GONE

[Gifted]

((Yup))
Sheilah erased the text and went to dial her friends number instead. "Huh? No dial tone...." It said she still had four bars, why wasn't it working? And on her 14th birthday too....




"Destiney," Denise murmured. "Destiny!"
"What?" Destiny looked up, annoyed.
They'd been in the middle of a Social Studies lecture about some war or another, Destiney hadn't really been paying attention. Her brown hair pulled back in a ponytail, grass stains on the knees of her jeans, and eyes always shining with excitement showed prettyclearly why: She was a wild kid who really didn't have the patience to be sitting here listening to a boring lecture.
Denise, on the other hand, was quite different. She was a cautious and patient person, and was no the least bit interested in her sisters rekless behavior.
"Look," She pointed. "The teacher just... dissappeared."

"And?" Destiny laughed. "You're getting worked up over nothing Denise. She probably just went to ask another teacher something and then she'll get back and continue her fascinating lecture on the French Revulsion or whatever,"
"It's the French Revolution! And thats not even what we were studying!"
"It's not?"
"No!"
"um... Korean war?"
"No!"
"Industrial Revolution?"
"No!"
"World War 1?"
"...It doesn't count if you just guessed" Denise grumbled.
Destiny laughed. "Whatever."


A boy in the grade 9 class left his room and went quickly tothe class down the hall. nearly his entire class had just dissappeared.
(if anyone goes outisde their rooms they can run into him)

[Raven]

"Very odd," Tristan said, not making any attempt to move away from Sheilah.

[Sparrow]

Marvin tilts his head at her statement.
“I’m not talking loudly.” he says in a confused tone.
Then turns away from her,
“Why am I even wasting time talking with you? The teach probably died or something.” he says trailing off at the end.

[Raven]

Emily frowned. "Where are you planning on going, then?" she challenged.

[Sparrow]

Marvin glances back to her.
“I don’t know, the library maybe... Anything is better than sitting around here.” he says calmly.
He figured that he could cause a small fire in the history section of the library to freak people out. Or he could read up on negative town history. He’d decide when and if he got there.
“Don’t tell me your just gonna sit here all day waiting like a stray for the teach to come.” he asks lowly.

[Raven]

"No, I'll probably leave. It's against school policy to leave students on their own, anyway. Maybe she'll get fired." Emily actually sounded hopeful.

[Gifted]

Sheilah turned towards Tristan, her lips parting slightly and smile getting wider when she saw he hadn't moved away. "Very weird," she breathed.


"No but Destiny, She didn't walk out or anything, she's just gone,"Denise said worriedly. "There. Gone. It's just weird,"
"Denise, chill. we're waaaayy past weird," Destiny said quietly. Then she laughed, getting up. "C'mon, let's go see whats going on,"
"I dunno... If the teacher comes back while we're not here..."
"Oh come on! Live a little!" Destiny pulled her sisterout of the classroom.

[Raven]

Tristan looked pleasantly surprised when she didn't move. He'd spent so much time flirting with older girls, who would never date him, or really even look at him, that he hadn't noticed the girls his own age. He quickly adjusted his expression to a seductive smirk.

[Gifted]

Sheilah closed her eyes almost all the way, looking out at Tristan under her eyelashes, her smile changing to one of amused contempt. She stroked one finger softly across his cheek and down his jawline. "Lets see if we got lucky and th other teachers are gone too, shall we?" she said softly.

[Gifted]

((NOTE: We need normals badly. I think 'll add another more permanent, normal character, but we need more))

[Sar]

Name;; Skyler White
Nicknames;; No one will ever call him a knick name in fear of their own safety
Age;; 14
Birthday;; May 31st 3:02am
School;; Coates Academy


Hair color;; Light Brown; Somewhat scruffy, covers his forehead goes to mid-ear
Eye color;; Dark Brown
Skin tone;; Not Pale from lack of light but neither tanned, just natural
Height;; 5'7
Frame;; 140 pounds, Seemingly medium sized frame; toned
Defining;;He does have burn marks on his arms
Tattoos;; none
Piercings;; none


Name;; Ashely Mattex
Nicknames;; Ash
Age;; 13
Birthday;; April 21st 12:26pm


Hair color;; Long Brown
Eye color;; Extremely Dark Brown
Skin tone;; Tanned
Height;; 5'5
Weight;; 120
Frame;; Small
Tattoos;; none
Piercings;; on in each ear


Name;; Alexa Mattex
Nicknames;; Called Matt by almost everyone, Her older brother calls her Lexi
Age;; 8
Birthday;; February 13th 9:34pm


Hair color;; Short brown, spiked
Eye color;; Extremely dark brown
Skin tone;; tanned
Height;; 4'6
Weight;; 103
Defining;; With having no childhood she looks older then what she is, she has been mistaken for around age ten or eleven.
Frame;;Medium frame,
Tattoos;; none
Piercings;; one in each ear


Name;; Nicole Mattex
Nicknames;; Nicky,
Age;; 4
Birthday;; December 24th 8:23am


Hair color;; Brown
Eye color;; Light Blue, only one of her siblings with her mothers eyes
Skin tone;; not tanned not pale
Height;; 3'
Weight;; 30
Defining;; none
Tattoos;; none
Piercings;;none


Mother's name and age;; Annette Michele Mattex
Father's name and age;; James Skyler White
Siblings;; Skyler White, Ashely Mattex, Alexa Mattex, and Nicole Mattex

History;; James White and Annette Mattex married right after college, James going to take over his fathers large Financial firm and
Annette just starting nursing. They married but after the honeymoon faze it was on the rocks. James started to realize his wife had
extreme mental problems, always going on about the end of the world. To save their marriage they had their first child, Skyler White.
Eleven months after his birth his sister Ashley was born. Annette continued to act crazy but James continued to support her as she
now had no job and two children. A bit more then four years later James ordered a divorce, where he took his son Skyler and left Annette
with her four year old and another child on the way. With hid well paying job he continued to financially support his ex, giving her a
house in Perido Beach and a comfortable budget, as long as she stayed out of his and his sons life. Three years later when Skyler was nine
James was starting to get to into his work and saw Skyler as a problem child, him always tormenting other children and the many nanny's he had.
At the age of nine James brought him to Coates Academy to reform. On his drive home he stopped by his ex's house, one thing led to another and
nine months later Nicole was born, the fourth and final child of the two. Skyler was really the only one of the children who received a formal education, his sisters were all home school by their mother as she stressed them about preparing for 'The End of the World'. The children still attended public school for elective credits but nothing more then that.As the years went on the siblings did stay close, Skyler always spending holidays with his family.

---

She was always a nutcase but her daughters would never believe that she was right. The end of the world, is what their mother had called it,
but the unknown fact is was the start of a new world, their world.

Ashely was sitting in art call when the teacher had just poofed. At first their was shock,then disbelief. Students started to stand up and
wander around. Ashley was the first one to leave her class and probably the first student to leave the school. She knew something was wrong
and after years of her mothers 'lessons' she was ninty percent sure she knew what was happening. Byt now she had broken into a complete sprint
to get home. The city was quiet, their were no adults anywhere, and this frightened her. She just kept running through the ghost town until
she reached her house. Locking the door came her sister, Matt.

Ashely stopped to catch her breath and said "Where's Nicky!?" Matt looked at her older sister and said "She's at day care! Mom and I were
supposed to got shopping today but.." Matt trailed off aas the vision of her mom disapearing came back to her.

"You know what this means," Ashley said when Matt ran up to her. "Mom was right.." After years of riticule their mother had been right that
the world was ending. If all adults were gone who is to to say children wouldn't be gone soon as well.

Matt looked at her sister "Ash, you go get Nicole and I'll go to the super market, I'll stop by the hardware store too. The looting will start soon
and we better not be the last to get there," she then looked at her sister. It was a weird sight, this child and young teen acting like adult but to
them it was normal. Their mother had never once treated them like children, she said they were warriors and they had no time for the governments plan of 'Childhood'.

Matt hugged her sister and said "Go get Nicole," She let go and looked her sister in the eye "Everything will be okay," SHe then ran off, I'll meet you at the day care!"

Ashley started running as well, their was no longer time to wait. 'I just hope Sky's doing okay,' she thought as she headed towards the day care.


Skyler smirked as the teacher just poofed. He would never admit it but at first it was a shock to him, though he kept his composure. He would never show weakness, those in his class would think they could turn against him. From the time he had joined them four years ago rumors around the school had spread about a student who was two years ahead of his normal grade. Of course gifted students weren't to abnormal around Coates, troubled kids had just as much talent as those who weren't. But it wasn't his grade that got him the rumors that came with his name.

Some students reported weird events whenever they were left alone with Skyler. Unexplained pains, waking up with aches, and some cases of complete loss of memory after they spent and hour in a tutoring session. But with Coates' system and most students not changing classmates even once in their years in the Academy not many were introduced or even met this Skyler character.

In the day of the poof everyone in the class sat silently, as they always did. Room 503 was known to be the most well behaved class in the school. Mostly filled with the gifted students and something else seemed to make the students just sit down and shut up so class could move on.

Not only did the teacher poof but as did several of the students, leaving behind the younger teens. They all stayed quiet but one turned around to Skyler to see if he had done anything to cause this. Skyler glared at him and the boy winced in pain. Skyler smirked and then stood up. "Close the blinds, he ordered the youngest girl in the room, we have work to do,"

[Sparrow]

Marvin noticed her tone,
“What did she give you an F or something?”
After a moment he looks down the hall,
“Its weird but I don’t think any teachers are here. One should of shown up by now.”
He looks back to Emily,
“Hey if you’re ditching too do you want to see if any of the teachers are around first? I just have a hunch that they took of on holiday or something.”

[Gifted]

Name: Andrew Martinez
Birth Date: August 16th, 2000, 12:00am (10 years old)
Mother: Arrianna Reanne-Martinez Father: Rick Martinez
Mothers Occupation: Teacher at Perdido Beach School Fathers Occupation: Mechanic

Andrew groaned, wishing his mother wasn't so fussy. He'd been kept home from school the last three days for a common cold. He didn't even feel sick anymore, but his mom refused to even let him get out of bed.
He grabbed the glass on his bedside table. There was only two inches of water at the bottom. He sighed, drained it and yelled "Mom! Can you refill my water glass please?"
He put the empty glass back on his bedside table.
Five minutes later, his mother still had not come.
"Mom!" He called again, louder. Another five minutes. She still didn't come.
"MOM!`He yelled at the top of his lungs. He did the math quickly in his head. Estimating the legnth and pace of his mothers stride it should take her approximatley two minutes and thirty-six seconds to fill a new glass with water and come up here.

Andrew, everyone said, was a genious. He didn't think so. Oh sure, he'd skipped quite a few grades, but he was always the one to ask the stupid questions, or make the incredibly stupid moves. His mother used to joke he had the booksmarts to rival Einstein but not an ounce of common sense. He'd asked her to stop doing that. Not having common sense embarrassed him.

"Mom?" He said quietly. He got out of bed, wishing his father wasn't at work, that he was home with Andrew.
Andrew searched the house but found nobody. Even his older sister, Taelia, wasn't around, though he swore she'd come home early. Something about a bus breaking down on the way to the power plant. Andrew envied her for being able to go on such a cool field trip.

Worried, he donned his jacket -no point in making his cold worse- and left the house, a slight breeze playing with his short bronze-coloured hair.

[Sar]

The day care was madness. Children crying for their parents, babies sitting in their own filth. she tried to find her sister in the craziness and finally her eyes met the blue eyes she knew as her sister's. "Ashley!" Her sister squealed in delight. Ashley ran over and picked up Nicole. "Hey Nicky!" Ashley said, trying to sound happy to make her sister feel like everything was alright. She started to leave when Nicky said "Ash'y, I'm Hungry." Those words set off all children old enough to speak as they said they were hungry too. "Oh no," Ashley said to herself as the cries of hunger started from every direction. 'You can't just leave them here,' her conscience said to her. Ashley let out a breath and put her sister in a chair. "Okay!" she said in a happy tone. "Whose hungry?" That's how it started, first with food, then diaper changes, then putting them all down for a nap.

Matt had decided to stop at the hardware store first. She got nails, tools, all basics. When her kart was half way full something caught her eye. A pistol on the counter, just sitting there like it was dropped. She didn't know how or why it was there but she grabbed it. Sure they had weapons at home but this.. It shouted out to her. She ran for a utility belt and made herself a harness or sorts.

She put the gun on safety and slipped it into to her new belt. She then pushed her kart to the grocery store. Still no kids out in the street. Good.

It had taken about thirty minutes for her to get her kart packed. That's when the thought hit. How many others were going to do the same thing, loot and rob and leave nothing for anyone? She had gone to this super market sense she was little. Their was one glass door entrance but no windows. "Sorry Ashley," she said to herself as she took a chair sat at the entrance with her pistol "Only trying to help the town,"

[Gifted]

After walking quite a ways, Andrew found himself in front of Ralphs grocery store. He turned to go in, thinking maybe the clerk could help him find his mother. He yelped and jumped back when he saw an older girl guarding the entrance.

With a gun.