~Title: Tribulations in the Tribeworld
~Author: Happydapy (Savannah Larsen)
~Disclaimer: The idea of the virus and the tribe are not mine. neither are the characters Kyle, Mara, and Miram
~Rating: nothing more then PG-13
~ Thanks to my friends for reading this story and for everyone else who reads it as well.
"LET ME go!" Galaxy screamed.
Kyle ignored her. He fixed her some food and forced her to eat it. After he fed her he tied her arms behind her back and forced her out of the house.
He went down the street and turned down College Street. As they were making their way down the street he saw a group of people who had soot and ash on them.
Galaxy recognized them.
"Genesis, Orpheus help. It's me Galaxy!"
The two young men turned and looked. They saw it was Galaxy. They looked at each other and nodded.
Genesis kissed Moonshine and put her gently on the ground. They started running towards the person who had Galaxy and tackled him.
They brought him down but Galaxy went down also. She hit her head and was knocked out. While Genesis was pinning down the captor, Orpheus went over to Galaxy and untied her.
He took the ropes and tied up the captor. Orpheus then walked over to Galaxy and picked her up.
Genesis lead the captor over to Willow and she took hold of the ropes. Genesis picked up Moonshine and the whole group proceeded on their journey.
When they got to the church they saw that it was huge. Genesis and Orpheus gently put down the people they were carrying and each got a pistol.
They went through the church searching for anyone in there. There was no one in the church. They came back out and told the group. The whole group entered the church. It was very late and they were tired and they just slept on the floor that night.
Before Willow went to bed she took some chains from her back pack. She had found thon them on the side of the road and thought that they might be useful. She took the chains and chained Galaxy's former captor to a pew. She started talking to him.
"What's your name?"
"Kyle"
"Why did you take Galaxy from us?"
"None of your business."
"Fine. It will be our business tomorrow if we decide to put you in a cage." With that she walked away from him and went to bed.
The next morning when Genesis woke up he went straight over to Moonshine. Instead of thinking of Moonshine he started to think of Elsbeth. And for the next half hour he couldn't get her out of his head.
Snap out of it. She is dead and is not coming back. You love someone who is alive and is right in front of you.
He started crying. He walked away and went exploring. He found a small room behind the altar. It had all kinds of candles and the crucifix behind them. He sat down and started praying. When he was done he started to talk to himself.
"You love her Genesis. You love Moonshine, now what are you going to do about it?
While Genesis was praying Moonshine stirred and became conscious. She got up and walked around and then heard Genesis talking to himself about her.
He loves me. Me? Why would he love me? This was the same boy who was telling people in his biology class he wouldn't even go to homecoming with me. No No that can't be right. No I overheard him wrong. Yeah that's it. No you have impeccable eavesdropping skills. You know what he said.
She turned around and ran. She tripped and fell but got up and ran out the door. She didn't know where she was. She remembered falling in the church while it was burning. When she was outside she turned around and looked at the church. She read the sign out loud.
"The Calvary United Methodist Church."
"I'm on the other side of town. They carried me all the way across town."
Genesis heard the thud Moonshine made when she fell and looked behind him. He saw Moonshine running away from him. He got up and followed but he felt like something was telling him not to follow her until she had some time to think. So instead he went over to Galaxy's captor. He saw that someone had chained her up. Genesis felt his anger rise. He felt enraged. He decided that he was too angry to talk to that guy and went to wake everyone up. Galaxy was still unconscious. He informed everyone that Moonshine had woken up and taken a walk. He hadn't deemed it necessary to tell them why she had taken a walk. That was personal.
"I'll go get her and we can inform her of what has happened since she became unconscious."
He went outside and went looked for her. He had gone halfway around the church when he found her sitting on the ground rocking back and forth sobbing. He sat down beside her and put his arm around her. She shook it off. He asked her what was wrong even though he knew.
"Iheardou."
"You have to calm down I can't understand you," he interrupted her.
She was silent for awhile and then started talking again.
"When I woke up, I looked around and didn't realize where I was. I got up and started looking. I saw you and I walked close enough to hear you talking to yourself. You said you loved me. Why would you love me. I mean its me, Moonshine. You were the one who told your whole bio class you wouldn't go to homecoming with me. Do you know how much that hurt. I cried Goddamnit. I cried for like an hour when I got home that day. I know that was from high school but still, only someone crazy would love me. I am a horrible person, I am so ugly and mean, I don't deserve you."
She started sobbing again. He wasn't sure how to respond to that so he said nothing for awhile. Then he started to speak.
"Moonshine I love you because you stand up for yourself. I love you because you help people. You care what happens in the world. I love you because of your quirks and your pet peves and how you look when you're angry. I love you because you're you."
"Screw you just get the hell away from me." She got up and started to walk off.
"Moonshine wait. Why are you so angry all of a sudden?"
"Just leave me alone"
"No I won't why are you so hostile?"
"Fine you want to know I'll tell you. Just you better not tell anyone"
Moonshine proceeded to tell Genesis why she was so hostile towards him. It was the fact that she was so scared of getting hurt and also didn't want to engage into a relationship with the guy who had relations with one of her friends. She also knew that once she got into the relationship that she might loose control in her life and give into anything Genesis wanted. So to prevent all of this she tried to drive him away. Once she told him all of this he simply put his arms around her and said he would never take advantage of her. Then he kissed her. When he stopped she looked into his eyes and told him that she loved him.
"I love you too."
"We should go inside."
"Okay"
They headed inside.
