Little metal lizard(Open)

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Connor was wandering north for a while, with no destination in mind. when he came across a slightly rusted fence that was falling apart. "District 12......"He mutered.He backed up and stashed his bow and arrows, but kept his dagger. But of course he let his coat fall over his dagger.

He then walked over to the fence, and when no one was looking he slid under the fence. He got out somewhere by a rundown store of somekind. He contunied down a path toward the denter of town, looking for something to do.Mabye get into some trouble.

As he contuined down the path he found he was following the path to his old home. He contuined down and soon came across a old abandon house. The windows covered, and the door hanging on one hinge. He walked up the stair case, which creaked under him as he apporached the door.

Inside was even worse, everything that there once was had been pulled out long ago. Anything left was rotting. He wandered around transfixed before finding something, it was hidden under a rotting piece of wood. It was something his father had made for him long ago, a small lizard made out of scraps of tin that his dad found around the district, it was also made of parts of broken mining equipment.

He stared at it for sevral minutes before putting it in his pocket. It was getting dark and he would have to find somewhere to sleep. This place might collaspe on it's self if he stayed in it long enough. He then slowly walked outside dragging his feet staring at the lizard sadly. He put it away when he trip on a rock in the street. He looked around for somewhere to sleep before yawning. He turned the corner and heard a rock bouch off anyone behind him and he jumped.He then pulled out his dagger,"Who....who's there?"He asked getting ready to fight,.

[Wildfire]

Ceryn "Wildfire" Taychet

Dust and more dust silenced the steps Ceryn took in between two alarmingly worn buildings. He hated being here. When used to living in one of the quite good parts of the district, this was bad. Really bad, but Ceryn knew much too good that he shouldn't be that twitchy with it. He let his rough and scarred hands slide over the rotten wood. Without thinking, he tightened his fist, and punched with all his power and anger at the wall. It creaked, and gave in easily. It felt good to release his anger this way, and since no one could possibly live in the house, he punched again and again.

When he had gotten out all his anger, and both his fists were covered in his own blood, he stopped and sighed. Taking a step back, he almost tripped and sent a rock flying into the dark passage between two of the houses he'd just molested. A figure swayed in the darkness. "Who..who's there?" A nervous voice sounded. Ceryn shifted, and cleared his throat, determined to sound more confident than the person in the shadows that obviously hid something, to judge by the nervousness. "I'm called Wildfire, I was just getting rid of som anger here. What about you? Why are you creeping around in the shadows back here?" He said, but realised too late that he sounded a bit more hostile than neccessary.

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[bladerunner]

OK, so the person was named Wildfire, and getting rid of some anger. I can't see him properly but he sounded like a peacekeeper.He hesitated, wondering what he should do. He could attack and run, or he could just, of just attack. He looked around for a escape route, but the passage was a dead end.

Connor thought about his options and without thinking too much he jumped out at what he thought was the peacekeeper, his zipped up coat and hood making him look like a demon jumping out.But when he landed on top of the person he relized that it wasnt a peacekeeper, but he wasn't a peacekeeper, but a teenager. He then relized his dagger was inched from Wildfires neck.

He got up off him and put his dagger away before taking off his hood. "Why are you here at this time?"He said angrly. He then noticed his bloody hands.He rasied his eyebrow in question.

[Wildfire]

Ceryn "Wildfire" Taychet

The person in the shadows jumped out on Ceryn without any warning. He didn't know what to do, and then noticed he had a knife just inches away from his neck. Then just as sudden as the person jumped on him, the person jumped off. And before Ceryn could think more about the weirdness of it all, the person asked why he were here at this time.

Ceryn laughed. "You think a decent teenager can just go around in broad daylight and punch old houses to pieces? Now please, tell me who you are. I have to know who've seen me with hands like this...." He said trying to be humouros, and looked to his bloody hands. Hopefully, this weird person wasn't gonna hang him out in front of the population of district twelve, so anyone else got to know his new way of getting rid of stupid aggression.

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Connor stared at Wildfire. "You think a decent teenager can just go around in broad daylight and punch old houses to pieces? Now please, tell me who you are. I have to know who've seen me with hands like this...."He stared at him a little longer."Some of these old houses mean something......"I replied to him, looking over his shoulder to make sure his old house was standing, it was but te one next to it was fallen.

He put his hand in his pocket and felt the lizard, rembering his childhood. "I'm Connor,I..."He took a shaky breath,"I used to live here,......"

[Wildfire]

Ceryn "Wildfire" Taychet

So, his name was Connor and he used to live here. And he said the houses still meant something, and Ceryn knew, of course they did. Someone had lived in those houses before. Most of them were probably dead, a few alive. And Connor was one of them. But it still hadn't stopped Ceryn from punching one of them to pieces. He had not thought of the houses as other than rotten wood, before he got pointed out the simple fact that they meant something. He felt ashamed and enraged at the same time.

"Well, sorry then. But no one should even be in this part of the seam. I thought I wouldn't be noticed. And you have no idea how hard it is to go around and be constantly angry! I had to get it out!" he yelled at the person he knew nothing about exept for his first name. He felt even more ashamed, and embarassed now. "Sorry." He said, and turned to go.

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"Well, sorry then. But no one should even be in this part of the seam. I thought I wouldn't be noticed. And you have no idea how hard it is to go around and be constantly angry! I had to get it out!" Wildfire yelled at me. He then,after a moment pause, said sorry and turned to go."No it's ok.When my....."He paused, chosing his next words carfully, he knew that the nexts words could alert him that he's a wanderer.""After my parents died and I went to live with my aunt, i was almost always angry or sad."He lied.Well, it's more like a half truth,the part of his anger and his parents dieing where ture, but the rest, not so much.

He went over to the broken house and pushed around the wood of it.He wasn't sure why, but something told him he should.Soon he found something with his foot.He leaned down and uncovered it with his hands.It was a box, mabye 5 inches tall and a foot wide.On it there was a lock. His curiosity made him want to open the box."Any good with picknig locks?"He asked Wildfire.

[Wildfire]

Ceryn "Wildfire" Taychet

Luckily, Connor didn't get angry when Ceryn yelled at him, and stopped him from walking away. Connor said he'd been sad and angry when his parents died, but that still wasn't anywhere near how Ceryn felt. Both his parents were alive, for now.

Suddenly, Connor started pushing through the broken part of a house. In the dim light, Ceryn watched his face closely. He looked tired, but was clearly young. Quite younger than Ceryn. Looking away just in time, Connor asked if he had any luck at picking locks. Ceryn thought about it. He could probably pick it in his sleep, as he was used to make locks. His father was a blacksmith, and had his own workshop. But did he want to open a random box in a darkened street, for a stranger?

He scraped off some now dried blood from his raw and sore hands, and pushed aside Connor. The lock was somewhat rusted, but would click open in a tick if Ceryn decided to help. "Do you know what's inside it? Or who lived in this house before? This lock is more than easy for me." Ceryn took a step back and plucked off more of the blood on his hands as he waited for Connor to reply.

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Connor closed his eyes trying to remeber who lived there. Some nice old lady..........She used to give us extra sutff, and gave me cookies occasionally.He opened his eyes somewhere nicer. Somewhere where hisd parents were alive and he was young. He bounced around the yard in that way little kids do, the kindly old neighbor came over offering us scraps of food and such.

His father working on a small little lizard consentring to make sure every detail was just right. The neighbors sad and covered in covered in dust but still finding time to dance with me. A sharp cold wind brings me back to my sences. "Sorry....I drifted off......"Suddenly he remebered what he should have been doing.

"The lady that lived that house was old but nice, her son died in a mining accident and her husband died of something with his lungs. I don't know whats in the box. Mabye some money.She didn't have anything else really....."

[Wildfire]

Ceryn "Wildfire" Taychet

Ceryn had no choice than to believe Connor, and just nodded at him. Hopefully he told the truth, and what they might find in the box was money or something else an old lady would put of into a box like that. Ceryn searched through his pocket, that were as always filled with random items. He found his little keychain with two different but thin, toothpick-like metal bars. He took the smallest one, and inserted in the lock. A few turns in the right directions, and the lock twisted open.

"We share the loot, right?" He stared at the slightly shifting shadow a few steps behind him. Not really caring about the loot, but caring about trying to, in a way, bond with this person, he took a step backwards and indicated for Connor to open. He hoped that whatever it was in there, it was more interesting than valuable. The less valuable, the less to fight for, the less to hide. Maybe Ceryn ought to get that as a new motto.

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I squat down by the box and say,"Right. We share the loot." We open the lid, and see.Nothing.Well, almost nothing. There was mabye 20 dollars and some dead flys."Why would she put so little in this?What's the point of hyaving a locked box if.......I lift the box to throw and the bottom was detached.

"Oh.....Thats why....." Well that was stupid. I wonder who cut the bottom. Who even has the tools to do that? I look at the box and found a small mircochips with a blinking red light......The only people who have enough money and the only materails......I grab Wildfire by his collar and jumped into a alley just as peacekeepers come on on ATVs.

[Wildfire]

Ceryn "Wildfire" Taychet

An almost empty box, a hole in the bottom. Connor seemed to understand faster than Ceryn that there was something wrong with it all, and grabbed him and jumped to an ally. They both melted into the shadows as the peacekeepers appeared.

Ceryn did not know what to believe. How was it possible that he could end up in so much trouble just by going in to a seemingly empty and left alone part of the seam. He did not want this. He did not want trouble. And what would the peacekeepers do to him, if they noticed his bloody hands, the broken houses and the picked lock... They better not find out.

"What do you suggest we do now? I need to get out of here" He whispered, and hoped Connor would have a better idea than Ceryn could come up with.
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[bladerunner]

I was already looking for a way out when Wildfire said,"What do you suggest we do now? I need to get out of here" The only way was up. The two old buidings on either side were wooden and the wall was stone. Suddenly a idea pops into my head. I pull out my dager and s tab it into the wood a little above me. The I grab a plank an pull myself up, placing my feet on a window sill to my right.Then moving my head on the side of the sil and place my hand on a plank higher up.I then stab another piece of wooden.I contuine on this until I'm on the roof.

I then throw down my dagger."You try." If he cant though.......well have a problem....I lay low and dig through my backpack looking for something to help Wildfire if needed.After some digging I found some rope. I then went to the edge again."If you cant get up use the rope."I then tossed him the rope and tied the other end to the chimeny.

[Wildfire]

Ceryn "Wildfire" Taychet

Now this was something for a change. Actually teamwork between two strangers in a dark alley. Connor climbed up to the roof and threw down his dagger and a rope. Obviously he hadn't much faith in Ceryn being good at climbing, and it wasn't his best quality... But he could certainly do it. Ceryn hunched out his knife. It was as hard as you can get any steel blade, and as sharp as taken right out from the blacksmiths. In fact, it was.

Ceryn crossed the pain in his sore and outbled hands, and hunched in the knifes, pulling his body upwards towards the roof. It was a little struggle, but he got up. He looked to Connor, and exchanged the silent question "What now?"

He didn't wait for an answer, though. He started walking on the rooftop, away from the peacekeepers and towards his home.

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I was thinking of a way off when Wildfire started walking away. I turned my head curisoly to see that he was going to walk off the edge of the house."Wacth where your going!"I hissed at him. Then I got a idea. I went over to the rope and threw it in the chimney. Since the house was isolated by mabye five feet either side we would have to go inside and then away. Unfornatly the peacekeepers where spreading out into the house now and one saw the rope fall down the chimney."Well so much that idea."I muttered.

The peacekeepers were now pointing the guns up the chimeny so we couldn't go down.We were stuck.I leaned back on the old chimeny and some of the bricks fell off, crashing into the peacekeepers and the burned logs. When the bricks fell on the log it destoryed it, turning it into dust, that in turn ,ade a huge cloud that covered the whole first story.

I looked down the chimeny hopefully and jumped into it, repelling down on the rope, hoping Wildfire would follow. I ran in what I hoped was the right direction when I heard a click and cold sharp"Freeze"I froze knowing that a peacekeeper someone saw me and was aiming a gun at my head. Then I yelled out,"RUN!!!!!'" The peacekeeper then slammed me in the head with the gun knocking me out.