guys don't let this drop! it could be great!

Ooooh! I read a book with some info on forscienic science. It included how to recongnize people. This is gonna get interesting.....

~Gem

I wrinkle my brow in concentration. Okay, I'm still a bit confused. Before waking up, All I was doing was walking to my....The job! OHMYGOODNESS! I'm gonna be late and them be grounded forever. I groan. Then I stop. Skylock. There's something almost familiar about him/her. The nose shape, the cheek bones, the swift way of turning. It's almost reminds me of... Zandibar! I jump up as the clock strikes 16:00 millatary time. Mom is going to kill me. I search in my pocket for something to write on and I find the blue stone thingy. On it I chisel the words: Have to go. Late for work. P.S. Zandibar, I know who you are. Won't tell. -Gem

HA! left without telling the rest of my rp. That's me! 

~Gem

I quickly and quietly scale the wall as Master Tse taught me how. I open the air vent and squeeze through. Finally I come to another opening, leading to outside. Good, now to get home. 

Saana~

The van jolts along the rutted road. It's dim and dark inside, and smells funny. I'm separated from Rex by a clear wall of plexiglass. My thoughts swirl restlessly in my head like a whirlpool, but are interrupted by Rex waking up. He looks around groggily, trying to figure out what happened. He glances over at me with contempt, with rage. Hey, it wasn't my fault. I have no problem whatsoever with him kidnapping someone every once in a while, although I've never had any reason to do it myself. All of the sudden I'm thrust into the wall by a sudden impact from inside the truck. I leap up unsteadily and laugh out loud. Rex had thrown himself into the wall, clearly trying to break through. He actually had made a rather large dent in the wall. He is strong, I'll give him that. 

Oops. Didn't work. Rex stumbles backwards and crumples to the ground, and it's back to just me and my thoughts.

~~~Later~~~

It seems that they're going to interrogate Rex. Ha. Good luck with that.

*Sorry I probably won't be able to post again until Friday. Please keep this amazing rp going*

Interrogation. Hah. As if they can get anything out of me. Why on earth would they think they could get any information out of me? They think I have weaknesses? Well, they're wrong. Andrew Marquiner had weaknesses. Andrew Marquiner is dead. I am Rex. Rex shows no weakness.

They'll see. They can try as long as they want. I'm hardened. They'll never get anything out of me.

I'm changing her weapon. Instead of a hand gun, she has bow and lots of arrows. She can also use the arrows like spears, thrusting them into a person. The arrows are poisonous and slowly poison the victim, making them die very very slowly.  

~Shaia

I stand by the wall, and feel a presence behind me. Without looking back, I say in a calm, cold voice, "Skylar. What is it?" 

"Have you seen Rex?" 

I shake my head, "Why?" 

"I told him to kidnap the Gem girl a few hours ago. He isn't back." 

"So?" I shrug my shoulders. 

"Don't you think... maybe the vigilants kidnapped him." 

"If they did, he should be able to escape them by himself."

"Yes, but..."

"You're saying... we should go rescue him." I turn toward her with my eyebrows raised.

"Yes. He may need our help." 

At that moment, a truck rumbled by, and there was a bang as the back wall of the truck was bent. I narrow my eyes at the truck, "Rex." 

Skylar nods, "Follow it." 

She sprints off after it, faster than the wind, and I follow silently and smoothly, stroking my snakes, Ebony and Crimson. I hiss at one, "Crimson... follow the truck. Follow the Nightrunner. And report back to me." 

She slithers off of my arm, and disappears, as I stand there, watching her go, petting Ebony, a slight, malicious smile on my face.  

Dawn's not with the everyone yet. She met Spark quickly, but that's all. I'll probably get her to bump into the group eventually. 

Rex

~

I wake to a sound only a trained professional such a myself would recognize; a door swinging quietly open on carefully oiled hinges.

Saana is awake as well, though it probably isn't the door, since it would be impossible to hear through a screen of Plexiglas. My guess is she's been awake the whole time and has been watching me charge into the wall like a loser and knock myself out.

I look at the wall. It's badly dented. Hey, not too shabby.

Anyway. The door. I glance up and almost jump. Shaia and Skylar are standing over me, balancing easily as the truck bumps over the badly paved road.

"You didn't need to come for me," I say, struggling to my feet, ignoring the throbbing pain in my shoulder.

"Otherwise we'd lose our best criminal," Skylar says, sounding annoyed at me.

"Rex, how could you be so stupid?" Shaia cuts in, her voice sharp as broken glass. "Getting caught that easily."

I jerk my good shoulder in the direction of Saana, slumped in the opposite corner of the truck. "Her. She was there."

It's always hard for me to explain about Saana. With a shared history like ours, nothing is simple. It's all tied up in complicated knots.

Tangles which could mean the difference between life and death.

"We should take her too," I say. "She knows exactly how the villains of this city operate. Whenever we get caught, it's going to be because of her."

Saana starts. I guess she can hear us.

"We have to get out of here quickly," Shaia says edgily.

Skylar glances quickly over my face, as if scanning me for signs of suspicion. She nods. "Get the traitor. She's coming with us."

Um, I'm wearing a mask. You can't really tell who I am. That's the point. Also, in my first post Zandibar mentioned that she didn't really know Gem. She couldn't even remember her name! So it's really unlikely that Gem will be able to recognize a girl she hardly knows.

Zandibar~

I swing the door open slowly, weapon at the ready and look around in disbelief. Both Rex and Saana are gone! There is a large dent in the wall, I assume from Rex attempting to bust out. But the wall isn't broken. How could they have excaped? Willomena touches my arm and I jump, startled. She holds out a peice of paper, saying,

"Look. They left a calling card." I read it. It says:

'Nice try, Vigilantes, but you'll always be two steps behind. 

We will always excape. We will always be victorious.

Lots of love!

-Nightrunner and Darkness Princess'.

There's a red lipstick kiss in the bottom corner. I curse and toss the card down. 

"How did they get in? It's impossible!" I rant, pacing up and down the room, "How could they break into an armed vigilante vehicle? How? There's no way. No way on earth! Yet they did. How?"

Will'o'wisp watches me silently for a few moments, then says,

"That's not all. I found this in the alley after we rescued Gem." She pulls another paper out of her pocket. I read it, then let it flutter to the ground with the other one.

"What can this mean, Will? We need to find the others."

I drew Zandibar! Here's her face and her outfit (and her throwing a grappling hook:]).