Part 1

Mei-xue slowly opened her eyes. All she saw was inky blackness as she slowly came to her senses. Hushed whispers sounded all around her.

"Is it alive?"

"Is it dead?"

"We should bring it to the almighty Keyper, shouldn't we??"

"No," A voice sounded. Mei-xue looked around, but she still couldn't see anything.  "Let us take her to the others. We need a leader for them if they are to pass, do we not? I believe she is the most capable. Look how much quicker she awoke!"

"Yes, General." Mei-xue was aware of something lifting her up. She cried out.

"Hey, put me down!"

"Hush," The General's voice said. Mei suddenly felt very...sleepy... She yawned and her eyes closed, grinning foolishly.

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She came to her senses once again and realized immediently that she could see. Mei sat up and stretched her wings, tossing her hair over her shoulder. Five other girls lay on the floor, bound up in different ways with rope. She looked down and noticed rope laying at her feet. Why was she the only one cut?

'Oh well,' she thought. 'I have to get everyone else up first.'

Mei-xue walked over to one of the bodies. This girl was twitching, and she had a humanoid appearance, with MANY dragon qualities. Brown hair with red streaks, black wings, similar to Mei's own, green fangs, black scales and tail. Mei shuddered as she touched the girl, but tried not to focus on the odd feeling pouring in through her hand. Quickly she untied the girls rope, feeling confused the whole time. As soon as the rope stopped touching the girls hand, her eyes opened and she stood up.

She was tall and intimidating  even though Mei wasn't scared. She held out her hand to the girl. "Mei-xue. And you are?"

Warily, the girl extended her hand. "Claaws."

Mei nodded. Then she asked, puzzled. "As soon as the rope fell away from your hands, you woke up."

Claaws interuppted. "So obviously, there's some sort of spell on it."

Mei gritted her teeth. "But, I could touch it no problem."

Claaws opened her mouth to speak, then shut it again, looking confused. Finally, she regained her mojo. "It doesn't matter right now. Just untie everyone else. I have to stretch my wings." Mei sighed and got to work.

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Finally, Mei helped the last girl up. There was her, Claaws, Lucy, Unsuspctingstryllr, Starbringer and Nebula. She looked around. They seemed to be in a abandoned train tunnel, made with concrete. Some of the girls seemed nervous, so Mei stood up tall and stretched out her wings to her full height. 

"May I have your attention please?" She said boldly. The girls stopped whispering and looked at her.

"Whereever we are, whatever is happening-" A voice from the ceiling cut her off.

"Ahh, Chatterboxers. You have awakened? Follow the tunnel to the right. You will find clothes and schedules. Have a nice stay." The woman's voice faded off. Mei looked around. Claaws looked annoyed, Stryllr looked nervous, Nebula looked excited, Star looked scared and Lucy was already running off.

"Wait, Lucy!" Star cried, but Lucy had already disappeared around the corner. Claaws rolled her eyes, and Mei sighed and half ran, half glided down the hallway to the rooms, hearing the pounding footsteps of her friends behind her. 

Yay!