AN: Well, here you all go, your long awaited second chapter. Read and Review.
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Chapter 2: Backtracking
"...Nate..." a womans voice whispered in the the dead of night.
"...Nate..." she spoke again, shaking him. It was Elise,her face blue from the cold, and her eyes red.
Nate jerked up slowly, looking at her. The other riders were fast asleep, and the sun could be see barely poking up over the horizon. Nate stood up, and shook the snow free of his jacket.
"ALRIGHT EVERYONE, Lets get going!" he yelled. The sound sent most of the riders standing up in horror, everyone was on edge. Psymon just sat up, looking very pissed. Mac was chilled to the bone, he offered his jacket to Kaori as a blanket.
"How is Atomika?" Zoe asked, sitting up and looking around.
"His wound closed up, but the leg looks bad..its starting to turn all..dark.." Allegra whispered, not wanting to startle anyone. Nate shook his head, tapping Griff with his foot.
"Come on, we gotta get out of here."
After about twenty minutes later, they were back on the trail again. Moby wiped the cold sweat off of his brow, how anyone could sweat in these cold mountains, that was beyond him. He looked up a the low hanging dark clouds in the sky, he knew a really bad storm was on its way.
"Are you sure it was a good idea to backtrack, Nate?" Zoe mumbled, looking down the trail at their own footsteps.
"Well, Pete said that we were going the wrong way, I would think he knows the mountains better than all of us." Mac spoke up, a drop of irritation in his voice. Nate decided to stay silent one of his bad feelings were coming back. Psymon tried his best to keep a calm face as they snow began to fall harder, and the wind picked up.
"I hope we hit that mid station..nngh..soon, or else we are going to get caught in that storm.." Atomika winced, his leg was now completely numb, all he could feel was the pain in his chest now. Nate decided it was time he spoke.
"I dont think Pete was bluffing...he might be coming for us.." Nate said softly, not wanting to alarm them.
"So why in the fuck are you leading us right to him?" Psymon growled, everyone had stopped to listen to Nate.
"Think about it, he is outnumbered..if he is really going to kill us"- he paused and put his hood up, the snow around them begin to fall heavily, they had been caught in the storm they wanted to avoid- "..we can take him out, its not really that hard, we have numbers on our side."
Elise and Allegra nodded in agreement. Mac and Psymon however, weren't buying it.
"So what you sayin is you want us to take him on, straight up?" Mac said. Nate nodded.
"Man, thats whack, we dont know what he could have out here, he knows this place better than the trees" he spat, not moving any further.
"I say the redneck is setting us up for a fall, some mountain man code or something." Psymon grunted.
"I dont trust him, whoever dosent wanna end up on the evening news can head back with me." Psymon stated as he turned around, Mac, Kaori, and Zoe followed him. Nate began to get annoyed.
"DAMN IT STARK, STOP BEING A DICK. This isnt any action movie bullshit, this is real life!"he threw his hood back, letting the snow fall around him.
"We outnumber him ten to one!" Nate yelled.
"...Ten?" Griff stammered, the cold biting at his face.
"Yeah, Ten..." Nate said, his stomach sinking.
"I only see nine of us..." Griff squeaked.
Everyone stopped and began looking around counting in their heads, someone was missing. Zoe gasped and recounted, looking around frantically.
"WHERES MOBY!?" she yelled, running around looking at everyone.
"Wasnt he....oh shit.." Elise said, looking around as well.
"Hey..yo..no one has snowboarded up here, right?" Mac whispered from a little ways away.
"No one has..its off limits...why?" Nate questioned.
"..How come theres a line then?" Mac pointed to the line, it could of only been made by a snowboard cutting through, then it dawned upon them.
"..The son of a..." Psymon mumbled. "..he is snowboarding after us..."
"Since when did he snowboard!?" Zoe yelled, looking around for any sign of Moby.
"More importantly..where did he GET snowboard!?" Elise yelled, the wind was picking up and it was harder to hear their own voices.
"THATS MY FAULT! I HAVE A SPARE BOARD IN THE STATION!" Atomika's now raspy voice yelled.
"Thats not important, we lost someone and we have to find him!" Nate yelled, taking control.
Zoe and the other ran around like mad, calling Moby's name in the white flurry of snow that surrounded them.
"MOBY!!!" Kaori yelled, even Mac was worried about the Brit.
Then everyone paused, a scream ran over them like cold water. It was Zoe.
"NOOO!!! NO NO NO!!" Zoe yelled, on he knees in the snow, screaming.
Psymon quickly ran over, his eyes widen.
Zoe clutched Moby's body to her chest. Psymon was at a loss for words, he didnt know what to say, so he just said whatever came to his mind first.
"Is he...umm...okay?" Psymon mumbled, not prepared for the response.
"DOES HE FUCKING LOOK OKAY, STARK!?" Zoe dropped Moby's lifeless body, everything looked intact...except for the bloody gash where his head previously was. Psymon swallowed hard, looking at the surely dead Moby. Zoe looked away she couldnt stand looking at it.
"GODDAMN YOU PETE! DAMN YOU!" Zoe yelled, the other riders gathered around, the emotion between them was mixed of mourning and fright. They then knew, that Pete was dead serious about his threat.
Before Nate could rally the riders again, Zoe's M-comm beeped. Zoe knew exactly who it was, she hurried and picked up the call.
"PETE YOU FUCKING BASTARD! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" she screamed into the speaker.
"Heh...so I see you found Jones, eh?" Pete whispered into the comm. "I thought he needed a bit of a haircut.." Zoe began cussing incoherently, no one was sure what she was saying anymore.
"Wow, for someone with such a nice face, you cuss like you have a dick, Payne." Pete snorted, then spat, the sound of him spitting was enough to make Zoe stop.
"So, you kids thought I was joking when I said that yesterday? Heh...damn kids never believe anyone, do they?" he spat again "Just think of where you are...your on a a mountain..in a blizzard..no one but us knows your up here...do you think anyone would come to find you way up here? Better yet...do you think that little shit Atomika can survive long with that leg of his? Or are you too busy eating marshmallows.." Zoe had turned the speaker option on, all of the riders were hearing him.
"Just remember kiddies, in horror movies..the black guy always dies first..." he spat one more time. "Oh, and Zoe honey,dont bother trying to find Moby's head. It will make a nice hood ornament.." he hung up.
There was silence.
There was no sound other than that of the wind, and the sound of snow falling on Moby's corpse, Mac and Allegra were piling snow atop of it, a pitiful attempt at a burial.
Kaori began to cry.
"...How..how did he know Atomika's leg was hurt...we were..gone before then.." she whimpered.
"and...the marshmallows..how could he have..known.." Griff finished her sentence.
Nate tipped his hat.
"Ill bet anything he got Moby to tell before he offed him.."
Zoe jumped at Nate.
"MOBY WOULD OF NEVER DONE THAT!"
Psymon scoffed.
"I sure of hell would of.."
Elise shivered and rubbed her arms, the snow was beginning to pick up again. She looked down at her M-comm, then an idea hit her.
"Wait! If he is using Viggo's M-comm...we can track it and find out where HE is.." Elise pulled out her M-comm and called Viggo.
"If it rings, we will be able to track it.."
Everyone stood quiet...
Allegra blinked.
"Does..anyone hear that?..."
Mac nodded. "I know that song.." He began to sing to himself. "Way..away..away from here ill be...."
"Isnt that Viggo's ring tone?" Nate questioned.
"Yeah, it is." Allegra nodded.
"......Wait..if Elise is calling Viggo..and we can hear his ring..tone...." Kaori started, then saw that everyone was running AWAY from the noise. Psymon ran by and scooped her up.
"LESS TALK, MORE RUN, SQUINTY!"
The snow flurried around them, no one could see in front of them, all they knew to do was to run, and run they did, their panting voices told their story of horror.
"Where...are...we...running....to!?" Allegra panted, she was dragging Atomika behind her, Atomika tried his best to keep up.
"Not much farther!..the Mid Station should be just around he--" Nate smacked into the wall of a station.
"Found it!" Elise yelled, she opened the door the best she could, and ran in, the rest of the riders following her. They all tumbled into the area, this station wasn the Mid Station..it was bigger, and from inside they an tell it had more than one floor.
Nate slammed the door behind them, locking it shut. He turned around and looked at everyone, making sure they all got in okay. He sighed a sigh of relief, everyone had gotten into the lodge.
"It seems we made it to the Black Station...but theres no power.." Nate panted, Griff and Mac began to find anything they could to barricade the door. Nate flopped down on the couch, everyone was cold...wet..tired...and mourning.
"So, fearless leader, it seems under your command we have lost someone!" Psymon yelled, trying to sound proper over a weeping Zoe.
"I never said everyone was going to make it back, the mountains can be a cruel place, Stark" Nate growled, obviously offended.
"The GODDAMN MOUNTAINS DIDNT KILL MOBY!" Zoe yelled, her voice raspy. "That son of a bitch Pete did!" she held her hands over her eyes, crying again.
"You gotta admit, Nate..mountains dont produce killers." Elise sighed, her eyes red and puffy, she had been crying as well. Kaori just hugged Mac, weeping into his shoulder.
"Id say...argh..the place is pretty safe for the night.." Atomika groaned as Allegra set him down the couch, his leg turning black slowly, atop of it being infected, it was now frostbitten. Kaori looked out the window, it as snowed in, all she saw was a flurry of white.
Nate walked over to Atomika, none of the riders had even dared to head up to the second floor of Black Station, they thought it would be safe for them to stay near the closest exit. Nate looked at Atomika's leg and sighed.
"...David..I mean...Atomika...that leg...its gonna have to cu--" Nate started before Atomika cut him off.
"DONT call me by my first name...just..dont." Atomika growled through gritted teeth. "And...I know..but...I dont want to do anything hasty...lets just wait it out..alright?". Nate nodded in agreement as Psymon cackled over the idle chatter.
"What exactly is so funny, Stark?" Nate grunted, getting a little tired.
"Ha!...Well, dont you think its kinda funny that Pete is going by all of those old horror movie rules? You know..the person no one cares about dies..." Psymon ducked under a flurry of marshmallows from Allegra. "Then, he kills off the black guy. We all know the slut is going to die next." Psymon eyed Elise, who was trying her best not to look afraid. Allegra tried to hold back tears as she thought of Viggo. Mac sat by the door, determined to not let anything through
Griff stood up and yawned, outstretching his hands.
"Im sleepy.." he said, mid-yawn. It dawned on all of the riders that they WERE tired...but they knew if all of them fell asleep, theres a good chance they wouldnt wake up the next morning.
"I vote we sleep in shifts." Zoe said, playing with her fingernails.
"Every once in while one of us wakes up another...you know...so one of us is on guard all night long.."
Psymon grinned at the plan.
"I nominate Kaori first!" he yelled, raising his hand.
Kaori squealed with fright, Mac jumped.
"YO, DUDE" Mac yelled, taking Psymon seriously.
Psymon just cackled to himself.
"I was just kidding, kid.."
Allegra stood up, and pulled a chair over to the door.
"Ill take the first shift...it was kinda my fault anyway..." she mumbled.
No one decided to argue her point. Before everyone laid down and got comfortable Psymon added in one last remark.
"Pfft. I dont know why Kaori is worried...the virgins never die in horror movies."
With that, Allegra's eyes widened, at that moment...she remembered Viggo...
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AN: I am SO sorry for the long time between updates. It was just school troubles..and I think everyone agrees that school is more important than fanfics. I hope you like the chapter, please review. Oh, and notes to anyone who reads any of my other stories.
Snow Gods - Chapter 8 was being written by Parry, but she had a family emergency, and I havent heard from her since. She told me she was 50% finished with it, but if I dont get any word from her soon, I will go ahead and write it myself.
Sounds of the Snow - Sorry about the missed update. SoS should be updating shortly after this.
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Chapter 2: Backtracking
"...Nate..." a womans voice whispered in the the dead of night.
"...Nate..." she spoke again, shaking him. It was Elise,her face blue from the cold, and her eyes red.
Nate jerked up slowly, looking at her. The other riders were fast asleep, and the sun could be see barely poking up over the horizon. Nate stood up, and shook the snow free of his jacket.
"ALRIGHT EVERYONE, Lets get going!" he yelled. The sound sent most of the riders standing up in horror, everyone was on edge. Psymon just sat up, looking very pissed. Mac was chilled to the bone, he offered his jacket to Kaori as a blanket.
"How is Atomika?" Zoe asked, sitting up and looking around.
"His wound closed up, but the leg looks bad..its starting to turn all..dark.." Allegra whispered, not wanting to startle anyone. Nate shook his head, tapping Griff with his foot.
"Come on, we gotta get out of here."
After about twenty minutes later, they were back on the trail again. Moby wiped the cold sweat off of his brow, how anyone could sweat in these cold mountains, that was beyond him. He looked up a the low hanging dark clouds in the sky, he knew a really bad storm was on its way.
"Are you sure it was a good idea to backtrack, Nate?" Zoe mumbled, looking down the trail at their own footsteps.
"Well, Pete said that we were going the wrong way, I would think he knows the mountains better than all of us." Mac spoke up, a drop of irritation in his voice. Nate decided to stay silent one of his bad feelings were coming back. Psymon tried his best to keep a calm face as they snow began to fall harder, and the wind picked up.
"I hope we hit that mid station..nngh..soon, or else we are going to get caught in that storm.." Atomika winced, his leg was now completely numb, all he could feel was the pain in his chest now. Nate decided it was time he spoke.
"I dont think Pete was bluffing...he might be coming for us.." Nate said softly, not wanting to alarm them.
"So why in the fuck are you leading us right to him?" Psymon growled, everyone had stopped to listen to Nate.
"Think about it, he is outnumbered..if he is really going to kill us"- he paused and put his hood up, the snow around them begin to fall heavily, they had been caught in the storm they wanted to avoid- "..we can take him out, its not really that hard, we have numbers on our side."
Elise and Allegra nodded in agreement. Mac and Psymon however, weren't buying it.
"So what you sayin is you want us to take him on, straight up?" Mac said. Nate nodded.
"Man, thats whack, we dont know what he could have out here, he knows this place better than the trees" he spat, not moving any further.
"I say the redneck is setting us up for a fall, some mountain man code or something." Psymon grunted.
"I dont trust him, whoever dosent wanna end up on the evening news can head back with me." Psymon stated as he turned around, Mac, Kaori, and Zoe followed him. Nate began to get annoyed.
"DAMN IT STARK, STOP BEING A DICK. This isnt any action movie bullshit, this is real life!"he threw his hood back, letting the snow fall around him.
"We outnumber him ten to one!" Nate yelled.
"...Ten?" Griff stammered, the cold biting at his face.
"Yeah, Ten..." Nate said, his stomach sinking.
"I only see nine of us..." Griff squeaked.
Everyone stopped and began looking around counting in their heads, someone was missing. Zoe gasped and recounted, looking around frantically.
"WHERES MOBY!?" she yelled, running around looking at everyone.
"Wasnt he....oh shit.." Elise said, looking around as well.
"Hey..yo..no one has snowboarded up here, right?" Mac whispered from a little ways away.
"No one has..its off limits...why?" Nate questioned.
"..How come theres a line then?" Mac pointed to the line, it could of only been made by a snowboard cutting through, then it dawned upon them.
"..The son of a..." Psymon mumbled. "..he is snowboarding after us..."
"Since when did he snowboard!?" Zoe yelled, looking around for any sign of Moby.
"More importantly..where did he GET snowboard!?" Elise yelled, the wind was picking up and it was harder to hear their own voices.
"THATS MY FAULT! I HAVE A SPARE BOARD IN THE STATION!" Atomika's now raspy voice yelled.
"Thats not important, we lost someone and we have to find him!" Nate yelled, taking control.
Zoe and the other ran around like mad, calling Moby's name in the white flurry of snow that surrounded them.
"MOBY!!!" Kaori yelled, even Mac was worried about the Brit.
Then everyone paused, a scream ran over them like cold water. It was Zoe.
"NOOO!!! NO NO NO!!" Zoe yelled, on he knees in the snow, screaming.
Psymon quickly ran over, his eyes widen.
Zoe clutched Moby's body to her chest. Psymon was at a loss for words, he didnt know what to say, so he just said whatever came to his mind first.
"Is he...umm...okay?" Psymon mumbled, not prepared for the response.
"DOES HE FUCKING LOOK OKAY, STARK!?" Zoe dropped Moby's lifeless body, everything looked intact...except for the bloody gash where his head previously was. Psymon swallowed hard, looking at the surely dead Moby. Zoe looked away she couldnt stand looking at it.
"GODDAMN YOU PETE! DAMN YOU!" Zoe yelled, the other riders gathered around, the emotion between them was mixed of mourning and fright. They then knew, that Pete was dead serious about his threat.
Before Nate could rally the riders again, Zoe's M-comm beeped. Zoe knew exactly who it was, she hurried and picked up the call.
"PETE YOU FUCKING BASTARD! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" she screamed into the speaker.
"Heh...so I see you found Jones, eh?" Pete whispered into the comm. "I thought he needed a bit of a haircut.." Zoe began cussing incoherently, no one was sure what she was saying anymore.
"Wow, for someone with such a nice face, you cuss like you have a dick, Payne." Pete snorted, then spat, the sound of him spitting was enough to make Zoe stop.
"So, you kids thought I was joking when I said that yesterday? Heh...damn kids never believe anyone, do they?" he spat again "Just think of where you are...your on a a mountain..in a blizzard..no one but us knows your up here...do you think anyone would come to find you way up here? Better yet...do you think that little shit Atomika can survive long with that leg of his? Or are you too busy eating marshmallows.." Zoe had turned the speaker option on, all of the riders were hearing him.
"Just remember kiddies, in horror movies..the black guy always dies first..." he spat one more time. "Oh, and Zoe honey,dont bother trying to find Moby's head. It will make a nice hood ornament.." he hung up.
There was silence.
There was no sound other than that of the wind, and the sound of snow falling on Moby's corpse, Mac and Allegra were piling snow atop of it, a pitiful attempt at a burial.
Kaori began to cry.
"...How..how did he know Atomika's leg was hurt...we were..gone before then.." she whimpered.
"and...the marshmallows..how could he have..known.." Griff finished her sentence.
Nate tipped his hat.
"Ill bet anything he got Moby to tell before he offed him.."
Zoe jumped at Nate.
"MOBY WOULD OF NEVER DONE THAT!"
Psymon scoffed.
"I sure of hell would of.."
Elise shivered and rubbed her arms, the snow was beginning to pick up again. She looked down at her M-comm, then an idea hit her.
"Wait! If he is using Viggo's M-comm...we can track it and find out where HE is.." Elise pulled out her M-comm and called Viggo.
"If it rings, we will be able to track it.."
Everyone stood quiet...
Allegra blinked.
"Does..anyone hear that?..."
Mac nodded. "I know that song.." He began to sing to himself. "Way..away..away from here ill be...."
"Isnt that Viggo's ring tone?" Nate questioned.
"Yeah, it is." Allegra nodded.
"......Wait..if Elise is calling Viggo..and we can hear his ring..tone...." Kaori started, then saw that everyone was running AWAY from the noise. Psymon ran by and scooped her up.
"LESS TALK, MORE RUN, SQUINTY!"
The snow flurried around them, no one could see in front of them, all they knew to do was to run, and run they did, their panting voices told their story of horror.
"Where...are...we...running....to!?" Allegra panted, she was dragging Atomika behind her, Atomika tried his best to keep up.
"Not much farther!..the Mid Station should be just around he--" Nate smacked into the wall of a station.
"Found it!" Elise yelled, she opened the door the best she could, and ran in, the rest of the riders following her. They all tumbled into the area, this station wasn the Mid Station..it was bigger, and from inside they an tell it had more than one floor.
Nate slammed the door behind them, locking it shut. He turned around and looked at everyone, making sure they all got in okay. He sighed a sigh of relief, everyone had gotten into the lodge.
"It seems we made it to the Black Station...but theres no power.." Nate panted, Griff and Mac began to find anything they could to barricade the door. Nate flopped down on the couch, everyone was cold...wet..tired...and mourning.
"So, fearless leader, it seems under your command we have lost someone!" Psymon yelled, trying to sound proper over a weeping Zoe.
"I never said everyone was going to make it back, the mountains can be a cruel place, Stark" Nate growled, obviously offended.
"The GODDAMN MOUNTAINS DIDNT KILL MOBY!" Zoe yelled, her voice raspy. "That son of a bitch Pete did!" she held her hands over her eyes, crying again.
"You gotta admit, Nate..mountains dont produce killers." Elise sighed, her eyes red and puffy, she had been crying as well. Kaori just hugged Mac, weeping into his shoulder.
"Id say...argh..the place is pretty safe for the night.." Atomika groaned as Allegra set him down the couch, his leg turning black slowly, atop of it being infected, it was now frostbitten. Kaori looked out the window, it as snowed in, all she saw was a flurry of white.
Nate walked over to Atomika, none of the riders had even dared to head up to the second floor of Black Station, they thought it would be safe for them to stay near the closest exit. Nate looked at Atomika's leg and sighed.
"...David..I mean...Atomika...that leg...its gonna have to cu--" Nate started before Atomika cut him off.
"DONT call me by my first name...just..dont." Atomika growled through gritted teeth. "And...I know..but...I dont want to do anything hasty...lets just wait it out..alright?". Nate nodded in agreement as Psymon cackled over the idle chatter.
"What exactly is so funny, Stark?" Nate grunted, getting a little tired.
"Ha!...Well, dont you think its kinda funny that Pete is going by all of those old horror movie rules? You know..the person no one cares about dies..." Psymon ducked under a flurry of marshmallows from Allegra. "Then, he kills off the black guy. We all know the slut is going to die next." Psymon eyed Elise, who was trying her best not to look afraid. Allegra tried to hold back tears as she thought of Viggo. Mac sat by the door, determined to not let anything through
Griff stood up and yawned, outstretching his hands.
"Im sleepy.." he said, mid-yawn. It dawned on all of the riders that they WERE tired...but they knew if all of them fell asleep, theres a good chance they wouldnt wake up the next morning.
"I vote we sleep in shifts." Zoe said, playing with her fingernails.
"Every once in while one of us wakes up another...you know...so one of us is on guard all night long.."
Psymon grinned at the plan.
"I nominate Kaori first!" he yelled, raising his hand.
Kaori squealed with fright, Mac jumped.
"YO, DUDE" Mac yelled, taking Psymon seriously.
Psymon just cackled to himself.
"I was just kidding, kid.."
Allegra stood up, and pulled a chair over to the door.
"Ill take the first shift...it was kinda my fault anyway..." she mumbled.
No one decided to argue her point. Before everyone laid down and got comfortable Psymon added in one last remark.
"Pfft. I dont know why Kaori is worried...the virgins never die in horror movies."
With that, Allegra's eyes widened, at that moment...she remembered Viggo...
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AN: I am SO sorry for the long time between updates. It was just school troubles..and I think everyone agrees that school is more important than fanfics. I hope you like the chapter, please review. Oh, and notes to anyone who reads any of my other stories.
Snow Gods - Chapter 8 was being written by Parry, but she had a family emergency, and I havent heard from her since. She told me she was 50% finished with it, but if I dont get any word from her soon, I will go ahead and write it myself.
Sounds of the Snow - Sorry about the missed update. SoS should be updating shortly after this.