Ian POV
Saying my goodbyes to Wanda tore a bloody hole in my chest right through my heart. She looked at me with those wide gray eyes surrounded by silver and she held me to her crying in my shirt. My tears spilt also but mostly I was crying inside. Kyle and Jared weren't laughing at me they were also both close to crying also. I walked away from Wanda and she cried harder, Mel walked next to her and they hugged. I walked out of the cave and Jared clutched a gun in hand so tight his knuckles were white. Oh no! I thought.
"Lily!" I called and her head peaked out of the cave wall. "Don't let Wanda do anything stupid, kay,"
"Don't worry Ian I'll watch her," I could trust Lily.
"And Mel," Jared added and then said. "Love you, Melanie,"
Lily nodded and from the cave we heard a muffled sob. I bit my lip from crying and then heard Kyle's feet thudding toward us.
"Can you be quieter?" Jared hissed angrily, Kyle paid no attention.
"Ian,"-pant-"Jared," Kyle said between pants. "The Seekers"- pant- "crashed," –pant-.
"What do you mean?" I demanded. What did he mean by crashed?
"They crashed"- pant- "into a rock," Kyle enlightened.
"How many?" Jared asked tensing.
"Just two," He replied and put up both of his fingers up. "A girl and boy, here I'll show you,"
We took off running after Kyle, Jared grabbed my shoulder. I stopped and he uncurled my fist and put in a little pill. I fingered it in my hand and took a deep breath and continued running.
Anna POV
Stupid boulder! It was all going to work. I touched my throbbing head, wet sticky blood came in my palm. I opened the door of the car and fell out on my side. Ugh, there's sand in my mouth. Where's Singing Trees? I practically crawled to the other side of the door Singing Tree's head lolled out of the open window, I gasped when I saw his face. It a large cut along his forehead and small shards of glass from broken window were embedded in his skin. Towels, napkins anything. I spotted a clean orange rag around 50 feet from the car, I slowly got up. I limped over using the car for support; it seemed like hours until I got to the rag. When I bent down I fell behind the boulder and I think I passed out. When I woke up the sun was still up, but the sky was pinkish. The rag, I thought. I grabbed it and then went to the car, remembering Singing Trees. He could be dead! Wait a minute why do I care?
Maybe cause you like him, Flower replied, weakly.
Oh, shut up, I didn't need another argument.
I got to the window. He wasn't there!
Oh my god!
Jared POV
Kyle had one of the Seekers in his arms, and, hell, he looked horrible. A deep cut ran across his forehead and smaller cuts were everywhere on his face.
"Wait Kyle, thought you said there are two of them," I didn't think, I knew he had said that.
"Oh, shit," Kyle hit his forehead in surprise, and almost dropped the body.
"I'll I go back and look for the other one," Ian said and without our agreement he sauntered off to find the Seeker.
"Oh, man, imagine if it got away," Kyle grumbled and put the Seeker on the rocks,
"It better haven't," I said between clenched teeth. Everyone would be in danger, Mel, Jamie, Wanda.
Kyle sighed and plopped down on a boulder his sweaty face in his hands. We all waited for any noise, the gun in my hand was cocked.
Anna POV
Where was he? My mind was frantic with fear and worry. I would be stranded out here by myself. What was that? A gun was near me and took it in my hand. The sound of heavy shoes on the hard sand floor made relief swarm around me. Relief and fear, what if it wasn't Singing Trees? I grabbed the boulder and limped forward to get a better look at Singing Trees. It wasn't him though; heavily muscled man with black hair and pale skin tinged with pink from running. His eyes scanned the car wreck and then they landed on my battered body. His eyes became relieved and his fingers unclenched. He was mouthing words that I couldn't understand. Then the sun flashed on his face. O my god! His eyes were blue, just blue, and no silver. He was human!
Ian POV
The Seeker's face flashed with… relief? She smiled weakly at me and put up her hand to wave. Wave? She should be frightened or worried, least of all happy or relieved. I stepped cautiously toward her, she had a gun. Her eyes also flashed down to the gun and she dropped. Her forehead was also bleeding and her eye was bruised. I walked for forward fast and took the gun and then she became scared.
"Don't shoot me," She croaked and put her hands up.
"I'm not," I said gruffly and leaned over and picked her up.
"You're human," She said excitedly. Why was she excited she should be cowering in fear?
"Yeah and you're crazy," I muttered but she ignored me.
"Where's Singing Trees?" She asked worriedly and happily also.
"If you mean the other Seeker he's fine," I answered and began to walk down back to the slope to Jared and Kyle.
"Where are you taking me?" The woman asked suspicious her eyes were narrowed.
I didn't answer her.
"I said, where are you taking me?" She demanded angrily and began to flail her arms and squirm and kick. I ignored her began to hum.
"Uh, hello, are you deaf?" She asked annoyed, when she realized that I wouldn't lose my hold on her that easy. There was something wrong with this soul she seemed almost human.
Then she went crazy flopped around like a psycho fish. "Let go, let go, let go, let go," The woman chanted louder each time and again I ignored her. Jared raised his eyebrows when he saw me and Kyle's mouth popped open. I set the girl down and she stared in awe at them.
Anna POV
Two more humans, I watched in amazement and they stared back at me. What really got to me was why they didn't try to kill me.
Suddenly the man that carried me down swiftly turned me around and sprayed something in my face it smelt like grapefruit.
Wanda POV
Footsteps finally, Mel's face grew brighter and I'm sure mine did too. Sunny was sobbing in the corner of the cave probably too hard to hear. I ran out and saw Ian; he was carrying a body in his arms. A girl she looked horrible with a bloody cut on her forehead and a bruised cheekbone. Even how horrible she looked and that she was the same kind of me I felt hate going through my whole body. My Ian in danger, a shudder went through my body. Pet's body wasn't used to hate and it made my little heart flutter. Mel had hate written all over her face also. Ian set the girl on the ground to wrap me in a big hug. The other Seeker was worse, he was male. Sunny ran and if she was bigger she would have knocked Kyle down. I looked at the girl studying her features more closely, dark brown hair in two scraggly braids, the little shiny Seeker badge pinned to her shirt. I shuddered and then felt strong arms wrap around my shoulders.
Doc POV
I hummed to myself a Christmas tune and washed my hands. Isaiah had a fever but I easily took care of it and he was happily resting in the cot. The soul medicine was in the sturdy cabinet, we needed more hopefully Wanda brought more back Heal. We would do fine without it but it's always best to be on the safe side. Better safe than sorry. I heard excited talking and laughing they must be back from the raid. I gently dried my hands and before leaving to help them I felt Isaiah's forehead. Not too hot or too cold. I felt bliss finally we have found a cure. Before I was two steps out the door Kyle, Jared and Mel came running toward me followed by Wanda and Ian. They had four bodies in their arms two were both male and the ones bloody, I quickly got the two cots ready and lay the people down. One was female the other male, they were in pretty bad shape.
"What happened to them?" I asked incredulously, looking at the bloody cut on the women's face.
"They are Seekers who got into a car crash," Jared explained. "Kyle found that one,"-he pointed to the male- "Ian had to find the female,"
"Ian?" I asked picking up Isaiah in my arms he's getting pretty heavy. "Could you take him to Lucina, tell her he needs a lot of rest if his fever gets worse to bring him down again."
He nodded and took Isaiah out of my arms and walked away. Melanie reached inside a burlap bag and set the medicines on the counter. I thanked her and got to work on the souls faces, the man was worse than the girl. Ian came running back when I was down with the female and had started on the male, Jeb was with him.
"Doc, Doc," He said hurriedly and put a hand on his heaving chest. "There's something wrong with her,"
I followed his extended arm to the unconscious girl lying on the cot.
"What?" Did I forget to patch up any of her wounds or was she bleeding again?
"I found her alive and awake, she looked really surprised. She wasn't scared though just happy she wave and she seemed excited and happy," Ian's words were confusing and everyone even Jared looked confused.
"Not scared at all," Melanie whispered.
"Well at first she thought I was going to shoot her but then she asked if I was human real excited." Ian answered running his fingers through his inky hair.
Jeb's eyebrows went up and opened to speak when a voice interrupted him.
"What the hell?" The women's purplish eyes were open in surprise; she was looking straight at Wanda.
Hope you like this chapter.
