Bella
Bella didn't pack that much. She was planning on leaving in a small ship because it had less bugs, but a small ship meant very limited storing space. Everything that she took with her was something of need. She had never had an object of value, or something that she cared about. She did, however, want to go to the one place that meant something to her.
Bella was a doctor. Maybe not an experienced one, but the skills that she did have might come in handy while she was finding her sister. Her sister. She had never in her life dared to think that there may be someone else to run away for apart from her mother, but she had basically one goal in life; find any family or friends that still care about her, bring them together, protect them from this crazy war. She was going to find her sister at all costs.
She made her way over to the hospital. It was a glistening pearly white that rippled like water when there was light, and was very large, with all the medical toys inside that you could want. Bella slid her card down next to the doors, and was able to enter after a quick eye scan.
She took anything that would be of need, but not enough to cause suspicion. But soon she found that she was not alone. Whoever had been there had not bothered to hide that they had gotten in late at night.
She shone a flashlight beam down the walls. "Who's there?" she asked.
"Bella?"
She recognized that voice. "Jake?"
He stepped out of the shadows and into her beam of light, grinning at her.
"You nearly had me raising the alarm," he said.
"Well, that wouldn't of helped either of us," she smiled, glad to see an old friend.
He suddenly turned utterly serious. "Where are you going?" he asked. "Finding your long-lost mother or something?"
"No." she answered. "Long-lost sister, actually." Jake was the only one who knew about her wish to find her mother. They normally didn't talk about it out loud.
"I'm coming with you," said Jake.
"No you're not," Bella argued.
"I insist."
Bella glared at him, but when he says that he insists, he means it. "Fine," she says, giving in, "But don't expect me to be happy about it."
"Great. Tonight, is it?"
"Yes, I'll lead you to the ship. Any idea how to fly one?" He shook his head. "Good job I do." He grinned at that.
Bella picked off all the bugs, and tweaked it so that it wouldn't give off light or be as loud as normal. She had been planning to run away for a while, now. She knew what she was doing.
She had tidied the hospital and hoped that they wouldn't notice that two doctors were missing and some of their tools, to.
When they were ready, Bella finally allowed herself to relax. She set her feet up on top of a bag of medical equipment and let out a relieved sigh. She was finally going to turn the tables and straighten out her messy life. She set the ship on autopilot, and got ready for a nap.
Jake poked his head out from behind. "What should I do with the stuff that I brought?"
Bella took one look at his bag of junk and gave him a slap across his face that left a red mark.
"What in stars was that for?" asked Jake, cupping a hand around his cheek.
Bella glared at him. He knew what great efforts she'd made to make this escape. He was going to mess the whole thing up and he knew it.
"Just put your junk in the ship, get in, and don't disturb my beauty sleep because you know how horrible I am to be around when I'm when I'm tired!"
The ship rose up, and just like that, Bella's life had changed forever. She was on her way to Earth to find her long-lost twin sister. Yay.
Cinder
Cinder was walking back to her room, when Iko comes running up to her.
"EEEE!" she screeched.
"Wow, Iko, calm down!"
Iko scooped Cinder up into a hug.
"Kai's coming back! Kai's coming back!" she yelled. What? Cinder thought. Kai? Back here?
"What do you mean, Iko?"
"Kai just made an announcement and he said that he was coming back with us to help us on our search for Levana and he cleared everything up so nobody thinks we are bad guys anymore! We can go down to Earth and pick him up tomorrow!"
"What? Really? You mean it?" asked Cinder
"Yes!" she was literally jumping up and down.
Cinder felt all these different emotions boiling up inside her. Kai wanted to see her again! And she really wanted to see him again, to.
Iko suddenly turned deadly serious. "We've got to get you ready."
"What?"
Iko rolled her eyes. "You can't go to the Commonwealth like that," she exclaimed, gesturing at her grease stained cargo pants, tank top and her bedhead.
Cinder laughed. "Stop freaking out, Iko. You said it was tomorrow."
Iko shook her head. "We need to find the right look for you," she said, and before Cinder could process what was happening, she was being dragged into Iko's room.
Iko shut the door behind them and dragged Cinder into her closet. "You'll thank me for this later," she said.
"No I won't!" Cinder was desperately trying to get out of this nightmarish closet with ball gowns and tiaras covered with sparkles. Ugh!
Iko was standing in front of a huge blue gown that Cinder decided she absolutely despised.
She took it and laid it carefully on the bed, then stopped at a pair of heels that Cinder swore were crystal clear and really uncomfortable looking.
Cinder tripped over a tiara and cursed, her cyborg foot breaking an expensive looking necklace.
"Where did you even get this stuff?"
Iko didn't answer, just looked at Cinder with pleading eyes. "Come on, Cinder. Just try on one outfit and then I'll leave you alone. Please."
Cinder thought about it. One outfit. One outfit. She stared at the things that Iko had picked out distastefully. One outfit. "Fine."
Iko squealed in delight and started dressing Cinder. When she was finally satisfied with Cinder's one outfit, she squealed and guided Cinder over to the mirror, but Cinder never got to see what she looked like because just then something large hit the Rampion. "Woooow!" Cinder cried as she completely lost her balance on her high heels and toppled onto the ground, ripping her dress with the stupid shoes.
"Cinder!" was the last thing she heard before the ship was completely tilted on it's side and everything went black.
Marina
Once they recovered from their shock, Marina and Rose went to go look for supplies, civilization, and to try to find out where in stars they were, but mostly, Marina wanted to go exploring, however,it had been a while since she'd been to Earth, and she wasn't quite sure where she was. She wanted to make sure that wherever they were was a safe place to venture around. She may be crazy, mad even,but she was definitely not stupid.
Rose was plucking some berries from a nearby bush. "Maybe we can eat these," she said. Marina shrugged in response, not really taking notice to what she was saying. She could be such a pain sometimes! So clueless, so delicate, and yet there was something about her that made her likable. She hated it!
Rose plopped one in her mouth, and made a disgusted face. Marina laughed. "Those nice berries?" She asked, sarcasm clear in her voice. Rose just kept eating more. "Better than starving to death," she said, and she had a point, but Marina had lost her appetite after all the summersaults her stomach did during their crash-landing, and it took a lot to give Marina an empty stomach.
She turned away again, and heard a noise as if something had fallen on the ground. "Rose?" she asked, spinning toward where the noise had come from. "Rose!" she gasped. Her form was laying on the ground before Marina's eyes, stiff and unmoving.
Marina wasn't quite sure how she felt. She could ditch the girl right now if she wanted to, it would save her time energy, but she didn't want to as much as she should-or normally did. Whether she cared to admit it or not, she actually liked Rose. Only few in the world-or Luna-could say that, and it almost never lasted.
She looked around, and this time her main priority was civilization, not adventure. Anyone that could help would be welcome, not killed, which was unusual.
However, as much as she looked, all she saw were more trees. They had crash landed in a forest of some sort. Their ship, however, had found the one large space of land unoccupied by the wild.
After a while, she finally decided to head back to their stolen aircraft, dragging Rose behind her by one wrist, and very possibly ripping her arm out of her socket. Well, she wasn't exactly in good health anyway! Maybe she was better off being ditched than having Marina saving her. Too late! She hadn't dragged her over here for nothing, she was either going to make her condition worse, or better, but she wasn't leaving her now.
When they finally made it back, Marina let go of Rose's wrist and groggily walked to the other side of the ship, ready to flop down on the side and fall asleep. She was exhausted. Their journey so far had been far more complicated than it had to be. She lay down in the mud, making the clothes that they had provided her with at the prison wet and dirty, and was comforted in a weird way. Earth. They made it. Marina was back where she wanted to be, instead of where she was supposed to be. She closed her eyes and waited for sleep earlier than normal. She did not wait for the stars as usual. She wanted to see her first stars back on Earth with Rose. Sure, you could see them from Luna to, but somehow they seemed softer on Earth, whereas on Luna they seemed too sharp, too beautiful. Creully beautiful. Here they were more bearable.
Her eyes flashed open as she realized that she had left Rose on the other side of the ship. Then she saw it. Smoke rising up from a great distance. Only a couple wisps of it, but smoke none the less, and smoke meant people, which meant possibly getting Rose fixed.
Carrying Rose the whole way, she made it there by...well, she didn't really know, but the burning heat and light was replaced by near pitch black darkness and a cold that made her teeth chatter, so it was definitely late.
Marina walked through the darkness, and eventually found the source of the smoke. It was a small hut, more of a cottage, really, with a thin, silent river flowing not far behind it, and it smelled really bad, like rotten fish.