Chapter 8

  As the morning sun rose we awoke one by one, starting with an overly peppy Jayne and a groggy Nikki, then Eris who was trying to quiet jayne down. Next was myself yelling at them to shut up before laying back down, Markus rolled his eyes and got up dragging me out of the tent by my foot, Felicia and Keith got up to go make breakfast seeing as most other were up. Shard almost pummeled someone because of the wakeup call, and Daniel came out to hold her back. Shard grabbed him by the shirt and flung him to the side.
Daniel screeched before being caught by 4 versions of Lloyd that apparated from the woods. They put him down before 3 poofed away into smoke leaving the original Lloyd with a crooked grin on his face as he gave Daniel a thumbs up and continued over to deconstruct the tent.
A very energetic morning indeed.
After we had finished off breakfast and our supplies was once again packed we left. We need to get to the containment centre by nightfall, staying outside isn't the best for undercover.

Then we saw it. We walked and among the many tree's that made up the surrounding forest was the terrifying 20 foot stone wall that made up the border of the containment centre. The crumbling hole was still located on the back where my original group of 5 had broken out. We shuddered physically at the memory.
No time for this though.
We march stealthily towards the wall, looking for a clear entrance. Unfortunately after splitting up and scouting the walls our answer was simply that every entrance was heavily guarded and we couldn't get in without alerting someone, if we did we'de be caught and executed within seconds of our arrival.
"They give us no choice..." Eris sighs deeply and looks at the rest of us.
"We must go back through the puzzle house."
Sounds of surprise erupted in quiet whispers throughout the group.
"There must be another way!" Shard screeched.
"There's no other way in?" Lloyd says biting his lip. A chorus of similar thoughts arose from the ten of us.
"Silence!" Keith says hushing us all immediately. "If Eris says that we go, then she knows best."

I nodded.
"let's go then."
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We walked over to the opening in the wall, some of us peeking inside searching for any sign of guards.
"Anything in there?" Felicia asks.
"Only on way to find out." Shard replies before bluntly shoving Jayne into the room without hesitation. Nikki, being the only one able to react fast enough, dives in after her.
"Shard, what is wrong with you!" Nikki screeches from the room helping a dizzy Jayne from the floor.
Shard shrugged and answered as bluntly as her actions, rolling her shoulder back bored as ever.
"It's been awhile since I've thrown something, I needed to get it out of my system."
"Well maybe the tribe elders were right about your kind. All you do is destroy things and ruin lives!" Nikki snapped with a snarl.

"Like you're any better you filthy animal..." Shard says shooting a glare down at the two through the hole, hopping down beside them threateningly.

"Ha! You really are a criminal aren't you brute..." Eris chuckles with her arms crossed. Shard whips to face her as Eris walk up to her.

"You have no rights here either brat. You've been dethroned, I can still bow for you if you'd like though!" Shard smirks exaggerating a bow before Eris. "Oh great mistress of snobs I kneel before you in wish of meer coin."
The stenith cackles loudly as she stands to meet Eris's enraged, reddening face.
"Alright that's enough out of all of you!" Felicia says. Shard starts laughing to herself.
"Hey! Felicia's being serious Shard!" Daniel buts in standing beside Felicia.

"You act like you actually care!" Shard bursts, laughing hysterically. Daniel gets ready to throw a fist at our stenith friend only to have two Lloyds hold him back as he begins kicking and flailing.
"Of course Lloyds still hiding behind those illusions. Unfortunately for him I can still see straight through them." Shards says with a grin as she shoves the Lloyd to the right of Daniel backwards towards the ground, causing the second Lloyd to flickr from existence.
Keith rushes forward to catch Lloyd, succeeding in his goal and helping him up.
"Just as thought, his boyfriend came to save him as well. You're too predictable...."
"Shard stop it!" Both Markus and I yell at her in usion. She looks at us before laughing more.

"It's quite hard to take you two seriously with the flower crowns still in your hair." Shard says plucking a petel from Markus's crown made by the little girl, Bella was it? Markus took a step away from her repositioning the crown. By now we were all standing in the familiar puzzle room with the gem encrusted chest and stone walls.
"Shard, What is wrong with you! You've never acted like this!" I say moving over to her.
She scowls at me.
"Whats wrong with me? Ha! Did everyone hear the defective fusion talk! Anyone hear that! Priceless!" Shard cackles.
Defective?
Fusion...
This can't be Shard, no way...
I stuttered profusely without managing a single word from my mouth. Was I really a 'defective fusion?'
I stumbled back, bumping into Markus in the process. This needs to stop.

"Get out..." Shard turned her gaze to Lloyd, along with everyone else.
"You're no part of this team if this is what you really think. An illusion is only skin deep stenith. I don't know what your plan was but you're tricking us into something... We're going in, follow or not I don't care. But you're no longer welcome in this group."
Lloyd abruptly shoved Shard backwards towards the crater in the wall we entered through. Then looked to Eris.
"Lead the way."  

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