Hey everyone, I know you guys are pissed at me for not updating sooner but I have been SO busy at school and … weird stuff… going on at home. Also if you actually thought about the questions I posted on the last chapter, review and tell me what you think. Thankz.
Now on to the next chapter , which I promise I'll try to make longer, since most of them have been short.
"…" Talking
'…' Thoughts
"…" The others thoughts/ talking in mind
Recap of Chapter Four
The anklebone shattered on impact, causing her foot to give out underneath her. Serena twisted and fell landing on her back. Letting out a short shriek of pain as she looked down at her foot that now was bent at an impossible angle. The rocks kept falling, now, as if they were magnetized to her.
Stanton turned at the sound of the scream and reached her in remarkable time, trying, and failing once more to make them disappear. Looking around for any ideas to get her out without subjecting her to any more rocks or danger; Vanessa was becoming far too emotional and panicked that her limbs were going in and out of visibility, Catty, Tianna, or Jimena couldn't be much of help either because their powers were also not working correctly. And himself, he couldn't just blast these idiots because Serena would get the full force and she was in too much pain to help him.
Doing the only thing he could think of to save her, he…
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Chapter Five: Protection
Stanton's POV
…covered Serena with his body to block the blows from the seemingly possessed pieces of the cliff. Since he was at least four inches taller than her, he was able to cover her body entirely if he laid flat on top of her. Then if things couldn'tget worse the intervals of time between hits shortened and the size of the rocks increased.
His elbows were propped up on either side of her head, forehead resting on Serena's, and Stanton began to cringe as the wounds didn't get enough time to heal as more rocks kept hitting them. Stanton's neck, back and arms were being shredded, even though he was immortal it still hurt like hell.
Serena moved so herface was pressed up against his chest, with her eyes closed, and chanting under her breath to Hekate.
'Aghhh…How come we can't leave!? Whoever did this is going to wish they were dead!'
Catty's POV"Holy crap, does anyone else see what I'm seeing?" Catty asked looking perplexed and shocked at the same time.
"He's gonna get killed!" Michael said completely clueless to their identities, "He's doing this to save her…wow… one of us should really try to help them." He sounded concerned and shocked that the Stanton that he thought he knew would do this.
"We can't." Jimena stated simply as she just watched, emotionless, as if nothing important was going on.
Catty was on the verge of crying, her friend and a fellow daughter was literally about to be beaten to death, and here they were… standing and watching. 'Poor Stanton, it looks like it hurts. I really should do something, even telling Tianna to let go of them so they leave would be good. But… then our plan will fail. Why aren't these followers moving quicker? We didn't want them to get hurt this bad. I can't believe Stanton is doing this.'
Catty's mind became of jumble of incoherent thoughts, but it couldn't even compare to the inter turmoil inside the heads of Collin and Jimena.
Collin's POVCollin couldn't help but stare at what was going on in front of him. His thoughts and emotions were jumbled together with past memories. He felt shocked, guilty, and most of all appalled at everyone. The guilt was beginning to feel like a huge weight on his chest, pushing him down. He didn't want to even think about everyone else right now.
'I helped cause this. Why do I have to be so stupid? Why didn't I see this coming?" he thought, and then it was like a small part of his mind asking, 'why aren't I doing anything?'
Shocked at how Stanton reacted immediately to what happened to Serena without even a thought. He didn't know what kind of powers he had because he only knew a little bit about Stanton, and that was just that he was one of the bad guys. Though, it's a huge sacrifice to risk your life for someone else's.
"I finally get what Serena keeps saying about him." Collin said when realization hit him.
Flashback…"Are you going out with Stanton again?" he asked, the time she spent with him was getting longer andmore frequent.
Collin was starting to worry, Jimena had been telling him what this guys was really like and who he worked for. He really didn't like the idea of her spending so much time with this guy…but Serena trusted him, so he should be nicer. But…
"Yes…Why?" She answered happily, then stopped, and turned around to give him a questioning look as her smile faded.
"Well, I don't think you should spend so much time with him…he's dangerous." He said getting up off the couch and trying to sound like the protective older brother.
"You sound just like…wait a minute! You've been talking to Jimena about him haven't you? Because you never used to mind, saying you trusted him as long as I did. Why are you acting like he's some big monster now?" Serena said walking up to him and looking him directly in the eye.
"Well it's not..." A very curt Serena cut off Collin.
"You think he's using me, that he's out to get all of the Daughters , especially me!" her voice was starting to rise in anger and frustration as she picked up on his every thought, "you've become just like everyone else! The same line over and over again, you know it gets old…after everyone's said it at least a hundres times!" Serena yelled now heading for the door ready to kick it open to blow off steam.
"Wait, Serena…Okay I won't talk about that anymore just answera few thingsfor me," he paused until she acknowledged that he spoke.
"Okay, this better be good."
"Why do you think that you love him? And why do you trust him when everyone else doesn't?"
"One, I don't think I love him, I know it for a fact, for reasons that I can't even explain. Second, about me trusting him, I know everyone thinks he's using me. But I know him better than even the Atrox. He has sacrificed so much for me,andI have for himbut that's different. I trust him with my life, I know the same goes for Stanton." Serena stopped, still looking in her brother's eyes. Then started heading for the door, "is that good enough for you?" she asked as she was halfway out the door.
"no" he whispered sadly after she closed the door, leaving him to worry about the horrible stuff she could be doing with that…that…thing…she goes out with.
End of flashback
Tianna's POV'Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this?' Tianna thought the question repeating inside her head making her dizzy, the guilt slowly eating away at her heart to see her friend being put through all this pain, and the power holding Serena's molecules together was beginning to falter.
"I can't handle this! How is this aiding to our plan? Stanton's helping her and those followers aren't doing SHIT!" Vanessa shouted over the continuous thudding of the falling rocks.
Vanessa was now flipping out, she couldn't believe they were going through this plan, and you didn't need to be a mind reader to figure that one out. She wasn't the only one either.
"And I can't BELIEVE that we trusted those followers with this!" Vanessa continued, ranting.
"It's for the best." Jimena said sadly, still not being able to pull her eyes away.
"You've been saying that since we came up with this," Catty said motioning to where Stanton laid over Serena, he now had at least seven broken ribs and blood was practically gushing out of the repeatedly opened wounds, "This is enough! We have to tell them to stop, so they can finally do their part!"
"Yeah." Vanessa chimed in.
"I'm going with that idea." Collin said.
Tianna started to agree with them but it took to much energy out of her to speak. Stanton figured out what was going on and was working on a way to break the hold by going through all the minds of the followers that had telekinesis, soon he would figure out it was her, very soon.
"I need to let go of her, both of their powers, if they find me…and they will, could tear me to bits." Tianna said, now panting with beads of sweat tricking down her face. "I think we underestimated her power, she's stronger than we know. I have a feeling about that."
"But they'll get away, we can't have that. You remember the whole point of this thing…don't you?" Jimena said, voice now becoming strangely monotone.
"I just can't."
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