And we're back again for another chapter! I'm thinking of doing a spin-off that focuses on Drake's and Sonia's... eh...
"relationship". If you can even call it that. I'll update you on it soon.
"Violet..." Sonia frowns. "I'm hungry."
"I know." Violet replies with forced patience.
The two are silent for a few seconds.
"Violet... My hand hurts."
"I know."
A few more seconds of silence.
"Violet-"
"What? What is it!?"
"...I'm bored."
Violet's eye twitches in annoyance, "Go play or something."
"But-"
"I have another headache, alright? Just shut up!"
Sonia falls silent and she looks off to the side. She starts to walk away, "I'd rather have headaches over the other option."
A pang of guilt hits Violet hard, the oldest triplet sighing softly, "Sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you."
"It's fine, really." Sonia forces a laugh. "It just gets a bit annoying to have some random alien controlling my thoughts and mouth."
Violet senses the sarcasm, "Right... Still. Go play."
Sonia skips out the house while it's still bright outside. No one really came outside anymore, unless they really had to. Sonia goes for another run, going up to Clifftop Resort, curious to how Lana was doing. She'd long since forgotten about her hand, writing not really important nowadays.
She knocks on the door, "Lana? Lana!"
"Who is it?" The door opens slightly, a chain obviously on it.
"Your number one customer, who isn't hurt for once!"
"Oh, hey Sonia." Lana murmurs, unlocking the door. "I'm amazed. Your not hurt... Other than your feet, but that's a usual thing."
Sonia stands awkwardly, staring off into space. Lana takes a seat, and strokes Patrick's head. She watches the girl, who'd always seemed odd to her.
"Lana, will you teach me how to shoot a gun?" Sonia suddenly blurts out.
Lana smirks, "I would, but I don't think I could trust you with a gun."
"Aww..."
"It's basically point and shoot though."
"That's the thing I'm bad at." Sonia grumbles.
Sonia waves good bye to Lana, but the older girl stops her.
"What happened to your hand?" Lana gestures to the bandage that really needed to be changed.
"Oh, Zil shot me in the hand and my sisters cut the bullet out." She explains, wiggling all her working fingers. "Really screwed up my hand."
Lana was innerly surprised she wasn't asked to heal something. She might've, considering Sonia was basically missing two fingers, but she didn't offer to. It didn't seem like Sonia really cared about the wound.
"Actually.. I have something I need to ask you." Sonia turns around, a serious expression on her usually eager face.
"If it's to heal-"
"What do you think of me?"
Lana pauses, unsure what to say.
"Be truthful."
Lana stands up, crossing her arms slowly as she looks Sonia up and down. She closes her eyes and reopens them once she has the answer, "I must say, your annoying, clumsy, persistent and maybe a little too happy."
Sonia frowns, "Really?"
"Yeah, but sometimes you seem a bit forced. Otherwise, your pretty nice to be around." Lana tries to dig a little deeper. "Why do you force happiness?"
"...Because I'm no fun when I'm unhappy, especially when a little monsters' in my thoughts." Sonia taps her head. "Happiness keeps it under control... See ya later."
Sonia's gone with a small boom(along with the sound of a maids' cart crashing). Lana sits back in her chair, understanding slightly what Sonia meant.
'A monster in your head, uh?' Lana closes her eyes. 'So, it really is still alive.'
Krissy clutches her precious Ipod, knowing battery life was only at 2 bars. She puts the buds in her ears and chooses a song. She sings along as she walks aimlessly through town.
"Yo, when I'm at the mall, security just can't fight 'em off! And when I'm at the beach, I'm in a speedo trying to tan my cheeks." Krissy sings, bouncing around eagerly. "Yeah, this is how I roll. C'mon ladies, it's time to go! We're headed to the stores, girl don't be nervous. No shoes, no shirt and I still get service, watch!"
She bumps into Zil and gets knocked backwards. She stares up at the older boy mutely, moving the turn off her Ipod. She plucks the buds out her ears and wraps them up.
"What did you say?" She cocks an eyebrow.
"Join the human crew." Zil repeats. "Both your sisters are freaks, and one didn't even tell you."
"...What?"
"Yeah, my people tell me Violet can read minds. She didn't trust you enough, so she went to Sam and Astrid."
"She wouldn't... Well she probably had a good reason." An uneasy look forms on her face.
"And Sonia, it's obvious she's trying to join the Coates' kids. Running off with them, helping keep Diana alive, kissing Drake."
"The Drake part isn't true. The gaiaphage possesed her and kissed Drake."
Zil pauses to take this in, "...The gaiaphage is gay for Drake?"
"Apparently."
He snickers, but quickly composes himself, "So your all alone. Your sister's are already starting to leave you."
"I guess your right..." Krissy frowns. "Okay, I'll join the Human Crew! Where do I start?"
"We're planning something big! Something that'll bring the human's together..."
"That shouldn't take much." Krissy walks with Zil to the Human Crew's hideout.
It was basically a culdesac with big trucks blocking off the front entrance from other freaks. It was pretty run down and small, Krissy finding one other girl there. Who she didn't like. She was like a cow. Staring with big eyes and agreeing with everything Krissy said. Krissy forgot her name. She calls her Cow. [A/N: I feel kinda guilty for not knowing her name]
"So, who are you again?" Lance saunters up to her.
"Krissy. Everyone calls me DJ Kris though."
"Well, DJ, welcome to the Human Crew."
'I'm the gaiaphage.'
"I'm aware of that, why aren't you dead?"
'You cannot kill me, foolish human.'
Sonia shrieks as another wave of pain hits her. She falls to her knees and twitches.
'You serve me.'
"I don't serve anyone!"
'Do not defy me.'
Sonia begins beating her head on the wall as it feels like a bomb goes off in her head, "Stop!"
And then it's gone. The pain is replaced with empty, numbness. She curls into a ball and takes calming breaths. She stands as the torture is over. It happens at the randomnest times. She smiles as she thinks that the gaiaphage had heard her comment about him being gay for Drake.
She goes up to the clifftop and sees a group of kids sitting around a campfire. She saw that girl, Orsay, with her hands on the wall and cringes. She knew from experience that, that must hurt a lot. She spots a new girl with jet black hair.
'Who is she?'
Nerezza and Sonia lock eyes, the older girl's eyes glowing green. Sonia's eyes widen and she takes a step forward. She knew that look on Nerezza's face. She was possesed by the gaiaphage... But maybe a bit more willingly.
Sonia joins the crowd and watches Orsay. Turns out she was that girl who could see dreams... And she could see through the FAYZ wall. Nerezza watches Sonia closely, pleased to find her not causing trouble.
After everyone, Sonia stays behind and talks with Orsay.
After an hour and a half of talking, Sonia becomes serious. "Orsay, do you know what the gaiaphage is?"
"Yes, why?"
"Just wondering..."
Violet sighs and shakes her head. She sneaks up to a small child and touches his shoulder. Thoughts flood into her mind, almost causing relief. Most of the thoughts were about hunger and family and toys.
Violet pulls away and smiles softly. If she couldn't use her power normally, she'd use it to see people's dreams. She ends up at McCafe, confused to why people were giving her dirty looks. She shrugs, knowing rumors spread like disease around here. She wasn't surprised that people knew about her power already.
"Oh well." She murmurs.
She hadn't seen Krissy or Sonia all day, and she was slightly worried. Not much for Sonia, that girl disapeared for a day all the time, even before the FAYZ. But Krissy usually stayed home, listening and making music. She felt like the FAYZ was breaking them apart. It wasn't fun.
Astrid and the rest of town council sit in the almost broken down room. Things weren't going very good in Perdido Beach. Rumors were spreading like wild fires, only making the tension between freaks and normals worse.
"First order of business," Astrid clears her throat. "Orsay is convincing people that the big poof is the way to go."
"And?" Howard stares blankly.
"And? We can't have people killing themselves!"
"How do we know it's death? How do we know they're not getting sent home?"
Astrid falls silent, not having an answer. She takes a deep breath, "Let's have a vote. We could either tell people Orsay's a liar, or not. Which is it?"
Lying won out.
"It's been going around about who created the FAYZ wall." Edillio announces. "Everyone's making accusations against each other, but the top 2 are Sonia and Little Petey."
"Petey?" Astrid's eyes widen slightly. "That's not possible, he doesn't have powers or anyway to make something like this."
Lies.
"So your saying it's Sonia?" Mary questions.
"No, I'm just saying it's not Petey."
"Well we have to tell them something." John pipes in, something rare. "Or everyone is just going to keep attacking each other."
"It was most likely that thing in the mine shaft."
Everyone's opinion forms to one big murmur of conversation.
"I bet it is Sonic. Making her weird force fields that happen to look EXACTLY like the FAYZ wall."
"Feels like the wall too."
"Stop accusing her, she's perfectly innocent!"
"Yeah, cause all the innocent girls make out with pshyco's like Drake Merwin."
"Hey, I heard that she got possesed?"
"By?"
"The gaiaphage."
Everyone falls silent for a few seconds.
"The gaiaphage is gay for Drake?" Howard's jaw drops.
The FAYZ is full of lies.