Rogues and Pets vs. Dolls [closed/starting]

Elise:

I listened to his story, about being taken as a child and being experimented on. I immediately felt a pang of sympathy, and so did Myrtle.

Sounds believable, I thought to Myrtle. Myrtle nodded her head.

But he suddenly changed emotion, she replied. I sighed.

Don't jump to conclusions, she warned.

Too late, I reply before approaching Everlee, who was standing in front of Danvick.

"He's got my trust," I say softly, yet raspy. Jared let out a huff. I turn to everyone else.

"What do you guys think?" I ask.

Everlee

"He's got my trust," Elise says softly. "What do you guys think?" She asks.

Seena, who had been talking to Tige, steps forward. "I don't think we should trust him," she whispers.

"Finally," Jared shouts. "Somebody agrees with me!"

"I said we shouldn't trust him," Seena repeats. Jared turns and glares at her, waiting for her to continue. "That doesn't mean he can't help. We need him," she explains.

"You've got to be kidding me," Jared says.

We are quiet for a minute. "So, is Jared the only person totally against this?" I ask.

Tige shrugs. "We can't trust him yet."

I nod. Skylar comes over to me and puts his arm back over my shoulder. "What about you?" he asks.

I frown. "Seena's right, we need him."

But will he try to kill us all in our sleep? Darren mumbles.

Finally you're awake, I say back with a smile.

I walk out from under Skylar's arm and crouch to the ground next to Davnick. "If you turn on us," I threaten as I pull the ice cuffs off of his wrists.

"You'll kill me," Davnick says quietly.

"You are going to kill us all!" Jared shouts.

Tess ignores him. "What about Reva?"

Davnick

"She's still out." Says Everlee, turning away from me. I rub my chaffed wrists. They don't hurt too bad, but they're red and raw. Still functional though. I leap up, perhaps a little to quickly. Everybody jumps and turns to look at me. I put my hands up in a calming gesture.

"Sorry. Just standing up. Didn't mean to scare anybody." I said, looking pointedly at Jared. He glared back and turned to Everlee.

"We can't stay here forever. If we are going to move, we need to move. Maybe we should leave her here."

Everlee sighed. "We can't do that Jared! She might want to help."

Jared mumbled something to himself that earned another smack from Tess. Those two were never far apart I'd noticed.

Pretty Boy glanced at me, then walked over. The others started trying to decide what to do with Reva. He stuck out a hand. "I'm Skylar. I'm a Doll."

It was one of the oddest introductions I had ever had, and I had had a couple. I grabbed his hand, gripping a little harder than necessary. "Davnick. Rogue." I responded. He nodded.

"I know." He let go of my hand. "None of us trust you, you know. Not really. Most of us think you're lying."

I shrugged. "You guys believe what you want. I can't force you to trust me. If it makes you feel better, I don't trust you either."

Surprisingly, he smiled. "Well good. You aren't stupid. I was seriously wondering if you were crazy."

I gave a smile in return. He started to walk away, but stopped and turned. "So, how could you see the Invi- I mean Reva, anyway?"

I debated about telling him about my sonar. They didn't actually know about it yet. I decided to go for it. The more I told, the more they would trust me. Not to mention, they would want to know eventually.

"I have sonar. Like a bat. it picks up on anything, even if you can't see it with the naked eye." Skylar's eyes went wide.

"No way. You have to be joking."

I smiled, and closed my eyes. "Hold up some fingers. Any number, but don't tell me."

"Okay." He said.

I started up my sonar, and the clearing came back into view. Skylar was standing in front of me, holding up three fingers. "Three." I said.

I could tell his expression was surprised. He put up two more, and then said, "How about now?"

"Five."

He put down all but one, and put his other hand behind his back and held up three more.

"One on your right hand, three on your left, four total."

He gasped. "Wow. That's amazing!"

But my sonar had picked up on something else. Farther away, on the edge of my range. I flared it, and an army of about 300 Dolls came into focus. They were about three miles away. I was shocked my sonar had picked them up so far away. That Everlee girls powers worked miracles, apparently.

The group was heading strait for us marching fast, practically running. They would be here in maybe... twenty minutes. I scanned the area around us. Either side was hidden by thick forests, and about a mile behind us was a shear cliff going strait up. The army was following the path strait back to the last abandoned village. If we ran to either side, our path would be clear and travel would be hard. If we went back, we'd eventually hit the cliff. Our only options were to run, or hide.

I swore. I was going to have to hide everybody. I opened my eyes to see Skylar looking at me like I was crazy. "Hey, who's the leader of your group?" I was pretty sure it wasn't him, or I would have met him earlier.

"Everlee, but why-?"

I rushed past him and broke through the main group surrounding Reva. "Everlee?" I asked, turning to the brown eyed girl. "We have a problem."

Everlee

"We have a problem," Davnick says, seriously.

You've got to be kidding, Darren moans. What else could go wrong?

"What?" I ask, standing up.

"Army, 300 soldiers, about 3 miles away," Davnick says quickly. I look around to the others as they start gathering.

"I don't believe him," Jared states.

"We already know that, idiot," Tess says.

"Elise," I call, an idea forming. "Can you send Myrtle to check it out?"

Elise nods and I see her owl fly up in the air.

Davnick gets impatient. "Oh, come on!" he says after just a second. "We have to hide!"

"Where?" I demand.

"He's telling the truth!" Elise says, astonished.

Davnick smiles. "Told you," he whispers under his breath. "We need to hide," he repeats.

"Where?" demands Jared. We can now hear the soldiers marching closer. Davnick smiles half way.

"Trust me," he says. The way he says it makes me instantly wish I never had. Clouds start to cover the sky, and it begins to get dark. We gather closer together, and the whole clearing gets dark.

"What the heck do you..." Jared starts to yell.

"Shut up!" Davnick whispers. The footsteps get closer, and we wait.

Elise:

"What is-" I cut Jared off by covering his mouth with my hand.

"They're getting close," I whispered. I instantly see Myrtle making her way here.

Don't come any closer! I warn Myrtle. Myrtle instantly stops short and hides in a tree nearby.

They're a few minutes away from you guys, Myrtle informed me.

"They're almost here," I whisper, my hand still covering Jared's mouth. Skylar gripped Everlee's hand harder.

"Are we going to fight, or run?" he asked.

Davnick

"Neither." I told him. We are going to hide." I looked to either side, and saw a hole in the underbrush big enough for all of us to file through. "Hey, bear thing. "

"It's Tige." Seena snapped.

"Fine. Tige, grab Reva, and everybody get into the underbrush over there. I'm going to create a kind of Cloaking to hide us."

"No way!" Jared shouted. "I'm not going anywhere with you!"

I turned to the rest of the group. "Listen. Those soilders will kill me just as fast as they'll kill you. I didn't need to warn you about them, I could have saved my skin and been done with you. But I didn't. Now, who is going to come with me?" For some reason, my eyes lingered on Seena. She bit her lip, and glanced up at Tige. The two seemed to be talking in their heads. I wonder what that's like. I thought. To talk to your Pet mentaly. Fang and I never had a chance to do that before... Seena looked at me and stepped forward.

"I'll go."

tess:

"Fine." I said. Jared began to protest, but I grabbed his hand and ran towards where Davnick had pointed and hid. I looked at Jared's face and almost laughed. He looked so mad! "Listen, I don't trust him either, but he can help." He opened his mouth. "Don't worry. If he betrays us, we can do worse than kill him." He nodded, and I did the same back and put a finger to my lips to tell him to keep quiet. There was no way that I was gonna let the resistance last 2 minutes and then blow up.

Elise:

"I'm going too," I say. I sneak a glance to Skylar, who was still holding Everlee's hand. I quickly catch up to Danvick, walking beside Tess. I look towards Tess, who was extremely close to Jared. I suddenly feel something I haven't really felt before.

It's called jealousy, and there's no time to worry about that now! I felt Myrtle land on my shoulder. I roll my eyes and cross my arms.

Skylar:

I look to Everlee. She didn't really seem too sure about her decision.

"I'm going," I decided. "What about you?"

(Sorry if Skylar's post is short!)

Everlee

"I'm going," Skylar says. "What about you?"

Well, you can't stay here, Darren points out.

I nod slowly. "Alright, let's go."

Skylar leads me to where everyone else is. Darren gets up from where he had been sitting next to me and runs over to us.

What's the plan now? Darren asks after a moment.

We wait, I answer.

Pretty stupid plan.

Alright, fine. We wait for Davnick.

That's a really stupid plan, Darren says with a roll of his eyes.

Any other ideas?

You do realize that all he has to do is hide himself and then we're fresh meat, right?

I nod. But for now, he's our only hope.

Davnick

I looked over to where everybody but Tige and Reva were hiding in the hole. I looked at the bear. "Okay, now you go." I said.

He just sat there. "I don't take too well to children ordering me around. A please wouldn't take too much of your time."

I stared at the beast, shocked. "What now?"

Tige looked right at me. "Say please youngster. You need to learn your place. You may be a powerful Rogue, but you are still reckless, and stupid. You need to learn respect. Now, ask again."

I felt like a child. His eyes reminded me of my mothers when she told me not to say unkind words. "Grab Reva and get in the underbrush... please." I said.

Tige nodded. "Alright." He picked up Reva gently in his paws, and made his way into the brush. Seena yelped as Jared stepped on her hand trying to get out of his way.

I walked over to where the others were, trying to straighten out what had happened. Stupid? Reckless? Huh. And what was with the please thing? Why should I have respect for a bear, even if he is an old one? I decided to worry about it later. I wasn't about to let a nit-picky old Pet mess with my head.

I crouched in front of the opening, my back to the group. Jared was mumbling to himself, and Tess shushed him. I flared my sonar. The army was only a few hundred feet away now. I could hear the stomping of feet and the snapping of branches. "Hey, if any of you are religious, you'd better start praying. I've never actually done this before."

"What?!" Jared exclaimed, but everybody shushed him this time. They could hear the army too.

"Here goes nothing." I said, relaxing my mind. I could feel the bodies around me, and see them with my sonar. 100 feet away, boots crushed the ground. I could feel the shadow around us, that partially hid us. It isn't enough though. I need to make it thicker. I heard a gasp behind me, but couldn't tell who it came from. Some of my energy was being drained, I could tell. I opened my eyes to blackness. The entire clearing was covered in thick, black shadow. It wasn't Cloaking, it wasn't my Shadow Hopping, but I was creating and maintaining the shadow.

Weird. I didn't know I could do that. The boots were dead ahead. Suddenly, I remembered our supplies in the middle of the clearing. Crap. How am I...? An idea burst into my mind. I turned to the others and whispered. "You guys aren't going to like this, but as good as my plan is going, it wont work."

"Why not?" Whispered Everlee. I heard the shouts of soliders who had just hit my eerie shadow wall.

"The supplies are in the middle of the clearing. So, we need to change the plan a little. Who knows the ghost stories about this forest?"

Skylar replied, confusedly. "There aren't any."

I smiled to the darkness. "Then lets make some."

(Man, Davnick is so cryptic. I hope Tige was okay. I know he doesn't trust Dav, but that wouldn't keep him from teaching him a thing or two about respect... would it? )

Skylar:

Make some? As in, pretend to be ghosts? I put on a skeptical look. The idea may seem crazy, but it sure seems fun and maybe it will work.

"And how are you planning to do that?" I ask. Danvick smirked.

"Simple. Someone should go out there and play ghost for us," he replied. I looked at everyone.

"Well? Who's going to play ghost?" I asked.

(Hope this is okay! I hope I portrayed Danvick right! And by the way I love Rukia in your Bleach avvie, Razzle!)

Reva

I woke up sooner than I expected. I realized that not very much time had passed, but it was dark, and that worried me. What was going on?
"Simple. Someone should go out there and play ghost for us," he replied. I looked at everyone.
"Well? Who's going to play ghost?" Davnick asked.
I looked around at the scared faces shining in the darkness, but that just could have been my magic coming back. "Why do we need to?" I whispered, keeping my voice soft enough that the nearby thundering feet couldn't hear. Those steps clearly were what we were hiding from, the question was why did someone need to go out there?
"We left our things," Someone whispered.
"All of them?"
"Yes."
I felt for Darsor on my belt, and my hands came up empty. "Including the weapons?"
"Yes."
"I will do it. I need to know Darsor is safe."

Alright, well I'm bored out of my mind, so I hope no one minds that I'm just gonna keep going.

Reva

"And give away our position to them? That sounds like a good idea." The girl, Tess I think her name was, hissed back.
"That would get Darsor and I killed, why would I do that?" I asked, dead serious.
"Because you're an evil, psychotic murderer!"
"I may be a murderer, but my pet is out there, in danger, and where am I? Hiding and safe. Right now, Darsor needs me, and you are not going to make me fail him again."
"You are hardly the person for your pet." The bear rumbled at me.
"Leave me alone," I snapped at him, and crawled forward. "You want haunted forest, i will give you a haunted forest."

Davnick

I shrugged. "Go for it Reva. Just be sure you scare them off." She snorted.

"I don't need you to tell me that Dav." She sneered.

"Stop calling me Dav, Rev." I said. What was it about this girl that just rubbed me the wrong way?

Reva paused on her way out, deliberately stepping on my hand. Hard.

My temper flared. "You know what? You could just go out and look at the Dolls. Your face would scare them out of their minds!"

"Wow that was intelligent!" She shout-whispered back. "You could go out there and talk them to death if you wanted!"

"Both you children, shut your mouths, before I knock the two of you out and do the job myself!" Tige growled.

Reva and I glared at each other for a moment, before she walked into the darkness of the clearing.

"This had better work." Elise muttered.

"Look on the bright side." Jared whispered. "If it doesn't, Davnick will probably die first. He is closest to the enterance after all." I heard a thud as Elise smacked him.

We waited in silence for a few minutes, and the voices of the men hunting us came closer.

"Where is she?" Asked Seena after footsteps walked right by our hiding place.

"I don't know." I said. "Maybe she grabbed her Pet and ran. Or maybe-"

A BOOM rang through the clearing, and bright light chased away my shadow.

(Thanks Gleek! I love Bleach, and Davnick was perfect!)

Seena

Reva flashes her light on and back off, on again, and back off. Over and over. It's getting hard to see as she speeds up. I hear rustling next to me, and I look over to see the outline of Everlee as she puts her hand to the ground. We hear crashes as the soldiers fall on the ice. Some of the men yell to the others as more and more of them fall and trip. Elise puts her hand to a tree, and I see a ripple effect as her powers pass to the trees closer to the army. Above the flashing light, I see a few vines fall from the branches and land on the soldiers. I try not to laugh as more yelling sounds.

"Retreat!" I hear the captain shout. There is more yelling as people try to get off the ice and out of the vines, but finally, they're gone. The darkness clears away and the only person standing in the clearing is Reva.

She has a big smile on her face. "That was fun," she says after a moment.

"See, Jared?" Elise says. "We can trust them."

Jared mumbles something about being lucky this time, but we ignore him and crawl out of our hiding place.


(Tell me if you want me to change anything! I wasn't sure about everybody's powers)