Hey people! I know not a lot of people read Uglies but I love it so. . . Here you go. Just to let you know this story is twisted and will induce sad-making thoughts!
Siy Rowling?
(Chapter One) _=_
(Tally P.O.V)
My thoughts were Icy and I was on edge. Left, right, left right. My hover board was being random again. I could barley control it even with my belly ring and grippy soled shoes.
"Stay icy Tally-wa." Shay murmured through the skintenna link. Her familiar voice soothed me slightly. We were only on watch. We didn't really expect to find the New Smoke or anything. Maybe an Ugly or two trying to spark a safety firework like back in the old days. Before us Cutters came around. But something in the back of my newly ice affined brain told me that tonight was not going to go well.
It had been three or four months since I had become a Cutter, but everything still felt like I was seeing for the first time.
"I am." I snapped in a whisper.
"Do you have your knife Tally-wa?" Shay asked. I scoffed, what a stupid question, of cores I had my knife, what respectable Cutter didn't bring something to keep themselves icy? I fondled my knife that Shay had specially given me the first week I had become a Cutter.
"What do you think Shay-la?" I scowled.
"Stop being random. We have a job Tally-wa. And I do not intended for you to annoy the ice out of me before we even get to the ruins." Shay hissed. I thought for a second before sighing heavily.
"Sorry Shay-la. I'm just on edge today, you know what I mean?" I asked. Shay sighed sympathetically.
"I do Tally-wa. But You can take a cut if you wan. No one's icy twenty four seven you know." Shay scolded me. I only grunted and slowed my board so that I was at a random pace.
"Go ahead, I'll catch up." I whispered through the link. I saw Shay nod from a few hundred feet away and then she was off towards the Rusty Ruins. Taking in a huge breath, I slipped my knife from a pocket in my sneak suit and then I slid up the sleeve, then, in one abrupt movement a feeling of pain mixed with iciness cause me to sigh in pleaser.
I was icy again. I was able to see everything clear. And by everything, I mean everything. I was able to see why Dr. Cable sent me to the Smoke the first time. I was able to see why the New Smoke needed to be destroyed. I was able to see why Peris was frightened of leaving his pretty home. I was even able to see how Shay-la had tried to guide me to happiness more than once but my self centeredness got in the way of both of our happiness's. I was a monster and no one had deserved that kind of treatment. But I wasn't guilty or sad. I was icy about it. Only acknowledging it and carrying on the task at hand, follow Shay and get back to camp.
We were only on patrol, we didn't really expect to find the New Smoke or anything. But that was before it happened.
That was when the fun began. . .
One second I could hear Shay's shallow breathing, then the next, my skintenna feed was cut off from the rest.
"Boss?" I hissed. . . No answer.
"Boss?" I started to panic, my icyness seemed to have been swept away like a whisper in the wind.
There was no answer.
"Shay-la!" I almost whisper scream . . . No answer.
"Shay, this isn't damn, laugh-making anymore-" I was interrupted.
"Shay will only be the first. The other Cutters will be next, unless you give yourself up, Tally Youngblood." I gruff voice warned on the other end of a bad connection.
"Where is Shay?" I almost yelled.
"Shay will be falling off of the top of the tallest building in Rusty Ruins in exactly twelve seconds. Good luck." The fuzzy connection was severed and everything was quiet.
That didn't matter though. I was already speeding towards Shay's signal. Top of the tallest building. My icyness was just a thing of the past by then, and nothing mattered anymore. Nothing, that is, except for Shay. At that point I would have asked the Smokies for help if I had to.
But my skintenna was cut off from all other connections except for Shay's I was alone in this. Eleven seconds to go.
I reached the Rusty Ruins in record time. But I wasn't getting anywhere fast. I started to push my board faster, it was almost at max speed, but it still wasn't fast enough for me. I was angry, not just angry, furious. Why hadn't I kept up with Shay? Why couldn't I have just taken my pain like a Cutter and waited. I could have helped Shay, I could have ambushed that son of a bitch when I had the chance. I could've help Shay for once in stead of being an evil bitch. I could have helped the only person in the whole world who cared about me; I could have. But I didn't.
Ten seconds to go. I was still on the floor of the old city, I needed to get higher. I tried to pull up but my ungloved hand was sweating too much and it slipped several times before grabbing and holding onto the board. I pulled up and peaked over some of the taller buildings. I saw with my special eyes a dark form of the top of the tallest building. It had something in its arms.
I started to tizzy. Eight seconds and I was still kilometers away.
"Shay!" I threw off my face mask. Looking down with my infrared vision overlaying the real world. My hover board's lifting fans were close to a Smokie campfire. Pushing forward again, I felt Shay's name on my tongue. It wouldn't stop, I just kept rasping her name.
Six seconds. Tears brimming in my eyes I screamed Shays name again. My board was close to explosion but I didn't care.
"Shay! Shay!" My throat felt swollen with tears that would never shed. I started to sob. Shay. No. Not Shay anyone but Shay. I started to scream at the top of my lungs.
"Anything! Anyone but her! SHAY!" Tears, I was crying real tears. Shay would have called me weak, I was being weak. Anyone but Shay. I wouldn't let in happen. Not. Shay. No. One. Would. Hurt. My. Shay.
My hoard let out one last squeal before it dropped. No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!
I jumped, My hands caught on a crumbling piece of iron. Five seconds to go. I still had five seconds. That was plenty of time. Some little icy part of my brain tried to tell me, but I ignored it, Shay's name still bubbling onto my lips. I climbed.
I would sometimes cut myself on a loose nail on accident but nothing could keep me icy at that point. I was too far gone. Not Shay. Please. I'd pray to any god at that point if it brought Shay to safety.
Three seconds to go. I started to run, I just ran and climbed and cut. Nothing could stop me. I didn't care if I was being random. I needed Shay, but at that moment she needed me more.
Two seconds. I was almost at the top, I was so close, so close. "Shay! Wake up! Shay!" I screamed, I heard a sickening chuckle, it reminded me of melted chocolate mixed with pure evil.
One. I didn't even have a second to spare as I pulled myself up my infrared told me something was close to explosion up here too, it was a hover boar, not just any hover board, Shay's over board. The figure that was once dark was clear to my special eyes now. It was a man, no, he wasn't even a man, he was a teenager. Probably almost twenty or nineteen. He had tan skin, a natural tan at that, I could tell because his face mask was down on his sneak suit. His hair was sticking out though, it was black-ish brown and dishelmed his eyes were green, a kind of icy piercing green. It was obvious that he wasn't a pretty but he looked as if he could have been. He was holding Shay by the hair, and elbow how on god green earth he had immobilized her, I would never be sure.
"Time's up." He laughed, I leaped as he slowly let go of hays arm, and then her hair, she landed on her hover board. Weirdly he didn't take off, he just watched as I slidd across the remaining concrete and metal.
"Shay!" That was the last word I heard myself screech as she opened her eyes.
"Tally-w-" Just as I reached out for her, a thunderous explosion echoed throughout the canyon like town.
It wasn't like I had expected an explosion to sound like. It was just a little crunch and then the sky was a light with fire and blood. I waited what seemed like hours before I turned to look at the boy. He was smiling at me, waiting for my reaction I suppose. I looked back at the only thing I had of Shay's left. Her knife was under a tick layer of iron, I didn't matter that it was dirty, I still used it. I made another scar across my flash tattoos. That didn't work I still felt like everything was bubbled in. So I screamed. I screamed as hard as I could. I let out all of my pain and anger and frustration in that one moment.
"I'm glad you enjoyed the show." The voice again, except this time it wasn't muffled over a connection, it was loud and clear, and right in my ear.
"What are you?!" I screamed, I was waiting for answers, I wasn't sure why but, I didn't feel the need to kill him. . . Yet, "The Smokies sent you didn't they? I know they were getting desperate but why did they have to kill her?! Why?! Would you mid telling me?"
"I'm not from the Smoke Tally Youngblood. I'm from somewhere much more. . . Interesting. Somewhere you should be as you just proved." He smirked. My hand shot out, but he was just as fast, jumping back onto an already powered up hover board, "Seems I had no more bonding time Tally, but we will meet again. Soon hopefully."
With that he was gone. Just not there, I was alone again. This time, I wasn't in a dither. I was icy and ready. To do what. I wasn't exactly sure.
My last cut was still fresh so the icy part of my mind took over. I opened my skintenna frequency to all unknown stations.
"Whoever you are, you sure as hell better enjoy what time you have left because you don't have much of it. I will track you down and if it takes ma all of eternity, I will fid you, and kill you. If you think her death will go unpunished, you're damn wrong." My message was brief and deadly. I wouldn't let Shay's leaving the world unknown, I would fulfill what I had promised the boy. I would stay icy for Shay-la and I would avenge her death. With that I let myself fall onto the remaining concrete Shay's knife clutched to my chest held tightly in my hand.
(Chapter End)
So, um. . . Do you like it? I need a review to continue pleas and thank you, I also except flames! J I'll update soon, (If I get a review that is) Tell me if you want it less dramatic or something I guess.
Siy Rowling?