The Saviors (accepting!)

Arianna

My head is spinning with images of the further and with flashes of now. Overwhelming thoughts are clouding my brain. This sort of thing has happened before, but never this bad. I cry out in screams. The pain is killing me. My brain is pounding against my skull. My body is twitching. I can see Ava and Kam together. The sights fly past in my mind. I see her freezing. “ Oh poor little Ava. Are you cold?” I think to myself. She should burn in flames. I scream again and again. My thoughts are twisting and turning in my mind. For once I need Salvo's help. He is to far away to get to me. “ Salvo. Salvo.” I scream. I need help. I need it now.

Kam

I'm running along our old highway, pavement crumbling and cracking beneath my feet, falling away with each step into nothingness. I can see a figure in the distance, rigid silouette against the afternoon sky, and as I come closer I see it's my mother. She looks terrible, all stringy hair and protruding hips, eyes dark holes in her face. "Goodbye KamKam, goodbye," she rasps, and then she turns into Slavo. "Don't ever come back."
I wake up with a start. It's freezing, and my toes sticking out of the blanket are numb. Shivering, I turn over on my side, and see Ava. She's curled up on the ground in a little ball, and when I listen I can hear her teeth chattering. I'm using her blanket. I realize.
Carefully, trying not to jarr my leg too much, I crawl over to her, and lay the thin piece of fabric over her body. She doesn't react, and after a while I notice that she hasn't stopped shaking, so I wrap my arm around her. She's so cold it almost feels like fire on my bare arm. With a jerk she comes to.
"K-K-Kam?"
"Yes, Ava," I say gently.
"Wh-What are you-u do-doing?"
"It's so cold tonight, and I have your blanket. We can share, can't we?"
There's a pause.
"Yes," she says.
We stay like that until she stops shivering, until she falls asleep and I can feel her relax beside me. The stars are so bright tonight. It's the first time I've seen them in a while. Ava is making little sleep sounds, and then she rolls over and lays her head on my chest. "Da-dum," she mumbles, and I smile when I think she must be hearing my heartbeat. There's this fluttery feeling in my stomach, and chest, and throat, everywhere. It's the strangest thing I've ever felt, and I fall asleep like that, with a beautiful girl listening to my heartbeat in her dreams.

Ava

“ We can share can't we?” Kam asks.

“ Yes.” I say. I can feel his warm arms around me. I feel so safe wrapped in his arms. Kam's arms hold me so tight as if they would never let me go. At once my body stops shaking and my teeth stop chattering. I lay my head on his chest. I can hear his heart beating. It is so calming. My eyes are getting heavy. I slowly drift off. The last sight I see, is him smiling at me.

Slavo

I hear Arianna's mental plea, and rush to her aid, physically and with my mind- she was annoying and often immature for her age, but she was my sister nonetheless.
I reach her and see her shivering and twitching, and my gut twists into knots.
"Arianna, it's going to be fine" I soothe "Calm down, calm down" over and over again. As I speak, I project comforting images into her mind, trying to ease her pain.
Then an idea, a cruel, evil idea, struck me. Perhaps not all woe came out of her pain.
"Ava did this" I hiss. "Ava and Kam- they brought your suffering"
"Ava...." she whispered "my sister...."
"You can't trust her, you can't trust Saviors or turncoats" I rasp.
"Turncoats...." she repeats.
"Ava did this to you, she brought you pain, therefore we kill Ava" I say, simply

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I love that. We are adding so drama. Sorry Ava and Kam.

Arianna

“ We must kill Ava.” He says. The thought spins around in my head. I shake my head to tell him no.

“ No that is not good enough. As much as I want Ava dead, we can do better. We have to make Kam and Ava suffer. We need to kill them both right infront of the other. That will kill her more that anything we can do. I want to make her suffer and that means killing Kam.

Kam

The sun is rising, dancing yellow and orange colors inside my eyelids. I slowly open my eyes. The sky is hazy, as always, but today I detect a tinge of blue. Ava is still sleeping on my chest, but I notice that her pink lips are pulled into a grimace. She starts shaking again, and I touch her shoulder to make sure she isn't cold, her forehead to see if she has a fever. The shaking is growing more and more violent, she's practically lashing around in her sleep.
"No! No, Slavo! KAM!" she shrieks, and I sit upright, squeeze her shoulder.
"Ava, wake up," I say urgently, "It's just a dream."
Her cries have woken up Skye and Burns. Burns has a puzzled, concerned expression on his face, and Skye is smirking slightly at the sight of us wrapped up in the same blanket. Ava continues to yell about me and Slavo, there are tears running down her face, and I start to shake her, becoming panicked. Burns stands, and begins to make his way over to us.
What the hell is going on?
Her green eyes snap open. When she sees me leaning over her, she gives a little gasp.
"You were having a nightmare," I say slowly.

Ava

I wake up to see Kam, Burns and Skye all awake. I am is tears. " You were having a nightmare." Kam says. I was so happy to see his face.

I leaned in and put my head on his chest. " It is still there. You are still here." I say. The tears come out of my eyes again. " I was so worried."

"What is still there." Kam says. He puts his arms around me and squeezes me close.

" Your heart." I say.

" Well duhh. He would be dead without it." Skye snaps

" No. In my dream. Salvo was killing Kam. He took out his heart, but Kam did not die. Salvo turned him into a killing machine." I say the tears will not stop rolling down my face.

" I am still alive." Kam says wiping the tear from my eyes. I lay my head on his shoulder. Thank God he is.

Kam

Burns is whipping up a breakfast consisting of some kind of freeze dried oatmeal over the fire. A light breeze is blowing the scent my way and I'm trying my best to ignore it. I haven't eaten in a full day, and it's all I can do to try and keep the blood from draining out of my head. To achieve this, I'm balancing on the balls of my feet in a squat postition, with my head between my legs and my fingers laced lightly over my messy hair.
Skye is patrolling the perimeter of camp. Her body language is hostile and occasionally she shoots me a dark look. I can tell she doesn't trust me, and though they don't seem to get along, that she's totally protective of Ava.
"Breakfast's ready," says Burns quietly. He walks around the fire to rouse Ava, who is dosing. When she opens her eyes and sits up, I can see the bruises under her tired eyes and the paleness of her lips. I try my best to limp over to the food and recieve my helping from Burns. Then I sit next to the worried looking Ava, lightly stroke her back and begin to eat.
"You know, something's been bothering me," says Burns after several minutes of silent mastication.
"The disgusting mutant that is hitting on Ava and eating all our food?" asks Skye dryly. Ava shoots her a deadly look, which she ignores.
"I mean the nightmares Ava's been having. They're obviously being caused by the Mutants. That Slavo character has mind control powers, is that not so Kam?"
I nod, swallowing the last of my oatmeal.
"It's true. Right before I left, Slavo and Arianna started sending nightmares to you guys to try and prevent you from sleeping. You may think it's bad that Arianna can read people's thoughts, but Slavo can control every part of the brain in regular use," I say, "That's how he got me to try and kill Ava last night."
Skye doesn't have a witty comeback to this one. We sit in silence while the sun rises.
"It's a warning," says Ava, her clear but tired voice breaking through the quiet. "Slavo intends to kill Kam."

Hi! Can I join?

Do you mind if I am part of this? Kind of new to the site, does anyone have any pointers?

Ava

“Salvo intends to kill you.” Ava darted up. “Have you noticed that every time I have a nightmare, something happens. Either Arianna or Salvo have a plan to hurt us.” She said say. The idea just got into her head. They are going to kill him. Ava's hands start to shake a little, but she started to walk away. “If you will excuse me.” She said. She started to walk a bit fast, but ended up breaking into a run.

Kam started to get up, but Skye stopped him. “It's okay lover boy, I got this.” Skye said. Skye ran toward Ava and caught up to her quickly. “I think Salvo is doing you a favor. He is getting Kam out of you hair. I do not know why you are getting upset over this.” She said. Ava gave her an evil look. “Okay it's to soon.” She said.

“I can't believe you are going to be such a...”She trailed off. “Why are you even here?”

“I am bringing you back. I am the only one here that can make sure you stay out of trouble.” Skye said.

“Stay out of trouble, are you kidding me?” Ava said. She turned around to face Skye. “I did not ask to be put is danger, to suffer, to get hurt every time I go some where and I most certainly did not ask to be treated like a puppy by you and Burns.” Ava screamed. “The only thing good that has ever happened to me here, is Kam and he is going to be taken away from me to. So yes, make all the jokes you want about it, but say them to Burns. I do not want you to talk to me or even look at me for that matter.” She started to walk back towards camp.

“Sorry you still have to be in my presence.” Skye said.

“I thought I said not to talk to me.” Ava screamed. One her way back to camp she felt so weak. She hated Skye and she was just so unpleasant, but she did not want to be mad. Ava walked over and sat by Kam because she knew that time was limited. She was so confused and lost. She looked at Kam. “What are we going to do?” She asked him. Ava felt as if there was no hope in the world.

Arianna

I can feel Ava trembling. She is full of guilt and despair and this brings me joy to watch her suffer. I can not wait for Salvo to make his heart stop and to watch Ava's face when she sees him dead. To end all the joy she has in life. This could make her want her own life to end and that is even better that me killing her. “When are you going to do it Salvo. When are you going to kill him.” I ask eagerly. He rolls his eyes at me. “Oh you of all people should understand why I am so impatient.”

“No one can understand your inpatients. Do you not understand that we want them to wonder and we want them to be terrified out of their minds. We want them to feel like there is some hope and that will make his death even more tragic.” He spits.

“Oh you must have forgotten what she has done to us.” I snap at him.

“Arianna I know as well as anyone what you are feeling, but do not let that stop you from seeing what is right in front of you.” He says.

I walk away. She has done so much to me. I remember how she was always the favorite and always got what she wanted. She was just a “ perfect little princess” and I will never forget how she made mother and father hate Salvo and I. “Arianna, I hate to burst your bubble, but you know she was just a good person and you never lived up to her.” Salvo says laughing.

“She never gave me a chance to live up to her level of “perfectness” and she will suffer for that.” I said.

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Hey thank you Taylor and HGL for the offer to join. You all are doing a great job with this storybook and hope to play a good part in it. I am going to post my profile and then start posting. Just so you can get and idea of what kind of guy my character is.

Name: Blaine Clark

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Personality: Blaine is a very protective male. He fights for what he wants and has a hard time settling for less. He care so much about keeping his friends safe, especially Ava. He feels like Kam is just using her and does not love her. (Well that is just in his mind because Blaine is so in love with Ava, but has not admitted it yet.) He keeps his distance when he is about to blow his top. He does not like anyone to see him like that when he is mad.
Appearance: Blaine is tan with sandy blonde hair. He is about 6 feet tall. His eyes are a grey color. He is very strong and well built.

Power: Purify water.

Short Bio: Blaine was 16 when he decided to become a Savior. He wanted to keep his family safe from anything that could harm them. The only way he thought that was possible, was to become a Savior. He hates his scientist because of the agonizing pain it gave him to become a Savior, but he could never thank him enough for helping him make the earth a better place.

Strengths/weaknesses: He is strong and very fast. He is good at handling two things at once. But when he sees one of the other Saviors is pain, he get very distracted and often worries about them. If someone does get hurt, he feels it is all his fault and wishes it could have been him.

Weapon: He carries around a bow and arrow

Other: He is up for love