"Hi Jebby!" Luna called from where she was holding onto Pluto as he gave her a piggyback ride walking through the door of the gas station, with her arms securely locked around his neck. Jeb walked out of his little backroom and stared at them, looking very worried by the fact that Pluto was there, his gazed shifted up to Luna and his expression turned into something more like 'Why the hell are you doing that you little brat?'
"Why is he carryin' ya like that?" he asked, feeling rather uncomfortable that together they looked huge, it was already bad enough that Pluto was very large and insanely strong but at least normally he towered over Luna and even then she still scared the crap out of him, being up on his back made her even more imitating.
"I got tired of walking and my legs hurt" she replied simply, Jeb nodded and looked back to Pluto, he was blankly staring around and didn't seem to be a threat, well at least not at the moment anyway.
"I got what ya came fer" Jeb announced before going back into his room and reappearing a few moments holding a plastic shopping bag, he dug around in the pocket of his uniform and pulled out a small pot of tablets. Luna jumped down off of Pluto's back seeing what she had wanted and snatched the pot from his hand and inspected it, she smiled at him before sticking her pink tongue out at him.
"Thanks Jebby" she grinned, shoving the pot into the pocket of her hoody.
"Jupiter told me to get these fer ya too" Jeb said holding out the plastic bag to her, she looked confused at him taking the bag and looking into, she found a new pair of jeans and a pair of plan while trainers.
"Um meow?" she said confused, not understanding why Jupiter would want her to have new cloths
"Me-oww" Pluto laughed from behind her with a stupid grin on his face.
Jeb looked back to Luna after staring blankly at Pluto and decided to explain, "Jupiter said ya don't look right fer these parts wearing those, might cause unwanted attention seeing as yer be talkin' to yer victims"
Luna opened her mouth and was about to say something when they heard the sound of a car pulling up outside, panicking her eyes darted around the room looking around for somewhere she could hide, she looked at the door to Jeb's room and without another thought she ran in.
Pluto stayed where he was ready to kill whoever was coming there and then but Luna dashed back out and grabbed his arm, forcing him into the small room with her.
"Get in there you idiot!" she growled shoving him through the bead curtain and disappeared inside. Jeb turned around facing the door and straightened up as two men walked in, he cringed seeing that they were both police men, that was the worse thing possible, he was sure they knew what was happening, they must know about the mutants!
But the way they approached him didn't seem threaten, maybe they still didn't know, he hoped so anyway.
"Good afternoon sir" one said taking out his badge and showing it to Jeb "I'm detective Hawkins and this is my partner Mr Jenkins" Hawkins said and nodded towards his partner "We're conducting a search for a missing person" he said taking a photograph from his person and holding it out for Jeb "Have you seen this girl?"
Jeb stared blankly at the photo, knowing exactly who it was, he found it quite a coincidence that the person in question happened to be the same little bitch hiding in his back room.
"I aint see her" he shrugged handing them back the photo, Jenkins frowned at his response as if he was sure that Jeb would have seen her.
"Are you sure you've never seen a girl with growths on her head like that?" he pressed pointing to the photo in his hand, Jeb became even more nervous than he had been when they had first came in, did they know he knew her, had they seen the two of them talking just now?
"Ain't seen a kid like that, what are those things anyway?" he asked trying to sound casual.
"Birth deformity" Hawkins answered simply, Jenkins still seemed unhappy with the lack of information he was getting though.
"She was last seen in a town nearby, you really sure you haven't seen her?" he asked.
"Leave the man alone Jenkins he said he doesn't know" Hawkins scorned his partner before turning back to Jeb "Sorry about him, its been a long week searching for this kid, you see she's been missing for the last few months and her parents are very worried. Well thanks for you time" he said and turned for the door "Lets go Jenkins" he called to his partner as he left the building, Jenkins looked back at Jeb for a moment before pulling a card from his pocket and handing it to the gas station owner.
"Here's a contact number if you see her, should be coming around here soon, the weird kid apparently kept going on about coming here for something" he said with a strange look in his eyes, Jeb knew that they were lying but still acted normally, watching as the two men got back into their car and drove off leaving a cloud of dust behind them.
"You know the last time I checked my mom was dead and my dad is here, so who's these so called worried parents?" he spun around to see Luna standing behind him with a grin on her face, he noticed that she had taken off her old cloths and was now wearing the jeans and trainers. "Unless my bitch mom survived and now misses me, honestly when I kill someone I expect them to stay dead" she giggled "Hawkins and Jenkins, huh? I think they would make a cute couple!"
"Ya know, I coulda turned you in right now" Jeb growled at her, she always took everything as a joke, didn't she see how serious the situation was? Luna's grin disappeared in seconds and he immediately noticed the cold and angry look in her eyes.
"I wouldn't do anything stupid if I was you, that is unless you want me to kill you…" she threatened growling at him, what the hell? Did her voice just change? He noticed that her normally high-pitched cute girly voice was replaced with one that sounded more adult, had she been faking the whole time?
"Jupiter won't allow it…" Jeb said back becoming worried, wishing he hadn't said anything at all now, he didn't want to repeat the last time they had this conversion and get hurt again.
"Since when do I listen to a word Jupiter says? I could easily kill you and just say that you were going to turn us all in to the police it wouldn't be hard, besides weren't you the one who was threatening to leave a few days ago? Jupiter might decide not to keep you alive after all of your threats anyway" Luna stated blankly staring at him with a look of animal like hostility in her eyes
"I promise I ain't gunna say anythin'" Jeb mumbled trying to get rid of her or at least go back to being annoyingly childlike, what the hell was wrong with her?
"LIAR!!" she screamed loudly at him, Jeb staggered back terrified by the outburst, staring at her in fear she looked like she was about to kill him any moment, was this what she really was like? Was the whole little cute girl a complete act? If it was she was darn good actress. She moved closer towards him, her mouth open and twisted into a animal like snarl showing her deformed teeth to him as she growled at him.
Luna reached up under the folds of her hoody and pulled out her hammer that had been previously attached to the belt she used to wear with the skirt but was now used for her jeans, sure it wasn't as good as the cleaver but she had left that at home and a hammer still good do a lot of damage if not kill someone.
"Why do you lie to me?" she asked moving closer still, Jeb wanted to piss himself, he felt so scared.
"I promise I aint lyin' I won't tell nobody, please go away!" he begged resisting the urge to cry, Luna stared at him before bursting out into laughter.
"Jebby you're so silly!" she giggled happily grinning up at him "I wouldn't kill you because we're friends and anyway if I killed you I wouldn't have anyone to get things for me" Luna laughed walking up to where he was crouched on the floor from fright and kindly patted him on the head.
"Wha tha!? What the fuck was that about?!" he yelled still really scared.
"Oh I think me and this hammer have a Shining thing going on…" she giggled nervously quickly putting the hammer away back in it's old place, once again the sound of a car pulling up outside was heard and Luna ran and hid behind the counter.
Beeping of a car horn was heard and Jeb quickly left to serve the people outside. A few moments later a pretty woman with short blond hair walked in looking around for something, she began wondering around the shop and looked towards the backroom where Pluto was still hiding in fear that she would she see her uncle Luna pulled her hood up over her head and stood up.
"Are you looking for something?" she asked, watching the woman jump and spin around to face her. "Hi" she greeted waving feeling rather stupid she went and randomly appeared like that and scared her
"Um, where did you come from?" she asked nervously, not liking how the little girl had randomly popped up from the counter.
"I always take my nap over here" Luna told her nodding to confirm what she had said, "What were you looking for?" she asked crossing her arms over her chest.
"Is there a toilet in here?" the woman asked, Luna pointed to the man door.
"In the little outhouse" she replied and watched as the woman hurried back out, she seemed rather desperate. She thought for a moment, wondering how to best deal with the current situation, moving over to the door and peering outside she could see another woman along with two men about the same age, four all together that would be easy enough.
Luna walked into the backroom and pushed aside the beads as she went inside and saw Pluto lying down on the little bed, she moved closer and poked him a few times in the arm and waited for a reaction.
"Um, Pluto?" she asked poking him again but he was fast asleep, shrugging she took his walkie-talkie and turned it on.
"Hey Dylan, there's some people at the gas station" she said, hearing a low growl told her that 'Dylan' who was Lizard wasn't very happy about being pestered.
"Shouldn't ya be callin' Goggle or Jupiter?" he sighed annoyed
"I would call Dougal but I don't know what channel he's on" she explained giggling to herself.
"I'm here too" Goggle replied "And why do I have to be Dougal?"
"Your like a watch dog and Dougal is a dog"
"Anyway what about these people?" Lizard pressed, wanting to know all the details if the was going to be an attack and possibly some woman to rape.
"Oh yeah, um two young woman and two men, Pluto's here with me in the gas station but I could lead them into the mines" Luna explained thinking carefully, Lizard seemed to like this plan a lot, leading the woman to him instead of him having to go and track them himself.
"Yeah ok, I'll tell Big-Brain and Jupiter and we'll be waitin' in the mines fer ya" he said agreeing to the plan.
"Ok! Bye bye!" Luna said before turned the walkie-talkie back off, she looked back down at Pluto, still fast asleep. "Wake up!" she whined jumping on top of him and sitting on his stomach, he slowly opened his eyes and stared up blankly at her before laughing, wrapping her strong arms around her and pulling her down to lie against him.
"Ok… awkward…" Luna muttered looking down at his smiling face "Let go" she said forcing him off and sitting back up and jumping off the bed "Listen I'm going to take those people out there into the mines and your going to follow far behind so they don't see you ok? Lizard and Goggle will be waiting for us" she told him and watched as a somewhat thoughtful expression appeared on his face "Can you do that?" she asked, he blinked a few times before nodding happily.
Walking out of the gas station she saw the blonde woman sitting in the back seat of a silver land rover, one man talking to Jeb as he filled up their car, another man sitting in the driver seat and the other woman standing by the car, staring out into the open desert. Luna made sure that her hood covered everything that it needed to before running over to them.
"Hello!" she greeted smiling happily, both the man and Jeb turned to look at her.
"Hey" the man replied simply before turning back to Jeb.
"So what are ya doin' out here?" the gas man asked casually, the man's expression fell and he sighed annoyed.
"We were going to California but then Emma forced us to see the desert" he mumbled and nodded towards the woman standing beside the car, this gave Luna an idea and she quietly scooted over to Emma.
"Hey there isn't anything to see out here but if you want I could show you the old mines" she said smiling and tugging on the woman's arm, said woman looked down at her and smiled excitedly.
"Really? Are you sure you can show us?" she asked kneeling down beside the small girl.
"Yup I'll show you" she replied nodding, knowing that Lizard would be very happy if she brought this woman to him, he might even reward her.
Cybil kitty- That must be the fastest chapter I've even written for this story… wow… so review say what you think, what you like and do you think Luna is absolutely nuts?
Oh and I'm not sure why I Luna was giving people names of the characters from The Magic Roundabout, it just seemed cute to do so, but then I thought hang on that show wasn't as popular in America, but it was either that or Raggy Dolls, which was even less popular here in Britain, but I still might make a reference to Raggy Dolls because it was about badly made dolls who were basically teaching kids that being different is good, and I thought that would be cute in this heehee.