Over the past few days Deathly found herself getting more and more stressed. She felt like a coil getting wound tighter and tighter until she would suddenly explode.
It had been a few days since the gang of Killjoys had moved into her cave and if you were to say things were going well . . . would mean you were completely WRONG!
Within the first day they had already scratched one of her favourite cars, knocked over her collection of neon paint and caused a line of her prised motorbikes to fall over like a line of dominoes (Ghoul had been lucky to escape Deathly that day).
Deathly sighed again as she heard a loud crash from the other room as Jet and Ghouls voices began to rise steadily. She was about to grab her ray gun to go shut them up but Party's voice rung out silencing the childish pair.
Again Deathly sighed and fell back on her hammock. Party has been her saving grace these past few days. The redhead was good at solving the stupid fights between his fellow Killjoys and always tried to keep them under control when they were about to destroy Deathly's stuff.
She had taken to staying in her small room instead of working on her cars out in the main room. She wasn't used to other people being around her 24/7 and she found it very annoying and intrusive.
Bing locked inside her cave for days on end wasn't helping her temper. She was suffering from sever cabin fever. She looked at the rocky sealing and cursed Dr. D for the 19th time that morning.
Party was stressed, not from anger or irritation but from the worry of watching the female killjoy's condition deteriorate so rapidly. It's not like he couldn't understand what she was going through. He had met a lot of Killjoys in his time in the zones and most of them did not like people destroying their things or intruding on their places. Deathly obviously wasn't used to having people around her and for a recluse like her to have to deal with 5 mad people like themselves was a lot to ask.
She had now taken to staying away from them and hiding out in her room, which they had learnt very early on, was OFF-LIMITS! Of cause Ghoul had been the unlucky one that had to figure that out the hard way. He grimaced at the memory and looked at the two blackened holes on the wall across from the small opening.
She occasionally came out to make sure nothing was too badly damaged every time someone had a fight. Jet was currently trying to strangle Ghoul as they rolled along the sandy floor. Party rolled his eyes and went to sit by G-Force, who was cleaning her NEW and STATE OF THE ART ray gun (Deathly really did hate them). He too pulled out his ray gun and began to clean it when there was a loud intake of breath from the other side of the cave followed by a sickening crash and silence.
Party shot to his feet and to his horror saw not just a motorbike, but Deathly's favourite motorbike, lying on its side with Ghoul and Jet looking at it with wide eyes.
"What was that!?" Deathly's voice rung out in the silent cave, filling the Killjoys with panic. When no one replied and just continued to stare at each other in shock Deathly got suspicious.
The Killjoys could hear her making her way out of her cave room and into the larger. The commotion had had woken Kobra who had been sleeping up on one of the small ledges of the high cave and when he say Deathly's bike her quickly pretended to be asleep again.
Just as Ghoul and jet began to move towards the bike Deathly strode into the room. Her suspicion changed to fury as she spotted her motorbike laying on its side next to a frozen Jet and a I'm-trying-to-be-invisible-but-failing Ghoul.
She slowly started to walk towards the pair, her hand twitching towards the ray gun strapped to her leg.
"Deathly. . ." Jet managed to choke out but trailed off when he saw the look in her eyes.
"We didn't mean too!" Ghoul wined as he started to walk backwards, tripping over the fallen bike in the proses.
Deathly's eye twitched and she drew the gun in a flash, aiming it at the fallen killjoy.
Party sighed silently to himself; he had seen this scenario many times over the past few days. Deathly would threaten then, try to shot them then storm back into her room until the next time someone would break something. Again he sighed at the begging pair as deathly pointed her ray gun at them. Suddenly Party noticed something. His years of practice and high skills with ray guns had taught him to predict his opponent's shots so he could avoid them easily. It was this insight that told him something was very wrong with Deathly.
All the other times the female Killjoy had threatened them with her gun her shot was always aimed just off mark so she did not really hurt them, just scare them out of their minds instead. This time though she shot was dead on, aimed straight at Ghouls chest. Something had changed in her stance; she looked deadly and completely serious. He could see her hand tightening around the gun so he quickly stepped forward and grabbed her arm and pulled the gun off mark.
Ghoul and Jet took this as their cue to disappear, turning and grabbing G-Force as they ran past.
Deathly was still breathing heavily and refusing to let go of the ray gun as Party continued to hold her arm to make sure she would not try to shot anyone else. Party knew that she had been close to tipping point for the past few days and this must have been the push she needed to try and kill someone.
Deathly wrenched her arm out of Party's hands and shoved her ray gun back in its holster. Party tried to speak to her as she pulled her prized motorbike up off the floor, checking it for damages. Thankfully the state of the art bike was made to resist damages as small as this with ease. Without giving Party so much as a nod she jumped on the bike and speed out of the cave and down one of the many passages they had discovered in their stay here.
Party cursed, he knew she needed time to herself and to calm down but she wasn't supposed to leave the safety of her cave. He didn't go after her though, she was well qualified to handle herself and he had a funny feeling that if he was to follow her we would end up dead, and the Scarecrows would not be the think the killed him.
