Chapter one

CLARISSA'S P.O.V

This is The Year.

The Year is the year when the fate of every 15 year old class is settled.

Girls. Or boys.

Either the girls or the boys will win. I have watched many killings by the girls in the ancient times. I smile as a boy's head flies off it's neck, blood spurting out. I need to be trained.

Both physically and mentally. I have been waiting for this year for my whole life.

I toss the dagger in my hand upwards, catching it by the blade, and hurl it towards the target where Mathew's head was.

That wretch.

I'll kill him one day.

He'll die. And I'll either be the one killing him, or watch him be tortured.

TESSA'S P.O.V

"Cla! " I shout down the hallway, tapping my sword impatiently against my face.

I see her watching the ancient killings on the hover-telly - a floating television - and I frown. She has watched that thousands of times.

"Come on Cla, we need to go and train now. " I say, glaring daggers at her. I take out my dagger from my boot, and hurl it towards her. It flies past her shoulder, skimming past her neck, before lodging itself in the wooden wall.

Perfect aim. Just as I expected.

She sighs, and turns the hover-telly off, seemingly unbothered by the dagger. "Fine, fine. " she murmurs, dragging herself out of the sofa.

"Where's May? Um, Christabella, now's training! Please gather here now, girls! Hurry up! " I screech impatiently.

Soon, all the girls assemble, carrying all the deadly weapons beside them as if they were handbags.

Leanne cocks her head to the side. "Are we going or not? " she asks, looking bored.

"I want to hack something. " she says, just as others agree with her.

"Ok! " Zoe Ern shouts. Zoe Ern is the leader of all the girls. She holds an axe by her side, placing an axe on her shoulder perfectly.

"Victoria! Get your ass here now! " She shouts, and Victoria scrambles over, the nanchak swinging violently in her hands.

Then we set off, going for training as we do every day.

We enter the forest, stepping through the trees and leaves, chatting vibrantly among ourselves.

Above, a monkey screeches, glaring at us.

"Shut up! " Faith shouts, shooting an arrow into the trees. A few seconds later, a monkey drops onto the ground, bleeding badly. Everyone laughs at the dying monkey.

I chuckle at the sight of it bleeding. If only that monkey was Mathew. Mathew is the leader of the boys, so all the girls would like to kill him.

Blood, dark red, almost black in colour, ooze out of the wound, and the monkey's breathing ceased.

We enter the training grounds in the forest. Weapons of every kind are there, with torture devices and heads of boys too.

Zoe Ern shouts "Get to work people! We don't have the whole world's time ok?!! "

How do we train? Simple. Just go to a station and train yourself. That's what we do for 6 hours straight. Then we can battle each other.

I fight E-Ling, another girl with a spear as her weapon. I smirk, and toss my sword in the air and catch it again, challenging her.

Then we fight, spear against sword, metal clanging against one another.

Let another day of preparing for the ultimate war begin.