Chapter 7 - Who Did This to Me? I Want A Trial!

/\/\/\-**-/\/\/\ Jack /\/\/\-**-/\/\/\

Jack opened his eyes and looked at the alarm clock, "7:00 A.M.!?" He said sitting up, "Gosh how'd I wake up so late?" He stood up and scratched his ear, he stopped when he felt a sort of ring attached to the top of his ear.

"What?" He followed a chain that was connected to the ring and felt a little bump in the middle of his earlobe, "What?" He asked again only a little more confused.

He stopped when he saw something yellow in the corner of his eye he turned to his left and walked over to the mirror, "AHHHHH!!!!!!"

ß ~~à ~~~ß ~~à The Mall ß ~~à ~~~ß ~~à

The camera zooms in on a dark and windy second floor of the mall and all of the mallrats come out of their rooms.

"What in the world." Bray and Martin said in unison as they walked out of their rooms.

"I don't know." Selene said as her and Ryan walked out of their room.

"It came from Jack's room." Danni said walking out of her room and down the stairs, "I'll go check it out." She said and walked into Jack's bedroom.

"Ok." Bray said and turned to Amber, "You go check too."

Amber shook her head. She jumped down to the first floor and walked into the scientist's room.

"Ahh!" Came another scream from the room and Bray heard a fall.

KC turned to Dal, Chloe, Ebony, and Lex and then they all started laughing.

"OH MY GOSH!" Amber yelled out and looked out the door, "Jade!"

"Yeah?" Jade said walking out of his room with his head in his hands.

"Come here." Amber called out.

ß ~~~.~~~à Another Meeting ß ~~~.~~~à

**The Camera fell on the scene of the front of the mall the sun shining through the window as all of the mallrats gathered at the foot of the stairs, the leaders (Danni, Bray, and Martin), the two city security guards (Ebony and Amber), and the sheriff of the city (Lex) stood in a row by the statue that laid in the middle of the room, sobs could be heard coming from Jack's room and Jade was sitting by Amber**

"Now…" Bray began as softly as he could, "I want to know… who stripped and died Jack's hair?"

"And who pierced his ear and his nose?" Martin asked walking up to the group.

"Be honest." Tai San said walking up to Bray, "Look what you've gone and done to him… he won't come out of his room… he won't eat."

"All we want to know… is who did it?" Danni said crossing her arms and leaning on one leg.

"Please…" Amber said stepping forward, "We don't want to hurt you."

"Let's just pick out the people we know won't do it and get this problem solved." Lex said with a big frown smeared across his face, "You forget… I got a city to run."

"Ok." Amber said and pointed at Selene and Ryan, "You two… I know that neither of you would have done it… am I right?"

"I'd never even think of doing a thing like that." Selene said standing up, "And Ryan's just as harmless as me."

"Ok… you two can move to the left side of the room." Martin said and they did.

"Patsy and Chloe wouldn't do it." Bray said and smiled as the two girls walked over to Selene.

"KC has no reason." Ebony whispered to Lex.

"KC…" Lex started, "Has no reason to do it."

"Ok… go KC." Amber said and the boy walked over to the left side of the room.

~~~~~~~~~~ 30 minutes later ~~~~~~~~~~

"This is getting us nowhere." Danni said looking at all of the people on the left side, "Who did it." She said and looked at the empty right side.

"I don't know." Bray whispered, "Ok only the tribe leaders, Ryan, Selene, the heads of city security, Jade, Dal, Tai San, and the sheriff are aloud to visit Jack from on now… until we find out who did it."

"Fine by me." Glenn said wrapping his arm around Patsy's waist and they walked into their room.

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"Jack you there?" A voice rang from Jack's door.

Jack turned to see Ryan standing in the doorway, "What is it?" He asked wiping tears from his eyes.

"I got a present for you." Ryan walked up to Jack and pulled a pile of papers from his jacket and handed them to the young scientist, "I've been trying to find the time to give it to you…"

"What is it?" The boy said observing the words printed across the paper.

"It's the formula to the antidote." Ryan said pointing at a small subtitle in the middle of the paper, "I wanted to give it to you only… well because you're a scientist and you seemed like the only one, here, able to make it."

Jack jumped into Ryan's arms and hugged him, "you know you can be very smart at sometimes…" He then stopped and pulled away, "Does anyone else know about you having this?"

"Only one other person… Selene." Ryan said smiling at Jack.

"Ok. Let's go eat breakfast… I think I'll out and eat with the others." Jack said setting the papers carefully into his desk and then the two of them walked out of the room.

ß ~~à ~~~ß ~~à The Mall ß ~~à ~~~ß ~~à

"So you decided to join us Jack?" Tai San said, she walked over to Jack and wrapped her arms around his shoulders, "Come… sit by me."

"Ok." Jack said sitting at one of the tables in the café.

"I'll get your food." Lex said walking out of the room and Dal followed quickly behind him.

***##~~~~~~##*** In the Kitchen ***##~~~~~~##***

"Quick Dal's coming." KC said and handed Lex a plate of food.

"Thanks… we wouldn't be able to do this without you KC." Lex said grabbing the plate and turned to see Dal, "You got it?" He asked in a hurry stuffing a tiny vial into his pocket.

"Operation F. P. in progress." Dal said handing a tiny bottle to Lex.

"Ok… let's do this." Lex said with Jack's plate in his other hand.

"He won't feel to good after this." KC said smiling and walked out of the room leaving Lex and Dal to do their stuff.

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"So Jack… when you find out who did this to you what are you planning to do to them?" Patsy asked sitting down by the bleach-blond boy.

"I don't know… Amber said she's going to put them on trial just as soon as they find out." Jack said running his hand through his hair.

"So why haven't you taken out your piercings yet?" Chloe asked sitting on the other side of Jack.

"Because their locked on, for some reason Amber couldn't get them off… in other words… I'm stuck with them." Jack said and Lex laid a plate in front of Jack.

"Eat up!" He said and walked out of the room with Chloe following closely behind him.

-~~- Dal, Chloe, Lex, and KC -~~-

"So… Lex did you put it in there?" Chloe asked walking up to the trio of pranksters.

"Yup." Lex said, he took out the vial and handed it to Dal, "But not enough to kill him."

"Good." Dal said putting the vile in his pocket and smiled slyly, "By tonight… the stupid scientist will never know what hit him."

Lex walked out of the kitchen and into his room, leaving the other three alone.

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"I'm worried about Jack." Bray said looking at the others.

"He'll be fine." Amber said looking at Ebony, "Where's Lex?"

"He said he was going to get an early rest and then head out on the streets and begin the search… if Jaffa's out there… we got to find him."

"She's got a point Bray." Danni said turning to Bray, "There's no telling what that crazy loco's up to.

"I know… but we don't want to put all of the other tribes into a panic." Bray said and looked at Ebony, "What do you suggest we do?"

"I think we should… send out the militia and cover all grounds around and about the city… we should gather and unite with all of the other tribes… that includes the mozzies, locos, demon dogs, the lot!" Ebony said standing up, "We should make a new supreme court and search everywhere and as far as we can go for Jaffa… well what do you think?"

"I think it's an excellent idea." Martin and Bray said and stood up.

"But will it work?" Amber asked also standing up.

"Of course it will." Lex said and they put their hands together.

"So it will be!" Ebony said and they walked out of the room.

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Well that's the end of this chapter… J-G-S-N-T ^.^