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Ch.3

"Join?! ...How dare you suspect-"

"Robert!!! Hold your tounge!", the old man said

"...Yes Master. Forgive me."

The old man spoke again, "...So you want to join us, do you fur?"

*Hey old man! I have a name!*

The old man smiled, "Nice temper. I do like that. So, what is your name?"

Lee hesitated. Should he give the stranger his real name?

*...Lee.*

"Ahhh, Lee. So you wish to join us? ...Very well. You will be trained. Learn well, Lee. And then we will see if you are worthy to call yourself a Serpentine.... For now though, rest for the night. Lisa will show you to your room."

Lisa then walked to the stairway on the right, "This way, please."

Lee looked at the remaining five still standing there one last time, and then followed Lisa. She led him up the stairs and then down the hall on the left.

Lee was surprised to see how far the hall was, he would have guessed it would be much smaller.

With a very large creek, Lisa opened a door about mid-way down the hall. Lee then noticed how many doors there were and how new they looked. Which meant he wasn't alone there. But before he could say anything, Lisa spoke

"Here we are"

Lee was suspicious, he looked into Lisa's eyes to see any hint of a trap, but found nothing. In fact, he saw no emotion at all.

Then he slowly walked into the room, checking every corner, looking for an attacker, a trap, or just anything unusual at all; but once again he found nothing.

After he had seemed to accept the room, Lisa spoke again

"Please, make yourself at home. Rest. You will be called down in the morning. Goodnight."

She then closed the door without saying another word.

Lee was alone.

*Might as well sleep. If anyone comes in, I'll hear the door creek....*

Then he laid down in the bed, noticing how accustomed he was to sleeping on the ground. Then shut his eyes, amd drifted off into sleep.

The Morning After:

*GET OFF ME!!!*

The five cloaked humans were holding Lee down. He couldn't understand how it happened; why didn't he hear them come through the door?

Lee struggled but they were unbelievably strong. And then, the old man slowly walked up to Lee.

He then pulled out a knife from his sleeve.

"So you wish to join us, do you?"

*NOOO!!!*

The old man laughed and walked to Lee's right.

"Oh, what's wrong? You couldn't handle a normal life so you ran away, isn't this what you wanted? And now there's nobody here to save you. No big brother, no mommy, no daddy, no friends, NOBODY! You're weak!"

*Gah! ...What? ...How did you know th-*

But it was too late. Before he could finish his sentence; the old man lifted his arm and striked the knife down at Lee's heart.

Just as the knife started to pierce his skin, a loud, echoing creek rang loudly in his ears.

Lee's eyes flashed open. He saw a cloaked figure standing there beside him. Lee instantly sprang up and tackled the figure, landed on top of it, and grabbed it's neck. But as the figure fell back, it's hood fell off and it revealed Lisa's face under it.

She looked at him with shock, and it wasn't for a couple seconds until Lee realised what had happened.

*...It...it was just a dream....*

"What are you doing?! Get off me!"

He instantly let go and stood up

*...S...sorry.... Rough night.... Here, let me help you up-*

"I don't need your help!"

She got up and then looked at him with anger in hey eyes

"...The Master wants you."

She then turned around and left, without looking back, or saying another word.

*...It was just a dream.... It was just a dream....*

He then remembered that he needed to go see the "Master".

He got up and quickly walked to the end of the hall, realizing again how there were no lights, yet all the rooms looked new.

He walked down the stairs to see the same 6 humans there, huddled together and talking amongst themselves.

Then when they realized Lee's presence, they were all quiet. Lisa glared at him. And then the old man spoke,

"It's my understanding that there was some...confusion when you were woken up."

*...Yes, I'm sorry. Didn't sleep well.*

"Do you care to share why?"

*It's nothing.*

"Ahhh, I see then, very well."

Everybody then was silent.

Lee waited for the old man to say why he wanted him....

*...Sooo; you wanted to see me for something? *

"Ah, yes yes. Your 1st day of training will begin"

*Training? *

"Why, yes. You didn't expect you would instantly become one of us, did you?"

*Well, no. I just didn't expect you to readily train me already*

"Well then you must be happy to hear it. Your training starts today. Know this though, once you start on this path...you can never go back."

*Alright. Let's do this.*

"Hahaha, such a marvelous attitude. You're going to need it...."

End of Ch.3