“The only other ones we know of are Garrett and Luke.
I went to sit back in my chair tapping him on his shoulder as I went by offering for him to sit again. I looked at my arm so that left three unaccounted for. “Do they have any idea who the others are?” I asked.
“Well my mom is working with some others who have the gift of precognition, seeing possible futures and such. She’s trying to help them learn how to focus on one specific thing instead of just seeing. It’s a difficult thing to do my mom says.” Jasper shrugged his shoulders.
“Who’s your mom?” I asked, wondering who bore this perfect eye candy.
“Lilly,” he said smiling.
Shock ran through me. “I didn’t expect that honestly, you two look nothing alike,” I giggled.
“So what’s the real reason you came here? I don’t buy the ‘I wanted to tell you I’m one of your Seven’ thing. I’m not even sure if that’s a good thing. I don’t know how to fight and I am just learning my gifts. The biggest thing I’ve done is shove Garrett’s sister down when they tried attacking us in Texarkana,” I said,
He leaned forward looking at me intently. “You did what?” he asked almost yelling.
I sat back looking at him wondering why I let that slip about Garrett. “Please, don’t say anything, your mom, Ben and Bethany asked me not to say anything. I don’t know what they were doing there but they were there,” I told him.
“Tell me what happened,” Jasper said as he moved his chair right in front of me he was so close his knees brushed against mine. I recounted the story even telling him about the kiss and the weird feeling I had about Garrett, I told him how I didn’t know if it meant anything or not but I couldn’t explain it.
After I’d finished my story he leaned forward taking my hands. “You’re right I didn’t come here just to tell you I’m a part of the super hero squad,” he chuckled.
“I came here to tell you that you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. When I first saw you walking out of the woods with wind wiping around you from nowhere, and everywhere, the clouds darkening above you, I felt your power. I was amazed and scared for the first time in my life.” He laughed again.
“I think I’d like to spend more time with you. I know the story about Blaine but that boy…well he’s a boy. He told me and Ben about it when we interviewed him earlier. Just think about it, ok? I’m going to help you train along with Ben and some others. We have to split it up with you being an Ecological Empath and a Telekinetic,” he smiled, and I found myself smiling with him. He wanted to spend time with me. Wow.
“I’m sorry; it has been a long day. You’re asking me to spend time with me? And I’m a what?” I said leaning forward; He caught me off balance with that one.
“You’re an Ecological Empath, meaning you are sensitive to your immediate environment and natural settings through a psychic connection”
I just stared at him. I had never heard that before, but then again I didn’t grow up knowing all of this stuff like he did.
“Ummm…Okay. Well I don’t see the harm in you helping me train; I appreciate all of the compliments too. How old are you anyway?” I asked.
“Turned twenty-five on June eighth,” he said.
“You do realize I’m eighteen…like I just turned eighteen on the 21st of June.” I said, and he just smiled.
“Yeah I know but the heart wants what the heart wants,” he said placing a hand over his heart.
I rolled my eyes and laughed. He stood, offering me a hand to stand as well. I took his hand and he pulled me up with ease, bringing me up to his chest. He was so tall, I had to look up to see his face and when I did he kissed me.
It wasn’t like with Garrett or Blaine which until now had been the only people to kiss me, I hadn’t felt anything with Blaine, Garrett made me feel as if I was burning so hot I would melt where I stood, but Jasper was a slow burn that promised to consume everything in its path in a very slow deliberate way.
He released me and smiled. “I can’t wait till tomorrow,” he said turning to walk away while I stood there stunned.
When did I become so kissable I wondered, I’d been kissed by two strangers in the matter of three days or was it four now I wondered. I was exhausted.
I looked to my new bed walking over to flop on it turning off the solar lights after I was lying down.
I pulled the blankets over me staring into the blackness waiting for sleep to take me, but Garrett and Jasper consumed my every thought until I finally drifted off to sleep sometime later.
CHAPTER 15
I woke up hearing the sound of explosions. I jumped up and ran barefoot searching for my mom. In my haste I ran directly into a woman knocking her into the wall.
“I’m so sorry Ma’am, what’s going on? Are we being attacked? Have you seen my Mom? Her name is Rowan D’Crey,” I asked the woman as I looked around, waiting to see the walls cave in on us any second.
The woman looked at me as if I were daft. “We are not being attacked! The noise you hear is training, haven’t you ever trained before?” She spat at me as she moved to get around me.
“I’m sorry I knocked you into the wall, Miss,” I called out to her, feeling a little more than insecure about this whole situation as I turned to walk back to my room so I could put on some real clothes and find out what I should do.
“Hey!” the woman called out to me from down the hall. I stopped and turned to face her again.
“I’m sorry I bit your head off, rough time for us all,” she said as she turned to walk away again before I could even respond.
I turned to walk back to my area. I sighed as I made it back into my room, grabbing my jeans and Doc Martin lace up calf high boots.
I loved these things. They were comfortable casual and stylish. I grabbed a tank top and combed my waist length hair pulling it up into a pony tail.
I walked over to the pool cupping water in my hands to wash my face and brush my teeth. It was time to find out if I was trainable.
I could see groups of men and women training outside the cave complex in a large field surrounded by a forest.
Seeing Jasper with Ben and Blain, I began to make my way towards them.
Out of nowhere I heard shouts, looking around to see who was shouting at who when I seen what looked a lightning bolt, traveling horizontally, and it was heading directly for my face.
Everything seemed to move in slow motion, I could see people running toward me screaming, motioning and gesturing with their hands.
I could see Jasper who was screaming my name.
I could hear it cutting through the air sizzling as it went, but it wasn’t lightning at all, it was an arrow.
I sat my right leg back slightly behind me, putting myself into a defensive stance. Closing my eyes and trusting in the sensations my gifts were giving me.
I put my hands up feeling the air currents and forcing the air currents to change sending the arrow straight up; bringing my right leg even with my left, clapping my hands together above me releasing my own lightning in the form of electromagnetic currents shooting the lightening infused arrow, blasting it to smithereens.
The gasp and awe of what I did hadn’t even registered to me.
I was still dragging myself back to the surface, back to reality.
I hadn’t even realized exactly what I had done other than trust in the gifts I had been given and just reacting to the situation at hand.
Jasper rushed me, lifting me off the ground crushing me to him. “Oh my god, I thought you were dead. Are you ok?” He said as he sat me down, pushing me at arm’s length to look assess me for injuries.
“I’m fine. What was that arrow infused with anyway?” I asked him.
“You shouldn’t have been able to stop that. No one can,” Jasper said still shocked.
“I don’t understand what you mean,” I said as I walked toward everyone else who still stood dumbstruck.
“Girl, what did you do?” Ben asked.
“Your mom is going to be busy with Bethany for a bit, she said to tell you she’d see you at dinner,” Ben said as he walked us back toward the long tent set up center in the field.
“Okay.” “So what’d you do? I thought you hadn’t trained,” Ben said.
“I haven’t, ever,” I paused, thinking of exactly what I did and smiled.
“I just did what my body wanted to do, that’s all. I trusted myself, my gifts, enough to do what I already wanted to even if I didn’t know it. I felt the arrow cutting through the air, I thought it was lightening of some kind at first, I’ve never seen anything like that before, well I could feel the arrow inside the lightening or energy or whatever it was. I could feel its weight and the rotation of it as it cut through the air, I pushed the air currents up forcing the arrow up, and I don’t know after that. I’d never done anything like that before,” I told Ben, as Jasper and Blaine listened.
Jasper bent his bead whispering in my ear. “You shot it with lightening blasting it into nothing.” I shivered I felt his lips brush across my ear briefly, oh my.
“She shouldn’t have been able to do that,” Jasper told Ben and the others standing around listening to what we were saying.
“I know boy, I know.” he smiled.
“Come on, let’s go back under the tent in the shade and try and teach this girl how to shoot bow,” Ben said laughing.
Blaine came up on my right as we walked behind Ben. Jasper put his arm around my shoulder. I ducked out from it giving him an apologetic smile.
“So, how did you sleep?” Blaine asked.
“Ehh, not great, better than in the Jeep though that’s for sure, I kept having dreams and waking up. You?” I asked him.
“Like a rock, we laughed.
Jasper looked at me with a nod and his crooked grin and jogged off to catch up with Ben.
“So you and this dude already, or were you going to keep with him till you ran into the guy from the gas station?” Blaine asked in a whispered threatening tone.
I stopped dead where I was standing turning to face him. “Who do you think you are?” I asked pointing my finger at his chest.
“Do you think you’re my boyfriend or are you just the relationship police? Because if I remember correctly you broke up with me, or have you forgotten that? I can take up with whomever I choose to or entertain the company of anyone I want. Do not think for one second that you destroyed me when you ended our relationship. Blaine we were friends who “dated” because we were too afraid to be hurt. It was convenient. You know that as well as I do. You love me, just like I love you…as a friend and nothing else. We should try to get along considering we’re a part of this prophesied super hero club that’s destined to save the world.” I turned and walked to where Jasper, Ben and another guy were standing. I smiled as I walked up letting them know everything was okay and no it wasn’t an open topic.
“Reighlyn, Luke, Luke, Reighlyn,” Jasper said.
I shook his extended hand. He was young. “This is the Luke you told me about?” I asked Jasper.
“One and the same,” he said. “But he’s just a boy, no offense,” I said to him.
Ben smiled. “Each of you were chosen for specific reason, each unique and complementing each other. Let’s find you a bow you can pull,” Ben said looking over some different bows he had on a table at the end of the tent.
CHAPTER 16
“We’re almost there Avie,” Garrett called out noticing she was walking further behind him rather than next to him again.
They had to take a roundabout way getting to the caves. Trying to conceal their true direction, Garrett knew the General had precog’s but they were weak, only getting flashes and not whole pictures, but that doesn’t mean the Militia hadn’t secured stronger precog’s, better safe than sorry.
Garrett and Avril had drove West from Texarkana abandoning the truck in Amarillo, and picking up another, heading South on 40 to El Paso, picking up another car and abandoning the one they had and so on until they reached San Angelo.
From there they walked. They passed shells of what used to be a neighborhood, the majority of the city was gone completely, and what was still there was a mere shell, rubble that was over grown by forest growth the land was being terraformed to erase civilization.
The Militia planned to make a new world, one the Militia planned to shape in their eyes.
They wanted to erase everything or as much as they could, which included those who refused their vision and ways. Garrett knew of the prophecy, he was raised knowing that his life was meant to serve a purpose.
His family had been the protectors of the prophecy for as far back as any of them could remember.
“Garrett, how far?” Avril asked.
“Just a few more hours I think,” he told her, just a few more hours, and then they could rest.
CHAPTER 17
A blast of fire came flashing my way, I dove to the side in a somersault to avoid it, firing lightening in return. Jumping to my feet dashing off in a run, willing myself to the top of a tree, I laughed, not at my sparring partner, but at the extent of my abilities which seemed endless.
In the three weeks I had been training with Jasper, Luke and Blaine I had excelled further than I could have imagined in my skillset.
Ben and the others who trained with me as well seemed surprised at how quickly I had picked up at a variety of things, hand to hand combat, archery and the aptitude to pull my abilities to the surface with minimal concentration.
I jumped to another tree, then another grabbing a bag that was tied to a branch, opening the bag to claim the contents, yes!
I screamed in my head, a long bow and arrows.
The whole tree rocked following the sound of a blast that seemed as if a bomb had been dropped on the tree itself.
I jumped out of the tree holding on to the bow and quarrel, willing myself to float down instead of plunging to my death.
I reached the ground to see Jasper, Ben, Luke and Blaine running toward me and plenty following behind them, this was not a part of our training...we were under attack.
Everyone screamed at each other to run, to get into the caves, as if it weren’t obvious that to stay behind would probably mean death. Everyone ran except me
I stood there shocked, rooted as if I were a tree myself. I knew in my heart that the Militia had found us after all it was only a matter of time before they showed up and we all knew it.
Jasper caught me under one arm and Luke under the other, snatching me right off my feet, carrying me since I had refused to run and continued to stare at the Militia forces rushing over the hill.
They slaughtered some with swords; others were taken down by arrows, others with spurts of fire, ice, and lightening.
Some just fell where they were standing grasping their head and screaming until they just fell over quiet.
I was horrified, what were we supposed to do. There weren’t enough of us to win this.
There was no way I could just run while innocent people, my people, died something had to be done.
Japer and Luke still carried me; I could see others attacking the Militia with their gifts.
I watched as people blew up or froze where they stood, sizzled from a lightning strike, drowned in a funnel of water.
I couldn’t let this happen to people who had taken my mom and me in, people who loved us and treated us as family.
“Stop, put me down” I screamed at Jasper and Luke.
I started kicking my feet and jerking my arms to get them to let me go. I was angry; we were supposed to fight not run away.
I jerked away throwing out their arms using my telekinesis, forcing myself up through the air reaching into my core, fogging the area, I hovered at the top of the tree line after all I didn’t want to
be an easy target if I could help it.
I opened my mind, feeling for my center, and allowed my body to react the way it wanted to.
I released the telekinesis dropping myself to the earth, I knew I wouldn’t hurt myself, the Earth wouldn’t hurt me, I was as much a part of her as she was me.
I slammed into earth landing on one knee, shoving my fist into the ground pushing my rage from carnage I’d witnessed into the Earth willing her to respond to my call.
I looked up facing the Militia and those who had fallen wounded and dead a like, I watched the earth ripple in massive seismic shock waves.
The ground lifted from where my fist had planted, massive mounds of earth moved at a high rate of speed to crush those who had harmed us.
I’m not sure how I did it, but I was able to get earth to respond to my not wanting to harm those who had fallen, it seemed to literally go around them, not moving them at all.
Getting to my feet, I began moving forward; I knew the ones who orchestrated this were behind the hill and I wanted to see who it was and if they were still alive.
I walked around those who lay on the ground, hoping that most of our people were still alive, and that help was coming soon.
The sky darkened with my anger, lightning struck in the air, crashing to the ground spraying soil every which way, thunder boomed like a bomb.
The rebels had turned back, running toward the fight instead of away.
I could hear Jasper, Luke, Blaine and Ben screaming for me, but I paid them no heed, I walk forward.
I picked up a bow and some scattered arrows as I walked, notching the arrow ready to let it fly.
I made it to the top of the hill, I could see the rebels closing the distance behind me, I was in awe of the destruction I had laid, The Militia was retreating quickly, and so few of them remained.
In the center of their retreating force stood a woman in a black uniform with the palest blonde hair I had ever seen. Her hair whipped around her in the winds of my doing.
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