DISCLAIMER: Alright, alright, FIRST! I'd like to thank all of my lovelyyyy reviewers *Bachi* You help me lots, love you long time.
Second, well, Never mind scratch that I completely forgot what I was going to say for second.. REGULAR POV] And will probably continue to be that way for a couple more chapters, its Undecided. ---- Chapters may be coming along slow now,, Simply because I dont know where to go from here, and I dont have alot of time on my hands. If you guys could throw some ideas at me, somethings you want to happen, that'd be greatly appreciated. Also, I may be starting another sory, "The House Of Wax," enjoy;*
CHAPTER 10:
Goggle hobbled his aching body into the test village. There hadnt been a single sign of travelers for about a week. Aside from the three girls, And he couldn't even take a bite out of them. He had his suspicions, that he was going to be hungry for quite sometime. Aside from the limbs stacked up in the freezers, and in a small boarded up room inside the back of one of the tattered houses, where ribs slung heavy from the ceiling, and limbs dangled teasing his eyes. They looked good. But he lingered for something more. Something clean cut, and fresh. The girl he had caught several days ago, thats what he wanted.
Deciding what he would do with her, caused an inner conflict inside himself. Its not like they were under anyones protection! It wasnt like anyone was looking for them. He thought to himself, scratching his pieced out Blond hair, beneath his top hat.
Goggle, like Lizard, And Jupiter. Were the less remorseful ones of the village. They'd kill you on the spot, and make your friends watch. They didnt care. It was a game to them. They liked the exasperated squeals and the struggles people had threw at them. They could laugh it off, and sleep soundly at night, It was no big deal. They were natural hunters. That lived for the bloodsport. Even if it wasnt necessary, they'd be the first to condone any sort of Necrophilia, Rape, Murder, And drag the body back to the village like it was nothing, they were going to be bound to be food any ways, so it shouldnt matter how their lives ended, or what they did to them before killing them. It simply didnt bother them.
Jupiter was on the stealthy side, he was very rural, not around much, so he'd be more likely to take someone by surprise, and when he did, He would provide you with assurance, that its game over, and lights out for you.
Lizard was sly as well, climbing things, and staying on top of them, until his prey let its guard down, And sometimes, he wasnt so sneaky about it, he'd barge right in, and skin you alive. His agility, almost unbelievable, His temper, explosive Getting away from him, was far fetched.
Goggle. Goggle was the lookout, which usually led to him getting first dibs to any kind of meal. Despite his actions to Kelsi, he wasnt as sexual as Lizard was, He's more for the kill. He was the king of the kill, Ambush you, and take you slowly. Then to top it all off, he'd get back up, so while his prey was on the ground convulsing, struggling for last breaths, he'd make sure you knew, the same was coming to your friends. He was more of the Hyena of the group, He laughed, alot. HE had a very cruel sense, of humor. His laughs almost sounded like an animals aswell, due to the stretched out skin over his face, and small slits for a nose.
They all used different tactics, but all had the same method. The be as cruel, and terrifying as humanly possible, watch you suffer. Those were their morals.
Goggle staggered about into the Village, holding his chewed off finger between his others. The blood just kept on coming, there was no way of stopping it. Jupiter, Lizard, and Pluto, had been waiting for a word from Goggle for sometime. But he hadn't radioed them, and after all this time he just stumbled back to the village.
Cyst was nowhere to be found.
"Cyst no guard?" Goggle questioned confused.
Jupiter glared around, he's left no tracks in the dirt, no trail in the sand from his shot gun. He was just gone.
"Goggle, wheres tha' girl?" Jupiter asked in astonishment that he had not have her by himside.
"Hades wan' er."
Jupiter nodded.
"We have enough girls as it is."
"Ruby, Big Mama, no lot." Goggle cackled trying to out smart Jupiter.
"Blondie nd' her friend too." Jupiter tweeted.
Goggles eyes, drifted to Jupiter ever so slowly, as he wiggled his fingers slightly, under the cups of his coat. He knew that meant that girl he had nearly taken advantage of the other day.
Goggle grunted excitedly, the more excited he became, the less capable he was of clearly making out his words as heartless laughs filled in between his words. HE had a speech imperative as it was, he couldnt speak right, much like grumbles.
Pluto gave Goggle a little Jeer,joining in with his laughter, yet not exactly sure why joined himself.
"Ya buncha fuckin idiots!" Lizard piped out.
They silenced, and gaped at Lizard, while he continued to talk.
"Not n' the mines, " He notified them. Their laughter immediately sounding off. Pluto Responding with a loud sigh, Jupiter's standing beside Lizard, his arms crossed, Waiting for them to hush. Goggle responded with a questioning sound, a very high pitched irritated one.
"If ya'd shut tha fuck up fer two secon's I tell ya." he roared.
All eyes were on him, as his wild eyes shifted from one of them, to another, making sure they were finished interrupting him.
Cyst, and Big Brain, stood on the front porch. Ruby rolled Big Brain out to get some "fresh Air" Not that he could breathe at all anyways.
Kelsi, and Victoria stood away from them all, on the other side of the deck.
"Are,. We staying here?" Kelsi uttered in a very low whisper.
Victoria glanced towards her slightly,and replied with.
"No, Never.."
"We just have to figure out, how to get out of here.."
"How are we going to do that?" Kelsi spat out nostalgically
"Wheres the car?"
"Somewhere below the hills, but the windows are smashed in, and -"
"Doesnt mean the car cant drive." Vicki insisted.
Kelsi let a large gulp down her throat, her eyebrows nearly fused together, when she heard her friend say that.
"Do you remember, when we were Lost, and Summer, saw the old Gas station, and you said it was a bad idea?" Kelsi broke.
"Yeah? But what does that have to do with anything?"
"This is another one of those bad ideas, They could have easily towed it off somewhere or broke it down, And if we were to run, and it wasnt there, what would we do then?, Risk our lives?"
Vicki sat there dimwittedly, her eyes turning blank, as if she had no ideas left.
"Do you think people are looking for us?" she murmured.
Kelsi, hit Vicotrias leg in frustration.
"No! No! Goddammit! Nobody is looking for us, we haven't been gone long enough, and were in the middle of the goddamn desert, you think anyones going to come looking all the Way out here!?"
Her voice still in a whisper, but her words, harsh, Her words true. Even though Victoria had been hurt by those words herself, and didnt want to admitt it, A part of her wanted to give up, another part of her, just wanted to run, run as fast as she could away from everything.. But not being seen, was impossible. There were other people who lived among the Hills, The ones in the mines, and who knows how many others, and where else they might be? They had been at the gas station, in the villages, roaming the hills, in the mines. They were everywhere, this part of the desert was infested with them, they owned these lands, and they ran everything around them, and After all these years, all this time, had no one found out about them? Out of all the people tht went missing, went on road trips, through New Mexico, To California, from other states, did no one suspect they were down here? AT that point she wondered, how many people they killed, how many in a week? How many in a lifetime?
Where did all the evidence go? the cars? Did the man who worked at the gas station never notice?
Turning her head slightly, and her eyes beginning to light with a hint of hope once more, Victoria asked,
"What about my cell phone..Is it still in the car?"
Kelsi was silent for several moments, trying to ponder through all these harsh nights, her memory was faded, she couldnt pin point all the details of exactly what happened previous nights before, and surly, she couldnt explain what was going on now, why for some reason they had been accepted. She clenched her teeth, and threw her head back a little, avoiding drawing any attention from Big Brian, and Cyst, which was inevitable, because they never took their eyes off the two girls.
"I,,-The, screen, might be broke." She said, finding it hard to remember the situation.
"So it still works then?"
"I doubt it works,..Why does it matter, you couldnt get signal out here anyway?"
Victoria let out a huge sigh, and a small smile slipped across her face.
"If the phones on, its not dead, or broke, Couldnt they track my IP address,?"
"If you have Internet,,,"
Victoria's smile grew larger, as she bit her tongue to keep quiet, her face turned a tint of red, like she was going to explode with happiness, but avoided doing so.
"I do."
Kelsi glared at her for several moments, her eyes searching her up and down, she was almost speechless. There was a possibility, someone would find them, they had a chance. But how long would it be, before they decided to look for them? How many days would have to pass, before the tolerance of these people in the Test Village got low? Their biological clocks were ticking.
Kelsi didnt say anything but nodded her head.
Victoria turned to look over the veiw of the hills, her cut up hand, putting her hand to her forehead, searching the area.
"You"---A heavy inhale was heard from across the porch, and Victoria was the first to glance over.
"Know,--what happened here?" Big brain sucked out.
Neither of the girls responded. But he carried on.
"A war" He wheezed
"They had,--Weapons.."
"Bombs."
Victoria lifted her head up, now paying attention. She was about to get her answer, of how things came to be there, why everything had been as it was. And why the people, were the way they were.
"Families, of minors--Once lived here." He took a deep breath in, sounding more drowsy every time he spoke.
"They told us, to leave, evacuate our homes"
"We,- went into the mines, they set off their bombs,,"
Cyst let out a sharp cry, as a hand flew up and decked his chin, blood spurted up in the air, a shower of red now laying on the porch.
"Piece o' shit!" Lizard antagonized nearly lifting Cyst up by the giant brace on his head, and slamming him against the wall, causing the rotted the Schiller's to break off little by little. Victoria let out a loud cry, stretching her hand out for Cyst almost in comfort, but Lizards slapped her hand away.
"Git off th` porch." He hissed.
Her mouth was wide open in shock, but Kelsi, was already cautiously sliding off the porch behind the house. When she hesitated he ripped her up by the arm slamming slamming her on the ground next to Cyst, her body hit the wall with a loud thud. He pressed his face up to her temple, his teeth nearly knocking against her skull as he did.
"Now!" He growled releasing her arm, and returning to Cyst again.
At first crawling away slowly, but then picking up the pace, and racing off the deck without another glance.
Why was he acting like this? What the hell was going on, What was happening to Cyst? In a way, she wanted to turn back. As far as she knew, Cyst hadnt done anything wrong, and she didnt want him to get hurt. IN her eyes, he was a child, she couldnt decide why she cared for him so much, but she did, as anyone would care for a brother, a sister, even a child.. Lizard had just frightened her so much, though- that she just Kept running.
She slid behind the back of the house holding her breath.
Between the two houses she found herself outside of, there was a dark alley way. The two big aged houses had held between them. She couldnt quite see threw it, as the sun dimmed, and the roof blocked any sun that had remained. A shallow breathing, and a few scuttles was heard from inside.
"Kels,?" She whispered
"Just come out.."
She neared the darkened opening, as she seemed to hear what sounded as a voice in distress, or a breath..As she neared it, it seemed to sound angry? Unhappy.
"Kelsi?" She repeated again, her foot stepping into the shadows, and the breathing intensified.
A voice about fifteen feet behind her began speaking.
"Who are you talking to?"
It was Kelsi, snug behind one of the trash cans on the side of the house, Sweat beating down her face, as she clung on to a broken beer bottle.
Victoria snapped her head in Kelsi's direction, and the breathing stopped.
She rubbed the back of her head, her long black eyelashes fluttering in confusion, and wincing in pain,
"I just, I thought, you were in there?" Vicki said in utter disbelief and confusion. Knowing very well, there were still other people living in the hills besides themselves. She took giant steps away from the opening, turning her head back every so often, making sure whatever that was once there is gone.
Her hands throbbed, as her face turned ghost pale.
"You dont really believe, we're part of their family.." Kelsi whimpered
"They said,-"
Kelsi threw the beer bottle in Victoria's direction, and shot up, pacing quickly towards her.
"What did they say?"
"hmm?"
"And who said it! who said it! Do you think it really matters to any of the others,?"
As Victoria was about to say something Kelsi, snapped back answering her own question. This time her voice, frantic, and filled with worry, and awareness.
Kelsi, was no fool.
"No, This is all just a game, So they dont have to keep chasing us around like this! If they really had their hearts set on us being here, where the fuck is summer!?"
Kelsi declared viciously slamming her foot on the ground.
"Why haven't they killed us yet then?" Victoria mocked not wanting to believe anything Kelsi was saying."
"Victoria, Isabella, Open you're fucking eyes! we're bait! They are using us for all we are worth, until we are OF NO WORTH, They are going to use us as bait, to try and get other more unfortunate travelers here, and when they do, what happens to us? We get hauled straight to the mines, or straight to the butcher shop? Pick youre poison."
"And that guy you're always with?" She began
"You think he cares about you? Do you?"
"When I was in the mines, he was the first! The first one of these sick bastards I saw down there, the second, was that fucking disgusting, creature looking snake tongued fuck!"
Victoria just stared at kelsi, her eyes widened, she's never seen her so scorned, especially towards her.
"And you can bet you're sorry ass, before you cam down the tunnel to get me, he was the first to be raping one of those helpless girls! HE was the first to be on top of her with a gun to her head! He was the first to anything, and the first to end her sad life.."
"How do you think you got here in the first place, who was the one who dragged you off while me and Summer looked for you? What happened to me, you and Summer when were separated?"
"Were we family then!?"
Victorias eyes swelled in tears while she listened, remembering all they had gone through, her rosy cheeks, now stained in the remainer of the black makeup she had left around her eyes, as she gripped her mutilated arm gently.
"Thats right." Kelsi said sadly.
"You know what happened to Summer? She was raped, and beaten nearly to death, who knows what they're doing to her right now?"
"As for me, I was nearly raped, had fingers plunged down my throat, was beaten bloody, molested, and nearly fucking raped!"
"The only reason you're still around, and that nothing happened to you, because that grey haired fucker, you're his little pet! Weather you'd like to admit it or not! He chases you in and out of the village, like a lost puppy, and then wants to make the pain go away?"
Kelsi put her index finger up to Vicki's collar bone and traced up, hott tears pulling down her face, as she tried to back away, A harsh reality, was not something she was sure that she could succumb to.
Kelsi began to whisper.
"The only reason..Iam here, with you,, Is because, he doesnt want his little pet, scampering in and out of this shithole, and getting raped, pillaged, slaughtered, whatever the case may be looking for me..He doesnt want to have to be the one hanging you're skin up to dry."
"How can you say that?" Victoria cried up, feeling unusually, insulted, and belittled by her friend.
"Because it's true. And if It wasnt, wouldnt Summer be here with us right now?"
"You've become almost ignorant, to whats going on here Vicki, You're not the same, DO you not see the limbs strung above out heads? The corpses, being dragged out of freezers day by day, the pain they've cause you and I, and whatever the hell they might have done to Summer?"
She smiled tauntingly.
"Course you dont."
"You dont care anymore do you,? I saw you last night. You and him?"
"Nothing else matters to you anymore, because--"
"You always were a sucker, when it came to love."
"And let me tell you, you're the only one who's falling."
"remember who you are, and come back to reality..He'll throw you around, and then throw you away."
Kelsi said, before retreating to her position behind the trash can with the broken bottle, gazing around the desert.
Victoria stood there in utter disbelief, a feeling of emptiness and coldness consumed her, she was stone. Always was, when facing the truth.
DISCLAIMER: Okayy, SO you clearly understand why Lizard was beating the shit out of poor Cyst, is because, he was no where to be found, when Jupiter, Goggle, Pluto, And him were talking about the girls, and he neglected his duty, to guard the town incase something happened. And Lizard being the lunatic that he is, went after them. Damn Lizard goes after everyone does he even need a reason
anymore?"