Coalman walks into the room where the Murasaki are bunking to see what they are up too. He's shocked to see them all fast asleep.
He leaves to find Kazumi who was the last person seen sitting with the group, "Did they say why they are here?" He asks her
"Something about sleeping in, and Moon not wanting them around. Did you know they have a library. June promised he'd bring me more books."
Coalman smiles, "That's nice. It's healthy for you to have people you're comfortable with. Did they mention anything about moving people to their camp?" He asks curious.
"No, why would you ask that?"
"Because I found out yesterday that Rex went there by personal invitation. I had no idea they were secretly inviting my members to their camp. I was curious if they invited you."
Kazumi shakes her head, "No, they just promised to come visit soon and bring me books."
Coalman nods and walks away. With supplies refilled he sees no need to waste time staying up. He goes to bed and gets some shut eye.
~~~
Coalman wakes up in the morning to hearing Moon Camp begging the children to return to their camp.
Luna sighs, "We should go back before this reaches you know who."
The group are divided between the group that wants to stay and the group that wants to go.
"Look. Let's all take a breather and we'll talk about this when we meet here within an hour." Chronos says as the only one on team neutral.
Luna goes outside sitting alone.
Dodge stands in Toya's way as he is about to chase after Luna.
Toya stumbles and topples to the ground with Dodge under him. He quickly jumps up and helps her up gently, "I'm so sorry I was totally not watching where I was going, are you alright?"
Dodge frowns, "Like you actually care, run to go see how the princess is doing."
Toya frowns, "Dodge could you cut it out with this crap! I don't know what it is but you've changed lately. Towards all of us, what is going on with you?"
Dodge crosses her arms, "Nothing, what could possibly be wrong?"
Toya tilts her chin up, "Don't lie to me it doesn't look good on you. What did we do to you?"
"Nothing. What are you talking about?" She looks at him now confused.
"Your anger towards us. Did you seriously think no one has noticed? So either you tell me what the problem is, or I'm going to find Luna."
"I'm the only one without powers and I feel like everyone thinks I'm useless. I hate being a late bloomer."
Toya sighs, "I know. I am a late bloomer too. I had to wait 5 extra years for my power while kids my age were getting ahead of me. I know just how much it sucks. I know it's frustrating, I know the way it makes you feel weak and helpless, but it is going to be alright. No one thinks you're weak at all. Stop thinking like that." He runs his hand through her hair.
Dodge sulks, "You have powers. I don't wanna hear it from you."
"Fine than, stay miserable, am I supposed to beg you to be okay? Clearly you just like being wrapped up in that negative energy."
Dodge looks up at the tall male with her mouth wide open, hell yeah she expects him to beg her to be okay, "Yeah, I like it. I really enjoy being miserable Toya. I sit in my seat and everyday I think about more things to get depressed about and it makes me happy."
Toya nods, "Alright than, do what makes you happy. I'm glad being miserable makes your day."
Dodge's eyes turn red and she feels tingling in her fingertips.
Toya notices and copies her power but after that the power becomes dormant again. Toya feels his way through her power and notices silk threads in his finger tips. He attached it to Dodge and is surprised when he can read her mind.
He looks her in the eyes, "Your feelings for me are just a little crush, not this crazy obsession. Eventually they'll go away, and when your power kicks in, you better use it to protect Luna, whatever it is." He pulls the threads back and looks confused, he's not sure what exactly her power is.
Dodge looks at Toya confused, "What just happened?" She feels light headed.
"Your power kicked in. Threads of some sort to read minds I think. Not sure yet, but see, you will have your powers soon, and my mom said it would be more powerful than mine. So let's stop this depression thing, if you'll excuse me I need to remind someone we're here because of her." Toya mentions walking towards Luna, Rin, and Aira. The let's go back team.
Toya stands in front of them with his arms crossed, "Look, Luna, we left home to save you from getting murdered. It doesn't matter how we do it, what matters is that you stay alive. This camp needs us just as much as the next."
"Toya your dad is paying a debt back to Kyle. Remember when we were starving. Remember when we got attacked and Rin lost her mother. Kyle took us in, we don't owe those complainers anything but we owe Kyle our lives. You will piss them all of if they find out that you couldn't tough it out because of a bunch of lazy Samantha's."
Toya crosses his arms, "Hate it when you do that. I'll get the others. At least give everyone a proper goodbye." He turns around pissed off Luna had such a good point.
He tells everyone they will be spending half a day here, but in the evening they are going back.
Chronos nods, "Hurry up and make sure we leave this place with enough supplies." He says to everyone unhappy about having to go back.
~~~
Split sighs walking into the Moon Camp. He seriously did not want to come back.
The Murasaki teens huddle themselves together and the tension is high in the circle.
"Kyle saved our lives when we first moved here. Rin's mother died buying him enough time to bring us to this camp. We don't have a choice but to tough it out. So get some sleep if you can." Toya dismisses the group to get some shut eye.
Luna hugs Rin who cries.
Jet volunteers to stay with the two girls, "Go get some shut eye. Dodge can you watch Aira. He tends to struggle with falling asleep."
Dodge nods and piggybacks Aira to go play outside since she has energy to move around.
~~~
Early in the morning Dodge smiles in the mirror, Toya talked to her as openly as he does with Luna. She smiles happy with her hair.
She smiles when her eyes are hot pink. She holds up her hand and there are silver threads making a strange sound
She leaves the bathroom going to the kitchen for breakfast, her jaw drops seeing Luna with black hair and black lipstick dressed in a black dress with black combat boots and black and silver bracelets on her hands, a black necklace with a black leather jacket.
"Woah, who dressed you?" Chronos ask clapping.
"Myself obviously. I thought about it and I like Dodge's idea, there's nothing wrong with changing my look. I love this, my mom used to dress like this, I've been secretly taking sewing lessons with Thomas, do I look good?"
"You look awesome." Jet says.
June shows Luna a royal blue handkerchief, "I want my hair like this."
Luna coughs and winces when her dry cough is back, "I'll take you to the lady after supper. Come get me."
"The medicine isn't working?"
Aira shakes his head, "It's contagious. Some people in the camp are sick too. We need Bella and Thomas here before they send us packing. Don't forget why we're here."
Jake stands up going home to call for help and to his surprise people in red are banging on the wall that is now a bit red, but still transparent.
"Thomas, Luna is getting worse. She's infecting people with her illness we need you there fast before they kick us out."
Thomas smiles and joins Jake. He was itching for something to do. He checks on Luna and stands up going outside making a cough mixture.
"Give this to everyone with the cough and after some days they will feel better." He passes on the now perfected cough mixture. He grew the herbs himself.
"Good news everyone! Guess who has her power" Dodge announces with her Hot Pink eyes to cheer everyone up.
And it works as everyone celebrates jumping up and down.
"That is so cool. Let's go outside I want to see what you can do." Aira pulls her along jumping up and down excited.
Dodge laughs and stands outside connecting one of her threads to Rin. She feels like they have one mind. She makes Rin dance and laughs taking the string away, "It's like puppet string's I could literally make her do whatever I wanted."
"Can you use it without the strings? Why do your eyes glow?" Chronos asks.
Dodge thinks about it, "To activate it?"
"But when you deactivate it your eyes don't glow again. I don't think so." Chronos responds.
Dodge shakes her head having no clue, she turns to Mira for help.
Mira's eyes glow, "You can control people's mood and emotions. The threads are only to control a person physically."
Chronos turns to Rin, "Do you remember dancing?"
Rin nods, "Yeah, but it didn't feel like I was being controlled. It felt like I wanted to dance and so I did."
Everyone's looks at Dodge impressed.
"You don't just make people do things against their will. You can read minds and people's emotions. That's really going to make you a vital peace keeper moving forward." Mira adds hugging her partner.
"Thanks you guys. I've been feeling down about this no power thing." She says crying.
"Okay, make me a ballerina." Sarah says trying to dance but can't.
Dodge chuckles and uses multiple threads to make her dance. The more she uses it the more the threads disappear and her eyes glow.
She stops and Sarah is still dancing.
"Hey, you can do it without the threads now. How?" June asks
"She kept giving me positive reinforcement and she would be like oh, that was a nice spin. Pivot your foot a little more. Her thoughts sound to me like it's my own thoughts, so after she's done I remember everything really well. She said I should work out more to be more flexible. I literally feel like doing that."
Dodge's eyes glow, "Exercise because you want too."
Sarah's eyes glow, "I have always wanted to workout. We should do it together you guys."
Sharon nods, "Yeah. I'm interested."
"Okay, let's see if she can use people's powers now. Maybe it was a low purple cell count issue." Aira says.
Toya passes on Mira's power.
Dodge's fingers start tingling and her eyes glow red she sees a vision of Luna in a house with purple flames surrounding her with nowhere to go. There are Infected banging on the house from all sides shaking it. Luna screams for help, the first person she calls is Dodge. The infected break the house down simultaneously from all sides and she opens her eyes right before she's eaten alive.
She tells everyone what he saw.
"That's the nightmare Luna has been having." Toya says.
Dodge takes a deep breath, "It's alot scarier than that." She says squatting down to catch her breath.
"Since she can read minds, maybe she can see past dreams or future dreams. Is that really going to happen?" Jet asks worried.
Dodge shakes her head, "No, it's too unrealistic. The fire never burns the wooden house. The house is too small and Luna wasn't being burnt by the fire. I think Jet's theory is right." She covers her face still trying to shake the intensity off.
"What's wrong?" Mira asks.
"Luna has photogenic memory. She will never forget that dream. It's like I cannot shake it off me. We need to do something about something like this in the future happening again, dreams or nightmares aren't just dreams to someone who cannot forget they are memories, one day it could mess with Luna really bad. I think I can take the memory away, but we can't do it twice."
Toya gives her a hug as Dodge cries, "I didn't realize it was so bad. Is it that scary?"
"The dream no, it's the intense fear, feeling of hopelessness and no room to escape that's scary. It lingers on you like a phantom jacket. Someone must've been purposely giving her nightmares. That was too unusual."
"But who? Someone in the camp?"
Mira shakes her head, "Someone yet to join. We need to be careful of who joins the camp, but how can Luna have a nightmare from the future in the present?"
"Maybe you used someone to warn her while it's early, remember the machine Thomas is working on? It can do that." Chronos says feeling shaken up by this, "I am mortified, something terrible was going to happen if Dodge never got her power. We're lucky she has it, we'll know who it is. Never tell people your power." He says.
Dodge looks at Sarah, "I'm not the one to worry about."
"I won't tell her I swear." Sarah says.
"Good, betray our trust we'll make you forget anything you hear from now on." June says.
Dodge nods, "Yeah. I feel like we dodged a bullet there." She says feeling the coat off her now.
"Let's go check on her." Rex says feeling worried.
~~~
Kyle comes home after securing the new home and brings everyone some good news, "The houses have been divided already and we will be moving group by group."
A woman with prominent frown lines walks up to Kyle and tells him that Luna brought a deadly illness and now people are falling sick in the camp.
Kyle rushes to the infirmary and finds Thomas treating the sick, "What's going on here?" He asks his eyes wide with worry.
Thomas smiles, "Checking my patients out. Your house is so filthy that those of us who come from a squeaky clean house get sick easily. You have too many people in such a crammed space that even a small and harmless illness is deadly. Your people refused using air purifiers and now the air is filled with a virus, do we have permission to use it now?" He asks very annoyed with the people here.
Kyle nods and calls Toya to use air purifiers, "Who refused?"
Thomas points at the bitter woman, "Something about purifiers being white not blue, but the blue ones are enhanced with healing essence had the children been allowed to use it, all your sick would be out of the infirmary by now."
He points up, "They refused us using purifier pallets now you have rodents in your toilets. They bit poor Splitter, luckily it was a clone, but one of the people here is next." He points.
Kyle turns around, "Angela what kind of sabotage are you playing at? Did you mean to cause ..." He stops talking seeing the blue mist.
Split has set them off and instead of pallets down the drains his clones are pouring liquid purifier instead.
The sound of the Infected rodents in pain fills the air and suddenly the radio turns on by itself. It's an emergency.
"This is Murasaki speaking, there is a group of red cloaked people, normal non infected people posing as in danger, sometimes they were black cloaks with elf hats but it's always red and black, do not let them in they plan to take over your land, their target are camps in large cities and walls. They want to take over the place for some sick twisted pleasure of being a monarchy. They can't take care of you, they will trick you into being slaves. Watch out!"
Kyle receives a call on his Comms phone from Colin. It's time for the meeting they planned, "Look, Murasaki is in charge until I come back since clearly none of you did anything to stop Angela's sabotage." He says before leaving.
Toya sighs in relief as it looks like moving forward they can do things their way.
~~~
Luna wakes up finally back to herself again, "I missed breathing through my nose. Sorry you had to work so hard to get rid of all the germs in this place." She rubs Splits back.
"It was no problem at all." He replies.