~10– Sells To Lies From the Darkest Stars

"I'm hungry," 2-D complains for about the hundredth time in the passed hour. I can hear his feet drag through the dirt and I hear something crunch.

I hold my arms up to stop. Everyone halts, but Stuart rams into my arm to only stumble backwards. "Did anyone hear that?"

"What?"

I scan the area frantically, then I look down in dreaded horror to point at a little seedling, "There! Someone is gonna come to try to kill us!"

Melody pushes me out of her way and holds her bass, ready to attack someone.

I back up next to Niklaus and he whispers something into my ear, "She believes in anyzing."

Stanley looks up at Niklaus, "Her instincts are shaper than ours, that isn't true...is it?"

"You're asking like your life depends on it," Rubin whacks him in the back of the head playfully. He leans over to be next to his ear, "She is very naive."

Melody turns around and her white eyes glare a bright blue. The four levitate off the ground and their legs and arms flail in a desperate struggle to free themselves from an invisible force. I see all their hands try to grab something at their necks, then their faces begin to turn a violet-blue color. They plummet to the ground in a heap of body mass. "You fools! You should have learned by now not to talk behind my back," she hisses at them. "You should be loyal to me for saving your lives for so long! It takes great effort and you guys don't even pay a drop of respect back!"

I look passed her angry face and see four men behind her with hand guns, they slowly rise up.

"Jack the Lad Swing!"

Melody turns around to look at them and moves to stand besides me, "Jocks the Fagot's Gay! Who would have ever guessed these baby-faced men would come by?"

I look at they're faces, they do look have tiny faces, and their skin looks as smooth as a baby's bottom. They don't look natural, but then again...neither do I.

Russel pokes Melody, "That might have been the most offensive thing I've ever heard."

"Really, because I've said worse." She runs towards them and brings her axe-bass down vertically to slice one wide open. She swings her leg up to kick two of them in the face to knock them out cold. The last one just stands there, not knowing what his next move should be.

Cyborg walks over and taps Melody on the shoulder while her eyes are locked onto the last of her prey. "MAST-ER SAID YOU SHOULD TAKE A BREAK, I CAN SET-TEL THIS ONE."

"Wait, what?" She stands there confusingly. I grab her gently and pull her towards me. I wrap my arms around her to rest my hands one her boney hips. I watch Cyborg Noodle go to town on her toys as she tackles the last one standing to the ground and drag the helpless man next to the sliced up one. The man tries to stand up, but it holds a gun to his head. She rips off a good ol' juicy chunk of flesh off the corpse and shoves it in his mouth. "EAT IT! NOW!" It takes off more and more until it's down to the bone and the dud was dead way before that point. It managed to stuff him up like a nasty Teddy Bear to bulge in horrid places to just look like a deformed blob.

Melody finally notices that I'm holding her, "What are you up to, Muds?"

I whisper into her ear, "I wish we could find somewhere to be by ourselves so we can have a 'fun' time together." I push her hair aside on one side and kiss her neck, but she doesn't seem to move, or react, or say anything...or moan sexily. Just nothing. "What's the matter, babe?"

She starts to breath fast, I can hear her lungs inflate and deflate at a rapid pace.

I pivot around her to look at her. I place my hands on her shoulders, "What's wrong?"

Melody hesitates, but she looks up at me and she reveals her beautiful blue eyes that sparkle in her tears. Her cheeks are rosy red, a huge contrast between her bright cheeks and her pale skin. It was the most innocent I think I would ever see her. "I...I didn't know...you would love me after what I did to you. I thought you would hate me, I don't know what to do! I've never been in this situation before! I've never had a crush before! Or been in love before! Or I have never been loved..." She fades off into silent tears and buries her face into my chest. "God, I'm so embarrassed now."

I think...it would be really horrible to not be loved by someone, not even...you're 'friends'.