Evil brotherhood

Meeting my fraternal twin

A/N: Thank u so much for all the reviews/alerts, it really means a lot! Like, REALLY, and now, here is the next chap, and If u miss something so u don't understand, just open you GONE book:

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Diana´s POV:

The car-ride came to a stop at Pedido Beach´s plaza. It had been a bumpy and uncomfortable car-ride since a fourteen year old boy was behind the wheel, but they miraculously enough came to the town without driving into a trench.

Diana resisted the urge to roll her eyes in front of 'the audience' as Caine climbed out of the car through the open roof. He started his speech that she had helped him write and then memorize, and it seemed to have its effects on people as they looked more comfortable with so many kids from Coates so near them.

They shouldn´t be so comfortable, she knew. They didn´t have a clue that behind all the false charm and dignity Caine laid on like make up, there was a person that could, and would, send them flying into the nearest building with a flick of his fist.

In the audience she saw the face of a boy becoming red. A blonde Barbie whispered to him periodically but he didn't whisper back. Diana could easily read his body-pose as he was angry. He didn't stand still, he had his arms crossed tightly on his chest and not just only was his face red as a flame, but he had that flame in his eyes too.

Her eyes drifted over all the faces. They were scared, but most of the kids had a little bit of hope in their eyes, hope of that Caine would save them. Heads nodded and then someone interrupted Caine's speech. "Do you know what happened?" "No. I don't think we probably know any more than you. Everyone fifteen and older disappeared. And then there's the wall, the barrier," Caine answered,

A boy took a confident step forward. "We call it the FAYZ," he said out loud. Caine got a look that showed interest as he asked: "The phase?" "F-A-Y-Z. Fallout Ally Youth Zone." A moment of silence, the whole crowd waited for the response, then Caine laughed a laughter Diana immediately identified as false, and said: "That's excellent. Did you come up with that?"

It seemed like the only people seeing the way-too-perfect-performance was the girl and the boy. They weren't buying it as Caine was giving compliments and charming his way to power, much like in Coates.

A little boy spoke up. "I want my mom!" he cried. You do? Diana thought, Funny: I don't. She didn't mind losing the adults, the only problem was that there weren't any people making food. She, like most of the older kids in front of her, loved the freedom, but she also enjoyed food, and right now they were almost out of it up at Coates.

She wasn't scared for her safety, even though there was a psycho sadist that hated her less than twenty feet away from her, and a bunch of other people that strongly disliked her, because she had Caine wrapped around her little finger.

In the start she had just given him a semi-friendly look and brushed her hand against his sometimes, slowly making him fall more in love with her than he already was. Never letting him see her if she wasn't perfect (it didn't matter anyway, and wasn't hard) and always showing confidence and power.

It was just puppy love, but it was a powerful 'spell', and she was absolutely determined to maintain it.

Caine hugged the little boy, told him some comforting words, then he opened up for democracy and asked for people to talk for Pedido Beach. A boy came up, the phrase boy right after him. Then the name 'Sam Temple' came up and almost the whole crowd started mumbling about how good Sam was and that he was a hero. The kids looked up to the boy.

Caine's mask broke up into a triumphant smile for one second. As he had said. A bully and a natural leader. Then the mask was back on.

Caine walked over to the guy who tried to move away, but Caine didn't let him. People were mumbling and closing around the two boys so Diana didn't hear the conversation. A few more names were mentioned then Caine marched towards the church, the named people and people feeling that they had to come following.

Diana knew that Caine wanted her to cheek his, now, biggest enemy for powers, so she held her eyes on him so she wouldn't lose him in the little crowd. On the church-steps she managed to get his attention. She took his hand. "I'm Diana, Diana Ladris" she introduced herself. "Sam Temple."

She didn't let his hand go as four bars flashed through her mind, first time on another person than Caine. Sam looked back at her but didn't break the stare even through it had to be awkward for him. It seemed like he couldn't, and she smirked inside. It's the same with all boys…but Drake, if he even could count as a human being.

"Ah," she said. He looked a little confused while she continued. "Well, well. I guess we'd better go in. We don't want to leave Fearless Leader without followers," she commented (light sarcasm) as she walked past him and into the surprisingly pretty church.

While Caine stood on the steps leading up to the altar she herself took place at his right and Drake at his left, a little comic since Caine often referred to Drake as his 'right hand man'. She watched the whole crowd, stopping a little at Computer Jack. He looked lost, and was probably the only one from Coates that let his real feelings show.

Caine started with a tail of how they needed to work together and show the world that they could do a darn good job.

"The Captain is already maintaining." The word guy again. Then Caine flattered his big friend and did one of the tings Caine did best: manipulate.

Sam's POV:

"He's guessed that Orc is nearly illiterate," Astrid whispered in his ear. Sam's head was bowling. He had it all for his feet, he was ready to take over and show Orc what real power was, then it all shattered in a few moments. Caine had come into town, spoken hope into a bunch of hopeless kids and was now starting to take over, set the bully out of the game with a few words.

No, Sam wasn't jealous. He just hated the guy standing there like he owned the place. Soren, with his way of speaking himself to might. Sam could easily kill him! Right there on the spot. He just needed to think one simple thought…

Sam looked up as his name was mentioned. Caine wanted the boy named Drake to become a sheriff and Sam himself to be fire chief? No way. "He is co-opting you. He knows you're his competition," Astrid continued.

The idea came to him like lightning striking out of the blue: Astrid was trusting him, (almost) everyone in town were looking up to him, so why would he risk it? Play it safe and get rid of all the bumps in the road in one, simple strike. Fast, being the keyword.

He could just burn the bodies until they were no more than some piles of ashes, then spread them at the ocean. With Caine, that Drake guy and Orc out of the way, he was the person people would turn to and ask to be the leader. So easy, and it could work on every enemy Sam saw.

"I don't trust him, do you?" he asked the blonde, careful to make sure nobody was listening. She looked right at him. "He is a manipulator. Doesn't mean he is bad. He may be OK." She wasn't answering the question, but Sam got the feeling that Astrid didn't trust Caine.

While he was thinking about that, was Caine hugging Mary, who had been talking. They talked a little more and Caine said that everything she needed, she could ask to get from Drake or Orc.

Howard stood up, angrily. "Say what now? I let you go by before, but are you saying Orc works for that guy?" He jerked his thumb at Drake, who answered with a grin that reminded Sam of a shark.

"We don't work for anyone. Captain Orc doesn't work for anyone, or under anyone, or follow anyone's orders," Howard ended. Sam couldn't help but let the comment: Well, he was thoroughly, slip into his mind as a cold and fury expression came to Caine's face. Strangely enough, he chose to smoothen his hair.

Suddenly the ground started to shake and everybody that had been sitting jumped to their feet, ready for the minor earthquake. But it all froze as a sound of steel and tree being twisted sounded.

The crucifix started to fall, and it was aimed at Howard, Orc and their little group. Almost all of them managed to jump out of the way, but not Cookie. His right shoulder was hit. Now he lay on the floor screaming in pain as blood oozed from the wound.

Elwood got the cross of the boy while everyone else just stood there. "Let's get out of here, we need to talk," Astrid said over the screams. Caine spoke up. "This is terrible," he calmly said. "Does anyone know first aid? Sam? Your mother was a nurse?"

Astrid's little brother started bawling. "I have to get him out of here, he's spiraling," Astrid said before grabbing her little brother and hurrying out of the church, mumbling: "Window seat, Petey, window seat," over and over.

Dahra Badioo was the first one to break out of the trance that filled the room. "I know some first aid. Elwood, help me," she commanded. "I guess we have our new nurse. This meeting is adjourned till we can help our wounded friend…was his name Cookie?" Caine said, then he went out of the church, followed by his companions.

It took a lot of Sam not to jump forward and tackle Soren as he went by. The sand-blonde boy turned at the doors. "Oh, um, Captain Orc? Have your people –the ones that aren't injured- line up outside. We'll work out your …um, duties. Later." He almost snared the last part.

Lana's POV:

Thirst, hunger and warmth are some bitches, Lana Arwen Lazar thought. She had struggled through so much since her grandpa disappeared from the driver's seat. She had almost died multiple times. She had almost lost the only thing that still had a meaning in her life: Patrick, and after all that, hunger, thirst and wild life, THIS thing were not going to be the thing that killed her now!

Not after she had survived the impossible! Not after…not after she had in an impossible way healed herself. But it seemed very likely now, when she stood 'face to face' with a translucent wall that went as hig and long as she could see. Slowly she stretched an arm out, and touched it.

"Aaahhh!" she screamed and hurryingly pulled her hand back. Before all this happened she would have thought that the pain from the wall as enormous, but now it was just…shocking. Still, she wasn't going to touch the wall again. "What is this doing here?" she asked out aloud.

The gulch had been looking as it was coming to an end when she suddenly stumbled over the challenge. The two only ways out of the gulch was to her left and right. But one of them was too steep for her to climb without any equipment, unfortunately that was the left side, and that was the one in the direction of her grandpa's ranch- or so she thought.

So the only (temporary) solution: to get out of the gulch. There was a big chance that she was wrong, that the ranch was on the right side. She would just have to hope. She took a deep breath (something that didn't help her dry throat), and took her first step.

She lifted her other foot and she tried to grip the ground, and her foot lost the ground as small stones rolled under her foot. She sighed angrily. "This isn't going to be easy, Patrick, far from it," Lana said as she shook her head.

She lifted her foot again, gripped the ground harder, and used her other foot to shove her as high as she could. She hurried to use her other foot to continue. She remembered when she was little and always went to the playground. There and then, when she didn't have any equipment, Lana and her friends learned something; sometimes is speed better than experience when you're climbing.

She just hoped that it would help her now, because she couldn't remember anything from all the times her grandpa had told her about climbing in Bitterweed Valley.

A/N: Hope u liked it. And this isn't gonna follow the storyline much longer, can't wait 'till I don't have to check the book each tenth sec to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong :P

INPORTANT MY DEAREST READERS: School starts tomorrow :( so I will get less time to write, therefore I WILL try my hardest to update ONE STORY EACH WEEKEND. I can't promise anything, but I will try.

Btw, anyone other than me that have noticed that we have climbed past 'Holes' on numbers of fan fictions on the site?

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