"So, let's go over this again, we're going miles out into the desert to give this bitch to Hades, who wants to use her to get children?" Luna asked looking up at Lizard as she trailed behind him and Goggle while Pluto carried the unconscious Gemma over his large shoulder.
"Yea" Lizard replied without bothering to look over his shoulder at her, Luna her expression still didn't look very convinced.
"Why?" she asked, folding her arms behind her head as she walked on "I don't care about the bitch, I just don't understand his obsession with having children, I know Big-Brain said he does it for his mother but still that's a weird reason to have babies"
"He just does so ya don't have ta keep goin' on 'bout it, just leave it" Lizard sighed in annoyance, even though he dearly loved his daughter she was still incredibly frustrating. Luna rolled her golden eyes and turned her attention to Pluto who had the woman, Gemma, carelessly thrown over his large shoulder, she watched him for a moment before moving over to him and gripping onto the arm that was hanging limply by his side and slipped her small thin hand into his great paw. He giggled and looked down at her with his childish smile.
As they continued to walk on Luna began to fall behind, going from walking right beside Pluto, walking briskly to match his slow strides across the sand, to almost being dragged along by him, her legs feeling weak and her arms felt heavy as she panted for air. The fabric of her hoodie clung to her hot body in an unbearable way as her skin screamed for a release, she knew the only way was to take off the protective clothing but she hated the way her body would be so exposed for all to see, in its full scarred skeleton-like glory. But the heat of the afternoon sun was excruciating, and after all it was only the four of them there. Lizard had seen her before, many times. Pluto was unable to care and Goggle, if he said anything she'd burn that stupid hat he liked so much before punching him squarely in his flat face.
So she let her hand slip free of Pluto's before grabbing the bottom of the hoodie, lifting it up quickly and pulling it off over her head, breathing a sigh of relief when fresh air hit her warmed flesh. She wrapped it around her hips and tied the arms around her small waist.
Goggle looked over towards her and stared for a moment before turning to his older brother walking beside him "Don't ya ever feed her?" he asked, looking at his brother sceptically, Lizard growled back at him, glaring vividly.
"Course I do, asshole" he snarled defensibly, reaching out his arm towards his daughter who stared at him blankly for a moment before moving into it, he wrapped his arm around her shoulders and pulled her to his side. Luna pressed the side of her face against Lizard's vested chest, breathing in the smell of sand and blood that seemed to cling to him.
Pluto began to mumble something unintelligible and he called out shrilly, trying to get their attention. The woman he was carrying was slowly waking up, weakly struggling over his large shoulder as she fought to regain consciousness. Luna grinned, a happy child's grin and let go of her father and moved to walk behind Pluto, grinning at the woman's sleepy and pained face.
Gemma groaned out as her head ached horribly and forced her eyes open, the first thing she saw was the little girl right in front of her, she quickly recognised her and was at first relieved that she was still alive, but then she noticed that she didn't look normal at all, Gemma had thought her to be a skinny and fit little kid before but her mouth hung open at the sight of the girl's grotesque body, she could see every individual bone that pressed again her skin in a way that seemed like at any minute her fragile looking flesh would rip open and the hideous scars that gave her skin an wrinkly leather appearance. Gemma's light green eyes shifted up to the small girl's head and she gasped seeing the lumps of bone that were poking their way through her scalp and pale hair, her eyes filled with tears as she realised the truth, that once seemingly cute little girl was one of them.
"Howdy hoe" she winked at her, raising her hand up to her head and gave her a mock salute. Gemma screamed out loudly when she realised that she was being carried by someone, where were these horrible monsters taking her now?!
"Where's Emma?! Where's my sister?!" the young woman cried as hot tears ran down her face, Luna however was not moved at all by this sickening display of emotion "Please, I'll do anything, where is she?!"
A small smile worked its way onto Luna's face and she peered up at the woman through long, messy sliver and blond fringe, she leaned in close so that only Gemma and possibly Pluto would be able to hear.
"The way that you are now… begging, that's exactly how I was…" she whispered to the woman before giggling lightly to herself. Gemma stared at her through her tear stained face for a blank moment before starting to cry heavily again, wailing and thrashing about in Pluto's strong grip.
"Will some one shut her the fuck up!?" Goggle whined, covering his hands over his ears to try to block out the overly loud sound. Lizard growled to himself before promptly smashing his tight fist into the woman's head and knocking her out cold again, causing Pluto to giggle strangely.
A soft growl escaped the little girl's throat; a dull ache that had started in the balls of her feet had worked its way up to her knees, which in turn had caused her legs to turn inwards worse than before so that her feet almost dragged along the sand and rocks.
"How much longer?" she huffed as she fought to keep up with the men, who were clearly used to these long trips through the desert and weren't at all bothered by it.
"Not long, just a few miles" Lizard mumbled uninterestedly, Luna gave another annoyed little huff and crossed her thin arms over her ribs, as if she were trying to hold herself up.
"Carry me?" she asked hopefully, glancing up at her father with cute big eyes, Lizard chuckled and shook his head. "Please?" she begged, wrapping her small arms around one of his and hugging it tightly to her body, resting her head against his chest as she stared upwards at him like a hungry puppy.
"No" he answered simply, rubbing his gloved hand across her head fondly.
"Goggle?" Luna called to the man walking just a head of them with the same look of hope written on her face.
"I ain't carrin' you" he muttered without looking in her direction "Still mad 'bout earlier" he growled, reaching up an arm and unconsciously rubbing at his shoulder.
"Come on, I didn't hurt you much" she replied casually, as if she hadn't actually been beating him with a wooden chair earlier that afternoon. Goggle snarled angrily at her in response and she could see that she wouldn't get what she wanted, unless she tried something else that is. With her mind made up, she simply let her legs fail beneath her body and slumped down into the sand, with her arms crossed and a pout on her face.
"Fine, I'll just stay here then" she announced stubbornly, crossing her thin legs underneath her to match her arms.
Lizard sniggered a little "That's fine wit us" he said without stopping, only continuing to walk forward away from her, though Luna had predicted and already thought about this, she held her arms out towards them with an endearing expression and her golden eyes filled with sadness.
"Pluto…" she whimpered miserably, Pluto peered over at her and seeing her small form desperately reaching for him triggered his caring side and he immediately dropped the limp body of Gemma carelessly on the ground and bounded over to her. He landed heavily with a loud thud beside her and wrapped his giant arms around, pulling her right onto his lap.
Lizard had turned around and glared at his younger brother, the retard gave her what she wanted so easily, his daughter sat there in there, looking so incredibly tiny compared to the large man holding her with a smug grin on her face as she curled up against Pluto's chest and nuzzled her face into it.
"You know that if you leave me out here only Big-Mama, Ruby and Big-Brain will get angry with you and they can't hurt you but if you leave Pluto out here too, Jupiter will beat the shit out of you" she smirked cunningly at him.
"So make Pluto carry ya" he shrugged becoming more than a little irritated and it didn't help that they were having this already annoying conversation out in the wide open desert, where the boiling sun could shine mercilessly down on them.
Luna grinned back at him with an knowing stare "But then you'll have to carry her" she replied simply and pointed to where Gemma lay still as ever in the hot sand, he cursed quietly under his breath, knowing that she was right. He growled and trudged up to them, knowing that he'd much rather carry a small and unhealthily light child than a full grown woman, he grabbed a hold of her arm and tugged her up from his brother before he turned and crouched down with a mumble of disgust.
She grinned once again as she climbed upon his offered back, carefully wrapping her legs around his waist and her arms gently around his neck and pressed the side of her face against his, rubbing her cheek lovingly against his worn skin.
"I love you, daddy" she cooed happily, Lizard merely scowled in response and she felt him digging his nails into where he securely held her legs in place against his body and he glared when he saw the expression on Goggle's flat face.
"Stop smirkin' at me ya cock sucker!" he yelled angrily at his younger brother, who merely chortled in glee at his anger.
"I just like seein' my brother lovin' his little girl, that's all" he sniggered merrily, turning away to the right direction again but not without one last peek over his shoulder at the sight, his older and tough brother, who had murdered and tortured many, many people carrying his grinning adorable tiny daughter on his back.
After continuing to walk for what seemed like hours, Luna lifted up her head from where it had been resting on Lizard's shoulder to see a range of hills that rose up high like a mountain, she had thought that the area her family lived in was impressive but this was very different, it almost felt like a gigantic fort.
Were they there? She couldn't remember the end of the journey, had she fallen asleep? But then how could she have held onto him, she tried to backtrack through her thoughts to find what had distracted her so much, there had been Siren, Luna remembered hoping that she was still alive after all the times she had said she wanted to die, how she was going to kill everyone including herself and how she wanted to end her miserable life. She had also hoped that Jeb was somewhere suffering horribly in hospital and... and then… there was the thought that never left her alone; her sister Luna. She immediately attempted to block out the evil thoughts but they still came through.
'I love you Sol' she seemed to say, so real that Luna peered around to find the owner of the beautiful voice, expecting to see her sister somewhere out here in the sand but of course there was nothing apart from herself, her father and her two uncles.
'Go away, leave me alone' she thought desperately, shaking her head to rid herself of the voice.
'But I want to be with you Sol, you're my favourite person in the whole wide world, I love you big sister'
'Shut up!' she screeched in her own mind, her arm letting go from around Lizard's neck and swinging around to smack herself in the head, she let out an audible hiss of pain, not only had she just hit herself rather hard she had used her injured arm and whimpered as the ache flared up painfully in her hand and just below her shoulder.
"You ok?" Lizard asked as he felt the movement on her back and heard her whimper out in pain, immediately thinking someone had hurt her and his piercing blue his shot to Goggle who was walking beside him, who merely looked back at him in confusion.
"Yeah, I just moved my bad arm a bit too much" Luna mumbled before hiding her face in the back of his neck, Pluto whimpered to himself and reached out a large hand towards the small girl being carried by his older brother.
"Pretty… sad… happy nice" he wailed out in his odd and loud voice that never sounded human enough, Lizard tightened his grip on Luna's legs and moved out of the retarded man's reach, growling warningly at his brother.
Lizard stopped at the foot of the hill, looking upwards as if he was trying to assess it and after a moment he shrugged his shoulders lightly, trying to loosen her grip and let his strong hands release her legs and caused her to gently slip to stand on the rocky ground.
"Ya can walk from 'ere" he explained, too tired to carry her up the already challenging climb and settling for grabbing a hold of her small hand and pulling her close to him. He was rather wary of his tiny daughter being here, whether they were family or not he was still worried about her safety, even if they meant no harm someone like Hansel could still do damage if he hugged her too tightly.
He shook his head to clear his mind as he realised that he was being far too over protective, she would be fine, after all Pluto and Jupiter had been rough with her before, she was a strong little critter.
They were greeted by Hades who was standing at the large gaping entrance to the mines with one of his sons, Chameleon.
"Jupiter said you'd come, said you got somethin' for us" the family leader said as he watched the three men walk up the rocks towards them. Luna peered at him from where she clang onto her father's side and Hades' eyes widened slightly as he noticed her.
"Who's this li'l one?" he asked, crouching down to her level and pulling her to stand in front of him by her small hand as he instantly recognised her as one of their people's children, smiling at her sweet looking childlike face.
Lizard smirked, seemingly proud "She's my daughter" he replied, shock clearly appeared on Hades' face and his eyes looked more closely at the small girl's features as he tried to find some link to Lizard in there.
"How?" he asked confused standing up straight, Lizard had never had a real partner, Hades remembered though at one time there was a young mutated woman who showed interest in the clan fighter, but she had died from an illness years ago so she couldn't have been the mother, the only other women who the ones he captured… but they never lived long enough to give birth…
"It's a long story, I'll 'plain later" Lizard mumbled, obviously not wanting to explain his little mistake fifteen years ago.
Hades nodded at him before looking back at Luna "She does have your hair" he notified, seeing that the girl had the same light blonde that her father had once had when he was younger she even had streaks of silver setting in at an abnormal age like he had. "The eyes are all wrong though, must been the mother's" he muttered, knowing that no one in the family had those unique golden eyes.
"What's yer name angel?" he asked, this time addressing Luna directly, and she smiled up at him sweetly, trying not to let him see her malformed teeth too much.
"I'm Luna!" she squealed happily and he nodded, acknowledging it before standing up straight to converse with the men.
"She sure is a cute li'l thing" he concluded "So? I hear you got somethin' for me" he pressed; Lizard smirked and nodded his head toward the young woman in Pluto huge arms. The family leader took a few steps forward as he assessed his 'present' and Chameleon suddenly looked intensely more interested in where this was going.
"Papa, I'll take the pretty lady, ok?" the odd man with rock like skin asked, his eyes practically gleaming with excitement as he stared at the attractive woman.
"Yeah, you go make 'er nice and comfortable while I talk to our guests" Hades replied and then gave Lizard a demanding glance, obviously extremely curious about the small little thing that had just turned up with his cousin's sons. Chameleon nodded heavily and heaved the woman out of Pluto's arms before promptly disappearing into the darkness of the mines and down a small tunnel.
Hades lead Lizard, Goggle, Luna and a seemingly joyful Pluto through the dark tunnels into a rather large room that seemed to be a kind of lounge, a table in the centre was surrounded by large wooden creates that had been covered with large and heavy blankets in an attempt to make it more comfortable.
"So, how did this all happen?" he asked, sitting down and looking at the girl who was cuddling into her father's side as he sat opposite him.
Lizard let out a sigh and his hand raised up to pat Luna on the head as he tried to get his story straight "Started 'bout fifteen years ago, some couple came past our way and of course we got 'em, Pluto killed the man, I took the woman back wit' me ta play with and I 'spose I kept 'er longer than I shoulda. She got smart an' watched everybody to see where they were and when then she took her chance one day we were out huntin' again an' got out, made it all the way out of the desert, then all this time later, she" he jerked his head towards his daughter "She just came outta the blue, showed up one day sayin' she was my daughter, been livin' with me since" he finished, as his head absent minded stroked Luna's head.
Hades had listened fascinated, shock had flashed over his face when Lizard mentioned the time span between Luna being conceived and her arrival to the desert, he probably hadn't realised how old she was and had taken her to be much younger and then his expression had turned somewhat concerned towards the end of the story when Lizard had said that she had simply walked into the desert. By this time, two more of Hades' sons had appeared and joined them at the table a large childlike one that was disturbingly like Pluto but this one seemed to have more of an intellectual look about him, Hansel and a stocky built man with large pieces of flesh missing from his face, Stabber.
Luna couldn't help but stare at Stabber there was something disturbing about his deformed face that reminded her of how her own once looked, before it was completely destroyed by fire to be replaced by the transplant, she remembered how she had quite a lot of skin missing from around her mouth in a more distorted kind of cleft lip like her father had. He noticed and quietly growled low in his bulky chest as he past her to sit beside his father and Luna quickly looked away, and pretended to be more interested in Pluto, who was merrily playing with her long hair beside her, clutching at it up near her head and swishing it and watching as the long blond strands waved in the air.
Hades had been watching her silently for a moment before clearly his throat "Maybe I oughta take 'er to meet Suzie and Rags, they're 'bout her age, she'd like them" he announced and immediately saw the death glare on Lizard's leathery face, who must of thought that he simply wanted to pair Luna up with one of his younger sons "But course, that's if she wants to" he added quickly in a hope to calm down the over protective father.
Luna looked from Lizard to Hades and then back again before nodding "That sounds fun" she agreed, smiling happily towards the two men. She stood and followed as Hades lead the way down a smaller tunnel and she was well aware of the way Lizard was staring protectively at her as she disappeared from his sight.
The darkness of the mines didn't seem to bother Hades at all as he silently continued forward, and although Luna had been in the mines near the Test Village many times before, these seemed larger and more tightly packed which was just slightly unnerving for her. After journeying a little further Hades stopped next to a lamp that hung from the dark wall, the golden warm glow alighting him as he stared, almost angrily at her.
"What were ya thinking?" he demanded suddenly, folding his strong arms over his broad chest. "Don't you know they coulda kill you?" he asked but didn't give her time to reply before continuing with his little rant "It ain't clever to waltz into this place, even if your got our blood they could of killed ya before you told 'em"
Luna stared blankly at him for a moment "I knew that, in fact, Lizard wanted to eat me when we met" she muttered, meeting his strong gaze with her own determined look "But I had to get here, even if they killed me. I couldn't stay with… those people anymore, I hated it. So I would rather die than have to spend the rest of my life with idiots like them"
Hades chuckled lightly and shook his head "Ain't you scared of diein' at all?" he asked, as if bemused. The small girl continued to stared silently at him while she tried to think of the answer herself, she knew that she wasn't scare of dieing but rather of what there was after, unlike most people she wasn't frightened by the idea of there being nothing, in her opinion ending her existence would be a sort of relief, no more pain, no more anything. She wasn't scared of going to Hell either, she was already there surely, there was enough pain in this world that the prospect of being tortured for the rest of eternity couldn't be that much different from living the rest of her life in her own personal hell she had created for herself with her mother's help. The thing she was scared of was the possibility of meeting her sister again, even though that was something she wanted dearly, her sister would defiantly hate her for all of this and that was something she couldn't bare to face, the idea of her beloved sister hating her.
"No, I don't think I would care if I was going to die, it's going to happen anyway someday. So there's no point fighting it." She answered honestly, watching his expression carefully as he seemed to be taking it in. She giggled quietly and smiled at him, her small hands reached out and grabbing one of his large ones. "Hey, can I call you Uncle Hades?" she asked grinning happily at him, his eyes softened immediately as he was clearly taken by her cuteness once again and simply nodded. "Yay" she giggled again, and wrapped her arms around his body and hugged him tightly, noticing that he didn't smell as nice as Lizard did.
Hades seemed somewhat content with her explanation and turned around to continue the short walk through the tunnel, until he came to small door.
"Youngin's room" he told her before pushing the door open and striding inside and Luna quickly followed suit. The room was light by another small lamp sitting on top of a wooden chest and the majority of the room was took up by the two shabby mattresses lying on the ground, on one was a girl, it took Luna a few moments to actually work out she was a girl, she didn't look very feminine. She was probably around somewhere from ten to fourteen and was taller than Luna, more around Ruby's size, with messy short orange hair, a thin face and slanted dark brown eyes. She wore a plain yet dirty grey skirt and a dark blue baggy hoodie and appeared to be reading a tattered book, or at least looking at the pictures while on the other mattress was another body, concealed under a mounting of thick old blankets.
"Suzie" Hades greeted the girl; she looked up at him with her abnormal eyes and smiled before staring when she noticed Luna standing beside her father. "This is Luna, she's part of Jupiter's clan" he told her, seeing her confused expression before turning to the pile of blankets next to her.
Suzie saw where her father was looking and spoke aloud "Rags sleepin'" she said nodding towards the lump beside her.
"Well it's time he got up, ain't always time for sleepin'" Hades muttered moving forward and promptly kicking the person hiding in the blankets "Get up boy" he growled. The lump moaned out in protest to its rude awakening and slowly a boy immerged from the material depths groggily, his hand scratching at the back of his head and he glared at his father angrily. Luna could immediately see the reason behind his name, his skin seemed to range from pale to dark red in patterns that actually made him look like a rag doll and someone had made him out of different scraps of material. Like the other men in his family, his was built more in the upper body than in the legs and was somewhat stocky but not as much as his older brothers as he was younger, he had the same slightly slanted eyes as his sister but it wasn't as noticeable and Luna figured that they have the same mother but unlike his sister his hair was a light brown that fell scraggily to his shoulders.
"Play nice" Hades chuckled before leaving and closing the door behind him. Rags stared at her for a blank moment before standing up and shaking the blankets off of him to revile that he only wore a worn pair of jeans and nothing else. Suzie simply sat and stared at the blonde haired girl while her brother obliviously decided to investigate, he stalked forward with an unimpressed expression on his face, Luna stood her ground and glared at him, trying to work out if he was a threat or not. If he was going to attack or strike out at her, she would kick him in the balls, if he commented on her size she would kick him in the balls or if he poked the bone growths on her head, he'd receive a kick to the balls, either way the future for his genitals didn't look too good.
The fact that she only reached his chest didn't deter her as she eyed him cautiously as he looked her up and down.
"How old are ya?" he asked, surprising Luna, who suddenly found herself racking her brain for the answer.
"Fifteen-ish, sixteen" she shrugged absent minded, his face took on an expression of shock for a moment, as his father had when he had learned her age.
Rags face fell with distaste "Don't ya know?" he asked sceptically "Hmm, though ya were smart" he sighed as if he were disappointed. Luna snarled angrily at him, her lips curling back to show her teeth.
"What the crap?! Are you calling me stupid?!" she screeched enraged, Rags smirked at her; he was clearly amused by her reaction.
"Well yea" he grinned, rocking backwards on the balls of his bare feet with his arms behind his back. Suzie who had been silently watching giggled a little and smiled happily towards Luna. "Shame, I was hopin' you'd be smart, no other girls 'round here are" he explained, his cheeky expression still on his face.
"And there are how many girls around here?" Luna asked sceptically, the only girls who were anywhere near her age were Ruby and Melody.
"Her" Rags answered gesturing with his head towards his sister "She's got no brains at all" Suzie's somewhat cute looking smile had snapped into a glare at his words "An' Ruby, she's weird, always getting' in the way an' sayin' it's wrong to kill"
"Ruby is annoyingly observant" Luna stated with a small sigh, thinking back to all the questions the sweet brown haired girl always asked "But she is really sweet" she said in her aunt's defence "And what about Melody? Jupiter's youngest daughter?"
Rags' face instantly fell into a frown at the mention of the little girl "I don't like 'er, she's a li'l bitch" he muttered, and Luna could tell that he wouldn't say anything else about it, she wondered what had happened to make him dislike Melody so much, she was rather big headed and bossy but the only thing that she did that annoyed Luna was the way she treated her twin brother, Mars was a sweet little boy, a little too observant like his eldest sister perhaps but still a very nice child.
"Melody head butted Rags in the nuts" Suzie spoke up, seemingly trying to get revenge against her brother for calling her stupid with a slight smirk playing on her strangely thin face. The boy snapped around to snarl viciously at his sister as Luna began to laugh loudly at him.
"Aw, did little Melody win against you? How can a seven year old beat you?" she giggled "I mean look at you, strong, young… with a smell like a rotting corpse" she cackled merrily. Rags turned back to her growling angrily and lunged at her but missed as she dodged under his arm and dived down to crouch beside Suzie, hugging the thin girl to her own skeleton like body.
"Suzie, I think you've just become my new best friend" Luna chuckled while rubbing her face into Suzie's dirty red hair who simply grinned back almost evilly at her older brother. Rags glared at them, and was apparently trying to assess the pair, wondering if he could take on both of them. Suzie's giggles abruptly stopped when she saw the furious expression on his face and she shank behind her new friend fearfully. Luna suddenly stopped laughing when she saw him moving closer, she quickly reached up under her hoodie and pulled out her hammer, clenching it tightly in her small hand and snarling at him.
"Come closer and I'll crack your nuts" she threatened viciously, bearing her teeth angrily at him. Rags stopped in mid step seemingly surprised by her actions and he was obviously more than worried about what she could do to his genitals with that hammer. He glared at her for a moment before admitting defeat.
"Fuck you bitches!" he snarled as he stomped out of the room and slammed the door loudly behind him. Luna merely burst back out into nosily laughter and Suzie joined in with her own quiet giggles of joy.
"Rags always like that, he's kinda a bully" she sighed as she slowly calmed down, as did Luna. "Ya live with Ruby?" Suzie asked moving from cowering behind Luna to sitting beside her in order to properly have a conversation.
Luna nodded "Yeah, I live in the Test Village with Ruby, she's really nice" she answered, watching Suzie think, apparently working out what to say next.
"I like Ruby" Suzie said quietly, Luna felt somewhat sorry for her; she seemed to be the only female in these mines, apart from the captured women, and the only other girl around her age was miles away. "I like you too, what yer name?" Suzie asked, apparently she had already forgotten or simply hadn't been paying attention earlier.
"Luna" the blonde girl replied, Suzie nodded as she took this new information in.
"Pretty name" the red haired girl said. "Not seen you before, don't ya wanna come out or do you always stay with Big-Mama and Jupiter?" she asked curiously.
Luna's face fell slightly "Um no, I only came here a year ago, I was born outside the desert" she explained as simply as she could so Suzie would understand.
Suzie's eyes instantly widened in shock "Yer an outsider?! But you look like us…" she trailed off clearly staring at the horn like growths that sprouted from the girl's head.
"Yes I know, but I am like you, my mother was an outsider, she escaped from Lizard and managed to get out of the desert alive" Luna explained quickly to calm the younger girl before she panicked too much, Suzie lowered her eyes and her mouth let out a soft 'oh'.
"So, you've been outside, right? What's it like?" she asked, now very curious and she watched Luna intently for a reply.
"Well, it's so much bigger than this desert, and there's all kind of different places" she tried to explain, which she found actually incredibly hard to describe to a person who had never know anything but the desert
"What kind of places?" Suzie asked, as if mystified by what her friend was saying.
"Well some places have forests of green trees, trees as tall as the hills here and everything is green and bright." Luna began while concentrating.
"What's the ocean?" Suzie quickly cut in "I read 'bout it in a book, what's it like?"
"Well, it's like a giant and really deep river, and it seems to go on forever"
Suzie shook her head in disagreement "It ain't possible, water can't be that big, cause if it was when it rains it would wash away everythin'" she stated as a matter of fact. "Also if it was that big, then nobody would die from bein' thirsty"
Luna giggled "It is, but you can't drink it, it's salty and it would make you sick" Suzie seemed to be contemplating this information, and her head slowly nodded.
After a while of questions they had fallen into a silent, although it wasn't an uncomfortable one and Suzie seemed to be slowly drifting off to sleep while reading an old and tattered book. Luna decided to find out what had happened to everyone else and stood up and quietly left the room. As soon as she stepped out into the tunnel she shivered, realizing it must be dark outside since it was so cold. She walked down through the tunnel looking for some sign of life when she heard laughter coming from somewhere, she followed the sound until she came to a opening to the dark night outside, shivering again she looked around and soon spotted a group of men standing by a cliff edge in the dark, with only a hand held lantern for a small amount of light.
"There's my lil girl" she heard Lizard call and she suddenly found herself walking towards him into the light, he reached down and easily, too easily for her liking scoped her up and held her against his body but she couldn't help but lean into his warmth. Looking around she noticed that her father, Goggle, Pluto, chameleon and Stabber were standing around a large trunk on the ground , and it was moving with muffled sounds coming from inside.
"What's in there?" she asked, although she already could guess what the answer was. Chameleon sniggered.
"Nothin' just old papers an' books" he replied cheerfully before looking away from the trunk and giving her his full attention. "We hear yer been playin' with our li'l Raggies" he chuckled, clearly amused that his younger brother had been easily defeated by a tiny little girl.
"What's his problem anyway?" she asked looking around at the men and then to her father who was smirking at her.
"The boy thought ya just a li'l brat then he got a shock when ya turned against him, never seen a girl as tough as you before" Lizard explained, seemingly very pleased with how that meeting had worked out.
"Boy was an idiot ta under estimate anythin' that spawned from Lizard" Chameleon muttered before nodded at his brother, Stabber let out a short cackle and roughly kicked the trunk to the edge of the cliff and then with a sadistic grin and a finale thrust of his leg, it went flying downwards.
Luna smiled as the rest of them had broken out into loud laughter, and rested her head against her father's chest, listening to the rumbling from his laughs and she looked down the cliffs and noticed something, sitting up slightly in Lizard's grasp she pointed down the hill side.
"The um, papers and books are escaping" she stated while giving Chameleon a stern expression and then looking back to the figure that was desperately trying to clamber away after managing to break free of the trunk on the way down.
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Cybil kitty- Here's a VERY long chapter since I haven't been updating a lot, I'm tired and it's now 2:29 AM, time for sleep I think... by the way, this is important, Suzie isn't mine, ok? She was in the graphic novel and doesn't belong to me, and like all other characters that could have been interesting she was killed quickly when a tank blew up and sort of took her with it. Rags is mine though, and the name actually came from my friend's dog, he was orignally Ragamuffin, but that was simply too adorable for his character so I changed it. One last thing, I think Luna has just a slight obsession with male genitals, wouldn't you agree?