Reign of Darkness (complete)

Kelly
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Raven had gone out to get some ice from the vendor. And she wasn’t back yet. I sat down and grabbed my MP3, untangling the earpieces. Just as I started to get The Music Of The Night going the phone rang. Sighing, I answered it, being the only person in the room.

“Hello?”

“Kelly! It’s Maribelle. Go get Spencer.”

“What’re you talking about?” I asked.

“I mean, go get Spencer and tell him to run to the hospital! Cadence’s awake, and wants him bad! …Hey! Get off me!!”

That’s when she hung up. One thing in mind I ran to the boy’s room. I had to get that guy to visit his poor, sick sister. But before I even reached the room I saw him, slumped against the wall.

“Go see your sister, NOW!! She’s awake!!”

He perked up and searched my face. I guess he realized I was serious, because he ran faster than Superman towards the exit. Nothing else to do, I followed.


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Raven
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When I turned the corner I continued, wanting more than anything to be away from that man. It was official. Even through that pointless chat we had, I had fallen in love. Now I just had to avoid him so that he wouldn’t be hurt by shadows like my previous boyfriend. And my aunt. And all of my foster parents. I felt like my relationships attracted shadows.

I stopped. I DID attract shadows. And not just to the people I care for. They always looked like they were after me. Maybe they were. Maybe I still had a sliver of shadow lingering in me from when I was attacked. Maybe they were after it! I shook my head and continued walking. That couldn’t be possible. All the shadows came out when I had my heart operation. ALL of them. And why would they want a bit back? Suddenly Spencer and Kelly came running by me, not caring to say why. What was going on? I headed to the lobby. Maybe there was a video game I could try…


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How's THAT for plot?... ... ... okay, there'll be more next post, but trust me!

And that poll is SO embarassing... it should've been gone days ago! I though I put it up only for a few days!! Sigh...

*Ooh. Exciting!*

Spencer~

Spencer ran with all his might, Kelly trailing alongside him. With each step he took, each beat his heart made, it said Cadence. Something wasn't right. He could feel it. Something had happened to her.

Spencer burst through the doors of the emergency room. "Where is everybody..." Kelly's voice trailed off. It was true, no one was to be seen. And as they cautiously walked through the place, Spencer saw the payphone receiver hanging, dead. He peeked his head around the corner, really wishing he had a gun. But, sun enough, there were Damien, Cadence, and Maribelle. They looked a little shook up. And Cadence, all tangled in wires? It made a lump appear in Spencer's throat.

"What happened?" Spencer stammered. Damien shrugged. "Shadows." he mumbled.

Cadence looked at Spencer with pleading eyes. "I don't know where anyone is, but Maribelle was almost attacked. Let's go home!"
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*So, I was guessing from the last post that Maribelle was attacked, am I right? I think right now they don't need more fighting, just suspense. They need some plot to build before anything else happens, and the plot will build by just talking.*

~Rei

Joseph
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He stood in the airport lobby, taking in the Arizona air. He had just gotten off his plane and was waiting for his grandpa to pick him up. Soon a red pickup truck came into the parking lot. Joseph smiled and ran over, shaking hands with the driver.

“Hey, Gramps,” he said, getting in. “Thanks for letting me come on such a short notice.”

“No problem Kiddo,” said the driver. “The least I could do.”

“How’s Gramma?” asked Joseph when they started to exit the lot.

“She… went crazy from that… thing… that’s spreading,” said Gramps, a solemn look on his face. “She didn’t make it.”

Joseph leaned his head back. Sighing, he said

“Why didn’t you tell me? Why wasn’t there a funeral?”

“She didn’t want it to be that way,” said Gramps, trying to regain a cheerful look on his face. “She told me herself. Look, we’re almost there. Welcome back to the ranch.”

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Kelly
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I followed Spencer through the empty hospital. What had happened? It was like a ghost town. He peeked into a room and walked in, saying something I couldn’t hear. By the time I walked over Cadence was saying

“Let’s go home!”

Spencer walked over and sat down beside her.

“W-what do you mean?” he slowly asked.

“I mean let’s go back home,” She continued, a tear making its way down her cheek. “Back to England.”

There was silence. Unbearable silence. I waited for someone to say something. But no one did. And neither did I.



*Yes, I ended it kind of abruptly, but I didn’t know quite where to go with this next.*

"You're lying." I said.
I mean c'mon.
What were the chances of meeting a guy who was the step brother of a guy who had stolen my car. Oh...and also one that had powers.
"Trust me. I'm not lying." he said.
I looked at him for a second.
"What if he was lying?" I thought.
I narrowed my eyes in suspicison.
"Okkkayyy." I said.
"Prove it. What does this "guy" look like?" I asked.
He gave me the full description bit by bit.
I sighed.
"Okay so maybe he's not lying." I thought.
"So i'm guessing your brother...Gary I think right? He has "powers" I asked.
"Well yeah." He said.
"We both do." he said.
"Oh..." I said.
"Do you?" he asked.
Um...I shifted from one foot to another uncomfortably.
"Yeah. I can sense shadows." I said.

* note, gary only just found his powers. after the crash ballow never knew*

Ballow~~

"that's it" i said. "kind of weak, if you think about it"

"well whats your power" she said. "like it is that much better"

"well okay" then i activated my power and went a few yards behind her in what she would have felt to be less then a mila second. "over here" i said and she turned mouth wide open. Then i went back to her in slow time. "i can slow time down to basically freezing it"

"okay, maybe its a little better" she said

"good" i said. "now can i see that" i said taking the journal. I flipped through the pages. "so he was right under my noise the whole time" i said i had been to the studio the day before.

"so you want to help me find him" i asked her

I looked at him.
"Only one one condition. I get to punch him in the face when we do find him." I said.
"Agreed." he said grinning.
"So now what?" I asked.
"Well his journal should say where he was going." He said.
"Yeah. Some kind of a studio." I said remebering.
"Hm. Okay." He said.

Cadence~

The group had taken Cadence home, not worrying to find any more. They knew that the shadow was close by, so they didn't bother to stop. Cadence hobbled along beside Spencer. She didn't admit to the searing pain that shot through her chest with each breath, like a knife being continuously stabbed into her heart.

She winced when she went up the stairs. Spencer's hands fluttered around in the air, like he didn't know if he should pick her up or not. Cadence was still dragging the IV along, and Kelly was helping to pull it up the stairs. Damien was watching from behind, watching their every move like it was crucial information.

"Did you sneak her out of the hospital or something?" Raven said, coming out of her room. She must've gone back in. "It was the shadows..." Spencer said, carrying Cadence into the girls' room. He was even more worried now, seeing the condition that she was in.

They lay her down on a bed, a queen-sized, and let her rest, the IV bag getting low. Damien offered to sneak some more out of the hospital. He said his parents used to be doctors.

No on bothered to go tell Gary and Ryan that they were back, but Gary eventually rounded the corner, perturbed by the noise in the late night. Once he saw Cadence-- unconscious practically with sleep-- he said nothing. No puns. He gave and understanding nod.

No one said anything, but the hitch hiker, Ryan, seemed totally lost.
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Yes, I know that the last half is a little faint about Cadence, but there was no point in changing it.

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~Rei

**I’ve put a link to the discussion thread on the first page. It was SO annoying before!**


Raven
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Was it my fault? Did I bring them on to her, even if it was by accident? Was I really a shadow magnet?

It wasn’t your fault, Raven a voice echoed in my mind. I looked around desperately to see who had said that, though it was nearly impossible since everyone had gone to sleep and turned the lights off. Maribelle came walking towards me as I leaned against the door to the exit.

“I never did catch your power,” I whispered, glaring. It WAS my personal business she had listened in on. “So besides telepathy…?”

“I can read your emotions and thoughts,” she replied, just as softly. “And you?”

“Telepathy and ‘kinesis, I get freezing cold and tense up when shadows are near, and I can control the wind,” I blabbered off. It wasn’t until then did I realize how many different powers I had. Feeling slightly embarrassed I added “But I think that the wind thing is a side affect of the ‘kinesis.”

She nodded. I was no mind reader like she, but I could guess… and I ended up with nothing. Sighing I tried to continue the conversation (even though socializing wasn’t my thing)

“Uh… What did you do before you met Kelly?”

“…I had a job. Then I was fired. You?”

It didn’t take a genius to see that her past wasn’t a favorite conversation piece. Maybe we weren’t too different. In one sense, anyways.

“I still have a job. Right now I’m traveling the country with a van full of almost total strangers who have superpowers and we’re planning on saving the world some day.”

“What a coincidence, so am I. Except I didn’t know we were trying to save the world, one highway at a time.”

I grinned, hoping I was safe from wandering eyes in the dark. It was so much easier to be happy with friends than alone, as I had spent most of my life. But I was still dark, still mourning the deaths of my friends, still marked by my parents. And no one could know these things… yet I had a feeling that Maribelle just found out.

“Were you listening in?” I turned abruptly and asked.

“No. I just heard,” she said, her face still as calm as ever. I stared into the vastness and sighed. “But I won’t tell anyone. Get some sleep.”

“Naw, it’s only midnight. I’m going to be awake for another four hours, at least… I’m going to go play Alien Blast. Wanna come?”

“Sure,” she said, grabbing a room key and headed out the door with me.

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Uhhh… That’s all folks!! For now, at least.

Cadence~

Cadence awoke with a start. It was midday, she could tell from the light peeking in the curtains, but no one was to be seen. Her eyes searched the room, worried, but soon she found her brother.

He had a concerned gleam in his eyes as she sat up. He was happy she was okay, but sad that she was still struggling to breath. She gave her a lopsided smile, his hair disgruntled. Her wore a T-shirt and jeans, and his dog-tag around his neck that dad had given him.

"You okay?" His voice was barely above a whisper. Cadence nodded. "I'm sorry," she murmured, twisting the covers around her fingers. "For what?" Spencer asked, looking straight at her eyes.

She shrugged. "All the danger I've put you through. I think we should go back home."

"What about mom and dad though?"

"I know if they were here, and were not taken by the shadow they'd want to head back home. To get away from this American menace."

"We can't!" Spencer bellowed, his voice rising and echoing through the room. His expression was so violent Cadence flinched away from it. Her shrunk back down. "We can't." He repeated.

Cadence shook her head, tears streaming down her face. "We have to. I want to go home."

"No, Cadence. We have to stay and help these people. We can't leave them alone. They're practically our family now, even if they're strangers."

"No they aren't! We're family!" Cadence cried, tears streaming down her face.

Spencer shook his head. "Sometimes you're so dense." He got up and slammed the door closed. Cadence sucked in a breath. It was hard for her to breath. She began getting dizzy, and her chest felt like she was being stabbed. She sucked intoa deep breath, and tried to stand, tumbling to the ground.
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Yes, I know. Its dramatic....

~Rei

Bangg<3

Maribelle

Raven seemed to be a lot like me in some ways, I hoped we could become close friends during our journey. She was playing Alien blast, at that moment I heard a commotion in the boy's room. Well rather heard 'thoughts', I couldn't quite comprehend what they were saying but, Spencer wanted it to end.

Spencer felt sad, and lost, he definitely was worried about a lot of things. I decided it wasn't my business to barge in on his thoughts and try to talk to him right now so i let him be.

"You okay Maribelle?" She asked giving me a weird look as the game made funny sound effects. I turned to her and nodded saying, "Call me Mari, if you don't mind. Everyone is stressing me out but, I'm hanging in there...what about you?" Raven seemed like the kind of person that would understand what i was going through, but I'd just have to wait and see.

Before she could answer I stole her spot in front of the game and slipped in two quarters.

"Talk to me, while I try to beat your score." I said as I smirked.

* can someone bring Gary in, or ryan in*

boltage: i posted so you can bring ryan in.
I looked at him.
"Only one one condition. I get to punch him in the face when we do find him." I said.
"Agreed." he said grinning.
"So now what?" I asked.
"Well his journal should say where he was going." He said.
"Yeah. Some kind of a studio." I said remebering.
"Hm. Okay." He said.

* thats not ryan thats Ballow, i was asking for them to bring in someone that is with the main party s i can go in there, but i will post for your character in a bit*

Um...ok.
Wait so who's Ryan?
OKay waitt don't answer that, I'm probably justt gonna get confused moree.