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Post by Nickpick on Oct 23, 2010 12:47:19 GMT -6
The Royal We
“There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life. My name is Amy Brooke, I lost my mother 7 months ago in what I call 'The End Of The World' Because for all I know...I'm the only person alive. So do you wanna hear the rest of my story?” Amy looks down at the pigeon, it looks up at her then flies away, she slightly frowns before looking away.
"Yeah, I wouldn't neither" Amy smiles as she looks around New York City. She sits on the roof of a Yellow Hummer. The whole street is packed with empty cars that nature decided to take over. planets consumed buildings and cars, street signs and anything that stood still for to long. She stood up and jumped onto the hood then off into the tall grass.
"Betty? Where are you?" A cat jumps from out of the grass onto Amy's shoulders.
"How did I know you were around?" The cat meows as it looks around.
"We'll come on, in the bag..." She opens her backpack and the cat jumps in and Amy zips it up and lets her bag hang by her right thigh as the cat pushes it head and watches where ever Amy goes.
Episode 1: The Fall Of Mankind
Amy walks into a small food mart, all the tables are filled with rotten fruit and vegetables that are consumed with mold. She walks to the giant freezer and takes out chocolate milk, she smiles as he checks the expiration date.
"Two months ago? What do you think?"
"Meow!"
"Yeah, your right" She chucks it over her shoulders and closes the freezer when she hears something rush by, she quickly looks over at the entrance and slowly places the bag down, she slightly zips it open so Betty can jump out.
"Hide" The cat runs off, Amy pulls her shirt up and a gun is stuff in her pants, she takes out the handgun and holds it out.
"Hello?" She slowly walks toward the exit of the food mart.
"I'm holding a gun, if you don't make yourself known now then I won't be forced to shoot" No reply, She walks to the exit and quickly jumps out and looks around, there's nothing then the roar of a lion grabs her attention. She looks over at it, as it stands still in the street. She smiles.
"Mordecai, you almost scared me half to death...Betty, you can come out!" The lion walks up to Amy and like a big cat, it bows its head so Amy can pet its large mane.
"Your getting so pretty"
-7 Months Ago-
Amy and some of her friends sit around a bench in the middle of Mission Manor park. Her friend is holding a vile of cocaine, she's clearly already high along with her friends, two males that have long hair wearing heavy winter clothes in the middle of July. Amy looks at the vile, tempted but usually in situations like these, her mother's voice came to into her head and rescued her.
"How long does the affect last?"
"Not long...like an hour or two" The tall, goofy looking male said, following by laughing that randomly makes the others laugh. Amy just stares at the vile.
"I swear your mom will never notice" That bought her, Amy opens the vile and gently taps it on the back of her hand. Her friend takes the vile as she slowly puts it to her nose then counts back from three until she snorts it into her nose. Her whole face goes sour, the drug travels into her system until it finally takes affect. She opens her eyes and sees her friends laughing.
"What's so funny?"
"We'll...we'll tell you later" Three hours go by and Amy walks home, where she sees her mother waiting for her on the bench outside.
"Mom?"
"Amy..Where have you been? I've been calling you like crazy"
"My phone died"
"Where have you been? It's 11 at night, you were suppose to stay out until 8...what's that I smell?"
"It's nothing, Casey and the others were burning things"
"You smell like pot, are you high? Did they get high?"
"Mom calm down.."
"Your friends are forcing drugs on you and you want me to calm down? What's their numbers? I'm calling their parents"
"No, i'm not giving you nothing...you'll just embarrass me"
"NUMBERS! NOW!"
"No"
"Your grounded for two whole months, no going out! i'm turning your phone off and i will drive and pick you up from school"
"That's no fair"
"Fair? Fair would be you coming home at 9 and i would of just warned you. That's fair but no, you stayed way to late, got high...fair no longer applies"
"Your just mad at me because you and dad can't work things out? I've always been center of your anger" The mother suddenly smacks Amy, somewhat disgusted at herself for doing it.
"Go to your room...now"
"I hate you"
-Present-
Amy opens her eyes and wipes the tears away as she sat on the beach, suddenly the sound of motorcycles comes into range. Amy grabs her bag and runs to a fallen tree that laid on the bench, she laid down, hoping she wasn't seen from behind it. She peeks out and watches a group of bikers drive down the street, they had to be about a mile away from her.
"People" Amy whispers as they continue to drive by. She notices one of the bikers looks over in her direction, she quickly hides. Praying she wasn't spotted. Suddenly the sound dies as it gets further and further. Amy stands up, grabs her bag and walks toward the road, she looks up and down it. Curious about where they were coming from and where they are going.
"Don't move!" She remains still, not moving a single muscle as the voice of a young male behind her, moves up.
"Who are you?"
"Amy Brooke" She said in fear, he taps her shoulders then taps her waists, checking for any signs of a weapons.
"Drop the bag" She lets it go, he takes the bag and looks inside when Betty jumps out, she takes her gun out that was tucked in the front of her jeans and aims it at him. Betty jumps off him and hides behind Amy.
"Who are you?"
-7 Months Earlier-
It was a new day and Amy had sneaked out of her bedroom and ran over to Casey's house. She knocked on the front door as she looked around, hoping her mother couldn't see her from her house down the block when Casey's mother answers the door.
"Hello Amy"
"Hi Mrs. Waters, Is Casey here?"
"She's in her room, could you be quiet though...I just put the baby to sleep" Amy nods once when she is let in, Amy walks up the stairs straight into Casey's room. Casey is on her bed, messing around on her laptop.
"Hey Amy, what's up?"
"My mom found out about last night, she has my phone and most likely your mom will know what happened last night before the end of the day"
"Damn it! you told her?"
"No, she found out"
"Great"
"I've had a headache since last night and I couldn't sleep...what did you give me last night?" Casey looks away, avoiding the question.
"You think your mom will call my phone or my house?" Amy knew Casey well, she knew something was up.
"Case, what did you give me last night?"
"Please don't hate me" Casey plead, hoping to remain friends once the truth came out.
"What was it?" Amy demanded to know
"My boyfriend bought it from some dude who said this guy was pushing it on the streets, he said the stuff was new and hasn't been tested. So in a way, you were it's first user"
"ARE YOU SERIOUS?" Amy wanted to kill her, she wanted to throw her across the room.
"I could of died, i could of been sent to the hospital and then what? You would of gone to jail. Are you crazy? Why didn't you tell me this?" "I'm sorry, I thought you wouldn't do it...please...please, i'm so sorry"
"Some friend you are" She leaves and slams Casey's door, waking the baby up. Amy hurries and leaves the house. She gets back home, sneaking in through her window and walks straight to the bathroom, closing the door. She starts crying when someone knocks on the door.
"What?"
"Amy, please...i'm sorry, i didn't think.."
"You followed me? leave me alone!"
"What the hell is...AMY! AMMMYYY!!" Casey starts screaming from the other side until she stops, almost as if she was cut off. Amy looks over at the door, hearing nothing on the other side.
"Casey?"
"It's quiet" Amy stands up and walks to the door, placing her hand on the doorknob until she finally opens it and Casey is gone.
"CASE!" There's no reply, Amy walks to the window and sticks her head outside.
"CASEY!" she yells outside and there's no reply. She sticks her head back in runs out of her room and down the stairs.
"Casey? Mom!" There's no reply...there's nothing. She opens the front door and looks around.
"MOM! CASEY!" She runs to Casey's house and knocks on the door...she waits a moment until she opens the door and hears nothing from within.
"Mrs. Waters?....Casey?...Mom?" There's nothing, not a single reply...not a sound is heard.
-Present-
"Names Jason Fields...I knew I saw someone hiding on the beach, thought you were a camper"
"Camper?"
"It's nothing"
"How old are you?"
"19 why?"
"Those people you were with? who are they?" She kept the gun on him, one move and he would be a goner.
"We're Scanners...we search for anything that might keep us alive and we help other survivors...well non-hostile ones"
"Your voice? Where you from?" He smiles
"Yeah, I might not look it but my southern accent tends to travel with me. I promise i'm not a threat"
"Yeah, hand me your gun and then you won't be a threat" He sighs and hands her his shotgun.
"Drop your hands" She puts her gun away and holds the shotgun. He does so and smiles with powerful brown eyes and blonde hair that was short but long enough to comb. He wore a leather jacket with a white muscle shirt underneath.
"So...just curious...What's your ability?"
"Ability?"
"Yeah, like...I'm a brute which means i have super strength and steel like skin" She smiles, wanting to laugh.
"Brute?" She questioned.
"Oh it's the name I gave my ability, so do you have an ability? like X-Men? you know? abilities?"
"Am I suppose to have one?"
"Hell yea...Everyone who survived has one, well ones I've seen that is"
"How many have you seen?"
"We'll there's camper, people who will kill or eat anything that comes their way and there are the survivors, the ones who survive on what they have"
"Sound the same to me"
"Blurred line...So what are you?"
"Hungry" She replies, he smiles, she puts the gun down.
"So you gonna give me back my gun?"
"Do I have any reason to trust you? For all I know you could be a Camper. Why did you stay behind? Where were you all heading?"
"Like I said, I knew I saw someone...you. So one of my boys put a field around me so I became invisible"
"Invisible? You okay?"
"Oh yeah, If you wouldn't mind...i'd love for you to come along with us, you'll have food every day, somewhere to sleep and it's always safe" Amy smiles, the offer sounded to good to be true.
"How do i know your not some bait for me to grab and once you take me back, you'll tie me up and eat me" He quiet for a moment until he bursts into laughter. Amy just smiles.
"My own immaturity aside, you've been alone for to long, come on cutie, if we leave now we can still catch up" Jason runs off and inside a destroyed, planet covered building, he pulls his motorcycle out. Amy whistles upon looking at it.
"Sexy"
"Thanks...oh you meant the bike, yeah..she's a beauty"
"She?"
"Her name is Penny, she might actually like you" He gets on the bike and brings it to life, Amy walks over as he offers her a helmet. She puts it on and he smiles as he looks away from her, she gets on behind him. Betty jumps in her bag as she grabs it and tucks it between her chest and his back.
"Something sexy about a girl with a helmet"
"Well there's nothing funny about a southern boy with a bruise" He chuckles as she places his arms around his chest.
"Good luck with that" He hits the gas and makes a U-turn and drives off.
-The Royal We-
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Post by Nickpick on Oct 26, 2010 14:40:02 GMT -6
Episode 2: Everything, Everywhere Ends
Jason sees the group just a head of them but it's only the bikes and a few large trucks, everyone is missing. He pulls the motorcycle over and turns it off.
"What's wrong?" Jason looks around, concerned.
"Somethings not right here" Amy looked over at the sky, the orange sky slowly grew dark.
"I need my gun" Amy looked at Jason, he held his arm out at Amy, palm open. Amy didn't know if she could trust him.
"Listen, you just need to trust me..." Amy slowly raises the shotgun until he takes it. He runs off down main street and looks around.
"ANYONE HELLO!" There's no reply.
"Damn it!"
"What?"
"They've gone underground"
"Underground? Who goes underground?"
"We do at night, Camper have a tendency to stalk at night. We need to find somewhere to sleep through the night" Jason looks around at the buildings, Amy smiles
"There" She points at the top floor of the nearest building.
"Your aware elevators don't work anymore?"
"Yeah, I've survived this long, trust me...I know what i'm doing"
"Good, then follow me"
"What about Penny?" Amy stood by it, Jason smiles and walks up to it, kicks the brake off and rolls it towards the building.
"So 7 months, what have you been doing all this time?"
"Surviving the best way I can. I mean your the first person I've seen in 7 months. Which reminds me, the whispers..." Jason quickly looks at Amy, his face in shock. Amy notices.
"You've heard those whispers as well?"
"Yeah, I always thought someone was nearby but when I looked I found nobody. Who is it doing it?"
"The scanners and I heard them one night, we had no idea what it was or what it was saying but the next morning...3 of our scanners were dead. Whoever is doing those whispers is dangerous"
"There's something your not telling me, something your keeping a secret. What is it?" He smiles as they walk inside the lobby that's just barely lit.
"I'm keeping a lot of stuff from you that you don't know of, doesn't mean i'm gonna spill it to you"
"Can I trust you?" He looks at her, they meet eye to eye.
"Of course you can" Jason sees the main lobby desk, usually where the receptionist would sit. He puts Penny behind it and smiles, he looks over at Amy.
"Read to walk 60 stories?"
"After you" Suddenly there's a loud bang, Jason and Amy turn around to see a young man on his knees. He was holding his chest but even in the dimming light, the blood was still visible.
"Help...me" He falls flat on his chest, Jason looks over at Amy, Amy at Jason until Amy runs off to his aid.
"Be careful"
"Help me" Jason sighs, he walks over and picks him up.
"The break room...hurry!" Amy runs to the far end of the building and opens the break room doors when Jason rushes in and places the young man on a table. He forces his hands away and sees one bullet wound in the middle of his chest.
"Damn it" Jason rushes to the water cooler and removes the jug, spilling water on the floor until he brings it up and tastes the water.
"Still good after seven months"
He pours the water on the wound and cleans it up. He takes his leather jacket and forces it down on the wound.
"Kid, what's your name?"
"Ian"
"Okay Ian, listen...what i'm about to do is going to hurt like hell, just hold on okay?" He nods once, Jason places on hand Ian's upper chest and holds him down. He removes the jacket and with his index and middle finger together, he digs them into the wound until he feels the bullet. He opens his two fingers and closes down on the bullet and pulls it out. The whole time, Ian screamed in pain.
"Done kid, done" Jason opened his shotgun and took out a shell and opened it.
"Okay, now this is what's going to hurt like hell" He pours the gunpowder on the small wound, he pulls out a lighter and quickly sets the gun powder on fire. Ian yells out in pain until he falls unconscious. An hour goes by and it dark out, the light in the break room would flicker on and off from time to time. Amy sat in the corner with the gun in her hand, yet to trust either one.
"Your still awake aren't you?" Jason asked, Amy smiled.
"Yeah"
"You don't trust me do you?" Jason stood up and sat next to her. Amy showed him the gun and put it down.
"Can I ask you something?"
"How did I learn to do that?" He beats her to it, She nods at the question.
"Before I came to New York, before everyone disappeared...I was in Iraq"
"Wait? You were overseas?"
"Yeah, I was in the front lines, you know? I was the soldier that was out there, in the battlefield, protecting this place. What's there to protect when no one is here" Jason chuckles. "I could really use a drink right now"
"What happened?" Jason smirks, remembering.
"It was the hottest Sunday I could remember...We spent most of that day just scouting areas, making sure local businesses and schools were in good condition"
"Good Condition?"
"Like making sure they weren't threatened or anything like that. Well I went in to check in on a local school for young kids. I was quickly chatting with one of the teachers when a man ran in, ripped his shirt open, revealing a bomb strapped to his chest. He screamed something then pressed the button, I closed my eyes and saw my life flash before my eyes then after a few seconds...I opened them and saw that everyone was missing. I mean I was the only one left, I went back to Base and there was no one there. So I found helicopter that was delivering some packaged goods. I took it over and came over here, shortly then I met the Scanners and I've been with them every since"
"Family gone too?" Amy asked the question, only to realize it was rude. "Sorry, didn't mean to.."
"It's okay" Jason smiles. "A couple days before I met the Scanners, I went to Louisiana. I didn't find a single soul" Suddenly Ian gasps to life. Jason stands up along with Amy and walk over to him.
"Ian, how you feeling buddy?" Ian takes a second, he looks over at Jason and Amy, the flickering lights doesn't favor them with their images.
"What happened?"
"Well you were shot, it took a moment but I saved ya" Ian sits up, holding his chest, the pain slightly still there.
"Woah buddy, take it slow. Why don't you tell us what happened?"
"I was in...the area. I heard someone yelling..."
"That was me" Jason smiles, almost like he's proud.
"Right...I saw you and..." Ian looks at Amy, Amy has her arms cross, she slightly waves while her arms are crossed.
"Amy"
"Your the first people I've seen in awhile, I thought you could help...so I ran to you guys when I was shot" Jason looks at Amy, Amy already knowing what Jason was thinking.
"Did you hear any whispers?" Ian looked up over at Jason then at Amy then nods Amy stared at Ian, short brown skater like hair with brown that pulled you in and dazed you, she kinda thought he was cute.
"How did you know?"
"Just a hunch. It's late, you should get some rest...We all should and in the morning, we'll figure something out" Ian nods, Amy just walks off to her corner. He places her hand on the gun and leans her head back and slowly and surely falls asleep. In the morning, Ian is awake and out of the Break Room with Amy just barely opening her eyes just to see Jason standing over her.
"Wake-y wake-y"
"What's going on?"
"I have people I want you to meet" Amy places her hand down to grab her gun when she feels it missing. She looks up at Jason, he smiles down at her.
"You took my gun?"
"I'm glad you decided to trust me, now you have to get me, to trust you" He winks at her and leaves the break room. Amy gets up and grabs her bag, she notices its lighter.
"Betty?" She looks around the break room and there's no cat. She walks out of the brake room and straight up to Jason before he walks outside the building.
"Where's my cat?"
"I don't know, last I saw it was when it attacked me yesterday"
"What about Ian?"
"He's outside, ask him yourself" Amy threw her back over shoulder and marched outside where all the Scanner stood around, talking amongst one another until Amy walks out. They all stare at her, the men haven't seen a new face in awhile especially a pretty one. Amy was sorta shocked but she hid it well, she couldn't believe how many survivors were around. She counted at least 35 and that wasn't including babies and small children. Amy went back to her main focus and walks up to Ian who is sitting on a truck while what looked like a doctor checked his wounds out.
"Ian...Where's my cat?"
"Cat? What?"
"Did you see a cat in my bag?"
"Was it dead?" Amy sighs
"No, it was alive"
"Sorry, I didn't see it" Amy left it alone, Betty would usually run off time from time, Amy looked at the doctor, all she saw was his blue eyes behind the glasses. He wore a white mouth guard and on his forehead he wore a white bandana tied around his head with a red cross on the front. He wore a white shirt with a tan cargo vest over it with black jeans. He pulled the mouth guard down and smiled.
"Hello"
"Hey" She gave him a cold hello and turned around when she saw another young man, he had shaggy brown hair and dark skin with brown eyes that were dark. He was shirtless and his body fit...to fit.
"Hello Amy"
"Hi...Wait, how do you know my name?" He looked down and then back up at Amy, blushing.
"I've known you for awhile" Amy was kinda creeped out.
"How?"
"I think it would be best if I just showed you" He stepped back and within seconds, he morphed into a lion but it wasn't just any lion. It was Mordecai, he morphs back and quickly pulls his pants up and smiles.
"My name is really Patrick" Amy smiles and then punches him square in the face which hurts like hell but she hides it. She walks up to Jason who holds his arm out, blocking her. She turns around and faces them all.
"Fellow Scanners, this is Amy, Amy these are the Scanners" Amy holds her hand and sighs.
"Let me introduce you to just a few" Jason wraps her arm around Amy as he walks up to a Scanner, Amy shakes so he can drop his arm.
"Amy, this is DC" DC looks up with large nerdy glasses. He wears a pink shirt with a green sweater over it. His hair is brown and straight up, no jell required. His skin and eyes are brown, his family came from India but he born in america.
"What's DC stand for?" DC smiles, holding his hand out, Amy shakes it with her good one.
"Dakshesh Caban but I prefer DC"
"Nice to meet you"
"Show her your ability" DC nods and smiles, he touches his left arm with his right hand and suddenly his whole arm is invisible. Amy couldn't believe it, her eyes widen with surprise. This was her first witnessing of abilities.
Jason places his hand on the small of Amy's back but she moves away.
"You've met Patrick" Amy gave him a dirty look.
"Sorry"
"And this is the doc" The same doctor working on Ian, looked up at Amy and smiled.
"Please, I prefer Ray"
"Amy" He smiles and nods.
"Can i..." Ray points to her hand, she holds it out to him. He gently holds it and studies it.
"You've just sprained it, wait one moment...I have some bandages in the truck" Ray jumps off and walks toward the truck.
"What's his ability?"
"His are sorta interesting...He's like a power database. He can sense abilities, cancel them are take them but that last one is for a short period"
"Wow"
"You haven't told me yours yet" Jason says to Amy, Amy looks at him, holding her wounded hand to her chest.
"I don't have one" Amy gives him a cold look before walking off.
"We all have one, you just haven't unlocked it yet" Ray walks up to Amy and starts wrapping her hurt hand.
"He's right by the way"
"As in?"
"You have an ability"
"How do you know that kind of stuff?"
"Like how do I see it?" She nods
"I don't know really, I look at people and usually I'll see this aura, like a glow..."
"If I have an ability why don't you take it and use it so I can see it?" Ray looked somewhat put off, he looked away and slightly sighed then looked up at Amy and smiled.
"Because I can't control myself when i borrow an ability. I took Pat's one and I basically went crazy"
"Oh sorry" Ray smiles
"It's okay"
"Amy" Amy looks over her shoulder and sees Jason with an older man. Thin and tall, he wore a general suit. Hair was short and silver with a silver mustache.
"Amy, this General Robbins. He's the leader of The Scanners" Jason was more serious instead of all friendly and goofy. Ray even finished with the bandage and saluted him, Robbins just nods and Ray walks off.
"Ms. Brooke, Jason has told me a brief about you. It's a pleasure"
"Pleasure to meet you"
"If you don't mind, i'd like to pull you aside privately and have a talk"
"Oh yeah, sure" Robbins looks at Jason and he walks off. Robbins walks off and Amy follows, at his side.
"Jason tells me that your abilty hasn't manifested yet. Is that true?"
"This whole abilty stuff is new to me so it's hard to take in but yeah, they haven't come yet"
"That's a shame...with your beauty i bet they'll come soon"
"Thank you"
"We're running a pretty hectic operation, it's not easy take those people out there where Campers and Survivor wait. It gets scary most days"
"Sorry to interrupt but do you know what's happening?"
"No, i'm afraid not. I was off duty at the time, I lost my family in the disappearance"
"I'm sorry"
"Thank you" Suddenly there's a large explosion that grabs Amy and General Robbins attention, both look in the direction as the whispers slowly get louder and louder.
"We need to run"
-The Royal We-
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Post by Nickpick on Oct 29, 2010 19:19:46 GMT -6
Episode 3: Fire & Ice
There's another explosion behind Amy and General Robbins as they run off towards The Scanners. All the Scanner look down the street to see all the explosions chasing after Amy and Robbins.
"Aw hell" Jason jumps in a small green pick up truck, starts it up and drives toward them. The whispers get louder and louder, Amy wanted to make sense of it but the explosion that continued over and over were to loud for her to make out the whispering. Suddenly Amy spotted Jason driving toward them. some how she knew she felt better knowing Jason was coming. Then it all began to slow down as if time itself stopped. Amy could sees Jason, she could feel Robbins warmth next to her and feel the heat of the explosion just behind her. The whispers stop until it's just breathing.
"What the..."
"Amy" The male voice called out, Amy quickly looked toward the sky.
"Who's there?"
"It's good to finally see you"
"That voice?" She's heard it before...but where?
"You better run" Suddenly everything resumes, Amy quickly notices and begins to run toward the car coming towards them. Jason punched the window out and crashes into the medium in the middle of the road which sends him flying into the air. Just when Amy trips, Robbins helps her but she spots a missile, the size of two basketballs. It comes down right at her when Jason tackles it mid-air, once he hits the ground, it explodes. Amy stands up and looks over at the explosion as the fire slowly dies.
"Jason!" Amy looks over at Robbins, already fearing the worse.
"Come on...come on" as the fire dies, standing there without a shirt and a pair of pants that barely want to hold on. Jason is smiling as if the whole situation was funny to him. He walks straight up to Amy, smiling down at her.
"Miss me?" She slaps him
"Don't do that" Amy walks off, leaving Jason to wonder why she reacted the way she reacted. Jason looks over at General Robbins and he nods at him.
"Good job"
"Thanks sir"
Amy walks up to the truck and grabs her bag when Ray walks up and notices she's crying.
"You alright?"
"Just fine" She storms off in a different direction, Ray sighs.
"I'm gonna get in trouble for this" He runs off and catches up with her.
"If everything was fine then you wouldn't be crying. So what's wrong?" Amy is silent. "I hope you like company, i'm not leaving your side" Jason looks over and sees Amy and Ray walking off, he looks away and smashes the blue mailbox next to him. Meanwhile Ian walks off back inside the building he, Amy and Jason spent the night in and just stands in the middle of the room. He pulls out a water bottle and pours just enough on the floor in front of him. He tightens it up and places back in his pocket.
"Alright, let's see if I still got it" Ian closes his eyes and takes a deep breath, he holds both palms open and takes another deep breath but this time, it's visible. The temperature in the building quickly gets cold. Ian holds his left arm out and keeps his palm open as he lets out another cold breath and places his right hand down then his left hand then he quickly throws a punch, still remaining in the same stance and suddenly the water on the floor freezes and one large icicle flies toward the wall and pierces it. He throws his elbow back and the water wraps around to his back and several icicles go flying behind him. He places his left hand down to his side and opens his eyes and smiles.
"Yeah, I still got it" Ray continues to follow Amy as she turns the corner to reveal Central Park.
"What's wrong?"
"I was almost killed just a moment ago, you think i like living in a world where everyone is trying to kill each other?" Her and Ray lock eyes, she was still breathing hard, still upset.
"That's why you have to stick with us...We..Hell, I will protect you. We'll look for the answers together, there's no reason to break down and give up" He smiles and wipes a falling tear from Amy's face when at the same time, they kiss each other, Amy pulls away.
"Wait" Amy smiles, Ray laughs as he brushes her hair behind her ear with his index finger.
"Thank you" She says, looking up at him. He nods once. Jason watches from the corner of the street, he gives a small smile but there was nothing happy about it and walks off. Amy looks up at Ray, her face serious.
"Not that this was a mistake but...it didn't mean anything special to me"
"It wasn't special" Ray was almost offended but he just smiled, jokingly.
"Not like that but.."
"Amy, I understand. You were upset and angry and you did the first thing you emotions wanted to do. I understand that" Amy steps back and nods.
"Thanks"
"Wanna head back?"
"Yeah" They walk back towards The Scanners.
"Just for the record...you kissed me" Ray joked around with her, She nudged him with her shoulder.
"Keep telling yourself that" They turn the corner and sees Jason and General Robbins walking toward them.
"Amy, Ray...We're packing up and leaving. We're heading toward base"
"Base?" General Robbins and Ray walk off as Jason stays with Amy.
"What did you guys do?"
"He just kept me for going crazy"
"Oh" Jason knew the truth.
"By the way, thanks for the save...I overreacted. I've never had my life so close to ending before. I guess I was just scared"
"No problem"
"So base?"
"Yeah, it's an older military base we're in control of. There's more Scanners back there"
"Can i ask you a question?" Amy asks
"Sure"
"What if they never come back? what would we do?" Jason says the first thing he feels.
"Survive"
-Meanwhile-
The man turns the corner and leans against it, panic in his eyes, clearly written all over his face as he breathing was heavy and uncontrollable. He peeks over the corner as sees him coming. He runs off further into the alley once he reaches an 8 foot tall fence. He starts climbing it when he slips off it, he grabs on to the fence when his thrown off and without his control, he turns around with the panic on his face as he stares at his cold, empty eyes.
"Where are the rest?" The voice was young, couldn't be any more older than 17. He stood in the shadow of the buildings but what was seen was the red scarf around his neck that stuck out and covered the lower part of his face including his mouth. He wore a sleeveless shirt black shirt and tight black jeans.
"They're near Central Park" The man managed to say, still set in fear. "Please...my kids, my wife"
"You didn't show her mercy...Should of thought of them before you let her die. For that you must pay for your sins" He snaps his fingers and the man explodes, spraying blood and chucks of skins and human organs everywhere.
"All those who let her die, will pay for the sins of their crime"
-The Royal We-
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Post by Nickpick on Oct 30, 2010 18:58:57 GMT -6
Episode 4: A Pale Girl Named Death
Amy sat in the bed of the of the trucks as they drove with the motorcycles and other trucks on the road.
"So do you know the story of the Zombria, the woman who brought death upon the world?" Amy smiles and shake her head to DC. DC smiles, in the bed of the truck is DC, Amy and a few other Scanners including Patrick, Jason rode shotgun of the truck while Ray drove.
"Is it scary?" Amy asked, DC nods with a smile.
"Of course, in the spirit of Halloween i thought i tell it"
"Today's Halloween?"
"October 31, 2010"
"Huh and to believe i was excited for this holiday" She says looking at the back of her hands.
"We'll back at the base we planned to have a trick or treating kinda thing for the kids" Patrick said, Amy ignored him which made him look down.
"Okay, let's get in the spirit and let me tell my story" All the kids got cozy, even a little girl rest her head on Amy's arm which kinda took her by surprise.
"Okay, The year is 1841 and it's the wild wild west. Ms. Stacy Zombria was a local doctor who some believed studied the dark arts in other words, she was usually the town gossip. Well one day, two prostitutes..."
"What?" One of the children ask, DC stares at the kid, thinking of another word.
"Women" The kid nods, understanding. Amy rolls her eyes. "Well one had a little dog that got away, they searched and searched for it, only to find nothing. One claims the Ms. Zombria took it and killed it for some kind of project so to get their revenge, they waited for her to leave her home when they threw pigs blood on her"
"That's Carrie..." Amy claims
"SSHSS...Zip it...Anyway...then Ms. Zombria was the laughing stock of the town and another town over, she swore her revenge but not on the two ladies but on the whole town. One night, she went to the middle of the cemetery and did a curse that rose the very dead. Under her control, the woman had the undead do her evil doing and kill all those who mocked her until the whole town was under her control"
"How did they stop her?" One of the kids asks.
"Alright! We're here!" Jason says, opening the small window. "Up and Adam!"
"Aghhh"
"Today in the Dining Hall, i'll finish the story...after T and T" The kids nod as they got out of the truck. DC and Amy waited for the kids to go first.
"You couldn't let me tell my little story?"
"I didn't realize you were going to copy from another story"
"All i took was the blood thing, the rest is from my mind" Amy laughed, DC just jumped out of the truck.
"What's so funny?" Amy turned around where Jason stood, Amy stood up from the bed of the truck and jumped off.
"DC reminds me of someone i use to know"
"Mind if i ask who?" They walk toward the large military base with watch towers where people had routing shifts, larges gates that surrounded the whole area.
"My dad, he died when i was 13. He had a weird sense of humor, shame i took after my mom who doesn't"
"I'm sorry, how did he pass?"
"He had stomach cancer, the last few months of his life were pretty hard but he was still joking" Amy stops and turns around, they were locking the large gates.
"Pretty big huh? keeping out those who wish to harm us"
"Or keeping us in" Amy walked off, Jason stared at the gates, thinking about what she said until he walks off, following her.
"It's not everyday, we got out in the field and find someone who's willing to come with us and fight on our side" The General said standing from his seat, Amy sat next to him at his table with Jason and the General's wife.
"But i'd like you to get a nice warm welcome to Amy Brooke" She stood up and waved a small wave.
"Let's eat" Everyone in the room began to eat, Amy saw the large room full of people, it had to be around 100 with families and soldiers. Amy looked down at her plate and saw fresh chicken with vegetables.
"What is it Amy?" Jason asked
"Chicken, it's been awhile"
"Enjoy" Amy looked at the General, who smiled at her. She smiled, taking her fork and stabbing her chicken and brought a small piece to her mouth and let the flavor dance around in her mouth.
-Meanwhile-
Ray walked out with two plates of food, wrapped up. The two soldiers came up to him where he handed the plates over.
"Enjoy fella's" They nod and walk off when Ray spots a woman standing in the middle of the street, standing outside the gate.
"Guys, look" Ray pointed at her.
"Damn it" They handed the plates back to Ray, as Ray stared at the girl who stood in the middle of the street.
"Where did she come from?"
"Excuse me, this is a private military base. You'll need to step back and turn around"
"I'm sure General Robbins wouldn't mind..." Ray shuts up once he sees her shaking hands.
"Camper" Ray whispers, the two soldiers raises their weapons and aims them at her.
"STEP BACK RIGHT NOW!" The girl stepped forward and in that split second, she was on the other side of the gate, standing next to the two soldiers, both in shock when she quickly touches their faces, they start shaking as they become suddenly old, hair silver and skin got loose and wrinkly until they drop dead. Ray drops both plates in shock, she walks toward him as gently touches his face but nothing happens. She's pale with brown/black empty eyes and her mouth was almost frowning. Her hair is long, straight and black. She wears a black dress that ends at her knees and she's barefooted.
"Who are you?"
"Death" the girl says, she drops her hand and starts to walk toward the building.
"If all the costumed children will make a line near the left side of the room then we can start passing out candy" Amy pushes her plate aside and stands up. Jason hands her a large bag of candy, smacking it against her chest, she holds it.
"Your gonna help pass out candy with me" Suddenly three shots ring out as Death walks pass the doors with the soldiers face in her hands, soon as the doors open, they drop to the ground, dead.
"Get all the kids in the bunker below" The general tells his wife, she nods. "Stay with them, guard them with your life"
"Yes Sir!" As they got the children out, a line of soldiers took their weapons and got down in a line with their weapons drawn, the general stood behind them with Amy and Jason.
"Who are you?" The woman didn't speak, she opened both her palms as black tentacle like arms came rushing out and toward the soldiers.
"SHOOT! the general roared, they all fired their guns simultaneously and without a notice and in a flash, she moves, back and forth, side to side. Dodging the bullets as they come to her. Jason pulls his gloves out from his back pocket and puts them on, Amy notices and grabs his wrist.
"What are you planning?"
"Stopping her before something bad happens"
"Can you not be the hero for once" Jason smiles at Amy.
"Hey, comes with the territory" Jason runs off, the bullets bounce off him like Superman. He runs straight up to the girl, fist ready and cocked when he times it perfectly, he comes down on her face when she catches his fist, Jason is caught off guard, he's in shock. Suddenly he begins to feel drained, he drops to his knees as she stares down at him. Everyone in the room in pure shock when Ray bursts into the room, he runs at her with a fist, she turns her hand and catches his fist also.
"Who is this chick?" Amy whispers to herself when Ray grabs her face, the girl felt the pain she caused Jason.
"How?" The girl said until her face ages quickly, she drops to the floor and dies, her face isn't still and motionless, it's smiling. Jason is on the floor, breathing heavy. He's normal again, his hair didn't make it. Turning from dirty blond to now silver. Ray smiles as he looks down at his palms. He wanted to celebrate, he wanted to jump around but he didn't. He was proud he finally could control his ability. Amy ran up to Jason to see how he was doing, he smiled.
"You okay?"
"Peachy" Amy looks up at Ray and exhales, followed by a smile.
"Great timing" It took awhile but everything managed to work out good in the end, Amy was suppose to help Jason with Trick Or Treating but he spent rest of the night, dying his hair back. So she spent it alone, handing out candy to kids who simply ran to her. She sat there, waiting for a kid to approach when Patrick walked up.
"Can i talk to you?"
"Listen, if it's a sorry then fine your forgiven. I was pissed when you told me so its sorta your fault i punched you in the face"
"And it's my fault my face broke your hand" Amy smiles, looking down at her bandaged hand.
"I feel fine now" Patrick smiled.
"Good...Need any help cleaning up?" Amy thought she throw him a bone, let him know they're cool.
"Yeah" Patrick walked up, he took the bowl of candy and placed it on the floor as Amy took the orange table cover and pulled it off. Patrick folds the table and puts it under his arm, Amy holds the now rolled up table cover and candy bowl.
"Here, let me take that" He grabs the candy bowl.
"Thanks" They walked down the hall together, silent at first until Patrick coughs and says the first thing on his mind.
"Um so...what's your last name?"
"Brooke, yours?"
"Patrick Yorke" He smiles, she nods.
"Well it's nice to meet you Patrick Yorke"
"Amy Brooke" He nods at her. She grabs the handle to the closet door and opens it for him.
"You can head back to your room or whatever, i'll put all this away"
"Oh okay, thanks" Amy drops the table cover on the floor
"Bye" She walks off
"Amy..." Amy turns around "If you want...you can still call me Mordecai"
"I prefer Patrick" Amy walks off, leaving Patrick. Amy turns the hall to see DC walking down it.
"Hey"
"Hey, i'm going to tell the end of the Death story, if you wanna hear it?" Amy smiled.
"I have a feeling i know how it ends but thanks tho"
"No problem, Goodnight"
"Goodnight"
-The Royal We-
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Post by Nickpick on Nov 3, 2010 16:52:54 GMT -6
Episode 5: Wings
Amy opens her eyes, the sun shines down on her face. She smiles, the first good night sleep in awhile, she turns around, keeping the blankets to her chest. She's clearly nude under the blankets. The sky is a beautiful blue, brightest in seven months. There's a few knocks on her bedroom door. Amy raises her head and looks at the door.
"It's open" The door opens, Ray walks in with a smorgasbord of food. The main dish was eggs and pancakes, a cup of Orange Juice for the drink and a bowl of fruit and a bowl of yogurt to top it off.
"I brought breakfast" Amy holds the blankets to her chest even tighter. "Your totally naked under those blankets aren't you?" Amy opens the blankets and looks in, she pulls them toward her chest, tightly and looks up at Ray with a smile.
"There's clothes below the waist" Ray looks away, pure pleasure on his face. "Your sick"
"What? It's been awhile since I've heard something that sexy"
"Well thank you" He places the smorgasbord on the table next to her.
"So if you say no, i'm up for still being friends but would you want to go out on a date?" Amy chuckled once, she didn't think dating was possible in this new age. She looked at Ray with an Are-you-serious face.
"People still date"
"People may of went poof! doesn't mean we changed how we live. So what do you say?" Ray looked hopeful, Amy saw that in him. She smiled and shrugs.
"Sure" Ray smiled, excited
"Shrug aside, i'll still take that. Tonight in the Dining Hall, prepared to be amazed"
"Wait...because you leave" She pointed to a bra and white muscle shirt that laid on the arm rest of the chair.
"Be a gentleman" He grabs the muscle shirt and bra and hands them to her, she smiles.
"Go ahead" He exhales, shaky breath with a sign of pleasure on his face.
"You creep me out"
"Join the club" He leaves, she thinks about it for a second and smiles. Moments pass and she finally dressed. She opens her room door when Jason is seconds away from knocking on it.
"Woah" Amy says, he laughs.
"Almost knocked on your face" She steps out, closing the door behind her.
"What's up?"
"I'm actually heading into town with DC, Ian and Patrick. Wanna come along?"
"Yeah, sure...as long as i'm not sitting in the back of the truck"
"Deal. I gotta get a few things before we head out, DC and Ian are already at the truck near the entrance of the fence"
"Okay, i'll go out there now" Amy stops near the exit, Jason keeps walking. Amy turns and leaves out the exit, to see DC and Ian playing Paper, Rock, Scissors for the front seat. Patrick leaned against the car, guessing he lost the first round.
"What are you guys doing?"
"Playing for the front seat" DC said as he pounds his palm with his fist. Amy smiles and walks straight up to the front seat and gets in.
"No fair" Ian exclaimed as Patrick did a single jump into the back of the truck, Ian and DC get in.
"Take your seat boys, we're off" Jason gets in the truck and starts it up, letting the engine roar as the gates begin to slowly open.
"I got a surprise for you" Jason randomly said, Amy looked over at him and smiled.
"Like?"
"Not now, later" Jason speeds down the road, nearing the city limits.
"Have a good Halloween? It's been my first without my kids"
"Same without my mom. It was okay, dinner was good"
"Yeah, them chiefs know what they're doing"
"So how long has New York been your home?" Amy asks, Jason smiles
"7 months but this isn't my first New York trip. I've been here before mainly with my little girl and wife. You wanna know the last thing i told my wife and little girl?" Amy looked at Jason. "I love them" Jason telling her that reminded Amy of what her last words are to her mother.
"You want to know what i said to my mother before the disappearing?" He looks at Amy before looking back at the road.
"What?"
"I hate you" Jason looked at Amy, she just stared out the window.
"I'm guessing you two fought?"
"Yeah"
"You know me and my wife would fight about the stupidest stuff, like why didn't i take the laundry out..you know? stupid stuff but every night, she would look at me and tell me she loves me. I bet even though you told your mother that you hate her, she knew deep down, you didn't. You were angry, she was angry. Don't let it bring you down, she loves you and i bet you still love her" Amy just stared out the window, her eyes watery and throat dry.
"We're here" DC, Patrick and Ian jump out in the back of the truck, Amy gently touches the back of Jason's hand.
"Thanks"
"No problem. We're just gonna a pit stop before we get any further into the city" Jason gets out, Amy wipes her eyes and gets out as well.
"What's here?"
"You'll see" Jason smiles
"Is this the surprise?"
"Nope, not even close"
"Then what are we doing?" Ian asks before Amy, Jason smiles
"Your gonna like this Iceboy"
"Iceboy?" Jason winks at him, knowing his ability which Ian didn't really wanna share. Jason leads them into an old warehouse, Amy looks around, nothing that stood out. Just a dirty, old warehouse. Jason stops on top of a old dirty carpet and turns toward the group.
"Ready?" He taps his foot on the carpet then steps back, suddenly a small hatch from underneath Jason opens, the carpet glued tightly on the small hatch and when closed it camouflaged with the carpet already on the floor. A man climbs the ladder out and smiles at the group then looks over at Jason.
"They sent you?"
"Actually Billy, i won't be here to receive it, I have Patrick, Ian and DC here to receive...I will be taking the lovely Amy here to show her 'Wings' " Billy looks at Amy and eyes her up and down, Amy gets weirded out by him but gives him a dirty look.
"Good on ya love" He winks Amy
"So if you will show these three a good time, i'll return in a few" Jason walks off, Amy follows.
"What will they be doing?" Jason smiles
"Getting tonight's dinner" They got in the truck, Amy looked at Jason. Jason looked over at her with a smile.
"What?"
"Wings?"
"It's a nickname and your only hint" Jason starts the truck and pulls out. It didn't take long to get uptown. Usually Scanners wouldn't go uptown, high Campers rate"
"Why did you call Ian, Iceboy?"
"Last night i woke up in the middle of the night to get something to drink when i heard someone in the main kitchen, usually no one is awake so i peeked over and saw Ian reach make himself a glass of water then blow into it and suddenly the water was half frozen. You know? When something has been in the freezer to long and the top is frozen and the bottom of the drink is all liquid"
"So his ability is what...Ice control"
"Ice manipulation" Jason pulls the truck over and turns it off.
"We can't stay long, Camper's will feel the hoods of cars, if its warm they know someone is around" Jason and Amy step onto the sidewalk and look up at what use to be Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
"Wow, I remember coming here as a child"
"Yeah, a few Camper took control in the early months but Wings took them out and now he runs it. Usually keeps it for survivors, provides for them and keeps them safe"
"Who is Wings?" Jason smiles.
"You'll see" They walk toward the entrance, Jason opens the door for Amy, letting her go in first. First thing she sees the beauty inside. Kept clean and respect. The church is in great condition. The chairs have been taken out and replaced with small tents where survivors kept and remained.
"Follow me" Jason whispers to Amy, they walk along side of the cathedral until they reach some stairs into a smaller room with just a metal ladder.
"It's a long way up...so..you know" Amy nods, Jason goes first then Amy follows. The wind finds its way through some small cracks through the cathedral which sends shivers down Amy's spine. Jason reaches a wooden hatch and knocks on it.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May and summer's lease hath all too short a date" The voice came from the other side of the wooden hatch that was between them. Jason looks down and thinks about it.
"Damn it, what was that one...Sonnet 18?" The hatch unlocks and Jason pushes it open and climbs up, He reaches down and pulls Amy up. Both stand there, in the circular room in the middle was large bell with writing all over it.
"Jason, it's been awhile" The voice came from behind the bell.
"William, I've brought a friend"
"You know my rules involving guest?" Jason looks over at Amy, Amy didn't know what to do, she kept her hands in front of her, together.
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind" The man behind the bell said, Amy looked at Jason, Jason was lipping it.
"Do not help her Jason" He quickly closes his mouth. Amy looks toward the bell.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" The man steps out, long brown hair that rest on his shoulders, a long light brown coat that ends at the back of his knees. His skin is a black, eyes are brown and his height is amazing. Amy guessed 6'6 at most but the most interesting thing about this man was his back. something under the coat pressed out as if it was hiding under his coat.
"William, this is Amy" The man smiles and gently bows his head.
"Hello" The only word Amy could say.
"William keeps these survivors here, he protects them like some..."
"Angel..." William beats Jason to it. "I'm far from angel"
"Show her" Jason said as William turned around. He hung his head and took his coat off, revealing a pair of large white wing that was held down by rope. Amy was in awe, she didn't have a single thought or anything to say. She was speechless.
"William's ability are his wings"
"This ability is my curse" William says as he picks his coat up and puts it back on.
"Why have you come?"
"General Robbins request your presence, he said stop delaying..." William smiles, scuffing as he grabs a small dagger.
"Delays have dangerous ends"
"Enough with the Shakespeare...Are you coming or not?"
"Not, once i leave my home i'm leaving the protection of these people to themselves and i simply can't have that"
"General will be upset" William grabs a handkerchief and throws it at Jason, Jason catches it.
"Tell him he can keep it" Amy looks at Jason.
"Let me...Go round up the guys and come back okay?" Jason looks at William who just stared out an opening then looks back at Amy.
"Fine, i'll be back soon" Jason opens the hatch, crawls down and Amy closes the hatch once he's on the ladder.
"What makes you think you'll talk me into leaving?"
"I don't, these last few hours I've been under watch...it's finally good to have some fresh air" William is quiet, Amy looks at the bell and sees the name 'Emma' written alot on it.
"Do you ever leave this tower?"
"Only when i believe a Camper is near but it's been awhile since we've been attacked"
"Why don't you have some kind of partner? someone who can help"
"A woman of questions, mostly questions about herself and her actions. Before i give you my answer, let me ask you something. What's your ability?"
"I don't know"
"Hmmm may i see your hand?" Amy opens her palm and William places his hand under hers, both lock eyes and in one movement he cuts her palm. He pulls away but William just smiles as the blood spills on the ground.
"WHAT THE HELL!?"
"Check your hand" Amy looks down at it not cause he told her but because the pain was gone. She looks at her palm and the cut was gone. She looked up at William, eyes widen.
"How did you do that?"
"That wasn't me...That's all you" Amy looks at William down her hands.
"What the?"
-The Royal We-
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Post by Nickpick on Nov 10, 2010 14:16:57 GMT -6
Episode 6: Illusions
William lead Amy to the roof of the cathedral. William leaps once and he’s flies through the sky until he gently touches down near a bench. Amy catches up and takes a seat across from him.
“May I ask a somewhat personal question?” William asked, staring out at the city.
“Shoot”
“How did your father pass away?”
“How did you know?” William smiled as he looked at her, the wind blew her hair.
“Your bracelet on your left wrist. It says yasuo…that’s goodbye in Greek and your heart necklace, the back reads Dad. I have a eye of catching the little things”
“Cancer…Me and him always had a connection, my mother and I…we never had that bond that every mother and daughter had”
“Doesn’t mean you don’t miss her does it?”
“I think about her all the time” Amy smiles, looking down at the table, messing with the loose wood that stuck out.
“It’s my turn to ask you a question. Your bell…It reads ‘Emma’ Who is she?” William stands up and walks to the edge of the cathedral.
“She was the love of my life, I lost her two months ago. You know the feeling of love?” Amy was quiet, a question she didn’t feel as if it needed an answer.
“Love is to tremble when your around this person, To let the heat in your core consume you. All you want is to be around that person. Emma was of that. She freed me from my fear of this new world, she was my guardian angel as I was hers. Little did I know, Our love was never meant to be”
“What happened?”
“A camper snuck in, fired three shots as me, all hit me but one went through my wings as I protected Emma. It hit her heart and killed in within moments. She died in my arms…now I live alone, protecting those who can’t protect themselves”
“I’m sorry” William looks down as he sees Jason arrive with the guys.
“We still speak, Emma is always talking to me…I talk back but the conversation seems one sided at times. Have you ever spoken to your father?”
“No”
“Try it sometime, who knows…he might answer” Amy stands up as William turns around and steps off the edge.
“This world needs someone like you, someone these people without abilities can look up and see someone who suffers like them. They need a savior, they need you”
“I know the words you speak, I just don’t understand my role in them. I’m the last thing from a savior. I’m the last thing from a hero”
“My father said ‘Men aren’t born heroes, they become heroes with the decisions they make‘ People can see you and know that there are angels out there, protecting them. I know deep down you want that, I know Emma would”
“Why do you insist that I must be some savior? I’m limited to the sky”
“No, The sky is the limit. I trust you’ll make the right decision” Amy walks off, William stares at Amy as she walks off, his coat flaps in the wind, like some superhero. Amy makes to the bottom of the cathedral where she meets up with the guys.
“Where’s Wings?” Jason asks, Amy smiles.
“Doing some serious thinking…So do we have dinner?” DC sighs, exhausted.
“Don’t ask” They left the church, Patrick hands Amy an apple, it was clean and red.
“Those are rare so cherish it”
“Rare?” Amy asked
“Yeah, awhile back, we found out all the apple orchards have went dead, radiation of some kind. We think it might be a mutant”
“Mutant?”
“Yeah, sorry…I call people with abilities that”
“X-men! I love X-men comics. I mean I don’t usually read them but I love X-men for some reason” Patrick’s heart fell to his feet, Comic book chicks…who doesn't love them?”
“Stop!” Jason’s voice was still and demanding. Everyone looks ahead and sees a young kid, 18 maybe. Same kid who killed the man in the alley a couple nights ago. DC took stance, Patrick was ready to morph and Jason made fists, ready for a fight.
“Jason, I hope you don’t believe that confessing your sins will make you any less guilty in my eyes”
“Is it that time already? Geez, your becoming more of annoying than myself”
“Did you know what sin Jesus was accused of?” Everyone was quiet. “Blasphemy…He said he was equal to God. You know what your sin is?”
“Amuse me” Amy stared at the young kid. He wore the same red scarf with a black long sleeve shirt with one sleeve ripped off, revealing his arm. His eyes are brown/black and his hair is straight up, spiked.
“It’s pride, mine would be…wrath”
“Jase, wanna catch me up?” Amy asked
“Please, allow me. Jason killed the one most important person in my life. He did as the Illuminati asked. Blindly”
“Who are you?”
“I Am The Hunter” He smiled “And this party has way to many people” He flicks his hand into the air, sending DC and Patrick flying back into the church. Ian throws his jacket off, Hunter opens his palm toward him, using his telekinesis to throw him back but instead Ian spits and creates a large ice shield blocking him, Jason and Amy. He throws another power telekinetic punch and breaks the shield.
“Ice huh? I know someone would have a field day with you”
“Send your worse” Ian says as Hunter tightens his jaw and throws several telekinetic punches at the group. Ian manages to block some until Amy is hit. Patrick helps her up, Amy takes out her gun and cocks it. Patrick morphs into Lion and runs off. He leaps into the air, Hunter flicks his wrist to the side, it sends Patrick flying toward the large doors, Patrick leaps off them and twirls in the air for a brief moment before he lands inches in front of Hunter. Both are still for a brief moment but reacting, Patrick leaps at him with his mouth open as Hunter with his index finger and middle finger together, like a gun, he quickly brings his thumb down as if he’s shooting and a small powerful telekinetic attack hits Patrick and cuts right through him but Patrick manages to barely scratch Hunter’s face, leaving his face bloody. Amy aims her gun at him. Jason runs off toward him, Hunter smiles.
“This isn’t over” Suddenly there’s a small explosion and Hunter is gone. Amy lowers her gun as Jason picks himself off the ground. He dusts himself as he looks over at Amy.
“I can explain”
-The Royal We-
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Post by Nickpick on Nov 16, 2010 17:32:46 GMT -6
Episode 7: Adrift
“Four months ago, General Robbins sent me on a scouting mission with a man named Forrester. Together, we search for food or any survivors or campers. We found a whole supply of fruits and vegetables that we still edible when we heard all this talking. We hid and listened in. The Illuminati which consists of four of the most powerful people around. They were questioning this woman, asking her a series of questions when Forrester made himself know and within seconds…he was dead. Don‘t ask. But I remember praying and hoping they wouldn‘t see me but the one named Owen found me…He told me I would walk away with my life if I simply just told the woman who was in charge…” Amy stared at Jason as the two sat in the truck, the others sat on the steps of the church, waiting for the story to be done.
“What did you say?” Amy asked
“I said the first thing they wanted to hear, I said the Illuminati was in charge and I walked away, I got five steps when I heard her gasp for air then a piercing of a blade stab her. Hunter was the woman’s mother…If Hunter found me that means Owen is dead which means there’s three people left in the Illuminati"
"How was Hunter able to kill Owen if he is one of the most powerful?"
"I don't know, I think Hunter has some sort of army on his side, he might have someone disabling powers, i don't know. He’s little line to Ian makes me think that he has friends and powerful ones but Hunter believes I was apart of the killing…He believes I could have saved her, even if I thought about that I would be a dead man. Hunter is a Class A….Mutant. He very well skilled in his powers.”
“What are you saying?”
“I’m saying we have a problem on our hands and the sooner we bring this to the general’s attention, the faster we can handle this situation without losing any lives”
“What about William? You think he’ll be all right”
“Hunter is blinded by revenge, Wings is no where in his sight. He could careless about survivors or anything. He wants me and the Illuminati dead. What am I thinking? I have to do this alone”
“Alone? Like it or not, I’m in the middle of this situation and Ian, DC and Patrick are as well. If Hunter goes down then he goes down by our hands. Besides, I might be able to help”
“How?” Amy smiled. Moments pass and Jason walks up to Ian, Patrick and DC. “Boys, I have a plan”
-Meanwhile-
Roy lights a candle and smiles as he blows out the match, he whistles a nice tune when the General walks in, he takes a look around and smiles. He smells the candles in the air as all the tables are dressed with a nice white cloth and a disco, shines all over the walls.
“I heard you have a date with Amy. Congrats, I was beginning to question your sexuality”
“Thank you Sir. It’s been awhile since I’ve met a girl that I really like”
“We’ll it’s not everyday a special girl walks in our doors, single. You took your chance and won and I like a man who can do that”
“Thank you Sir” Roy went back to lighting another candle
“So you realize what must be done right?” Roy looks up at The General with curious eyes.
“No sir”
“Our world no longer has race or politics. It’s come down to Survivors, filthy people who are defenseless and hopeless. Campers, people who feed off others, people turned creatures….And us, people with great abilities with a future that looks bright. Amy is special, like us. So it would make sense to create more special people like ourselves?”
“I don’t understand sir”
“We’ve been given a new game but with very few players. It only makes sense to create new players. What I’m asking you Roy is to do what needs to be done. With death, there’s life and with life, there’s a chance to help create what death took. Amy is the key to creating a new, special life for us. Do I have your understanding son?” It clicked in Roy’s head, he nods and The General pats Roy’s back. “Good”
-Meanwhile-
It was starting to get dark, Jason pulled over in the middle of no where for a quick bathroom break. Amy nor DC had to go, while the others walked off in different distances to do their business. DC held the keys in his hand as he sat in the front seat next to Amy. He would touch the key and let them turn invisible, Amy watched a smiled.
“That’s really an amazing ability. Hope your not some perv though” DC smiled, a smile that seem somewhat…fake.
“I’m not…trust me on that” Amy sensed something was bothering DC, he didn’t really act as if everything was fine.
“You okay?” DC shrugs “You can trust me, I’m not like those guys…I won’t tease you or whatever. Are you missing someone?” DC looked around, Jason was far from hearing distance as well as Patrick or Ian. He took a deep breath then looked over at Amy.
“Can I trust you? With a secret?”
“Of course”
“I was adopted when I was younger so my real and my adoptive parents are probably both missing. They lived back in Ohio and we didn’t have the best relationship so…but it’s not even that. I’ve known Patrick for 6 months. He fought off a group of Campers that cornered me. We’ve been friends since…But as time went on, I found myself….more than liking him as friends”
“Oh”
“Yeah, I’ve fought off the feelings but the more I do that, the harder the feelings come. I guess rooming with him isn’t the perfect idea but…I just don’t know what to do”
“Why don’t you tell him?” Amy says, DC smiles at the stupid idea.
“No, I know Patrick well enough to know he would freak out and not talk to me besides, he told me he has feelings for you” Amy sorta knew that already so she didn’t think much of it.
“Listen, we live in a new world where people eat others, people have abilities and well…homophobia is the last thing to worry about. Just pull him aside and let him know how it is. If he reacts then you don’t want someone like him around you. Just don’t fear the little things, there’s bigger problems to worry about”
“What are you girls talking about?” Patrick says, surprising them.
“Nothing, just…chit chat” Amy smiles, DC nods.
“Okay, well Jason is coming so let’s head out to the back DC” DC nods as Patrick walks off and jumps in the back. DC looks over at Amy and nods.
“Thanks”
“If you ever need to talk…I’m here” DC nods, he gets out of the front seat as Jason walks up.
“Ready?”
“Let’s head out” Jason starts the car up and speeds off. It took about an hour to finally arrive to the base, it was late, darkness covered the sky and the wind spoke a cold song. Amy got out of the truck and headed past the boy who carried the supplies.
“Hey Amy” Jason calls out, Amy turns around.
“Thanks” Amy bows and walks off. Jason carries to loads of food with Ian, leaving Patrick and DC alone to carry the rest.
“Hey, Can I tell you something?”
“Sure bud” Patrick said, grabbing an orange and digging his thumb in it so he can start peeling it. DC nervously rubbed his hands together.
“Um…If it’s something you don’t agree with or dislike then we can dismiss and continue to be friends okay?” Patrick raised an eyebrow.
“Okay”
“I’m gay and I know your not but…I have strong feelings for you and if it’s a problem then we can just forget about it and stay friends” Patrick was quiet for a moment, he looked down at the Orange then sighs.
“DC, you’re my best friend…You’re the only one I trust in this whole damn place, hell I’ll take two bullets for you and I know you’d do the same but…” Patrick took a second.
“I love you like a brother and that’s the only feelings I have. Your one of my best friends and I wanna stay that way. But if your gay then that’s great, good for you bro” DC is still, he didn’t really move. Patrick stood up and walked off. DC took his glasses off, wiped a tear and got out of the truck. Amy walked right into the Dining Hall. The candles made the room glow as thousands of tiny lights traveled across the room due to the disco ball. Roy stands in the middle of the dining hall, wearing a black tuxedo, she smiles as she walks in, he beckons her.
“Took me about an hour or two but I think it was worth it in the end”
“It’s beautiful” She takes his hand and he pulls her to him. Suddenly the music begins to play, She chuckles.
“The twilight soundtrack? I know I’m a girl an all but..”
“But…It was the only CD I could get in such short notice, I borrowed it from a girl down my hall of rooms”
“It still works”
“Does it?” Roy asked, Amy nods and smiles. “Good” He spins Amy around and continues dancing.
“It’s good isn’t it? To break away from the world, to feel like everyone is normal again”
“Yeah” Amy rests her head on his shoulders. “What’s normal for you?”
“Well I was in medical school, I couldn’t afford a dorm so I lived with mom and dad until around the time my mom died, she was the one I was really close with. I lived with dad for awhile until I was about to afford a home, three weeks later, my dad passed away. Being a doctor and all, I’m suppose to find answers and know how to treat the sick. They said my father overdosed on some pills but…I think it was from a broken heart. My mother, she loved my father and he loved her. He never raised his voice at her, he never cheated or anything. When my mom died, I think he died with her”
“I’m sorry”
“It’s okay, I know it’s weird to say but I’m happy they’re gone. I mean they deserve to always be together and never apart” Amy raises her head and smiles.
“That’s sweet” Roy smiles, slightly blushing.
“I’m not a sweet guy, trust me on that” Amy eyes the whole room, he laughs. “Okay, I’ve been know to give into being sweet”
“Is there going to be food? Because I’m seriously hungry”
“Yes yes, calm yourself…I just wanna dance a little more. And I was hoping…” She looks into his eyes, he looks back into hers. “If we can do it right this time, a kiss. Even if we don’t work out or something at least we will still have a perfect kiss” Amy smiles.
“Fine” Together they lean in and share a passionate, respectful kiss.
-The Royal We-
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