Monster || among us

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At the top of the ladder there was a piece of flat land with two power towers that went higher up into the sky. The view was beautiful combined with the lights of the Garden facility below, the ocean in the distance, and even further down the lights of Province of Grains. 

Ivory heaved a sigh as she saw her home province in the distance. "Its weird how we're so close to my home, and yet I never get to see it and never get to visit it." She told him and he only nodded silently. It was the only remotely normal thing she had said to him since he met her. She was always trying to touch him inappropriately or making dirty comments to him about how he needed to find a girl who would be actually willing to pleasure him. As he saw the province lights, he remembered going there with Roseanne what seemed like ages ago to him now. It had already been nearly three years since that happened. The very day he turned nineteen to be exact. They had gone to a carnival that was in town and stayed for the weekend when the rest of the team decided to go somewhere else without him, not that he minded. 

He wasn't exactly comfortable with the others at first because he could feel they didn't like him all that much. But when it came to Roseanne, he warmed up to her immediately. One--they had known each other from their time in the playground together when he was four and she was eight. He remembered having a crush on the girl who was double his age, knowing she would never be into the runt of the group like him. Two--she was so nice to everyone. Not just with him, but with everyone who was new to the team.

Raven got his holo phone out of his pocket and started snapping pictures of the scenery. Since Roseanne couldn't climb the ladder to the top of the step mountain because she was terrified of heights, he would take the view to her. Almost immediately after he did that, Ivory started jumping in all of his shots, quickly making him become annoyed. But he tried to hide it and said nothing to her. He thought that if he showed her that it bothered him, it would only fuel her further. But if he pretended like he just didn't care, maybe she would stop. He had been trying that technique for months though to no avail.

They had walked all the way to the other side of the plain, and as they walked back, Ivory pretended to trip on something, grabbing onto Raven's arm as she did. He had been caught off guard and fell over on top of her, caging her beneath him. He had immediately tried to push himself off her, but she held him there, grabbing onto the collar of his jacket. From below, Seville had convinced Cedar to climb the ladder to go find Raven and Ivory, since everyone felt like they were taking long. Seville climbed up right after Cedar, ready to help the other two in case they were in any trouble. The rest of the crew stayed behind. 

As Cedar poked his head up the rest of the way up the ladder, he caught the sight before him which seemed to be compromising. He was full of rage in an instant and seeing nothing but red. He charged up the rest of the way and lunged himself at the team captain, tackling him off Ivory and pinning him to the ground. Ivory only watched in horror and started screaming at her boyfriend to let him go. Without even giving it a second thought, Cedar pulled his balled up fist back and collided it with Raven's face, getting him right in the lip, busting it and breaking skin immediately. Raven wasn't usually a violent person, but he was easily able to subdue Cedar by using his legs to push his attacker off him. As he got back on his feet, Cedar lunged at him again, but was once more defeated when Raven jabbed him in the throat with his finger tips to knock the wind out of his lungs.

Cedar dropped to the ground on his knees, trying to regain his breathing and coughing up a storm as Ivory shouted hysterically at her boyfriend that he was a savage for attacking their team captain. Raven got back on his feet silently and dusted himself off, walking around Cedar without a care in the world, knowing he had done nothing wrong.