Lynn's POV

"What do you think is taking them so long? It worries me enough that the noise just stopped out of nowhere," Sammy whispered into my ear.

We had to be cautious of Thomas' ears. He knew about the war but he really didn't need to know much more than that. Seeing that he is not really in control of his powers at this point in time he shouldn't be a part of the war. None of the other little kids should be either, though.

"I don't know, "l replied watching Thomas fiddle with the action figure that had been provided in his bad, "I could try and tap into one of their minds?"

Sammy huffed and nodded. To say Theo's death had hit her hard was an understatement. I could relate but I promised myself I could grieve after all of this. 

I sighed and asked Sammy, "Who's mind?"

Thomas stopped playing with his toy and said, "You guy don't have to be quiet. I can tell you're worried about Alex and Zayn. Where are they?"

I was a bit surprised at the question but Sammy quickly recovered with, "That's what we are trying to figure out. Who do you think Lynn should try and talk to?"

Thomas thought for a moment before saying, "I think Alex. He seems to like Lynn a lot."

How did he catch on to that? I guess I hadn't thought about it in a while because of our situation, but my feelings had not gone away. Although, I'll never tell him that. 

"Buuuut," Thomas started again, "Zayn likes her too, so he'll be able to hear. I don't know I think they both have a crush on her."

A blush crept across my checks. Zayn didn't, did he? Wait, this doesn't, matter right now!

Sammy gave me a knowing smile before saying, "I think Alex is a good idea don't you think Lynn?"

"Uhh, yeah," I strutted out focusing on Alex.

I thought about Alex and thought about what I wanted to say. 

"Alex? Alex? Are you there?"

When I got no reply I focused harder. 

"Alex, if you're there say something. We are super worried."

"I'm here," Alex answered.

I sighed in relief before without breaking concentration saying, "He's there."

I faintly heard some words before focusing back on Alex.

"Are you guys okay? We heard everything stop and we're too scared to look outside."

"I think so," Alex replied, "The Killer used the power he absorbed from Drew to stop time. He froze it right outside of Aunt Carol's tent so it must not have reached you guys. But I'm kinda worried because I don't think he froze Zayn."

I gasped before saying, "I hope he's okay."

But before I could say anything else I heard a sudden commotion from outside. He must have unfrozen everybody.

"What going on," Thomas yelled over the noise.

"The Killer stopped time that's why the noise stopped. But he didn't freeze Zayn, which can't be good," I stated while I grabbed Sammy's hand in worry.

Thomas looked confused.

"What is that sound?" he asked before lifting the tent flap.

Bad choice. An arrow narrowly missed his left ear, sticking into the thin material on the other side of the tent. The arrow slowly dissolved into the silver poisonous liquid, dripping onto my arm causing me to his in pain. More arrows started pattering on the outside of the tent. A few more came through the flap, melting and simultaneously burning into our skins.

"We need to get out here," Sammy stated urgency in her voice, "Lynn you're going to need to teleport. Did Alex tell you where they are?"

Suddenly an arrow flew through the flap hitting me right in the forearm. It began to melt from the point. It was a quarter of a way down the shaft before Sammy yanked it out and threw it to the floor.

I grimaced before saying, "Yeah, near Aunt Carol's tent. Let's go."

I grabbed Thomas' and Sammy's hands. Just as I was about to teleport a boy about eighteen came through the flap with a sword. At that moment I desperately thought of the outside of Aunt Carol's tent. Right as the boy was about to stab Thomas we disappeared. I could feel my body draining of energy as I tried to pull through. Just a bit more. I could see the tent fading into view. Now I could see people. Getting closer. I could see The Killer, Alex, Zayn and Aunt Carol in the middle now. I thought hard about the destination and we appeared right in a big crowd of fighting people. We were about twenty feet away from where we needed to be, great.

"We gotta move," I said still holding on to Thomas' arm.

We all weaved through the fights Thomas and Sammy using their powers if necessary. I dodge a punch to my face. Sammy replied by striking her claws across their face. Yikes, that a lot of blood. 

We were less than five feet away before I heard a deep voice boom, "Nice of you to join us daughter."

I pushed through the finale person blocking me before I was met with The Killer. But his hood was off revealing he scarred face.

"What are talking about?" I snapped looking at a puzzled Alex but Zayn just shrugged.

The Killer was suddenly in front of me. He grabbed me and I struggled. I kicked and thrashed but before I knew it I was on the ground in front of Zayn.

"Tell her," he commanded Zayn.

I braced myself for this explanation.

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The Killer's POV

I watched the boy flinch back. How is this feeble little boy suppose to defeat me? 

I chuckled to myself and said, "Well are you going to tell her or am I going to have to cut out your spleen?"

Zayn glared at me before saying, "I'm sorry Lynn, but this swine is your father. Do you wanna tell her why you left or should I cover that too, you scarred primate?"

I felt my anger rise but I had to stick to my plan. In order for me to take over my army has to kill the warriors first. I can't kill Alex and Zayn until all of the warriors including Carol are dead. But of course, my blasted son had to ruin that part of the plans. Now I just have to stall.

"Zayn, that's enough. Don't dig yourself a grave," I heard a female voice say.

"So she speaks," I said with a grin.

I strutted over to Carol with a smirk across my face. Some of the warriors started to gather around by now and I was too enthralled in this to tell them to continue fighting. Some of them were my guards though, to make sure nobody got away that wasn't supposed to. 

"Daryl, you do know that we could end this right now don't you?" she asked in her annoying screechy voice.

I smirked before saying, "Just like I ended your son's life with a snap of my fingers? Oh, wait, his death was long and painful. I made sure of that. Hmmm, what was it? Franklin? Finn? Forest? That's was his name! Forest. Pretty fitting seeing he could create any form of nature. Too bad his little bobcats couldn't protect him from an entire army of lost souls. They really drove him crazy didn't they?"

I genuinely smiled remembering the fate of that boy. I scanned the crowd, everybody had stopped fighting now. But to be honest I didn't care, I liked the attention. Everybody silently stared at me.

"What nobodies got anything to say now?"

"What happened to you," Carol mumbled to herself, but with my super hearing from Linda I picked it up. 

"Why does everybody always ask the villain that? Can't somebody just be evil for the sake of being evil?"

I looked around waiting for an answer but not getting one.

"Tough crowd, " I said, "let's get this party started shall we?"

I looked towards Alex and Zayn who just happened to have three other kids around them. I used the telekinesis from Ian, I think and brought all of the kids over to me. I anticipated that one of them might try to run or somebody would try to help them so as soon as they were in front of me I created a forcefield around us. Thank you Paul. Right after, I sent a telepathic message to Shirly to tell everybody to start fighting again. The fighting commenced a few seconds after.

"Alright quick catch up now that you can't get away and my plan's back in motion," I strutted over to a small boy with light brown hair, "hmm don't know you."

I tried to grab the boy by the wrist but he yanked out of my grasp and punched me in the face knocking me to the ground. Super strength. Don't have that one yet. I pushed myself up and looked at the boy.

"Thomas," he stated glaring at me.

The tall girl next to him looked angry and I looked to see claws coming from he hands. A shapeshifter. Booooring! 

"I'm Sammy," she growled out.

"Okay now that I know all of you we have something we need to fix."

"What is that?" Zayn asked stepping in front of Lynn.

That one is quite brave, isn't he? I don't like it.

"Well do you see how you and your brothers eyes are glowing?"

I took a step towards him making the gap between up smaller. He seemed to take it as a challenge, falling right into my trap.

He took another step forward saying, "Yup. We bother are practically overloaded with power to the point where we might be able to kill the population of New York City."

I smirked and said, "We are going to figure out how that happened because it needs to happen to your friends too."

"What is that suppose to mea-"

Before Zayn could even ask I grabbed his shoulder and looked into his eyes, "Tell me how your eyes started to glow and don't leave out any details."

Persuasion. All thanks to their dragon friend Theo. He did put up quite a fight I can say that much. 

"I figured out that I couldn't remember much about my childhood, so I got mad and left the tent. Alex followed me and demanded I tell him why I turned evil. I told him I couldn't remember and so I got super mad because I figured out I was hypnotized to be evil and I had no childhood. The power became too much and it was raining so I told Alex I could stop it. I didn't even have to raise my hand and the rain stopped which was scary because that had never happened before. Ever. But even that didn't take away much power and it kept building up. I eventually couldn't move or I might explode with power so Alex decided to try and get me back to Aunt Carol," Zayn stopped suddenly.

"Tell me the rest," I said trying to persuade him further.

"No," Zayn stated backing away.

He broke through the persuasion. But how? I really hate not knowing things.

I used the telekinesis the bring Thomas over which earned a growl from Sammy. I made sure to use iron grip I acquired from Katy.

He struggled as I said, "Don't tell me in five seconds and I'll break his arm."

"I'll tell you," Alex offered stepping towards me.

"Nope," I said in a finalizing tone, "it has to be him or else I break the kid's arm and cut out his kidneys to go with it." 

"You won't do that!" Lynn shout trying to run at me. But Alex stuck his arm out and ended up shocking her.

I chuckled before saying, "Wanna bet?"

Zayn didn't say anything.

"Okay," I said looking down at Thomas, "five."

"Tell him!" Sammy yelled at Zayn grabbing his shoulder and digging her claws into it. 

Zayn remained silent and motionless. Sammy retracted her claws and tried to come at me but I used the telekinesis to knocked her back into the forcefield. The force at which she hit the side knocked her out at best. 

I smirked at the commotion, "four."

"Please, Zayn do it!" Lynn shouted. 

Zayn remained still and just to make things interesting I threw Lynn into the forcefield knocking her out as well. Alex was looking livid now.

"Three," I said getting bit excited.

"Help me!" Thomas screamed as I twisted his arm back more hearing a crack.

Zayn still did nothing.

"Zayn, tell him!" Alex shouted in his face.

Zayn gave Alex a menacing look and said, "I already told him no. That's my answer."

"Two," I started twisting the kid's arm a bit more gaining a yelp from him.

"Look what you have already done! Sammy and Lynn are hurt because you won't tell him what is wrong with you? Why won't you tell him?"

Zayn's eyes finally showed emotion as he turns to Alex and said, "Because if I tell him he'll know how to kill us, so my answer is no. He can strangle him to death for all I care! He's not winning!"

"One," I said smiling.

I twisted the kids arm the finale distance and heard a sicking snap. The kid cried out in pain and that just made me laugh. 

Alex turned away from Zayn fuming but then turned back around and punched him right in the nose causing another loud crack. Good thing this force field is sound proof. Zayn whipped the blood from his nose. He then studies Alex and punched him back in the eye, causing him to fall. I might not have to kill them after all! But that would be boring and I think I know what will make him talk.

I used the super speed from Wess and quickly switch Thomas out for Lynn. I healed her, courtesy of Summer so that she was conscious. Just as I thought she would she immediately yelled for one of the boys. I could tell she liked one of them. Both of them stood up and focused their attention on Lynn.

"Madelynn, I already broke Thomas' arm, so what do you think I should break of yours? Hmm, what if I break your fingers one by one until they tell me what I want?"

Zayn and Alex both look furious.

"No," Zayn stated, "Alex tried to get me back to Aunt Carol but I electrocuted him. I couldn't walk so he froze me, without my permission, by the way, so he could carry me. he must have thought about something that made him mad or whatever because when he unfroze me, my eyes were glowing too."

I processed the news for a minute. I get it. Anger is the trigger. I guess that makes sense, this started with anger so end it that way too. So now all I have to do is make the rest of the others angry enough to trigger them. Should be easy enough with the group I have here. 

I then set Lynn down and sarcastically asked, "now that wasn't too hard was it?"

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