Wow! I can't beleive the response this story has had! I was expecting five, maybe six OCs, but I just keep getting more :) Thank you so much for all your characters, I'm really looking forward to writing about them all. I do need more YDC characters though as I only have four. Don't be afraid to make your OC evil, every story needs good villans :)
Anyway, sorry for the long authors note, and for the shortness of this chapter but I hope you like it! (cookies for anyone who notices the Death Note referance)
Luke Costello stared absent mindedly out the window as they drove through a seemingly endless expanse of forest. The music in his headphones was turned up as high as he could, but it still didn't doo much to drown out his Mom and Skyler singing along to the radio. He sighed as he checked his ipod- 10:35- still another hour in this goddamned car.
Not that he was actually looking forward to arriving at their desitnation: they were on their way to visit his younger sister Kara in Sanford Institute. As much as Luke loved Kara, there was something about seeing her in prison that he just hated. It made him feel like he'd failed, that it was his fault. Though their parents tried their best, they travelled a lot for work, and even when they were home spent most of their time locked away in their office. Luke had pretty much raised Kara and Sky since he was six, so the fact that Kara had for some reason, God knows what, stole a sports car and drove it through the front ofa shopping center, hurt him far more then it did the rest of the family.
Oh well, Luke thought, we'll only be here for a few days, what's the worst that could happen?
Later, Luke would look back on that thought and wonder if the events that happened next were the universe's way of proving just how bad things could get. If that was the case Luke wanted to go up to the universe and punch it in the face.
Because as soon as the thought crossed his mind, the car swerved to the side and Skyler's singing turned to screams.
Luke immediatly yanked his headphones out and grabbed Skyler's hand. "Sky? Sky what's wrong?" he cried, his eyes fixed on the terrified face of his ten year old sister. But Skyler didn't need to say anything, Luke knew the problem as soon as the car swerved manically to the side, throwing him and Skyler against the window.
"HOLY SHIT!" Luke yelled, lurching forwards to grab the wheel. Their parents were gone, holy shit they were just gone.
He couldn't think about that now, they were crashing, Skyler was in danger. Luke turned the wheel hard and the car swerved back towards the path, but the momentum was too much. The car skidded to the side and Luke's eyes widened in fear as he saw the edge of the cliff.
There was nothing he could do, it took less then a second for the car to slide over the edge, for their fate to be sealed. They were going to die.
Luke let go of the wheel and fell back in to his seat, wrapping his arms around Skyler and holding her close as the ground rushed up to meet them.
"I'm so sorry Sky" he whispered as tears fell down his face. People say that your life flashes before you when you're about to die, but it really doesn't. All Luke could see was the cliff flying past them as they came closer and closer to the ground. There was a flash of blue light as the car hit the ground, and then...nothing.
"Holy shit did you see what happened?"
"Yeah, everyone just vanished!"
"Ohmygod maybe we're dead?"
"Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod!"
Never in her life had Amy Valeri been so tempted to strangle her classmates. Sure, this was insane, bordering on nightmareish, but that was no excuse for people to start acting like panicky idiots. She rolled her eyes as a yet another chorus of 'ohmygod's rose up from a group of girls.
"Can you beleive these people?" Amy said, turning to her adoptive brother Lucas.
"Oh come on Amy, the grown ups have just vanished, they kinda have the right to panic" Lucas said.
Typical Lucas, always the nico one, Amy thought. "That's exactly why they shouldn't panic! We should be trying to find out what's going on, not running around like idiots!"
"I couldn't agree more" came a voice from behind her.
Amy turned around to see Jake Mckenzie and Zoe Valdez standing there.
"Thank you voice of reason" Amy smiled, "So what do you think we should do?"
"Err, rob the shopping center?" Zoe smirked. "Declare ourselves the gods of the new world?"
"Not helping Zo" Jake smiled, "I was thinking more like rob the physics department"
Okay that was it, all hopes of intelligant conversation just flew out the window. "Brilliant" Amy sighed, "Am I the only one taking this seriously!"
"I am serious" Jake said, "We could grab some radiation sensors or something and scan the areas where the adults disapeared".
"...Okay that is clever" Amy said, already on her way out of the room as Jake started explaining his plans.
Lucas glanced to Zoe, "Okay I don't know if it's just the wierdness speaking but I have no idea what they're on about"
Zoe shrugged, "Me neither. But when in doubt follow the geeks" she said with a smile, following Jake and Amy out of the room.
Almost there...almost there, just a few more minutes and we'll be out the door...
Eliza kept repeating those words in her mind as she strapped on her shin pads, trying her best to just smile and nod as her parents chattered away, despite the fact that the tournament would be starting in half an hour.
"Oh Eliza I'm so proud of you!" Her mother grinned, "Only 14 years old and already learning surgery!"
"Well what else would you expect from our daughter?" Her father said, his smile just as big as his wife's.
"Well it's all thanks to you that I can do it" Eliza said, subtly moving to corral them out the door.
"Of course, but it was your hard work that made if possible" Her father said, finally grabbing the car keys from the shelf and heading out the door.
Eliza was usually a very patient person, but she's spent weeks studying just so her parents would take her to this foorball tournament, and she wasn't going to miss it because of her parent's dawdling.
She smiled as at last both her parents were out the door and heading towards the car, checking one last time that she had everything with her. Of course, she did. She'd been preparing for this all day. Despite her parent's obsession with her being a doctor, Eliza's true passion was football. She went along with all that medical stuff just to please them, but she swore when she was eighteen she'd be out the door and on her way to a professional football career.
But for now, she'd just have to excel at her parent's training and fit in tournaments as often as she could.
She knelt down on the step, quickly laceing up her boots and running over to the car.
"Come on guys, the tournament starts soon, let's go!" Eliza grinned.
The smile was wiped from her face as she realized that her parents weren't in the car.
"Oh come on! You can't seriously expect us to walk!" Eliza cried, "It's twenty miles!".
She stepped out of their drive and looked up and down the street. They weren't there. "Mom? Dad? Okay if this is some kind of joke it isn't funny!" She called, jogging to the snd of the street and checking round the corner. They weren't there.
"Mom? Dad?" Eliza called, running back down the street and checking the other way. They weren't there.
Frantic, Eliza checked inside the house, in the garden, she even knocked on her neighbors doors, but they weren't anywhere.
Her parents were gone.