He bat his eye lashes as he looked up at the rain. Carlos sat there in silence with his brothers bleeding corpse in his arms. The thick red matter laced his chest bleeding through his fishnet shirt. He felt the famous tune he always heard when he and his Eric had chaos. He liked to call it Erics theme but unfortunately for him only he could hear it... well him and of course, mason. The pale boy with long shaggy hair like an early Disney character appeared on the side walk sitting beside Carlos.
"You're really going to take the fall for this?" He spoke somberly. the sound whizzing through Carlos` ear. The Latino looked over at this boy he barely knew. "I know Logan asked you before... but what are you?" His bike behind him the streets silent with the night. Mason laughed a little bit. " When you..." He shifted his sitting position feeling the rough concrete beneath his palms. The small rocks leaving an indent behind. "Take your chaos... mix it with that of... James, Kendall... Logan... Camille, Lucy, Jo, and little Katie... you get me." He smiled at Carlos. The boy sighed clutching his brother even tighter. He felt completely responsible but it was not Carlos that pulled the trigger. "You're like... a fusion? Those cocoa eyes piercing the soul. The shaggy boy nodded. "That house... that forest?" Mason slipped a hand into his friends and their fingers interlaced. "Just like with Sardonyx and her room in the temple... that place only exists if i exist..." Looking away. "The forest that is... the house isn't mine... its where we got trapped." he held up his free hand and from it projected eight different Gemstones. Carlos noticing immediately his lavender Spinel. They all twirled really quickly before manifesting back into a rainbow diamond. "Dance with me..." Mason stepped up off the concrete sidewalk and into the road. When Carlos stood up the rest of his world vanished. They should escape for a moment.
The boys began to dance to the beat only they could hear. A small voice piercing their ears. 'ooooh and then i had to tell him... i had to go!' twirl, spin, dip. Eyes locked. They laughed a little and then the beat dropped. 'Havana oh Na Na half of my heart is in Havana.' The trumpets blared and eventually all they cared about was the music. 'he took me back to east Atlanta Na Na Na... oh but my heart is in Havana.' Gripping the boys shirt collar Carlos starred deep into the manifestation before him, it saddened him that this beautiful boy could only exist if there was chaos. 'My heart is in Havana Havana oh Na Na Na.' He went through the stones in his head: Lucy (Amethyst), James (Ruby), Kendall (Green Topaz.). He took a deep breath as the darkness around the two of them began to illuminate into a mixture of orange and purple. He continued: Jo (Orange Citrine.), Logan (Sapphire), Katie (Aquamarine), Camille (Garnet). There song ended and Mason vanished. From Carlos` lips he uttered. "Manzana." Though the boy was gone. He alone on the street once more with his brother in his arms. Like it had all been a dream.
"Litos?" His mother looked down at the body as she stood next to him. "My Eric!" She cried kneeling down. Those cocoa eyes peered up into those that gave themselves to him. They exchanged looks of sadness. "I had to mama... i had to." He looked down. The next thing he knew he was being hurled into a world of blurry colors and rough hands. A few fists to the face metal cuffs around his wrists. When it was ruled as self defense the boy was released but his mother wanted nothing to do with him. He stood in the open door frame of his bedroom almost everything gone aside from a couple dressers and nightstand. He held a duffel bag over his shoulders. He sighed and a sharp sound had him turn around. "Papa..." Mr. Garcia looked at his son with an earnest look. "I knew about your brother... i never knew he was this bad." Carlos looked up at his father with a hateful glare. "If given the chance." His son spoke. "I wouldn't change a thing."
Katie stirred. She opened her eyes to look around the theater. Gibby was sitting next to her staring off into nothing. She moved around a little terrified. Then she saw it. Her arms. They were pink with red flakes and scaring her almost to death her tail swiveled out from behind her. she screamed falling into the floor. Around the corner the creature that was supposedly Jo twisted her spine 180 degrees. she popped her head out of place from her shoulders and screeched with blood pouring from her oraphasis. The creature got close to her. They were face to face. "Go." Katie whispered. The creature vanished. Gasping rather harshly she stood to her feet and walked down the long isle of the audience. She got to the stage and lifted herself onto it. she began to run but stopped in the dead center when the spotlight dropped on her. "Think of it like that show... the American Dragon." He laughed as he stepped down from his throne. She gawked upon this man, he had climbed down from the sound booth. this man who approached her with one eye. "It has only worked once before... but ive done it again." He had a bandage covering the sore now. It wrapped all the way around his head. He wore a suit. "Im a scientist... i collect bodies i sell the parts i dont need and i create..." He climbed the steps to the stage and came to her side. "You cant create something... from nothing." His hand drew a line on her jaw and she shuddered. He walked away disappearing into the deep theater. She shook Vehemently.
"So you got Logan to do your dirty work." She whispered. She looked down at herself understanding what she was for a moment. She wondered who? Who was it that he had manifested within her. Who was she to heal. She needed Manzana. Turning on a heel she followed wherever the maze of curtains went. Eventually she heard running water. And little specks of green appeared everywhere. She ran a hand along the wall feeling the vines beneath her touch. She looked back at the rock wall that suddenly appeared. There was one in front of her now too but it was one she could climb. She stepped going higher and higher until she saw purple feet. With rough hands she pulled herself up and the two of them looked down at Kendall, Carlos, and James.