Love Me (Choni)

CHAPTER ONE, Dawning of New Times:

Toni's pov:

My heavy eyelids drew apart and I rubbed my eyes, adjusting to the bright light shining into the gloomy trailer. My back complained as I sat up and I stretched in an attempt to loosen my aching muscles. That's when I noticed, my ears pricked up.

It was silent.

The sort of silence that clings to the air, something was wrong. It was early but I would've expected to hear Sweetpea and fangs messing around or at least , our faithful hound barking.

Confused I quickly got dressed, I opted for a yellow top, my ripped black jeans, dark combat boots and of course my familiar leather jacket with the serpent mark emblazoned on the back. As for my dyed pink hair I decided to go for something quick and easy, a high pony leaving a few strands out to frame my face. Then finally I applied my light make up making sure to highlight my eyes with mascara.

I then grabbed my camera, an item I rarely went without, and a kitchen knife as a precaution, the campsite was still deadly silent.
I cautiously creaked open the door to my trailer and peered out.

Across from where I stood the campfire from last night was smouldering. Clenching the sharp knife tightly, I swiftly crossed the open ground and checked for traces of human activity. There was none.

Baffled I started to think, maybe this was a prank, Jughead and the other serpents would jump out laughing at any moment. This being the most plausible explanation I decided to check Jughead's Trailer.

It stood as normal, at the edge of out camp, the only difference was the Door was slightly ajar. I entered and noticed that the essential items had been cleared out. This included his version of our gang leather jacket, his camera, typewriter and beanie were all gone too.

It didn't make sense, the last news we heard from our scouts, that we sent out to the near by village Riverdale, was all normal. I needed more information and to find that I would need to explore.

I repaid a quick visit to my trailer , packing two water bottles a sufficient amount of food, my photograph of my loved ones and sanitary equipment into my oak brown rucksack with dark leather straps. In my pockets I stuffed my phone, which I had noticed had no signal. Then for the second time that morning , I ventured out my trailer.

I had only made it to the edge of the serpents (our gang) camp, when I noticed a unfamiliar, huddled over figure. Wearily I started to approach, maybe they had information I thought. That's when it turned around. It had hollowed out eyes and dehumanised features, rotten flesh hung off its face and its finger nails were more like claws but the most disturbing feature was the blood dripping from around its decayed mouth.

Then I noticed why it had been hunched over, behind it a opened up body of a women lay.
My stomach churned with the sight and filled lungs with air to let out a scream. Just before I could let it disturb the deadly silence a hand clamped down on my mouth.

"shush if it hears you it will come after us" I sighed in relief, I knew that voice anywhere, it was Jughead, our leader. I nodded signalling to him I understood. Letting go of my mouth he grabbed my hand and slowly we retreated down the path. I had so many questions.

As we walked Jughead filled me out on what I had missed.

"Whilst you decided to sleep early last night a creature attacked the camp, it seemed to resemble a zombie. I shouted for everyone to scatter. Not everyone was able to stay together and many have fled to the village" Jughead narrated. I looked at him, confliction worked on his face.

" I tried to keep us all together and we have set up temporary camp in the woods. I decided to go back this morning to see if there were any stragglers, only found you" Jughead explained his eyebrow furrowed.

"Is Jake okay?" I asked with plead in my voice. Jake had been my boyfriend for four months now, how could I have not fallen for that tall, blonde, muscular boy? "Yes your Ken doll is fine" chuckled Jughead, giving me a half accusing glare. "now come on we have a long walk everyone wanted a lot of space between them and that beast, but I have a feeling it's not only one" Scowled the dark hair boy.

Blisters had started to form on the bottom of my feet by the time Jughead and I had arrived at the hastily assembled camp. Woolen blankets hung off trees Creating a circle, with tents and a smouldering fire in the centre.

"We're back" called out Jughead to the heavily armed serpent on watch duty.

"You only found one?" question the guard. Ben I think his name was.

"Yeah we've lost numbers" answered Jughead with a grimace. We passed Ben leaving him to his patrolling and entered the camp.

I quickly scanned the crowd of people sitting in sorrowful huddles. I was relieved to see so many familiar faces. Fangs sat slumped against Sweetpea's shoulder, who seemed to be sharpening a stick. Joaquin sat next to fangs staring into the fire, I noticed his serpent boyfriend was missing from beside him. Next to him sat the one I longed to see most Jake. He was in deep discussion with another serpent Male I wasn't familiar with.
I started to hastily make my way over keen to reunite with my serpent family.

I noticed Jughead hadn't followed, I turned to question him. He seemed to read my confused expression

"I need to search for more serpents, I can't live with myself knowing some of us maybe unsafe out there" he explained.

"I'll come with you" I offered not keen for him to make the journey alone.

"No pinkie, you stay here. Look Ken dolls waiting for you. I'll be fine" He insisted. I knew not to argue more. Jughead was a stubborn as a mule when it came to it. I hugged him quickly and turned back to my friends who were now waving me over and ran to join them.

"Ugh, thought We'd seen the last of you shortie" teased Sweetpea, standing to hug me. Our height difference made this an awkward operation.

"Don't go scaring us like that again" added fangs, squeezing my arm.

"Last time I checked its was you guys that left me," I retorted with a grin, as they sat back down.

"I'm so sorry babe, I was going to offer to search this morning with Jughead but everything was so busy" apologised my boyfriend, pulling me into a tight Hug against his warm chest. I caught Sweetpea and Fangs roll their eyes and I glared back, they didn't approve of Jake.

"I'm okay now" I reassured pulling myself out of the hug. Jake sat back down on the log and signalled for me to perch in his lap. I removed my backpack from my aching shoulders and willingly took the seat.

"Now, what the fuck did I miss? I've heard Jughead's version but everything's just changed so fast" I asked, remembering the terrifying sight I had encountered earlier. Sweetpea begun to fill me in with the events I had missed. We had lost about half our serpents including our dog hotdog and Joaquin's boyfriend explaining his silence.

Authors Note:
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