Candles on the Water

***Woah. I so did not see that coming***

Chase

"Hello?" the door was opened by an elderly lady.

"Hi Aunt Lara," Abi said, stepping out.

"Abi! What on earth are you doing here?" her aunt exclaimed.

"My friends and I need a place to stay for a while. I hope you don't mind if we stay at your place?"

"Of course not dear. Come on in," Aunt Lara said, opening the door to let them all in.

"She seems a bit too nice," Chase whispered to Emily.

Emily

They were ushered in by Abi's aunt, who all smiled at them hugely, as if she were a clown. Everybody thanked her and she each gave them a room of their own, because the aunt owned a boarding house, but there was only once occupant in it right now. He was a stranger who mostly kept to his room.

Emily flopped down on a bed in a room with the walls colored yellow. She sighed as she closed her eyes, the happiest she had been in days.

Chase

"I think I'm going to go for a walk," Chase said, after finishing dinner. "Thank you Ms. Lara."

"Oh, it's no problem dear."

Chase smiled and helped himself out the door and into the busy streets of London. He started walking down the streets when someone grabbed him from behind.

Then, it went black.

***cue dramatic music and Princess posting***

*Dun dun duuuunnn*

Emily

She sat up in bed. What was that? She heard a yell, then a sickening Thunk. She knew that voice. Chase!

She raced out of bed, hurriedly putting on her shoes. She took the stairs two at a time. Emily ran out the front door to see someone dragging Chase into a back alley. Strange enough, that person dressed as he were from the early 19th century, but Emily couldn't worry about that now. She crept up behind the man, and grabbed Chase's hand. She closed her eyes and thought back hard to an hour before. And then, when she opened her eyes, Chase was standing next to her, looking dazed and grimy, but otherwise unhurt. They were back in the house at dinner. Everybody who was sitting down stared.

"Time travel," Emily murmured. She motioned to Melpomene. They needed to talk.

Abigayle

"Aunt Lara, thanks again for letting us stay." Abi said as she helped her aunt clear the table.
"No problem dear." Lara replied, "Abi, dear is there something you want to tell me? And what happened to that boy, Jake?" Abi turned away, she was still trying to think of a way to answer her aunt's questions.
"Abi," Jake's weak voice called from his room. Melpomene had found the bullet, and closed his wound, but he was still weak from his lose of blood.
"Aunt Lara, I'll be right back. Jake's fine, I promise." Abi walked down the hall, she could hear Melpomene talking to Chase and Emily in the living room. Jake's room was diagonal from the large room. Abi entered the blue colored room. Jake sat up, wincing as he shifted his leg to make room for Abigayle to sit.
"You're going to be okay." She promised,taking his hand. He smiled, then looked out the window.
"Abi, its snowing."

Chase

"What is it?" Melpomene asked when they sat down.

"I'm never going to take a walk in London by myself again," Chase said, sarcastically.

***I'm curious too. What are they talking about?***

***Go Emily!***

**Sorry! I was at youth group and I only just got back***

Emily

She shifted anxiously, staring at the floor. "The guy that tried to take Chase looked odd. It was as if he wasn't from this century," she looked up. "I am starting to get the feeling that something more elaborate is going on."

Melpomene stared intently into Emily's eyes, as if trying to figure her out. Emily brushed back a curtain of her red hair and spoke again. "We need to leave. Soon. Whoever is trying to hurt us knows where we are, and they might come after Abi's aunt."

Just then, the door burst open and the Aunt burst in, holding a gun. "Everybody to the wall. Now!" Shocked, Melpomene pushed Chase and Emily behind her. "I am not going to kill you, if you do what I say. Call your friends," the aunt stared them down. Nobody spoke. Just then, Chase leaped up and tried to give the woman a kick to the head, but it was no use. Her hand swooped up and grabbed his leg, then twirled him to the ground with a bang. She pointed the gun at Chase, then looked at Emily.

Voice trembling, Emily called out: "Hey guys! Come in here for a second!"

***Was so not expecting that***

Chase

"Do you mind pointing the gun away. There is such things as accidental shootings."

"Shut up," the Aunt told Chase.

Chase could hear the clamour of everyone walking down the stairs.

Emily

Trembling, Emily's thoughts raced. She had to stop the kids from going in there, but how? Then, she had it.

Emily raced out from behind Melpomene, who looked like she was planning, and tackled the aunt. The gun went off as she slammed her to the floor. The footsteps outside halted.

"Run!" She screamed. Still, it seemed like they weren't moving. Just then, the aunt grabbed her neck from behind and started squeezing.

Chase

"Hey!" Chase yelled, and ran over to the aunt. Melpomene ran over to where the gun was and picked it up.

"Let her go!" Melpomene yelled, pointing the gun at the Aunt's back.

John

John had gotten away with Alex and a age globe. Alex had strugled when John had put Alex hand to the globe. He was still stropy as his twelve year old self even John was dissapoonted with his new self. They both sat out side the house after a failed attempt to talk to Chase by him self. This was all they could do. A gun shot went of and Alex burst into the door handgun in hand. John approached more slowly as he got into the living room everybody froze " enother bloody robot" Ballow said. " no really me flesh and blood"
"good" Chase said appearing out of a side room and taking Emilys shoutgun " now I can kill you" Alex and John dived to the side. "wait" Melepone screached .

Jake

"What the..." Jake couldn't finish, he could see John and another boy fighting with Chase and Melpomene from his position on the bed. Through the doors he could see there was going to be trouble. Abi jumped off the bed, grabbing an umbrella from the holder by the door, and slowly walked out the door. Taking careful aim, Abi smashed the umbrella's handle into the unfamiliar boy's head. Shocked by the blow the boy turned, dropped his gun and punched Abi, his reflects taking over him.


Abigayle

Tears welled in her eyes, as Abigayle let go of the umbrella, in surrender. The boy turned back to the action in the living room. Not thinking Abi grabbed his arm with her left hand, twisting it with all her strength. With her right arm she waited for him to turn back to her,"You shouldn't have punched me." She whispered pulling by his arm closer, " It's not polite to hit girls. I on the other hand can do this." Slowly she stroked his cheek with her right hand, then catching him off guard she shoved his head into the wall.

Chase

Everyone stopped when they heard a loud crack.

"What the flip was that?" Ballow asked.

"Who knows," Aunt Lara said, standing right behind Chase. He turned around, but she hit him on the head, and then it went black.

Emily

She screamed as Chase went down. Aunt Lara stood over him and drew out another gun. Lightening cracked overhead through the window. Emily lunged at the woman, who screamed. There was a great flash, and an explosion, and everything turned white.

Emily could feel electricity moving throughout her body, and she feel herself changing. Her long red hair shrunk down to shoulder length, and turned a dirty blond. Her naturally pale face tanned with a sprinkle of freckles. Her eyes flashed with fire as they turned from brown, to red, to blue, to green, finally landing on stormy grey. Her whole body was filled with energy, but she couldn't move.

Finally, Emily woke, sitting up slowly. She was dimly aware that everybody was staring at her. The air crackled with static. She looked over to a crumpled heap on the ground. Aunt Lara. The shock must have killed her.

Chase

It was like a dream.

"What happened?" Emily asked, sitting up. She looked different.

"Something I have never seen before," Melpomene said.

"Ok...where is Chase?"

Everyone was silent as the looked down.

"W-w-what happened to Chase?" Emily asked again.

"He's in a coma."

But...what? I'm right here....