Magic Within (Old Version)

Magic Within Part 1

Suddenly, the loudspeakers started yelling a message over the alarms.

*PRISON BREAK! ALL GUARDS REPORT TO YOUR STATIONS!*

The senior guards busted into the hallway, and started to organise everyone into orderly rows.

I managed to catch up with Dimitri, one of the senior guards. 

"What's going on!" I yelled.

Dimitri turned and shouted at one of the other junior guards, who quickly jumped into his place in line. "Prison break! Code Red!"

"Prison break?" I yelled. "But no one's ever broken out of here! Ever!"

"Yes! And we intend to keep that record!"

The senior guards marched us out of the compound and into the surrounding forest. We were split into groups and handed pictures of the two people we're supposed to be finding. 

Great, I thought to myself. Those two. The black haired girl with the blue eyes, and the scary white haired dude with those gold eyes. They caused quite a ruckus when they arrived. All the other Magicians had started calling the white haired dude 'Affinity Saiki' which was impossible. Affinity was dead. Those rumors had been shut up pretty fast. Affinity had been one of the 'heroes' of the 'war'. One of the greatest magician 'freedom fighters' of the past decade. But it was impossible. Even if Affinity was alive, he would be like, 40 years old. This man couldn't have been more than 20.

The commanding officer started bellowing at us, jolting me out of my thoughts. He started listing out the names of some guards, who would join one of the two search parties.

"Dimitri Veitch! Fraier Perlo!"

Two of the senior guards.

"Neri Maslow!"

My eyes widened in shock as my name was called. Okay. That's new. I stepped up to where the rest of the group was. We were joined by another two people. I was part of Search Team 1. There were ten people in the group, including myself. Search Team 2 took the east half of the forest. Search Team 1 took the west. We searched the surrounding area for tracks, but found none. Gathering back together, Dimitri, who was leading the group, decided that we should head out towards the beach. It was the most logical way for the escapees to have gone.

"But if you do find any tracks," Dimitri yelled over the alarms, "then you're are to notify me immediately! Is that understood!" 

"Sir, yes Sir!" We shouted back in chorus.

"Good!" He shouted back, before leading us deeper into the forest.

I literally tripped over their trail. We were about a kilometre into the forest, steadily jogging through the forest, when I tripped over and landed face first into the dirt.

"Owwww" I moaned. 

I turned around to see what had landed me with a mouthful of dirt. There was a boot, lying in the mud. A black one, like the ones that the white haired dude had been wearing.

Wait.

"Dimitri!" I yelled. "Look at this!"

Dimitri jogged back over. "What?" His eyes widened when he saw the boot.

"Is it-"

"Fraier!" Dimitri shouted. "Come look at this!"

Fraier strode over to us. Dimitri waved at the rest of the group. "Keep going! We'll catch up!" They ran off.

A few minutes later, Fraier had successfully picked up the escapees' trail. We started sprinting through the woods. I kept stumbling over roots. Dimitri's bulk meant he had to go the long way around some of the obstacles. After a few minutes we lost sight of Fraier.