Settled

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Alastor was standing behind the tied up cultist and he stared into the groups eyes. "Look at what I found. He's tougher than he looks." His knife shines in the moonlight as he says this almost psychopathically. "What?" Luros asked. "I mean it's good that he captured one of them." Kyros interrupted. "Ah, you." Elijah said and he slowly treaded over to the cultist. "This is the one that knocked us out. Don't know how he did it but it's definitely this little rat." Elijah explained, smirking. He ran his knife down the edge of its face gently. "Elijah you look sick. In the unhealthy way." Luros chipped in. "How about we just put him out of his misery. And what we could do with him seems very clear to the most of us." He tilts the knife so that the tip is against his face. "Elijah move." Kyros says definitively and staring at the floor. "You'll get the next one." He says and he watches as Elijah moves out of the way, Kyros brings his 9mm up to his face and aims at the cultists face. "It'll be quick.." And then the gunshot goes right through the Cultists unmasked head, and the face drops forwards and the blood spills out of it like a waterfall. "Let's go back inside." Alastor says interrupting the silence post-gunshot. "Yeah. Let's." Luros agreed and the rest follow back. Kyros stays for a couple of seconds and watches as the dead body sits there. "Never thought I'd have to do that. Guess it was inevitable." He says as he turns around and follows the rest back inside.

Later on, inside.
The group of them sat there, dispersed around nearby the fire, Kyros, Zane, Arlo, sat almost directly in front Of the fire, staring at the flames and pondering. Camilo was fast asleep further back, Luros a little bit closer to the fire but next to Camilo as she had put him to sleep. Tallice was walking around, close to The fire. Alastor was further away than anyone, his back faced to the fire, his face looked torn almost, a little bit traumatised as he twitched and fidgeted every couple of seconds. Luros turned back to Alastor, hearing some slight mumbling. "Alastor, you good back there bro?"Luros asked, half turned to him, half turned to the fire. "Y-Yeah, I'm alright." Alastor stretched his neck and looked at Luros, smiling a little. Luros nodded at him and turned back towards the fire. On the other side of the fire, Quinn lay down, about two meters or so away from the fire, stargazing with her hands locked behind her head. She was half asleep, her eyes quite obviously indicating she was tired as she lay there silently. Elijah walked up the escalator and looked at everyone. "How solemn." He mumbled to himself as he stood next to Quinn. He looked down to her. "May I?" He said quite charmingly, but still normally. Quinn blinked herself awake and looked at him. "Yeah sure." She said quietly and very tiredly. Elijah dropped down and lay there, next to Quinn. The two stayed there and stargazed for a minute or so, Every now and again Elijah would glance over at Quinn and look at her. After some Quinn spoke. "The quiet moments in this world are nice, it's even rarer than before now, isn't it?" She glanced at Elijah and stared at him before he looked back to her. "It is... nice, I will say. Sometimes the quiet moments can mean everything. And sometimes, They are when your brain is processing the worst of things.." he looked down straight forwards into the fire, and then he looked back to Quinn, who was staring back into his eyes. The two shared their moment for a few seconds, before Quinn lightly chuckled to herself. Elijah, confused a little bit. Interrupted her laughing. "What's so funny?" He says, also snickering a little. "I'm just remembering how I met you, not even too long ago, I said 'Who are they' and you replied with 'Your future husband'" she finished by uncontrollably laughing for a few seconds. "You are SO immature Quinn." Elijah said, shaking his head and smirking. Eventually she stopped and looked into Elijah's eyes again. It all went quiet for a few seconds. "I mean, I Am your future husband." Elijah said sort of jokingly and confidently. "I mean, it doesn't seem too bad." Quinn said, chuckling. Quinn shook her head and looked at Elijah, and slowly began to lean closer towards him. On the other side of the campfire Kyros, Arlo, and Zane just watched such an occasion take place and then Zane just thought 'Time to do what happens in them movie's' so he acted as if he was looking for something. "Ayo, where's the damned popcorn at bro? This is some twilight stuff going on!" He said quite abruptly. Elijah just death stared Zane for a second, staring into his soul. Quinn simply gave Zane an annoyed look. Before laughing a little bit. "Nice one. Way to go Zane." Quinn said more awake now, before she went back to stargazing. Not to long after Elijah joined her again. Their 'Tension' had seemed to die down from what it looks like to Zane and the rest, but not to long after Quinn and Elijah had their hands locked together at their sides, Elijah looked at Quinn for a second as they did this, but as Elijah turned back he sighed with relief.

Hours later, late sunrise/morning
The fire was completely out, as expected. Zane was lying down on his stomach, his head a few inches away from the burned out fire. Arlo had his feet up on Zane's back as he was sprawled over the floor, with some fallen off headphones beside him Kyros was sleeping fairly normally, but further away from the fire and closer to where Camilo and Luros were. Camilo was still asleep, but was soon to wake up. And Luros was out cold sleeping fine nearby to Camilo. Alastor was curled up inside a sleeping bag mysteriously. And then there were the two, Elijah was sat up leaning against a box that was about 5ft high. Quinn was leaning against Elijah from a 35° angle and Out of everyone here. Elijah was the only one awake, and the ones in the deepest sleep at the moment were Camilo, Quinn, and Zane. Elijah looked around the large shopping centre, admiring the somewhat safety it provided them. Every now and again he would look at Quinn. Stroking her hair. "What a morning." He said to himself, staring at the roof, Elijah's speaking managed to get Kyros and Luros to slowly wake up, Kyros scrambled to his feet after a few seconds. And looked around.
"Another day."

Soon enough, the rest woke up, Except for The heavy sleepers. "Get up." Luros told Elijah. Elijah simply replied by staring into Luros's eyes. "Does it look like I can move right now." Elijah said. "Fair enough." Luros shrugged and yanked the box away, making Elijah fall backwards and Quinn, who woke up instantly as Elijah caught her from falling. "W-What time is it?" Quinn asked tiredly. "Morning." Luros responded solemnly to Quinn. Quinn got up quickly and Elijah slowly followed. Then as they were fully waking up, Zane and Camilo woke up too "PARTY!" Zane shouted randomly as he woke up, everyone turned to stare at him, including Alastor and Camilo. "Anyways..?" Kyros slowly spoke to break the silence. Zane jumped to his feet and then soon enough they were all prepared. "Right so, Alastor, you know where the cultists are? And- wait a minute, where's Alice?" Everyone realised and looked around. Then Alice almost just appeared from the shops. "Morning guys!" She walked over to the group and then joined in on the conversation as the majority of them sighed with relief. "Right, as I was saying. Alastor, you take us to the cultist's hideout and we'll infiltrate it." Kyros explained to everyone, before turning to Camilo and stopping in his speaking. "We'll Off the cultist's and the base by blowing it to pieces from the inside." Kyros explained slowly. "We're going to kill them." Camilo said simply from behind. "Yeah, yeah that." Kyros said in a tone that had "I give up" written all over it. After Kyros explained the plan to infiltrate their hideout and explode it to pieces from the inside they all packed up and left. Camilo insisted he came along for this journey.

And so they set off for the woods again.

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