Chapter 34: The Group

"So that DNA sample you took," said Ronjad to Riche, "Did you fine any strange changes in it? Any mutated DNA?" It was now a week after what happened to Bianca, and still no changes. Now Ronjad and Riche are at the jail trying to figure out any problems with the Bianca's blood.

"Well," said Riche, "You want the good news the bad news, or the strange news? Your call."

"All of them," said Ronjad, "Do in any order. I can't stand the wait anymore."

"The bad news is the Bianca's DNA is changed," said Riche, "But strange news is, that Bianca took a full blast of the signal, but not enough DNA has been changed enough to become a full infected. So the good news is, if though she has some bad blood, she's still human, not superhuman."

"That's good," said Ronjad, "I didn't want another friend gone to the signal."

"Yeah," said Riche, "But when I took her DNA, she was awake and wanted to talk to you about what happen."

"Me?" said Ronjad, "Why me?"

"She thinks you know more about what happened," said Riche, "Which you do."

"Ok," said Ronjad, "Here goes nothing, I'll see you later." Riche nodded and watched him walk out of the room.

Misty is walking down the main street of the town and thought, "Looks much better since the storm." She was right, all of the buildings' windows were replaced, roofs were fixed, doors were brand new, and new trees were planted where the ones were uprooted.

"I glad all of the business are open now," said Misty, "I missed these stores when the storm destroyed or shut them down."

She kept walking until she reached a restaurant. She looked inside and saw Blusix and May eating together.

"She loves restaurants," said Misty about May. Then she continued onward down the street.

"Excuse me," said a man to Misty, "Are you Misty Wildflowers?"

"Yes I am," said Misty confused, "Who are you?"

"My name is Tom Underlay," said the man, "I'm the town sheriff."

"Nice to meet you," said Misty looking at him. He was very tall, had tan skin, and had like brown yellow hair. He was also wearing a white uniform and dark green brown pants.

"I been looking for you," said Tom, "I heard you have a strange experience during the storm. Something you can't explain."

"Yes," said Misty, "But, how you know about that and what you know about that?"

He smiled, "I'll explain, just follow me and I'll bring you to a place where some things will explained."

"Have you seen Misty?' said Riche to Ash in Ash's room, "I can't find her."

"I wouldn't know," said Ash, "Melody is going a little crazy about what happened between me and Misty a few weeks ago. She doesn't let me see Misty anymore, even though we are friends."

"Ok," said Riche, "I'll keep looking, and you should talk with Melody about giving you space."

"We do," said Ash looking back on his magazine. Riche didn't believe him though.

Riche kept asking his friends, but they haven't seen her. Not until reach meet up with Lovrina and Ronjad walking down the main street.

"Have you to seen Misty?' said Riche, "I can't find her."

"You lose your girlfriend?" said Lovrina, "Your sad."

"Actually," said Ronjad, "I saw her at the church up the road, she and another man were entering as Lovrina and I left."

"What were you two doing at a church?' said Riche.

"Both of us are Catholic which we found out is another thing we have in common," said Lovrina, "We are just at Father Cal's service."

"Ok," said Riche, "I'm to talk to Misty."

"Not right now," said Ronjad, "A church group has started their meeting, you'll have to wait until they are done. It wouldn't seem right to bug them in the middle of the meeting."

"Fine," said Riche, "I'll wait. What's the group about anyways?"

"I don't know really to tell the truth," said Ronjad, "Something called The Survivors or something."

Riche sneaked over to the window of the church and looked in, but he only saw red.

"Crap," said Riche, "I forgot that the church's windows are all stained. How could I forget that?"

"Maybe because you haven't been to church before?" said Ronjad appearing behind him.

"Whoa!" said Riche as he jumped up, "Don't do that again! Where you come from?"

"Ah," said Ronjad, "Behind you?"

"Stop joking," said Riche glaring, "I'm trying to see who's in there?"

"Why don't you just take photos of the people when they come out?" said Ronjad, "Instead of spying. Because the town's sheriff's in there."

"Was in there," said Tom appearing behind Ronjad, "What are you two doing here?"

"Well," said Ronjad, "Church is a place open to everyone, so why not be here?"

"Right now there is group support meeting going on," said Tom, "At the moment, the place isn't open."

"Why is my girlfriend in there?" said Riche, "Nothing is upsetting her. I always give her love and support. Why would she need to be there?"

"It's not the kind of support you're thinking of," said Tom, "She'll tell you what happen if she wants to. But until then, please leave the area."

"What's going on in there?" said Riche to Ronjad at an ice cream parlor, "Maybe something like Village of the Dammed is happening."

"Beats me," said Ronjad, "But I notice that everyone that is there is in our system."

"What?" said Riche.

"They're all in our system," said Ronjad, "Because everyone there disappeared during the storm and came back later, like Misty and had the same scars like Madison."

"Everyone in that church group?' said Riche.

"And since we think these glowing fish things change people," continued Ronjad, "Maybe something like Invasion of the Body Snatchers is happening."

"Or maybe they are pod people!" said Riche, "That be neat!"

"Either way," said Ronjad, "We got to figure out what's going on in there. You should ask Misty what happened there and I'll get the new member Melody to ask her sister."

"Should be easy," said Riche, "Right?"

"We would think that," said Ronjad, "But who's to say these days?"

Later that day, Misty entered her room. In there Riche was waiting for her in there.

"Oh hi," said Misty, "You need something?"

"Actually," said Riche, "I saw you go to this support group, called Survivors. What's it about? I'm interested in it."

"Oh?" said Misty raising her eyebrow, "Are you sure it isn't because everyone there had a strange happening to them during the storm?

"What would give you that idea?" said Riche lying, "Why would I want to know that?"

"Stop lying!" said Misty

"That hard?" said Ronjad to Riche later.

"She won't tell me a signal thing of what happened!" said Riche, "It's all up to Melody now to find out what happened!"

Author Notice: Sorry about the late update. But had this big project that's do this month and I didn't have much time to update.

This chapter wasn't very exciting, but it's important that I mention Sheriff Tom. He's going to be a big character later on.

Other news, if you read Living Large or Pokemon: WaterBlue, please skip this message. I taking a vacation all next week, so this the last update for a while. Just wanted you all to know.

I mention someone is going to die later on. To save you all some time, it's not Bianca. But another person that will surprise you. If you can answer right, I'll give you a sneak peek a the upcoming sequel's whole first chapter.

Next chapter is the return of the alien's signal. Well… not the signal, but on the radio people been reporting dreams of crystal forests. This catches the team attention and will be Melody's first mission. Get ready, the story is getting closer to the end, because when chapter 48 and 49 are released, the story will that a huge turn.

Date: 3/19/06

Next Chapter: Chapter 35: The Radio

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