So this is my first songfic, so don't hate me if it's bad. Please don't criticize my taste in music, but feel free if you don't think the songs don't make sense with the topic. Just try to be open-minded! :)
The first song is A Year Without Rain by Selena Gomez and told from the perspective of the gaiaphage. Yeah, I know, it sounds weird, but this is what came to me while lying in bed listening to my ipod late at night. I originally wanted it to be just the gaiaphage in love with Drake, but I had to change that. It was just too messed up. :(
Oh, goody! A disclaimer! I don't usually do these because its obvious that I don't own the books. Why would I be on FANfiction, then? But seeing as songs are done by actual famous people, I decided I should. So here it is. I am not Selena Gomez, which is unlucky because I want to be on a TV show, but lucky because I don't like Justin Bieber. (This is where the "don't hate me for my music taste" part comes in, for those of you with Bieber Fever XP) I also do not own this song, although I think it sounds pretty darn good when I sing it with a hairbrush in front of my mirror.
You weren't supposed to know that.
And while I'm at it, I don't own GONE either, which is awful because if I did I would know how the series ends. :(
Can you feel me when I think about you
With every breath I take
Every minute no matter what I do
My world is an empty place
The gaiaphage sent a tentacle of thought to its followers. Drake, Lana, Brittney, and Caine, all of them. He wanted them, needed them. He needed their power.
Like I've been wandering the desert for a thousand days
Don't know if it's a mirage but I always see your face
But most of all, he needed Nemesis. The boy so trapped by his own mind that he was easy, so easy, ready to be delivered straight into the gaiaphage's hands.
I'm missing you so much
Can't help it I'm in love
A day without you is like a year without rain
Where were they? Any of them, it didn't matter who. The gaiaphage wasn't picky about its servants. It had enslaved the coyotes, even. But they had served their purpose in the end. They had been quite nice appetizers for the insects.
I need you by my side
Don't know how I'll survive
A day without you is like a year without rain
The gaiaphage reached out into the minds of his followers. It hated to admit this, but he needed them. They were important to the gaiaphage's great plan.
The stars are burning I hear your voice in my mind
Can't you hear me calling
Why was no one answering? Could they not hear their master?
My heart is yearning like the ocean that's running dry
Catch me I'm falling
And Nemesis, balanced atop his sheet of glass. He would fall soon, fall to the Nestor's side, in order for the world to be made anew.
Feel like the ground is crumbling underneath my feet
There's gonna be a monsoon when you get back to me
The wall was there, forming the floor of the cave just as it always had. It was well made, impossible to penetrate and difficult to alter. But it was the gaiaphage, and it had managed to, ever so slightly, on that day where Nemesis lost the game and lost control
I'm missing you so much
Can't help it I'm in love
A day without you is like a year without rain
Where was Drake, his most reliable servant? He had been given an incredible gift, his arm, and used it well. The gaiaphage did not care about Bright Hands, although it missed his old servant, Caine. He had been easy to manipulate and fun to haunt for a few months. It pitied the girl who had cared for him during it all.
I need you by my side
Don't know how I'll survive
A day without you is like a year without rain
It longed for Nemesis, so it could leave this infernal dome. With Nemesis under its control, the gaiaphage would have unlimited power, able to do anything. It could obliterate everything in its path. Nemesis would kill anyone who upset him.
So let this drought come to an end
And may this desert flower again
The gaiaphage, however, had a millennia-old job to do. It had to spread life wherever it went. This planet had life, yes, but when it made the world anew there would be better forms of life.
I'm so glad you found me
Stick around me
Baby, baby, baby, oh
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" Shouted Drake happily as he climbed down the tunnel. Drake was here at last. If the gaiaphage had a heart, it would have leapt at the sound of him.
It's a world of wonder with you in my life
So hurry baby don't waste no more time
But Drake was losing a grip on his body as Brittney took over, and the gaiaphage began its illusions of angels and gods to please this religious girl. The things it did for its servants. It examined her mind, and found something wonderful. Brittney was praying to a new God. She was praying to the gaiaphage itself.
And I need you here I can't explain
A day without you is like a year without rain.
It told her to find Nemesis at all costs, to find him and bring him back. God's will, it told her. Then Drake returned, ecstatic to be with his master. The gaiaphage told him the same thing, but that he could kill whoever he wanted, as long as it had Nemesis.