Ebony and Martin set up the Locusts the most feared tribe in the city and now were on the way to meet new sign up members; Ebony wished that she knew what was going on. Ebony had underestimated Zoot, yes he was as crazy as she had thought but he was also truly evil. Zoot would beat up innocents with no qualm. Even Ebony who was known for being ruthless was against this. Now they were pulling into Demon Dog territory at the train station and Ebony was beginning to get nervous but knew better than to let anyone know how scared she was. The Loco Queen could never be scared.
As they pulled to a halt Ebony swung her legs out of the car the way that she had been taught and two Loco carried her by the legs and placed her on the ground. Zoot smiled evilly at her, he knew that she could get out by herself but with Ebony he always had to make her slightly inferior to make sure that she never took over from him.
They walked over to the four people in the train. Ebony saw a quite pretty girl but knew that she was no match for her, a big guy with a shaved head how looked quite simple but good hearted. A boy with long hair and too much eye make up. He looked plain; no fight in him, but there was someone else. He had just introduced himself as Lex. Lex appeared to be intelligent, a warrior, cheeky and to have a passion for survival that rivalled her own. Ebony was snapped back into the reality of her situation when Lex looked her up and down with a saucy smile.
"You know your eyes work a lot better if they are in your head" Ebony barked at him, causing some Loco laughter and Zoot to give her an indiscernible look.
"Well I'm sorry sexy, but with a babe like you around no guy around can keep his mind or eyes off you" Lex said starting to get cocky.
"What food have you got" Zoot snapped, not liking the way that this stranger was looking at his woman.
"Here, but we only have enough for ourselves" Lex caught on to what could happen and checked to see if his escape was clear but Ebony and Zoot had seen him.
"Give it to me", Ebony stepped forward showing Zoot that she was still committed. After a seconds delay Lex took the bag off the taller boy and gave it to Ebony, holding her hand for a moment. That was it, "get them" Zoot cried. The Locos took after them. Ebony had seen the way that Lex would escape and cut it off kicking him in the stomach once before Zoot caught him but was hit by the bigger boy. The girl and the other boy had run and were now just behind Lex and his friend, they jumped the fence Lex kicked the box that they had been standing on so that the boy who had been wearing too much make up fell into the Locos hands. Zoot had recovered, while they were beating the boy up, Zoot walked over to Ebony.
"I want to find that Lex" he confided.
"Why the interest?" Ebony wondered.
"No one talks or looks at my woman in that way and gets away with it, we will cut them off soon. By the way good job with Lex, you can have a reward to night" Zoot strode over to his men and told them the plan. Ebony could not help but smile to herself, Zoot still liked her as much as ever.
The Locos did find Lex and his friends again they were playing with some little kids, a dog and two girls about Ebony's age. Lex and his friends took off, but when the Locos had almost caught up with them they ran into Demon Dogs. They had a face off Ebony looked to Zoot for one second and then they ran, out of the corner off her eye Ebony saw Lex leave so she called her men to follow them.
Zoot looked shocked, this left six Demon dogs and only the two of them. Ebony round house kicked one of the ones coming at her, she the jammed the heel of her hand into his jaw and with a resounding crack his nose broke and he fell to the floor a pool of blood spilling from his head. Ebony did not like to go out of her way to hurt people, but if they came at her first then they deserved everything that they got.
The second one raised his base ball bat to hit her but she stopped it hitting her and turned under his arm twisting his arm behind his back and in the process taking his bat, walloping him on the head with it. Ebony looked over to Zoot; he had got rid of two attackers and had just finished off the third when he felt the final one put a rope around his neck from behind. Quick as a flash Ebony hit him on the head with her recently acquired bat. Zoot spun around to see her inspecting her bat "I think I love this thing" she declared before seeing the look in Zoot's eyes. Fire, fire and passion. He grabbed and hand full of her braids and pulled her head back savagely attacking her mouth, biting her lips hungrily. He could not get enough of her.
Both of them could sense their guards had returned and Ebony now knew that pulling away was not even an opinion. Now with the Locos there she must do as he commanded and make sure that it did not seem like they were bothered by them. Zoot slammed Ebony into the wall as she wrapped her legs around his waist as they continued to kiss. Ebony was just being to enjoy herself when Zoot pulled away and walked in front of his men ordering them to tell him what they found out. Ebony was left by the wall as the men said that they had found nothing, but Ebony would not look weak in front them. Ebony marched up to the front of the men and wrapped her hand tightly around one of their throats and lifted him off the ground with a strength that amazed everyone - including herself.
"I sent you to find them!" She growled "you did nothing, you are useless, you are all pathetic" she dropped him to the ground and left with Zoot leaving them to run after them.
The journey home was quite and uneventful. When they arrived at the hotel Ebony got out and when one of the guards tried to help kicked him in the face, getting out herself and walking in and straight not looking around afraid that Zoot might want her.
Once back in her room, Ebony dropped back onto her bed and closed her eyes. She must have been tried because she fell asleep straight away, the next thing that she knew she was waking up to see Zoot in front of her.
"Aw, my poor baby, maybe I shouldn't have kept you up so late last night" he said with a smirk as he remembered the night that they had shared. This was the Zoot that Ebony liked: funny, sexy and playful.
"Oh, I'm not all that tried" Ebony smiled crawling towards Zoot who was sitting on the end of the bed.
"So where do you want me?" Ebony asked, as she still needed to be submissive to him although it was almost killing her; she could not stand this, having to hold back.
"Come here" Zoot ordered taking Ebony in his arms and kissed her fiercely.
The next morning Ebony was awoken by the sunlight shining through the windows making her feel warm and comforted, Ebony decided to relax by the pool today and so got dressed in her black bikini, put her hair up and applied some make-up before heading down to the pool.
One thing that Ebony liked about Zoot was that no other Loco would touch her while she was his woman, she could feel their eyes tearing into her delicate skin as she swam in the cool water. Ebony swam for several hours before Zoot came up to her and asked to have a word. Ebony got out of the water and lay on a sun bed, as Zoot towelled her dry saying "Ebony. I am going to see Trudy tonight. She gave birth".
"What, where is she?" Ebony asked getting worried about her position.
"Do you really think that I am really going to tell you that, come on Ebony. I don't want Trudy, just my kid" Zoot explained smiling at Ebony. Ebony nodded thinking that she would just follow him once he left. Zoot picked her up and took her to her room, and insisted on her drinking. The drink was drugged. Ebony was lying unconscious as Zoot left knowing that Ebony would only have tried to follow him. Zoot went to see Trudy and never returned. The next morning Ebony was named leader of the Locos in his absence but Ebony kept an eye out for Bray. She knew that it had to be Bray who had told Zoot about Trudy and so he would come by to tell her about what had happened and so she would capture him. Ebony's heart did flip flops at the thought of seeing her ex once again. What did she feel for him?
All these questions were answered when she saw him while sitting on top of her car, she pointed and sent her Locos to get him, they tied him up in an abandoned train and started to threaten him until Ebony came in.
"Leave" she ordered and making sure that no one was near Ebony started towards Bray.
"Well, well, well what do we have" Ebony circled her prey.
"What do you want with me" Bray's heart in his throat as he saw the woman that he loved and in that instant knew that Salene and Trudy meant nothing to him.
"I saw you with Zoot, I know you know where he is" Ebony bellowed feeling nothing for him.
"I don't know" Bray insisted.
"Look Bray" Ebony changed tactics "I just want to know where he is that's all, then maybe there's a chance for us" Ebony smiled. Bray was very tempted but was sure that Ebony was only playing with him and so answered.
"In your dreams".
"You would not say that if you knew my dreams" Ebony answered and it was true she had dreamed of him but she did not feel the way that she used to feel around him.
"I can imagine" Bray answered and started doing just that.
"Can you now. Such a nice clean living boy like you" Ebony could see that she was getting no where this way and so left him to imagine.
Ebony left him for a couple of hours until night fall and then cut his ropes, Bray looked around for the person who had cut his ropes but seeing no one he took off for his home. Ebony followed thinking that he would lead her to Zoot, if they had him and then she would kill him if they had not done so already. Eventually, she saw Bray disappear into a sewage pipe, and into the Mall behind it, she guest.
Ebony opened the pipe and lowered herself onto the floor by way of a ladder. Looking around it took a few minutes for her eyes to adjust to the darkness, she was slightly scared what would happen but she did not let it show. Ebony walked on head held high instinctively somehow knowing where to step to avoid traps. She saw light and entered it, the light disoriented her for a second but was called back to reality as she looked up to see the Barbie doll from the train screaming "Loco".
Ebony looked at them all they were performing some kind of ceremony, she turned to sweep out majestically but an evil looking dog growled at her. Ebony fled, she had spent so much time in that Mall that she knew where everything was. Ebony ran up to the storage place, the boxes would hide her, but she knew that Lex had already seen her. Once she saw Bray and Lex she knew that they would not really kill her or anything and that if she left now she could never find out what happened to Zoot.
That horrid dog was sniffing her out but Ebony knocked Bray unconscious aiming to run into one of the bed rooms and hide trying to over hear conversations but she was so distracted that she ran into Lex who had popped out of nowhere. He pinned her to the ground, he was stronger than she had thought, and although a lot of him was only talk he really was a great warrior.
Ebony struggled but could not get up and Lex's smile was absolutely infuriating, he seemed to enjoy her squirming "don't worry babe. Lexy won't let anything bad happen to you". Ebony saw through his exterior and could tell that he really meant it and would not let anyone hurt her. Lex gently pinned and bound her hands behind her back and lifted her over his shoulder carrying the and locking her in a lift shaft. Ebony sat where Lex had left her still with the hand cuffs on and looked up at him with puppy dog eyes.
"Come here" he beckoned her to sit by the side of the bars so that he could reach in and undo her cuffs. Once he had done that Ebony jumped to her feet and did a cart wheel to Lex amazement.
"What, I had to stretch" Ebony smiled. Lex then left. Some little boy came up and looked very scared.
"What are you all doing here?" Ebony demanded to know.
"We live here, we are the Mall Rats" the boy stuttered, just then a girl with Zulu knots came in a told him to go down stairs shooting Ebony a filthy look to which just smiled and raised one eye brow.
When the Mall Rats came back up, Lex was acting like the big man and Ebony was having a hard time stopping herself from laughing.
"Why did you come here?" Lex asked leaning in.
"I want Zoot, I know you have him" Ebony explained.
"Why do you want him?" Zulu knot girl butted in.
"He is my man and our leader. And we want him back" Ebony scowled.
"I don't by it, if she thought that we had Zoot then she would have brought the rest of her mob in here" Lex told Bray and the blond. Lex could see right through Ebony and she knew that she would have to think quickly.
"I made a mistake okay" she made her eyes fill up with tears, and they just left Lex to guard her, again he just stared at her the whole time. Ebony did not mind Lex so much, he was pretty cool, but she could not stand Amber, - Lex had told her that Zulu girls name was Amber.
Amber came in to guard Ebony and although he protested she made Lex leave, getting board now Ebony asked.
"I don't get it, why the guard? Where am I going to go?"
"We just feel safer with a guard" Amber replied.
"You're a strange frightened little mob, aren't you? You would not last a minuet out side" Ebony chuckled "we'd tear you apart".
"And that's something to be proud of is it?" Amber asked "where will that get you?"
"To the top, sugar" Ebony said sarcastically.
"Of what? A garbage heap, honey" Amber started to preach "at least we're looking to the future, trying to build something better".
"Well when you do I'll be there to knock it down" Ebony smiled. Trying a different line of attack Amber started "you know they wanted to kill you back there". Seeing what she was trying to do Ebony responded "you might live to regret that". Ebony lay on her tummy to go to sleep leaving Amber looking shocked.
Ebony soon fell asleep and was woken up by another voice saying "yes" and pulled cards towards him, she recognised him as Lex's friend.
"So what was going on down stairs" she asked.
"A wedding, Lex and Zandra's. You ruined it for her" he stated looking up set.
"She ought to be thanking me. Saving her for him" Ebony said standing up.
"Oh Lex isn't so bad, he used to be leader of this place" he looked around.
"Used to, what happened?" Ebony asked interestedly.
"I don't know, but he's head of defence now" he smiled.
"And you're his deputy" she assumed, he looked proud.
"She's very pretty this Zandra" Ebony continued.
"Yeah she's great" he said dreamily "Lex has been after her for ages".
"Wait you mean they haven't" Ebony crossed her fingers.
"Hey" he said indignantly.
"I'm surprised she's held out this long, looking the way she does" Ebony goaded. He stood up "Zandra's a lovely girl".
"Not my fault that you have fallen for the bosses slag" Ebony emphasized the word slag. "Slaggy Zandra" Ebony did a little dance.
"Take that back" he yelled taking the keys out of his pocket.
"Make me fat boy" Ebony was so near, she knew that she could take him, and then she could get back to the Locos.
Lex walked back into the room before her plan could work and forced Ryan to leave, "naughty, naughty" he tisked her. Lex pocked a straw through the bars so that she could drink some water.
"Thank-you kind sir" she smiled "your not afraid of my are you? No one else would come near".
"No I'm not" Lex smiled back "why did not you want the rest of your mob to know about Zoot?"
"What's there to know?" Ebony shot back.
"You know he's dead?" Lex asked softening slightly.
"I suspected, how? Not Bray?" She asked through gritted teeth.
"Not a chance, it was me" Lex gloated "it was a fair fight".
"No way he was the best street fighter I've even seen. You most have jumped him, a whole bunch of you" Ebony looked scared.
"He met his match" Lex smiled lewdly at her.
"Honey, even I could take you out. And I'm a girl" Ebony turned away and spun around holding her hand up.
"Don't worry Lex, I can't get out" Ebony said.
"No but I can get in" Lex opened the cage and jumped in with her, locking the cage. Lex went to slam Ebony against and wall but she dodged him, she did that again but Lex caught her and forced her to the floor.
"Satisfied" he growled.
"No way" Ebony kissed him. His tongue lid into Ebony's mouth and she welcomed it. This was like nothing she had ever felt before, he lifted her to her feet and took his shirt off. All Ebony wanted to do was grab him and kiss every part of his hard body but then remembered where she was and what she had to do, she kicked him in the crotch and ran, locking him in the cage. She ran the whole way and got out of the Mall with no more difficulties. Once she arrived back to Locos she went straight to bed without a word to any body.
Ebony woke up to see Bray standing with Lex over her bed, "what do you want" she said backing up against the head board wishing that her nightie covered a little more, until she saw the way that both looking at her.
"What do you want" she said in a loud voice.
"Just to have a chat" Lex sat down next to her.
"About what?" Ebony growled staring at Bray now who was staring at the top of her breasts.
"Look about Zoot. He came to see Trudy ..." Bray started.
"To see Trudy and the baby, he told me" Ebony smiled at the looked on their faces "oh yeah, I know all about that".
"You and Zoot really were close weren't you" Lex was smiling again.
"He was my man, of course we were close" Ebony confided.
"Look Ebony why would you want to hurt the Mall Rats?" Bray asked.
"You put me in a cage, you know how I am, Bray. And I escaped you did not let me go why shouldn't I have my revenge" Ebony asked leaning back in her bed.
"Because we don't want to an empire. The only reason we locked you up was in self defence" Bray tried.
"Well maybe not the only reason" Lex patted her leg and before he could say anything Ebony flipped him, and Ebony was straddling him.
"As you were saying Bray" Ebony asked.
"Well doesn't it sound like a good idea?" He asked.
"Yeah man, I hear what you are saying, but that your tone. You make what ever you want sound best for everyone". Lex was about to say something but Ebony slammed her fist into him stopping any further arguments.
"White man speak with fork tongue?" Bray smiled at Ebony thinking how beautiful she was.
"Always" Ebony responded.
"Even Zoot" Bray wondered "especially Zoot" Ebony smiled.
"But this could be a trap that both set for me" Ebony argued.
"This is Zoot's talisman, you know that he never took it off" Bray reasoned. Ebony thought about it for a moment but was becoming distracted by Lex who had got his hands free when she picked up the talisman.
"Okay we have an agreement, I will leave the Mall alone" Ebony jumped off Lex and took the talisman.
"Aw, do we have to go now?" Lex asked getting up.
"Yes you do. But Bray come by any time" Ebony smiled at him "I want to know what's going on with you". Bray nodded as he pulled Lex out of the door.
Ebony tried to go back to sleep but she could not. Ebony got up and got dressed wondering what to do. Ebony's life was pretty simple for a while after that the Locos were becoming more and more powerful until they went to the tribe gathering. Every tribe was there and when she was talking about slave trading when Bray, Amber and a red haired kid turned up and started preaching at them. Ebony could not believe it they were coming here and telling us what to do, but if they have something to show us we might as well see it. Power, that was what they claimed to have.
Ebony was very busy negotiating and did not really notice the Mall Rats until she found Dal the boy who had guarded her in the cage and brought him, then Amber came over and wanted a trade, if they won the dance contest then they got Dal back, but the Locos could not lose could they? So Ebony accepted this bet, but when she saw that Tia-San was going to win the Locos bullied the announcer to say that the Locos won and then Dal ran away anyway. Ebony was just so tiered she knew that this would take weeks to sort out but there was nothing that she could do anymore, it was done now she just had to deal with it.
Dear Diary,
Hey I miss Mom I know that she would not want me to but I miss Zoot and Mom, I just want some one to love me.
-x-Ebony –x-
Ebony closed her dairy and sat back, she would get through this like she always did, but she really did wish that she could stop. No she did not Ebony chilled herself she wanted to survive she had to survive. If anyone sensed weakness then she would be finished.
Ebony went on feeling this was until Lex came to her door step contaminated with the virus.
"What do you want?" Ebony asked scared.
"Top Hat is going to the Mall, you have to save my friends" Lex dropped to his knees.
"Why should I help you" Ebony asked moving away from him.
"Because they have the antidote. Look at me Ebony you know that I am telling the truth" Lex pleaded, Ebony knew he was right. She called her guards and they set out to the mall where they saw the Mall Rats locked in a cage with a fire chocking them. Lex ran to put the fire out and lifted the griddle.
"Oh look Lex, your buddies don't seem that pleased to see you" Ebony smiled.
"Is Lex going to die" a little girl screamed hysterically, Ebony felt bad for her.
"Guys I knew that Tribe Circus would be coming, I had to help" Lex explained his eyes imploring them to understand. It really burned Ebony that he was trying to help them but they treated him like this.
"So ungrateful, Lex saved you" Ebony sneered at them, clicking her fingers the Locos began their search of the Mall.
In the end Ebony got the antidote and left the Mall taking Bray, Lex and Brady.