Summary: Cloe wants to end her life, but something or as a matter of fact... somebody ruins her plan. What is it with the new tribe, and who are they? And why does it change her life? Cledism and perhaps some Jebony!
Disclaimer: The characters belong to EnterCloud9 and Tribeworld!
A/N: Argh! I'm so sorry that I haven't updated sooner. I have no valid excuse for not updating this fanfiction sooner… other than life happened. Well, truthful it was lack of inspiration, papers to write, friends, parties and lot of homework. Anyway, I hope you will like this chapter.
This chapter have not been beta'ed, so there might be a few spelling mistakes.
Chapter 9
"This sucks!" said Cloe, pouting. "I've been training for nearly five weeks, and have yet to get my mission… when will you tell me what I really have to do, Siva?" What Cloe really wanted was some more information so she could tell Ebony something… anything, to get Ebony off her back!
Cloe looked at her mentor, which Siva had ended up becoming.
"Relax little one," said Java, who had decided to watch today's training session. How Cloe despised that girl! Siva was cool, but her sister Java was so annoying.
"Cloe, you will learn your mission when Ram thinks you are ready. And in the mean time you will practice so when you do get your mission you will be prepared.
"Hmm," replied Cloe, sulking.
"Do not sulk, my dearest, because it is not suitable for a Techno to sulk," snapped Java. "Now, get into position and show me again what you have learned!"
Cloe gritted her teeth, trying to calm down. She wanted nothing more than to yell at Java, but decided that it was best if she didn't. Getting on the wrong side of Java would only mean more work, and Cloe really wanted to get her mission so she could get out of this camp.
She looked one last time at Siva who smiled, before she started to show Java everything she had learned so far.
"Come in," yelled Cloe, standing inside the bathroom trying to tame her wet hair. She heard someone enter had room. "Just a minute," she said, wrapping the towel tighter around her body.
She opened the door and nearly dropped her towel when she saw Ved standing in her room.
"Hello Cloe, long time no see," said Ved, smirking.
Cloe narrowed her eyes, looking suspiciously at the bleached-haired boy in front of her.
"Ved… what do you want?" she asked, almost snarling. He had abandoned her here in this Techno camp, left her because of a smaller accident and she hadn't seen him for nearly five weeks… She was mad.
"Whoa, whoa, calm down little virt," said Ved, holding his hands up as if surrendering. "I just come to tell you your mission, so no need to yell!"
"My mission?" asked Cloe, disbelieving, "Only the mission?"
"Yeah, what else should I come for?" said Ved, smirking smugly.
Cloe tightened the hold on the towel and walked over to her dresser, pulling out some clean clothes. Then she walked into the bathroom, completely ignoring Ved who was left standing confused in the room.
'That little evil fucking bleached-haired Techno scum!' thought Cloe, while she angrily pulled up her black suit, scowling. When she was done she walked out of the bathroom again.
Ved was gone.
'Shit,' she thought.
Someone knocked on the door. Cloe opened the door, expecting to see Ved standing there but came face to face with Ebony… who she wanted nothing more than to hide from.
"Five weeks! Five bloody weeks and you haven't report one single time!" shrieked Ebony as soon as the door was closed behind her.
"Shush… They will hear you," whispered Cloe.
"Do not hush on me little girl! I told you to report back to me every second day, and you have yet to do such thing!" yelled Ebony.
Cloe gulped, looking scared at the older girl in front of her.
"And what about Ved… Has he told you anything useful at all?"
Cloe shock her head, quietly mumbling 'no'.
"No?" asked Ebony and took a steep closer towards Cloe, "No?" The voice was barely a whisper, but the way she asked was enough to make Cloe scared.
"We had a little accident, so he left me here; I haven't seen him for five weeks."
"An accident?" asked Ebony, and croaked one eyebrow, waiting for Cloe to continue.
"Well, during one of my practice sessions I accidentally hit him in the face. Ram saw it and then he left… never came back… So Siva was to tutor me, which she has been doing the last five weeks, and you know Siva – her being your sister and all – that she is very faithful to Ram. She hasn't mentioned one single thing which was worth telling you."
"That's not for you to decide!"
"Okay, okay… I can however tell you one thing."
Ebony looked impatient at Cloe.
"Ved came today -" started Cloe, but was quickly cut off by Ebony.
"You said you hadn't seen him for five weeks!"
"– Yeah, well, as I was saying, he came today and said he had my mission… But then he left and never told me what it was… I actually thought he was you and that he had come back to tell me…" said Cloe, rambling.
"Well then, go find him! Now!"
"Okay, okay… fine, I'll go find him now," said Cloe, huffing slightly.
She left her own room, not really keen on the idea of Ebony being in her room when she wasn't there herself, but telling Ebony this would probably get this whole situation a lot worse.
Cloe searched the entire camp – or at least the rooms where she was allowed access. Ved was gone. She tried to ask some of the Technos, but none of them had seen him. Maybe the meeting with Ved had just been a figment of her own mind? Cloe stopped up, trying to convince herself that she was not getting crazy, and that Ved really had been there.
She stood still in the corridor for a good five minutes, not even moving her hand to scratch her cheek when it itched.
"Ah, there you are," said a haunting voice. Cloe didn't turn around to see who it was, she knew it was Ram. That shrilling voice was not something you forgot when you have heard it once. "I understand that Ved never told you your mission, correct?"
Cloe twirl around when she heard Ved's name. "That's correct sir," said Cloe, nodding. She felt she was a soldier or something horrendous like that, but then again… she was a soldier, not matter how much she wanted to forget that, she was a soldier in Ram's army. She was just a brick, fitting into his ridiculous pulse… but she never told anyone this thought.
"Very well, then I'll just have to tell you my self I suppose," said Ram, looking as if this conversation was boring. Cloe straighten her back, now was the time to show Ram that she was indeed ready for her mission… anything to get out of this camp.
"The day after tomorrow you will be sent back into town, to the HQ, where you will be getting the headphones. That way everyone can see that you are no longer a virt but a Techno now. When that's done you will get what you need for your mission. Your mission is to travel from town to town, 'visiting' some of the people on the list which you will get at the HQ. When that is done you will return and you will move into the mall with the… Mall Rats," said Ram, wrinkling his nose in disgust when he said Mall Rats.
"I see sir. May I ask what I shall be doing in the mall?" said Cloe, trying not to show how keen she was of the idea on seeing her old friends. The Mall Rats was not her friends anymore. When she had left them and enrolled in Ram training program she had given her life to Ram.
She watched as Ram's wheelchair turned.
"Oh yeah," said Ram in a casual voice, not even turning the wheelchair to look at her, "Ved will be your travelling partner." Then he laughed.
Cloe wasn't sure if she was happy or pissed about getting Ved as her travelling partner. Yes, she had missed him horrible, and dreamt about him almost every night, but then again, he had left her here. He had left her in this camp where her only friend was Siva. No one talked to her, because she was still merely a virt, but that was about to change. In just two days she would be a Techno.
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