Chapter 33: Rage
B/N: Just letting you know, this is going to be another long chapter. I started to realize that I spread out into too many chapters and I want to have another long one. This chapter will take over a course of time with time skips but not big ones.
I'm also aware on the mobile app for , break lines don't appear. That's why I use bold text for when there is a change of setting, character monologue POV, and time. I am also trying my best to keep a consistent story line so I apologize if things seem confusing to you.
I don't want to bable on for too long so... let's start the chapter.
Enjoy!
The dark presence in Arcadia Bay has grown even stronger. The darkness gained a powerful ally, and the powerful ally can control Arcadia Bay like a puppeteer controlling a marionette. However, the darkness has a enemy, the light. The light must learn how to control their powers to turn the darkness into shadows. In between the battle of darkness and lightness, innocence lies. In every situation, darkness always attacks the innocence. The innocence can be a child, an adult, or even a elder. They have no clue what's going on and they're stuck in the cross fire.
Max, Chloe, and Rachel carry all the lives of Arcadia Bay and the future of the reality on their teenage shoulders. Two friends along the way will help. One of the friends is Frank Bowers. Frank plays an important role in the grand scheme of the situation. He is the guide of the three teenagers, he is the one that will protect. After the beach incident, Rachel drove Frank's RV far away as possible from the beach. It was parked in the inland part of Arcadia Bay, close to Overlook Park. Before they dropped the RV off, Rachel drove back around to the beach so Chloe could get her truck. They needed her truck so Max, Chloe, and Rachel had a ride home after they made sure Frank was okay.
Pompidu was not hurt in anyway by Zeitdämon. He was only knocked unconscious. Frank on the other hand didn't have it so lucky. He beat up by Leo and Skylar, they did some damage to him. The only severe injury was a broken nose and a swollen eye. He was taken to a hospital. Over the night, Frank was visited by Arcadia herself. She told him that he's very important for the future of everything. His role was to protect the girls and be their guide almost. Frank was also told to show up for their training. At first like anyone would be like, Frank thought he was dreaming. What proved to him that he wasn't was when he hit himself to wake up, he actually felt the pain from the impact. Arcadia also helped him realize he wasn't dreaming.
Ryan and Vanessa Caulfield finally came home from their vacation. They were hoping to come home to their old happy small town but they came home to something else. Dead people back from the grave. Ryan and Vanessa got to see William again. They had the same reaction as everyone else did, shocked, scared, and confused. It wasn't like they weren't happy to see him though. They met Rachel who also admitted she was dead. Lydia still being oblivious to everything just thought the dead people were people who returned from a trip. She of course was very happy to see Ryan and Vanessa.
The day for their training has finally come. Since Blackwell gives long breaks, it gives Max, Chloe, and Rachel enough time to train and learn how to use their powers properly.
FUTURE
January 31st, 2014
Arcadia Bay Lighthouse
Chloe
Waves were crashing against the rocks, the wind blew into screams, the lighting flashed into memories, thunder rumbled in anger, and the rage grew more. Rachel's rage grew more and more. Everything in her life has been a lie to her. Max laid unconscious on the ground with blood coming from her head and small piece of debris was laying next to her head with a blood stain. A swirling wind surrounded Rachel as she floated above the cliff edge. Chloe was watching horror as a another tornado headed slowly towards Arcadia Bay. This time, the tornado was caused by Rachel and her powers.
All that rage that was built up from the lies was unleashed. Wait where's Max?
Chloe looked down at the ground where Max was laying unconscious on the snow ground, blood coming out of her head.
"Oh my fucking god, Max!" Chloe cried as she ran towards her unconscious lover. She bent down to shake her to see if she's awake or even alive. "Max are you okay. *sniff* C'mon wake up.".
"*moan* Chloe?" Max opened her eyes slightly and moaned in pain.
"It's okay Max I'm here." Chloe cried tears of joy.
"Y-you h-h-ha-h-hav-ha-have t-to c-c-ca-cal-calm R-ach-Rachel d-down." Max stuttered in pain as she once again lost conscious.
"MAX PLEASE NO! I CAN'T LOSE YOU!" Chloe cried in fear.
Just breathe Chloe. Remember what Arcadia taught you. I can help Max with what I learned after I calmed Rachel down.
Chloe headed towards the bench and stood on top of it hoping it would make her voice louder over the screeching winds.
"RACHEL! CALM DOWN PLEASE! I GET YOU'RE HURT BECAUSE YOU FOUND OUT MORE LIES ABOUT YOUR LIFE BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS. YOU HURT MAX FROM YOUR STORM!" Chloe hollered over the screeching winds.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER CHLOE! MAX GOT HURT BOO HOO. HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU GET HURT CAUSE OF HER. ALSO WHAT HAPPENED TO EVERYONE LIES NO EXCEPTIONS!" Rachel hollered back.
"PEOPLE CHANGE RACH! MAX CHANGED ME AND I'M BETTER NOW! THIS ISN'T LIKE YOU!" Chloe got sorrow stuck in her throat.
"... it now is." Rachel muttered under breathe.
PAST
January 15th, 2014
A Few Weeks After the Conflict on the Beach
American Rust, Arcadia Bay
Max
The junkyard in the winter had a different vibe. In the fall, spring, and summer it gave off a vibe of of excitement and wonder. There was so much junk to discover and guess who used the object before it became junk. However, in the winter it's a different story. All the junk is cold and dead. There is no vibrant energy in the junkyard. All what's present is dead silence. The junk does not give off the vibrance it does in the other seasons. All what the junk is in the winter is freezing dead dreams.
Max, Chloe, Rachel, and Frank were waiting in the cold. They were waiting for Arcadia to come like she said she would. Frank had explained to the girls how Arcadia visited him at night. They now knew they were all connected somehow to the future of all realities. Besides that massive thought, something else was bring tension to the group. Rachel's personality changed a lot. She's more violent and angry then she was before. At first everyone thought it was because she just came back from the dead. All though, William's personality hasn't changed at all and he came back from the dead. This concerned Max and Chloe. Rachel is a ticking time bomb holding so much anger inside of her and someday it will explode out of her.
Max and Chloe were sitting on the hood of an old junked car. They were huddled together to stay warm. Rachel was leaning against the old fridge that had one of the obnoxious bottles on them. Finally, Frank was sitting on the lawn he has. Out of boredom, Chloe was tapping her fingers on the hood of the car.
*tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap*
"Uhhgg! Where the fuck is this person!" Chloe broke the silence with her impatience.
"Jeez Chloe. I know you have bad patience but wowser." Max was astonished by Chloe's impatience.
"Hey it's hella cold out here. We're all freezing our asses off." Chloe complained.
It will never stop astonishing me how impatient Chloe can be sometimes.
"Can you shut up and stop complaining like a child?" Rachel barked at Chloe.
"Hey! That's why I love her." Max kissed Chloe. This was a passionate kiss that almost lead to the two of them making out on the cold car hood.
"*snap* *snap* This is not the place to smooch each other. I don't want to see that." Frank scolded them. Max and Chloe stopped kissing.
"Wow Frank who died you the kissing police. Also, you would want to watch us." Chloe called out Frank. Max laughed at what Chloe said and Rachel rolled her eyes.
"Umm... that's not true." Frank tried to hide his face as Max and Chloe laughed at him.
"*sigh* Why can't we have silence when you two are around?!" Rachel directed her frustration towards Max and Chloe.
"What the fuck crawled up your ass? You've been nothing but a bitch lately towards Max and I." Chloe called out Rachel's behavior.
Shit I need to stop this. Rachel getting angry will be very bad.
"Guys stop. Can we not do this, please?" Max asked with such innocence.
"Shut the fuck up Max! You're not involved in this discussion!" Rachel snapped at Max. With her anger, nature got angrier as well. Violent winds were slowly brewing up, blowing towards Max. It was a clear sky sunny day but clouds quickly moved in.
"Don't tell her to shut up! She did nothing wrong! She just wants to stop arguing but you keep fucking pushing it!" Chloe got up from the car hood and marched towards Rachel.
"Guys c'mon." Frank took a crack at calming them down. That did nothing.
"You really want to know what's wrong?! I just came back from the dead. I know that happened a couple weeks ago but getting over that is kind of hard Chloe. But of course you only think about yourself like you always did!" Rachel responded.
"Rach people change. I used to be fucking selfish as shit but now I'm not. You're also saying that you're different because you came back from the dead? My Dad came back and he's still the same! So what's really going on Rachel?" Chloe decieded to go even deeper into the problem.
Why does this have to be happening now. Fuck I have to stop this.
"Please guys. Can you stop arguing. It's all in the past now." Max got up from the car hood and got in between them.
"Yes Max you're right. It's all in the past now. Rachel can you understand that concept?" Chloe asked with frustration still in her tone.
"What did I fucking say Max! You're not involved in this damn conversation. Now can you stop being a nosy little fucking shit!" Rachel shouted at Max. The arguing kept escalating. It was to the point where their yells were echoing through out the surrounding forest.
It's time I stick up for myself. Let's hella do this Max. Plus if shit hits the fan, I can just rewind.
"I'm being a fucking nosy little shit Rachel! I'm just involving myself between you two so you guys can calm down. You have no right to snap at us like this. If it was your Dad, I would understand. But, we're both here for you. Just tell us what's wrong." Max stuck up for herself and Chloe. Chloe was surprised by the surge of confidence from Max. While hearing this, Rachel's anger grew more. The waves from the ocean got more violent, the winds blew harder, thunder rumbled, and the ground shook.
"YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND! NO ONE EVER WILL!" Rachel screamed. She threw a gust of wind at Max. The wind picked up Max and threw her into a pile of junk.
American Rust, Arcadia Bay
Chloe
*crash*
Max made contact with the junk. She was slammed against the old bus and landed in the pile of junk. Her cries of pain echoed throughout the junkyard.
"MAX!" Chloe cried out in fear.
"WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED!" Frank yelled in shock.
Why the fuck would Rachel do that?!
"WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU DO THAT! SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP!" Chloe hollered at Rachel. Rachel was standing still in shock at what she just done.
*clap* *clap*
Claps were heard. Standing on top of the junked boat, Arcadia was clapping. She had an impressed smile on her face.
"Great job Rachel! You're showing really good progress with your powers." Arcadia congratulated Rachel as she floated down from the boat towards the group.
"Thank you." Rachel came out of her state of shock when Arcadia showed up.
What the fuck?! Rachel was like in shock but when the angel bitch showed up she was all fine and dandy. Fuck that! I'm not having any of that bullshit.
"Are you fucking kidding me? She just threw Max with the god damn wind into the junk. How can't you hear Max's cries of pain. You know what, fuck you. I'm going to go help my girlfriend!" Chloe snapped at Arcadia. She turned around and started to head towards where Max had landed.
"How can you help her when she's injured?" Arcadia asked.
"How do you think. I'll take her to the damn hospital." Chloe replied in a smart ass tone.
"Chloe, listen to her." Rachel said in some sort of trance.
"Don't tell me what to do after you threw Max." Chloe said back.
"Chloe I would actually listen to her." Frank added but his tone didn't sound like he was in a trance.
"Fine I will." Chloe sighed as she climbed down from the junk she was climbing to get to Max. "What were you going to say?"
"Let me fetch Max for you." Arcadia closed her eyes in concentration. Max began to levitate from the junk pile she was in. She floated towards Chloe and was placed into Chloe's arms. Chloe fell to ground in rejoice that Max got out of the junk. Max had multiple broken bones from the impact. Her left leg was broken and slightly out of shape. Her right arm was completely broken. Finally, her head bleeding from the impact.
"Max?" Chloe's voice cracked from worry and sadness.
I can't fucking bare seeing her like this.
"C-Chloe? I-it h-hurts s-so much. I-I c-c-can't take i-it." Max stuttered in pain.
"Chloe, listen to me." Arcadia commanded.
"HOW CAN I FUCKING LISTEN TO YOU WHEN SHE'S FUCKING DYING IN MY GOD DAMN ARMS!" Chloe snapped.
"If you listen to me, you can help her." Arcadia responded, not even being bothered by Chloe's outburst. Frank was in the background in shock of what he was witnessing.
"How can I help her?" Tears began to go down Chloe's face.
"Take deep breathes and focus. Focus on her pain." Arcadia explained.
Can't believe I'm actually going to listen to her.
*inhale* *exhale* *inhale* *exhale*
Just focus on her pain. Like she said.
Suddenly, the pain went away from Max. Her bones were moved back to normal placement and her head stopped bleeding. Her facial expression didn't show pain anymore, it showed happiness.
"Holy fuck! Did I just do that!" Chloe exclaimed in excitement. "I just healed her!"
"Yes you did. That's the one part of your powers you don't know you can do yet." Arcadia responded. Max got up like nothing even happened. She then hugged and kissed Chloe.
"What the fuck just happened?" Frank was so aghast by what he just witnessed. "Max got thrown into the junk. Then the... whatever the hell your name is someone got Max out of the pile of junk. Then Chloe healed her and she got up like nothing even fucking happened."
"See Chloe, that's what happens when you actually listen." Rachel added.
Of course Rachel had to insert her two sense.
"Whatevah." Chloe couldn't think of a response because she was too damn happy that Max was now okay.
"We'll actually do some training now next week. Can all of you leave except for Rachel. I need to talk to her about something." Arcadia suspiciously demanded.
"Why can't we be here to hear it. We're all part of this." Chloe mentioned.
"Price can we please not start another argument." Frank sighed as he lightly face palmed.
"He's right Che. We shouldn't really start another argument." Max agreed with Frank.
"*sigh* Fine, whatever." Chloe just caved in. She was argued out for the day. Max, Chloe, and Frank all left in the respective motives of transportation, leaving Rachel and Arcadia alone.
Something is definitely going on.
Two Whales Diner, Arcadia Bay
January 25th, 2014
Chloe
It was five days since the altercation at the junkyard. Max and Chloe had picked up on Rachel's suspicious behavior. There was something going on that they didn't see. They both thought that it was the influence of Zeitdämon that was affecting her. Max and Chloe were eating at Two Whales the morning after they had another fun night. All though, with the fact of them having fun last night, their concerns about Rachel still were relevant.
"I wonder if Mom and David heard you last night. You got pretty loud." Chloe muffled with food in her mouth.
"Che, I can't understand you when you have food in your mouth." Max giggled at Chloe.
This will make her blush like crazy.
"What I said is I wonder if Mom and David heard you last night. You got pretty loud." Chloe repeated her statement. She was right, Max did blush from that.
"Why do you say things like that?" Max covered her blushing face in her arms.
"I'm sorry Mad Max, I guess I just have the magic tongue." Chloe stuck her tongue out.
"That I can't deny." Max threw it right back at Chloe, which caused her to blush as well.
Damnit she's learning from me. Anyway, we need to talk about what's important.
"I don't want to kill the mood but we have to talk about Rachel. There is some sketchy shit going on." Chloe brought up the main topic.
"Yeah there definitely is some sketchy shit going on. Like why the hell would Arcadia want us to leave? She's supposed to be helping us all, right?" Max added as she took a sip of her sweet life blood also known as coffee.
"That was hella strange. It's like what the fuck! We need to get to the bottom of this. Either it's Arcadia is up to something or it maybe Zeitdicks behind it." Chloe theorized.
"I honestly believe that. It's just that shit in Arcadia Bay has been getting weirder and weirder. Did you hear that strange stuff Sean Asscott said on TV?" Max asked.
Ha, she's catching onto my nicknames for people.
"No, what did he say?" Chloe asked.
"He said something about a new business partner. Her also said something about big changes coming to Arcadia Bay. I had no clue what he meant by that." Max explained.
"That's fucking weird." Chloe responded. Max and Chloe were sitting in their usual booth in their usual seats. Max could see the bar and the rest of the diner. Something caught her attention, a man was staring at them, watching them. Every time this man would go to take a drink of his coffee, he would put his wrist really close to his mouth.
"Che." Max whispered. "There's a man sitting at the bar staring at us. I think he's watching us.".
"What the hell, look at the kitchen. One of the cooks is also watching us. He's not one of the usual ones that work here." Chloe then noticed the chef staring at them.
"I'm getting paranoid now. Can we leave? We're done eating." Max's nerves got to her.
"Yeah lets jet." Chloe agreed to leave. They paid for their meal and left. While they were leaving, both the man and the chef watched them as they left.
"They left the diner." The man said into his wrist.
"Make sure you keep track of them. We can't lose them. We need to see what they're up to. If you can't do this, you have no use to me." A voice said into an earpiece in the man's left ear. That voice was Sean Prescott.
"I'll alert all the others who are on patrol in Arcadia Bay." The man responded.
"Very well, get to it. If you fail at this, you'll disappoint me and you will get... removed by Zeitdämon." Sean Prescott said in a deep sinister voice.
Lighthouse, Arcadia Bay
January 31st, 2014
Max
Their training was successful, they learned so much more about their powers. Max learned that she can freeze time like how she did when Kate jumped off the roof. Max also learned she can fast forward through moments she already lived through when she rewinds. However, that wasn't her full potential. Chloe learned that she can heal injuries of humans and animals. Though she can't bring them back to life. She also learned she can see future events, sometimes. This as well wasn't her full potential either. Something or someone was holding them back and they have no clue what it is.
After their recent training session, Rachel stormed off to go to the lighthouse for something. Max followed her to see what she was going to do. Chloe didn't follow right away because her and Rachel got into a pretty bad argument again. Arcadia didn't even try to stop it, she almost encouraged it. Chloe was going to come later when she was cooled down. As Max was following Rachel up the hill, the wind became stronger and thunder rumbled. It was winter so how was it possible for their to be a thunder storm. The only answer was Rachel and her powers.
The wind is getting so strong. I don't know how long it is until Rachel hears or see's me. I know she's not too happy at me either.
*SNAP*
Max stepped on a branch causing a loud snap. All the intense weather seemed to halt when Rachel turned around to see Max following her.
Shit she saw me.
"MAX WHY ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME! LIKE EVERYONE SAYS YOU'RE SO DAMN NOSY!" Rachel screamed at Max.
"I didn't follow you to spy on you to see what you were doing. I followed you because I'm concerned about you Rachel. You've acting weird lately and Chloe and I are really concerned about you. Please, just talk to me. Tell me what's wrong!" Max explained on the verge of tears.
"I DON'T CARE IF YOU CARE ABOUT ME! JUST LEAVE THE FUCK ALONE!" Rachel hollered as she walked towards the edge of the cliff. The weather was becoming more and more violent. "ALL WHAT EVERYONE DOES IS LIE TO ME! EVERYTHING IN MY GOD DAMN LIFE WAS A FUCKING LIE! YOU KNOW HOW THAT FEELS TO HAVE EVERYTHING YOU KNEW TURN TO BE ONE BIG FUCKING LIE!"
Rachel began to float over the edge of the cliff. Another dangerous tornado formed and was heading towards Arcadia Bay.
Fuck I need to rewind this.
Max stuck her arm out to rewind but something stopped her. She felt a massive pain from her head. Her vision became blurry. She looked up to see Rachel floating but in the distance behind the lighthouse was a glowing white light. Max was distracted by the white light.
What the fuck is that?
"IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE, THEN I'LL MAKE YOU LEAVE!" Rachel screamed. A piece of small debris was picked up from the wind and was heading straight towards Max's head.
"What... *thonk*" That small piece of debris hit Max in the head. She fell to the ground in pain but the debris hit wasn't the pain that was the worst. Something else was making her head hurt like crazy. The pain subdued Max into loss of consciousness.
Everything went BLACK for her.
PRESENT
Chloe
"THAT'S NOT YOU NOW! THAT WAS NEVER YOU RACH!" Chloe hollered back at Rachel.
"I'M ALWAYS GOING TO BE LIKE THIS. SOME FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT EVERYONE CAN LIE TO. YOU EVEN LIED TO ME!" Rachel cried.
What the fuck is she talking about. I didn't lie to her at all recently.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! I HAVEN'T LIED TO YOU ABOUT ANYTHING RECENTLY." Chloe yelled back in confusion.
"YOU TOLD ME THAT YOU'RE HAPPY I'M BACK. THE ONLY REASON YOU WANT ME BACK HERE SO I CAN HELP YOU WITH ALL OF YOUR BULLSHIT! FUCK THAT! I'M NOT LETTING YOU USE ME!" Rachel responded.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! I AM HAPPY YOU'RE BACK! WHO EVEN TOLD YOU THAT?" Chloe asked with concern. "JUST STOP THIS AND COME BY ME. MAX MIGHT BE DYING FOR FUCK SAKE RACH!"
"What the fuck am I doing? This is not me, Chloe is right. I need to stop this." Rachel thought to herself. Suddenly, the violent weather stopped and everything went back to normal. Rachel came down from floating and stood next to Chloe.
"Arcadia told me that. That's what she told me whens she asked you guys to leave." Rachel answered.
What the fuck! I knew something was up with Arcadia.
"We'll talk about that later. We're going to keep this between you and I, alright?" Chloe demanded. "For now, I'm going to go help Max.
Chloe went to help Max. Luckily, Max wasn't dead from the injuries she got. After Chloe healed her, they all left the lighthouse and acted like nothing happened. From the lighthouse, Arcadia watched them as they walked away.
"I shouldn't of let Chloe talk to Rachel. Max should be dead. Oh well, I will use... him to my advantage." Arcadia thought to herself.
"Very clever, you fucking whore. I will beat you. No matter if you're using those girls. I need Max, and she does as well. I'll take her from that fucking bitch. Jefferson! We're ready for one of the major steps." Zeitdämon announced to Jefferson.
"Yes my lord. I'll get started on the preparations, and I will have Blair help me." Jefferson replied as he bowed.
"Very well, Arcadia Bay is about to become a battlefield of time." Zeitdämon said.
A/N: I am very sorry about the big ass delay. I restarted the entire chapter because I didn't like how it went. I know this chapter didn't go the best way either because it was all over the place. I was in a rush to get it out for you guys.
A lot of exciting content is coming to Alternative: a Life Is Strange Story.
I don't want to give a too long of an explanation. But I am sorry about a poorly written chapter. Like I said, I felt rushed. Finally, I hope you have a nice day and thanks for reading :)