Candles on the Water

Chase

It was getting darker as Chase and the girl wandered through the forest, trying to find the missing girl. They didn't talk at all; they just walked.
"So...." Chase said, trying to start a conversation. "My name is Chase. What's yours?"

Melpomene-

"Where are they?" she muttered to herself. It wouldn't be long until the traitors noticed what she was doing. Thank god the empathy link that connected their minds had worn off between the pure travelers and the traitorous ones. They would have been doomed if it had remained. "Why aren't they coming?" she cursed under her breath. "Don't they know how much danger their in." she thought. She sat down on a rusted metal bench and waited. Until a rustle awoke her from her thoughts. She whirled around just in time to see a dark figure hurry away into the forest surrounding the waterworks. She immediately checked her surroundings. She expertly rummaged through her rucksack that had been sitting below her underneath the bench. A beeping from below her feet made her look down in astonishment. She knew the sound. They had attached a time bomb on the back of her shoe. She ripped it off and checked the time. 8-7-6... She had no time to destroy it and instead tossed it into the forest and took cover from shrapnel. She hoped for the best as a shattering explosion shook the trees.

**Cat_910, if you don't mind I'm just going to jump in here with your character. If you meant that post for someone else I'll just change mine. )

Elianna hadn't really been paying attention to the boy next to her. She had been communicating with the animals around her. His question, however, of what her name was, brought Elianna out of her chat with a hawk that hovered overhead, watching the policemen. "I'm Elianna... But I go by Ellie," she whispered, almost inaudibly. This boy, Chase as he had introduced, was obviously wanting something to break the silence. A squirell above Ellie let out a sharp cry, causing Chase to jump slightly. "The girl's about ten yards east. Thirty-one feet if you want to be more prescise. One of the other kids is with her." Ellie let out a small laugh. Chase nodded, then turned to her.

"How do you know that?" He asked, his voice booming compared to the small octave Ellie usually used.

Ellie smiled and pointed to the squirell. "He told me," she laughed lightly before jogging ahead and dropping to the ground next to the girl and the boy that was saying something about it being night. She was showing signs of a nocturnal animal, tired and weak in the day. "Is she okay?" Ellie asked quickly, her voice still quiet as she checked the girls pulse.

"I think so," the boy answered, arm still holding the slumping girl up. Chase had joined them and was crouching at the girl's feet. Ellie took a flashlight out of her back and patted the girl on the cheek.

"Will you open your eyes, please?" She asked gently, shining the light in the girl's eyes once they were open. "What's your name?"

The girl's eyes continued to close and she was showing signs of dizziness. "E-Emily," she finally answered, her voice slurred slightly.

"She must've hit her head pretty hard." Ellie bit her lip and put her flashlight away. "She's got a concussion, it's obvious really. We've got to get her back to the others. Can one of you two carry her?" She scratched the back of her neck.

"Yeah," Chase smiled, "I will." He picked her up slowly and started to walk back the way they'd came.

"Make sure she doesn't fall asleep. I can't tell how severe her concussion is," Chase nodded at Ellie's words right as the other boy joined them.

"I'm John," he introduced.

"Ellie," Elianna smiled lightly, shouldering her bag up further.

"Chase," Chase smiled as well.

**All I had... Sorry! **

***It's fine. I'm going to use other people's too***

Chase

Chase held the girl in his arms as they went off in the forest again, this time with the guy John.
"Hey! You're the one who got bloodied up earlier!" Chase exclaimed, finally figuring out who he was.
"Yeah," John said back, looking irratated.
They walked on for a while until they saw the waterworks. "Finally," John said, smiling to himself.
While Ellie and John kept on walking, Chase stopped for a minute. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a dark figure run by.
"Oh!" Ellie exclaimed as birds flew out of their nests, screeching.
"Guys, get back here!" Chase yelled over the birds. Ellie started running back; She knew there was something wrong.
"Why?" John yelled, but Chase wasn't looking at him. He was looking at a dark object flying through the air and landing about six yards away from John. From the distance, he could see a red light blinking on and off.
Then the time-bomb exploded.

Melpomene:

At least 6 large pieces of metal from the abandoned waterworks had been flung at her and small pieces cut her cheeks. "Oh my god." she whispered. Then, the nagging feeling at the back of her mind, the old sensation she missed, began calling. It was the empathy links. "Oh no." she thought. She ran into the burned forest. She stopped a moment to take in her surroundings. Standing in front of her were 11 children. They were huddled around each other and either holding their own injuries or supporting another with them. One had taken a piece of bomb shell badly in the shoulder. Others were badly bruised. John, the boy who Melpomene had managed to contact by cell-phone was relatively okay and he stepped forward. He looked at her like she was a savior. He opened his mouth to speak. Melpomene prepared herself for an explanation.

Elianna~

With a groan Ellie struggled to her feet, a mark on her cheek leaking blood, but not as bad as the others. She quickly looked around for her bag, grabbing it and instantly opening it. All she had in there was two changes of clothes, a fake fur coat, and finally her first aide kit. She grabbed that instantly, crawling to the person closest to her and treating their wounds. She glanced up in the process, eyes locking with another woman's who was looking around at the group. Ellie decided to ignore her for now. She wasn't on the ground like everyone else, so she was probably fine. Ellie treated one after another until finally reaching the last person, the one with metal in their shoulder. If Ellie pulled it out wrong there could be chronic nerve damage. She bit her lip as the kid let out a loud shout of pain, holding their bleeding shoulder. Ellie looked up at the woman, who was staring a John. She looked back at the other twelve year old before pulling out gauze, but not wrapping the cut yet. She'd need someone more experienced for this.

The girl hesitantly stepped aside. She eyed me warily as did everyone else. "Watch." I told the girl who had been trying in vain to remove the shrapnel. I took her first aid kit that she had let me use and I pulled out some sterile gloves. "This is going to be bloody..." I said to myself. I reached into my own rucksack and looked around. I had recently acquired the ability to mix random chemicals to make something useful. Chemistry as it's also called. I took the fairly large piece of metal and yanked it out. I then applied my substance which, with the help of my colleague, invented. It was supposed to make the blood clot easier. As I sprinkled it onto the wound I saw it immediately take effect. "Wait for it to clot and then put some antiseptic and wrap it with a bandage." I told the girl who had been gazing intently at my procedure. "Keep this for future use," and I handed her some of my medicine. She nodded excitedly and put it in her first aid kit. The boy, slightly stunned sat up. "Umm thanks." he said. I smiled in reply. The children's gazes became more trusting. "Come with me," I told them. They thankfully obliged.

John looked around at the crowd. He saw Chase with a bandage round his arm and walked up to him "wait," John said to Chase, "you wouldn't come with me to the water works but when a women who appears out of no were just after we get blown up about ten times strange".
" I guess your right" a boy to Johns left said John hadn't noticed him before and he didn't look very injured in fact he didn't look like he'd been touched by the explosions "on second thought I'll go with the women" John said looking at the boy he didn't feel like one of us he felt some how different maybe John was just paranoid he walked up to Eli "hey I saw her talking to you did she tell you anything".

Zire

"I agree with you" I said pointing to the boy who had just sided to go with the woman.

From the way she acted i could easily tell that she was horrified at what had happened to us, also she was stressed, meaning that she knew what was happening and knew that she had to tell us... somehow. On top of that i was bleeding on my arms, chest, face and legs. Not badly but badly enough to hurt. I removed the parts of metal in my legs slowly, then i stood up and started on the rest of my body. A few seconds later as i walked towards the woman a girl suddenly collapsed on top of me making me fall onto the ground with her.
In a matter of minutes the woman was on us, helping me to get the girl off me and tending her wounds.

"Its not her wounds" I said then whispered only for her to hear "She's afraid of blood".

For some reason i was not afraid to talk with her unlike everyone else.

"How do you know?" The woman said surprised, but quickly hiding it.

"From her behavior with us" I replied.

The woman nodded and got to work, in a few seconds she was finished with the girls wounds.

John

Elie didn't answer John question even is she had John was staring into the black of the forest he thought he saw something. "hey is one one of your animal buddies watching us "no, why" Elie replied "no reason It was probably the wind," John continued to look and saw the dark figure ," wait no I was right it's the guy with the bombs," John looked proud with himself as a few people looked around to see if John was right ,"oh shit bomb " John said as he Jumped to cover behind a tree "what the hell are you doing he hasn't thrown a bomb yet " said the girl Elie had been treating " look I have a bomb problem, when I was four my dog was sitting in my dads car and the car blew up okay now I have bomb issues" the patient looked like he didn't believe what John was saying like it was to strange to be true but what part of this was normal.

The flash was instantaneous. I closed my eyes at the explosion, the incessant ringing in my ears. When I opened my eyes I looked down at myself. There were shards of metal stuck within my ankle, yet thankfully they weren't bleeding. I decided to leave it there because the minor pain was no match to the sickening smell and look of blood. I had a few bruises, but other than that I was fine. Then some air blew over from the others and I clutched at my stomach.

The stench of blood was rolling off everyone in waves. When I dared to look there were some that were bleeding profusely and I turned away from the ghastly sight. There was a woman over by a boy tending his wound in his shoulder. The boy had a piece of metal extracted from his shoulder and blood poured all over him. I looked away and felt a wave of nausea almost overcome me.

I couldn't stay here, I had to leave. The smell was becoming overwhelming, so I sprang to my feet. When I finally moved my ankle blood began leaking from where the metal was stuck within ankle. I cried out in pain because I had not realized how far in the metal was. It bit past my flesh and into my bone.

I began to stumble my way far from the wreckage, but I couldn't go very far with my ankle. It was probably broken beyond repair by now, but I didn't focus on that. As soon as I smelled the blood again I knew I had to leave. Blood was everywhere like a nightmare. I began to become dizzy even thinking about it. My sight blurred and shifted out of focus while my feet stopped moving all together.

Abigayle


Oh My Gosh, Abi thought as she shifted through the wreckage. She looked around her, the blast had sent metal flying at least a hundred feet from where the waterworks had stood. The green trees got closer as she walked away. At the edge of the tree line one of the girls, the leader from earlier, laid still on the ground. Another girl, Ellie, maybe, was going from kid to kid, inspecting their wounds. Her dark brown hair forming a curtain around her and who ever she helped.
"Ellie!" Abigayle yelled. " I think this girl needs your help."

Ellie looked up quickly from wrapping someone's arm and over in the direction the voice had came from. She nodded at the girl and finished off the wrap, soon limping over. The last bomb had sent her flying and landing on her ankle. It was probably sprained, but it didn't hurt much. "Abigayle, right?" She questioned, squatting on the ground while the girl across from her nodded slowly. "Okay," she looked down at the girl that was laying on the ground, her eyes trailing over anything that might be injured. Then, she found it. A small, yet long piece of metal was stuck in her foot, causing blood to spill out of the wound profusely.

Ellie winced slightly at how painful it looked and took out the stuff the woman gave her before. Quickly making sure that the girl was asleep, she pulled the metal out of her foot, quickly dropping a bit of the liquid on the wound while the girl whimpered. She rubbed antiseptic over it and wrapped it tightly, making sure the bleeding that stopped. Ellie tested to see if she'd hit her head, only this time she didn't wake her, only looked to see if her eyes dialated correctly in the light. "She didn't hit her head. My best guess would have to be she passed out after the bomb exploded. That's all I can really say right now. We should get her closer to the group. Mind helping me?" She hooked one arm under the girl's back and the other under her knees, Abigayle doing the same.

Abigayle


Abi quickly looked away from the bloody mess Ellie had left behind them. The girl between them didn't move as they carefully pulled her to the group. All of the other kids stood around them as they set the girl on the ground.
"Hey," Abi shouted over the murmurs of the kids,"does any body know this girls name?"
"Her name's Kate, I think." Some one shouted in response. The girl shifted on the cold ground, her short brown hair encircling her face.
"Is she gonna be okay?" The same person who told Abi her name asked.
" She'll probably be just fine." Ellie said glancing back down at the girl, at Kate.


~Hey guys(girls) I really think we need to learn each other's names. The characters I mean.~

Chase

Everyone was either hurt or helping the hurt ones. Chase walked back to the girl that he had been carrying. He had to put her down after he got hit. She had been fine; he had covered her when the bomb exploded.
Slowly, the girl stirred and opened her eyes.
"Hi," Chase said.
"Hi," she replied back in a quiet voice. "What happened?"
"A lot," he said. She nodded and looked at his arm.
"Oh my gosh, what happened to your arm?" she exclaimed, seeing the bandage.
"It's nothing," he said. "My name is Chase."
"Mine is Emily."