Avalon jumps receiving a message from Wish.
He runs and calls Colin who doesn't answer the phone.
Lycan knocks on his window woke up by Alpha t come check on Avalon.
"They're here, they're here. Wish is with them now. They are on the island." Avalon says.
Lycan nods waking Split to hurry and warn everyone via Comms, "Send a drone to show them pictures."
Split runs to the Comms room and sets everything up.
Avalon gulps, "This is giving me a bad feeling." He says panicking.
Lycan nods, "We'll see who is listening and they will wake others."
~~~
All the camps are woken up by the emergency alarm in the wall.
Split repeats the message the invaders have come early.
Camp Lana: Look at those ships, what will we do?"
Camp Serbia: What will Murasaki do.
Camp Black: We are safe and furthest away, don't let anyone into you camp no matter what. Start moving supplies to the bunker. Further communication will have to be cut to avoid letting them know we know.
Camp Victoria: Tell everyone you know.
~~~
"That's odd, people are calling each other frantically. I see movement. I see in winter they are up to fun festival's." A general of the army says.
Wish is standing behind him with a shaved head. His eagle on his shoulder.
"Men, winter gets worse from here on out. I doubt these people know anything about it. The first group of people are a day away. We'll send out our fastest people to go ahead of us. Stay there until the signal rings. We will slaughter the whole lot in one day. It may take years but remember. If anyone takes up a wife for himself it is your solemn duty to execute them on the spot. This is not goodbye. I wish you luck gentlemen." The general salutes the soldiers and steps back on the ship.
~~~
Avalon's eyes widen, "They are leaving the army of men on the island behind. Their plan isn't to execute us or attack is today. What do we do?"
Split updates everyone.
~~~
Camp Flint: Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Camp Bridget: Murasaki what is your plan?
~~~
Luna suggests Eagle lead them to Wish, "Diane go give them access. Avalon lead them there after the first camp rejects their call for help. It's freezing, they will do anything to find shelter."
Avalon nods.
Sharon has Jet and Jake in hand, "We'll go with you. Someone needs to fall for their act and take care of them this winter. In Spring they will leave, they won't hurt you, we'll be there to protect you."
Luna nods, "Okay, tell everyone we'll play along for winter by leading them to one of our camps in the area. It's empty so we'll keep a close eye on them."
Split nods spreading the message.
~~~
Camp New Moon: That's risky, they are the enemy.
Camp Murasaki: We have an inside guy, he will warn us if things go south.
Camp Serbia: We'll send some of our own people there. I don't see any adults in that room, I take it something is wrong in your camp.
Camp Lana: We have plenty of women ready to join hands with you.
Camp Red: We have children who can play along. Say the word.
~~~
Everyone waits for Lily to confirm.
Toya is talking to her about what's going on.
Lily shakes her head, "Other camps will get you killed. Go there alone. A home of just children will keep them from ever assuming you know anything. Go now. Prepare their rooms and welcome them with a hot meal and a steam room."
Toya nods fetching everyone.
Sharon runs to Terra and Avery's place.
"Can we come along. We're 13 too, and you said having no ability doesn't matter." Raiden says.
Sharon nods and they rush to join the others.
Aira looks at Thomas.
"Fine, but you better call every day or you will worry Gail sick." Thomas says.
Angela volunteers to come along.
Lily shakes her head, "Absolutely no adults. They're on their own."
The kids go and arrive at Wish setting up the place with food, water, fire wood. Healing essence and more.
Sarah lays an ordinary fruit on the fire.
"That's a good idea, it will warm up the rooms faster." Rex says.
The others do the same thing in other houses.
"This room is big enough for a town dining hall. Move everything out and set it up. There's a kitchen in the back. For now leave golden fruit to heat up the hall." Mira says.
Split handles that all by himself and dusts the room up.
Luna is setting up a house for her and baby Rue.
Lycan is setting up the boys house. They will split by gender.
"Guys, don't tell anyone your powers, that rule still applies here." Rin reminds everyone.
Raiden, Luke, and Cheshire are dusting up the rooms filled with smoke.
"Lucky we don't have powers." Luke says.
Avery and Terra are helping Sharon in another house.
Aira is working with Este, Staria, and Medallion to clean the roof up.
Ava is decorating the place with gems and gold to attract their attention.
Avalon is filling the farm house with sheep. Some of them will live there.
"Split, you're with Avalon. Set up a Comms room in case something goes wrong." Mira says.
"Luna, that's a hospital. Set it up with medical supplies. Toya help with as many clones as you can master." Mira points around directing everyone.
"They'll be here tomorrow. Calm down Mira, we need to emphasise care over speed." Chronos says.
Mira nods, "Okay, sorry I was panicking."
"Deep breaths and help around. We don't need you ordering us around. We need all the hands we've got." Chronos sends her to help watch the baby.
~~~
The group of freezing men finally give up when the busy town is now a ghost town.
"Over here. Eagle found somewhere we can rest. Hurry, the cold is getting worse." Wish says freezing so bad he can't feel his feet. He runs following Eagle.
The men stand at a snowy cliff seeing the children run around completely unaware of time.
"That's the place." Wish says.
The men run and bang on the shield freezing.
Luna lets them in and the boys help them.
"Some men fell behind. Please help." Wish says.
Luna nods rushing all the freezing men to the cafeteria that is warm.
"We need blankets." Chronos says examining the cold men, "Prepare a hot meal, it will be a while before they are warm." He says to Luna.
She nods and rushes to make the best meal she has ever prepared. Her dad's going to eat it.
The others arrive with all the rescued men and cover them with blankets.
Sarah adds an ordinary golden fruit for more hot steam.
The man all sigh in relief when the hot steam fills the room. It's so thick you can't see the person next to you.
"That was perfect." Mira whispers to Sarah.
Dodge helps give the men some hot tea.
The men drink the tea relieved to have something warm.
"The rooms aren't ready yet?" June asks after just arriving
"There's a lot of them, we need help." Lycan says.
June calls people to help ready the rooms.
Luna remembers while the water breathers are here. She wishes for the bag with all the gifts she made. She gives Aquarius the gifts, "We made these for you."
Aquarius looks inside and smiles, "Oh you are too sweet child. They will love this treat. Thank you."
Diane struts around running up and down panicking.
Helia shakes his head, "Stop that, someone might see you."
Diane takes deep breaths, "I'll go guard the throne room." She enters the room waiting like a monster in the closet.
When the food is ready they pass the food around to everyone.
The starving men eat the hot meal.
"This is so good."
"Is there more?"
Luna refills the man's plate.
Everyone gets seconds and they eat until they are full.
June leaves when he's done setting up the rooms.
"This way. Each house has 6 bedrooms. Divide into 6 and we'll come and adjust the fire place for you." Toya says.
The men hurry to pick rooms.
Everyone has a room.
Split enters the houses at the same time leaving healing fruit on the fire. The men instantly fall asleep.
~~~
Avalon reports they are all present and accounted for.
Lily takes a deep breath, "Great team work guys. We'll see you after Winter. Be careful, communication will be rare from this point forward."
"Yes mam." He hangs up and helps put on the bracelets on the sleeping men.
They all go to sleep in the time vault to wake up early.
~~~
The men wake up at the time Mira predicted. Aira and his group invite everyone for breakfast.
The men join in after a 48 hours sleep. They enjoy breakfast and walk around laughing about nearly freezing in the snow now.
All the men turn to Wish who is holding his daughter and laughing with Luna.
"She's as beautiful as her mother." He says kissing his daughter on the forehead.
"This place just has children only. What do you think happened?" A man asks
"The Infected what else? They're too scared to even let anyone into their shields. Probably a place where kids banded together to hide."
"Where do kids get high tech like this?"
"Look, the book he's reading. It's one of Talia's collections. That's how they take care of themselves."
"What now?"
"They're just kids. Play with them."
"Ohh, look. Farm animals. That's so rare."
"Where else did the milk you had come from? These are not ordinary kids, keep your guard up."
"Don't be so paranoid. We're the ones they should be afraid off. Look at them ignoring us. You need to loosen up."
Luna and Toya sit and read while Wish watches the baby.
Cheshire is climbing a tree to get some fruit.
Aira climbs helping him up.
They pick fruit to eat.
"Don't eat the out side. Boil it as medicine. Eat only the inside." Tempest says.
The kids eat the fruit boiling the skin.
"Ohh, that's so nice. I haven't had Alkim tea in forever. My grandmother made it for us every winter. Who taught you this kid?"
Aira smiles, "Tempest."
Everyone looks at him shocked.
"Tempest the eagle? Wow, how many Alpha's are here?"
"A lot." He says scaring them a little.
"What do you know about Tempest." Aira sits down curious.
"Nothing much, he's an Eagle and an Alpha's protector. I wish I could see him."
Aira smiles, "I've never seen him too. I only hear his voice or see him in my dreams."
"Oh, that's it?"
Aira nods drinking the tea, "This is sweat. So nice."
"Raven. You should feed the baby some. It's healthy."
Wish holding the baby nods, "I was thinking the same thing."
Luna serves more to anyone who would like some.
One of the men feeds Rue the Alkim fruit.
"Super soft she would never choke on it."
"Look at her neck. That's another Alpha."
"They don't see the protectors though, I think they are still sleeping. They brought the children here to protect them. If you try anything you will die."
"You know Raven. You have the same eyes as those two."
"Maybe I'm descendant from this place. Once upon a time islands intermarried you know." Wish says feeding the baby fruit.
"Could be. I've seen you shave off your white hair. The resemblance is uncanny. Maybe that's why you knew to come here. You're certainly drawn to the baby."
"Don't say things that will get me executed." Wish says seriously.
"Just saying. Stark is a country that goes to extreme lengths to protect it's people. It's no coincidence you're here man."
"Yeah. I agree. This place is famous for that."
"I do like this baby." Wish says.
Everyone laughs.
Lycan and Toya fight outside.
Everyone looks around and the others are ignoring it.
Chronos punches them in the face knocking them out, "We have guests, you two monkeys should know better." He says dragging them to the boys room.
Sarah covers her eyes, "That looks painful."
"It is." Rex says continuing with his book.
Este and Ava are playing hide and seek with a group of men. They genuinely never played the game before.
Ava hides in the water.
Aira hides so everyone hides.
Chronos sits in the same place in his time vault.
"They're all hiding." The other men tell the man.
He goes to the obvious places to look and finds the others so they help him look.
Aira who saw Ava finds her. Ava who saw Luna finds her. Luna saw Toya.
The first person found was Raiden.
Everyone hides so well they don't want any one else to know where they are.
Raiden looks for a while. The observers laugh seeing everyone run around changing hiding spots.
He finally finds Lycan who growls finding everyone by scent. Luna was the first victim.
When it's Lycans turn to seek most hide in the water. Chronos hides in the time vault again.
Lycan smirks following the scents to the water but he can't tell who is who. If you call someone by the wrong name you seek again.
"He has a strong sense of smell."
"Invisible boy is cheating."
"Ehh, he was made for this."
Lycan sits down waiting for them to run out of air. Aira is wearing an air bubble mask.
The others tug on his shirt for air.
Lycan smiles when the water bubbles but suddenly everyone swims deeper, "Aira!" He yells annoyed, "What do I do?" He asks Alpha.
Alpha smirks, "Thought you'd never ask."
Everyone blinks a few times seeing a giant wolf jump into the water.
Avalon is hiding amongst the sheep. He just has to survive and not be the first person caught.
Luna is enjoying a bath in the girls house.
Lycan can smell it but he thinks they did it to confuse him.
Jet and Jake are hiding amongst the observers drinking the strong medicine to mask their scents.
Este is hiding up a tree and grabs a fruit.
Staria electrocutes her hand.
"Ow!" Este covers her mouth.
Lycan catches her first. He finds Raiden and than enters the house and opens the bathroom door.
Luna turns around dropping her towel startled, she laughs awkwardly. She thought her plan worked.
Lycan flicks her forehead and Leaves.
"Ow!" Luna says.
Toya jumps out of the water and Lycan tags him.
The others get out of the water running from Alpha popping their air bubbles.
He finds everyone accept Avalon. Chronos, Medallion, and the twins.
Luna walks out of the house in a change of clothes but her hair is still wet.
Toya finds Chronos who had the nerve to fall asleep in the time vault.
The twins are busted by Sharon who wanted to grab something to eat.
Everyone looks up and down for Avalon until he tags the tree as safe.
"The first safe in the game."
"Things are getting heated."
Este seeks and Luna whispers in Toya's ear.
Toya smirks hiding in the house only to disappear into the time vault with Luna. He cups her cheek kissing her.
Este turns around and tags everyone so fast everyone is too shocked by her speed to say anything.
Aira, Staria, Chronos, Toya and Luna are missing.
She tagged Ava who couldn't find a hiding spot first.
She runs all over the place and growls when Chronos tag the tree as Safe.
Aira and Staria fly in from out of the sky and tag the tree.
Luna and Toya tag the tree too.
"Wait. You forgot someone. Where's Sharon?"
Sharon laughs hiding in the baby crib as a toddler.
They search everywhere until he tags the tree.
Ava gulps nervous she won't find anyone.
Lycan looks at Este pissed off she nearly tagged him first had Ava not run around changing her hiding spot at the last second.
Ava touches the ground and senses for movement. She traps everyone in the ground.
"Ohh, earth user. Nice." She tags everyone leaving Sharon, Aira and Raiden, Chronos tags the tree with Toya and Luna. Rex prefers to make the game more interesting by not using the vault.
Rin pissed off she was tagged first blows Aira and Raiden out of the sky. She storms to the baby room and Sharon gulps, "Get out or I'll blow your baby ass up so bad ..."
Sharon jumps out of the baby crib.
"This means war." She says walking to the tree pissed.
"This is not gonna end well." Split says holding a gun ready.