Author's Note: HAH! I bet you thought this was dead didn't you? What's that? No? I knew that you also knew it was a hiatus! Besides, how could I abandon something that so many people love? Oh yes, and we're going back to normal lengthed chapters. Except for special occasions.
Disclaimer: I don't own Life is Strange or any of the OCs except my own, However I do own the plot of this story.
"Well if I'd known you were waiting for me.." Andrea said flopping onto an empty seat. "I would have taken longer~" She chuckled. The redhead scanned the faces around her, on one side sat people she recognized, Robbie, The Trap, Caroline, Squirrel Girl, and Saranus. On the opposite side however, sat quite the collection of characters she didn't know.
There was one girl who looked way to expensive to be here, she had her eyes shut for some reason, and she was flanked by some white haired kid who didn't look like much.
Then there was this guy with dark skin and hair, not unlike Trap City over there, and he had long hair tied into a ponytail. Surprisingly it suited him, almost made him handsome to Andrea. Could have used a beard to tie it together though. She thought. He was flanked by some stoner looking dude, he seemed pretty chill.
Then there was this Asian chick, she looked pretty hot, nothing really more to say there.
Then there was this one girl with her hair pushed to the side who was giving Andrea the look like she was checking her out. Andrea, in response, looked at her, give a smirk, and made two scissors with her hands. She stealthily, but in a way so that she could see, put her fingers together. And like that Andrea got the response she was looking for; the girl flushed red and turned away out of embarrassment. Andrea caught her eye one more time and winked before turning back to the rest of them.
Finally there was a guy who was trying to give Robbie a run for his money as Edgelord. And Andrea thought it a good time to say so. "Man." She pointed at edgelord 2.0. "And I thought he was Edgy!"
This got a few laughs from some of the more nervous members, and Andrea suddenly felt a feeling in her head. It wasn't much, kinda like a heavy weight on her head. But Andrea had been around these weirdos long enough to figure out what was happening. "OK, which one of you can read my thoughts?" She demanded, crossing her arms. "I'll give you five seconds to get out of my head."
Everyone stopped talking with each other to look at her, all except for the one expensive looking girl, who kept her eyes closed. Oh, I see. You want to see what's in my head, hmm? Well, how about this. Andrea brought every single horrible thing she had done in her life to the forefront of her mind. Blood and gore and just general red filled her head. Fuck. You.
The expensive girl's eyes snapped open and she ran out of the room, covering her mouth. Andrea smirked and leaned back. "Told you to leave, do you need someone to hold your hair, sweetheart?" She called as the girl rushed out of the room, desperately looking for somewhere to toss up her lunch.
Saranus glared at her. "Andrea, stop alienating our potential allies. You know as much as I do that we need all of them."
Andrea rolled her eyes. "Fine, whatever."
Saranus
Now that she's pacified..for the most part. Saranus thought, turning to the assembled group. "Now I know what you're wondering..." He said as Lillian came back, looking a sickly green.
"She's the fucking Vampyre." Lillian said, pointing at Andrea. "Why the fuck is she here?" She demanded, looking at Saranus as Shaun's group erupted into confused and concerned murmurs. All except for Shuan himself, who stood up and approached Andrea.
"Does this girl-" He produced a small picture from his coat pocket "-mean anything to you?"
Andrea looked at it for a moment, considering. "Hmm, should I?" She asked, leaning back. "My usual killing pattern is dudes if you didn't know. And even if that wasn't true, I have no idea who that is."
Shaun glared at her for another moment, his eyes glowing softly. "Goddamn it." He whispered, stepping away from the redhead. "Fine...Thank you.." His words were backhanded.
Andrea smiled, her pearly white teeth stunning everyone. "Any time." She hissed, venom in every syllable.
As Shaun returned to his seat next to Johnny, Saranus took the opportunity to talk. "I have gathered you all here in what is a matter of life and death." Saranus wished that he had time to create a presentation for this, but he had to work with what he had. "Let me start over. As some of you know, and most of you don't, I'm Saranus. I have the ability to see into the future. My visions aren't always one-hundred percent accurate, but this time... I know it's true. Myself, my friend Robbie here, and the girl you all know as The Liberator, Andrea, all experienced the same vision. The Town, Hell, maybe even the world is going to set on fire."
He allowed the information to sink in for those who didn't already know.
"What are we supposed to do about it?" Lillian asked.
"Yeah, I hate to agree with Lillian, like, a LOT, but there's going to be a fire. Fire's happen." Kathrine said.
"Not this one." Saranus said, his tone warning. "If my vision is right, then this fire is going to be The Hurricane 2.0." He said and everyone, even Andrea, shuddered at the mention of the event.
Hurricane, originally Tornado, Lilith, had torn through much more than just Arcadia bay. She was just a small part of a much more massive event that had ripped apart much of the West coast. Arcadia just got hit the worst. And, though many of them were young when it happened, almost all of them had a pretty bad experience ten years ago.
"Then how do we stop it?" Shaun's Australian tones cut through the silence left by Saranus' cryptic message.
"Yeah." Mace's own Australian accent agreed. "How, genius?"
Saranus stared ahead. "We can't stop it from happening, mostly because I don't know how it starts. But we can stop it from being too bad. Because I know where it starts." With that, Saranus pointed outside the window to the forest outside.
"OUTSIDE MY HOUSE?" Caroline demanded, scared. In her shout she had frightened her pet Cat, Rats, who had taken off down the hall.
Everyone except Andrea facepalmed. Andrea just shook her head and laughed. "No..swee- No, Caroline. He means the forest in general. So, it will eventually get to your house."
This seemed to placate her, and Saranus returned back to seriousness. "Yes, I know for a fact that the forest out there is where it's going to begin. Until the time when it does though, I have a second operation for you all." He explained. "I know that most, if not all of you are wondering where your powers came from, I am too. Which brings me to this." He paused. "I think we need to look at the town's history to figure out where exactly all of our powers are coming from. Think about it, ten years ago a freak tornado hits Arcadia Bay, and ten years later some young adults are getting weird powers? I think these have a correlation."
"And.. What does that mean for us?" Lillian asked.
"Well, to put it to you simply I'll be dividing us up into teams. These smaller teams will have the jobs of looking in different spots for information, and they'll have the responsibility to use their powers for the benefit of Arcadia Neo. See a pickpocket? Take him out. Accidentally stumble across a murder or rape? Deal with the situation. And if you see one of the Stormers..." He looked at Shaun, who stood and took center stage.
"Try and find out what you can about this girl." He said, showing off the picture for all to see. "This is something of a personal project for me, you find anything you tell me directly, got it?" Everyone nodded, but Saranus was left wondering how many of their...less savory characters would keep their word.
As Shaun sat back down, Saranus quickly started talking again. "Now, everyone share phone numbers with each-other. We all need to stay in contact with each other, especially with this next part. If anyone sees anything that even looks like a fire, I want to know all about it. Send everyone a group text, and we'll all converge to your location." He stared everyone right in the eye as he spoke, then he began sharing his number with anyone who didn't already know it.
Things went fine until everyone got to Andrea. "I don't own a cellphone." She shrugged. "Guess I'll just have to use whoever's is closest to me."
"That's an issue, but we'll deal with it later." Saranus said. "Now, here are the groups as I have them."
"Me, Robbie, and Mace will be on firewatch for the most part. We'll be patrolling the forest as best as we can, looking for anything that could be a fire. Lillian, Kathrine and Adel-"
"No." Adelaide said almost instantly. "I hate Lillian and I'd die before being with her. Put me with someone else."
"I could take her place if you want..." Lloyd said, brushing some of his white hair out of his face.
Saranus sighed. "Fine, alright. Lillian, Lloyd, and Kathrine will be on a team. Up next, Caroline, Shaun, and Andrea, I'm putting you on their team to maybe keep Andrea on a tighter leash."
Andrea chuckled, interrupting Saranus. "Oh I'd like to see that."
"Anyway. Johny-"
"Can I be on Shaun's team? He's my bud." Johnny asked.
"Oh my God! FINE!" Saranus yelled. "I don't want to hear any more objections!" He snapped. "Inori and Adelaide will be on a team together!"
Inori opened her mouth to protest, but a look from the black teen shut her up.
Suddenly, Robbie was speaking, but he seemed to be in a daze. "Can I be part of a team too?" He asked.
Saranus, hell, everybody, looked at him weirdly. "Robbie you're already apart of a team."
"Oh, sorry. I don't really understand it myself but, I'm not Robbie. I'm just, borrowing his body.."
LIFE IS FULL OF STRANGERS
Episode Two
Just Like Fire
Author's Note: Boom baby! EPISODE TWO LET'S GO! Welcome back my friends and followers, welcome back to the LiFS Cult! Old school fans (or people who actually read this part of my Author's Notes) will get that. So, as we wind back into the school year I will be getting back into typing more and more. So, now it's time for reviews!
Guest: Don't have an account but really enjoy this fic. But it looks like it might be a dead one.
Really hope it isn't.
Me: HAH! (Mark Hamill's Joker voice) You must be new around here! This is the norm for me! (no more voice)
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Boop:
Woo! We've passed the 1 year mark. Here's to another action-packed year of this fic.
Me: Oh yeah! I've got a lot more stuff to do for this fic, you guys just wait!
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TheDreamSketchCrew: Yo, Joker! I just got back from my trip to Florida and I've really been enjoying P!atd's songs along with Shotgun by George Erza. You should listen to them. Besides that, I'm surprised to see the rent-a-cop return! And he's actually evolved into a real cop! That's kind of worrying because we have nothing but weirdos. A delinquent, a stoner, a girl talking to squirrels, a vigilante man and an actual serial killer. Hopefully, he's not as... anal about surveying others otherwise he'll learn about powers pretty quickly.
Anyway, sorry to hear about the loss of your saved data. That's actually part of the reason I gave up trying to write stories. Keep up the good work, Captain Spirit.
PS: I'm not so good at theories.
Me: I hope your Floridian trip was full of sun and fun! I've also listened to some P!atd, but they aren't my absolute favorite band. Y'know I was waiting for someone to bring up David, but I was shocked to find that not many people noticed when I name dropped him for the first time. Yes, our David is evolving!
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Your Rent-a-Cop has evolved into a Sheriff! (pokemon music!)
Jokes aside, we do have a ton of weird people as our main cast, on the bright side David wasn't able to legally put a security camera on every single street corner, and he kinda mellowed out with age. Don't worry about me loosing save data too much, at least it wasn't a whole chapter... Like that one time...
Also I understood that reference... I should really get around to playing that at some point..
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LostValkyrie: Didn't want to be annoying by pointing out on the sudden disappearance of my OC, but is understandable with a total of 15 OC's, whilst also trying to keep a cohesive story going.
Normally, I'd include some constructive criticism for you, but there isn't anything noticeable to fault in this chapter. Damn.
Glad to see improvement, especially across the last few chapters.
Me: I...totally didn't forget! I was planning for him to have a big appearance in Episode two! (yeah..yeah he'll believe that...)
Uwu does that mean I'm getting better? I knew fanfiction would have that effect on me eventually!
Thank you by the way, for all of the criticism across the chapters. It really helps me to improve!
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iamgoku: So episode one comes to a close!
I am so excited for episode 2
Looks like the two factions are coming together, this can only lead to good things, no arguments or clashes of personality...(breaks down laughing) ok, that was sarcasm, I know there's going to be a bit of bumpy initial contact before the two groups can work well together.
Great work on this episode as a whole
Me: Yep, it took some time, but it's over!
Here's our first chapter of 2
HA! Saranus might have gotten them together and put them on teams, but even in small teams you can smell the conflict (seriously, Kathrine and Lillian on a team together? Not the best move).
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Episode Two's song is Light 'Em Up by Fall Out Boy.
Well, that's all so
Until Next Time True Readers!