Hello, everyone~! I have reemerged from my ashes and have returned with another story, this time in English, even though it is not my mother tongue. I apologize in advance for any grammatical error.
This is the first episode of what I hope will be a long story, because I have daydreaming with this too much and I'm actually very excited to write it. I hope I don't lose my waaay.
I have to warn you that the whole story is an AU, and will contain M/M M/F and F/F relashionships, several genres and OC, which could take important roles in the story, so if you do not like the insertion of OC, you can retire in peace. I do not own some of the OC, but I have the permission of their creators to use them.
This is the pilot episode. I hope you read it and leave your comments and opinions. I could take my time to write sometimes, so I beg you patience *sweats*. Ok, go on.
X-PECTERS
Chapter1. Pilot (No place to tun)
September 30, 1985. Unknown Island.
The weather was cold. The water from a nearby river was running. The clouds were grey. The bodies were all over the ground. She never felt so free, but she never felt so scared.
There was broken glass all over the floor. A threatening silence was present in the corridors of an underground laboratory used for secret experiments. It was located on an unknown island near the bay of Northwinds in England. Then, an alarm was activated and the silence disappeared. Armed men were running through the corridors.
They were alert. They had escaped.
The island was a place full of life. In the surroundings of the laboratory, the flora grew freely. A river flowed calm and small animals were walking on its shore, and also, a girl. She had black long hair, pale white skin, and big lilac eyes. She was wearing white clothes, a simple shirt and pants. She had blood stains on her chest and on her legs. She walked fast and confused near the river as she set aside the vegetation as she passed. She looked alert at her surroundings and kept walking.
"There she is!"
That shout made her run fast as the wind. They had found her and she wasn't willing to go back there. She ran as fast as her feet allowed her to run. When she reached a clear between the trees and the shrubs, she stopped. The sound of crushed leaves made her turn her head with fear. It was getting close. Then it suddenly stopped. She turned her head to all sides while she hugged herself and trembled, both out of fear and cold.
"Pandora" A soft, deep voice came from nowhere.
The girl freaked out and began to run again, but was stopped by a hand grabbing her arm.
"Do not worry" The voice said. She couldn't see who was holding her; she couldn't see anything, as if it was a ghost. "It's me" It tried to calm her down. A body began to materialize in front of her. It was a tall man with pale skin, white long hair and lilac eyes.
"Lune!" She whispered in surprise.
"Be quiet and follow me" He said calmly.
He took her hand and they quickly disappeared.
In the southern part of the island, near the bay, a tall blond man with short messy hair, with rough looking dull gold-colored eyes and one eyebrow, walked towards the sea. His name was Radamanthys. A blood stain highlighted in the white color of the left sleeve of his shirt. He was dragging his feet as a sign of fatigue. He looked around to make sure that nobody was near. His arm began to hurt and he closed his fists.
"Bloody hell!" He groaned and grabbed his arm. "I hate this fucking place".
The wind was blowing and the sea was rough. Suddenly, the sound of a helicopter began to approach. Radamanthys threw himself behind a couple of big rocks and tried to hide. The sound of the blades was heard nearby, but was overshadowed by the sound of a couple of shots. When the helicopter left, everything was silence. The blond man stayed there listening to the sound of the sea. He began to wonder where the others were.
In the depths of the vegetation of the island, a group of armed men walked quietly among the various plants of the place. Those men were soldiers of the laboratory, and had orders of not to let escape the "experiments". The trees began to stir. The men prepared their weapons and aimed everywhere. The rustling of the leaves and branches distracted their ears for a second. Suddenly, a loud gasp was heard among the group of men and everyone turned their heads to see one of them pierced by a thick branch. The man gasped a few words between bouts of pain, and then stopped moving. With signs of horror in their eyes, all the guards started shooting wildly to the trees. Another branch started to move incredibly fast between the legs of the guards until it went through the torso of another man. The bright red blood began to spread all over the floor. A bunch of branches started to move ready to attack, and the rest of the guards escaped from the place. The inert bodies of the two guards were hanging from the branches like puppets.
Behind the shrubs, a young man covered his ears and closed his eyes. He was trembling. He didn't know if it was for the cold, the fear, or both
"I just was protecting myself. I just was protecting everyone." He whispered.
The name given to this young man was Queen. He had short pink hair, white skin and lilac eyes. He bit his lips at the image of those dead men in the branches. He looked disoriented, but stood up and began to walk to nowhere in particular, until he heard it.
"The beach!" He said with a smile, and ran following the sound.
A rain of gunfire was heard in the distance. Queen looked at the sky but didn't stop running until he got to the beach.
"Finally" He said with agitated breathing, feeling the sand under his feet. "The boats! Where are the boats?" He asked himself, looking for those boats that could get him out of that island.
He saw them, two little boats that could easily take four people (three passengers and one driver), moving in the rough waters near the shore. The shore was in a lower level than the rest of the island and he had to jump down to get there. He ran towards the boats without lowering his guard, but when he got to the edge and looked down the sight of blood stopped him.
"Oh, shit." He muttered with eyes wide open.
Near the boats, the body of a young man was laying on the white sand. It looked like he tried to reach the boats, but was caught. Queen reacted and ran towards the familiar body.
"Hey, are you okay? Are you alive?" Queen whispered nervously.
The other young man had tanned skin and medium length black hair with bangs. He had long eyelashes and thick, defined eyebrows. His clothes had big stains of blood, but he was breathing.
"Pharaoh?" Queen asked.
He didn't answer, but moved his head to the left, following the voice of Queen. Queen saw his hands and nails covered in blood. He knew what he had done. He also saw the wound in his leg. Queen carefully dragged his partner's body to a safer place between the rocks, which were in front of a wall of sand, and hided with him.
"I hope the others can make it." Queen said, embracing his knees.
In the place where vegetation ended and sand started to took its place, Lune and Pandora walked towards the sea. A special shine appeared in Pandora's big eyes. It had been two and a half years since the last time she saw the sea.
"Here it is." Lune addressed. "Now we only have to find—"
"The boats!" Pandora exclaimed, pointing at the two little boats.
"Don't let your guard down. We are not safe yet." Lune warned.
The two fugitives ran to the sea, looking at all sides, just in case someone was near. They could feel that someone was watching them. When they reached the boats a voice held them back.
"You two!"
They turned their heads to the place where the voice came from.
"Queen?" Pandora asked.
"You are alive!" Queen exclaimed.
"What happened to him?" Lune asked, looking at Pharaoh and all the blood.
"I don't know, but he had a hard time for sure." Queen answered.
"Wait" Lune said, turning his look to Pandora, seeing the blood on her chest. "What happened to you?" He wondered.
"Oh, don't worry, it isn't mine." Pandora answered.
Her look became sad. How many people had died? Where were the others? She wondered in her head. The sound of the waves breaking on the rocks and the murmur of her companions took her out of her thoughts.
"Well, let's take a boat." Queen said.
"Shouldn't we wait a little more just in case someone else comes? Lune asked.
"I just want to get out here soon! How much more will I have to wait?" Queen said with clear despair. "And we are four people. One boat can take only four people."
"Can you give me a ride?" A voice asked.
Radamanthys walked towards the group, keeping his rough looks. He wasn't tired anymore and walked calmly in the sand.
"Radamanthys" Lune greeted him.
"Lune" Radamanthys answered him. "To be honest, I didn't expect to see all of you again. I kind of thought we were going to fail."
Moved by his words, Queen took his hand to his chest.
"Now…" Pandora went on. "We can go, right?"
"I guess we can." Lune said.
Pandora walked toward Pharaoh, who was trying to move. She got on her knees and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't force yourself." Pandora said firmly.
Pharaoh stopped moving and relaxed his body. He opened his eyes, showing its light amber color.
"Can you stand up?" Pandora asked.
"My leg..." Pharaoh said.
He had a bullet wound in his right leg, but it was just a brush. With a bit of difficulty, he sat in the sand, and saw the sea.
"I killed people." Pharaoh went on, with no expression on his face. His eyes wanted to close.
Pandora was silent and tried to find the words she wanted to say. Queen saw his sleepy eyes and knew that he had been sedated. Suddenly, the threatening sound of a helicopter approaching quickly towards them was heard. The group looked up to the sky and saw it. It was ready to attack them. They could see the weapons aiming at them.
"Oh, no!" Queen yelled.
"We were so close." Radamanthys mumbled, losing the only grain of hope he had.
The weapon opened fire, and immediately after that, the helicopter began to shake and lose control. It tried to compose itself, but it was too late. The two bullets the weapon fired went directly into the sand, in the place where Lune was two seconds ago before he ran to the rocks. The helicopter began to spin and fell. It exploited dramatically when it hit the land. The violent explosion echoed across the island.
The group could hide at the right moment, except Pandora, who was standing firmly in the same place and looking at the sky.
"Aye, that was dangerous! Come here!" Radamanthys shouted.
Pandora didn't respond to his voice and slowly began to collapse. Quicky, Radamanthys stood up, ran towards her and held her in his arms before she could hit the sand. Pandora's eyes were wide open at first, but seconds later they began to relax.
"What did you do?" Radamanthys carefully put her on the sand.
"She saved us." Queen said worried.
"Hey" Radamanthys patted her on the shoulder as gentle as he could. "Are you okay?"
"I think I am" She said in a low voice. "It was too heavy". She added, referring to the helicopter.
After making sure Pandora was doing well, Lune began to walk to the boats.
"Good, we are now ready to—
"Wait!"
A voice that came from the sea called their attention. It was Charon's voice.
A red head man in his late 30's, with short hair, dull white skin and tired eyes, approached them. He had pronounced dark circles and a perpetual angry expression that made him look a little scary.
"Don't go without me. I'm so fucking tired of this entire situation!" Charon complained.
"Good to see you, Charon! Now, let's go! Let's go now!" Queen yelled taking his hands to his head.
"Yeah, yeah, just get me out of here, can you?" Charon grunted.
Radamanthys helped Pandora to stand up and Queen helped Pharaoh who tried to walk on his own, but failed.
Lune, Queen and Pharaoh were in one of the boats. Radamanthys, Pandora and Charon were in the other. Just when they were going to turn on the engine, a third boat emerged from the right side of the island. The group was worried for a second because they had thought they had been caught, but then they recognized the people in the boat.
"Holy shit!" Queen shouted.
There were three people in that third boat. All of them were familiar faces.
"Holy shit!" Someone in the other boat shouted too as an answer.
The one who had shouted was Myu, a young man with medium, messy pink hair, white skin and long eyelashes. All the attention could go directly to his pink, insect-like eyes, which had a rare and feminine beauty. The ones with him were Aiacos, a man with indian traits, medium dark hair, tanned skin, and purple eyes. He was the one who was driving the boat. And Minos, a man with white skin, messy long grey hair with bangs that almost covered his amber eyes.
"They made it. Awesome." Aiacos said, taking the wheel and slowing down the boat.
"Yeah, but… What about the other three?" Minos asked.
"Good question." Aiacos answered.
Aiacos took the boat to where the others were. Charon and Lune made the same thing. The three boats were together in no time. Unprofessional, Charon managed to take the boat there.
"Can you really drive this?" Radamanthys asked to Charon, holding on to the seat.
"Of course! I just have to get used to it." Charon argued.
Charon tried to control the water, but it was not just water, it was the ocean.
Radamanthys looked at Aiacos and at the rest of them.
"Did you see the others?" Radamanthys asked.
"Yes, but we lost trace of them before we got to the beach." Aiacos answered. "I know they are doing well. They have good abilities".
"We can't go then!" Myu exclaimed. "We took all the boats. How are they going to get out?
They stayed in silence for a couple of seconds. The waves weren't as wild as before, but the boats were slowly hitting each other.
Pandora sat in her seat, where she was laying down. The others began to talk, about what they were going to do. They said they could go back and bring them with them, but that was not safe. Pandora, still tired from before, closed her eyes and concentrated as much as she could. 'Is someone there?' Pandora asked in her thoughts. She waited, but no one answered. 'Is someone there?' She asked again. She did the same thing during three minutes, and at that time everyone in the boats was looking at her.
'Yes?!' A masculine voice exclaimed in Pandora's head.
She was surprised. It had worked. 'Sylphid?' She asked.
'Who is this? Where are you?' He asked with a confused tone.
'It's me, Pandora. We are on the boats'
The voice didn't respond. Pandora tried to focus the most she could.
'We are okay. We—. He said, without finishing his sentence.
Pandora bit her lip. She opened her eyes and looked at everyone looking at her. She had a worried expression in her face, but quickly changed it, because at least he could answer her.
"He said 'we'." Pandora whispered.
"What?" Radamanthys asked trying to understand.
"They are alive!" Pandora exclaimed. "We need to go back to the shore". She said, standing up and turning her head to the others.
"You better sit. You are still unstable". Radamanthys said, with a hand on her shoulder.
The others looked at each other. She was right, if they were alive, then they had to go back.
"Aight, they better not pass from five minutes. I really want to get out of here." Charon grunted, turning the boat.
The other two turned the boats too and went back to the shore. All of them were on alert like a pack of meerkats. They had a hard time trying to get on the boats and now they couldn't just fail. When they arrived, the wait started. The vegetation made the island look like a calmly tropical paradise, except for the smoke that came from the helicopter from before.
Five minutes passed and there were no signals of those three.
"They are fucking dead". Minos said with a poker face.
Myu frowned while looking at Minos. "We can wait five minutes more".
"Since when you care about them?" Minos asked.
Silence.
"What kind of question is that?" Myu argued. "I don't want to be here anymore because it is hell on earth, but it would make me feel uncomfortable if we leave them here."
"Minos" Radamanthys went on. "Why don't you help a little and make whatever you do to bring them here?"
Minos mocked the question. "Yeah! Of course! Let's just take control over their minds and that's it! But, oh, no! I can't see them! Just like when I couldn't see anything while I was trapped in a cell!" Minos snorted.
More silence, this time it lasted longer. But it was interrupted by a voice.
"There" Pharaoh said.
Queen looked at him and then at the beach. Three men were desperately running towards them, waving their arms and yelling.
"There they are!" Queen screamed.
Everyone looked at them with eyes wide open.
"Wait for us! Wait!" Sylphid yelled.
The three men ran as fast as they could. They were clean, except for the sweat in their shirts.
"Fuck's sake! Faster!" Charon yelled, turning on the engine.
Gordon, the biggest of the three arrived first to the boat with Myu, Aiacos, and Minos, and jumped in it, shaking the boat.
"Whoa there!" Aiacos said taking the wheel and holding on to it.
"Turn on this thing!" Gordon yelled.
Gordon was a big man with thick limbs. His hair was long and brown. He had bushy eyebrows, light brown eyes, and a cleft chin.
Aiacos turned on the engine. Lune also turned it on. Sylphid jumped to the boat with Gordon and fell on him. The other man, Valentine, jumped to the boat with Radamanthys, Pandora and Charon.
"Sorry, man" Sylphid apologized to Gordon for falling on him.
Sylphid had messy grey hair and grey eyes. His skin was white with a pink-ish tanned tone.
"Let's go, let's go, let's go!" Charon yelled, hitting the boat's floor with his foot.
"I froze the guards" Valentine said with a deep voice. "I'm sure I did It well, but I don't know for how long they will be like that".
Valentine was a tall man with slim but strong arms. His hair was long and messy with a pale tone of pink; his skin was pale white and had pronounced dark circles under his dull gold eyes.
"You are okay now" Pandora said to him.
The inexperience of Charon controlling too much water made the boat shake a little, making the passengers to hold on whatever they could. Radamanthys bit his lip. He suggested Gordon to move to another boat.
Gordon saw the separation between the two boats and got nervous. "While the boats are moving? Hell no!" Gordon denied, crossing his arms.
"Get the fuck out of here! One of us is going to fall to the water!" Minos went on.
Aiacos was annoyed by those two. He firmly held the wheel to calm himself down.
Meanwhile in Lune's boat, Queen heard the wild conversation.
"Why don't we just stop the boats for a second?!" Queen asked.
Gordon barely listened to him, but answered. "I'm not going to move!" Gordon answered and quickly took his hand to his mouth. He began to regurgitate.
"Oh, no, no". Sylphid said with fear. "To the water, Gordon!"
The big man separated his hand from his mouth for a second. "I'm scared of the open sea!" He said and put his hand back.
Myu, annoyed, watched the scene and took his decision. He stood up with difficulty and put his hands and his right foot on the edge of the boat. The people in the boat stopped arguing and looked at him. Myu launched himself, jumped and smoothly landed in another moving boat.
"I hope you all are happy now!" Myu yelled from the other boat.
Aiacos, Gordon, Sylphid, and Minos looked at Myu in silence. The three men could finally sit comfortably. Myu just took a sit and crossed his arms. Pharaoh was at his side.
Myu looked at him and took a breath. "Are you okay?" Myu asked, seeing Pharaoh's clothes.
Pharaoh shrugged his shoulders. "I've had worst days". He was still sleepy.
The island was quickly disappearing in the horizon. The three boats headed to the nearest port in Northwind. All the memories and nightmares escaped with them and couldn't be left behind. It was going to be a hard time for them. What else was there in the future? No one knew. In Pandora's right ankle, under the skin, a small and dim red light began to flick.
