Starting out.
By Streak of fire
Nicolet was only 5 when she and her brother Josh, along with all the other kids in America, lost their parents to a virus. All the kids started banding together forming tribes. Josh had promised his parents that he would take care of his little sister. Josh kept his promise for a year, but then one day something separated them. Nicolet had just turned 6 and Josh was now 8 the day Josh left Nicolet to fend for herself.
Nicolet is now 15 and she hasn't seen her brother for 9 years. Nicolet is now a leading rebel in the cause for freedom from power hungry leaders of different tribes in her country. It was a bright sunny day when Nicolet walked into the city. She had heard that the city needed help to free them from a power hungry leader named Meger.
Nicolet was walking along the streets when she saw an old friend.
"Hey Jay how's it going?" Nicolet asked a tall blonde haired boy.
"Nicolet oh my god I can't beleave you're hear." Jay said giving her a huge hug.
"Well I heard you needed help getting rid of a power hungry leader." Nicolet said smiling.
"You're in luck I know some where you can stay." Jay said leading the way.
Jay led Nicolet to a mall where he told her his tribe the Mall Rats lived. They went in and Jay introduced her to everyone.
"Nicolet this is Lex, Ruby, Sammy, Celine, Trudy, Amber, Slade, and Ebony." Jay said as he pointed to everyone.
"Everyone this is Nicolet the strongest rebel leader that we have ever heard of." Jay added.
"Jay where's Ved?" Nicolet asked.
"Meger sent him away." Jay added quietly.
"Nicolet how do you know Jay and Ved?" Slade asked.
"Sit down it's a long story." Nicolet said taking a seat at the kitchen table.
"Ok well my tribe is the RADEs it stands for rebel armies defeating evil. So one day a car pulls in and Jay and Ved step out of it and ask to see the tribe leader, which happened to be me. So we meet and they ask for a place to stay for a few nights and some medicine for Ved he was sick. I let them stay in my house and I treated to Ved's illness. Well it didn't take long for me to fall in love with Ved and him with me. So in a few days Ved was better, and Jay said they should be moving on. They left and I never saw them again. And that was 2 years ago." Nicolet explained.
They all started talking and Nicolet said she would have a meeting with the leader, this Meger, tomorrow. That night she slept soundly.
The next morning Nicolet had breakfast with Amber and Lex. Lex offered to escourt Nicolet to the hotel, but Nicolet declined. She grabbed her coat and bag and started walking toward the hotel were she was about to meet Meger. Little did she know she had met him before.
She walked in the front door and up to the front desk and talked to the guy that was at the desk.
"I have an appointment to see Meger." Nicolet said with disgust.
"Who may I tell him is here?" The guy asked snarling.
"Just tell him that the strongest rebel leader he's ever seen would like a meeting with him." Nicolet said smiling.
The guy walked away and then came back a short while later and told Nicolet that Meger would see her now. He led her to a room were a guy was sitting with his back to her behinde a desk. She sat down on the open chair. Then the guy behinde the desk turned to face her. Nicolet gasped when she saw who Meger realy was.
"Josh." Nicolet whispered.
Josh just stared in disbelief when he saw his sister sitting across from him. After all he hadn't seen her in 9 years.
"Nicolet you're the rebel leader?" Josh asked in amazement.
"And you're the power hungry leader I have to stop." Nicolet stated flatly. "Now that we have the introductions over with can we get down to buissness." She added.
"Don't you want to know what's been happening these past 9 years?" Josh asked.
"No, I just want to get down to buissness." Nicolet said standing up.
"Nicolet." Josh begged.
"You left me to fend for myself when I was 6 years old, and then you take the one person I loved from me, you know Ved Jay's brother." Nicolet screamed then ran out the door.
"Nicolet wait." Josh yelled chaising after her.
Nicolet ran all the way back to the mall and tripped on the stairs and cried. Lex, Slade, Jay, and Ebony heard her and came running.
"Nicolet what's wrong what happened?" Jay asked concerned kneeling down next to her.
"Meger is my brother." Nicolet said looking up tears streaming from her eyes.
"What that's impossible you brother's name is Josh." Jay said.
"He must have changed his name when he got here but it's Josh." Nicolet said wiping away the tears.
Nicolet stood up and told them she was going to bed and she'd see them in the morning. She tossed and turned all night and finally decided to get a glass of water. She walked into the kitchen to find Lex sitting at the table. She grabbed a glass of water then sat down across from him.
"Why can't you sleep?" Nicolet asked him.
"Just thinking about you and your brother." Lex replied.
"What a coincidence I was thinking about that too." Nicolet said taking a sip of her water.
"I bet we have a lot in common." Lex said reaching for her hand.
"Lex." Nicolet said pulling back. "I gave my heart away a long time ago."
"But you can love me instead." Lex said getting up to touch her.
"No Lex." Nicolet said backing up.
"But." Lex said starting for her.
"I think the lady said no, Lex." A voice said from behinde them.
Nicolet twirled around and was surprised at what or rather who she saw.
"Ved oh my god." Nicolet gasped running into his arms.
"Well Nicolet did you miss me?" Ved asked hugging her.
"Of course I did but there are a few things I have to tell you." Nicolet said sitting down.
"What is it you can tell me anything." Ved said sitting down next to her "Lex please excuse us." He added.
"Ved, Meger is realy my brother Josh." Nicolet whispered.
"So you finally found him well you knew you would sooner or later." Ved said kissing her forhead.
"We also have a one year old son." Nicolet said.
"What!" Ved yelled.
"He's staying with my tribe, you got me pregnant the night before you left." Nicolet told him quietly.
"So we have a son who else know?" Ved asked.
"Nobody but my tribe not even your brother knows." Nicolet replied.
"Well now we can make a family, we can get married I'm so excited." Ved said happily giving Nicolet a kiss.
"What?" Nicolet asked confused.
Ved opened his mouth to say something when Jay came in and saw them.
"Ved you're here." Jay said exasperated grabbing his brother giving him a huge hug.
"Jay Nicolet and I have some good news." Ved said patting Jay's back.
"Tell me the good news." Jay said sitting down.
Just then three technoe gards came into the kitchen.
"Nicolet by the orders of Meger you are to come with us." One of the guards said grabbing her.
"Hold on you can't do this." Ved said jumping out of his chair.
"It's ok Ved I'll be ok." Nicolet said as the guards led her away.
When they got to the hotel the guards put her in a room with a bed and she sat down a minute later Meger, or Josh, came in.
"Hello little sister." Josh said smiling.
"Well if it isn't my power hungry brother, I presume you got Ved back for me to apologise. Well thank you but I'm not taking that as an apology." Nicolet said standing up.
"Yes the Ved thing was my doing but I have another surprise for you." Josh said exiting out of the door for a moment then coming back in with something in his arms.
"I beleave this belongs to you." Josh said holding out the bundle.
"Oh my god my baby give him to me." Nicolet said grabbing her baby.
"Well that's all I had for you, you can go now but I'll be in touch." Josh said opening the door.
Nicolet walked back to the mall holding her baby close. She walked into the mall and called everyone to the kitchen then she made an announcement.
"Everyone this is Ved and my baby." Nicolet said.
"So this is the good news you two had to tell me." Jay said hugging Nicolet then holding his nephew close.
"Hey Jay don't hog the baby we all want to see him and I bet the father might want to hold his son." Amber said smiling at Nicolet.
For the next two hours everyone forgot about Meger/Josh and they focused on the baby. That night everyone went to bed happy. Ved moved into Nicolet's room with the baby and they were a family again. They thought nothing could hurt them now that they were together again. But if they only knew how wrong they were. It was just about to get worse but that didn't worry them that night everyone slept peacefully.
The next morning Nicolet got up early to change and feed the baby only to discover that both Ved and the baby were gone. She started to panick, but then she heard Ved's voice coming from the kitchen. She got dressed and walked into the kitchen to find Ved cleaning up Luke's cereal bowl from the table.
"You scared me when you and Luke weren't in the room." Nicolet said sitting down and wipeing off Luke's mouth with a napkin.
"I thought you deserved to rest after all you've been taking care of our son for a year it's only fair." Ved said kissing her.
Nicolet got herself some breakfast and was just starting to eat when the rest of the tribe started coming into the kitchen. They were just starting to discuss their plans for the day when Meger/Josh and a technoe guard came into the kitchen.
"I told you I'd be in touch let's go." Josh said grabbing Nicolet's arm.
"Ok we can talk just let go of my arm." Nicolet said pulling her arm away. "Ved watch Luke I'll be ok." She added as she saw he was about to say something.
Josh and Nicolet walked in silence all the way to the hotel. Then they went into a meeting room. There they finally started talking.
"Why do you hate me?" Josh asked.
Nicolet was silent for a moment then when she answered it hurt Josh badly.
"I hate you because you never cared about me." Nicolet said turning her back on him.
"What ofcourse I care about you." Josh said turning her chair around.
"No you don't or you wouldn't have left me." Nicolet said standing up.
"Ok let's get the story straight I had to lead a group of slave traders away from the barn or they would have gotten both of us." Josh said taking her arms.
"Yeah and I waited for 3 days but you never came back so I left and had to fend for myself. Do you know how hard that is for a 6 year old to do? You got lucky you found a tribe that would take you in. I had to search for weeks to find a tribe that had time to take care of a 6 year old. I cried every night because I was scared and you weren't there to protect me." Nicolet said as she started to cry.
"Oh Nicolet I'm so sorry I never ment to hurt you. Don't you think it was hard for me? An 8 year old boy trying to take care of his 6 year old sister. It was hard for me to know what to do to protect you and nurish you." Josh said wrapping her in his arms.
"Don't touch me this can't be fixed this quickly it's been 9 years since we have seen each other. I bet you haven't looked for me ever have you. As soon as you got rid of me I bet you forgot me and you were happy I was gone because you could go on with your own life" Nicolet yelled crying hystericly.
"That's not true! Every town we went into I searched for you, I asked villagers if they have ever heard of you. I searched every database that was at my disposal if there was anything on you. I searched and searched but never found anything. I thought the worst, I thought you were dead." Josh said hugging her again.
"Let me go I can't take this any more I want a family again. You, Ved, Luke, Jay, and me I need to have a family I need to feel safe for ounce in my life. Let's get out of the city let's start over, we don't need this anymore, now we have each other there's nothing stopping us from having a family, being a family again." Nicolet said wipeing the tears from her eyes.
"Well see we're going to have to evacuate the city anyway another virus has been created and there's no way to stop it. So we have to move now if we want to save everyone the virus will hit in 4 hours." Josh said pushing her out the door.
"And you didn't feel it was important to tell me this earlier. It doesn't matter let's go hurry up." Nicolet said as they split up.
Nicolet went to the mall to tell everyone what was going on and to hurry up and get to the boats because of the new virus. Josh went on the news to tell everyone else in the city to evacuate. At the mall there was caose trying to get everything ready. When everyone was ready Nicolet told them all that she and her brother had worked everything out and that they were going to be a family again.
"What you mean to tell me that we are all going to be one big tribe." Ved asked loudly.
"Yes all of us, my brother, and my tribe. We can join together and start again and this time do things right." Nicolet said as they started to walk to the hotel.
As they got closer to the hotel Josh came out and they all headed to the boats. The boats were getting fuller by the moment, and as the last people boarded the last boat and it pulled away, a loud explosion was heard coming from the center of the city. They had made it out just in time and they all took a deep breath.
The boat took them across the river that separated the city from the valley, where Nicolet's tribe lived.
"We'll be safe with my tribe and we can start over again." Nicolet said smiling at the fact she had her brother and her love back. "It's going to be ok this time I never have to feel afraid again." She added to herself.
"This is a great way to be starting out. A family together forever never to be separated again." Josh said hugging his sister.