The Notorious Nine: Vampires Will Never Hurt You (FINISHED)

Chapter Four - You Put The Spike In My Heart

The sun came up, I didn't sleep at all. My mind was busy thinking about Party and Tiger, Wretched and the night creatures. As I laid awake I saw no sign of them, maybe the fire kept them away. I decided as the others still slept I would take a walk, I grabbed the box from Dr.'s D and the photos and left.

I kept my eyes on my feet, just watching them leave prints in the sand. They didn't last long, a desert wind was blowing and blew away the only evidence of my existence. It was a good thing we knew our way in the zones, we studied the zone maps for years.

After awhile I stopped and looked back, I no longer could see the camp. I found an area that seemed like a good spot, it was shaded by a tree. I sat against a rock and began to look through the documents Dr. D had hidden in his office floor.

I took several minutes looking at the picture of the group. It was The Notorious Nine, Dr. D and The Fab Four. I started to cry looking at Toxic Widow and Dr. D, both taken away from us. Dr. D was my father, he saved my life in his last moments.

After enough emotional crap I decided to set aside the pictures and look through the box. Inside there were zone reports, random documents and then Dr. D's journal. I picked up the journal first, I began to read it.

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Entry One - I've decided to start this to keep everything on record. I know I won't be alive forever, if I'm lucky I'll go down fighting for what I love.

With the help of The Fab Four I was able to find my daughter. She's beautiful and very independent, just like her mother. I was just going to let her live her life in Battery City, but I heard Korse was looking for her.

Korse, that blood sucking parasite, a Scarecrow for the BLI. If he got his hands on her, he knew about her abilities and would do unthinkable things to her. There are ten Killjoys that have special abilities, how my precious girl became one of them......I hate to think about it.

It's time to make a broadcast.....

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I reread that last part, "ten Killjoys that have special abilities?" There was another Killjoy out there that had a gift, who could it be? Before I could continue reading I heard my name being called.

I put everything, including the pictures, back into the box. Wretched found me sitting on the floor, "are you okay? Where have you been? I was so worried about you." He got on his knees, making sure I want hurt.

"Wretched, I'm fine. I was just looking through Dr. D's files that Dramatic and I found."

He helped me up off the ground, as we walked back he took my hand in his. "Shattered, I love you with all my heart. However I see how you look at Party, you still have feelings for him?"

I couldn't look at him, "I don't know. Wretched, I love you. You are my partner and nothing will change that. I guess old habits die hard, but I promise you are the one I want." Hearing me say the words made me actually believe them.

We got back, the group all sitting around laughing. Dramatic raced to me and hugged me tight. "I missed you."

"I missed you, pew pew."

Dramatic grabbed my cheeks, stared me in the eyes, "pew."

"So what's going on?"

Party who had his arm around Tiger, smiled up at me and said, "we were waiting for you. Skye is about to tell us more about herself and Phoenix."

Wretched took my hand and we sat next to Harlequin and Ghoul. Phoenix sat behind Skye, his arms around her, keeping her protected. She twisted her new silver phoenix necklace around her fingers as she began to talk.

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They all stared at me like I was about to do a trick. If I didn't have Phoenix behind me, holding me, I might have ran by now. I didn't know these people, I didn't owe them any explanation.

"Well, I remember being trapt in the BLI building. They kept me in a room, tied to a chair and tortured daily. Someone they called Korse would visit me once a week, he would ask me questions that I couldn't answer. He did horrible things to me when we were alone."

When I said that last part, the one they called Authority Dangerheart cringed. I realized that they have suffered just like I have, they probably have lost people in their lives too.

"Phoenix was put in my room, he was suppose to torture me but instead...."

"Instead I fell in love with her, at that moment I became a Killjoy."

"He came up with a plan to get me out of there. The day Korse was suppose to come for his weekly visit, Phoenix snuck into the room and hid behind the door. As soon as Korse shut the door, he came out from the shadows and attacked."

"I just continued to punch him, I didn't stop until he stopped moving. Then I untied her from the chair, put cuffs on her and started to walk her out. Of course nothing is as easy as you want it to be."

"We didn't get far before Dracs were on us, Korse must have sent out a message. I don't know how but after quite a battle, we escaped. We were alive except...."

"Except I had been shot, we continued to runaway as fast as we could. Skye was amazing, both of us injured and hurting but we made it through the zones."

"Phoenix and I hid in the shadows, behind rocks, anywhere we could find shelter away from them. We saw a BLI van come for us, that's when we hid inside that cave. They noticed another car out in the zone and started to chase them."

Now Dramatic Demon and Deathwish gave each other a look. It seems our paths have crossed before. Before being taken by the BLI I was already a Killjoy. Everyone knew about The Fab Four. So sitting here and seeing Party Poison, Kobra Kid, Fun Ghoul and Jet Star was an amazing feeling. I had survived long enough to meet the legends.

"The only thing I have as a reminder of my time at the BLI is this tattoo. It's just a stupid number, a number ten."

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I looked at Authority just as her eyes met mine, we were thinking the same thing. Authority checked her wrist, the number one was tattooed there before we covered it up.

"You're the last one, you're the tenth Killjoy."

Everyone looked at me, "what are you talking about Shattered?"

I looked at Party with hatred still. "Dr. D never told you, some leader you are. There are ten not nine Killjoys with special abilities. She's number ten, Skye has a gift."

Pushing Wretched away I stood up, grabbing the box again. "Congrats, you're just like us." I stormed off leaving everyone confused.