The Dark Future

[FlameTheCharmander]

Sorry that I haven't been on for a long time. Here's the next chapter. Just to warn you, it's a bit..."bloody"...

Chapter 6
Wheezy's POV.


We all stared at Rosa, not believing what we just heard. I shook my head, it isn't possible.

"Your crazy." I told her. She glared at me.

"You're stupid if you think I'm crazy. Just look at Devi, look at Oliver and Psycho, look at me and Greasy! Don't we all look alike?" she snapped at me. I didn't say anything. Rosa pointed at Stupid. "Look, Stupid has an over grown tooth, just like Eagleeyes." I gave her a funny look.

"Who's Eagleeyes?" I asked.

"Eagleeyes is one of the six servants that work for the evil queen, Iamtheboxlady," Devi informed me. "He is not so bad, but just watch out. He's been eyeing Fernbelly for the last few months hasn't he?" Oliver nodded.

"Aye, he has." he replied. Greasy, Psycho, Stupid and I gave him puzzled looks. "Fernbelly. Sister of Lionclaw, both ferrets. Lionclaw hard headed obnoxious tyrant with a snotty attitude. What he doesn't know is that Fernbelly, Silverhawk, and Silentbrook are friends. Silentbrook, kind, silent, creature who barely talks. Silverhawk, used to be a pain like Lionclaw, but after the uh..." Oliver looked at Rosa and Devi. "...Incident, her heart softened and she is more gentle now. That just leaves Thunderheart."

He paused for a moment. Psycho tilted his head. "Thunderheart," Oliver continued. "Is the most cruelest of the six. He is cruel because he was brainwashed when he was young."

"Thunderheart couldn't remember a thing," Rosa said. "So Boxlady came up with this story on how he was abandoned by his family just for his other brother, you, Psycho." There was a moment of silence. I pulled out a cigarette, lit it, and started smoking it.

"Nice story guys." I said dryly. The trio looked at me.

"Excuse me?" Devi said.

"Look, this is nice and all...but I really didn't believe a word you said. So long." I walked out the door and headed home.

***

I entered my room and fell on the bed. Finally I could sleep with out anyone disturbing me. I closed my eyes. I have been getting very tiered lately. Soon I found my self asleep and dreaming.

In the dream I opened my eyes and saw a faint version of my self when I was fourteen sitting on water. Besides him was another weasel, my dad. I took a step forward.

"So, Jake," my dad started. "You want to tell me what's wrong?" The fourteen version of me just sat there.

"I've been having...these weird thoughts lately." he started. "Like...is any of this for real...or not?" I felt a burst of wind hit me. I shield my eyes from the strong wind. When I opened them, I found my self standing on a beach. But, it wasn't the regular me, it was the sixteen year old version of me. I looked around and saw my dad standing on the water. I took a step forward and noticed that the water was rushing into the ocean. I looked back up at my dad and saw a huge wave coming towards him. He turned around and held his hand out. I ran towards him, but I was too slow. The wave swallowed my dad and I.

I opened my eyes again in the water and saw my dad slowly floating away. I tried swimming after him, but was carried away by the current. I was under water for quite some time, then I burst the surface and gasped for breath.

"Jake!" I looked up. A little girl weasel was waving at me. She looked exactly like Devi, only younger. I waved back at her and went up to her. "What were you doing in the ocean?"

"Uh...swiming." I panted. She gave a little giggle and looked up. I looked at her for a moment and looked up too. A dark figure was falling from the sky. I squinted at it. It stared coming closer and closer towards us. Suddenly, I fell backwards. The little weasel let out a gasp of surprise. I felt like I was falling through the air, but I was falling through the water again.

"Jake! Don't go!" The girl pleaded before she dissolved into ripples in the water. I closed my eyes and waited. Then I felt my self land on a glass like object. I opened my eyes and saw that it was a stain glass window painting with two wolves(one made out of water, the other normal looking), a bird with a sword made from pure diamond, a heart, and a fortress. Then in the center was a weasel, a Grey furred weasel with smoke surrounding him. Looking carefully at it, I suddenly noticed that the weasel looked exactly like me!

"So, you are the seer." a gloomy voice said. I looked up and saw six hooded figures at my direction.

"W-what are you talking about?" I stammered. They didn't move. "Stop freaking me out and give me some answers." Two of them looked at each other. One of them pulled their sword out.

"I say we just kill him off now." he growled. I gulped.

"Wait," a female's voice pipped up. It was quiet and gentle. "We're not sure if he is the seer." The one with the sword growled at the one who spoke up.

"I don't care, he looks close enough, let's just kill him now!" The hooded figure lunged towards me, swinging his sword high above his head. I opened my mouth to let out a scream, but nothing came. I tried running for it, but I couldn't move. The hood came flying off of the figure. He was a ferret, with a necklace made of just a few teeth. He raised the sword and aimed for my stomach, he didn't miss. I opened my mouth again, but nothing came out. The ferret grinned wickedly at me.

"JAKE!" I woke up in a cold sweat. Heart pounding, blood racing, and breathing heavily. I turned and saw that Devi was glaring at me with annoyance. "Finally you decided to wake up!"

"What...happened?" I asked shakily.

"You that's what happened." she huffed. "I was trying to wake you up for the last ten minutes! But all you did was toss and turn, and scream." I opened my mouth to say something when a horrible pain in my stomach shot through, as thought if something, or some one had just pierced it. I let out a moan and clutched my stomach. Devi looked at me with curiosity.

"Jake? What's wrong?" she asked. I glared at her.

"It's nothing, ok? And don't call me Jake!" I snapped at her. She sighed.

"I'll go make you some tea." she said.

"I don't drink tea!"

"Ya do now!" she said, rolling her eyes as she left the room. I let out a sigh and clutched my stomach again. It hurt to much to do anything. I laid back down and closed my eyes for a bit. The face of the ferret appeared in the darkness. He was chuckling wickedly as he pulled his sword out from behind him and licked the blade covered with blood, my blood!

[julayla]

Whoa...very creepy chapter, but I like how you did part of your redention of what Sora from Kingdom Hearts went to in the beginning of KH to your story. Nice work.

[FlameTheCharmander]

This chapter is less creepy, I promise.

Chapter 7
Rosa's POV.


"Some primo ya got there Dev." I said to Devi. Oliver, Devi and I were sitting underneath a tree sipping soda. She shrugged.

"He's a bit depressed I guess." she responded. "At least your brothers seem nice." Oliver, who had just took a large gulp of soda, spat it out and started choking on it.

"Nice?!" he stammered. "My brother looks like a freak! We look nothing a like! Rosa, are you sure that he's my brother?" I glared at him.

"Of course I'm sure." I said. "Even your father and mother said it. Your brother went to the asylum, why else would they call him Psycho?" Oliver leaned on the tree.

"Hope mom's ok." he whispered. Oliver's mother was a slave, like the three of us, still trapped in Boxlady's fortress. Lately she had fallen very ill. Devi sighed.

"I miss Hunter and Ryan." she said. Hunter is her black furred brother with some allergy problems. Ryan is his over excited friend. "Hey Rosa, do you miss someone?" I stayed quiet.

"I...miss my papi." I said quietly. "I mean, we've been together since I was kidnapped at age five. And I know that Greasy's my brother because...they look much a like." I took a sip of soda. "But then again, it was that idiot who got me wound up to Boxlady's fortress. If he wasn't busy with the stupid gang of his, I would have had a better child hood."

"Who's an idiot?" a voice asked behind me. I turned around and saw Greasy, Psycho and Stupid watching us. Devi smiled at them, Oliver looked away from his brother.

I glared at my so called brother, got up and said "You you're the idiot." I flipped my long raven hair out of my face and walked away.

"What's her problem?" I heard my brother ask.

I walked down an alley way and found a flower in there. I smiled and picked it.

"Hey! Don't you know that plants have feeling?!" a voice said. I turned around and saw a half duck half plant figure. I stared at it for a moment and then let out a scream. He yelled too. I backed up and bumped into a water dog and a duck jester. I screamed louder. They let out a yell of surprise. I closed my mouth and watched the three of them yell a bit longer before growing quiet. An electric rat rushed in.

"What's going on?" he asked. The jester scratched his head.

"Well, the girl started screaming, then Bushy let out a yell, then Licky and I rushed over and got spooked, then you came in and asked, 'What's going on?' Then I scratched my head and said, 'Well...' "

"We get it!" The rest of us said. I giggled a bit.

"Sorry about that miss," the electric rat said. "Allow me to introduce my self. My name is Megavolt. The plant duck is Bushroot, the water dog is Liquidator or Licky for short, and the other one is Quacker Jack. Together we form the Friendly Four!"

"My name is Rosa." Licky looked at me.

"Ya know, you look like a friend of Bushy and mine." he said.

"Really? Who?" I asked.

"His name's Greasy. Say didn't we already meet before?" he asked. I stared at him.

"Yeah we have," I said. "And Greasy is my brother. The brother who I hate!" The Friendly Four let out a gasp of surprise. I flipped my hair back and started walking away.

"Aw common Rosa, why don't you forgive him?" Quaker Jack asked jumping in front of me. I stopped and folded my arms.

"Gee, Quacker Jack. Why could that be? Maybe because I never want to see his hideous face again?!" I said. I walked a few steps away and saw that Licky was standing in front of me now.

"Oh no it's not that. The Liquidator guesses it must be something else." he said.

"It's because you have a grudge against him." Megavolt said holding a light bulb above his head. I smirked and walked over to him.

"There ya go Megavolt," I said a bit sarcastically. "That's using the old noggin." I squeezed the light bulb with my long claws and caused it to pop. He let out a little whimper. I was about to leave again when Bushroot went in front of me.

"We don't have any siblings," he said in a whiny voice. "Why can't you just make up with your sibling?" I was starting to get annoyed with these guys.

"Bushroot," I said grabbing his arms and starting to tie them in a bow. "If I make up with him, then I would be doing exactly what I did when I was five. Letting him get away with his stuff and being miserable!" I threw him down and walked away. "So long. Nice to meet you."

"Aw." They all said.

"Gee, she must have had a tough life." Quacker Jack said pulling out a little stuffed banana doll.

"Like we couldn't follow her and see what her problem is." the banana said. The Friendly Four grinned at each other.

***

"Are you sure this is how I hold the thing?" a young Smart Guy asked his comrades in an old video I was watching. He was trying to figure out which way he had to hold the wash board. I smiled at this. The gang went over to this country place and were chosen to play a bit of country for them.

"Yeah, but I still don't know why you get to play the banjo and I get stuck with a jug." young Psycho said holding up the jug.

"Better than a fiddle." Greasy muttered. Wheezy was playing with a harmonica he had with him.

"Right then, let's go." Smart Guy said. "Stupid put that camera down and get your one stringed guitar thingy!"

"Sorry boss." Stupid said turning off the camera. The screen went fuzzy after wards.

"So, you were watching that eh?" I turned and saw Greasy playing with his switch blade that he got when he was fifteen. I stood up and nodded.

"How'd it go?" I asked out of curiosity. He started picking his teeth.

"Eh, it wasn't that bad. Would have been better if we practiced or something." he said. I rolled my eyes. "Weren't you there?" I glared at him.

"No!" I snapped. "I was not there! I was too busy being miserable in Boxlady's fortress. All because of you!" My brother dropped his switch blade and clasped his paws over his mouth.

"Me?!" he asked muffly. "What did I do?!"

"You spent too much time with your stupid little gang and not me! That's what you did!"

"I had a promise to keep!"

"You let me get kidnapped and let mami die!"

"Well I'm sorry! I didn't plan it that way!"

"Would you lower your paw already?" By now we were just a few inches away from our faces. Greasy hesitated for a moment then lowered it. His bottom lip and gum were bleeding.

"See what ya did to me?! You made me cut myself!" he spat.

"Well, I'm sorry. I didn't plan it that way." I said sarcastically. He growled at me.

"I remember all the fun we had when we were younger, but now I think I regret that. You've become nothing but a little brat. Now I just hate you and wish you weren't my sister!" Remembering the fun time we did have and hearing that just made my heart sink. I could feel my eyes starting to sting from trying to hold back tears. Then I slapped him. He let out a little yip and fell to the floor.

"Idiot!" I nearly screamed. I hurried quickly out of the door and slammed it. When I opened the door I slammed the friendly four's faces, but I didn't care. I started to run for it. Then I bumped into Devi's cousin, Wheezy. He let out a loud "Umph!"

"Sorry." I whispered. He looked at me curiously.

"Are you ok Rosa?" He asked. Tears fell from my face. I don't know why, but just then I threw my arms around him and just started crying. He went stiff, I could feel his fur bristle with shock. I let him go and looked at him. He was looking off into the distance with a paralyzed look on his face.

"Thanks Wheezy." I said. He nodded a bit. I smiled a bit then walked off, feeling a bit better.

[julayla]

Yeah, me too. I can't wait to read more on the others' relationship with their relatives.