Chapter 1 – Party Poison

Neither Lucy nor I know why we followed this guy, but something about him made us feel as if we had known him for years. Currently, we were both sat in the back seat of a car he had lead us too. Lucy's blonde hair was blowing slightly as she attempted to clip her fringe to the side again. Nobody spoke at all until the man driving slowed down and turned around to face us.

"I suppose they erased everything from your memories to do with killjoys?" He asked. Lucy turned to me, her eyes filled with questions.

"What's a killjoy?" She said, we must have sounded so stupid.

"I'll take that as a yes. Well, I may as well explain now before Dr. Death Defying fills you in."

"Look, you have the wrong people; I need to get home to my son, Phoenix." Lucy said sternly. The guy laughed slightly.

"You're son was taken and that's why you're out here. He was taken by Better Living Industries and you've been out here for almost a year trying to get him back. You and Kirsty were trained by my team 3 years ago, but you've changed so much that we hardly recognised you. Show Pony had told Dr. Death Defying that you'd had an encounter with some Draculoids and they'd wiped your memory." He said.

"That doesn't explain why I'm here, I mean, I know who Lucy is but why am I with her. And who are you?" I asked him.

"You mean you don't remember me at all?"

"No, should I?"

"Never mind, call me Party Poison. You're here because you're scared that the Draculoids are going to take over your home country, Ireland, and force your family to join them."

"That actually makes sense, you've always had pride in your country." Lucy laughed. I shifted down in my seat and closed my eyes for a few minutes. Images played through my mind like an old film and slowly, I felt myself drift off to sleep.

"Kirsty!" I heard a voice yell, he was panicking again. Through the blinding light that was now my vision, I could make out somebody running to me.

"You were shot pretty well there, Lucy took your sunglasses clean off! You should be able to see in a few minutes, the sun's not that bright today." Another voice said from across the training ground.

"Yea, looks like we'll both be able to come with you lot now!" I cheered. Victory at last. We could finally fight.

I woke up again with a slight headache.

"I've got to say to you both though; you have to be pretty brave to take on that amount of Draculoids on your own. Even if you didn't make it out fully unscratched, what you did was epic." Poison said, he was starting to sound happy for once. Coming closer, I could see a diner. Lucy had noticed it too and we both recognised it from somewhere. When the car skied to a halt, Poison got out and walked over to a guy that was waiting for him. Studying him carefully, I guessed that he was the man that Poison was talking about. Dr. Death Defying. Climbing out of the car, Lucy and I made our way over to him too.

"Killer. Juicy." He nodded at us, we stood looking awkwardly. Surely he would know that we didn't know a think about anything.

"You've probably gathered now but Kirsty's killer and Lucy's Juicy." Poison confirmed. It was true, we'd guessed that already. Dr. Death Defying held out his hand for us both to shake. Carefully, I took in his appearance and tried to recall where I knew him from. Hastily, we followed him to a seat in the diner. Sitting down next to Lucy, my mind started to drift to some memories that had been hidden in the back of my mind.

"Go out there and get them!" Dr. Death Defying cheered. His eyes were filled with joy and worry; we all knew there was a little chance of us surviving this battle without a scratch.

"So, be honest with me, do you recognise me at all?" He asked us. Surprisingly, we both nodded. Poison looked even glummer as he stared at the floor, probably upset that we still had no idea who he was. Smiling, Dr. Death spoke to us again.

"Well, I know it's confusing now, but your bodies are already fighting off the memory reversal. In a few hours, maybe days, you should remember everything you don't know now. We've decided that until you remember again, we'll train you so that if we're under attack then you will have some idea of what to do." He smiled. Poison's eyes lit up suddenly and met mine again. I don't know why, but I felt a strange urge to hug him.

"Come on, I think you better meet the others."