What should I do? Chapter 1: The Arrival of Pain, a city of ember fanfic

What should I do...?

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Rowan: Hello, my beloved readers! X3 My second story!!RAAAAAAWWWWWRRRR!!! I have my character(repersenting me X3) I call her Menthe but in the story her name is rowan!

Menthe: HI!

Rowan: Im forcing Doon to do the disclaimer with her! Muahahahahaha (runs around with coke in her hand)

Doon: (grumbles)

Rowan: C'mon, just do the disclaimer....

Doon: Fine. Rowan of the wise DOES NOT own The city of ember characters and/or other.

Menthe: She owns me and any OCs here! X3

Doon: Lets get this story over with....

Rowan & Menthe: WWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chapter 1: The Arrival of Pain (just to make it clear, I'm going to say who's point of view throught the story. This is Lina's point of view)

"Hey Lina! Can you get some water for our plants?!" Ms. Murdo yelled through the window of Dr. Hesters 2-story house.
She had some renovating done for Lina, Ms. Murdo and Poppy.

"Sure!" Lina yelled back.

Lina swiftly ran towards the pump in the backyard, grabbing a bucket along the way. As she poured the water into the bucket, she was wondering what had happened to the roamers, who'd usually arrived during the weekends. They weren't in Sparks last weekend. She wondered vaguely if something had happened.

"AHAHAHAHAHA!" Chortled Torren, who was pointing to the overflowed bucket. "The plants must be REAL thirsty, aren't they?" He continued laughing. He wasn't paying attention when Lina heaved the bucket over his head, and when he noticed, it was too late.

"That should keep you cool, seeing as you aren't." Lina smirked at Torren, Who was drenched from head to toe. He glowered at her as she refilled her bucket,
and continued glowering after she had left.

"Here you go Ms. Murdo." Lina said, handing her the bucket.

"Thank you sweetie, you're a big help." Ms. Murdo, smiling a bit at Lina.

"Am I free to go hang out with Doon now?" Lina said, curiously.

Ms. Murdo looked at her facial expression, repressed her snickers,and said "Go ahead, don't keep him waiting"
Lina eyed Ms. Murdo suspisiously. Then she turned around slowly. Torren was smirking at her, with something in his hand,
and threw it in her face.

"AAAAUUUUGGGHHH!" Lina yelled in pure fury."You idiot, I'm gonna make you pay!" Lina grabbed the pie remains off her face and threw it down his shirt.

"Oh My GAWD! That's sooooooo COLD!" Torren said, shakily from the coldness. Lina smirked and swiftly ran out the door. She grabbed her bike and tailed toward the Pioneer house as fast as she could possibly go, laughing all the way.

_(Doon's point of view)_

"Man! what is this?!" Doon pointed at something slushy stuck to his shoe.

"Doon, That's bird poop. You should watch where you're going." His dad answered, with a bit of smugness in his voice.

Doon just glared at his father. He found a fence pick near the hotel and rubbed the gunk off on it.

"I'm going to go ahead if that's ok with you." His father said.

"Sure. Go ahead." Doon answered briskly.

When his dad left, he heard a voice calling his name. "Doon! DOON! Hey! DOON!" Lina said, as she was biking really fast. Doon eyed a big rock in her way and immediatly realized that she'll crash into it.

"LINA! SLOW DOWN!" He yelled in a loud voice. Lina immediatly slowed down and Doon sighed with relief.

"Hey Doon!" Lina gave Doon a big grin. Doon returned it with a small smile.

"Anything new happening?" Doon asked Lina as they walked towards the river.

"No unless you count the roamers not being her for 2 weekends." Lina sat down on a rock underneath the shade, beside the river and sighed.
Lina looked up to look at Doon's reaction but his eyes weren't on her. They were focusing on something in the distance. Lina followed his gaze and gasped. A black figure was limping toward the town. The figure looked like it was seriously injured. Doon started running towards it. Lina was caught by surprise by his sudden action but she quickly recovered and ran towards it too. She reached the person before Doon and helped it back into town. The person was wrapped in a black ripped shawl and nothing else. THe girl behind it was barely no older than 15, and she had rich cinnamon eyes and the weirdest hair colour. It was long glistening black up to her waist.
About 5 inches above the bottom of her hair was a gentle but fierce red colour. her eyebrows were the same but the red colour was barely visible. She was very pretty and had a wise looking face, even scratched up and bloodied like it now was. her brown eyes looked pained as though she had seen way too much in her life. There was an awkward silence as people kept staring at her and one of them alerted the head minister. She kept glaring at them tiredly. She didn't speak and neither did Doon or Lina. It was Lina who broke the silence.

"Who are you?" Lina said softly, a bit frightened of her.

"Rowan." The girl answered in a surprsingly strong voice, though it was sort of strained sounding.

"Why are you here?" Doon said in a strict voice. The girls fierce and pained eyes looked at him without moving her head or anything.
She glared at him and sighed an exasperated sigh.

"To get away from the roamers..." She said in a harsh voice, directed only at Doon.

"What did they do?" Lina said lightly.

She shivered. "They...tried to take away everything I had, to sell here, so I tried to fight them with my comrades, but they got captured"
She said in a feeble voice. Before we asked anything else, she shivered, and said,"pain..." and she fell unconscious. Everyone gathered around them by now, quietly listening. When she fell, everyone froze until Dr. Hester asked someone to help her into her house. Lina stood up and helped her.
They took her to Dr. Hesters house. Dr. Hester laid her down on one of the beds, while Rowan muttered, "Pain..." and fell unconscious again.

"Pain..." Lina muttered, and left the house for a walk to help her with her senses. "Another puzzle for us to solve and keep it safe..."

Rowan: Yo! XD I hope you enjoyed this story! I'll be able to update more over the holidays, so stay tuned! X3

Menthe: If you read, leave a comment! No flames though, only constuctive critism. Comments will keep us going!

Doon: This wasn't as bad as I thought...

Rowan: (Pinches Doons cheek) Shut up, you.

Doon: Owowowowowow!

Menthe: R&R!!! RAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

Rowan & Menthe: Thanks for Reading!!!

Doon: You're not welcome...

Rowan & Menthe: YYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!