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    We're kept a secret from everyone. It could take a lifetime to explain it all, so, let's just say that there's bad blood between us and you humans. In the end, we realized we couldn't defend ourselves from your hate and violence, so we retreated to the highest mountains around- basically, we hid. We fled from you, fading into your myths and legends.     But that's not the point of this story. My story is about how I ended up from one of these mountains this little corner of paradise, otherwise known as, well, the North-West corner of the USA.     I sat on a stone stairway that leveled out onto a calm landing pad. Past that, a large dr

     My head smacked on something as the bus we were currently riding hit a bump. "Ahhhhh!"I groaned as I sat up. Someone behind us giggled. I turned and glared at them. Whoever it was, they shut up quicker than I thought possible. "It's a good thing you woke up when you did," The girl next to me said while she fiddled with her IPod, "We're almost there." Her long sleek black hair fell to her shoulders, reflecting light back into my already sensitive eyes. Her greenish brown eyes focused on her IPod with certain intensity. Everything about her was familiar: the curve of her chin and cheek, the way her eyelashes curled, the way her eye brows

     Lucy was still lying in her bed within the walls of her medical room when she heard it. It echoed through her bones and touched her nerves themselves.  Despite her bruises and bandages, she sat up. The whole room shook, with things falling off the table next to her. It sounded like a large demon suddenly let loose and let out its cry of 'GRAAAAAAA!' It scared her. It didn't even sound human.     But the silence afterward was worse.  She sat deep within it for a moment, gathering her wits together before she stood up on her shaky legs.  She headed toward the Arena, where the sound seemed to emit from.  She walked while leaning on a wall