Partners in Crime Chapter 3 wow, yep for those of you who probably follow my Dragon Fusion story you now see that it is over but don't worry a new one is coming soon, so stay with me for this but please enough of about DF let get on to Partners in Crime whooooooaaa!
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Carrie sat at the large table. She glanced two the other side where Gumball and Penny sat, Darwin ate quietly leaving the table without a sound.
Penny chuckled shape shifting. Gumball tensed up as he felt something coil itself around him, Penny giggled wrapping her arms around Gumball's neck, pulling him into a kiss.
I think I've lost my appetite Carrie pushed her food away unable to eat with the sight before her. Penny nibbled Gumball's ear earning a soft purr from the blue feline. Carrie glanced to her side it seems that her captor too couldn't eat with those two all over each other, Luna had already left leaving the four at the table alone.
Carrie cleared her throat earning the attention of the two lovers. "Can I get an explanation to these 'magic powers'. I thought the new government had gotten rid of everyone powers," Penny reverted to her original form sitting on the blue felines lap.
"Oh yes. You see after the new government had taken everything that made the citizens of Elmore unique, mainly our powers they had decided to run experiments on four subjects...Luna was one of them. Whatever this thing was it allowed her and four others two grant powers. But of course it comes with a cost it makes the user extremely weak so Luna doesn't recruit often."
"But that doesn't explain why you can shapeshift again and why I don't have my powers back," said Carrie.
Penny sighed, "well that's another story entirely, when given powers one out of the two will happen; you will either regain the powers you once had or you will gain new powers and your old ones will vanish completely."
"So your saying I'll never be ghostly again?" Carrie inquired. Penny nodded in response, Carrie sighed leaning in her chair. She noticed her captors eyes on her, "what are you looking at?"
Flame averted his eyes, "nothing," he quickly replied, Gumball chuckled watching the two.
"So about these Gangs what are they anyway?" asked Carrie.
"Well it's exactly as they say. They're gangs filled with gangsters, killers you name it. In this New Elmore there are four Gangs, there's us. The Cold Serpent gang, then there's the Blood Howler gang, a gang of vicious killers I heard that they only accept wolfs hence the 'Howler'. Then we have the BlackFire gang, and finally there's the Soul Eaters the most dangerous gang known for their meriless killings."
Carrie had heard of the Soul Eaters they definitely were mericless, over 100 civilians were killed in their last heist.
"Everyone in each gang has an insignia that appears one them once they're accepted into the gang," Penny explained pulling up her sleeve to reveal a golden serpent on her shoulder. Flame sat quietly at the table, so they almost forgot that the felines were both still there.
Flame yawned rising from the table leaving the three alone.
Carrie glanced own shoudler a black snake had appeared on her pale ghost skin.
"So I guess you were lucky enough to regain your powers...what are you guys planning to do with all the money?" Penny stared into Gumball eyes before turning back to the ghost and simply shrugging.
"For starters we might get out of this hell hole, Luna and Darwin are already working on finding our new home so we're just going to have to wait and see. The government has taken over a lot of the earth so it's hard to find a nice place to stay hidden. We're all thinking Chicago maybe New York somewhere far from her definitely,"
"So you stole twenty million and had no plan," Penny simply shrugged again. Gumball was already falling asleep his eyes lids seemed heavy as his head flopped back on the chair. Penny took her medusa form, man she's changed Penny's red hair was now wrapped in a ponytail the head of a serpent at the end of it. She hissed smacking Gumball with her tail. Gumball mumbled something unintelligible as he woke up yawning loudly.
Penny huffed crossing her arms in a childlike manner. Gumball sighed hugging the snake woman tightly to his chest planting kisses on her cheek. Penny giggled pulling the blue feline into a kiss.
"Jeez get a room already," Carrie grumbled rising from the table to leave the two lovebirds.
"G'night Carrie!" Penny yelled before pulling the blue feline into another deep kiss.
Carrie floated over two the orange feline plopping down on the couch next to him. Flame averted his eyes from the ghost, Carrie kept her eyes on the TV ignoring the orange felines existence completely.
"Flame is my real by the way," Flame began in his desperate attempt to break the uncomfortable silence.
"O.k," Carrie replied not sure what to say to that. Flame mentally face palmed sighing loudly. He picked up the remote switching to the SyFy channel.
"This is my favorite movie," said Flame as Elmore Horror Story began to play on the TV.
"Me...too," Carrie stared at the feline her charcoal eyes met his. The TV released a horrific scream earning the attention of the two. "So...twenty mil huh?...were do you suppose we're actually heading?"
Flame shrugged, "like Penny said we're all uncertain but Darwin and Luna had mentioned a big city similar to Elmore but apparently there's a lot of Blood Howler territory there," Carrie nodded glancing back at the TV.
"So former college student. What exactly were you thinkin' of studying?" Carrie sighed in response staring blankly at the TV.
"Well since you ask I guess I had applied to get a simply degree I wasn't exactly a star student, most of the teachers were just pervs and well my life was pretty shitty to be honest, I lived in a small apartment and barely had enough to get through so I guess this getting captured deal was sorta a blessing." Flame stared at the roof snapping his fingers as a bright green flame danced at the tip of his index finger.
"I call em Cursed Flames it's well the power I gained when I joined the gang," Carrie glanced at his shoulder a bright green snake shimmered as the cursed flame vanished, "so Carrie I guess this kind of makes us partners huh?" Flame chuckled.
"Partners?" Carrie asked.
"Well ya partners in crime," he chuckled remembering a song he had heard of the exact same thing.
"Very funny but I haven't robbed a bank yet you can't exactly call me a criminal just yet," she laughed.
"Yeah I guess not," Flame yawned rising from the couch. "I'm gonna hit the hay. The rooms are just in the hall," Flame began to walk off turning around "don't get lost," he joked, Carrie flipped him the bird. Flame clutched his chest in mock hurt disappearing into the halls.
Carrie laughed laying down on the couch flipping through more channels. Her eyes felt heavy as darkness began to close in on her. Then everything went black.
[...]
"Hey Carrie wake up," Carrie's eyes fluttered open as an aqua marine shirt and a black coat was thrown in her direction. She caught the clothing staring at it confusingly.
"What's wrong with my clothes?" She asked.
Penny sighed, "you have to wear the coat to hide your insignia, cops might not recognize us but they sure will recognize these," she explained gesturing towards the serpent on her shoulder. Gumball walked in wear a dark blue coat and a gray vest underneath. Darwin wore a dark brown coat which nearly hung at his feet. The orange goldfish put on a pair of steampunk goggles with green lenses shimmering in the sunlight.
Penny sighed throwing on her own coat over her pink T-shirt. Flame walked in wearing a light coat above his red T-shirt his onyx eyes shimmering as the rays of sun hit them.
"Where's the bathroom?" Penny pointed down the hall toward a white door at the very end. The ghost woman sighed floating toward the bathroom. Darwin noticed the slight silhouette of legs as the bathroom door closed.
"It's rude to stare," Luna chuckled, a blush spread across the orange goldfish's face as he averted his gaze from the bathroom door. Leaving the room all together. Luna sat on the couch flipping to a cooking channel. The black rabbit chuckled as she watched the chef slice through a lettuce. Gumball and Penny stared at the elderly rabbit. They honestly didn't see what she saw in those shows but then again they would never know the mysterious ways of the elderly.
Carrie exited the bathroom drying off her white hair. Her ghostly tail dripping with water. She sighed throwing on her black coat searching the pockets for warmth. She floated over to the fairy glancing at the black rabbit who continued to watch her show in peace.
"Why are we heading out?, Last time I checked I was a criminal."
"Well the people of Elmore might be different but they're still the people of Elmore you can trust me when I say they won't notice much unless they try," Penny chuckled.
"Shall we?" Gumball laughed opening the doors. Flame and Carrie exchanged looks before following the couple out the doors of the huge mansion.
[...]
Carrie's eyes darted back and forth nervously. They'd been walking for minutes and no one had tried to kill or arrest them, but she couldn't help but feel a sense of unease, this was way to close for comfort.
"Calm down, we do this all the time," Penny assured the ghost woman but it did little to help her growing anxiety.
"Hey! Stop right there!" The three outlaws froze in place as the donut cop approached them. Carrie froze as well, beads of sweat trickled down her forehead.
The donut cop took a long look at them and then at Carrie, the ghost woman flinched as the chiefs as went on her, he approached her looking her dead in the eye.
He's got us. He's got us the donut cop pulled out a handkerchief and handed it to the ghost woman.
"You guys should get some shade, your friend here is gonna die from heatstroke at this point," The cop gave Gumball a pat on the shoulder before walking off.
"What. The. Fuck, just happened?" asked Carrie, completely dumbfounded at what had just happened.
"I told you as long as our insignias aren't shown we're pretty much in the clear," said Penny.
"Unless someone actually with a brain tries," Gumball joked earning a punch from the fairy.
Carrie sighed with relief, everyone she had passed hadn't even given her a second glance, they just walked right pass her and the gang.
The three criminals turned into an alleyway. Carrie felt a sense of unease slip into her as she followed them in.
"Let us do the talking," said Gumball his voice suddenly stern, Carrie nodded and followed behind the outlaws.
Three figures emerged from the darkness, grinning like maniacs. They surrounded the four. A wolf with red eyes and white fur approached them, her eyes set on the blue feline who stepped forward. She extended a hand to shake, Gumball took it without hesitation.
"Good to see you're alive Watterson," the she-wolf chuckled. Blue sparks circled the cat's tail. The wolves surrounding them began to growl, ready to pounce at any second.
"Likewise Kara," the lightning stopped vanishing into thin air.
Kara chuckled parting from the handshake, "do you have what was requested?" Gumball nodded and threw a brown paper bag at the white she-wolf. Kara caught it without trouble opening the bag in one swift movement.
She chuckled and closed the bag snapping her fingers. A wolf wearing a white sweater and black jeans approached the she-wolf bowing before her, Kara handed the wolf the bag. He nodded scampering back into the pack.
"Is that all?" asked Kara. Gumball nodded, Kara frowned and snapped her fingers all the wolves began to growl ferociously. "It's quite sad since I heard you actually had twenty million. Ten thousand just won't do,"
The first wolf sprung forward being thrown back by a blast of blue electricity, Penny shapeshifted taking her dragon form. Her yellow scales becoming orange as they reached her tail, emerald eyes glared at the pack below her and strong dragon wings sprung to their full length.
"Attack!" Kara commanded, the wolves obeyed springing forward. Penny swatted them away with her tail but more began to close in on the team.
Flame's eyes became crimson as Gumball's became dark blue. Both felines summoned their own attacks of blue lightning and cursed fire.
Gumball charged a ball of electrical energy blasting a pack of wolves away. Flame growled summoning his cursed flames to rain down on the wolves. The pack whimpered rolling on the ground in a desperate attempt to extinguish the flames. Carrie gagged as she took in the horrible smell of burning flesh watching in fear as the wolves wear burnt to a crisp.
A wolf sprung for the ghost woman his eyes filled with murderous intent. Carrie brought her hands up to block the sharp teeth of the wolf, a shadow spouted just below the wolf impaling the canine. Carrie's eyes widened as the wolfs blood spilled on her coat. She gagged throwing up as she stared into the canines dead eyes. She glanced down at her hands shadows licked her arms enveloping her in darkness.
Flame glanced over his shoulder. Carrie was on her knees staring horrified at her hands. Flame ran to her rescue burning an of the wolves that tried to attack her or him.
"There's to many," Penny growled setting another pack on fire.
"We have to get out of here!" said Gumball, he cupped his hand together a ball of blue electrical energy began to form growing in size as he slowly parted them.
Penny reverted to her original form running towards the orange feline and the ghost. "We have to get out of here," said Penny. Flame nodded scooping up the ghost woman despite her resistance. The three ran out the alley, Gumball leaped out the alley blasting a beam of electricity inside.
Gumball caught up with his gang mates, his phone ringing just in time.
"What's up?"
"Gumball head to the west side of New Elmore we'll meet up with you guys,"
"Alright Darwin,"
"Careful bro,"
"You too,"
Click!
"Guys were west Elmore now!" Gumball yelled. The team nodded as the sirens began to close in on them.
"Cops!" Penny exclaimed, ducking to dodge a bullet. Flame growled as a bullet grazed his shoulder he clutched Carrie close to his chest. The ghost woman just stayed there staring at her hands, still in a state of shock.
"I-I killed-so..I killed someone," she murmured.
"You had to. It was self defense," Penny reassured the ghost.
"It was you or him," said Gumball barely dodging a bullet.
"Elmore Police Deparment!" The chief yelled from his car zooming after the three.
"Shit!" Flame growled, Gumball and Penny exchanged look before Penny nodded. Penny took her dragon form gesturing for them to hop on her back. They obeyed and hopped unto her back as she soared into the sky, bullets ricocheted off her scales, she huffed beads of sweated dropped falling to the ground below them.
"Keep going Penny," Gumball urged. Penny huffed steam disappeared into the air. Her eyes lids began to feel heavy just below her emerald eyes locked on to the orange goldfish beckoning them to come down.
Penny descended reverting to her normal form as everything went black. Gumball caught his lover in his arms. Blue lightning coated his body again has he made a soft descent. Flame landed on the jet quickly hopping off the air transportation.
"You found a place already?" asked Gumball. Darwin nodded quite proud of himself.
"It's a place slightly out of the governments reach, the only problem is, it's still in Elmore and it's got a wide range of territory from Soul Eaters to Blood Howlers," Darwin explained. The others simply nodded understanding full well the risk of living there. Darwin sighed, "with all that explained," he snapped his fingers as the jet became invisible. He lowered his goggles guiding his gang mates into the invisible jet.
"Okay guys next stop. Old Elmore," the team glanced at the goldfish in confusion, why would he bring them back to the old town?.
Carrie clutched Flame's red T-shirt tightly. Flame stared into the ghost woman's eyes, filled with horror, he knew what she felt.
Because he was once like her. They all were.
and with that I leave you guys on a cliff hanger Mwahhahahahah! Do I sound evil?...no? Really? Meh. Anyway as you all probably know this is the time to submit your OCs so here's the form
Name:
Age(has to be over 20)
Appearance:
Species:
Clothes:
Personality:
Gang: (the four explained in the chapter)
Power:
Backstory(optional)
now there's only one rule here and that's the Cold Serpent Gang can only have 2 more recruits since I have actually decided on who I wanted to go here
