'Louis' was a young male, looking about in his 20's. He had brown-oak hair with caramel highlights, his eyes were sky blue, his nose was small and upturned, and his eyelashes were the most luscious Niall had ever seen. 

Niall would never admit it, but he was slightly jealous. 

Louis was adorned in ropes and ties, barely any cloth covering his skin. 'Must have been appeal for the female audience,' Niall thought, 'and me.' 

He seemed to be good for the jungle, which was a plus since there were two green islands. 

"Man, I don't want him! How do I deselect?" Liam complained, hesitantly touching Louis again. 

Liam seemed to jerk back, looking as if he'd been electrified. 

"Did he shock you?" Niall asked, disregarding his search and focusing on Louis. 

"Yea! That hurt," Liam frowned, shaking his hand for a couple seconds, "I guess we just shouldn't touch them." 

"I guess so," Niall nodded, scanning Louis one more time before looking over at the characters again, "Who to choose?" 

Liam helped look with Niall, giving Louis a once over before looking away. 

Niall was about to go through the process of 'eeni-meeni-minee-mo' to choose a character, but he took interest in the very last one. 

'Zayn Malik' the sign read. Niall liked that name, and the looks of the character.

He did a couple more inspections, looking to see how strong and tall Zayn was, just for the game, not his personal benefit...

Niall took in a deep breath before touching Zayn lightly on the arm. 

'Player one has chosen their character: Zayn Malik.' A sign floating above Niall's head read. 

"Oh cool, lemme see him!" Liam grinned, running towards Niall and craning his neck to get a good view. 

"I wish mine looked like that." Liam said, slightly deflated.

"Well you shouldn't have been so clumsy!" Niall laughed, playfully shoving Liam on the arm. 

He rolled his eyes with smile, and walked back to his character. 

"So, how do we get to play them?" He wondered, taking Louis's hands and clapping them together. 

The shock went away after a while, making it easier for Liam to manipulate Louis. 

"Um, I'm not sure," Niall responded, trying to taunt Zayn by stealing one of his arrows, "Maybe we have to activate them?" 

"How?" Liam continued to question, making Louis now slap himself in the face. 

"Not by doing that," Niall laughed, "Stop or he'll kill you once he's activated." 

Now that made Liam stand still, struck with fear again. He had momentarily forgotten all about being trapped in a video game until now. 

"Do you know what will happen once we do die?" Liam asked Niall, fear coursing through his voice. 

"We probably wont, since we're not part of the video game we wont respawn. We wont be going anywhere, trust me." Niall reassured, not even sure himself if his logic was true. 

Liam nodded his head, a little relived, "Do we only get three lives?" 

Niall wasn't sure, his face scrunched up as he tried to think. Instinctively, he looked up at the ceiling to ponder. 

There he found his answer. Four, green bars lay above him, displaying the health of each individual and identifying them with a small picture of the character by its bar. 

Liam and Niall's avatars were distorted, since the game didn't know who they were. Under their bars, they had three, shining red hearts. 

Under Zayn and Louis's bar, there were three gray hearts.

"Look above you, Louis and Zayn have gray hearts but we have red. Do you know something red you can break? So then we can put the code on their hearts." Niall explained, drawing on his information from the chest incident. 

Niall and Liam both searched around, and came up with practically nothing. 

They had found a red coat, but were unable to remove it from the character who wore it. 

"Maybe if I bleed, my blood would turn into code?" Liam wondered, looking at Niall for answers. 

"No, don't do that. Your health could go down." Niall shook his head, not wanting anyone to get hurt. He just needed something red. 

"Well, we could just take one of our hearts and let them have it, but it would make our overall health decrease." Liam offered, shrugging to show his unsureness. 

Niall thought it over for a couple seconds, deciding it was better than putting a cut his or Liam's body. Because who knows, maybe Liam's body wont heal and he'll bleed to death. 

"How do you suggest we take down the hearts?" Niall asked Liam and himself, he couldn't find a sling shot anywhere. 

But what he did see, was Zayn's bow and arrows.

Niall got an idea. He unlatched the sleek, wooden bow from Zayn's back and grabbed an arrow from the leather sheath. 

All he had to do was hit two hearts, easy right? He'd done this multiple times in video games, so he must be a master. 

He struggled to get the arrow head to fix against the string, and shook as he brought back the arrow to aim. 

Nevertheless, he let go. The arrow sailed about two feet and nosedived to the floor. 

"Maybe next time you might want to not suck." Liam heckled, an amused smirk on his face. 

Niall squinted his eyes, taking Liam's critics as energy to shoot the arrow. 

At last, he hit one of his own hearts, breaking it open and having the juice drain from it, dripping onto Liam's hearts. 

Since Liam's were already red, they dripped onto Zayn's hearts, filling each heart up about a third of the way. 

He did the same process with Liam's heart, having his red juice flow into Louis's. 

Niall heard the loading of a gun and turned around with his hands up and a pale face, knowing Liam didn't have a weapon.

"Who are you?"

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Whoop whoop, finally got another chapter out. I really like how this is coming along :)

1) oh shit, whats gonna happen? :P