Lazuli woke up rather suddenly, after feeling something hit her in the back of the head. "What the.." She stood up, and turned around.
Lapis was standing there with a slingshot and a bunch of water balloons, his classic devious smirk on his face. "Lapis! I'm gonna kill you for that." Lazuli huffed.
"Come on, we need to go before the manager comes to open the store." Lapis didn't reply to her comment, just put the slingshot in his pocket and picked up the bucket of water balloons.
"Why the hell are you bringing that with us?" Lazuli asked. Lapis shrugged. "Who knows, we might need them at a later time." He walked out the door.
Lazuli rolled her eyes, and followed him out. "Lapis, isn't that going to get too heavy for you to carry?" She caught up with her twin, looking at him. "If it does, I'll make you carry it." He replied, smirking.
"Oh no you won't!" She glared at him. "You brought it, you carry it."
Lapis huffed and tossed a water balloon at her, and then continued walking. She muttered something under her breath, lagging just behind him. She had temporarily forgotten about the wound in her arm, but now she couldn't help but notice it as it was stinging like crazy.
She sighed, and untied the bandage that Lapis had tied around it. The bleeding had stopped, but the wound was quite deep and would probably leave a scar.
She looked up, and notice Lapis had climbed on top of a building using a ladder, and was tossing water balloons at random people passing by on the side walk.
She followed her brother up, and sat down next to him. "Do you want to draw attention to us? Someone's bound to recognize us and alert the authorities." She glared at him as she spoke.
"I don't care about a bunch of stupid police officers." Lapis replied, smirking. "I can deal with them easily." He tossed a water balloon, and then quickly shot it with his gun. He put the gun back in his belt, and then looked at Lazuli.
Lazuli rolled her eyes. "Sure you can." She looked back down at the city, watching different couples pass by with their children. She remembered a time when she was those children.
She quickly shook the depressing thoughts out of her mind, sighing. She had other things to worry about.
Like, for one, how she was ever going to get the bullet out of the wound in her arm. She hadn't really thought about it until now, but now that was starting to get to her.
She started to ask Lapis about it, but decided not to. He tended to have crazy ideas. "I'll just figure it out myself." She muttered, only loud enough for herself to hear.
Her twin was still tossing water balloons at the people on the street, snickering his head off. "Having fun?" She asked him, sounding quite annoyed.
"Yup." He replied, not even looking at her. His smirk got even bigger. She just scoffed, and stood up. She walked to the other end of the building, looking out across what seemed to be an open, empty field.
Well, not quite empty. There were cows scattered out across the field- At closer examination, she noticed that there was an electric fence around the cow pasture.
And the gate was actually right below her. "Hm." She jumped down, examining the gate. "Weird, it's unlocked." She opened the gate.
She realized walking into a huge field full of cows by herself probably wasn't a good idea, but she did it anyway. She was slightly interested as to why the gate was unlocked.
She noticed a trampled farmer's hat laying in the grass. She picked it up, looking over it a couple of times, before setting it back down.
"That's strange..." She kept walking, until she started noticing what looked like torn clothes with traces of blood laying in the grass.
She had a really bad feeling about this. But still, she kept walking. She would have gone back by now, but something was pulling her on.
After awhile, she found a person laying in the grass, apparently trampled by the cows. She gasped, and jumped back, falling into the grass. "Oh dear God..." She whispered.
She stared for a minute, before looking up at the cows- They were all still peacefully grazing. She looked back down at the trampled farmer, unsure what to do.
"Lapis!" She called back to her brother, although she knew good and well he couldn't hear her from that distance. She sighed, and looked at the farmer again. He was dead, she knew that much.
She got up, and slowly took a few more steps closer. The closer she got the more she realized how mutilated the farmer was.
"He must have been dragged all the way here..." She whispered, blue eyes wide. She realized she didn't want to get any closer, and stopped.
She heard a noise, and looked up- The cows were coming closer. For that moment, they were moving at a normal speed, but Lazuli still freaked out. "Ah!" She screamed, and started running.
And that, of course, made the cows start running. She ran faster, until she was safely out the gate. She slammed the gate shut, and then climbed up on top of the building with her brother again.
"You look shaken up, what happened?" Lapis glanced at her. "There's a cow pasture behind us, the gate was unlocked so I went in. I- I found a farmer, trampled and mutilated.." She whispered.
Lapis blinked, staring at her. "Man, the cows must have been mad." He commented. "Yeah, no kidding." She glanced back, only to see the cows breaking out of the cow pasture and into the city.
"Oh, god." She stared. "That could be a problem." She watched, as the cows rampaged the city.
People ran for shelter, some were trampled by the cows trying to get there. "This is more interesting than hitting people with water balloons!" Lapis smirked.
Lazuli hit him over the hit with her hand, glaring at him. "Ow.." He whispered. The cows continued trampling people in the city, while others ducked into buildings.
Lazuli stared down at the city, absolutely horrified by the scene taking place below. Lapis, however, seemed to be enjoying it.
That worried Lazuli. A lot. She was starting to wonder if he was going to become a serial killer in the very near future. She certainly hoped not.
"Lapis... This is awful. And it's partially my fault for leading the cows to the gate." She whispered, just loud enough for her brother to hear.
"Are you kidding? This is like watching a movie!" Lapis grinned. "Too bad I didn't steal a camera."
She hit her brother over the head with her hand, again. Much harder this time. "Lapis! How could you say that!? People are being killed. Children even." She looked back at the city.
Lapis stayed silent after that, but still kept his eyes glued on the city. Before long the rampaging cows had vanished into the distance, somewhere else in the city.
"Come on, Lapis, we need to see what those cows did to the place!" Lazuli climbed down from the building onto the street, gazing around.
People laid trampled in the street, and others were just beginning to emerge from houses. Lapis followed his sister down, staying just behind her.
"Oh my god.." Lazuli whispered. Now she truly understood what had happened to the farmer she'd found trampled in the cow pasture.
"I knew those cows were trouble when that farmer first brought them here!" An old man yelled from somewhere further down the street.
"Agreed!" Someone else shouted. "Nobody's seen the farmer for days! People've been speculating he was murdered by rioters!" Someone else shouted.
"Actually.." Lazuli started.
"I found him in the cow pasture, he was trampled by the cows. It's partially my fault the cows got loose, I wandered into the cow pasture and they chased me back to the gate." She admitted. "So much for not drawing attention to ourselves.." Lapis appeared next to her.
She didn't reply, just watched as people gathered around them. "Hey!" A young woman stepped out, she looked to be a few years older than Lapis and Lazuli.
"Are you those two rebel kids that ran away from home? The ones I've been hearing about?" The woman pointed out. Lapis put a hand on his gun.
"Don't you dare, don't you think you've caused us enough trouble already?" Lazuli gave him a dangerous glare. Lapis huffed, crossing his arms. "Fine."
"Yeah, that's us." Lazuli admitted, turning towards the woman. Lapis started to say something, but he quickly shut up after Lazuli glared at him again.
"My name is Lazuli, this is my twin brother Lapis." She motioned towards the boy as she spoke. "We didn't mean to cause so much trouble, things got out of hand rather quickly." She explained.
It was the truth too, she hadn't wanted all of this from the start. Hell, she hadn't even wanted to leave home, but her brother had dragged her a long.
"I understand, but you realize you're going to be in a lot of trouble for all you've done." The woman who had pointed them out replied.
"You will probably get punished harsher than your sister," The woman turned towards Lapis. "Because from what I've heard you were the instigator."
Lapis just huffed. As if on que, police officer pushed through the crowd and surrounded the two teenagers, arresting them.
"Alright, come on." One of the officers had to practically drag Lapis, while Lazuli came willingly. She sat down in the back of the police car, sighing.
Her brother had to be pushed in, and that action caused him to slam into Lazuli. She scooted to the side and looked out the window, at the rather destroyed looking town.
She was really feeling bad about what she'd done. She glanced at Lapis, who looked very annoyed to say the least. She had a feeling he didn't regret what he'd done at all.
Her twin had become quite the rebel since they'd ran away. Lazuli was worried about him, worried about what was going to become of him due to the fact he had been the instigator for most of what had happened to the two of them.
What the two of them didn't know, was that the worst was yet to come..
