Lily POV
Sleeping in the new house was weird, when I woke up I got started on beds for this house and more lights. After building two beds and putting lights in two rooms I went to see the others, they have cleaned up the other new house and are moving Arika in to it, I jogged over and helped with the little stuff she has.
"so how was the house", Alex asked
"awesome, so I was thinking I'll take the older kids, Aria takes the younger one and the original house is for us and maybe some friends", I said
"good idea, I had the same one, we made signs", Grayson said, and Angel handed me one that says "the oldies" and has a record player and put a sign that says, "Newsies" and has a hat and music notes on it.
"what about ours", I asked
"VIP", he said and showed me the sign.
"cool, we should get ready though Kelli could send them any minute", Angel said, and we sat on the VIP hill/house.
"why dose the air burn", Aria asked after a few minutes
"I don't know", I said, "might have something to do with the red dust"
"I guess", she sighed
"WERE HERE", someone yelled, and we looked up to see Kelli and some kids.
"hi Kelli", Angel said as if they are friends
"shut up girl"
"okay", Angel said, "older than 11 raise your hands", more than half did, "follow Lily, everyone else follow Aria"
We took our groups to the houses.
"so, where are we", a girl who is about 14 asked
"…not sure, my friends call it hell", I said, and we walked in to the house
"names than pick a room"
"Amy", said the girl who talked to me earlier
"Kaden"
"Callie"
"Mason"
"Felix"
"Jasmine"
"Zee"
"nice to meet you all", I said and we all picked rooms me going to mine. I walked back out.
"I learn from experience, be up by 7 or Kelli will kill you", I said, and we went to bed.
Fay POV
Aria and Lily are so nice, though the others are a little…scary. Angelica doesn't seem to talk, Gray glares at everyone who looks at her funny and Alex only has one hand, the other is meatal.
I woke up early and got dressed, I walked out in to the hall and Kelli walked past me, she opened some boy's door and smiled, when walked in and I heard screams, I tried to go in but Aria held me back shaking her head.
"what happened", I asked
She shrugged, "it's 7"
"oh", I said understanding
"well off to work, Alex is in charge", she said, and I went outside, the older kids and the ones who stay in the other house are outside, Angelica is…speaking.
"YOU WILL NOT EANTER THAT HOUSE AGAIN IF YOU ARE NOT INVITED", she yelled at an older boy.
"yes mam", he said
"good, now, I need all the girls over here, boys over there, younger kids with the girls", she said, we did as we were told.
Alex handed her a clip board, she frowned, "that's a lot but whatever, do any of you do meatal work", Two older girls two older boys and a younger boy raised their hands.
"little boy, Blondie, and Green hair", Alex said, "follow me", they walked towards a small building.
"okay, architecture", she asked, two younger kids raised their hands and a older boy.
"okay three of you with me", Lily said.
"combat?", three boys faired their hands and a girl, "okay what type"
"martial arts"
"fencing"
"battle"
"martial arts"
"okay…I need martial arts girl and Battle boy in the arena, you will teach the younger kids", she said
"everyone under 11 follow them", we did as we were told, and we ended up in a large room with high walls and no roof.
"wow, this place is huge", Battle boy said, "I'm Kaden"
"I'm Callie", said the girl.
"so…I'll take you four first", he pointed to me and three other kids, we joined him and got started.
Angelica POV
The new kids are so annoying, I have three of them and were building beds for the new houses. I walked over to a guy who is doing it wrong to help him and he said he knows what he's doing and to back off, I told him he must sleep on it.
I had finished about four beds when Kelli walked in, she looked around and spotted the kid building bed wrong.
"what on earth are you doing", she sneered
"building a bed", he said like it's obvious.
"are you stupid that's not how you do it didn't Angelica teach you", she asked
He looked nervous, "y-no", he deadpanned, she turned to me, and being the sane person, I am I ran, I made it to Alex and hid behind him.
"what's up", he asked
"some stupid older kid told Kelli I didn't teach them how to build a bed", I said.
"okay", he shrugged but then Kelli walked up and grabbed me, she pulled out a knife and grabbed my arm and stabbed me in the leg.
I winced and stayed standing, she glared, "no running girl"
I smiled, "yes mam", I walked to the VIP house to wrap my leg. I got out the bandages made from old shirts and tied it around my leg before putting on different leggings. I tested my leg, it hurts but I've had worse, I put my had on my ribs.
I walked back to my group and got to work, I built five more beds before sun down and we went to our houses. Once I got inside Gray and Alex rushed to me.
"are you okay", Gray asked
"how deep is it", Alex asked
"guys, I'll be fine, I heal fast", I said and hugged both, "you're the best"
We went to bed and woke up to screams from the older kid's house, we got up to make sure Lily is okay.
We opened the door and a girl is yelling at Kelli , we rushed forward and held her back, I looked around and my heart broke Lily, and two others are dead on the floor.
"what happened", Alex demanded.
"Mike was killed by her and Floyd was trying to attack her while Lily held him back he got md and shoved her off of him and she fell on a spike that someone's broken bed, so Kelli killed him", she said but it sounded like I was under water or in a different room.
"why", I croaked, "why does this always happen"
Gray looked at me tears coming from his eyes, he sat down apparently, I unconsciously did so at some point.
He hugged me and sobbed, I tried to hold it in, but I couldn't, I sobbed with him, eventually Alex helped us back to our house and we sat in Lily's room for what felt like forever.
"I'm sorry", I whispered
"what, why", he asked
"I-if I did what Cronos wanted maybe this wouldn't have happened"
"don't say that, this is the monsters fault", he hugged me, but I knew the truth, I am a monster for what I've done, I was selfish and now so many of my friends are dead.
(three years later)
I laughed at Gray's joke, I long since learned how to hide my pain from others.
"let's play truth or dare", de-de a new girl to our gang said
"what is that", I asked
"you don't know", Mason looked shocked
"I'm not surprised, she was young when she got here", Gray said, I frowned, the good days when all my friends were alive, only Gray and I are left from the original two groups.
"Angel, breath", Gray instructed I realized I stopped and took in a deep breath before laughing.
"sorry I spaced", I said smiling, "so how do you play"
"well you ask someone Truth or dare, if they pick Dare you tell them to do something and they have to do it, if they pick truth you ask them something and they have to tell you", Kira explained
"okay cool", I said, "so Mason…truth or dare"
"dare"
"go poke Liam until he says stop, he's in his room sulking", I said
"alright", he came back five minutes later, "he punched me in the gut"
"Gray, truth or dare", he asked
"truth", he said
"who was your first kiss", I blushed but you couldn't really tell in the dim light
"um…it was actually Angel"
"WHAT", they exclaimed
"wow", Kira said
"shut up", I complained
"when, where, why", Lizzy asked
"we were 12, on top of the VIP house, and because she's pretty", Gray said fast, "Kira truth or dare"
"dare"
"easy…kiss Mason", he said
She was about to when we heard a scream, I sighed, and we went outside and saw Kelli WIPING a 10-year-old boy.
"WHAT THE HELL", I ran between them while my friends yelled at me not to.
"what is this Kelli", I spat her name
"new punishment, Cronos came up with it", she said cheerfully.
I smiled and slapped her, she screamed in out rage and wiped me, on my chest, I was screaming on the inside, but I stood tall.
"what did he do", I asked, everyone was outside by now watching, holding their breath.
"he told his friend I'm an evil witch and they should kill me", she said
"oh, guess what Kelli you are an evil witch and if I could kill you I would", I growled, people gasped.
Kelli shrieked and whipped me again, I turned this time and it hit my back, I saw my friends looking terrified and remembered they don't know she's not allowed to kill me, I felt the mark on my chest healing already, I smiled and kicked her in the face knocking her down.
"THAT'S IT, CRONOS NOW", I went pale remembering the last time I went he broke both of my legs and stabbed me in the arm, 7 times.
"please no", I said quietly
"not so brave now are you", she smirked
"ah, the difference between brave and suicidal, besides I only did that to protect him", I said nodding to the place where the little boy was.
She growled and grabbed my arm half dragging me to Cronos, we walked the WHOLE way there it was like 2 miles, we walked in to the cave thing and she told him what I did.
"Angelica", he said as if scolding a small child who stole a cookie.
"yes", I said softly
"I promise I will stop if you simply let me teach you to use your powers", he said sincerely
"s-swear on Styx", I said
"I swear on Styx I will stop if you do", thunder boomed.
"okay, I'll do it", I said
"goodie", he cheered
I frowned, "so…what do I do"
"you will be staying here until we are done", he declared, and my eyes went wide.
"why", I asked
"because it will help you, now first"
(Mason POV)
It's been a week since Kelli took Angel, Gray is a mess.
We walked in the house and found him sitting in one of the off-limits rooms crying.
"what are you doing in here man", I asked looking around, there are black cloths on the bed like we wore before it was changed to squad colors.
"you c-can't come in", he said, "Angel would be upset"
"what about you", I asked
"I'm allowed VIP members only", he sniffled
"okay, I'll be at the arena if you need to talk or something", I aid and walked to the arena to meet up with Liz.
"what's up", she said looking at my face
"Gray was crying in one of the off-limits rooms", I said
"wired", she shrugged and grabbed a practice sword, we fought until we could barely stand, and we went back to our house, we went in our rooms to sleep.