Love Struck

CHAPTER 3

Belle Black unlocks the gate to the public pool area. She looks back at Spencer who nods as everyone, except for her, Spencer, and Harriet follow Brandi into the locker room. It is far too crowded for them to make it towards the exit. They could climb over the wire fence, but that would not make much of a difference.

"We cannot Crystallize with everyone here. You two are not exactly the best fighters."

"You think you can do better?" Spencer asks Belle.

She smiles. "Probably."

"Those things are made out of obsidian. They are not zombies."

Belle's face drops. That slipped her mind. "Better start helping the people then."

Belle dives into the six-foot section of the pool to pull out a drowning girl. She lays her on the scorching concrete. She pushes away anyone who tries to step on or over the girl.

The ten-year-old Belle Black swung her feet back and forth on a porch swing. Her father was in the barn, while her brother was walking by the cornfield, destroying the crops. The farm was ninety minutes away from their house. This was not how she wanted to spend her Christmas vacation.

She hopped off the porch swing out of boredom. She walked towards the screams that came from the barn. She looked at a man who was bound by chains that were tied to the rafter. The man was badly bruised and bleeding.

Her father, the Boogeyman attached jumper cables to his nipples. His wife and ten-year-old daughter were bound by rope to chairs, forced to watch in horror. The mother who sat in the far end of the corner mouthed 'help', but Belle did nothing.

"Father, I am hungry." Belle whined.

"Go bother your brother about it." The Boogeyman replied, while looking at a box. "Had enough?" He asked the man. "Where is the flash drive?"

"Fuck you." The man gasped. He spat at her father.

"You really must not love your family?" He laughed. He made his move over to the girls.

"Wait. What are you doing?" The man asked with panic in his voice.

Her father cut the rope to the girl's chair. He dragged her by the arm to face her father. He made the weeping girl get on her knees. He raised his dagger. "Last chance." He warned.

"Please do not hurt her!" He cried. "I swear I do not know."

"Wrong answer." He stabbed the dagger into the neck of the little girl.

She fell onto her face, spasming. Belle Black closed the barn door. it was none of her concern. Her father had a job to do, but why did he have to drag them along?

Belle Black picks up the unconscious girl. As the area finishes clearing out, Brandi approaches her.

"I will take her." Brandi says, holding out her hands.

"You better find her mother." Belle replies gently, placing her in Brandi's arms.

"Right." Brandi leads the pack.

Harriet Hearts, Spencer Starrun, Belle Black, Hannah Banks, and Derrick Clinton remain. Derrick heads to the locker room, for some unknown reason. There is no one around, but them.

The golems tear through the fence like it is a stick. "Rabbit Instincts, Activate." Belle Black says, pressing the red button. The watch glows yellow. A yellow sleeveless tube top that goes from right above her breasts to right before her midriff appears. There is a white cat face in the middle of the tube top. She wears yellow silk booty shorts. Her hair turns yellow. Her ears turn brown and grow large and rabbit-like. A fluffy white cotton ball looking tail protrudes from right above her butt. Her feet become brown and rabbit-like. Her nose becomes brown and rabbit-like.