Killjoys: Another storyline (Book #1: The Begining Of A New Time)

Camping

It’s a quiet, warm night and the killjoys have set up camp.This was unusual for them to camp, but Star chip, a newly recruited Killjoy, had persuaded the others to camp out. It was only Star, the leader of the killjoys Party Poison, Fun Ghoul, and Kobra Kid out on the campsite. They for some reason let Blood bird, Fun Ghoul’s twin brother, and Jet Star leave with what weapons they had. It may seem dumb, but they were tired at the time of the dumb decision, even Poison was lagging a bit from tiredness. Sitting out in mostly darkness besides Ghoul's lamp and the moonlight, they were joking around and trying to keep the night rolling a little longer before sleeping. As they are joking and talking, Star hears a low growl and some shuffling of some bushes. "H-Hey uh...Did you guys hear that…?", Star asks in a bit of a shaky voice. Poison and Kobra look over at him a bit confused, "Hear what?", Poison asks seemingly looking around a bit before again looking at Star. A burst of laughter escapes Kobra suddenly, "You probably just heard Ghoul snoring!". "F--- you, I ain't asleep!", yells the now angered Ghoul, who has been reading a poetry book near his lamp while they had all been talking before. There’s more shifting sounds in the bushes and out of fear, Star clings onto Poison's arm shaking. A low growl sounded from behind them and Kobra just laughs a bit more, he then gets an idea and gets up on his knees and waves his hands a little at Star and Poison, "Ooo a ghost!", he says, intending to scare them somehow. Poison, being kinda mad, looks at him not really minding Star being clinged onto his arm, "Ugh...there really is something out there. Stop fooling with Star!". "It’s a ghost Star.", Kobra says with a smirk. Saying anything about there being a ghost causes Star to dart his eyes around and shake. "It is not. Ghosts aren't real. Shut up.", Poison says glaring at the other killjoy. Yet no fear shows from the fool and he just laughs at his leader. This frustrates him, "I'm gonna check it out. Don't scare Star again.", Poison says as he gets up. He earns himself a smirk and a sly look from Kobra, "Ok...yeah go ahead! I hope the ghost gets you first, Poison!", and after saying so Kobra laughs even more as if the situation was either a joke or wasn’t real. Poison once again glares at him and just seems to get more annoyed with every remark Kobra throws at him. "Oh, F--- you.", says the now angered Poison as he walks to the bushes. Just as Poison walks away, Ghoul turns to Star, "Star you can come over here so dumba-- won't bother you.". "O-Ok…", Star replies just before he goes over to the poetry reading killjoy. On the other hand, Poison investigates the bushes and behind them. A pure white liquid trailed close to the edge of the camp like a small river, black ooze clumped a bit within the white. The smell of it was gasoline and something else smelling mostly indescribable except for being extremely disgusting. "Ew...what is that stuff…", Poison states just as Kobra grabs Star's shoulder and point in Poison's direction. "Oh no! Poison found the ghost!", he shouts, causing Star to pull away and hide behind Ghoul. Ghoul fiercely turns to Kobra, "There's no ghost and you know it! Stop scaring Star!". A moment passes and the two of them stand up and glare at each other, Ghoul having his book of poetry in his hands still. Star knows this means they may fight, and that wouldn’t be good if they did so. "Poison help! Ghoul and Kobra are fighting!", Star yells out to the leader, who at the moment is still investigating the liquid behind the bushes. "Nu uh!", the other two say in unison with each other. The leader gives no response which was suspicious, but Kobra and Ghoul didn’t seem to care much. Kobra slams his hand on Ghoul's book, knocking it out of his hands while he wasn't looking. "Guys!", Star says looking at them a bit worried, Ghoul just glares at Kobra ignoring Star. "Did you really just do that!?", Ghoul shouts as he balls up his fist, really to hit Kobra at any given moment even if he says sorry. Laugher once again escapes Kobra, "No the ghost did it!", he says with a smirk. "You have 5 seconds to fess up!", Ghoul walks closer to Kobra as he laughs, aiming to hit the taller killjoy. While all this occurs, another growl and more shifting from the bushes is heard. Poison ventures beyond the campsite to investigate further, seeming to ignore the chaos of the other killjoys. It wasn't too long after he had left that everything just got worse by every moment, including the leaders fighting chance against whatever was behind the bushes. "Star move! Let me kick his a--!", "You're getting mad over me just fooling around! That's so pathetic, just like your d--- poetry books!", "F--- you!", "I'll beat both of you if I have to! F---ing move, Star!", the two were on the verge of a fist fight, and the only thing preventing it was Star keeping them apart by just a few feet. "Guys please stop fighting!", Star says staying in between them. During this, they aren't concerned with Poison anymore, who has run into an old enemy who has attacked once before with vile force. "What the- you again?! OH H--- NO!", Poison states as he comes face to face with Dark dream, a literal nightmarish being created to control anyone's fear if he wanted. The beast standing high at nearly 11 feet. But just as Poison shouts, Ghoul shoves Star aside and slams his fist into Kobra's jaw. It seems the fight prevents them from noticing the help their leader could use.  "Agh sh--!", Kobra says as he flies back a few feet. Immediately Star acts and holds Ghoul back, yet he struggles to hold him back since the slightly shorter killjoy fights and yanks away trying to escape. "Let go, Star! Let me at him!", Ghoul screams out struggling more, looking mad as heck. The taller of them on the other hand shouts back in anger, "Hit me again! Stupid a--!". Star pulls Ghoul back knowing that triggered his anger more, but he slightly fails up against the stronger killjoy, "No no no!", he shouts tightening his grip. "F--- you! I'll kick your a--!", Ghoul says nearly slipping out of Star's grip, who now just hugs him and pulls him back. Though this barely works, it was better than just grabbing him. “No, Imma kick your st--hgn!”, something suddenly hits into Kobra’s back as he shouts and cuts him off, knocking him over on his hands and knees. A loud growl is heard as he looks back to see the now injured Poison. “What the f---...Poison?!”, he says quite surprised, usually Poison never went down easily. But against this monster, it was a different story. “Ugh...d--- it...”, Poison manages to huff out, clutching his bloody side. He sits up spitting out blood. The group surrounds him to see if he’s ok, and Star speaks first, “Oh dear! You’re bleeding!”. “Guys I-I...messed up a bit..”, Poison once again manages as he tries to catch his breath. Ghoul kneels down next to him as does Kobra, “What?”, Kobra asks. “Does it have something to do with the ‘ghost’?”, Ghoul asks in a concerned yet slightly annoyed voice. Poison looks back at the bushes as a beast walks out from behind them, “That ain’t no ghost! It’s a f---ing beast!”. A loud growl comes from the dripping mouth of the thing, it walks towards them all. Having no weapons, they didn’t stand much of a chance. But it seemed fighting was their only option. Star helps Poison to stand, who by now is a little paled and barely able to stand up any longer by himself. He fights to pull away from Star to show he doesn’t need help, Kobra watching as the beast neared them. “F-F---!”, Poison shouts before leaning and puking up black liquid and what looked to be blood, he coughs roughly and leans on Star after doing so. “Oh dear!”, Star says as he tries to help Poison stay standing. Ghoul watches and he doesn’t like what he sees, “Star! Take him to headquarters!”. Star looks over at him ready to go against it but Ghoul just has a look on his face that says not to, “Yes Ghoul…”, he says in a kinda sad tone, looking down at the sickened leader. “We can take this beast!”, Kobra yells out preparing to fight. As Star leads Poison away from the chaos, he fights to get away from his helper, “L-Let me go...I can fight.”, he wheezes out. Star looks at him sorrowfully and says, “But...Ghoul said to go to headquarters.”. Poison looks up at him trying to straighten himself upwards, but the nausea keeps him leaned over and up against Star, “F--- what he said, I-I’m your leader!”. Some more growling and then some fighting can be heard in the background, “How do we kill this thing again?!”, Ghoul shouts over to Kobra, who responds with, “H--- if I know!”. Star glances back at the fight and down at the sluggish Poison, “Let’s just go.”, he says softly. Despite the urge to pull away, his weakened body refuses to move away. He suddenly realizes maybe...he’s infected. Infected with whatever virus the beast is able to infect him with. “Fine!”, Poison yelps out, letting Star lead him away. As they head back to the headquarters, Kobra and Ghoul continue to fight the beast. Both get battered around and luckily miss the tail swinging at them. 10 minutes into the battle they take a quick break, bruised and battered up. “You said we could take the thing and we don’t even have any weapons! You idiot, go get them!”, Ghoul screams out in annoyance. Kobra shrugs, knowing they didn’t even have weapons at the campsite, “Well it was your idea to fight this b---- without weapons. And you knew we didn’t have them.”, “We’re gonna die!”, “Hey, that’s not my fault.”. It only took a few seconds for them to prepare fighting again before realizing it was just the two of them left. Ghoul takes notice to this quickly, “Wait...where the h--- did it go?!”, “That’s a good question…”, “F--- it! Let’s get back to headquarters!”, “Right on. Before the d--- thing comes back.”. They for a split second look at each other before running to the headquarters, which is about 20 minutes away from the campsite. As soon as they get there, Ghoul knocks on the door roughly, “Star! Jet! Open the door!”, he says in a loud tone. Not too far, Kobra stares over at Ghoul with his arms crossed, “D--- we only just got here! And you’re already p---ed off?”. Ghoul was just about to yell at him, when the door slowly opens and someone peeks their head out, “Oh...you two came.”, the person says in a sad voice. Ghoul looks and a smile plasters on his face, “Yay, hi brother!”, he gleefully shouts, watching the door open up more and his brother, Blood bird, now being fully visible in the doorway. This makes Ghoul a bit nervous, Blood usually never answered the door unless he was the only one available to do so. “Can we come in?”, Ghoul asks with a nervous smile. “Please?”, Kobra adds in, seeming bothered. The twin with red eyes looks at the two, “...No.”, he says. “Aw why?”, Ghoul asks a bit innocently, one hand behind his back while having his hand on the back of his neck. Blood rolls his eyes before looking at them again, "Jet says no. Poison isn't in a state to deal with you two fooling around.". Blood drips from the cuts on Ghoul's arm as he laughs slightly, "We won't!", he says quickly. A short silence passes before Blood speaks, "The h--- you lying for?". And just seconds later Blood slams the door after giving them a blank, annoyed look with his usual sad eyes. Kobra looks at the door and frowns, "Blood is an a--hole.", he says, looking upset as he says it. "I know...but Star must have told him about our fight. He wouldn't have been acting the way he was.", Ghoul replies looking kinda mad as well. "Things must be serious.", Kobra says back, looking out into the open and at the door again. A sigh releases itself from Ghoul, "Well, let's go back to the camp for the night..", Ghoul says. "OK.", is all Kobra replies with before they leave. And behind the door Blood stands, he heard everything. He was sitting there listening to see if they would leave. And right as they did, Jet star walks over to the door, "They're going?". Blood looks at him then at the doorknob, "Yeah Jet, it's all good now ...they're gone.". Blood let's go of the doorknob and slowly walks over to the taller man. "How is he?", Blood asks, having the same sad look he always has. Jet fixes his sunglasses, oddly enough, he wears them even at night, "He's with Star. We were lucky to get him bandged up before he started freaking out.". This didn't out right answer the question Blood asked, but he was well aware of what he meant. "I'm seriously gonna kill that nightmare b----.", Blood says a bit flatly, having a bit of hidden anger in his tone. Jet shakes his head and looks at him calmly, "Leave that for another day, Blood.". With a sigh, Blood just rolls his eyes and and seems slightly annoyed. It was more than likely left over anger towards his brother, "I know, we have more important things to deal with. Star needs my help with Poison. There's no way in h--- I'd leave them to deal with that alone like I had to…". The room goes silent as they kinda stare at each other for a brief moment. That's before loud sobbing can be heard from the living room, "Poison it's ok! Stop crying please!”. “I’m guessing they need you now.”, Jet says looking back at the living room, where the noise is coming from. Blood sighs, “Yes I know, I’ll be back in a second.”. He steps past Jet and goes to the entrance of the living room. In the room, it was a bit dark, “Star..? Is everything ok?”. After a quick scan of the room, he sees Star sitting on the floor holding his knees against his chest, Poison sitting beside him crying. Star looks up at him as he comforts Poison, “Yes I think so, he won’t stop crying.”. Blood rolls his eyes and walks in, sitting in front of Star with a serious look. “He isn’t gonna stop.”, Blood says calmly, “The pain is probably unbearable and the anxiety must be getting to him. It’s all probably leveling up with the infection.”. Suddenly, Poison gets up and runs off. Both the other two killjoys stand up in alarm, “Where is he going?!”, Star asks in panic. Blood looks at him, then down the hallway, “To his room...f---…”, “What is it? Why can’t he go in there?”, “He’s gonna lock the d--- door that’s why!”, “Oh. Why are we still standing here then?!”, “I don’t know let’s go get him!”. But before either of them get out of the living room, Jet is already at Poison’s door. “Poison...let me in please. You shouldn’t be alone.”, he says in a calming tone, the other two watching him. Slowly, the door creaks open, Poison standing in the doorway teary eyed and wary. “You need to calm down, you need our help and you can’t deny it.”, Jet says a bit firmly, having his hands in the pockets of his jacket. Poison shakes his head and grasps onto the doorknob, leaning over and puking. A few minutes later, he stops and leans against the door, huffing a bit. “Poison, you need to go to bed.”, Jet says putting his hand on Poison’s back, “I’ll assist you if need be.”. Without hesitation or any warning, Poison slams the door shut and locks it. “This is gonna be a long night…”, Jet says moving away from the door.