~*~Ashley’s POV~*~

I can’t believe I found her after all this time! Cadence is going to lose her mind...If I can even get her out of here that is. I watch as her body slumps limply in her chains, her long black hair hanging over her shoulders and face, her lips slowly turning a terrifying shade of blue. Oh how I wish I could just pull her out of this hell hole right now...but I know Andy needs to know first...after all Carrington isn’t the only Wild One trapped in this hell. With a sigh I adjust my hood and rush from the torture chamber, continuing on along the empty, damp stone hallway completely unnoticed. I tuck myself into a dark corner and check around for anybody looking in my direction as I pull out the plain platinum band from the chain around my neck and slip it onto my finger, instantly transporting me a few feet from camp.

“About time you showed up,” CC, or the Destroyer as some call him, says from where he sat, his back leaning against a tree for shade as the hot sun bears down on us. He looks up from sharpening his well used knife, raising an eyebrow questioningly.

“I found her,” I state, quickly slip out of the cloak and stride towards him as he stands up, slipping his knife into the sheath on his hip. “I found Carrington, and a shit ton more wild ones...there is no way she will be able to survive much more,” I explain as CC nods his head back towards camp in a wordless gesture to head back as I continue what happened.

“Well, we are going to have to take it to the table,” he says with a shrug, referring to the large oak table that is in a spare room in Andy’s home. We call our place a camp since we are all product of being banished from our original homes, but in reality, it is a city...community. It is what everybody wants to have. Although we don’t seem like we would have much, we have electricity, we have running water. All residence have a home, we have a ‘prison’ of sorts, dentists, hospitals...everything really. Every home was built by the people who live there through the materials they gathered on their own. Andy’s house was originally home to all of us, the original five. It is the largest home in the camp and, in the occasion of an attack, a safe haven for all residence of the Wild Ones Camp. “I’ll back you.”

“Thanks brother,” I say with a nod as we walk through the main road towards Andy’s house as Jinxx, otherwise known as Mystic, joins us. “It worked Jinxx, the entire plan worked.”

“You found her?” Jinxx asks as we walk up the main stairs and into the foyer of the house. I nod as we head towards the table room. “Oh thank fuck. Jake is in for whatever, we’ve been talking about it since you left.”

“How is Cadence?” I ask hesitantly, knowing that before we left she and I had been arguing about me leaving with her not understanding or knowing where I was going and why.

“She’s been good, moody off and on but she has been goodish.” Jake answers as he stands outside of the meeting room. “Andy is already in there, he is just going over a few incident reports from the weekend so we can easily bring the issues to the table today.”

“Good, she will not last much longer,” I state before pushing the doors open and striding into the meeting room where Andy looked up at me with piercing blue eyes.

“Table time?” he asks as he stands up from behind the desk he was working at, gesturing towards the large table in the middle of the room. We all walk in, CC closing and securing the door before joining us at the table. “I understand you have big news for me Ashley,” Andy says as he seats himself at the head of the table”

“I found Cadence’s sister, Carrington and hundreds of other Wild Ones just last night,” I explain sadly. This immediately grabbed Andy’s attention.

“How is she?” Andy questions, pinching the bridge of his nose, shaking his head slightly. “ I mean, considering the circumstances at all..so physically?”

“She’s tiny, and Andy, I would be beyond surprised if she made it much longer,” I explain. “She is used as an example for all other prisoners. Andy, I can’t just find this woman and leave her to die because I couldn’t save her in time. Cadence would never forgive me...hell I would never forgive myself. The types of torture I’ve seen them do to her in just the short time I was there is sickening. Jesus before I left they were pelted with freezing water for a long time, more wild one’s then I can count died from that torture.”

“I understand,” Andy says with a shake of his head. “And I agree that we need to save these people to freedom. So we will save these prisoners. Now, who has a plan to start with?”

CC immediately pipes up as we all slip easily into planning mode and begin to hatch our extravagant plan of rescue.