I looked at Party and was so happy for him. I wanted to hug him but knew better. There were things needed to be fixed. And mended but right now. All was well. Until someone knocked on the door... But let me back up.
Chapter 1
"We've been walking for AGES!" Stellar Zombie complained. Hollow Firefly shot a stern glance at her. "Sorry. It's just we haven't taken a break since we kicked those wimpy BL/IND asses over at that used-to-be gas station!" Hollow continued ignoring Stellar's continuous complaints. "THAT WAS AN INVITATION TO STOP FOR A BREAK LUX!"
Hollow looked over at Stellar and stared at her and then after about 30 seconds Hollow said, "And I decline the invitation." Hollow smirked and kept walking. "Geez... when did we switch places. I'm usually the one with the stern "don't-fucking-mess-with-me" look, and you usually are the one complaining." Stellar paused. "Are you okay?"
Hollow replied with a faint whisper as if only wanting herself to hear it, "He said it was around here..."
Stellar sarcastically put her hand to her ear and leaned in towards Hollow and said with a smirk, "WHAT WAS THAT? I COULDN'T HEAR YOU!"
"THERE!" Hollow pointed out in the distance towards a faint faded dot on the horizon. "Oh yeah woohoo a diner. You know there's no food in there right? BL/IND took all the food. REMEMBER?" Stellar finished sarcastically. Hollow frowned. She started to cry. The constant voice in the back of her head nagging her telling her, What the fuck Lux? Who do you think you are? Fabulous killjoys? Really? You will NEVER find them. Ever.
"Lux I'm sorry... I didn't mean to hurt you..." Stellar walked over to Hollow. "It's not... you... it's just..." Hollow continued to sob. Stellar just sat next to the fallen Hollow Firefly and was remembering how Hollow got her Killjoy name. Stellar started to laugh. The famous, heinous, contagious laugh that even BL/IND can't resist. Hollow hadn't heard that laugh since before BL/IND came. And even before them she barely laughed. It was truly special to hear that famous, heinous, contagious laugh. Hollow started to giggle, "What is it Blake?"
"Do you remember it? When you got your Killjoy name?" Hollow looked over at Stellar wide-eyed. Hollow looked a little happier with the memory of it which made Stellar happy. "We were 20 and were listening to Dr.D's channel and we were looking up at the stars like we did every night before we had to start moving around to find more food. You looked up and said to me 'I wanna be a Killjoy. Fight those assholes down and out to the very ground and below right into the pits of Hell.' I went to ask you about a name and as if reading my thoughts you said, 'You can be Stellar Zombie. Combining your love of astronomy with how you act every damn morning!' Stellar paused. She seemed to be reflecting on that night intently. Hollow didn't notice because she had her head resting on Stellar's shoulder with her eyes closed tight. "Then we couldn't figure your name out. We thought and thought and kept thinking for a week. Finally you said something to me. It was if I recall, 'If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.' At that moment a firefly passed by and you watched that firefly for so long until it flew away and you had done it. That line and that firefly had made your name. You told me, 'I am hollow. Not in the non-feeling way like BL/IND but in the no common sense way. You get it? I am always not getting things and feeling stupid afterword! I mean Jesus I did it yesterday! And I bet fireflys are hollow. I mean they just aimlessly fly around not knowing that there's a world right now trying to torture and burn EVERY SINGLE ENTITY until we are all mush and completely bare. I am a hollow firefly. Aimlessly wandering around not giving a goddamn fuck about anything. You with me?' And from then on. You were Hollow Firefly."
Hollow hugged Stellar and not the awkward side-hug but a fullblown hug only TRUE best friends do. Stellar stood up and extended her hand towards Hollow. Hollow graciously took it and was pulled in a huge force. She literally flew half across Battery City! "JESUS FUCK!" Stellar started to laugh. Hollow looked at her and brushed her brown and green higlighted hair back behind out of her eyes. As they looked at each other Hollow saw Stellar's eyes open wide with horror. Hollow lost her grin and turned around and saw a car speeding towards them. The blind spots from the sunlight blinded them both and they dropped down to the ground and pulled they're ray guns out. Stellar had always been better at shooting. Hollow kind of just kept them both together and distracted everyone. She had a sense of humor that could piss the fuck off of everyone. Stellar just had... well.. "stellar" looks. (Pun intended.) She distracted everyone with that sinsiter smirk and gorgeous legs. Hollow wasn't what normal people deem gorgeous and came off strong but was an amazing person once you got pass the "get-the-fuck-away" attitude. Stellar always acted with a sense of togetherness and composure and no one had ever seen her when she was truly showing how broken she could be except Hollow. That's what made Hollow understand her.
The car sped towards them and they saw it start to slow right in front of them. Hollow held her breath and heard Stellar whimper slightly. A guy with bright red hair stepped out from the driver door and someone with piercings and tattoos stepped from the passenger door. Damn. Who are these guys? Hollow thought and she looked slightly at Stellar who she could tell was thinking the same thing. Then a man with a fro and another guy with shades covering his eyes came out from the right side of the back seat. Hollow held her breath a little longer when she saw the guy in shades. She could tell Stellar was eyeing the tattooed guy. The man with the fro had a ray gun in his hands, in fact, they all did. They stepped a couple steps closer to Hollow and Stellar. The red haired guy held his hand down to Stellar and said, "Need help up Killjoy?"
She looked at Hollow and mouthed something Hollow didn't get at first and then she realized. Party. Party Poison, the one and only, was standing right in front of her. They all were. All four Fabulous Killjoys. Kobra Kid was actually standing in front of her. She kept thinking how fucking GORGEOUS he was. Stellar took Party's hand and stood up. Kobra helped Hollow up and Hollow blacked out for a moment from standing too quickly. She lost her footing and fell, toppling over her feet. Hollow landed right on her ass. Great impression Lux!
"Well aren't you something?" Hollow hadn't realized that Kobra had knealt in front of her. She blushed, embarrased. He smirked and messily rubbed her hair showing the green streaks ever brighter. The green reflected the light that fireflys emit. Kobra fingered one of her green streaks and then looked her right in her blue eyes. They stared longily into each other's eyes. Kobra broke it off turning around remebering that there were other people there.
"Well everyone this is Stellar Zombie." Party pointed his thumb over at Stellar. She waved slightly. By this time Hollow was up and smoothing her yellow jeans that had crumpled when she fell. Stellar looked at her and gave a two thumbs up. Hollow blushed, shook her head, and mouthed back, Never gonna happen.
