Scaleaha is Finished!

Scaleaha has finished my friends!
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I shall be starting a new story.
Its calle Flying Apes.
So Watch out!

Chapter 15 Scaleaha

For the weeks that followed,

I mainly slept.

I felt as though I was stuck in a tornado, never going to see light again.

Its really a strange feeling - and if you've never experienced it before you can have no idea how strange it feels, floating between the barriers of the world.

When I finally had the energy to walk, my Maska took me to the market to buy some new clothes.

When I said I didn't want any she had just grabbed my arm and dragged me into town, all whilst I screamed like a two year old.

When she forced me to choose something I chose a plain pair of platform shoes and a silver cotton dress.

After another six weeks I was well enough to travel.

My Maska to me to a woman prayer temple, beside a huge crevasse.

After entering the temple I dropped to my knees and prayed that I would be well again.

After that Maska made me have my fortune told by looking into the crevasse.

As I gazed into the canyon of truth, death stared back at me, looking me in the eye, pulling out my secrets kept hidden.

My soul was dragged away.

My mind echoing one though - death.

Once again impulse took over and I jumped - to what seemed like death.

What was my ending?

I hung in the air, and a voice spoke to me - if you follow your dreams your life will be true, yet if you choose to go against that will, your death will follow.

I should have given the stone to Malanao.

He wanted it and I didn't.

Now I sit here - suspended in air, recalling only my mistakes, and what I thought, was my destiny.

Chapter 14....Scaleaha

I pant, my mouth open like a dog.
I begin to run again, desperately try to find my way out of the forest.
My face is bruised and swollen, telling my story to many times.
What an idiot I've been!

I push away a tree branch and there, in front of me lies the old dust path.
I turn my eyes away from the sunlight and begin my long walk home.
I break into a run perspiration dripping of my blood-stained body.
I scream in pain, once again, falling deep, into the dirt.
I pull myself up desperately begging with no-one, the somebody I long to be with me.

I finally arrive at the city gates.
The guards ask my name but I can't say anything.
"Kid! Say your name and your through!"
"Holiya." I say weakly.
"Holiya? Is that truly you? It is me Kazalibraka! Your uncle! Everyone is looking for you!"

I walk straight on through, letting his voice drown out.
Once around the corner I start to run, desperate to get home.
Suddenly I see it, my house, my home!
"Maska!" I say, opening the door.
"Holiya?" My Maska says, her voice weak.
"Yes Maska, its me."
"Oh my baby!" She says holding me in her arms sobbing wildly.

Fear not I have not forgotten my snippet...next-last chapter.

Chapter 13 Scaleaha

"Just give us the stone!" My father calls in anger."Your siding with the bad people! Come back to us, were the true keepers of Scaleaha!" He grumbles on."We were being controlled by Zeatra! He said that unless we held you captive and kept our love for you at bay he would kill you! Oh my darling daughter don't you see!" "Don't listen to him," Feskara says, slowly recovering."
"They're lying! Can't you see that!"

"My darling daughter, you obviously don't trust them, why else would you not tell them you had the stone."

I shake my head tears streaming down my face.
"After all you did to me! All you did you expect for me to just trust you? That I would forgive you? I almost died and you didn't care! All parents would rather see themselves die than to keep a huge secret from them! I heard what Zeatra said to you and the threat wasn't to me but to you! Your a pile of scum now LEAVE! Please dad, just leave."

He looks at me and I see his love but I turn away my face.
I expect them to fight before even thinking of leaving but they slip out the window in silence, as though none of this had happened leaving me and Feskara alone.

"You have the stone. You didn't tell. You pay with blood."

Until that moment I thought I had made the right decision, but only now do I realize, that the so called 'goodies', only wanted me dead.

So who are the goodies and who are the baddies?

Or does Holiya have no-one to turn to?

Find out in chapter 14!

The second to last chapter of this senic adventure!

Chapter 12 Scaeaha

As I lie down to sleep my last inch of energy drains away.

"Holiya?" I hear my other room mate Feskara.

"I scared."

I sigh.

"Feskara, how old are you?" I ask sleepily.

"I six." She says.

"Well...try thinking about some flowers...um, flowers blowing in the wind." I say, trying to sound sure of myself.

I lie looking upwards to the concrete roof until I hear Feskara's breathing steadily.

I let my aching muscles relax, and fall into a light, dreamy doze.

I awake to see Mizora standing above me.

"Hurry!!! Dress we have to get to the platform!" She says with a voice so full of panic it makes me jump out of bed and start to dress into the strange cloths that I had worn yesterday.

Mizora shakes her head and points to the end of my bed where another strange set of clothes lies.

They're the same as yesterdays only green.

I hurriedly dress as Mizora and I begin the winding journey to the platform.

We rushing to hear my name called over the loudspeaker.

As I step onto the platform I see that all the other girls are also dressed in green.

I spot Ali near the far right corner and walk over.

She hands me a metal pole and immediately began to start throwing blows at me.

Four hours and a billion bruises later I arrive back at the dorm.

As my eyes scan the room I see clothes thrown all over the floor.

The fresh flowers, placed in a vase only this morning are smashed everywhere.

Feskara sits wide eyed in the corner shivering like mad.

I step towards her but as I do the bathroom door slams shut.

In its place stands my father, my brother and Malanao.

Chapter 11 Scaleaha

I wake to a blinding light, hitting my delicate eyes, sliding through my membranes.
I sit up as yesterdays slides rummage back.
On the end of my bed sits a strange set of clothes, a towel and a girl.
The girl grins at me.
"Holiya?" She asks with a voice like sweet spring nectar, mixed with honeycomb and vanilla.
"Poya." I say in reply.
She grins again.
"I'm Mizora. Your room mate and your buddy until you learn your way around."
My brain begins to slip away but is then brought suddenly back by a huge clock chiming 6:00am.
"You'll need to shower, then dress," She says handing me my towel and clothes, all while pointing to an oak door that I hadn't noticed till now.
I jump out of bed and shuffle through the door.
I find myself in another room, smaller than the first but still comfortable.
To my right is a bath, to my left a toilet with a basin to its right.
I light the bath-fire, the fill it with water.
I find myself noticing the cold, nipping at my skin and am grateful to slide into the warm waters of the old tin bath.

After scrubbing myself all over and relaxing my aching body I find the energy to get up.
I wrap my towel around me.
After mopping the floor I dress in the strange outfit.

It consists of a pair of black shorts, a black t-shirt, a slightly-longer-than-knee length bluey green skirt, a tight cardigan and an apron.

The first layers were loose and ready for any physical activate whilst the second layer there to disguise it and the third there ready for a maid disguise and for any inside work.

I look in a gold rimed mirror at the image I've missed for weeks.

My features are sharper and my eyes a slightly darker blue.

I snatch a wide toothed comb from the bench and start to pull at my knotty hair.

After several minutes of struggling as bad as trying to outrun a cheater I give up.

I enter the main room to find Mizora dressed in the same kind of dress buckling up a hair ribbon.

She passes me a pair of flat Egyptian style shoes and tells me that I'm expected very soon in the main training hall so I must hurry.

I slide my feet in and buckle the stiff lases.

Mizora slips a grey ribbon into my hair as she finishes plaiting it and we stand to leave.

She leads me through a series of passage ways until we reach a huge room with a raised platform and around twenty girls training.

Another ten or so are sitting on benches around me and Mizora shoes me to a long bench near the end.

"You will be having a private session with Ali but it will still be held here, on this platform."

I nod then gaze upwards and fall in to a dream.

I've just got to thinking of the first ever ribbon I'd sown when I hear my name called.

"Holiya please take to the platform area 13...Holiya to the platform."

I stand my legs shaking and step forward.

I pull hard on the glass doors then shakily, step onto the platform.

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Chapter 10.......Scaleaha

I hear the heavy footsteps of guards come loser and closer to my hide-away among the roots.

The ground begins to shake wildly as the guards continue there thorough search.

A large mouse scuttles over me and I squeak causing the guards to come running.

I fell a small hand pull on my shoulder and I open my mouth wide to scream.

The hand claps over my mouth as I'm pulled further under the ground.

"Hstops" I say, my voice mumbled as I speak through the hand of my capture.

"Pleas. I hav to gos somewhr!"

But my capture keeps on walking.

Suddenly I'm dropped to the ground before the feet of what looks like a maid.

I hurridly get to my feet and she nods as if she to wants me to escape.

"Follow me" She says in a voice that reminds me of Sheeka.

I see no way to escape so I follow her along the tunnel and into a narrow room with around fourteen oak doors leading off in all directions.

She leads me in to the fourth on the left.

Its a medium sized room with 3 beds, an oak cupboard and a smooth metal desk.

"This will be your bedroom. You will share it with Maizora and Feskara." The lady says (not sounding as much like a maid as she used to).

She starts to leave but as she reaches the door turns.

"Oh, My name is Rowana Piska. Ali to you. I am in charge of all the girls here as well as being your teacher. And in case you didn't know, this is a secret underground society. We are the protectors of Scaleaha. Your lessons start at seven tomorrow. Bathe and dress in your new uniform which will be on your bed soon. Good luck." And with that, she left.

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