Darkness! (part two of Gone trilogy)

Personally, I kinda want Jasmine to start. Melinda was, not too long ago in the story, going to go to the acadamy, but she ended up heading back to the beach and being the one to find Buds.

I want to know why Melinda came back, mainly. It was sudden and surprising, and it's a mystery I want solved. If someone else wants to start, go ahead, of course. But since it ended, I've been trapped in a bit of a wonder as to why Melinda came back.

That's my thought, anyways. I'm not gonna start, that's for sure. I was the last post before it died out; it's someone else's turn now.

~Melinda

I was going back to the dojo before hitting up Coates Academy to grab the picture of my family I had. The last picture we took before everything started. We were all smiling and goofing off, Mom, me, Dad and Ryan, my 16 year old brother.

I sneaked into the Dojo and noticed little black earbuds hanging mid-air.

"What?"

I sneaked closer and took my gun out. A body formed.

"What the hell are you doing here!!"

"Just listen to music"

I clicked off the safety and screamed,

"PAYTON, JIM, EDWARD, ANYONE!!!! GET OVER HERE!!!!"

*Um...essentially a repeat of your last post, jessica, but without the plot twist in the end, and written a little more simply. All i can think of that I can do is repeat my last post. This pretty much brings us back to the spot this SB ended the last time.*

Buds

Well, shit.

My only guess would be that she came back. But why? She got all the way to the plant and kept going, but she turned back? Why the hell would she do that? Did she follow me? I was fucking invisible!

I considered asking her myself, but the entire plan would be ruined if I did. Somehow I had to turn it around. For now, I had to try and just keep calm. The people she called came in and forced my hands behind my back. One of them picked up the music player.

"If you wouldn't mind, I'd like that back at some point".

After that, he threw it on the ground and stomped on it. I really couldn't be more pissed off.

"WHY THE FUCK DID YOU DO THAT?!?"

"Oh yeah, let an enemy keep his phone, that's a good idea", he sarcastically replied back.

"It's just a music player!"

"Nice try, dumbass".

So, my MP3 was destroyed, the plan appears to have failed, Will was still winning, and I was now a prisoner of the beach kids.

I'm gonna need a lot of fucking luck to get out of this one.



***It's completely unrelated, but I should say that when I wrote the line "He threw it on the ground" I was listening to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMLwUItWmYo ***

I only wrote that to explain why she came back and leave somewhere for Payton, Will or Jims or Edward or you to jump in. That was a repeat purposely to explain.

*Actually I tried to sort of model him against Drake, but that's cool anyway.*

Payton:

"On it!!' I yelled from inside the dojo. I ran outside to Melinda and grabbed the kid by the pressure point on the back of his neck. "It's Bud... well fancy that. You know... if he's been lurking around here all the time like this he could be our connection to the random murders that have been going on." I took the dagger that had been stuck into the little boy's back. "This look like yours?" I held it against his neck. "Melinda, get Edward and Jim please."

Buds looked up at me and sort of pleaded with his eyes. But what came out was rough, "You're no better than Will like this." I pursed my lips and shoved him into the dojo.

Will:

Buds had been taken care of. I had pretty much smashed his life and I was sure that stupid boy wouldn't come back. Now that little issue had been taken care of. He didn't think I was stupid enough not to notice him and Melinda wandering together. I wasn't that blind. The double crosser was gone and we could get back to business.

The plan was to slowly move our centre from Coates to the power plant so we could occupy two posts at once. The goal was to surround the beach kids and then kill them off one by one until they finally gave up. The power struggle would be won by us and we could finally achieve the one thing everybody here wanted, to survive.

**Whenever I think of Drake I think of the rap star and the psychopath Drake. ITs a funny mix. Either pyscopath Drake singing Best I Ever Had or rap star Drake with a giant candy like arm thing. Weird. Has anyone read Hunger yet? I'm reading it now. It's really good but a little boring with Duck**

I read Hunger first, so it gets kinda confusing. Ya that book's better than Gone I think.

I didn't understand the part where Caine and Diana just walk off. Like what? They just leave? If anyone can explain I'd appreciate or maybe if anyone else could post on this I'd be forever in their gratitude.

Buds

Melinda ran off to get others. I wasn't already deep into hell enough as it was, now there's gonna be more people who'll probably get to beat the crap out of me uselessly.

Yay.

The guy who had the knife up to me forced me to my knees. This guy was really pissed off. I didn't struggle, I didn't panic, even though I was out of tricks for once. I couldn't hide, I couldn't win, I couldn't fight, I couldn't do anything. The silence in my ears was killing me, so I decided to make conversation.

"What's your name again? Payton, right?", I asked. He didn't answer anything. He just kept looking at me with as much anger as he could give. He'd probably hate me to death if he could.

The knife didn't hit me, but I noticed that my breathing started getting shorter. I needed a little personal space.

"Look, I know that you want to kill me, but all I can do is turn invisible. You wanna keep a gun to my head, go ahead, but I'd breath a little more easily if you could just switch the knife to a gun. Besides, you ain't gonna get any information from a panicked, worrysome prisoner, now are you?"

Payton kicked me in the stomach, then to the ground, and switched the knife for a gun in his pocket.

"Thank you", I said politely.

"Shut the fuck up", Payton said back. At least I showed some common curtousy. I thought that us Coates kids were painted as the bad guys. Maybe they wanted to be painted that colour.

"Look, if I was stupid enough to kill a random kid on your team, and get caught immediately after, would I really have a desire to escape? Is there a use holding any weapon at me? Do you really think I'll run?"

"You want the fucking knife on you again?", he asked.

"Alright, I'll shut up", I said. Maybe I was talking a little too much. Right after that, Melinda came in with two guys, presumably named Edward and Jim (considering that was who she was told to fetch).

"So...do you want something from me?", I asked.

Oh My God. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Payton's a girl!!!! HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!

Holy crap! I never knew that! I can't believe I didn't ever notice that! It's a guy's name, so I figured...well, change every "he" to "she" in my last post and I suppose it's fine. But still...I can't believe I never knew that! I swear, I know Payton as a boys name, so I just assumed that she was! I am so sorry to the character, and to her creater!

Payton is not offended, nor am I.

Melinda

I ran in with Edward and Jim.

"Yeah. Why the hell are you here and why did you k-kill Lucas?!", I yelled while stroding over to him and kicking him in the stomach. My arms were still killing me and breathing was still reduced to rasped from the beating Will gave me but my hate for this 14 year old was stronger.

He wheezed on the floor and tried to stand but a well placed kick to the Adam's apple had him on the floor again, gasping for breath.

"Yo. Melinda, calm down a bit, your the one in control now" Jim said cautiously. Maybe it was becasue of the furious, almost crazed look on my face.

"How- wheeze am I going to wheeze answer you if you stop me from fucking breathing?!" Buds said.

"Why are you here. Why did you stab and kill a 10 year old?" Payton asked in an angry tone.

Buds looked around as if he was contemplating telling the truth or lying.

"I-I wanted it to just end. I was tired of the fighting. I was sickened by what Will does to people on a regular basis and I wanted it to just fucking end" He finally replied, looking down to the floor.

I remembered Julie, my baby, dead.

"Well what do you suppose we do now? Tortue and get info out of him? Or try to- try to work with him somehow?"

Buds

"Look, let me make this a little easier for you", I told the four, trying to get their attention. I was nothing if not reasonable, and even an idiot could see they thought about torturing and killing me. "I want to help you guys win, but against the Coates, you guys can't win".

Melinda kicked me in the stomach for that one, of course. If I was in their spot, I would too. I continued speaking after the kick.

"As for Will, nobody wants him around. You could kill him, and we'd all be happy. We'd have our two communities, but we wouldn't be fighting nearly as much. I'll tell you what you want to know, and a little extra, and you can kill me if you want afterwards. Personally, I'd rather not die, considering I don't want to fight. I just want this bullshit to end".

They seemed to all be much more calm after I said that. They seemed to be taking me seriously.

"How do we know that you're telling the truth? I'm sure Will'd love to throw us right into a trap like that", said Payton.

"Well, if I don't do what Will says, he'll kill me. If I do what Will says, you'll kill me. I don't want to die, but in either situation, I'm bound to die-"

"-Get to the fucking point", interrupted Jim. I was definetely talking too much.

"I've got nothing to lose or to gain by helping you guys; I'm gonna die anyways. At least with you I'll die a little more righteously"

"Then why'd you kill a 10 year old? How is that in any way righteous?", asked Melinda.

"Like you wimps would want to take on Will in an instant. You needed some motivation".

They huddled up again and started discussing. I think they truly believed me that time, and why shouldn't they? It's a shame it turned out to be that way, but they had to agree that it probably would work. I hadn't lied once today, why would I want to start now?

I waited patiently for their discussion to end.

Payton:

I looked down, partially ashamed because he was just like us. Confused, scared, and just a kid.

"Look Buds, I'm sorry I made such a big deal out of this. It does nothing to help us if we just kill you or anything."

"So we torture him?" Jim asked.

"Mood killer." Melinda said under her breath.

"Are you still welcome back with the Coates?"

"What do you think?"

"You wanna stay with us?"

Buds got up, "Maybe," and he walked out of the dojo.

Will:

The move was really easy. We had everything set up to starve them out. I wasn't sure how large their food supply was, but with the amount of people they had living in that dojo, it couldn't last long. Their stupid garden hadn't even sprouted. We had them at their waterloo and they didn't even know it.

We could survive if we got rid of the simple little problem down here at the beach. That problem was the people in charge. Payton, Edward, Melinda, Jim, and others who kept the kids there under their wing. My theory was, get rid of them and the whole operation will fall apart.

All the scared kids would come to us, and we'd be the new order. We had the weapons and powers all ready, we just needed to wait for them to run out food.