Dawn

Name: Tenebris
Age: 18
Weapon(s): Small collection of a dozen throwing knives.
Survival skills: In depth knowledge of chemicals both manufactured and found in nature; a pretty good aim and throw; solid endurance; nocturnal; forager.


Tenebris had decided to spend the day in bed - he had no work to do nor felt like moving, nevertheless existing after his breakup. However the problem with sleeping all day, well, you're awake all night, as was Tenebris. Quickly slipping out of bed, he ran a shower and clothed himself in a simple, thin white t-shirt and thin black shorts, finishing the look off with black trainers. Lastly, he slipped two of the knives into his belt strap. He left the house, starting with a light jog. The wind cut through his clothes and chilled his bones.

Within half an hour, he stumbled upon the group of people, slowing down and getting closer, his hands slipping into his pocket as he watched.

 

Alice looked between Marcus, gun drawn pointing at their neighbors, and the mass of people standing between her and Marcus. She swallowed and began to walk as fast as she could without appearing frightened.

It was unreal, something out of some movie. Her and Marcus, the people who are falsely accused of committing the big whatever as the jeering crowd of friends and family spits on them. Of course in the end they all have to look defeated into the hero couple's I Told You So faces. Those scenes never fully conveyed the fear of that situation. The looks of anger and fear, the tensed body language. These people were a mob, not her neighbors. They'd tear her apart if just one of them snapped.

A hand wrapped around her arm. "Now hold on, Alice," a male voice said. Her head snapped around to see Mr. Everand looking at her with a questioning look.
"Your boyfriend may be a killer, but I know you had nothing to do with it. You're the victim here. Just tell us what happened,"

"I-It's just like Marcus told you. Some man broke into our apartment and he attacked me. Now... please let go."

She saw the knife in his other hand. The silver blade catching the street light. Alice's eyes go wide at the sight. "Mr. Everand..."

He glances down and then back up at her. "It's not for... not for anything," he said rather embarrassed. "I don't... We don't mean for, augh!"

Alice rammed her knee into his groin. He took her down with him as he fell to his knees. In his stunned state she was able to take the knife from his hand and punch him in the side of the head with the hilt. Breaking easily from his grasp she ran to Marcus as fast as she could, wildly swinging the knife as she went. She practically dived into the open door and slammed it shut.

"Go! Go! Gogogogogogo!"

 

Marcus quickly got in and slammed the door. Instantly he jammed his keys into it and revved it right up. Once the engine kicked on the neighborhood decided it would be a good time to try and apprehend them. Thinking quickly he threw the gun to Alice.

"Alice if anyone gets too close you have to shoot. We cannot let them get us they will kill us. Please just don't be afraid to shoot!"

Pulling the shift into reverse he slammed on the gas and backed up. Instantly he turned to auto and gained control of his car quickly. He set it forward but by then he saw that all of his neighbors were blocking the exit. Knowing his car could only take so much and he needed to get out. He had no choice.

He slammed on the gas again. Hitting 40mph quickly. The Greene's got ran over as they refused to move while he kept moving forward. He noticed that one of them managed to open the door after the slow down of hitting a body. And Alice was face to face with Major Hart. His name was major not his title.

"Alice shoot!"

Major started to grab towards her legs and was trying to drag her with him out of the car. Everything so so surreal to Marcus and even Alice. Once Alice saw she had no other choice she pulled the trigger.

As they continued on down the road. They got to a three way intersection. And as the light turned green they drove forward. Right in the center the road a pair of headlights shined right through the car Windows and then the impact. The sound of shattering glass filled the car along with ears ringing. Unfortunately the other drivers hit the car good. It flipped over and was rammed into a tree. Marcus was barely conscious same with Alice.

 

The impact stunned her. Compounding with the realization that she had attacked her neighbors and had just shot one of them. The idle thought of putting the barrel in her mouth and just going to sleep flitted through her thoughts. But now everything was all fuzz and ringing. It felt like she was drunk, the world refusing to come into focus.

It took Alice a long while before she realized that she was sitting upside down, which is probably why her head hurt so much. Or had she hit it against the window? It was hard to focus on anything and it didn't help that she was slowly sliding out of her seatbelt. Wit a dull squeak she slid from the restraint and onto the roof of the car. She checked herself out real quick and found nothing too serious. Turning her attention to Marcus, she saw that he wasn't moving and his eyes were closed.

"Marcus! Marcus!" She cried, her voice sounding faint in her ears. She carefully looked him over. She had no idea if he was hurt or not, but he wasn't conscious. "Oh shit, oh shit! What do I do, what do I do?"

A pain suddenly registered in her chest and she started to cough. The center of her chest hurt really bad. With a lot of effort she was able to calm her breathing, it only hurt when she took deep breaths.

 

The girl sat there in stunned silence at his answer and the events around him were happening quickly, so Dallas didn't really have any time to wait for an answer, much to his chagrin. With a disappointed look, he shook his head and let out a small sigh.
"Still trying to soak it all in, huh? That's alright, you need to come to accept this unfamiliar world at your own pace. Just don't take too long, you hear? Or you might just end up getting left behind."
He laughed quietly as he took his car keys out of his pocket. While he was talking to her, he was keeping track of the things happening around him and he saw a young couple driving away in a car, barely managing to pull away from an angry mob. At that moment, he decided to follow them wherever they went, though whether it was to satisfy the whims of fate or his own curiosity, even he didn't know. As he walked away, he called out to the girl one more time.
"Something big is happening today, that's for sure! It might be fun, it might be tragic, but whatever it is I think it'll be quite a spectacle. Feel free to follow along if you can, little miss."
He got in his car and drove off, heading in the same direction that the couple went.

 

Aaron and Tony parked in the middle of the road. It was a dead intersection. They both got out of the car. One after the other. Closely together making it sound like it was at the same time. Alice being awake was sent into a state of panic, Marcus was still unconscious. His heart rate was slowing down, he needed attention and to be removed from the seat soon. Now bleeding from his head, he had plenty of cuts from the crash.

Aaron and Tony drew closer and closer to the car until they saw Dallas' headlights I'm the distance. "C'mon Tony. Lets get out of here don't want to risk it being someone who will be capable of killing us." Aaron turned around and started walking back to the car. "But Aaron, we can definitely get something from this car." Aaron turned and gave Tony a glare. "And that could be one of his friends. Get in we have to get out of here."

Aaron closed his door and begrudgingly Tony had turned around to leave as well. Both in the car Aaron turned the keys and Drove out. The front of his car showing damage from crashing into Marcus.

Marcus seemed to be in a deep sleep. He could hear Alice but he couldn't respond.

 

As he was pulling up, Dallas took a good look at the scene in front of him and thought it over carefully.
"That couple...they're the ones from the apartment complex aren't they?"
He looked from the crashed car to the one that was pulling away.
"So whoever that it, well, it doesn't really matter. Although they did try to interfere with what I'm doing here and we can't very well have that, can we? Oh well, I'm sure they can be dealt with later."
He got out of his car and approached the couple's vehicle. To say that it was in rough condition would have been an understatement. As he got closer, he noticed that a young woman was in the car, almost panicking as she tried to wake up a young man who was still in his seat next to her. Dallas, now standing next to the car, had a glint of intrigue in his eyes as he tried to get her attention.
"Well now, this is quite the predicament you've found yourself in, isn't it? Forgive me for jumping to conclusions but it looks like you could use a hand."
He knew that the man might be seriously injured so despite his seemingly lackadaisical attitude, he worked quickly to help the woman get him out of the car. When they were both safely outside, Dallas knelt down and tried to get a response from the unconscious man.
"Come on now, I can tell you've had a very long day but this just ain't the time for napping, man. Give me something to work with here, would you?"

 

Upon hearing the crash, Tenebris started running and didn't stop until he came across the crash site. He gingerly got closer, examining before he went in to help - he had no intention to get shot today.

 

Alice looked from Dallas, though she knew not who he was, to Marcus and back. The pain in her chest was subsiding and as long as she kept still and didn't breathe very deep then it would stay that way. The two of them both needed to go to the hospital. But if they went then the police would come, they'd go to jail.

"Thank you," Alice said in a weak voice to Dallas. She had a slight wheeze to her voice when she spoke. "I don't suppose you know the way to Wonderland, do you? By-by any chance."

"Who are you?"

 

Dallas laughed at Alice's first question and simply grinned as she asked the second.
"Well, I'm afraid I don't know of any portals to Wonderland around here. But I guess it's just as well; a place like that wouldn't be fit for creatures from a sinful world such as ours."
He slumped back and turned an empty gaze up towards the sky.
"It's such a sick and twisted world we live in, isn't it? But if there's one virtue that humanity has in abundance, it's our ability to adapt. We adapt to this world and become sick and twisted creatures ourselves, that's the only way to survive, man. And when you accept that undeniable truth of the world, you have to start wondering if there even is such a thing as right and wrong anymore. Heh. It doesn't really matter to me, anyway. I don't follow "right and wrong," I just follow the signs."
He lazily turned his head towards the girl and gave her a wry smile.
"But you didn't ask about all that, did you? You wanted my name, right? It's Dallas. Pleasure to meet you, miss..."
He waited for her response.

 

Signs? "Signs?" Alice asked, looking around as much as she could without causing herself an undue amount of pain. There was a street sign and a speed limit sign. "Saginaw Road is 45 miles per hour," she answered the man who called himself Dallas.

"It's a pleasure to meet the spirit of our sister city," Alice said with a small giggle, "I'm Alice."

 

Dallas chuckled at Alice's response, thinking that she was making a joke about the speed limit sign. He had no idea that she was completely serious. He gave her a nod when she gave him her name and then turned his attention to the girl from earlier, looking amused when he realized that she'd caught up to them. He folded his arms and shook his head.
"I'm afraid that the local hospital ain't really an option right now, young miss. But we certainly should get him away from here, I would think."
He looked down at the man, clicked his tongue and tilted his head.
"Well, I don't see why we can't put him in my car for now. Once we get somewhere safe, we can figure out our next move. If it all comes down to it, I'm sure I can patch him up a little."
He looked back and forth to the two girls.
"So, who wants to help me get him in the car? The more the merrier, as they say. But first..."
He reached down, grabbed one of the man's arms and without any kind of warning, quickly popped his shoulder back into the socket it had come out of during the crash. Dallas looked him over and nodded, satisfied with his work.
"Figured he wouldn't wanna wake up with a messed-up arm, you know?"

 

Fwump. Alice fell over.

 

Dallas looked over in the same direction as Sylvia and noticed the newcomer as well. With a grin, he gave them a wave.
"Hey there, stranger. As you can see, we are in quite the predicament here and as the young lady said, we sure would appreciate any help we can get. How 'bout coming out of the shadows a little and sayin' hello?"

 

Oot: just lift em into a car and set up a camp. Marcus will wake up in the morning.

 

OOT: I forgot about this RP completely.

Alice dreamed of rainbows. Each color a different kind of pain.

 

Tenebris gingerly moved towards the car, nodding at them to indicate that he will help. Until he got close, he kept a grip of his blades, removing his hands as he made sure that they weren't a threat.