I woke up to the feeling of someone hovering over me, which is not what you really wanna wake up to when you're in the middle of the desert.

Instead of sitting straight up and going for my gun I decided to think over what I'd do first.
It could either be A, there's a drac about to ghost me or B, which loops back to A because I can't think of anything else.

So what should I do now?
Maybe I could try some evasive rolling or just go straight to screaming my head off.
There's always a chance I could deafen the thing.

Ghoul's led me to believe that I can sound deafening when I scream but I don't think it would be a good idea to rely on what he says.

Na fuck all this thinking shit over stuff, I'm too impatient for strategies or preplanning what I was gonna do. Anyway it worked the other night when I woke to a draculoid standing over Party Poison.

Slowly so whoever was there wouldn't notice I crept my hand across the sand and towards my beamer that I remember putting next to me before I fell asleep.

My hand grabbed it and the next second the safety was clicked off and I was sitting up, pointing the tip of the barrel at the person who was standing over me.

It took me a moment to realise who I was aiming at and once I did I immediately clicked the safety back on and felt my cheeks go bright red.

"Uh, morning, Poison." I said to him with an awkward smile when in reality he was the one who should be feeling awkward.

He'd been standing over me with a notepad and pencil in hand for some reason, possibly drawing or maybe writing.

"Good morning, doll." He replied with a smile and I instantly frowned, whatever he just called me sounded insulting.

I put my gun down next to me and reached for my jacket that was a bit dusty after a night on the desert ground.

"So what are you doing exactly?" I asked, unzipping my sleeping bag, climbing out and sitting on top of it.

He scribbled a little bit more before tucking his pencil behind his ear and flashing me a view of the notepad, allowing me to get a glimpse of the words that littered the page.

"Writing." It was damn obvious he was doing that, it would have been great for him to elaborate since he woke me up by standing over me like a creepy drac.

At least I woke up to a nice view. He had yet to put on his jacket so he was still wearing the top with the slits down the side.
His bright red hair was ruffled from sleep and stuck up in multiple directions, looking sexy and messy at the same time.

"Writing what?" I had a feeling I'd need to be specific when asking him questions.

I don't think he was stating the bleeding obvious to annoy me, I think he was doing it because he seemed to be on a slightly different frequency than everyone else.

"Words." I felt like face-palming at his response. Okay maybe he was doing it to annoy me.

"Party, what are you writing about?" I just decided to make it very obvious with what I wanted to know because I got the feeling he could do this all day.

"Nothing much." Alright never mind with socialising with him, he had looks going for him but most definitely not conversation skills.

He stared at the notebook for a moment before noticing something and getting the pencil from behind his ear again and scribbling at a million miles an hour.
Figuratively of course.

"Don't bother trying to get anything out of him. He's off with the fairies when he's got a notebook in his hands. Everything he'll say will just sound weird." Jet told me, no shit, Party couldn't answer a simple question and he called me doll which is a nickname that didn't suit me at all.

"Dude, stop creeping her out and come get some food." That was very nice of Jet to tell Party that because I was feeling a little bit creeped out right now.

Party mumbled something in response to Jet before putting the pencil behind his ear again and walking over to the same radio box thing he'd been using last night.

I sat there staring after him for a moment before standing up and putting on my holster. I really didn't want to risk having a draculoid getting close to me or any of my friends.

It'd been one of the most terrifying things of my life seeing the drac stand over Party Poison with a ray gun pointed at his sleeping form.

I'd only known the slightly crazy but kind redhead for a one day and one night but I already felt like I'd die if he got hurt.
It would be heartbreaking to have any of them ghosted or just injured. They felt like they were friends who I've known for years and years, not people I'd just met.

"Electric do you want some breakfast?" Kobra asked and I put my blaster in the holster before sighing at the thought of Power Pup and walking over.

I knew I'd have to get used to eating it but I still didn't want to put dog food in my mouth. But I did what I had to do to survive out here, they never said life was meant to be easy.

They also never said I had to eat dog food, oh well.

Kobra confiscated Party's notebook when he realised he wouldn't be putting it down anytime soon and handed him a can of Power Pup instead.

Girl was still laying down in her sleeping bag and playing with the plastic robot toy she had last night. I walked over to her and she looked up.

"Hey, Electric. Is it breakfast time yet?" I nodded and she crawled out of her sleeping bag, leaving her toy on it.

She sat on the ground next to Party Poison who was fiddling around with what I was now positive to be a radio and Kobra Kid handed her a opened can.

"Party, I was wondering. Do you like to draw?" I swear I saw some sketches next to the words.

"No, I don't like drawing, I'm not good at it either." I must have imagined it then, I thought Party would be the more artistic one out of them.

"Catch." Ghoul called out to me, throwing a can at the same time and instead of catching or ducking I went for some mix between the two.

I put my hand out as if I was going to catch it before my body changed its plan and went for duck instead.

It would have been totally fine but my decision to dodge was a moment to late and seconds later my face was best friends forever with the can of dog food.

~~~

The world was dark but my head was throbbing and it was probably the most painful thing ever.

I was trying to understand whether or not my eyes were open, currently I had no idea what was up or down but I tried.

"You alright, sugar?" The familiar voice pulled me back to reality and I slowly and carefully opened my eyes when I heard Party's voice.

Party Poison was leaning over me with his bright red hair falling beautifully in his face.
Oh my god, Party just called me sugar.

Instead of responding with a simple yes or no I just started giggling like an idiot. It was stupid I know but he called me sugar and it made me feel giggly for more than one reason.

He'd just called me sugar, a word that totally didn't go with how he looked and the second being he called me sugar.
I would have had the same reaction if he called me babe.
Now my heart was feeling all warm and fuzzy.

"Ghoul if she's brain damaged I swear I'll hurt you." He actually sounded serious, like he would actually hurt him.

Party didn't seem like the violent type but I had a feeling he could be dangerous when angry.

"How was I gonna know she was planning to catch it with her face?" I didn't catch it with my face, I mean it might have looked like it to them but in my world I was trying to get out of the way.

"You threw it at her. It's obvious Electric isn't the most coordinated person, she told us how she ran into a door for gods sake." Okay the compliment Party had unknowingly given me earlier by calling me sugar was just ruined by that.

"I'm alright, just stop with the bickering." I told them, putting a hand on my head and sitting up. It felt like a had a bruise, well isn't that just lovely.

The next thing that happened almost put me into shock, actually not almost. It did put me into shock.

I got a double hug.
From Party Poison and Fun Ghoul.

The very same Party Poison who called me sugar and was the most amazing looking guy I think I'll ever see in my whole life.
There was also Fun Ghoul who made the most inappropriate jokes out of the four of them and not to mention that he doesn't really seem like the hugging type.

"Thank god you're alright." Party spoke with a sigh and at the same moment Ghoul started talking.

"Electric I'm really sorry." So was the world now supposed to stop spinning because he said he was sorry because that's the impression I got.

I sat there for a moment while they hugged me, the left side that of me that Party was hugging started tingling and I had to hold back my urge to giggle.

The first person to let go was Ghoul who gave me an apologetic smile before standing up moving back next to Kobra and Jet who were a little bit away from me.

After being hugged by Party for roughly a minute Jet cleared his throat and Party let go immediately.
Which made me kinda upset but I can't have everything, I know that.

"Does your head hurt?" Kobra came over and kneeled beside me before inspecting my face like a doctor even though he would be three years older than me at the most.

"Yeah, it's kinda got this pounding thing going on." I snorted at my own words, they sounded more inappropriate than I thought they would.

"I've got an idea." Ghoul said with a big grin before running off to the trans am.

He come back a moment later after retrieving something from the car and he held the small bottle like thing to me.

I unscrewed the lid of the bottle and looked at the contents that was a strange amber colour.
Ghoul made a gesture for me to drink it and I looked at the Killjoys to see if they had anything to say about it.

Their mouths stayed shut so I took it as a go ahead and took a big swig from the bottle, only to instantly regret it when my throat started burning.

"That's fricken awful." I told them, giving the bottle back to Ghoul who took it from me and put the cap on.

"It's called Ambrosia." Kobra stated looking at my face again, turning it from one side to the other. Probably trying to get a better view of the bruise that was definitely on my head.

"What's that?" I asked, I didn't recognise the word ambrosia and even if it was something it would more than likely have a different meaning in this world.

"It's made by BLI. They give it to dracs and scarecrows, it's a pain killer." Party explained and I flinched when Kobra poked the spot on my head where the bruise would be.
Strangely it didn't hurt.

"Better?" Kobra touched the bruise one more time to see if Ambrosia actually worked and I nodded when I don't feel anything, my head had stopped pounding.

"Hey what's that on your arm." Usually those words would go with someone pointing out a spider or getting ready to prank you but Ghoul said it calmly so I just looked down.

I turned my arm around so I could see what he was pointing to and was a little surprised when I saw the long mark running along my skin.

"Damn when did you get that?" Party looked at the mark on my skin that seemed like a burn.
I don't remember getting one though.

"I don't know." I shrugged as Party continued to stare at the burn as if it'd suddenly start talking.

"What about the other night with the drac? Did you get hit?" I thought back then remembered the draculoid shooting at me, my arm felt scorched at one point.

"Uh, yeah I think so." Party let go of my arm and ran over to his sleeping bag, grabbed something then jogged back.

He was holding a zapper in his bands that was identical to mine, plain and white and completely ordinary.
Nothing like their ray guns that were unique and colourful.

Poison stared at the gun for a moment before hitting the safety and pulling the trigger back.
The beam of light started moving towards the radio sitting in the sand but fell short and just dissolved into nothing.

"You are so lucky this thing is practically out of batteries." I didn't know that ray guns ran on batteries. So they're like very high powered, incredibly dangerous toys.
Nice.

"If this had a full tank your arm would have gotten burnt off." Good thing it didn't happen then or I might have had to kill the drac even more violently, like with my teeth or I could scream it to death.

"You need to be more careful around these things. You're not a cat, you don't have nine lives and even if you did you just lost one of them. If you can't hold a zapper, you're unable to protect yourself and when that happens you're dead." Party was being a bit harsh with getting his point across but it did the job and I understood I needed to be careful.

"Okay I get it. I won't play tag with anymore dracs." He may or may not get the joke I was making but I was trying to be serious at the same time.

"Good, now how about some breakfast?" Fun Ghoul hitting me in the head with a can accidentally must have interrupted their breakfast.

Well off to eating some dog food I suppose.

~~~

We spent the rest of the day wasting our time mucking around and doing stupid things.

Maybe not exactly doing stupid things although I did make a rather dumb choice at some point.

After leaving the camp Party had almost immediately insisted we go back to Dr. D's because he wanted to talk to him about music or something.

Anyway while Party was inside talking to Doc, Kobra suggested he teach me how to ride a bike.
Sounds harmless right?

Well he was taking about a motorbike and I actually thought it would be a good idea in a brief moment of stupidity.

So I got onto the bike with him since he suggested he take me for a short ride so I could get used the the feel of a motorbike.
I agreed to that too.

We hadn't made it that far before I started screaming and panicking at the same time. I definitely didn't like motorbikes, at least not at the moment.

It basically ended the same with the lesson as it did yesterday when Poison was showing me how to shoot a zap.
When I say that I mean Fun ended up rolling in the sand, laughing and I of course added some more decorations to his scarf.

By the time Party stopped talking to Doc, Ghoul was lucky to have any of his blue scarf left at all. He'd be needing to get a new one because the scarf was now barely holding together.

Party told me to calm down and stop shooting at Ghoul which I did, it's not like I was that pissed off at him. I mainly did it because he kept on giving me this look like he was daring me and I wasn't one to turn down a dare.

I wouldn't hurt Ghoul, sure he'd said some really inappropriate stuff in the day and a half that I'd known him for but he meant nothing by it.

After Party stopped me from possibly shooting Ghoul he said something vague about him needing to talk to Doc and the guys.

So I was now sitting outside the shack with Bluejay who was getting me to draw with her. She was a really nice little kid and I hoped she'd turn out okay in this screwed up place. Preferably not being chased around by draculoids and scarecrows in her teen years.

"What do you think?" She held up a picture of what I was pretty sure was Party Poison, it had the bright red hair and the blue jacket.

"I like it, it's good. How did you learn to draw like that?" Yeah it was definitely Party, it was very well drawn to boot.

"Party showed me." Oh so he did draw then and it didn't matter whether or not he was good at it, I just caught him out for lying.

"Does he like to draw?" I asked her and she started flipping through the small notebook she had.

She showed me one page that was filled with some intricately drawn pictures then pointed out some that were a bit more roughly drawn.

"I did that one, that one and that one. The rest Party drew." So there's your proof they he was definitely lying to me and is actually good at drawing. Very good.

Well I'm gonna make sure to point out that he was lying to me, I'm not really angry. I'n just a bit curious about why he'd lie and say he's not good at drawing when he's fricken amazing at it.

"He was drawing you when you were asleep." She added and I felt my mouth fall open slightly, out of all the things I thought she could mention that was not one of them.

"What?" I had to check just to see if it happened to be one of the many strange things kids would be known to say.

"Party was drawing you when you were asleep." Okay so maybe she didn't just say something that sounded a little strange.

Not to sound a bit mean but that was a little creepy for him to be drawing me when I was sleeping.
Standing next to me and writing something, that's okay because it wasn't personal but drawing me was definitely creepy.

I pursed my lips not knowing what I should say next.

"Uh, do you know what he's doing in there?" I gestured to the shack behind us with my thumb, it wouldn't have killed him to say what it was about.

"I dunno, he said as me to me as he said to you." She shrugged and went back to drawing again, I really want to know what he was doing.

I'm not gonna let that distract me though, before I got hung up on Party telling fibs I was out here and enjoying drawing with Girl.

I took a piece of paper she handed to me and started sketching on it, she was actually better than me when it came to drawing so it was kinda entertaining.

We weren't drawing for long before the guys showed up out the back, laughing like they'd just shared a joke. Party had a huge grin on his face that I was used to seeing on Ghouls and it just made me want to know what they'd been doing even more.

"Hey, doll, are you ready to go yet?" Party asked, walking up to us and standing there with his hands in his pockets.

"What with the 'doll' thing?" I said, standing up and raising an eyebrow at the same time.

I'd leave the questions about him saying he couldn't draw and drawing me in my sleep for when we got in the car and he couldn't walk away.

"You're really pale, like a porcelain doll." I didn't mind him saying I was pale but the porcelain doll part was slightly insulting.
He could have said like a vampire or a ghost and I would have taken it as a compliment.

"Could you please stop calling me that?" I preferred sugar much more, I actually liked it when he called me that.

Party shrugged, not really giving me a yes or no answer which made me frown.

"You fine staying here with Dr. D and Pony, Bluejay?" Jet spoke to Girl who was still sitting on the ground and drawing happily.

I wonder where Show Pony is? I think he was out the front when the car first pulled up but he disappeared once I got out and I haven't seen him since. Looks like it's a definite about him not liking me, meh.

Girl nodded and continued her drawing as if we weren't even there.

"See ya guys. Don't get in any firefights if you can help it." She told them with a surprisingly grown up voice, like a mother reminding her child to keep their jacket on while in the cold.

"Will do." Kobra laughed at her tone and I cracked a smile as well, she seems to be the most grown up one out of the group.
She's even more mature than me which isn't that hard actually.

We waved goodbye to Girl before heading off to the trans am and in a almost repeat of yesterday I jogged up to Party Poison planning to bring up the subject of drawing only to have him wrap and arm around my waist and throw me over his shoulder.

I instantly started laughing even though he interrupted me from saying what I wanted to say.
This would be the third time he's picked me up as we walked to the car although the first time doesn't really count since it was more like an abduction then.

"So what's with the warning from Girl?" I said when I finally managed to stop giggling like an idiot.

"We just get a bit excited when partying and sometimes we or more often than not me and Kobra get into a tiny fight with some other group." Party explained and Ghoul snorted, obviously he disagreed.

"Last time he got into a 'fight'." Ghoul made air quotes with his fingers.

"Party knocked out a bunch of wave heads and Kobra ghosted two of them." I didn't know what wave heads were but judging by the look on Fun's face they weren't very nice people.

"They were harassing one of the motorbabies." Party protested before dropping me into the car and getting into the seat next to me.

"Besides they said I had anger issues then they called me Party's adorable little brother." Kobra grumbled, getting into the passenger seat as Ghoul got into the back next to me and Jet got into the front to drive.

"But you are an adorable little brother." I joked and Party tapped me on the shoulder before shaking his head.

"Anything but that, just don't bring it up alright?" He whispered to me, so Kobra didn't like people mentioning he was a younger brother.
You learn something new everyday.

"Okay then. Oh I nearly forgot. Party, can I ask you a question?" He nodded and I grinned, he won't be able to walk away from me when I ask thankfully.

"Why did you lie about being able to draw?" He'd been sitting rather close to me and immediately moved away the second I asked.

"I didn't say I couldn't draw, I said I didn't like doing it and was bad at it." Yeah I'd seen some of his sketches in Bluejays book and there was no way he was bad at it.

I decided to drop that one though in case he became defensive and refused to answer my second question that I wanted to know the answer to much more.

"Okay, now next question. Why were you drawing me when I was asleep?" Ghoul instantly started giggling like a maniac at the look on Party's face, which was his cheeks going as red as his hair.

"Um, hehe." Party ruffled his hair and looked at the floor of the car, as if thinking that being cute would get him out of answering the question.

"So?" I crossed my arms over my chest and stared at him, waiting for an answer.

"I wasn't drawing you." He was flinching slightly and I don't think I've seen him lie before but I was feeling positive that was his lie face.

"Lets try that again. This time you can not lie." A smirk crept onto my face when he realised he wasn't getting out of this so instead he just became completely relaxed.

"It was only a sketch. Besides I wasn't drawing I was writing and it was only for a little while." Yes, I got him to admit to it, I didn't care if it was a sketch or not.
Great I'd also happened to make my heart go at a million miles an hour, just thinking about him sketching me.

Kobra turned around in his seat and looked at us.
"Party, you were standing next to her for an hour." Everyone in the car instantly started laughing except for Party and I.

I didn't want to laugh because if I did it would seem like I was mocking him or something and I didn't want him to think that. It was very nice of him to sketch a picture of me and I wasn't feeling insulted by it.

Party copied me and crossed his arms across his chest as the guys continued to laugh and Jet drove across the desert to Hyper-Thrust, situated out in Zone 3.

"Electric, you should try a slam chaser when we get to the club." I had no idea what that was, had everyone totally forgotten that I don't know all their lingo.

"What's that?" I asked no one in particular and Party mumbled and answer.

"It's a drink." Oh that's okay, I thought they might have been naming one of the different ways they refer to Killjoys.

As we drove I heard the sound of music pounding and I heard the nightclub long before I saw it and once I did I was completely shocked.

It was almost like a warehouse except not as big as one would be, it was still huge though and painted black with the neon sign 'Hyper-Thrust' hanging over the door.

With the roof off the car I stood up and looked out, the music got even louder in the now darkened sky, this is frickin awesome.

Some part of me wondered why Korse and the draculoids aren't here ghosting Killjoys left and right then I realised that it would be a very stupid idea to go rushing into a warehouse filled with Killjoys when you were the bad guy.

"Electric." I looked into the car when Party Poison said my name.

"You ready to go party, Sugar?"