(Warning: This is long....XD)

Though this probably wont make too much sence for anyone except Tazzy (who has allready read it) But I'm allways looking for sugestions on ways to become a better writer! Critic all you want here! Be nitpicky if you wish!!

Anyways, based on a comic that was started exactly nine months ago on New Years and has been through four volumes with about 180 or so pages in each I wanted to write something that had to do with it's ending, since we shall be ending it soon in efforts to start a new series hopefully based with the same characters but much older and with adorable little kids. :3

And *gaspeth* you guys may get to see the origional comic one day since a girl from our school said she'd photoshop the whole thing for us! She gets a million and a half huggle for that!!

And the name of this strange comic?

The Mocha!!! Seriously, it's called Mocha.....SERIOUSLY!!!

Anyways the main story goes along on a little line like this. One of the main characters and the narrator when people arent talking is Melanie Narroh, a thirteen year old hyperactive optimistic kid. She lives with her brother Jason (18) and mother Kanna (30-ish) and has a pretty basic life until a strange blast wakes up her sleepy city. The blast comes from a alein from far away by the name of Kale (17) , he was trying to escape his planet when he sorta crashed here...He was met by our last main character dear Rina (17), an emacipated teen living on her own with a temper to match her koolaid colored hair ^___^ Both her and Melanie; who instantly fell in love with the strange alien became close friends.

Yeah that was a suckish summary.....Well after nine months of co-authoring it's hard to fit stuff in.... Anyways if you are up for a long read go ahead and enjoy, if not than that's okies ^__^ See ya!!

By the way *pulls Tazzy forward* The Mocha was her idea! And she's an author too so she gets tons of credit for this!!!

*note: It changes POV half way through*
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“This isn’t fair; we can’t just let Jason die!” I screamed to my mother, cracking the last light bulb above us both with a loud pop. My sapphire eyes were shut tightly and I could feel the small shards of glass tumbling off my head and shoulders and finally falling to the floor. I held my breath for a moment afraid of how she would react. I had made it evident in the last few years that I was not the most emotionally stable but never had it come to this extreme. Stray glass lied around the sitting room in our townhouse belonging to various glass objects in the home. Two window panes were shattered; all the lighting sources were crushed, along with the other carnage of the room. In a swift unexpected motion I fell softly onto the carpeted floor and began sobbing loudly. Despite being on the floor, my face shielded by my knees, the glass from the oven door in the kitchen could easily be heard adding itself to the list of destroyed house ware…

Control is something that is made sacred in my family. No one is supposed to get over excited, if so our house—or wherever we are—would be turned into a junk yard. Our emotions are controlled by two of the many elements and symbols of life; the two being light and darkness. I control the darkness. Something people my age would probably fear I seek comfort from, it feeds from me and I feed from it. With my hands I can move the air around shadows in the dark, make them whatever I want, and with my mind I can make the element fill anything. It’s a bit strange, sorta like those magic crystal balls filled with dark mist. My mother controls both the darkness and light with much ease and perfect precision. She could touch the heat of the light and the cold of the darkness. Complete control over darkness is something that’ll take me years to do. Right now it burns my palms to even touch something infected by my own powers. I can’t control that pain so wielding the shadows directly is something I only do in dire emergency.

There is also one other in my family, I felt horrible for yelling out his name before in such a way. What if he heard me speaking his name and relating it to….Well never mind…My brother Jason controls the light much like I control the dark. He often told me momma had two children just for the pursope of having strong controllers. If that was what she was trying to do at least she has one. Jason’s movements, speed, and power all match my mother sometimes even exceeding her. He moves the light without pain in his hands, but his pain travels a different route. In the last few months the light and energy has been making it’s way to his brain leaving him sick. The most distinguishing feature is his milky eyes, he’s been blind for almost seven months now.

I hadn’t noticed that momma had traveled out of the room for a second, probably checking the oven to make sure the whole house wouldn’t combust. I only noticed her making her way back in, a box of light bulbs in her pale hands. She made sure to keep many of the devices around in case I or Jason lost our tempers sending overloads of electricity and just sheer power into the house. Usually it was only me that did it and today was no acceptation. I looked up from my kneel and wiped my face. My mother, Kanna stared down at me for only a second before fixing the light with an even look on her face. Right now I wished she wouldn’t, I wanted to curl up in a ball in the shadows of the room and just start sobbing again. As light flooded the area once I cringed and stuffed my head back against my legs.

“Get up” I heard Kanna state with her usual voice. Cold and stale…Even when Jason was lying in the next room. I did nothing so she repeated herself, again I continued to sob. Finally with a sigh she leaned down and grabbed my arm pulling me face to face with herself. “Melanie Rose, get up and stop crying” she demanded finally losing a bit of her contol for the first time in the night. It was a bit ironic that it wasn’t because of Jason…The lightbulb she had just installed flickered softly displaying her anger. I knew momma would never hurt anyone (except for Kale and Rina of course) but still having her hand grasped around my arm made me feel as if she would rip it off in a whim. I think Jason was afraid that she would hurt me sometimes since momma was kinda violent, but she never did. Heh, Jason thought a lot about her….For one he never used formalities like mom or mother with her, she was simply known as Kanna and when he was mad with her Ms. Narroh. I think he had been mad because she didn’t take care of us….And I think that’s the reason I’m so scared of him leaving me….

“Yes ma’m I stuttered softly, standing on my own and looking up to the woman who was a bit more than a half foot taller than me. Kanna sighed loudly and realeased her grip. I looked up to her for a response to my obedience but all I got was her pulling out a cell phone. She tossed it to me before walking into the room that Jason lied in.
“Call Rina and Kale” she ordered “Tell them to come pick you up for the night-“

“What?! NO!” I yelled sending the lightbulb above us into oblivion…Déjà vu….Kanna didn’t bother picking the shards up this time. Instead she walked back to me only to dust the glass from my raven locks of hair. “This isn’t fair momma! I don’t want him to be alone!”

“You will do what I say” she added “I don’t want you to see it all.”

“It all?! He’s gonna die alone and you don’t want me to be with him!?! He’s my big brother!!”

“I understand that but-“

“Why do you not care about him? You just want to see him die!” Before I could say another word a hand came to my cheek, it was punishment for what I said….She actually hit me…..And I totally deserved it…”Momma, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it…”

“Call Rina now Melanie, and stay there with them.”

“Can I at least see Jason before I go?” I tried, hoping to get a positive response. She nodded waliking back to the door.

“I’m sorry too” Kanna muttered looking away “For hurting you”

I gave a weak smile and ran a hand through my hair and pressed it behind my ears. “It’s okay” I answered. I couldn’t think of anything else to say to her so I walked into Jason’s room closing the door behind me.
When I arrived into his room I was instantly filled with the odd feeling of a hospital. Perhaps it was just the lingering feeling of fear in here. It was cold, dark, and silent in the room leading me to open the blinds a bit so the light of the morning could flood in and scare away the shadows and dark. Even as he was blind Jason was scared of the dark. Even though it was a childish fear he didn’t like the dark as I didn’t like the bright lights. He was blind but he would know if the room was dark…If he was alive that is….

“Big brother” I whispered walking to his bed and nudging him softly. I continued to do so until a snore was heard. So he was still alive…. “Jason, please wake up I wanna talk” I reasoned to his sleeping form. I poked him again and again until a groan could be heard.

“Geez Mel, lay off…” the young man’s, my big brother’s, voice muttered with a groan. His eyes were still closed and only his mouth was moving but I was okay with that, he was at least awake. “I thought you were at school” he added

“I skipped” I answered leaning down to sit on the bed. As I did so he shifted and groan leading me to bite my lip and stand up. “Sorry!” I exclaimed “I didn’t mean to hurt you!”

“It’s okay…” he muttered back at me “I’m fine but you…school….now….go”

I rolled my eyes and pressed my lips against his forehead “I want to stay here but momma said no”

“For once I’ve gotta agree Mel. You shouldn’t be here…Not today at least….I’m probably-“

“Don’t say it” I warned softly “I have to stay the night at Rina and Kale’s and then I’ll be back. You’ll be okay for a day. I’ll make sure to leave everything she’ll need to know about the medicine and stuff. I’ll be home as soon as possible. Don’t get too annoyed with momma okay?”

“Yeah” he answered simply shifting as if he was about to fall asleep again. I never noticed before now how sick he really looked. Jason was almost twenty-one but he looked so tired all the time. I wanted to be able to see his sapphire eyes again but instead they were hidden behind the fog in his eyes. I wanted him to have the same raven hair as me but it was dulling out due to lack of sunlight. I went to open the exposed blinds a bit more so the sun would hit him. With a grin he shifted in the bed slightly. “It’s warm….”

“Is it too warm?”

“No, it’s nice” he responded with a grin. As I turned I noticed the small smile on his lips and the fact that his milky eyes were open and focused forward. I couldn’t help but smile to match his own, even if he couldn’t see it he would know….He was my big brother after all...

A light tap on the door brought my attention away from Jason for just a moment. I grimaced expecting momma with a hopefully lessened temper. Instead at the door stood my two best friends Rina and Kale. Both were a lot older than myself, almost a four year difference but they were just like family. Rina; a beautiful young woman with the color hair to match a cup of fruit punch stood beside my former crush, the purple haired alien from a far away planet, Kale. Both where only twenty but matching gold rings rested peacefully on their fingers signaling their engagement to each other.

“Kanna called” Rina greeted softly looking to me; her green eyes were locked into mine for a moment.

“Hi Jason, are you going well?” Chimed in Kale with his usual optimistic grin. Jason mearly smiled and nodded slightly. As that became too much he just rested his head against his pillow. I looked back to Jason and leaned down to him and frowned.

“I don’t want to go” I whispered in his ear. He couldn’t help but laugh a bit at this before turning his head slightly following my voice.

“Calm down nothing is going to happen” he explained. I would have protested if Rina didn’t step forward.

“We need to go Melanie” she informed to me softly.

“Yeah” Kale agreed squeezing Rina’s hand softly. Both young adults seemed so serious, as if they knew something I didn’t…People have been acting like that allot lately. Was I not old enough to understand? I was sixteen for crying out loud! Kale smiled again, this time much weaker than before as he walked over to Jason and spoke.

“Thanks for everything Jason”

Rina then stepped forward and leaned down beside Melanie at Jason’s bedside. “Goodbye Jason” she whispered doing something that even surprised me. Her lips brushed against his softly, holding a deep bond that was in their friendship. I couldn’t help but giggle as Jason seemed a lot happier with his first kiss with Rina….Sure it was just a friendly kiss but it was a kiss.

“That would have been a lot better if I knew you weren’t engadged” Jason joked. Rina smiled and even let out a small laugh and touched his cheek before walking back to Kale. Now it was just him and I sitting alone at the bed. It seemed as if he knew I was still there trying to think of a proper goodbye for right now.

“I’ll miss you” Jason interrupted as I thought. I blinked, my thoughts being pulled back.

“I’ll miss you too big brother” I answered hugging him carefully in effort not to cause him pain. As I pulled back I kissed him again on the forehead. I started to tear up so in effort to hide it I covered my face with my hands. I rubbed my face vigorously.

I think I have come to terms

“I love you” I whispered “Wait for me to come back okay?” I added, hopefully he understood what I meant. With a nod he spoke.

“I’ll try”

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“Melanie, we need to talk” Rina said from across the table in her small apartment. Currently we were eating supper which consisted of large bowls of chicken ramen….Rina wasn’t the best cook so I was made accustomed to ramen early in our friendship… Kale looked from Rina to me, watching as I stuffed some salty noodles into my mouth with my cheep wooden chopsticks that often came with the meal. I was desprately attempting to avoid proper conversation with the two since I knew what they were probably going to want to converse about…I wiped my face with a paper napkin when my improper eating caused soup to drizzle down my chin. Apparently Rina didn’t need a response from me to continue….. “You’re old enough to know-“

“I don’t care, it’s not going to happen” I interjected with my mouth still full of food. Rina rolled her eyes, she was probably ready to tell me to swallow my food before speaking. Instead she just waiting until I did so on my own.

“Jason has been sick for awhile Melanie” Kale added quietly, defending Rina’s interrupted statement. “He may have already passed away...”

“No, I’ll know if he does” I explained confidently knocking on the wood in the table. “If he…you know…then the lights will flicker alot, he controls them and once all the energy leaves him it’ll have to have somewhere to go”

“But we don’t live that close to you” Kale stated

“He’s strong, it’ll go farther than my house…” I took another bite of my food before deciding that I couldn’t eat, not now at least. I stood up from my chair and excused myself. “Thank you but I want to go to bed now.”

“Allright Melanie” Rina said giving me a weak smile. “Goodnight”

“Goodnight Melanie” Kale repeated

As I walked to Kale’s old bedroom I could hear Rina and Kale talking about something, I wasn’t sure what about but hopefully not about me or my big brother. As I reached the room I sighed and entered turning on the lights and reaching for the pajamas in my backpack. Quickly I changed and then I pulled out a handful of nightlights and even a small lamp. Plugging them all up to various outlets I winced as the light consumed me. The bedroom was extremely bright but I had a reason for this. “Just in case something happens to Jason” I muttered pulling myself up to Kale’s bed and sitting down in the middle of it. I felt as if I would burn up right in that spot but I was going to wait all night to see if anything happened. I closed my eyes and concentrated on anything to dull the uncomfortable feeling of the harsh lights on my bare skin. I even found myself coming across a converstation that Rina and Kale were saying probably in the hallway or their room.


“Do you think that we’ll be able to tell when he dies?” Kale asked uncertainly from outside the door. He and Rina were about to see how Melanie was but where stopped by the unproven statement the younger girl claimed about her brother. Rina shrugged.

“We wont know until it happens” She supposed running a hand through her red hair. She took in a long breath noticing how her ghost flame was reacting to everything…It was hot meaning she was hot too. With a flick of a hand the small cute flame creature was released from the confines which was Rina’s body. Kale looked wearily at the creature, he had never got used to the flame living within his fiancé. Usually he associated the flame with Rina being very moody and sicking it on him…It made a small noise and floated around Rina’s head until she swatted at it. “Go to Kale” she ordered. The ghost flame squeeked slightly but obeyed floating back to Kale.

“Uh hi there…” Kale greeted with a small wave. The creature just stared at the alien. “Oookay then…”

“You’re gonna have to get used to each other sooner or later” Rina stated

“But it doesn’t like-“ Kale was cut off by a flicker of the lights, a rather large one. Instantly they opened the door and saw Melanie clad in pajamas rush towards them in attempt to get out of the room. Obviously they were in the way because the teen tried to push Kale away to get out of the room.

“It’s him! I know it!” She screamed frantically in effort to get past him. Kale held Melanie still by the arms in attempt to stop her. She just let out a frustrated groan and struggled more. “Lemme go! I have to see him! He promised he wouldn’t leave without saying goodbye!”

“Calm down!” Rina exclaimed “The lights flickered, that’s it. You don’t even know if it was him. It could have been lightning or something!” Melanie just pressed against Kale more now until he was being pressed back slightly. The girl seemed to finally become fed up with the “game” they were playing and a dark energy pulsed through her palms, burning them along with the chest of Kale on which she pressed him back. The alien winced and fell back feeling the effects like frostbite. Even he wasn’t used to the girl’s powers. The strength surprised Kale and brought him to the ground. “Melanie!” Rina yelled falling to Kale’s side for only a second before Melanie got by rushing to the apartment door. The woman rushed after her grabbing Melanie by the arm. Like Kale, Rina was met by a black glowing hand, but instead of falling she met that hand with her own. The ghost flame already reentered Rina’s body at the sense of trouble and it’s heat was met by Melanie’s freezing hand. The result was the loud clap of two elements coming together. Both girls stumbled backwards but only Melanie fully fell. Rina walked to and stood over her fallen friend before helping her up. “Kale, go call Kanna and see if anything is up” Kale nodded softly and disappeared in another room.

“He’s dead” Melanie murmured dejectedly looking at the ground. Rina pulled the girl against her for a hug. She didn’t want to say that he wasn’t just in case he was but that wouldn’t fill the sixteen year old with much hope. The room was silent until a few light sobs were heard . “He’s my brother” Melanie whispered between each cry.

“Shh I know” Rina confirmed “He loves you very much remember?” Melanie continued to sob against her, though all Rina could see was Melanie’s shaking shoulders.

“If he leaves then I’ll be alone” Melanie continued. Despite the fact that she had grown up considerably, she was still a child.

“You’ve got us and Kanna” Rina stated

“But I always had Jason…”

“And for now on you’ll have us” Rina pulled back from the younger girl as she noticed Kale in the doorway. His expression wasn’t a good sign….Rina didn’t need to even ask….

“Is he okay?” Melanie asked wiping her eyes. Kale mearly stood there frozen in his spot. How was he supposed to tell a girl like Melanie?

“He…Died a few minutes ago” he stuttered. He watched for any expression from Melanie but nothing came from it….Melanie stood stiff, her eyes on the ground.

“No….” Melanie said finally. Both Rina and Kale noticed the flickering of the lights becoming stronger until the one above them exploded. Neither looked up though, their eyes were on Melanie who was now short circuiting the two lamps and busting a small window without even moving from her spot. She was taking everything out on the apartment rather than on herself. The television glass cracked and eventually shattered. Soon she had run out of things to break and she fell to the ground in loud sobs in a small corner. Kale and Rina looked to each other in the darkness that the girl created. “Swallow me up” Melanie murmured referring to the shadows. The couple sat down beside the distressed girl and watched her carefully.

I have come to terms but it still seems surreal..

“No matter what, we’ll be here” Kale whispered running a hand through her raven hair. Rina nodded in agreement.

“We’ll keep you safe” She said

“And Happy” Kale added

“And loved” they both replied at once. Melanie didn’t respond. Both looked to her face realizing her eyes were closed. With every breath her chest heaved up again down. She had fallen asleep against Kale’s chest, the girl was bushed…

“We’ll make sure you aren’t alone”

ACTUALLY, the NAME of the Mocha was my idea. We all decided to drop Jelly because it was going nowhere, and I THINK Caitlin was the one that brought up making a new one... of course, the Mocha was called Pocky back then, but I won't go into detail about why the name was changed...

ANYway. Even though I've already read it, and even though you say you aren't finished, I think it is AWESOME. It's super duper awesome. And it almost made me cry... *sniff*

I love it! ^^

Hehehe well you still the biggest writer in the Mocha Hannah-chan!!!

I'm so glad you like it!!! I hope it wasnt too depressing, lol now you know why i'm so happy :3

Thankies!