The True Lives Of The Fabulous Kill Joys

Chapter 2- Purple Is The New Black

Pov Jade

I decide that today I should wear a black version of the dress I wore yesterday, you could say the dress makers are creative. Grey eyeliner is allowed so I use some of that, outlining my eyes. My eyes are some of the last eyes to not be changed, so I have brown eyes, and I dont want to lose the last bit of colour.

I sit down at my desk, taking out my note pad as usual. As the instructor sorts out her notes I decide that today, of any day, I am going to pay attention.

"Jade, are you paying attention." The teacher barks, I never noticed that she started.

The teacher presses a button and a picture of a colourful guy pops up on the screen. Most of the class scream at the image, I roll my eyes at them. He is covered in so many colours. He has red hair, a blue leather jacket, a yellow mask that is just like mine and white blue jeans. His gloved hands clutch a yellow Ray gun.

The teacher taps the board with her stick.

"This is the dreaded Kill Joy. Theres only four that we have tracked and they go around, attempting to ruin the perfect world with colour."

Everyone gasps and I play along, catching their reactions with a smirk.

"Beware, they may take you and turn you into one of the diseased. Better Living will be forced to kill you to save humanity!"

Someone cries out from behind me.

"Now, this one is called Party Poison. If you see him in the streets do not approach him."

However much I promised, Im not paying attention anymore. I am too busy looking at the red haired, yellowed gunned ticket to an adventure on the board.

The teacher stops for a moment, squinting her eyes. Before I know it shes walking along the desks to the guy with the red lock of hair. She stares him in the face and I can see him hold his breath. The teacher shakes her head before looking at the board. She quickly marches to the front, pressing a large red button on her desk. The guy runs out of the room before she can turn around.

"Can we evacuate please." She shouts, everyone stands up and walks out in a line, barely reacting.

I join the end of the line as everyone files out of the door. Nobody seems to feel anything about the situation, yet I feel excitement bubbling within me. When I reach the end of the hall, I stop at the door. Even though there are loud sirens I can hear something else, a riff. The riff is the most muscial thing I have ever heard since the day music died, yet I dont remember when that was... It repeats and repeats, getting louder and louder.

"Jade, leave, now!" The teacher shouts, her hands plugged to her ears.

Im lost in the wonder of the music to notice a lazer beam shoot down the coridor. I scream as the teacher, whose name I never learnt, drops to the floor next to me. I still dont move, but I decide to work out where the shoot of green comes from. The alarm is still loud as I look around me, people running down the hall in different directions. Somebody has taken the teachers slack body and I decide, Im going to find the cause of it. I walk the opposite way that everyone else is, further into the school.

Someone grabs my arm, "What are you doing?" Ace says through gritted teeth.

I shrug.

"You are going to get killed!" She shouts.

Barely anyone is left in the halls as Ace stares at me, dumbstruck.

"Come on lets-"

She gets cut off by a me pulling her to the ground. A green lazer beam shooting over her head.

"Are you coming with me?" She asks.

"No. Enjoy your life, Im going to risk mine."

She sprints out to the door as I stand flat against the wall. The hall is empty, but filled with the recurring riff and the sound of alarms. I step out into the center of the hall again, waiting as the sound gets louder. The guy from my class, the one with the red hair, turns the corner. He holds his gun up. Only now do I realise what a bad idea this is. He grins at me and as he pulls the trigger I drop to the floor and roll to the side.

"Who are you?" I yell as someone else turns the corner, holding a boom box.

I jump to the other side of the hall to avoid the, now yellow, rays shooting at me.

"Tell me, who are you." I yell, now slightly more out of breath.

I do a forward roll to standing, to my own amazement. Slowly the rays cease.

"Who are you!?" I yell louder, and more angry.

Then I do something stupid, again. As a third person turns the corner, someone shorter, with black hair, I decide to run at the red haired classmate.

"Who are you." I yell with grit teeth, running at full speed, dodging one or two final rays.

Slowly the distance is closed as I sprint at the red haired student. Within the last few meters I jump into the air and collide with the body holding the gun. I tackle him onto the ground, pushing him a few meters with the sheer force of my attack. I scream as I push him onto his back. I hold him down and he doesnt look scared.

"Who. Are. You." I whisper close to his face. "Tell. Me."

His lips curl into a smirk as I hold him down on the floor.

"You have got so much to learn." Someone says from behind me.

I turn my head and see three other people surrounding me.

"Oh shit." I whisper.

Something thuds on my head and I fall off of the red haired unknown, colliding with the ground. I groans and it hits me again, sending me into the darkness.