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Chapter 14: A One Way Ticket

The next couple of days were bland, boring, and awkward. Lazarus as he preferred to be called stayed at the light house where he wasn't to leave until night fell, and even then he was to be careful. If anyone saw him Beach City would become the next Roswell. The team didn't need that kind of attention. Steven didn't take the news so well. He fell into a depression like none he had ever experienced before. It rivaled the feelings that he had felt after the ship crashed had multiplied tenfold. While before it was the possibility that he would hurt his loved ones he'd now faced the realization that he single handedly caused all of this out sheer carelessness.

Ron sat at his computer typing up a report for Sadie which he would then send to Dewy. With each mission the situation grew more dangerous and the stakes rose. Now the world as they knew it may be at stake. Lazarus sat up on the couch in the room.

"You know, you don't have to let me stay here. You and your friends aren't safe so long as I'm around," He said sadly. Ron didn't even look away from his monitor.

"It's better that we keep an eye on you. You stand between Obsidian and a monster army," he responded bluntly but not coldly. Lazarus looked away at nothing in particular.

"I never asked for any of this," He said sadly. At this Ron turned around.

"No one asked to be a part of this. When my friends and I decided to do this we thought we would be fighting mindless monsters that held no special powers, no intelligence, and no threat to humanity as a whole, but when we were faced with a challenge that was clearly out of our league none of even hesitated to step back out on that battlefield. In the end it's not about what you ask for, it's what you do that counts. I saw that look in your eyes while you were running from Obsidian," This caught Lazarus' attention, and he quickly became eager for Ron to finish that thought. "I saw fear, panic, but most of all I saw excitement and bravery. There's a lot of potential in you, Lazarus; when it comes down to it I have no doubt that you'll rise to the occasion," And with that Ron went back to typing. Lazarus smiled widely as he felt his resolve rise.

Dewy sat in his office with the curtains shut and the lights off.

"Yes I know, Charley. I'll get you those pistols back as soon as possible." Dewy said to the man on the other end of the phone as he skimmed over the reports that had been sent to him the night before. "They're doing quite well. There haven't been any casualties and the collateral damage is down from when the gems were taking care of things…Yes I saw the news report its fine. We're not the only place where stuff like that's happening; the whole world's going crazy…We've located the obsidian temple as well…yeah I'll talk to you later. Expect those guns back in a few weeks. Bye," He hung up and slumped in his chair. He let out a sigh "I need a vacation,"

"Allow me to help you with that," A cynical woman's voice came from seemingly nowhere. Dewy sat up in his chair and looked around franticly, but saw no one. "Whoever you were talking to, it doesn't matter there not going to be able to help you," Dewy cautiously freed the derringer that he kept taped the underside of his desk, and started for the exit. "Look at you, so scared so fragile," He heard the voice from right behind him and he whipped around with the safety off. "And so out of time," He heard once more before everything went black.

Sent to Jenny, Lars, Sadie, Sour Cream, and Ron at7:32 pm

Hey guys you haven't seen my dad driving around town have you? He's always home by now and he won't answer his phone. I'm really worried

No sorry

No

No, but have you seen Kiki? She went out to deposit the money we made today and she didn't come back. She won't answer her phone either and I'm scared.

No luck

You guys don't think it was him do you?

I hope not

What should we do?

How can I help?

I don't know. He is the mayor he may have just had something important to do, and his phone died. Don't worry about it for now.

8:07 pm

The cops are at my door my dad's dead

I'm coming

On my way

Coming

Can somebody pick me up?

I'll get you

(Sorry if the text scene looks jacked up. I don't get multi-person texts all that often)

Lars sped over to Buck's house on his motorcycle with Sadie clinging tightly to his back. They had been pulled over a little ways back, but once Lars showed the officer the text thread he was rushed back on his way. Lars leaned to the left and slammed the breaks so that he slid to a halt in Buck's driveway. (I don't own a motorcycle) The couple rushed into the house and immediately saw the stoic teen siting on the couch with his head in his hands. Jenny who was sitting to the right of Buck had her arms around him, and Sour who was sitting on the left had a comforting hand on his shoulder. Lars and Sadie sat on the coffee table in front of the couch. Buck a steady stream of tears coming out from under his glasses but he wasn't sobbing or making any noise at all for that matter. After a moment of silence Buck started laughing; succeeding in confusing everyone in the room.

"You know it finally sunk in," He said in between laughs as the tears intensified. "He had at least twenty more years on this planet and they're gone," He kept laughing bitterly as all of his friends looked away. This was the saddest thing they had ever seen. "My bitch of a mother leaves before I can even learn her name! My dad was the only one who cared for me, and even with that I spent most of my time pushing him away!" His laughs only got louder that wasn't a good sign. "He's gone, gone for good. DMANIT!" His laughing stopped in an instant and he began trembling, seething with a tragic rage. He got up and proceeded to punch a hole through his wall before falling to his knees and sobbing like any man would. By this point everyone eyes were pricked with tears. There was no escaping it; they were only human after all. Jenny's phone started ringing. Normally she would ignore it, but it was her father who knew why she was there so it must've been important. She brought the phone p to her ear with a shaky hand.

"Yeah," she answered simply with a crack in her voice. Her heart dropped in her chest when the first thing she heard was her father crying uncontrollably. "Dad what happened?!" Her face broke into an expression that would be associated with the sound of breaking glass. Without another word she hung up and dropped her phone. A solid two moments passed with Sour being too afraid of the answer to ask what was wrong. After those two moments Jenny lurched forward and vomited violently. Then the tears came, and she threw herself at Sour who buried her in his arms as she wailed in grieving. It wouldn't do much but it was all he could do at the time. Sadie took Lars hand as she to began to sob. Lars looked at her and squeezed he hand as he put his other arm around her. Ronaldo just stood there sadly while gritting his teeth. How had he not accounted for this? It was so obvious; those things, those monsters, those demons will pay.

(*sniffle* damn it why do I do this to myself! Hope you all enjoyed, but how could you.*sniffle* please don't send me any hate mail I feel cruddy enough.