Author's Note: Ok guys its been about a week. I guess that's how I'm going to do this whole poll thing. You guys have a week to answer them if you want!:D I might update earlier if I believe I have all the voters I'm going to get.
I just want to say thanks to my continuous pollers, MaddySan5926, and Ash!
(Warning: This part could get a little corny), but thank you guys so much! I dunno how to show you guys how appreciative I am, so I guess this little author's note with just have to do. But seriously, when I actually get emails about reviews, I literally freak out! They make me so happy, to know that people from who-knows-where are actually participating in my little poll game. I really didn't think anyone would care enough, so THANK YOU ALL!
Now onto this chapter...so I know I said last time that I wasn't going to combine poll answers, but I only had two voters. (Besides, I'm the one calling the shots ;) ) So yeah, but certain ones I can't combine. So I'm just going to pick the ones that would help this story progress, so here it is! I hope you guys enjoy, I'm sorry if I chose a poll answer you didn't like. Hopefully, you'll like it anyway...
Russel POV:
The volcano rumbled and shook the ground...yet, after a few minutes, it stopped. Like the volcano was simply just belching. We the volcano remained still, I cleared my throat to draw everyone's attention back to the death note I had found. I began reading the note.
Everyone around me seemed to stay still in silent shock after I read the rest of the note. If this isn't a threat, then I dunno what is... I thought to myself. After several more moments of silence, I broke the tension.
"We need to get back to the others and decipher how 'da hell we are getting off this goddamn island!" I said.
"That note mentioned all of us...even if not by our names." Noodle said under her breath, but everyone heard her anyway.
"A traitor?" Darla asked with a puzzled, yet enraged look on her face. At the mention of the traitor, things went back into the awkward silence they were before. At this point, I just began walking back to the village, assuming everyone would follow me. The did, too.
A "traitor". Who...why? I questioned myself in my head as I traveled down a long man-made path that lead into the village. Noodle and the villagers that had come with me on the manhunt seemed to walked slowly behind me, as if they were getting paranoid that something was trying to pick us off one-by-one. Darla walked a bit faster than me, so instead of me leading everyone, she soon became the leader. 2D walked a little farther behind me. I looked back at him.
2D was looking only to the ground. His lanky figure seemed to shorten due to his slouching posture. I slowed my walking down so that I could fall in step beside him. Once I accomplished this, I looked at 2D, but his gaze seemed fixated on the ground.
"Dee...you al'ight?" I asked as I rubbed my bald head with nervousness at the sudden tension.
"Mmm, yep." 2D whispered with a distracted voice. I decided not to push. But I was generally concerned, I hadn't seen 2D this hopeless and upset in such a long time. We continued walking until we were far within the village. We all seemed to be walking to the small hut. My eyes widened when I heard screaming and villagers running in and out of the small hut where Murdoc and Jeiel rested. My pace began to quicken until I was in a full throttle run!
Now I never run. Mind you, it has nothing to do with my physical capabilities. I am quite capable of running, and if I was being chased by something threatening, then you bet your ass I will run like a fucking track star. I don't usually run because I don't like to. Now come on, who likes running? Even for those of you who do track or soccer, come on? Do you ever just think in your head, "Ya this is so cool, I'm running!" I don't think so. I dunno, maybe you do.
Anyways, if I was running, then you know something was up. So all of us ran t the hut just to be greeted by Althia who stood outside the hut. One of her hands outstretched towards us in a "STOP" motion.
"Wot's going on?" 2D with concern.
"Is it Mudz?" I asked her as a follow up question. Althia sighed and shook her head.
"It's Jeiel, she's woken up." Althia explained.
"Lemme see her, I shouldn't have left her! I should have been by her side when she woke up!" 2D said and began to go into the hut, but Althia stood her ground and refused him to go in there.
"No, she's in a lot of pain. Right now she has to tell us what hurts and what doesn't." Althia said, but it was useless, 2D pushed past her and went into the hut anyway. Darla, Noodle, and I followed him.
"Jeiel needs us, and you can't keep us from her." I said to Althia as we all charged into the hut.
In the crowded hut were villagers asking Jeiel a bunch of questions with a heavy accent. Tears seemed to stream out of her eyes more than I'd ever see before. We all made our way to her with speed, shoving anyone who was in the way.
"Love, talk, wot's wrong?" 2D asked as Jeiel continued to scream in agonizing pain. She tried to get a grip, but her whole body and voice trembled and quivered.
"PAIN! Everything hurts!" Jeiel forced out but dwindled only to a whisper.
"C'mon, 'ya gotta be a bit more specific than that, hun." Darla tried to sooth.
"I dunno, my ribs...I think. A-aand my legs, my left arrmmm, right wrrist." Jeiel coughed out as her head thrashed in pain. Althia had appeared in the doorway to hear this. She quickly shooed us away. I looked up to see Murdoc still sitting against the wall of the hut, he looked pale with fear.
Althia shouted something in her language and I watched as villagers stormed into the hut and began working furiously on Jeiel's wounds. After awhile, I looked at 2D, who was right next to me. He seemed to grip his chest as if he was trying to hold his heart from breaking to pieces. 2D looked back up at me, he uttered two words.
"The note..." 2D spoke. He was obviously mentioning the part about "the pink one", dying from her injuries. Which of course, was Jeiel who was "the pink one" in the note.
"Dee, whoever is hunting us on 'dis island, is just trying to scare us. She'll be fine." I reassured my blue-haired friend. He only nodded, but I knew he wasn't convinced.
I left the hut to think things through.
"Russ..." I heard from behind me.
"What?" I asked while turning around to find Del floating in front of me.
"You're all in danger." Del said with a gulp.
"What's new? Where the hell have you been?" I said with so much annoyance that I actually threw the death note at Del. Of course it passed through him in a transparent shiver, but it landed on the ground right-side up so Del was able to read it. I crossed my arms as I watched him read it. His facial expressions seemed to escalate as he read on.
"Oh no..." Del began.
"Yep." I said flatly.
"Dude, 'dis wasn't what I was talking 'bout... I did a bit of snooping, and I found out something." Del responded.
"What else could possibly put us in more goddamn danger than we are already in?!" I snapped at Del. Without waiting for his reply, I walked back into hut that Jeiel was in.
Jeiel seemed better...I think. She lay on the ground staring up at the ceiling.
"Girl, you al'ight?" I asked in a bit of a humorous tone.
"No." Jeiel replied.
"How do you feel, love?" 2D asked.
"Numb." Jeiel responded. I looked at Althia, who stood in the hut and looked exhausted.
"I gave her a 'pain killer' to ease the pain." Althia explained.
"Not like the one you gave 2D?" I asked confused. When 2D had been given their version of a pain killer, it was like he was stoned.
"No, this is much stronger." Althia said.
"Jeiel, what happened, what do you remember?" I asked the blonde.
"Hobbs, she just fucking woke up!" Murdoc scolded me at my blunt, careless question.
"It's alright." Jeiel said with a small smile. Her smile seemed to grow larger when 2D placed his hand on hers.
"I was looking for Noodle, and I found this...cave. I explored inside it for some unknown fucked up reason. The weirdest thing was that there where man-made torches that lit up the inside of the cave. I thought I heard footsteps, so I was about to turn back, when suddenly something deep in the cave sparkled!" Jeiel began recalling the memory.
"Of course it would be something sparkly..." Darla mused with a smile.
"I found out, that it was this huge rock with these glittering, shiny white crystals jutting out of it! I'm not a geologist, but I would bet that those were diamonds!" Jeiel said with surprise. I frowned with a look of contemplation at Jeiel's strange encounter.
"So anyways, a torch behind me went out and then I was pushed and I smacked my head on the cave wall. I passed out and woke up to some stranger carrying me up a volcano with intents on throwing me into the boiling chasm! I was almost a human sacrifice! So I began thrashing and kicking like didn't let go of me until I began screaming, and when he did, he lost his footing and he both went tumbling down the volcano." Jeiel soon ended with that all
A chill in the air seemed to make everyone shiver. We all seemed to think about Jeiel's strange encounter. After a while more of talking, just useless nonsense talking to lighten the air, headed to sleep for the night. We all slept in the same hut of the recovering Jeiel. I looked at 2D wrapping his arm around her battered body and fell asleep to that adorable image.
When I woke up the next morning, only me, Darla and Jeiel remained in the hut when Del suddenly floated in. Darla and Jeiel were both asleep.
"Russel, have you seen 2D, Murdoc, or Noodle today? I wanted to tell them about what I discovered yesterday." Del asked with almost a bitter tone at me.
"No I haven't. Look Del, I'm sorry I snapped, yesterday. I was just stressed, what did you discover?" I asked with hope that Del would forgive me.
Del softened his gaze and drew in a deep breath.
"Remember when the volcano shook like it was about to erupt yesterday?" Del asked me.
"Yeah, why?" I asked.
"Whoever is trying to kill us, well it's not just the Gorillaz they are after, it's the entire village. Turns out, they were trying to blow up the side of the volcano where this village is. I think they planned on blowing up that side of the volcano, and the lava spewing into the village, killing everyone without warning!" Del exasperated.
"We have to warn everyone!" I said with shock at more fatal news.
Noodle's POV:
I woke up to myself trying to stretch my arms but instantly I hit something wooden... My eyes snapped open to find myself back in a wooden coffin, most likely under ground. Dammit! Not again! I thought to myself with irritation, fear, and confusion.
Murdoc's POV:
"Morning, mates." I said as I opened my eyes. I drew in a sharp breath when I realized I was in completely different surroundings then when I had fallen asleep. Instead, I seemed to be in the plane I'd crashed. I rubbed my eyes with exhaustion. My heart skipped a beat when water began pouring into the plane. I looked behind myself into the pilot window and saw nothing but...water. I'm underwater! I thought to myself with stunning reality.
2D's POV:
"CCAWWWWW!" Sounded overhead. I snapped my eyes open at a large bird cawing from a tree. My heart skipped a beat when I realized I was in the goddamn forest! "Wot the bloody 'ell..." I said out loud. I looked to my right and saw a note. Atop the note were many dark red, small berries. I reached for the note and accidentally knocked the berries off of the note. They rolled over to my hip as I sat in the lush forest floor. I opened the note and read it inside my head.
"Take the berries, my friend,
Because it's the end,
Jeiel is dead,
This poison shall soon be fed,
It's the only way you'll be with her forever,
Eat the berries so that you both will be together..."
I stared at the note with the worst heart ache I have ever endured. I began crying, and shouting to the sky. "JEIEL!" I shouted at the sky with clutched fists. I began rocking back and forth with my long legs drawn up to my chest. Through tears, I stared at the berries next to me...
I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Hopefully everyone was satisfied with this chapter. So guess what? Its POLL TIME! Plz vote people!:D
Poll 1:
Shall the traitor be revealed?
1. Yes
2. No
Poll 2:
Shall I reveal the captor, yet?
1. Yes
2. No
Poll 3:
Will Murdoc, Noodle, and 2D have to find a way out of their dire situations themselves? Or should there be a hero?
1. They need to solve their own problems.
2. Someone should be a hero and save them.
Poll 4:
What should happen next to Russel?
1. Russ finds out the ulterior motive of who's trying to kill them, and he has to find a way to stop it.
2. Russ gets captured.
3. Russ tries evacuating the tribe of people out of their village. (Due to the sudden news of the exploding volcano)
4. (If you chose answer 1 for poll 2) Russ explores the cave Jeiel was talking about, and comes face-to-face with the captor.
5. Russ takes a long shot and makes Del bond to him in order to save the day, no matter the dangerously fatal consequences.