vampire with his creepy voice, "are you ready to start the games? Do you know what to expect?" And there were a lot of questions but he raised his hand, "I don't care if you humans don't know what would happen. It was just a tricky question, humans," he mumbled and laughed when he walked ahead in front of us. "Choose your armor," He commanded it and took off when we take what we want. I take two knives and step outside waiting for the rest to follow, we are almost with thirty if I counted right.

We walk further into the dark hallways to the next place. I am still wondering where he takes us and if it's the same as the before games we had to do.

"In this room, there are you, partners, look at your sleeve and walk to the partner with the same number on it. Good luck humans. Just joking, die and entertain us," he took off after this laughing his evil laugh that is echoing into the hallway. The chills cover my arms and I am the first to open the door and look inside where there is all standing man, looking at us from the back of the room when I step closer. I see it are all humans, and I am scared if it's anyone I know to partner up with me. In the back I look straight into the blue eyes I know all of my life.