The Saviors (accepting!)

Kam

I grip the dagger at my side, and hover around the savior's camp, keeping to the shadows. All of my senses are on the alert now: I can smell the fear rising from Ava's body amid the smoke of their campfire, I can see the individual specks of light in Burn's dead eyes, I can hear their breath, taste their uncertainty.
I take all of this in, adrenaline tingling in my fingertips, waiting to be released. I get ready to strike, twirl the blade between my fingers.
The moon unveils her face, casting a single beam through the forest canopy onto the blade of my knife. For a split second Ava's quick green eyes, tinged with moonlight, meet mine. For a split second, I look at her and find her beautiful. Then I know I'm done for.

Ava
My body tingles. My hand starts to shake. Burns places his hand on mine. " Ava why are you shaking?" He asks me in a calm voice. I can not speak. When I open my mouth and words do not flow out. " Ava. What do you see." he says a little louder.

" Spit it out Ava." Skye yells. She spots Kam. " Oh thats not good. Burns we company."

'' The others must be close. We need to get out oh here now. We do not have the strenght to fight right now." Burns orders. He grabs my hand and pulls me in the other direction. My eyes are still locked on Kam's. He has some what of a smile on his face. Like he is in a trance.

" Whats he looking at Skye?'' I ask

" He is looking at you stupid." she says with a hiss. " Run."

Arianna
The pain from my head brings me to the ground. Salvo stops and helps me up.
" Arianna we do not have time for this." he says pulling at my arm.

" You might want to listen to me. I saw something." I say

" Whats wrong. Is Kam in trouble?" he asks

" Salvo it is worse than that. Kam might be in love. Well not really in love but going to be in love with someone." I say.

" Spit it out Arianna. We do not have time for this." he yells

" Kam likes Ava." I say. His face goes blank. His hand tighten into a fist. He runs off. I run as fast as I can to at least follow him. We are close to The Savior's camp and if Kam does not run, Kam is close to death.

Spoiler

TaylorLove, Slavo is much more cool and collected than what he seems to be from your posts Just sayin'

Slavo

My face goes blank, my mind awhirl.
I run off, then stop. Wait a minute...
"What the hell are we doing?!" I exclaim "We're not ready to attack the Saviors yet!"
Arianna looks at me in confusion.
"Forget Kam" I berate her "He's in love with Ava- who cares?! He betrays us, we punish him. Simple! Now let's get the hell out of here!"
I cast an illusion of myself running towards the Savior's base, then run in the opposite direction. Damn Arianna for convincing me into attacking- how foolish, so thoughtless. It really wasn't like me.
I should get a grip on myself.

Arianna
" Who cares. Who cares. Are you kidding?" I run up to him. " Salvo. Do you not see how out numbered we are. Are you going to punish him in battle? I thought your style was slow and painful. The day when you are in battle and you are 'Punishing' him and Ava comes and kills you. Now that would be a sight to see. The starcrossed lovers kill you."

" They will not kill me. I am stronger than all of them put together. You are I will kill them all."

" Then why can't we kill them now?'' I yell.

Slavo

"Because, Arianna" I reply, trying to stay collected "We're not ready. You should know this, as you have my same gift- we must be calm, watch events unfold. Now LET'S LEAVE!"

Arianna
" Wait. What? You control minds, I read minds. I do not have your gift Salvo. What are you talking about? Wait a second. We are ready. You said we were stronger than them. They think we are close and there fear is over taking them." I yell.

Ava
Burns is pulling me backwards. My eyes do not go off of Kam's. While running backwards I trip over a rock. Kam comes running towards me. " Don't come any closer. I will shoot." Burs says pulling out his had gun. Skye and burns get in front of me. I can see Kam through their legs. I have a weird feeling in side. I do not think he is going to hurt me. How could he not? I am a savior and he is a mutant. All these thoughts are in my head. I see Kam looking at me from a distance. His eyes are very dark and they sparkle is the moon light. I can see the spots of hair on his face where a beard is growing. I smile a little. What on earth is going on.

Kam

Burns is shielding Ava with his body, and Skye has her gun pointed straight at me. The fire snaps, but other than that all is quiet. A smile quirks the corner of my mouth. They're actually afraid of me.
"You think we're so different," I say quietly, and I can see their faces straining to hear my words, "You think that just because I'm in the shadows and you're in the light, that means you're somehow . . . special."
Ava's eyes meet mine from behind Burns' tense body. A light breeze ruffles her hair.
"You're wrong. You're so wrong, and the sad part is, you don't even realise you're being used by the madmen who took away your lives. You don't see like we do, the insanity behind this stupid game they're playing. Save the earth." I laugh into the night, and they flinch slightly. Only Skye's gun remains steady. "It's not a battle against evil. It's a battle to keep your broken hopes alive."
Then I sheath my knife. I was going to use it, but now . . .
I turn away and walk back into the forest. When I hit the trees I gather the darkness around me and begin to run. Beside me, an apparition of Slavo sprints. He shoots me a deadly smile, as if to say, "You're in for it now."

Ava

Kam's words hit me like a dagger. Burns and Skye gaurd me like am a puppy. I see Kam look at me before he runs away and I try to make him stop, but he just runs. I stand up. " Why? He was not going to hurt anyone." I say. "I understand that he is a mutant but Saviors make peace." I say. My eyes fill with tears.

" What do you not understand Ava. He wants you dead. Like all the rest of them do." Skye yells.

" I can tell he is different. He is not going to hurt anyone." I say. I run in the direction Kam went. It is dark. The moon is full in the sky. Its light makes shapes in the trees. " Kam." I whisper. " Kam where are you." I hear foot steps. Many foot steps coming my way. A hand goes over my mouth and pulls my behind a tree. It is Kam.

"Shhhhh. Arianna and Salvo are close." He whispers. We sit behind the tree. I can hear Arianna and Salvo go on and on about Kam. " I will be right back do not move." he whispers in my ear. I shake my head. He begins to run.

I can hear Arianna and Salvo hurt him. I put my hand over my mouth to keep from crying. I hope those are twigs cracking. My body is frozen. I do not know what to do.

Arianna

I see Kam running in the woods. I am faster than him. I take him off gaurd and bring him to the ground. I take out my knife and aim for his heart. He pushes me off of him. Salvo comes and punches him many time. They get into a fight. They are rolling on the ground punching each other. Salvo gets Kam's arms locked on the ground. " You really thought you could get away with this. Loving a Saviors. What did she do? Send you away crying." Salvo and I laugh.

" Ava will never love you. She does not trust anyone. She can not love someone who wants her dead." I say. " Make him suffer and leave him here to die."

Skye

I knew I should just let her go, let her understand that Kam was an abomination, he was against us. He was a mutant and they weren't on our side. I should have let her find that out on her own, but I knew what I was made for and even though I didn't want to hurt someone that Ava cared about--yes, believe it or not I have a heart--every part of my body, every part of my soul, told me to go after her, to make sure she was safe. Ava was my responsibility. If she got hurt I would be to blame and with the genetics I have it meant a lot.

"I'll get her. You stay where you are and keep an eye out for anything that moves. And I mean anything." Without waiting for an answer, I shot off in the direction Ava went. My eyes took in everything at once, telling me which twigs were broken, which leaves had been rustled, and which way Ava had gone. My ears did their job as well, telling me if I was alone in the fog or if there was someone near.

A small whimper brought my attention to the right of me and to a large tree who's limbs hung down. If I were hiding I'd be hiding there. Then, as I drew closer, I could just barely see Ava hidden in the leaves. Eyes wide with fear, she had a hand clamped over her mouth and tears streaming down my face. I didn't lower my gun as I came closer, squatting down beside her.

"Ava, we have to get out of here, we need to go back to camp, get somewhere safe," I whispered urgently to her. My words were soft, not pleading but not cruel. "Do you understand me?" I held my breath, hoping she would come with me easily rather than fighting me.

"We have to help him." I didn't have to ask her who, I didn't have to guess, I knew who she meant. I also knew the dangers that would bring to us. In the distance, though, I could hear them. Fighting. They were fighting. Probably killing.

I couldn't tell Ava that, though. So I simply nodded and whispered "we will" even though it went against everything I was made for.

Ava

" We have to keep still. I will see if...." she begins.

" No we can not risk you getting hurt. They can not see you. I am suprised Arianna has not figured out me are here yet. " I say. " Where is Burns."

" He is back watching the camp." she says

" Skye he is blind. How could you let him stay there?" I ask

" Ava he can hear better than anyone he will be fine." she says.

The fighting has been going on for a while now and I can not bare to hear their voices. Arianna's words stab through my heart. " Do you think he is going to be ok?" I ask. tears begin to roll down my face again.

" He is going to be fine Ava."

Skye

"He is going to be fine Ava," I said, voice soothing. "But you wont be if you don't get out of here. Come on, we have to move." Grabbing her arm, I tugged her up from the ground, careful to be gentle and look calm, even though everything inside me was screaming to run.

I pulled her along next to me, keeping one hand on her arm and the other positioned so that the gun in my hand was pointed at the ground in front of us. I felt Ava pause with reluctance to move.

"We have to help him," she whispered. "I don't want him to get hurt."

"And what makes you think he wants you hurt," I said, trying to make it sound like I actually thought he cared. "We'll get you back to camp and safe with Burns and then I'll go look for him. I just need to know you and Burns are safe. Just because his hearing is good and he can handle a gun, doesn't mean I want to leave him alone for too long. As soon as you get back there, I promise I'll go make Kam safe."

The words were hard to say, but I knew I had to because if I didn't she would never come with me.

"You promise?" Her whisper was a little breathless, but it was the way she said it that made me believe that if I didn't promise her this, she would go out there and keep him safe. I wasn't one to make empty promises though, so I knew if I said it, I was going to have to go through with it.

"I promise," was the only thing I could say.

Slavo

"I hope you learned your lesson" I said, coldly. "And, just in case" I extend my middle and index finger and place them lightly over his forehead.
A 'snap' sounds, and Kam's eyes cross, then glaze, rolling back, his tongue lolling out. A trickle of blood drips from his left ear.
"He won't be challenging us anytime soon" I state. Arianna chuckles evilly.
"But now, it is the two of us against them. We must leave- however, I do leave a parting gift. Arianna, have you ever heard the expression [i]panem et circense[/i?]" she shakes her head, and begins to cut me off.
"It means, literally, bread and entertainment. And that's what we're going to get"
I look at Kam. "Rise"
Mute, almost like a zombie, he does. "Attack the Saviors. Do not stop until they are dead. Kill them all"
Kam's eye twitches, then I overpower him, and he lurches away, back to his precious camp.
"And now we leave, Arianna. I'll not have your whining any more"