Chapter 2
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I woke up feeling groggy but I did feel slightly more refreshed. I could feel something tugging on my leg but, I didn't pay any attention as I tried to go back to sleep. "Sunset wake up." said a too energetic voice for morning.
I grunted and shoved my head under my pillow so I couldn't hear him. Too bad I had my wolf hearing because I could still hear him talking. "Come on Sunset or I will have to force you out." John said but, I took no heed. Why can't he let me sleep?
I felt the tugging on my legs increase and I was almost pulled off the bed before I held on to the banister. John grunted trying to pull me off the bed but, he couldn't make me move. I heard a groaning sound come from the banister and once John heard it he instantly let go of my legs.
"Now how do I get a stubborn girl out of bed who loves the taste of food? Oh I know I can't believe that I never thought about it before. Sunset I have some food for you which includes a nice fat rabbit." John said and my stomach grumbled loudly. Drat there is no use in pretending that I wasn't hungry.
I guess I have to get out of bed now. This nice warm bed and a flash of rebellion filled me. I will never get out of this bed. My hand searched under the covers when I finally found it. I picked up my book bag and fished out a mouse. Not as good as a rabbit but, it's good enough.
John could hear me munching on the mouse so he pondered over more ways to get me out. "You will never take me out alive." I said after gulping down my mouse. "Oh I have many ways young ignorant Sunset.
"Who are you calling ignorant mister dumber than a four year old?" I taunted and John grabbed my leg. Oh he is not pulling that same trick again because if he did the bed would break and I don't think he would want to pay for the damages.
"Oh I'm not doing that again because I have certainly learned my lesson. I have a new plan which you will definitely love." John said and he put his finger against my foot. Oh he had better not be doing what I think he will be doing.
John started to tickle my foot mercilessly and I burst out laughing. "Let laugh go laugh of laugh my foot laugh!" I said trying to stop myself from laughing but, I couldn't. John has found my weak spot and he will never stop using it against him. Well I guess I have to teach him yet another lesson.
With my other foot I kicked John hard enough for him to let go but, not hard enough to break a bone or anything but, I think I did that. John instantly let go of my foot and I heard him fall to the ground groaning. Oh man I think I hurt him pretty bad.
I was about to bolt up and out of bed to check if he was alright but, something didn't seem right. For one John doesn't like to admit pain to anyone but, here he was groaning loudly. Also something seemed fake about the pain.
I listened hard at the groans and heard a fake under tone and I knew instantly that this was just a new trick to get me out of bed. Well he isn't going to get me out of bed that easily. "John how dumb do you think I am?" I asked and I heard John get off of the ground.
"Lucy can you get Sunset out of bed? She has like a week's provisions in her book bag and I can't get her out of bed because the bed will break?!" John yelled. Oh he is not resulting to calling Lucy.
"I actually have three week's provisions in here thank you very much." I mumbled under the covers as I awaited Lucy come into the room. "You are such a coward John because you took the quick way out." I said. John paid no attention to my comment but, then I heard him step out of the room. Ah peaceful bliss but, why do I have a feeling that it won't last long?
I rolled over on the bed and I was almost fast asleep when I heard the door open again. I braced myself for what was to come and then I felt a huge shocker. A large bucket of ice cold water fell on me and I screamed. "That is not cool you guys!" I yelled but, I stayed strong and huddled into a ball on the bed.
"You will never get me out." I said and then I heard some chanting. It was Lucy and it seemed like she was going to use a spell on me. I think I have had enough of this torment. "I'm going to the bathroom." I said and hopped out of bed.
The whole team was in the room by now and they just stared in shock at me. "What you got to go when you got to go." I said and went into the bathroom. After doing that I went to the kitchen table and sat down heavily and closed my eyes.
"Man Sunset you have to wake up sometime." John said and I opened my eyes to see a steaming hot cup of coffee in front of me. "Okay why is this in front of me?" I asked looking at it filled with disgust. "You're going to drink it." said Demetri sitting in front of me. "I don't think I can actually swallow this." I said.
I would never drink this stuff even when I couldn't actually digest it. The stuff is just plain disgusting. "Are you sure? Demetri made it himself just for you." John said and Demetri grinned at me. "Yeah that's another reason why I won't drink it." I said and Demetri frowned. "He also puts a lot of caffeine in it." John said.
Oh man I love caffeine and if he put a lot of it in here I will definitely drink it. "Okay fine you win." I said and gulped down the coffee while holding my breath so I didn't have to taste it. I quickly drank three cups full of coffee and I felt great.
Then nausea filled me and I ran into the bathroom to throw up. I came back and I still felt great. I think the caffeine is starting to affect me. "So when are we going? Where are we going because I just really want to go anywhere? Can we use a Mercedes or something because those cars are like so fantastic? I mean they are like so fast you can like run over a kid without noticing. Can it please be black because black looks cool? Anything goes with black except maybe white but, sometimes it looks very good with it. I once saw a black and white dress and it was like so beautiful I just wanted to buy it you know?" I said.
I was going into Nudge mode but, who the heck is Nudge? "Sunset calm down." John said trying to sooth me. "Why do you want me to calm down? I feel great like I can run a thousand miles and break a wall." I said and I was starting to almost bounce off the walls.
"I'm sure you could but, don't you want to think over the plan or something?" John asked. "Oh I don't really want to. I just want to do something fun you know? Like maybe this." I said and punched the wall. A huge hole formed and John gasped at it.
"Whoops sorry John baby. I will make it all better." I said and kissed John on the lips before running back to Demetri. John just stood there shocked not totally understanding what was happening.
Demetri was reading the newspaper and eating some kind of fruit but, I don't really care. I snatched the newspaper from his hands and looked into it. "What are you reading? Is it about that tornado or maybe that bear attack? Oh hey that's me! Well this is so boring. Why do you read this stuff?" I asked.
Before Demetri could reply I ripped the newspaper apart and grabbed the fruit from his now empty hands. "This food is disgusting. There is no point in eating it." I said and crushed the fruit into a pulp. I threw it away and walked out of the room skipping but, then my arm hit the wall full force where it broke into pieces.
"Whoops once again." I said giggling. I passed a hallway where Lucy was walking in heading to the kitchen. "Hey Lucy how are you? I'm fine actually great. You don't want to talk to Demetri because he is in a pretty bad mood though I don't know why. Hey nice shirt it looks great with your hair. What kind of shirt matches gold hair because I don't know? Also why don't you change those pants because no offense they look a little trashy but, I bet Demetri would love them? Well bye." I said and rushed back to where John was still standing confused.
"What's wrong with Sunset?" Lucy asked coming up behind Demetri who was still grumbling over his lost fruit. "Oh you know that special coffee I like?" Demetri asked. "Oh yeah how can I forget. It makes anyone who drinks it so hyper even you." Lucy said.
"Yeah well I gave Sunset some and she drank three cups worth." he said and Lucy finally pieced everything together. "Oh well this is bad. How long until she goes down?" Lucy asked. "I think about an hour or two." What do they mean by go down?
"Hey John guess what?" I asked him jumping up and down. "What Sunset?" John asked feeling really annoyed. "Nothing so there you smarty pants." I said sticking my tongue out at him and running back into the long hallway.
"I wonder how many times I can race this thing." I pondered out loud and started tearing away down the hallway. Every time I turned a corner my arm hit the wall creating a hole but, I never paid any attention to the pain racing in my hand.
Going through the middle of the hallway again I felt a sudden sense of tiredness. I ignored it and pressed on. I took one moment's rest and that changed it all. I fell to the ground feeling utterly exhausted. The caffeine's affect has finally worn off.
"I told you she was going down." said Demetri and he kicked me lightly on my arm. I growled too exhausted to move. "Okay John why don't you pick her up and put her in the car?" asked Demetri and I was soon picked up.
I lost track of time as I fell asleep cradled in John's arms and I fell into a deep sleep filled with nightmares.
I was in the land of the dead. All around me were shadows filled with the ghostly reflections of well ghost's agonized faces. I heard their voices screaming at me and I was soon filled with pain from all of their voices. I heard laughter and suddenly like that the ghosts stopped crying out with pain and I opened my eyes. There standing in front of me was Morrigan and on his shoulder was a giant vulture staring at me with his blood red eyes. "Well we meet again." said Morrigan and I spat on his shoes. "Oh that is of no respect for me. You should see all the good things I have done for you. Just look at your clothes for instant." he said and I looked down. Instead of wearing my jeans and t-shirt I was wearing a beautiful dress that was decorated with pearls. "Yeah so what? Even if it's beautiful I hate dresses. I can just call Ansuthiti and she can get me out of this nightmare." I said and the guy actually looked offended. "That woman who claims to be a goddess? All she does is good or what she thinks is good. Most of the dead people in my realm are from her little accidents." he said and I gave him a disgusted look. "Oh and like you're so good mister god of death." I said sneering at him. "True but, one thing is that did you ever hear the story about Hades and Persephone?" he asked and I looked deep into my mind. "Oh yeah that was a terrific and terrible love story. Persephone was the goddess of spring and then one day she met Hades the god of the Underworld. They fell in love but, every spring Persephone had to come back to the earth to keep the earth alive. But when winter came she joined Hades in the Underworld and became its queen." I said remembering that story from school. "Well yes but, I would like to think that we would have the same story." Morrigan said and I rushed straight back into reality. "Okay what? You think that I would fall in love with you? I am already in love with John and that's enough for me because I can't really stand having yet again two guys in love with me like that stupid Night." I said growling his name. "You say that he doesn't love you back?" he asked feeling pretty curious. I narrowed my eyes at him but, I said "well he still loves me but, he can't really visit me where he is now. He's dead and why are you asking?" I said. He just shrugged and flicked his hand towards the shadows. I saw a figure walk up to me and the instant I saw him I gulped. "Hello Night." I said and surprisingly my voice was eerily calm. "Hello Sunset and you are looking well. How is that dead lover of your doing?" Night asked looking pretty smug. I guess he didn't figure out that John was alive and well. "Oh well John is actually alive and he and I are still deep in love." I said and watched Night's face slip into anger. "Why you!" he yelled and came at me clawing at my face. The tip of his claw ripped my cheek and I screamed in pain and fury. I was sucked out of the dream.
I gasped up and I felt the car swerve on the road. "Will you stop that please?" asked Demetri exasperated. "Are you okay Sunset? Did you have another dream?" asked John looking anxiously at me.
Before I answered I touched my cheek gingerly and gasped as I felt something warm against my cheek. "Oh man Sunset you're bleeding." John said and grabbed a hand full of napkins and pressed it against my wound. "Did you guys ever hear of the story about Persephone and Hades? Yeah well that stupid freak of a god Morrigan thinks my story will be like there's. He wants me to be his queen." I said as bluntly as possible.
"Okay never ever will you be his queen." John said growling. "I know that's what I said and then Morrigan tricked me into saying that Night was dead. So since Morrigan is the god of the dead he called out Night's spirit and once he heard that you were still alive Night clawed my cheek." I said.
"Oh Night is so dead." John said growling even louder. "Technically he is already dead." I said and I grinned when John rolled his eyes. "Not for long." said a weak voice in the back and I turned to see the guy from last night tied up in the back.
"Okay why is he still here? I thought he was supposed to die." I said glaring at Lucy. "It wasn't my fault but, wait a second it was my fault. I just wanted to learn how he could make that shield. Back on topic what do you mean not for long?" Lucy asked.
The man grinned and said "the holy god Morrigan is the god of death. He controls the dead people coming in or out of the realm. He can kill people as long as they don't have any contact with the good goddesses. He can also bring back the dead and that's probably what he's going to do with Night."
"Oh not over my dead body." I said growling just like John but, mine was much more feral. "If you are such a good messenger why don't you contact your god and tell him that he had better not do that." I said and he looked pretty frightened.
I looked at myself out of the window and saw my reflection. My eyes were a terrible blood red and I took deep even breaths and finally my eyes turned into their normal golden color. "I really have got to stop getting angry." I said chuckling to myself.
"Actually anger can be good for you because you couldn't be complete without anger. Though you do seem to have too much anger. Maybe you borrowed John's anger and never gave it back." Lucy said and we all laughed.
"What are we going to do about this freak? Why can't we just push him out of the car and let him fall into a ditch where he would starve to death?" I asked but, everyone laughed at my suggestion. But my suggestion is so good why would they object it?
John finally seemed to catch on because he instantly stopped laughing. "Guys I think she was actually serious." John said and I grinned at him. "Well we can't do that because Lucy here didn't figure out how the freak did the shield. He won't talk." Demetri said.
"I can make him talk." I said glancing back at him while cracking my fingers. The guy gulped and I saw sweat run off his head and hit the floor. I wasn't that scary was I? It must be my imagination.
I glanced up at the time and saw that it was late afternoon and that we were starting to run out of gas. "Hey Demetri shouldn't we stop for gas or something?" I asked and glanced at him hopefully.
"Sorry but, we aren't spending a penny until we run out of gas which we can still use." Demetri said and I sighed. Who cares about how much money it will take when John is filthy rich?
I sighed again as we passed a pretty large town and soon we were in the middle of the desert. I could feel the car start to slow down until it reached a final stop in the middle of nowhere. "See what did I tell you?" I said to Demetri and he groaned.
We hopped out of the car and Demetri popped the trunk. "Yeah we are stuck here and the only way we can get back is to push the car all the way to town. We can't really do that right now because it's getting pretty dark. Sunset do you have any food left?" Demetri asked.
"Yeah I have a ton of food but, the bad thing is that it's all spoiled so you guys can't really eat it." I said pulling out the spoiled mice. Ghost gulped down a few and I glared at him. "Is there any food I can catch in the desert?" I asked John and he shook his head.
"Great now we have no food or water. How about firewood?" I asked and we looked around. The only thing that was wood in this cactus filled desert was nothing at all. "This is just terrific. Now we have no warmth or food and I'm pretty sure the desert get's cold at night." I said and plopped down on the ground.
The instant I sat down I shot back up and gave a strangled cry of pain. "What is it Sunset?" John asked coming up behind me. "There was a big cactus beside me and my arm hit it. I am so glad I didn't sit on it because it hurt a lot." I said.
I turned my arm over and there embedded in my arm were about a dozen spikes from the cactus. John pulled each one out as carefully as he could but, I couldn't help the yelp of pain each time one fell out.
Once they were all gone I ran to the car and shut the trunk. "Okay I can't take this anymore. We are going to that city no matter what and I don't care if the scorpions come out right now. Everyone remember to check your shoes." I said.
I pushed the car with all my strength and we were soon walking towards the city. The car wasn't really heavy to push and I wasn't even tired when we finally reached the city. I sighed as we were about to enter the busy streets.
"Sunset there's a scorpion coming right at your leg. Just don't move and you will be fine." John said and I looked down. A rather large scorpion was coming up right at my foot.
Instead of listening to John's instructions I moved my foot quickly and stomped the life out of the little being. "Okay can we keep moving?" I asked to their shocked faces and we kept walking.
We arrived to a gas station and while Demetri paid the rest of us went in the store place and I looked around. I was pretty thirsty from all the pushing and I made my way to the drinking fountain when I shape stood in front of me. "Uh excuse me sir but, I need to you know get a drink?" I asked politely enough for me and the man turned.
I gasped as I stared into his smug face. The man was a seemingly much older Night. Oh my Ansuthiti!
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