Second chapter! I'd like to thank luv-me-some-whiphand for being my first reviewer!
The girls had finally made it to Perdido Beach. They cruise through the town to find, in fact, that there weren't any people 15 or older. Krissy gets a thoughtful look on her face, looking around the area.
"The FAYZ, huh?" She tries the word out for herself, liking the sound of it. "This is pretty cool."
"It can't be that bad without adults, right?" Sonia laughs softly.
Violet sighs and pokes her head out the window to see a big crowd. There was a black mini van and more kids climb out of it wearing uniforms, doing something like a rehearsed act.
"Those kids are from Coates." Violet points out. "Sonia, stop the car."
"Aye-yai, captain!" Sonia laughs, then focus's intently on trying to park the car.
"..." Violet notices the issue Sonia was having and nonchalantly blocks her face in case the air bag went off.
Sonia was grumbling, trying to park in the pretty much bare streets. Krissy was enjoying Sonia's failed attempts, snickering loudly, which only made Sonia more anxious.
People from the crowd had actually noticed the struggling car and watched for a moment before jumping out the way as it hits a light pole, knocking it down and crashing it into a few more cars, which just sets off a couple car alarms.
Sonia glares determinedly and backs the car up so it was off the side walk, and after another 3 minutes of trying, finally gets it right. By then, everyone was curious on who was gonna step out this badly driven car.
Sonia hops out the car with a big grin, "I told you I could do it! What now!"
"Yes, you were able to park the car after crashing and setting off alarms." Krissy rolls her eyes.
"Shut up, Krissy!"
The crowd(both Coates and Perdido kids) stares at the new girls for awhile, taken a bit off guard by what just happened.
"So is it true?" Violet ignores her sisters bickering. "All the adults are gone?"
"Yes, it's true." Caine walks up to her. "And who, may I ask, are you?"
"Violet Nic, and you are?" She shakes his hand.
"Caine Soren."
"..." Sonia stares at the body covered in a blanket. "Please tell me she's sleeping."
No one answers, but she got the point and backs away from the body.
Sonia was curious about these new people who suddenly became leaders. She wanted to know why she didn't have a say about who the heck was ordering her around. She'd been in the FAYZ for 2 days more or less, and today was the third day.
She sits alone in the church as people file out. She had lost her sisters in the crowd, and she was just bored now. She munches idly on a Snickers Bar and just stops to think for once. And all that did was fill her head with annoying questions.
Who created the FAYZ? Is there a way out? Probably not, or else someone would've been in to save us... Why are people over 14 disapearing? That's not right. And how long is this food gonna last?
She wished she had her Ipod, but she wasn't much of a walker and didn't want to risk hitting anyone in her new car that wasn't so new-looking anymore. A girl with blonde hair sits next to her and stares off into space for awhile.
"You think this FAYZ thing is gonna backfire?" Sonia asks no one in particular.
"It might, I'm not even sure I believe this yet." The girl replies.
Sonia was surprised she actually answered, "Dang. I was hoping I could stay her for vacation."
The blonde laughs softly, "I'm Astrid,"
"Sonia. But everyone seems to have made a habit to call me Sonic."
"Why?"
"Long story... Do you find it ironic that this place is called 'safe' but it's also called 'Falllout Alley'?"
"Yes, I do."
Krissy walks down the street with her hands in her pocket, trying to find their house. They probably should've stopped there first but Sonia was excited to be driving and Violet didn't want to crash into the house. When Krissy finally gets there, she finds it empty. Not a soul.
"Wow... They're really gone." She laughs. "Now I can have the party I always dreamed of!"
Krissy jogs into the house and grabs a small backpack and starts filling it with supplies. Sonia's Ipod, Violet's laptop, her own Gameboy along with all of it's games. A few change of clothes and food. She had heard that Caine planned to raid the houses for kids and food, and she wanted some for herself and her sisters. She's about to leave her room, when she hears crying coming from her mothers room.
She peeks in and sees the neighbors child screaming its head off, wrapped in covers.
"She must've been babysitting." Krissy quiets the child and deciedes to bring it to Mary at the daycare.
She goes straight there, knocking on the wall to announce her being there. She gives the child to Mary's younger brother, Jhon and keeps going to the church.
"Hey everybody! I'm having a party at my place! Quit being so sad and have fun! No adults? Isn't this what every kid has dreamed of!" She yells.
There's a murmur of agreement and everyone follows her to her house, only gaining more people, because who wanted to be alone right now?
She blasts music to attract more people and starts making some food out of whatever she left in the fridge.
Hours Later...
The party was still going, at it's peak, but quite a few people didn't join in and complained to the 'sherrif'.
Violet was serving drinks and food, weaving like an expert through the crowd. Krissy was DJ-ing, Bette was doing these really cool magic tricks, and Sonia was dancing with anyone who would join her. Sure her singing would bring Rossane Barr to her knees, but Sonia was quite the dancer.
The younger children watched in amazement as Bette has little balls of light coming from her hands. They clapped and cheered the girl on.
Drake, Chaz and Orc suddenly make the crowd split apart, and Sonia was curious again.
"Hey, you guys here for the party?" She laughs. "It's great! We've even got a magician!"
"A magician?" Drake raises his eye brow.
"Yeah, she's really good!" Sonia skips off into the crowd and keeps dancing to the next song.
"How you all doing tonight!" Krissy laughs. "Here's a song that you all should know!"
The Cupid Shuffle comes on and everyone starts dancing to it to their own beat. Even Violet danced a little.
The party is suddenly stopped by the crack of a bat hitting skull. Everyone freezes and stares at their magician, Bette, who just got a bat to the head. And Orc had swung it.
"What the hell did you do that for!" Violet rushes over, kneeling by Bette. "Oh shit, your bleeding!"
"AHH! Our magician! Orc!" Krissy jumps down from the kitchen table where she had been DJ-ing. "What's your problem?"
"It's in the rules. No magic tricks." Drake states.
"That's a dumb rule. I can't do my awesome card tricks anymore." Sonia comments, annoyed that their party was just crashed.
Drake shoots her a glare that was meant to shut her up.
"It's true." She shrugs, grabbing a cool towel for Bette. "And you could've just told her to stop! What if you would've killed her, huh?"
"I don't make the rules, I just enforce them." Orc shrugs, unaffected by the girl's words.
"Bette, go on home." Violet says, helping the girl to her feet.
"And since when were these rules created?" Krissy questions. "Are they written down or are you making them up as you go?"
"Screw the rules, I wanna go back to my party!" Sonia pouts.
"About your party, we're getting much too many complaints." Drake cuts off the speakers.
Sonia scowls, using the remotes to turn it back on.
"Don't push him, Sonia." A Coates kid whispers to her.
"..."
It went back and forth for 30 seconds, maybe more, before Drake roars, swinging the bat at Sonia. It hits her in the side and she almost falls to the ground. Adrenaline takes over then. She lunges back at Drake with an almost un-human shriek, and aims a punch to his face, but he was way to tall, and she got his chin, making his head to snap back. Things freeze for a moment as people back up enough to form a wide circle. Krissy deciedes to turn the speakers back on defiantly, playing Party Like A Rockstar. Someone tosses Sonia a baseball bat, eager for a fight.
Sonia swings and ducks, her speed steadily increasing. She growls as someone says 'Sonic is here'. Drake swings as if he was playing a game of T-ball, Sonia blocks with her arm and grips her own bat steadily. Both Drake and Sonia swing at the same time, breaking the bats due to the force. Both were extremly pissed off. Sonia brings her bat over Drakes head, the older boy howling in pain.
Sonia's knocked upside the head with more force than she could imagine and she goes crashing t the ground. It missed her temple by a few inches. Things had gone eerily silent as Drake saunters up to her, getting ready to jam the sharp part of the bat into her stomach. Violet grabs her sisters arm and yanks her back a few feet, almost popping it out the socket. The bat lodges itself into the floor.
Drake and his crew leave without anther world, more than one person currently had a headache.
People begin swarming Sonia, freaked. Accusations and questions of 'Are you alright' or 'Are you crazy' forming to become on big buzz. It goes like that before someone offers the brilliant idea of getting her to the doctor, Dahra.
"My head hurts." Sonia massages her forehead.
"You got hit with a bat." Panda reminds her. "I'm surprised your not dead."
"Thank you, Violet."
Violet, Panda, Cookie, Krissy and Mary walk Sonia to 'the doctors'. More or less in a group in fear of Drake coming back to finish off Sonia. The news quickly spread of Sonia fighting Drake, though the winner is still unsure, and by the time they got to Dahra, people were swarming the group with questions.
"So, Sonic fought Drake, eh?" Dahra shakes her head with an amused smile. "Your crazy, hun. You don't know who your messing with,"
"Yeah, I know, heard it 8 other times on the way here." Sonia sighs. "But he got me all riled up, so I grabbed a bat and swung back."
Dahra nods, finally knowing what had started the fight, "So, what hurts."
"Head, shoulders, knees and toes." Sonia laughs at her joke. "But mostly my head and ribs."
While Sonia is usually thought of as a good girl, she loves to fight. Anyone, anytime, anywhere. It's usually on impulse and she dosen't always win. But she absolutely loves to fight. The rush, the adrenaline, the glory of winning(if she did). Her family didn't know with an exception of Violet and Krissy, which is why they didn't jump in at first. The triplets have no idea what Drake is all about.
But everyone else does.
Diana wasn't all to surprised when she heard someone had fought Drake. She was surprised the girl was still alive. And she was even more surprised when Orc told her that the kid was moving insanely fast. She went to tell Caine about it, making a mental note to read the triplets ASAP.
"Drake fought one of the triplets." She simply says while Caine reclines in the mayor's chair.
"And?" Caine replies boredly. He could care less who Drake fought.
"And I think she almost won. She might have a power."
"Oh really?"
Drake saunters in, sporting quite a few bruises, but not as many as Sonia.
"Did the pshyco get his ass kicked?" Diana spites. "Yes he did! Yes he did!"
Drake glares at her, "And where did you get that idea from?"
"It's all over town, you fighting that girl and not winning. How's anyone gonna take our so-called sheriff seriously if he's getting beat up by kids half his size?"
"Shut up, witch."
Sonia and Krissy sit in there house, waiting for Violet to come back from grocery shopping. They were discussing the fight and whether or not Sonia should keep her gaurd up and how long.
"Okay, so from what the other kids have told me, Drake Merwin is a total pshyco. He's a sadist too." Krissy explains.
"Oh yeah, that explains so much about him." Sonia jokes.
Krissy cracks a smile and continues, "Usually the people he fights or gets annoyed with end up dead or badly hurt. You? Your the first to come out without a cast of some kind."
"I feel so special."
There's a knock on the door.
"I'll get it!" Sonia calls out, then faces Krissy. "Krissy, go get the door."
"Lazy." Krissy gets up and answers the door to see a girl with brown-black hair. "Hey there, what brings you to our messed up home?"
"Who's at the door?"
"Get off your ass and come see."
"Your so mean."
Sonia gets up and stares at the girl.
"I'm Diana," The girl introduces herself, shaking hands with Krissy, a small smirk appearing on her face.
Smoke suddenly fills the air, and Krissy cuts the handshake short to rescue her cookies, screaming profanities at the timer she just found out was broken.
Diana then deciedes it's safer outside than inside, "Should I call the fire department?"
Sonia checks to see if there was a fire, "Nah, it's just smoke."
Diana keeps her patience up and sticks her hand out to shake Sonia's, "And your name is?"
Sonia eagerly shakes her hand, "Sonia, but I guess you can call me Sonic, that's the only name people know me by nowadays." She scowls. "Stupid Drake... You know him?"
"Sadly, yes."