My First Ever Story

I will be surprised if you make it through all 67 pages of my first story ever. 

It is called "The Super Three" 

Yes it is unfinished. Yes it needs extreme help. Yes I think it's hilarious. Yes I know there is a lot of caps. I

I think it's funny at least. Welcome to the first story i ever wrote. (its incomplete) 

The beginning 

The year 4014 is where teenagers rule the world. The ruler of the Earth is Queen Scarlet. If you go there I warn you do not be by her when she is angry. Take that advice from me. HI. I’m Ashure.  A blond, freckled, teenage girl who knows the “queens” darkest secrets. Our world is built on the 1900 to get around or at least for almost everyone except the ISP, Island for Special People. We don’t like being called ‘supers’ we rather prefer gifted or special. So don’t get us mixed up with super heroes. We aren’t stupid show offs. We like being secret and have nicknames. For example mine is Thunderbolt or Zeus because of my gift. Let’s start from the beginning.  

Waking up from the booming lightning a four-year-old girl stared out a cold and fogy window.  Staring at the lightning the room light up from the yellow streak across the sky. Two figures were out side one was a child and the other one was an adult. The child was being carried into the building. The girl ran down stairs to see the small child. “She will be sharing a room with another girl who is only two years older than her. Thank you for bringing her.” Said a vice that the girl well knew as the orphanage keeper. In response a voice that was low chalky and cold said, “I hope ssshe will find usss again.” With that he left. Rushing back to her room her blond hair floated behind her. Then she bumped into some one. MMPH.  Struggling to get up she realized it was the new kid.  

The sun started to rise and the two kids continued to stare at each other “Who are ou?” asked the small squeaky voice of the little girl. “I’m Ash!” eagerly said Ash. “What’s your name?” “I’m um. What a n-a-m-e?” asked the squeaky voice sounding it out. “ASHURE!” Yelled a angry voice, “Where you listening to what I said down there?” Quickly Asher responded, “ YES! Madam!”  “Good.” Ashure stared at her in surprise. “You will be sharing a room with err. What’s your name again?”  Before the little girl could answer Asher responded,  “Her name is err. Scarlet!”  “Hmmm. Ok. Asher will be sharing a room with Scarlet. Go to bed now.” Rushing to the room the little girl pulled a mattress out from under the bed. “Umm. Excuse me? Am I Scarlet now?” “Yes! Do you like it?” “YES!”   

Chapter 1 

Back to the beginning  

Looking out the window I was waiting for something to happen then BOOM! Lightning struck the orphanage setting it on fire. Crawling back I shook Scarlet. “Wake Up!”  I yelled, “We’ve got to go! Now!”  Scarlet bolted up. “What time is it?”  “WE”VE GOT TO GO NOW!” “OHHH!” they quickly grabbed the backpacks they packed the day before and started to run out of the orphanage. Every room was on fire. The fire scorched our skin, but we couldn’t stop we had to run.  

As we ran ten feet away from the building BOOM!  I couldn’t hear anything. I looked behind me for Scarlet but she wasn’t there. I looked around. When I saw her a big wood beam on to of her. I sprinted over to her nudged and nudged the beam. Finally, I got her free we kept going until we got to the edge of the woods. I stopped. A strange feeling was warning me about someone, or something. I slowly turned my head. There they were. A man, He was in a suit. On the bottom half, it looked scaly, green, and shiny.  I took Scarlet’s hand and ran. I didn’t stop, we had to keep going. Finally, we stopped. I looked around. “This is a good place to stay for the night.” I pulled out a pop up tent and took out the sleeping bags and laid them on the floor.  

“What will happen if we get separated?” asked Scarlet. “I’ll find you. Even if I get caught stay here.”  “Do you ever think that the place is a myth?”  “No.” I answered. “It is real. Don’t worry” As the sun started to rise I took out a spray can and made a grey circle on the ground.  That is the marks we would follow to get to the camp.  

    The   Deadly creature 

    I sat up. “Come on.” I said, “We better get going.” We grabbed our bags and headed into town. I stared at Scarlet. She was dusty and covered in ashes.  Then I realized I was to. “Umm. Should we?” Her voice trailed off. “Yes.” I answered. Both of us were brushing off the ash. “Look!” I heard her say.  I looked where she was pointing. There was a store right in front of us. “I have an idea.” She quickly nodded and ran to the back of the store. I walked into the mini market there was clothes, pocket knifes, food, and a lantern. I grabbed the objects and put them in a bag. I walked into the bathroom and locked the door. I looked up. There was a window. I opened it and pushed the food out. I climbed after the food. When I got out Scarlet was waiting for me with the food.  

“Come on let’s go!” We ran. We sprinted into the forest were our stuff was. We jumped into the tents and put the food in a cooler. “Ash.” “Yeah.” I asked. “L-llookk” she said shakily.  I turned around. A creature with a unicorn horn, dragon wings, cat ears, snake tail with feathers at the end, and miss match legs. We stood there staring at the creature. I noticed a snake like tong. I looked beyond the creature and there was a man. He was in a nice white shirt with a white tie. I was stuck on the dude’s face. It was all shriveled up, wrinkly, and very very pale. In my mind I wondered where I saw a similar face. The first thing that came into my mind was Voldemort. The second time we came face-to-face many years ago. The third time was yesterday. In the fire. I stared down to where the tail was. I jumped in surprise. Instead of legs there was a scaly dark barf green tail. I stood there thinking about the fire who was he? What was that creature? My mind swirled with thoughts as I slowly drifted off to space. 

I woke up on wood. I looked up and saw a fabric. There was a rustle next to me. I turned my head and saw Scarlet in her bed. It was just a dream. Then a thought came to my mind. How did it get from the middle of the day to the morning of the next one? I shook Scarlet. “Wake UP!” I said. “Five more minutes.” she sleepily said. I walked out of the tent and started a fire. I walked over to the cooler and pulled out some eggs. I held a pan over the fire and waited for the eggs to cook.  

Scarlet came out of the tent and looked at me. “I had the weirdest dream last night.” She said. What was it about?” I asked. “There were two odd things. One was a mix of creatures, and the other he had a bottom half of a snake. I mean that is a crazy dream.” I stared at her with my face completely white. “What’s wrong?”  

I sat there in silence for a few minutes. The popping of the eggs told me it was time o flip them. I flipped the eggs and said, “I had the same dream.”  Scarlet sat there and said, “You’re burning the eggs.” I took the eggs off and put them on a leaf. We ate the eggs. I looked around. Slowly I got up. There was a person standing there in a cape with their head covered with a hood. The cape was splotches of color. I slowly whispered, “Get up quietly.” Scarlet got up. We slowly started to back away from the creature and headed for the tent. I then heard a THUMP! I turned and saw Scarlet lying on the floor. I felt some thing poke my back then I fell on the floor. 

      The hidden place 

     I woke up on a bed. I looked to my side and saw Scarlet in a bed too. I sat up. There were blinding lights, grey walls, and a door that was white. I walked over to Scarlet. “Wake up!” I whispered. She sat up. “Where are we?” she asked. I looked around. “I don’t know.” Should we get out of this room?” “Yeah” I agreed. We opened the door and peeked out into the hall. “Let’s go.” We ran down the hall. Then we heard footsteps. “Hurry in the air vent.” I climbed in after Scarlet.  We heard a voice coming from somewhere. “We have found two kids in the woods.” Said a voice. Scarlet and me crawled through the vents until we saw who was talking.  

It was a woman. She wasn’t the average size for an adult. Her hair was brown and a serious face. “Thanks to Rileigh we where able to bring the kids here safely.” The crowed cheered as a kid about 9 walked up to the stage.  “The kids were identified as orphans.” Said the girl. “They’re in the safe room. They have been out for a month. One of them was about seven and the other one is around nine.” She looked around the crowd. “These two girls have encountered the creature that has been trying to destroy us. The monster was standing there. I was able to get a few pictures of the beast.” She pointed to the board and a picture of the creature was there. His face was man with cat ears and a unicorn horn. Wings like a demon, one claw of a lion and a claw of a lizard. His tail was like a serpent’s and at the end were three large feathers. 

One of the crowd members raised their hand. “There isn’t a creature of your description on there. “But it is right there!” She pointed to the Creature. Then the first woman came up.  “I now what is going on.” She said. “You can’t see it in the photograph unless you have seen it in real life.” Then the slide flipped to the next one.   CREEK! GROAN! Scarlet and me looked at echoer with horrified faces. Then BOOM!  We fell into the middle of the crowd.  

Gasps and whispers went among the crowd. Then two boys about 12 brought us to the front. The woman asked, “Who are YOU?” I stood up and pulled Scarlet to her feet. “WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH US?”  I yelled. Scarlet started to back up and crouched down. “ You can’t leave.” Said the woman with her British ascent. “WHY NOT? YOUR MAGESTY!” I yelled again. Then I noticed that I started glowing. An electric blue was moving around me. Then BOOM! A light blue spread through the room. I couldn’t remember any thing. I blacked out. 

             The Truth 

I woke up in a different room. I was still in a white bed but there was a window and a camera.  I tried to sit up, but something was holding me back. I looked down I was strapped to the bed same as my arms. “Great! THIS IS JUST GREAT!” I yelled. The electric blue shock wave burs the restraints apart. “Oh. That’s useful.” I thought. I jumped up and tried to open the door. It’s locked. I turned to the camera and smiled. I took the sheet off the bed and covered the camera.  I climbed into the air vent and waited. The same two boys who carried me to the front of the room burst in.  They looked around checked the door and ran out. I climbed out of the air vent and ran down the hall. 

 I dogged both of the boys and hid in a room that said, “Do not enter” I would definitely find a scary monster or stumble into an evil plan meeting, but no. Sadly no. I was in a room full of weapons. I walked around wondering what some of them are. I walked past a bandana. “Who would want this?” I asked myself. And of course I took it. Before I grabbed it glowed an electric blue. Then when I picked it up it turned into a sphere. I found a target and through it at the target. Right as it hit the side a shock wave burst through the room I held it up to my neck and it was magically tied around my neck. 

So I had an old bandana that was magic around my neck. What else would happen? I ran into about 20 agents. Then the sphere appeared in my hand and I through it at the wall. Everyone except me was shocked I kept running. I ran and run then soon three people started chasing me. Now this was the fun part I stopped and ran as fast as I could in the opposite direction.  

Then I ran into the girl named Rileigh. She put a shocking bomb up to my chest and turned it on. I just stood there then BOOM! She ran back and was pushed a little while I wasn’t affected. Then someone tapped me on the shoulder, “DON’T TRY TO SHOCK ME!”  I yelled then the electric blue shock wave happened again. 

I woke up again in another bed. There were curtains around me a nightstand, a glass of water, and a person. I sat there staring at them. Then they ran out I sat up this time I wasn’t tied down. Scarlet entered her hair was the same color, but she seemed older. Then fallowing her was the person, Rileigh. I stared at her I just stared. Then finally she spoke, “Ok so you try to shock me to death you knocked out over 200 people and the only one that wasn’t harmed was her. Both times.” I looked at Scarlet. “That’s why we are here. I have supper powers and she has the ability to not be harmed by my shock waves.” She looked at me.  “ She can control one of the most powerful weapons in the world and she is the only one who can control it.” Then my vision blurred. I wanted to get out of here with Scarlet and leave then I heard “GET DOWN!”  

I woke up again in another different bed. I could tell because the sheets were warm and everything was dry, even the bed. I could only see with one of my eyes the other one couldn’t open. I sat up marched out through the curtains and just for fun yelled, “GET DOWN! THERES A BOMB!” I herd many screams then BOOM! There was a lot of dust and broken beds everywhere. “Help!” I heard everywhere. “Help!” Then I recognized one of the voices. “Scarlet!” I yelled I ran towards her voice. I stopped in my tracks. “Let her go!” I screamed. There was the serpent man holding her. Pulled of my bandana and charged at him. Then I herd a voice in my head. “Come with me. Ssss.”I shook my head then got angry he had my best friend almost like my sister. The electric blue shock wave didn’t go everywhere. This time it only hit him. He dropped her and slithered off. I ran to her. “Are you ok?” I asked she managed to stand up and shake her head yes. “Can you keep all of these people in mid air?” I asked.  

We started working to uncover people and help them then I told her to teleport somewhere other than here somewhere other than here. She teleported them here then I heard some one else call. “He-help-help!” the person was close. I ran to the voice and uncovered them. They were passed out. Then I called “Ok bring us back!” a big fat sparkle ball surrounded me as I held the person over mu shoulders. 

I looked around. There were beds everywhere with people in them. I looked at whom I helped it was Rileigh. Scarlet concurred a bed in mid air with her magic maleficent staff. It had a purple orb on a black stick with a raven over the orb.  I placed her down on the bed and asked for a first aid kit. I watched sparkles disappear and a first aid kit appeared in my arms. 

Scarlet fainted. I found a scratch on her nose it wasn’t that big of a deal but I put about two bandages on her nose. Once I checked every other 3,000 people I walked over to the last one. It was one of the guards. I smelled a weird smell like rotten eggs. I held my nose as I wrapped a bandage around his arm.  Then there was a noise. THRP! “ARE YOU KIDDING ME!”  I yelled.  I sat down by Scarlet who was sitting up. “How long has it been?” She asked. “Well I’ve bandaged over 3,000 people had about six food breaks and it has been 12:00 twice, SOMEONE keeps FARTING AND IT SMELLS LIKE ROTTEN EGGS!”  “So it has been only two days.” “Yes.” “Knowing you it would have been more like fifteen food breaks each day.” I smiled. 

“You know what?” “No.” “I’m a magical person who controls a giant pencil and I have knocked out over 200 people and I’m immune to electrical waves of lightning.”  Scarlet smiled and said, “And I control a magic stick that has a glowing bouncy ball on top with a stuffed animal and I can float in mid air.” “Yep!” I said, “Wait. YOU CAN FLOAT IN MID AIR!” “That’s what I said.” I looked at her as she hovered about an inch above her bed.   “WHERE AM I!” yelled an angry voice. Scarlet concord her magic stick in sparkles then a big bubble surrounded Rileigh. BOOM! Purple paint filled the bubble. 

“WHAT THE CREEP!” I yelled. The paint faded and the bubble disappeared. “That happens when she is angry or scared.” “ So she explodes into paint but is still alive.” “Yes.”  We walked over to her and I spoke, “There was a bomb and you are at a safe site the other safe houses are all exploded we collected all of the agents and brought them here.” “Where are we?” “I don’t know.” I said, as I pointed to her “Ask her.” “WE are under the waterfall Angel Falls.”  She looked at her. “Ok.” 

“Where is the Bottle?” 

“Her mission.”  

“Ok.” 

“Wait! Who in the history of pizza is the Bottle?”  

“The leader of this organization. The lady with brown hair we first saw.” 

We walked around to see if anyone else was awake. So far there was none. Everyone was still asleep. Then I heard a voice, “Come With me.” There was a hiss after that. I blinked and I was standing in a different room. “What do you want.” I said. I wanted to fight this guy. “Bring the one who you are protecting to me.” Then I saw him. Half snake and half man. His face was like Voldemort’s face with a serpent tong and from the waist down he was a serpent. Then it hit me. He was the one who brought Scarlet to the orphanage She…. She is going to be kidnapped! I let a Burst of lightning out from my chest and the room faded.  

I woke up in a bed with Rileigh and Scarlet looking down at me. “Scarlet you need to have someone with you at all times.” “Why?” “Voldemort the serpent wants you.” “Who and what?” “The person who brought you to the orphanage.” “You remember?” “Yes he said he hopes she will find us again. He is going to take you away you must have some one with you at all times” “How do you know this?” asked Rileigh. “Before I passed out. I blinked and I saw him he asked me to give Scarlet to him.” I said as I paced back and forth.  “Are you sure?” “Yes.” I turned to them. “What happened before I passed out.”  Scarlet looked at me nervously.  “Your eyes started glowing and the electric ropes were around your arms.” Rileigh stood there, “You said some thing about never giving her up. I guess we know what that was about. We should get some rest.” “Yeah.” We all went to bed. 

I didn’t sleep I sat by Scarlet the whole night. I sat there wondering about that serpent man. Then I saw some thing move. “Who’s there?” I asked. No answer. The electric blue light surrounded my arms. I could see I looked at where I saw the thing move. A boy came out of the dark. “Where am I?” he asked.  “Safe place. Who are you?”  “I’m Zoram. I’m one of the guards.” “Ashure. If you’re a guard then make sure nobody tries to take her.” I said as I pointed to Scarlet. “If someone does wake me up.” “Ok.” 

I went to sleep and slept until six in the morning. I looked at Scarlet’s bed she was gone. I found Zoram tied up. “I TOLD YOU TO GET ME!” I yelled. I started running as fast as I could. There was a lady in a black cape with a hood carrying her. I ran faster and faster. BOOM! I saw blurs around me but I kept going. I couldn’t stop. I zapped the person carrying her and she was knocked out. I ran to get Scarlet. “Do you know who that is?” I asked urgently. “She was one of the agents.” I grabbed the girl and we walked back behind the waterfall and tied her to a bed. Zoram Identified her as Bella. I waited by the bed until she woke up.  

“Let me GO!” she screamed. “Bella. Do you know why you are here.” I asked. She frowned and scowled. “I was ordered. If I didn’t I would be dead. So now I guess I’m goanna die. Thanks” She said sarcastically. Her red strawberry hair started glowing and looked like fire. “GET SOME WATER NOW!” I yelled. Rileigh through a whole bucket of water on her before she could burn the restraints.  “So your element is fire?” I asked. She looked at me confused. “What do you mean?” “Like me when you get angry your element starts to show when you feel threatened or when you know someone you love could get kidnapped.” I said. “You’re the girl who was surrounded by a big blue rope around your arms. The only people who didn’t get knocked out was me, Rileigh, and her,” She said turning her head towards Scarlet.  

“Who threatened you?” Rileigh asked.  “I don’t know he showed up to me in a dream.” I stared at her for a long time. “He looked like Voldemort with a snake tail on the bottom half.” “Yes. How do you know?” “He appeared in my mind and said to bring her to him. That’s why I had Zoram stand guard once he woke up. OH! Speaking of that.” I ran over to Zoram and untied him.  “Thanks. Took you long enough.” He said sarcastically.  “You’re welcome. How did a girl take you out?” He looked embarrassed. “I used the pretend to be wondering where I was trick. Tied him up.”  

Now there were four people who had magic powers. Scarlet who controlled a magic stick, Rileigh who exploded paint and her weapon is a giant paint brush, Bella who controls a sward of fire and her element is fire, and me I can run at the speed of lightning and control lightning my weapon is the second lamest a giant pencil called a sphere.  “Let’s start training.” Rileigh said. There were four targets one for each. I threw my sphere and hit the side of the target. BOOM! An electric shock wave hit everyone and they all yelled, “HEY!” Scarlet was having trouble being the youngest and all but I was thrilled to see what she could do with her magic stick. She threw her stick and the bottom hit the target (it has a pointy end on it) and a purple light knocked everyone down. Bella her sward was ripping the target apart. She kept hitting the middle.  

I was right on course hitting the middle of the target than I threw it as hard as I could and it let out a lightning blast that ripped the target to shreds. “So Bella’s aim is accurate and she defeats the enemy by taking their guts out like an Egyptian, Scarlet can hit the legs and a purple wave that isn’t as powerful as mine but is very useful, and Rileigh can make a object appear out of thing air with a giant paint brush that can also explode paint good for blinding enemies.” Bella raised her hand. “Who are the enemies” I put a bunch of pictures on the wall. “ From my knowledge this is a second in command sort of thing.” I said while pointing to the picture of half man, half snake. “We’ll call him Voldemort like the guy from harry Potter because of his face.”  

Scarlet stood up. “I see him.” “I know he dropped you off at the orphanage and he was there when the fire happened.” I said.  “No. He is standing right there.” She said and pointed. Voldemort was standing there. I stared at him. Bella stood up and charged at him. Right as her sward erupted in flames and stabbed him he was gone. “Hologram.” She said.  Rileigh looked around. “We need to find a better place.” She said. “A new place not under a waterfall.”  “Hello.”  Said an unfamiliar voice.  We turned and standing there was a woman. “HI!” everybody except me answered. “Who is she?” I asked. “Ah the sleeping lightning is awake” “Who are you?” “I am The Bottle.” “So you’re the person in charge of this organization. How did you find us?” I asked. “Every agent has a tracking device in their clothes.” Then I threw my pencil at her and it hit her. Her head started to shake and she slowly transformed into a half serpent woman. “RUNNN!” I screamed. everyone woke up and ran around. “This way!” yelled Rileigh. She set up lazars and people started running into the lazars, but were fine.  Then Zoram and Bella ran through but turned to dust. “WE HAVE TO GO!” shouted Rileigh. 

I turned around Voldemort was holding Scarlet. I reached for my neck and the pencil appeared. I charged at him and a lightning burst exploded from the pencil and me. I was only thinking about hitting the snakes and killing them. Scarlet fell to the floor as Voldemort exploded. I grabbed her hand and made a run. We ran right out before BOOM! A bomb exploded and blew up the whole place.  

Scarlet turned to me. “How many do you think there are?” “I don’t know.” I answered, “There must be more. A lot more.” Rileigh Appeared next to me. “How did you know?” “Know what?” “That the bottle was a Slither.”  “Right as she said ‘every agent has a tracking device.’” We led the agents into a cave. I took a pocketknife out of my pocket and started feeling my legs. I sliced my pants and a small electronic fell out. I did it in three other places and checked one more time. Then on the sleeve of my shirt was the only place I could find it.  

I walked over to Scarlet and sliced her pants apart and five devices fell out. I did her shirt and two fell out. Rileigh already started. I threw a pocketknife to a random agent and they started feeling and slicing.  I yelled, “Every body get to one side of the cave!”  Rileigh set up a metal detector and everybody walked through it.  The pocket knifes made it back and we started handing out their weapons again. 

Soon someone named Baylee asked, “What are we going to do now?” I thought for a few seconds and said, “Keep moving. But not through that entrance.” I pointed to the place where we entered. “Baylee.”  “Yes?”  “I want you up front and keep Scarlet safe.” I said as I pointed to her. “Me and Rileigh will be in the back.”  

Everybody stood up and started walking. We went to the very back of the cave. “There’s no exit!” someone up front yelled. I rolled my eyes and made my way up front. I hit the back of the cave with lightning and an exit was made. There was a forest outside. I frowned. “Baylee and Rileigh go in the back and keep people from running away. I pointed to three boys and three girls and told them to keep on the sides. I led the way with Scarlet by my side. I turned to the right and there he was the monster. Then I understood I turned around everybody except for Baylee, Rileigh, Scarlet, and me had turned into snakes. I dragged Scarlet to collect Baylee and Rileigh. I took all of their hands and imagined I was flying electric blue shot from my hands knocking the Slithers down and the monster as we blasted somewhere.  

I didn’t stop until I reached a desert. We tumbled as we came to a rough landing. “Where are we?” asked Scarlet. “To be honest I don’t know” I answered.  “What’s your supper power?” I asked. “Umm. Well I can make objects float.”  Answered Baylee. Scarlet made four shovels appear and we started digging. “Why are we digging again?” asked Rileigh. “Well Scarlet and me have been looking for this legend.  A secret hideout where Special people go or unusual people go. Many people disappear looking for this place we believe it is now in a desert because the beast lives in the jungle. He’s after us.” “What do you mean by us?” “We got our powers from aliens.” Rileigh and Baylee laughed. “He is after one of us to rule the world, but you would be in his control and if you didn’t listen to him he would take your powers.”  

We kept digging not knowing what to look for. “I found something!” yelled Scarlet. We started digging where she was. BANG! We hit something metal. From out of the ground guns popped up and pointed at us. “Who are you?” “We are being hunted by the slithers and a weird mix of creatures thing.” “Enter” the hatch opened and we climbed down. 

The place had hallways of white. When we came down Bella and Zoram where standing there. In reaction we all grabbed our weapons. My giant pencil popped out. Bella’s eye’s got big. “WOOH! I’m not a slither.” Zoram pulled out his knife. “Put your weapons away. You to Zoram.” She said. “Fallow me.”  

We walked through the white and bright hallways. We entered a room with guards and she was standing there. The Bottle. I’m not sure if it is The Bottle or a Slither. “Why are you humans here?” “We came here after a false group copied this one and copied you Bella and Zoram.” “Copied? Nobody is capable of this not even the Slithers.” She said. “Well they either got more powerful or they are just new ones.” Scarlet said. 

“What are your powers?” “Well I have lightning and supper speed. Scarlet controls a stick with a glowing bouncy ball. Baylee can make things float, and Rileigh explodes paint.” “Who are your parents?” she asked as she pointed to me. “I don’t know. I’ve lived in an orphanage my whole life. Scarlet was brought to the orphanage by Voldemort. He was also there the day it burned down and he followed us to our camp.” “She is a child of them?” “No. She is one of us she controls the most powerful weapon.”  

“Come.” Said the Bottle. We fallowed her into a room.  She pointed to Scarlet and me and said, “You two will be sharing a room. Rileigh will share a room with Bella who is next door and Baylee will be the room after that and be sharing with Kylie.”  We looked around the room. There was a bunk bed built into the wall. “I call the top!” yelled Scarlet. I looked around some more there were two desks, two dressers and a closet that was split in half. To the right of the bed there was a door that led to a Jack and Jill bathroom, which led to Rileigh and Bella’s room.   

“Do any of you think this is weird?”  Asked Rileigh. I thought about that question. I thought of the first time I remember seeing the orphanage. It was a very long time ago. I was being held as someone was running. I could tell we were going very fast. Faster than a regular human could go. We were being chased. Faster and faster we went until we came to a big house. Then I saw her. I think she is my mom. She had the same hair, and hazel eyes. Then I was set on the steps. Watching as she disappeared with some blue behind her. Then my memory slowed down black started to fill my mind until I couldn’t remember any thing. 

I woke up with a white curtain around me. My eyesight was blurry at first. Then I started to see more clearly. I was in a room. Not the room I was in before I could remember any thing. I was somewhere else. There was a big window that I could see through a crack. Then I saw her. The same person who I saw the first time I saw the orphanage. I sat up using my arms. Right as I put pressure on it hurt. I looked down to see an electric blue cast on my arm. “Oh great!” I yelled in my head. “So now what did I do before I blacked out?”  I stood up on the floor and started to walk. Then the door opened. I hurried to the nearest air vent and hid. 

“Where is she?” Asked the lady. “She was right here!” yelled another man. “I think I know who to ask. Come on.” She started to walk out side paused. Then continued to walk out the door. I knew that she knew where I was I climbed deeper into the air vent until I found my room that I was last in. But they beat me to it. Scarlet was on the bed when they came in. “Do you know where your friend might be?” asked the lady. “Yeah. I the air vents. That is the place she usually hides.” “Ok we’ll go look through the air vents.” With that she walked out of the room. I opened the air vent and landed next to Scarlet.  

In surprise Scarlet yelped as she saw me. I caught her right before she fell off the bed. “I’m guessing you fell out of the vent.” She said as she secured her self on the bed. “Oh yeah. And I would like to know what happened before I passed out.” She stared at me. “Well… Umm… You sort of hovering in the air and got higher then just fell to the ground.” “Come on I know there’s more.” She rolled her eyes. “What did Rileigh do?” I said teasing and bugging her on. Scarlet laughed and said, “Her face turned whiter than freshly fallen snow than she …” She paused then snickered. “Fell to the floor and started yelling Corgis and then she hit the wall and screamed Slither.”  We both laughed our heads off when Zoram, Bella, and Rileigh walked in.  

“What’s going on?” Yelled Rileigh. Then she saw me. I looked at them and saw that they were covered in Cobb webs. “What happened to you?” Asked Scarlet. “We had to got through the vents looking for YOU!” She screamed. “Chill down.” I said.  “Look I’m fine.” I said doing some jazz hands. “Besides your arm?” She asked. Yeah. She was right. Besides my arm which was killing me!  My arm itched like crazy. “So you ready to start some training?” she asked. “AM I EVER? I snuck out of a room the easiest and most obvious way possible! Is every one here dumb?”  Rileigh was ready to blow.  

“ Oh come on! You have to at least snuck out of a vent at least once!” Every one except for Scarlet shook their head. My mind was blown the only way I survived in the orphanage was through the air vents to the kitchen. I often watched the movies from the stairs and I got my Idea from there. “Come on Ashure.” The group yelled. I hopped off the bed and started walking. We entered a room with targets and straw Slithers. “Welcome to the training room.” Said Bella. I reached around my neck and my weapon appeared. Bella stared at me for a long time. I mean I wouldn’t blame her. I’ve been wearing a giant pencil around my neck.  

“Bella.” No answer “BELLA!” Screamed Rileigh. Bella jumped back and fell to the floor. So did we. We laughed and rolled on the floor for a few minutes.  

 “Ok how did you do that with your weapon?”   “What do you mean?” “How did your weapon appear out of thin air?” “Umm. Well it was a weapon at the Slithers place. I think that’s why they are so mad.” “What can it do?” I walked up to one of the straw stuffed slithers and threw my weapon at it and the “Slither” Exploded with a blue explosion.  Bella stared at me. “What?”  She grabbed her weapon from a rack it was at first a sward handle then as she picked it up it erupted in flames and a metal part of the sward showed. She threw her sward at the other one and it caught on fire.  

Ok so when my weapon appears out of thin air she is stunned when hers does something cooler that isn’t AWESOME? I mean come on girl! Yours was on FIRE! LITERALY ON FIRE! I wish mine did that. We all chose a target and practiced throwing and slicing the dummies. Even with one hand my throw was pretty accurate. About and hour went by and about fifty blue blasts destroyed fifty dummies. Then she walked in. “Bella, Rileigh, Scarlet, Zoram, and Ashure.” We all stopped and looked up. I stared at her. Something wasn’t right. I looked a little harder. Her eyes where different from the other time I saw her. Then I charged. Her eyes widened as she disappeared into dust.  

I looked around the room. I was trapped. Stared at Scarlet, Bella, Rileigh, Zoram, and then Baylee. Two of them are slithers the other two are the ones I know. Scarlet and Rileigh had colored eyes while the others had black eyes. I grabbed Scarlet and Rileigh while the others tried to stop me. I puled them up to were they weren’t being dragged. “Where are we going?” asked Scarlet “some where farther than here.” I answered back. I flew through the night as I started to fall down to the ground. Then we landed it was on something soft and warm.  

            The SPP 

I felt dizzy and worn out. I slowly came back into focus. Darting up I remembered about Scarlet. I looked around. She was by my side.  Relieved I looked around for Rileigh. She was next to Scarlet. “I’m not tied up!” I thought. “This must be the real place.”  Then I heard footsteps. I looked around for an air vent. I smiled. I pulled Rileigh and Scarlet up into the vent. I watched as the lady came in. My eyes almost popped out of my head. It was the lady from my dream. Then three other people came in “Bella, Kylie, and Baylee.” “Yes mam.” They said in union. “I want you to get some tater tots, chocolate chip cookies, six burgers, seven churros, and mint chocolate chip ice cream.” My mouth watered as she ordered the food. She looked at the air vent. “You can come out now. I know you’re in the air vents the obvious place to hide.”  

I crawled out and brought Rileigh and Scarlet out with me.  Then I smelled it. Hot burgers, fresh cookies, tater tots, and churros. The girls came in. “This is…” the lady said but I cut her off, “She’s Bella, that’s Kylie, and finally Baylee.” I quickly said. The girls stared at me. “The Slithers know about you. They turned in to you and they used your names.” They put down the food on the table. 

Scarlet and Rileigh darted up as the smell of food filled the room. I watched Scarlet run up to the food and grab a burger. I stuffed a whole burger into my face and started chowing down a second one. The girls watched as I finished five cookies, all of the Tater Tots, and two bowls of Ice cream. “This is the best meal I ever had!” I yelled. Rileigh watched me in disgustment at all of the food smeared over my face. “Umm. Do you want a napkin?” “No thanks. It’s called left overs.”  

“How do you know this?” the lady asked. “ Ok. Lady. We found two fake places, which we escaped. Got chased by them, cut the tracking devices out of our clothes, made Voldemort explode into dust, and then we flew here were leads us to here.”  They stared at us. I shifted uncomfortably in the award silence. Scarlet crunching on a Churro interrupted the silence.  

BANG BANG! “Miss. It is time for the meeting.” I noticed the voice as Zoram’s.  “Come.” She beckoned us to follow her.  We walked down some hallways then came to two doors. The doors opened. I took a look inside the room. Three people in dresses sat around a round table in the center of a semi dark room. “Who are you?” I asked. “ I am Princess Nala of Nature.” Nala said. She wore a bright green dress with some pink. “Princess Isla of Power” This person wore a dark green dress with some purple. “And I am Princess Sarah of Fire.” She wore a sparkly red dress. I looked at Scarlet. “So sparkly.” She mumbled. I guessed that Isla was the leader. “Who are you?” Isla asked.   

“I’m Ashure. Umm. My power is lightning and speed I guess.” They all looked at the lady then me. “I’m Scarlet and I guess my power is well power.” She reached out her hand and her staff appeared. “I’m Rileigh and umm.”  She froze thinking of what to say.  “Her power is exploding paint and with a giant paint brush she makes thing appear out of thin air.” She stared at me. Scarlet made a bubble appear around her. BOOM! Purple paint filled the bubble.  Every one nodded. “Ash why don’t you tell them about you?”  Isla asked. “But, I just did.”  “Not you. Her.” She gestured her head to the lady. “ Umm. I’m Ash and my power is lightning and speed.” I stared at her as my mind went to the dream.  “No it can’t be!” I thought. BOOM! A snake came in it snuck next to Scarlet. I stared at the snake. I felt myself being lifted off the floor Blue swirled around my arms.  BOOM! Wave electricity went through the room. 

“Where am I?” I said as I sat up. I was in a room. I stood up out of the bed.  I was alone. I ran out of the door. I zoomed through the hallways. I went through every room I could find. Finally I found her she was in the training room with Rileigh. “You want to start training?” she asked. I reached around my neck and grabbed my bandana. “Ready.” I threw it at the target next to Scarlet. I watched as it whizzed past her and she jumped. “YOU ALMOST KILLED ME!”  She whirled around. Then she noticed me. “OH! You’re finally awake.” “What do you mean ‘finally’?”  “You’ve been out for a year.”  “WHAT? A YEAR? WHAT DID I MISS! DID I MMISS MY BIRTHDAY?” I screamed. Rileigh laughed, “No you’ve only been out for a day.” I gave Scarlet a cold stare. “When you pass out I’m goanna say you’ve been out for two years.” 

“Where’s the kitchen?” I asked. “ Down the hall. Why?” I smiled. I ran out of the room and into the kitchen I grabbed the cookies, ice cream, and churros. “Who’s hungry?” I asked. We chowed down on the food. Then Kylie, Bella, and Baylee came in. “Umm. How did you get the food?” “The kitchen. Why?” “Wait you burst into the kitchen and stole it?” “Umm. Yeah I guess.”  “AWESOME!” They said in union. “What?” I asked. “Well we can only get food during the meals.”  “The door was unlocked.” They ran into the kitchen and grabbed all the food they could carry. Then Isla came in. “How did you get the food?” “The doors unlocked.” We said in union. “NALA!!!!” She screamed. Nala came running through the doors.  “Yes?”  “Why did you leave the door unlocked?” Nala entered the battle rink. “Let’s see who wins. Nature or Power?”  

I ran into the kitchen and grabbed popcorn for every one.  Clink! BOOM! KABLOOY! We watched until Nala wrapped vines around Isla. “Who’s stronger?” She said.  “I am!” She erupted from the vines and surrounded Nala in a cage. “I was so close!” They turned around their faces white. Around them was the whole crew everyone in the building. “Now would be a good time.” Whispered Nala. POOF! They disappeared in a cloud of smoke. I nodded to Scarlet and she transported our small group the two sisters. When they heard, POOF! They turned around. They saw us standing there. “How did you follow us?” She asked. “Umm. Scarlet is also the power of power. Well I guess it is actually magic.” She stared at me. “Who’s the leader?” I stepped forward.  “I unlocked the kitchen door.”  They stared at me. “Why don’t you ask your sister how she can teleport through electricity?”  They stare at me. “You did that?”  “No I used the air vents dummies.” Then I knew I made a mistake.  

I jumped up in the air pulled the girls up into the air vents. I went to the center of the system and watched as they searched every room. They gave up they couldn’t find us. “WE NEED TO FIND THEM!” Yelled Isla.  “Breath Isla.” We know where they are. She hides in the air vents.” “Right.” She walked over to a microphone and yelled. “LEADERS INTO THE MEETING ROOM!” I watched as Sarah and Ash came in. “What’s up?” I looked at Ash she was wearing jean shorts and a tee shirt.  

“We can’t find them.”  

“Find who?” 

 “The three girls. Yours disappeared with them. Not just the there two, but the rest of the girls.” 

“Do you know where they might be?” 

“We think they are somewhere in the air vents” 

“Sure the master of lightning totally would do that. She obviously hid in a place with electricity.” 

“Wait. You can do that?”  

“Like duh.”   

“Send everyone to search for them. If the slithers find them then we have to go to a different planet. Again”  

I watched the hallways from above. There was only one person who was looking in the right place. Up. “You can come down.” I urged the girls to move through he vents. I fell from the vents. “What do you want?”  

“Where isss ssshe?” I shook my head. “You’re bad at disguising yourself Voldemort.” He hissed and turned. Then Voldemort was standing in front of me. I was lifted off of the ground. “Leave my head. NOW!” I screamed. He hissed and slithered to me. I stuck out my hand and a blast hit him. He hit the wall. Then someone burst into the room. “STOP! STOP! YOU’RE WRECKING THE WA…” The voice trailed off. Then when the person saw that there was a figure that was invisible agents the wall. I felt something hit my back. I fell to the ground and saw that there was the other slither. “Looks like we got her.” I tried to scream, but they grabbed me and tossed me into somewhere. I passed out once again. 

 When I woke up I heard voices. “Ssshe can see usss when we are invisible.” “And ssshe knows when we are using her.” I knew I was sitting up, but I didn’t dare open my eyes. I listened. “We will find the rest of the agents and bring them down. I need the girl. The rest of your slither army that she didn’t destroy take using the last of our transportation devices and bring down the place. In the mean time get two of your guards and tell them to bring her to the dungeon.” I felt two slimy, scaly arms grab me and drag me out of the room. I waited a while before bursting out some shocking waves. I stood up and looked around. 

I looked for a different escape route. The floor. I ran through the hallways looking for a panel that was black with lines through it. I slid down into the floor and waited. I crawled through the underground passageway. At least that’s what I thought it was. I started to hear hisses and crunching. Then I stopped. This is a passageway for the snake army.  

I panicked. “Now I’m stuck in an underground cave with Slithers coming my way. Wait.” I thought. “Didn’t Ash say that…” I smiled. I closed my eyes and imagined hiding in a lamp. When I opened them I was hanging from the ceiling. “YOU WHAT?” yelled Voldemort. “Ssshe Got Away. I’m not the idiot who lost her.” “As for you to. Serve them for dinner.” “Let’s leave!” yelled a voice in my head.  I once again closed my eyes and thought of the lamp in Scarlet’s room. “No wait STOP!” yelled the voice. He’ll find you again. You need to go into the janitor’s closet in the gas station,” I thought of the closet. When I opened my eyes. I was in the closet. I felt my close once again. I sliced through my pants and shirt. I then focused to the light in Scarlet’s room.  

I traveled through the electricity and landed on a soft bed. “AAAAHHH! WHAT THE HEACK!” I opened my eyes to see Rileigh jumping back.  I hopped off the bed and started walking out of the room. “Wait! Where were you? We’ve been every where and…” I cut her off. “Where are the Head people?”  I asked. “Why do you need know?”  She asked back. “Umm. I think they are in the training room with Scarlet.” I nodded and started running to the room. I ran faster and left Rileigh back in the dust.  I burst through the doors. “WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH YOU?”  Yelled Nala. I zoomed over to Scarlet. 

 “I need to talk to all of you.”  

“Ok? What do you need to talk about?”  

“Not here. Follow me.”  

I ran out of the room and waited outside the kitchen.  A few seconds later the others joined me at the door. “Ok, so I’ve been kidnaped by the Slithers and…”  “YOU WHAT?” Screamed Nala. I stared at her. “Oh. You’re joking.” “No.” There was then the awkward silence. THRP! We turned around. “Hey look! A Slither.” Nala said, “Get him.” I pointed my hands at him and shocked him. He turned into dust and disappeared.  

“Ok. Let’s try this again.” I slowly said. “I got kidnapped by the slithers. And they had tracking devices in my clothes so we need to find them and take out the tracking devices. Got It?” Nala nodded slowly.  “OH! And by the way they are hatching some eggs to make their army’s larger.”  I added. Nala stared at me with her hands out. “And you FORGOT THAT?” She screamed.  “YOU COULD HAVE SAID THAT SOONER!” “I tried to, but then you screamed your head off.” I sarcastically said. I ran into the freezer and started eating some ice cream.  

“MMMH! Sooo… are we GUP! Are we going to announce everyone to go to the battle room?” I asked. We ran to the head office and started to turn on the speaker when… I felt someone watching us.   I grabbed my bandana and threw it to the door.  

SSSSS! I turned around, “EVERYONE GRABB YOUR WEAPONS!” I screamed. Nala screamed. And I turned around to see a slither holding her. I focused on all of the slithers in the room. I lifted up in the air.  I looked at my fists they glowed. I smiled and… THWACK! I was on the floor. I saw Voldemort slither past me with… I got up. “THAT”S MY ICECREAM!!!!” I flew at him and watched his terrified face as I hit him. “GIVE ME MY ICE CREAM!!” I punched his face over and over. He dropped the ice cream. “ASHURE!” I turned around. They had her. I ran through the crowd. “ASHURE!” I zoomed faster and faster. I combined my poor punching with my speed and made the people go down into dust.   

“Scarlet are you ok?” She started to laugh.  “You fool. HAHAHA!”  Scarlet twisted and turned. Medusa was standing right there.  Or at least she looked like Medusa. “BLUE BANNANAS!” I threw my giant pencil at Medusa and ran to the person screaming blue bananas. I watched as Nala fought off the slithers from Rileigh. I stuck my hand out in front of me and blasted a group of slithers out of my way.  “Scarlet!” I stopped. The thing was there. The monster. “WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU?” I yelled over all of the explosions.  

The monster turned and faced me. “HISS! SQUACK! NEHH!” The monster stopped making the noises. It covered its mouth and dropped Scarlet. Then it started to… crawl? Walk? I have on idea what to call it he was a mix of over 6 animals. Well it started to make it’s way over to me. I had no idea what to do I reached for… crap! My weapon is still on the wall. I had a light bulb moment or just an idea, but still. I stuck my hand up to the celling. Perfect. I was right under the speaker.  

Then the battle stopped. Every thing was paused. I felt every eye on me. I closed my eyes and did the most embarrassing thing in my life. I started dancing to the song.  My face went red and I followed the “Cha cha slide.” Instructions. Yup. In the middle of a fight I turned on the speaker and played some music and started dancing.  When I opened my eyes and saw Scarlet get up floating in the air with her giant stick. She then slammed down the stick and a purple blast filled the room nocking down everyone. 

I grabbed Scarlet, Nala, and Rileigh. I dashed to the door as I dragged the others. I zoomed through the hallway as everyone is covered in the dust from the floor. THUD! I tripped over something. My head was pounding, everything was blurry. There was a blob kicking and squirming their hair was a dark brown then I got up.  

“NOOO!” I screamed. There was nothing I could do they got her. POOF! They disappeared with Scarlet. I couldn’t get to the portal fast enough. I pounded on the wall until I was tired. I slid down the wall. My head was pounding with pain. I felt someone help me up and once again I blacked out. 

When I opened my eyes there was barely anything. Everything was ripped up and torn. I was lying on a few blankets the lights flickered on and off. I felt hopeless. I sighed as someone entered the room. The person sat agents the wall and slowly slid down. “Any sign of land?” I looked to the side. Rileigh was across from Nala on the floor.  

“No. There is nothing and we are running out of food.” Nala answered. I sat up. “Is this all that’s left?”  They slowly turned to me and nodded. “How far from land?” “We’re not sure. There is some trash and newspapers, but nothing else.” I started to stand up. THUMP! I fell to the floor.  

“Great. Just great!” I thought. I threw my hands in the air. I tried again. No luck. Finally after four tries I got up and started limping down the hallways onto the top deck. I grabbed a newspaper. And read, 

 The King Introduces The Replacement For

   Him 

The king is going on a journey to an island with a ruler. His replacement is called Queen Scarlet. She will take over the royal duties. She commanded a search for three people. They have powers and are declared the most dangerous people in the world.  

I threw the paper down and sat down. “How long has it been?” I asked. “It’s been about two years.” I stood up. Rileigh I want you to find a rowboat in my room. Nala get some food that will last us two weeks and a fishing pole and Rileigh, you suck at lying.” I said. I walked through the ship and gathered some weapons. We meet back on the deck with two rafts, one for the food and the other for us. We lowered the boats into the water and started to row to shore. I unwrapped the bandages around my leg and started to remove the padding. “WOAH! Cool!” I screamed in my head. I stared at the…. You might not want to know what I saw I just think that it was fascinating with the sticky… OK! I’ll stop.  

I grabbed some new padding and bandages and started to put it on my leg. When I looked up I saw both girls throwing up over the edge of the boat. EWW! I shook my head and hands and asked. “What’s wrong?” I teased.  They just stared at me. I was laughing. HOOONK! We looked up there was a fishing boat passing by us.  

“DO YOU NEED A LIFT?” they yelled.  I looked at Rileigh and Nala. “THAT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU’RE GOING I YELLED.” Then I noticed a snake on board. “NO THANKS!”I yelled and I started rowing to the shore. The sailor shrugged his shoulders and started moving. “What was that about?”   

I looked back at the ship. It was now following us. I then said, “Umm. I really wish the master of water was here right now.” I said. Our boats then started to sink. The other two girls started to freak out. A bubble formed around our boats and us.  

“Sup, Ashure!” I smiled and said, “Hey Lilly.” We had a little conversation of where I was all of these years and… Ok. A little background info on Lilly.  

Lilly is one of my first friends in the orphanage. After two girls bullied us because we would come out of the air vents covered in Cobb webs. One day that happened in the bathroom and it was AWESOME! Lilly backed up to a toilet and stuck her hands out. Those bullies’ faces! The dirty toilet water went right into their mouths! HA! Back to the story.  

“Who’s she? Why is there a bubble around us? And WHAT THE HEACK IS HAPPENING!” Rileigh screamed. I pointed to Lilly. “This is Lilly one of my old friends from the orphanage. She controls water.” They stared at her.  “Wait. Ashure is an ORPHAN?” We all stared at her. “Oh. Right she is the only one who doesn’t know” Everyone nodded. Then from Lilly’s watch a screen popped up. “COOL!” I yelled. “Lilly we need you to come back to the islands.” Lilly nodded and bargained us to follow her. We started to swim.  

After about two hours we arrived at the destination. We all swam up to the surface. When we got up there was fog everywhere. Lilly urged us to follow her onto the dry surface of the island. “Welcome to the ISP.” We looked around it was a big jungle with the most beautiful plants I have ever seen. From the jungle came a girl. She dropped the dark brown basket that was in her hand and started running to us. Nala stared at her.  

   The Island for Special People. 

I studied what she was wearing. A pink hoodie with yellow flowers all over it. Her thick blond hair flowed behind her as she ran. She wore a yellow skirt with a pink bow tied loosely down the side of it. Her pink socks completed the look. Her hoodie seemed to have two vines going behind her. Then I realized it was a backpack as she came closer and closer. She reached her arms around Nala. “NALA! I haven’t seen you in forever!”  Nala smiled as if she knew her. Then I stared at them. “Are you to sisters or something?”  Rileigh asked. They turned towards us. “Oh. Right this is my little sister Bear.” I repeated the name, “Bear.” I looked at her and she looked back. “Come on Everyone is waiting!” 

We followed her to a big jungle tree. “Umm. Who’s ‘everyone’? Rileigh asked. She smiled. “You’ll see.” She said with a smile back. She pulled a leaf and a door opened.  We followed Bear into the small room. I noticed there was some buttons on the side of a door and cameras up in the corner. “Is this and elevator” I guessed. She pressed a few buttons and a red scanner light scanned the whole elevator. 

The elevator started moving down or was it up? I couldn’t tell. Bear looked at me then down. She pressed a few more buttons and a chair popped up behind me. Rileigh eagerly looked at the chair. I shrugged and sat down. It was a bout ten minutes of slow music playing in the complete silence. “Lilly?” Lilly turned and looked at me, “How did you know where we were.” She smiled “I was sent on the look out for some calls from other special people with powers. When you said ‘master of water’ I heard it and headed in your direction.”  

DING! The door opened and Lilly helped me up. I limped through the hallways. “This will be a lot easier to know where I’m…” My voice trailed off. I had another light bulb moment. It all makes sense! The slithers have plain hallways that are the same. In every fake base for special people it was the same layout. That means… “ASHURE!” I jumped back a little startled. “What?” They all looked at me. “Why did you stop?” My face flushed out of color. “I know the layout of the slithers base.” 

Ok, Pause. I do remember stopping. The slither hallways were all white and the same to confuse us to try and keep us out of the place with the slither troops. They were all the same. A round hallway. Underground, in the second place in the desert, and then on the boat.  

“Oh my BLUE BANNANAS!” Rileigh yelled, “You’re right Ashure!” She started bouncing up and down. “Wait. How do we know that this isn’t one of them?” she asked. Bear looked at us.  

“What the heck are slithers?” she asked.  

“Umm. How do I explain this? Oh yeah! They are the snake people being led by the snake do I call Voldemort. Voldemort and medusa have some how made Scarlet join their forces and now I’m going to get her back.” I said.  

“Who’s Scarlet?”  

“She is my oldest friend and sort of like my younger sister.” I admitted. “Oh.”   

We stopped in front of a door. Well actually two doors, but still. Bear pushed the doors open inside was a meeting place with a bunch of different people. There was something different about them. I could tell they were definitely not Slithers. “May I have your attention everyone!” The room quieted down. “We have found three new people like us.” Rileigh and me giggled. Her British accent was perfect and she was so serious that it was funny. “We found them in a tiny boat in the ocean. Wave found them.” Lilly went on stage. I was confused. Wave? Is that her real name?  Lilly was blushing as she headed up to the microphone.  

“The people we found have been around a bunch of the sake people who they call, ‘Slithers’ According to them they know the layout of their head quarters.” The crowd cheered. I looked at the British woman. Her hair was brown and she looked 16 years old. Lilly kept talking as I thought about her. I haven’t seen her face yet. I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned to see Rileigh whispering in my ear, “Come on! We have to go up.” I followed Rileigh up the stairs and to the stage. The audience started to clap. “As we all know we have nicknames that we call each other so our identities won’t be recognized.” The British woman continued, “So we will vote on their names based off of their powers.” There was a pause, “We will vote tomorrow. Good night everybody!”  

We stayed on stage until Lilly moved us on. “So. Your ‘name’ here is Wave?” I asked. “Yep” she responded. We walked into ta room.  “All three of us will be sharing this room.”  She said. I looked around the room. BOOM! My mind blew up because of the size. I could probably fit around 10,000,000 people. Ok, I’m being drama. It was really really really big room. I sat down on a top bunk. “What do you think of Zeus?” I teased. In union Rileigh and Lilly said, “Zeus? Really?” I smiled, “Why not I am technically Zeus.” Rileigh rolled her eyes, “Ok that is true, but it is also stupid Zeus.”  She teased. Nala then came in the room, “FOOD FIGHT IN THE KITCHEN!” She yelled. I jumped off the bed then fell to my feet. “Right. Do you have any big plastic bags?” I asked.  

I walked into the food fight with a garbage bag on my leg. I slammed the doors open. Then music played as I walked in. Then it stopped. “FOOD FIGHT!” I threw some mashed potatoes at a random person and the fight began… again. The music continued to play as the fight went on. I threw a few pies, bananas, popcorn, broccoli, candy, and maple syrup. Most importantly I found a whole stash of whip cream to spray at everyone. Everyone stopped. I looked around and saw that every single person was covered in whip cream. “Uh oh.” I said. There was white heaven through at me from every direction. I covered my face and put out my hands. The whip cream froze in mid air blue was surrounding it. I smiled at them. “You’re on!” I spun around and the whip cream went splattering everywhere. Then I froze. Oops! I turned to see the British woman standing there covered head to toe in whip cream.  

“I SAID GOOD NIGHT! GO TO BED ALL OF YOU!” she moved her finger around the room pointing at everyone, and then it landed on me. “YOU IN MY OFFICE NOW!” she screamed. GULP! Crap! I followed her in to her office this is different. I looked around it was yellow with blue and it was a little girlish.  She shook her head, “I should’ve seen that coming.” She said. She grabbed me by my shoulders, “Don’t do that again. Ok?” I could tell she tried to keep her cool. She let me go and I calmly walked out of her office. Hmm. DING! I smiled. I found some spray paint in a spare room and started making a bright blue and yellow door with words that say, “The Bottle.” In cursive. When I was done I ran into my room and lay down on the floor and slowly drifted off into a wonderful land, called dreamland.  

I woke up to a very annoying sound, the stupid alarm clock beeping. It was driving me crazy! I stuck out my hand and BOOM! The beeping stopped. “Everyone to the kitchen for breakfast.” A speaker said. I then stuck my hand out again and it said, “I am a poopy bottom.” I smiled that’s better. I slowly got up and went to the kitchen. 

Then the best smell in the world filled the hallway. “CINNAMON ROLLS!” I screamed. Soon in no time everyone was in line trying to get one of the big warm rolls with cinnamon. I got in there first of course. They were heaven! I bet Scarlet is jealous. After I ate my first one I went over and got three more. When I got out of the kitchen with the last three I ran. I was being chased by a mob. I turned into a room. My room to be exact. “What smells so good?”  Lilly, Oops! I mean Wave said.  I smiled, “Oh just the last three cinnamon rolls.”  

Wave and Rileigh jumped out of bed. “This name thing is going to get confusing.” I said with my mouth full.  Rileigh nodded, “At least you have a at least one nickname picked out.”  I thought through my head. “Splatter, Spotty, and. The light clicked. “Painter!” I yelled. We all started to laugh and roll on the floor. “Imagine me being called Painter!” We kept laughing until some one interrupted us. “Come on! It’s time to vote!” We followed the girl out of the room and snickered as we walked through the hallways. Wave had to wait for five minutes until she stopped laughing.  

“Ok. I good.”  

We walked in through the back door and onto the dark stage. The person who everyone is now calling ‘the Bottle’ because of me. I smiled. “Ok it is time to vote.” Nala was first. I looked up at the screens on the board. “Vines or Cosmos.” I nodded my head back and forth. Not bad, but I though Creator would be kind of better. I quickly added it in and it showed up on the screen. She was named ‘Vines’. It was ok. Rileigh was next. I added again, Creator. This time it was Creator.  

“Well, what did they come up with?” I stared at the screen. No names were up there. I was thunderstruck! Wait! That’s it. I grabbed a phone and quickly added my name. Rileigh then added Zeus. I rolled my eyes. It was stupid.  We walked out of the auditorium. “See ya round Thunderbolt.” I smiled. “We’ll still say each others real names once in a while right?” I asked. With a laugh Vines said, “Well I don’t think we don’t have a choice. It will sneak in there once I a while, Ashure.”  I rolled my eyes. We continued walking. Then the hallways started to turn red. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! From everywhere everyone started to run in one direction.  

(Vines) Nala, Rileigh, Wave, and me started running with them. I have no idea what we were running from or where we are heading. I found myself in a room with a bunch of screens and computers. “Approaching boat. Security systems?” one rather small girl said. CLICK! I went to the front of the room. “I have a better idea.” I said. After I announced my idea all of us got ready.  

I was the first one to jump from a tree as the cruse ship landed. The pasangerers stared at me. “ATTACK!” I screamed. Soon swinging from vines was my ‘crew’ dressed as pirates. Vines threw me one and we surrounded everyone on the top deck.  “ARG! Give me your treasure!” The tourists started screaming. The rest of my crew they started using ‘magical objects’ AKA their powers. I pulled out a gold bouncy ball and hit the ground with it. The boat started moving backwards. “STAY AWAY FROM ME ISLAND! AND KEEP YOUR WORTHLESS METAL.” We jumped off and watched as the boat disappeared. Every one was laughing by then. “To the ISP!” We all ran to different trees and slowly went back underground. “Any information?” The Bottle asked.  I stepped up, “Yes. Actually. There were a few slithers on that boat and I electrocuted them. Other than that it was a bunch of tourists.” They stares at me. “Slithers?” one girl asked. “Yeah it’s what I call the snake people thingies. And I already gave names to two of them. Medusa and Voldemort.”  

Then everyone thought it through. “I have a mission for some people.” The bottle said. “Zeus will make a map of the slither’s place and Wave, Creator, Alyah, and…” I was jumping up and down screaming, “ME ME ME!” in my head. The Bottle rolled her eyes. “Fine Zeus you can go too.” I stopped jumping and smiled at my accomplishment. We headed into the kitchen, well because I was hungry. I made a map of the place and showed them the air vents the most obvious place to hide and sneak around. We set out some closes to blend in and traveled underwater with air bubbles around us during the night.  

“Can we take a rest?” Alyah asked. We shrugged our shoulders and headed to a sunken ship. Lilly cleared out all the water and we slept there for a few hours. When we woke up the sun was shining. We continued to take the current express and headed to land. When we got there a cruse ship was about to take off. We emerged out of the water dry as can be. 

I waved at them to follow me.  We walked out of the bushes with a few sticks and walked up the beach. There were a few people there. Could be shape shifters, but I wasn’t quite sure. We continued to walk until I heard a scream. A little boy. There was no lifeguard. I studied the boy. Wave started to run when I held out my hand. “Why are you stopping me?” Wave asked. “Decoy. Trying to get us.” We didn’t look back and resumed our journey.   

Looking at the signs we were in California. There is a bunch of tan people. I stopped. There was something familiar approaching us. The others knew it too. I grabbed their arms and we hid in a shop. Then Rileigh pulled us out and dragged us over to the dumpsters. We watched as a carriage pulled up by four horses.  

Voldemort hopped out of the carriage and opened the door. We watched a figure emerge out of the carriage she wore a sparkly red dress with some purple flowers. We watched as a staff with a glowing orb and a raven on the top of it went out in front of her. Every one rushed to her and bowed down. Then they transformed into slithers, most of them. Then in the back were the real people. One of the Slithers stood out from the rest. He stood tall, his eyes blood red, and he was more snake than human. He also looked part iguana. “Iguana man.” I thought, “That’s his name.” We continued to watch them.  

“Have you got any of them yet?” My eyes went wide and almost popped out of my face.  

“No mam, but we did find a clue.” He looked at the ocean.  

“Well. What is it?” she asked.  

“Queen Scarlet, a tour boat was attacked by some magical pirates. Well from the tourists description they had magic objects that made the magical stuff happened.” 

“Hmm. Any of your men on the boat general?” Scarlet’s voice was still as it was; only she tried to make it sound a bit British and proper. Then the Iguana thing smiled. “And my troops were fried. Like how umm… what are they? Oh yesss, French-fries! They were crispy. Everything was burned, and it got programed to come back here.” Scarlet stood up a little straighter. She looked around. “General come with me.” He slithered into the carriage and everyone went back into his or her lives.  

“Come on!” I whispered to the group.  We slowly started to follow it. Then it stopped. Voldemort hopped out and entered a few numbers into a rock and the door opened. I sat there thinking. “Is there any way of invisibility?” I turned around. Nobody was there. I continued to look around when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I froze. I gulped and turned. I was ready to scream. “What? H-how? Who did that?” I thought then I felt a tap on my shoulder again and I saw the rest of the group. Rileigh was putting her finger up to her lips to make me quiet. Nala made vines appear and pointed to it. I grabbed onto mine and up I went.  

I watched as every one bounced up. “What’s the plan?” whispered Nala. I felt all the pressure on me. “Umm… Well we can go through the door, but…” I then jumped. “That’s it,” I said, “everyone listen up.” Pause, ok I know everyone hates the part where the plan is secret and stupid so… 

“I can travel through electricity, so…” Rileigh cut me off. “So you can teleport us inside the place and into the air vent so that we can spy on them.” I blinked. My plan was to electrocute everyone inside the place grab the plans and run out, but her is better. I made an electric ball around us and, POOF! We were in the air vents. We crawled around and listened until we found the meeting room. 

“Are you positive General?” 

“Yess mam.. The warriors say it was the same as when they were first electrocuted them.” 

“I need you and your troops to find her. Don’t fail me this tie general.” He bowed his head and left. Scarlet sighed. “I wish to be left alone,” she said. Everyone else left the room and she stood there. “Why is this so hard? I don’t want to do this anymore.” She waved her staff and a hard drive appeared along with a map, blueprints, and a few pens. She looked up at the celling and said, “Chose wisely, huh. That’s what he said. Now I’m here stuck in this position I should’ve chose to stay.” Before she left the room I saw her glance at the pens.  

We hopped out of the air vents. I grabbed a tablet out of the bag and took all of the information onto the tablet.  We all jumped at the sound of a red siren. “INTRUDERS IN THE MEETING ROOM” it blared. I slowly imagined being on the seashore. PHLOP! I looked around and saw a little girl surrounded by slithers. “Let’s go!” I stared at the little girl. She started to flicker like a flame. I zoomed in front of the slither and started to kick their butts. Soon the little girl huddled up to my leg. I watched as my friends disappeared in the water. I held on to her and closed my eyes. ZIP! The little girl almost spoke, but I put my hand over her mouth.  

“WHERE DID THEY GO?” boomed Voldemort. A puny voice from the rest of the slithers said, “Sir?”  

“WHAT DO YOU WANT?” the little dude slithered forward. “Mission complete.” He said. Then Voldemort stared at him as if he was a dancing turkey. “Mission complete?” he repeated. Then Scarlet emerged from black smoke. “Good work Apollo, I look forward to using you.” She said calmly. Then she turned to the general. “They don’t know it and neither do you. I asked Apollo to make a little tracking device and place it in the distraction” 

I looked at Apollo. He was turning red as a fire truck.  “So what about the one that you caught?” Voldemort gulped.  “Ssshe…eee escaped. The quick one got her.”  Scarlet stared at him in disappointment. “And what did they call the fast one?” Voldemort thought for a moment.  “ZEUS!” Apollo shouted. Scarlet stared at him. “So now there is a second fast one? Are- are you sure it wasn’t Ashure?” I looked at her face; it was white with a bit of red. Then I transported over to another lamppost and yelled, “HEY OVER HERE!” All of the slithers turned.  

“FIND HER!” Scarlet screamed.  

When they went over there I carried the little girl into the ocean with me. A current carried us to the shipwreck.  “Where were you?” Wave asked. I turned to the little girl. “She’s like us.” Rileigh stared at her, “And how do we know that she isn’t one of them?” I rolled my eyes and turned to the little girl. “Hi, I’m A-Thunderbolt.” She stared at me in confusion. “Thunderbolt?” She thought of the name. I was a little disappointed that she didn’t think it was an awesome name.  “Cool!” She finally said, “So where to?” I smiled and said, “Our home.” She floated in her air bubble with a little spark of excitement. I thought about her for a while. She seemed hyper and that there was something about her that seemed familiar. I continued to think and drifted off into space.  

“Ashure, Ashure.”  

“Does she usually do this?”  

“I really have no idea what she is doing.”  

I felt someone shaking me, “WAKE UP! WAKE UP!” I shook out of my deep thoughts. I opened my eyes and Nala was still shaking me. “N-nn-alll-aaaa” I tried to wiggle out. “VINES!” I screamed. The shaking stopped. The rest of the group stood back looking at me as if I was growing a tail.  

The little girl was clenched to the side of Rileigh. Rileigh tried prying her off. I looked down at my butt just to make sure I didn’t have a tail. Nope, no tail. “Why are you all looking at me like I have a tail?” The little girl was still staring at me. “You were glowing.” I slumped. “Really? That’s it?” I thought, “That’s dumb. I’ve had worse.”  Then a little voice popped into my head. “That’s not all,” It said, “You were muttering something strange it was a weird word. Then the big tall girl muttered something about you needing to get control.” I looked around to see who was speaking. “You good?” I turned to see Lilly.  “Yeah let’s get going.”   

We got on the current express as we zoomed past everything outside of the current. A few fish, turtles, sea horses, and dolphins joined us in the current. Everyone was quiet and sleeping a few snores here and there, but nothing else. I started to drift off to sleep. BEEP! BEEP! I sat up. “Who has the tablet?” I heard. I looked in my pocket. “It’s not the tablet.” I said. Everyone sat u and looked around. We turned to the little girl. There was an outline of something in her arm. “Hey kid do you have a phone?” Lilly asked. Her face was white. I noticed she was glancing at the spot I was looking at. “Is that?” I asked. She nodded her head, “I think so.” Then she started crying, “It’s all my fault! Now I can’t see anyone,” She said. The little girl stopped crying. “I guess I was being a bit dramatic?” she said. “Yeah.” I responded. Then they turned to me. “Yeah to what?” Then the moment of horror hit me. “You-you are – can.” I stuttered.  

I looked around. Nobody else seemed to know what I knew. Lilly and Nala swam over to me. “How well are your doctor skills?” Lilly whispered. “I suck, I will also barf.” Nala said. I smiled. “I can do it. All I need is a pocket knife and a needle with thread.” We emptied our pockets. I had two pocket knifes, Lilly found a needle and thread at the bottom of the sea. I swam over to Rileigh and held out my hand to the little girl. Once I touched her she had a shocking feeling and passed out. For Rileigh and Nala’s sake I’ll skip this part or else they will barf all over this.  

Ok so I skipped this part because well…most people will get nauseas if they see or read about something gross. For example, while I was doing this Rileigh and Nala they had to turn away. Rileigh is sort of getting used to it so, only Nala was the one barfing. As for Lilly, she was standing over me and looking at what I was doing. Honestly it wasn’t that hard. I sewed up my own clothes because the Island for Special People puts them in the clothing too. Rileigh started to watch me near the end. I tugged on the bandanna around my neck and kept it as a bandana. I tied it around her arm and then carried her on my back the rest of the way.  “Ok. Nala it’s over.” She turned around. “Can we go now?” Her face was a little green, but other than that she was ok. ”Wave? Wave? Thunderbolt! What is she doing?” Rileigh said. I turned and saw Lilly flickering. I looked above the water and saw the droids. “Rileigh, take Sparky and Vines to you know where. I’ll get Wave.”  I watched as they disappeared and I climbed onto the ship.  

When I got on the ship he was there. The most hideous, and ugliest thing I have ever seen. It was worse than Voldemort using filters to make his face like an orange. Yes that has happened. “UGH! Your stupid technology ruined everything!” He pouted. I stood there examining him. “I’m going to call you Mr. Fluffy. After the cat at the orphanage” He turned around. “How do you know my name?” I was shocked. I started laughing. “Your…Name is actually Mr. Fluffy! That is the weirdest name for a villain!” I couldn’t stop laughing! He looks weird, but his name!  The whole slither crew stared at me. “WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?” He growled. I stood up. “Nice to meet you Mr. Fluffy. I’m Zeus and I’m goanna kick your butt.” I stared at me. “Or would you prefer my twin Thunderbolt?” I added. They stared at me. Mr. Fluffy grabbed a stick and held it in the air. Sparkles flew out of it and suddenly Scarlet stood there. 

I didn’t hesitate to switch to the light bulb. “What did you call me for?” she said. “She was right here!” Scarlet rolled her eyes. “Who? Was is Ashure or Zeus?” He thought for a moment. “Zeus and she said she has a twin named Thunderbolt.” Scarlet processed the information. “And do you have their friend Lilly?” Mr. Fluffy nodded. I started to switch from light bulb to light bulb trying to find Lilly. I zapped into the dungeon to find the snake army waiting for me. Then Apollo slithered forward. “HA! You’re trapped!” I stood there waiting for something to happen. Apollo stood there and waited. “I said you’re trapped.” I stood there. “I heard you. I’m just waiting.” They were puzzled. I rolled my eyes, “For you to take me as your hostage.” Apollo stood there. “Oh um ok then.” Two of the slithers grabbed my arms and dragged me into the same cell as Lilly. 

Then they locked the gate. Lilly looked at me. I stuck out my hand and hither arm. “OUCH! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?” she screamed. I shrugged “Just making sure you’re real.” I pulled my self-right next to her. “Sink this boat.” I said. Her face went white. “Um. I can’t.” I stood up “Nice to meet you slither, but I got to go.” I grabbed my bandana to show my giant pencil and tapped them with it. The stupid slither got shocked and I simply zapped out of the cage. I continued to search the ship.  

 I got worn out and took a rest in the air vents. “Where would I know Lilly’s position would be?” I thought. DING! I crawled through the vents and shouted, “WHERE IS THE BATHROOM?” I know that it isn’t the best way to find someone, but they don’t have a security room with cameras. I took out a flashlight and shined it right in front of me.  I zapped into the flashlight and waited for a slither to pick it up. After a while a slither found the light shining through the vent and went in to see the flashlight. “Ssshe is in the ventsss.” He hissed. He started to slither into a room. It was pretty dumb where the ‘secret’ room was. There code was “Password” Villains are pretty dumb.  He entered the room and Voldemort was there.  

“I found a flashlight sir.” Voldemort turned around. “You bothered me because you found a flashlight.” He said, “What did I tell you about objects that are normal?” The slither’s face flushed. “So…Should I go check on the girl?” Voldemort turned around. “You mean our spy? I suppose it doesn’t do any harm…” The slither hurried off with me in the flashlight.  

“Excuse me mam.” Lilly turned around. “What do you want Trinity?” He or she (I had know idea what it was) slithered in and closed the door. “How much longer do we have to do this?” Lilly sighed. “Until we can destroy the slithers and capture the queen.” The slither started to jump up and down. “I don’t want to wait!” Lilly rolled her eyes. She reached into a drawer and taped an envelope to the flashlight. The slither grabbed the flashlight and threw it and me into the sea. I had a wonderfully cramped trip. No idea what was going on, but I felt like throwing up. I slept for a while. 

I woke up when I noticed that the ocean was no longer there. I was too tired to care to get out so I just sat there. In a flashlight. Sleeping. I sat there for a while debating whether to get out or not. Then some one picked the flashlight up.  I popped out right in front of Bear. “What’s your name?” I asked. She didn’t respond. “Hello?” I waved my hand in front of her face. “THUNDERBOLT!” I turned around. The Bottle was standing there. “YES MAM!” I shouted. “Come on you two we can’t be seen!” Bear slowly walked to the elevator. “Where have you been?” I was trying to find the right way to say this. Well I was in a flashlight trying to find Lilly to find out she is a spy with another person. “I was in a flashlight.” I said. The bottle stared at me. ”What? Am I on fire or are you dead?” DING! “Who was the girl the Creator brought in? Never mind just go to the medical center.”  

I stepped out of the elevator and walked to the medical center. The medical center has two red doors. I stepped inside to see a bunch of people caring for the people in there. “ZEUS! OVER HERE!” Rileigh was jumping up and down. “WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!” She said as she was shaking me. “I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!” I held my stomach and BLEH! I threw up all over Rileigh. Rileigh stared at me. “You.. You barfed on ME!” She screamed. I shrugged my shoulders. “You shook me. I think you need to change.” I said. Rileigh marched of and I sat down.  It took Rileigh a few minutes to change, but I didn’t mind. I ate strawberries and had a new ice cream that Bear made, its called Lavender ice cream. IT IS THE BEST!  I ate a whole tub of ice cream before Rileigh came back out.   

 “Ok so what do you need?”  Rileigh glared at me. “You know the kid we brought back?” I nodded. “She won’t wake up! I think you killed her and then she woke up. AND SHE CAUGHT ON FIIRE AND BURNED THE BED! WHAT IS GOING ON! MY BUTT WAS ON FIRE! WHO IS SHE?” I had to process this information. So little Sparkey caught on fire and then Rileigh’s butt caught on fire. Why was that important? “So her name will be Sparkey and why are you so upset about your pants catching on fire? “ she frowned. “My butt was on fire.” It took her a while to say that because she wanted to make a point even though I have no idea why it is important. Maybe I’ll catch my own pants on fire to see what the big deal is. “Ok. Where is Sparkey?” Rileigh pointed. I walked over to a bed and stared at her.  “She looks normal.” I said. I looked at Rileigh and put my pointer finger out and slowly moved my hand touched her. “AHHH!” She screamed. “Wow. It worked.” I thought. “Sparkey, you good?” She looked up at me and said, “Get a bucket of water.” “Wh...” She started glowing and caught on fire. I jumped back a little and SPLOSH! The water socked me and Sparky.” I stared at her. “Sorry… I can’t control it.” I turned around. Standing there was a slither. I put my hand out and a sphere appeared in it. “Ash” I ignored Rileigh. “Ashure! STOP! ASHURE!”” Rileigh exploded, all the paint splattered only on me. I turned around furious. “The Slither is on our side.” I still wasn’t convinced. “Listen Ashure, the slither is Trinity.”  I was confused. “Who?” I paused. “Wait wasn’t she on the slither’s ship with…” I stared at Rileigh.  

Then the bottle came in. “We have a new mission. One of our kind have been taken captive by the slithers.”  I turned around. “Is it Lilly?” Everyone gasped. I shrugged my shoulders. “Yes. The following operatives report to the mission room.” She started listing a whole bunch of names that are boring so I just sat there disappointed when I wasn’t chosen. They left. I decided I would go to without them knowing.  

I of course hid in the air vents. “Close the door.” Voldemort shut the door. “We have gotten them all fooled all of those little supers.” He said. I decided to broadcast this in every room of the building except this one. “We have caught their leader. With ugh why did we stick with those names that that brat called usss?” Then the scariest thing happened. The Bottle twisted her head and transformed into Medusa. “We don’t come up with namesss general. I was quite shocked. They came up with a plan that actually worked this time. “Transformed back and see if we can get close to capturing that little girl and her two sisters.” One slither then frowned. “Who?”  Voldemort shook his head. “Ashure, Thunderbolt, and Zeus.” I couldn’t stand it. I had to get out of there. I was half way through the vents when I started laughing. They thought I was three different people!  

I crawled into my room and fell on the bed.  I thought for a moment. Wait. Everyone that the Bottle called were… I felt so stupid. The pranksters and it is April’s fool’s day. Rileigh came in. “Ha ha nice prank Ashure.” I turned and stared at her. “Wait what did you call me? “ She turned white and sweaty. “I called you Ashure.”  I sat up. “Where is she?” She gulped. “SLITHER! EVERYONE GET OFF THE ISLAND! NOW!” I screamed that as loud as I could. Plus the speakers where still on so that worked. Everyone started running out of the underground building and into the water.  

I had one thing to do first. I ran through the hallways into the medical center. “What is going on? “ I grabbed Sparkey. “There is trouble here. We need to get out.” So the up side, I know that Slithers can only survive on land and will evaporate into dust if they touch water. Over half the island was slithers. The rest started splashing water at them.  I then signaled them over to me. A big group of people in the middle of the ocean, with one problem. They can’t swim. Everyone was splashing and yelling. I had to yell, “QUIET!” They went silent. “OK just follow me underwater and you will be fine.” I went under with sparky on my back. I watched as everyone else went under. I signaled them forward and kept going.  We swam to the only place I could think of, the coldest place on earth, Antarctica.  Sparky kept everyone warm. We got on the ice continent and walked as far as we could go.  I set Sparky down on the ice and it started to melt.  

She melted all the way through the ice onto the secret land underneath. Everyone jumped in after her. I looked around.  “IS THAT EVERYONE?” I yelled. I quickly ran around to find anyone. Nobody was out there. I grabbed a piece of ice and put it on top of the whole.  

“Where are we?” I turned.  “Under Antarctica.” Everyone started walking around the green land. “Where should our place be?” Bear said. I shrugged. “Everyone look around for a good spot to live that can be hidden. “Aren’t we already hidden?” Someone asked. They don’t get it. Being double hidden is better then if they find this place they don’t know where we are. “If the slithers find this place then we will be hidden even more.” Everyone slowly nodded.  We spread out then someone yelled “FOUND ONE!”  

I was surprised that it happened that fast. We walked over to where the voice came from. It was Rileigh. I stared at her. “Who are you? When did we meet? What is my name? What are my sisters names?” She stared at me, “I’m Creator, but it is actually Rileigh, we meet a few years ago your name is Thunderbolt or Zeus, you don’t have any sisters, you sometimes talk in your sleep, and you are turning fourteen this year.” I stared at her still unsatisfied. DING! I had a light bulb moment. “You smell really bad and your powers are sucky.” Then she started to turn red. I started to count down, “Three, two, one.” I then pointed to her and paint exploded everywhere. “Good to know it’s you!” I said.  

She gave me a cold stare. “So what place did you find?” She rolled her eyes and said, “Follow Me.” I shrugged my shoulders and summoned the others to follow me. I like the word summoned it makes me feel powerful. She led us into a dark cave. “SPARKY!” I yelled. Then a big flame lit up and stepped forward. “Hi Sparky.” She patted me on the back and my shirt caught on fire. I started patting the fire away. We looked around. There was metal on the walls, pictures of people with powers, and some orange trees. I was so confused. “Creator? Why are there orange trees?” She smiled and summoned us to follow her. We kept going then a light was up ahead. “Sparky.” She switched from flame mode to human mode.  There was a big round stone table in the room with fire lining the wall.  

Then emerged someone familiar. Everyone gasped and pulled out their weapons. It was… I couldn’t believe it. Then some one from the crowed charged. In response the person quickly shot water at them. “Hi, my name is Kylie and this is our sanctuary. Welcome to the UISP” We still weren’t convinced. “Are you a slither?” She stared at us. “You mean the serpentine?  Half human and snake?” I nodded. “No, first of all I escaped them long before you came here, an…DON’T EAT THE ORANGE!” She screamed we all stepped back a little. We turned and saw Opal picking one off the tree. She shot water at her and Opal stumbled backwards.  

“Ok so how did u get in here and how did you find here?” she asked.  “SPARKY!” I shouted. She stepped forward and caught on flame. Kylie jumped back in surprise.  Then she screamed and shot water at her. Sparkey turned off and ducked. Behind her Opal once again got soaked. “That’s how we got in here and we swam here.”  She stared at us.  “Oh then Creator lead us here.” I pointed out. She stood there processing the thought. “Ok. So why are you here?” I shook my head. “Our island got taken over by the slithers.” Sparkey said.  

“Who is your leader?” She asked. “We kind of don’t have one,” Everyone said. Then I got a bit angry. “HEY!” I yelled. “I lead you here and out of the island and I tried to warn you before hand!” I felt offended.  “Ok She’s our leader.” Everyone started pointing at me. “Ok so how many of there are you?”  I stared blankly at her. “Um so half of our people got captured by slithers so we don’t know.” I then started zooming through the crowd and counted.  Then I came back to the front. “2,414” I said. She stared at us. “Um. Then you should meet my leaders.” She waved her hand to follow her. I shrugged and started to step forward one foot in front of another.  

Then I stopped. “EVERYONE OUT OF THE CAVE!”  I screamed.  WE all ran out of the cave right before some bars closed it off with lasers through the hallway where we just were. Then From in side I heard some one yell. “SORRY! WRONG SWITCH!” Then the lasers disappeared and the bars disappeared. We stepped into the cave again and into the room. There was Kylie standing there. Then she squeaked. “How did you know?” I shrugged like it was no big deal and started walking in the other hallway of the cave. Kylie ran to keep up with me.  

“ We take a left.” We kept getting directions from her like Siri. I was starting to get annoyed. Then from the crowd, “Are we there yet?” Everyone nodded as if they were wondering the same thing. “Now we are here.” Everyone sighed in relief. She opened the steel door and we all stepped inside. There were over 12,000 people there. There was a platform like a stage above everyone. With four people on it sitting in some chairs with very fluffy cushions. “Kylie who are these people?” Kylie seemed a little scared. “They are like us. They found this place that’s when I meet them.” She shook as she spoke. The four supreme leaders whispered among themselves. “Who is the leader” The third spoke it like a command and not like a question. She shook again and started to speak, “Their leader is this girl.” She said pointing to me.  “What is her title?” The first one spoke. As she said this I was looking at the celling for speakers and air vents.  

Then I tapped my foot three times on the floor and the speakers beeped. “Hi, is this thing on?” The speakers blurted. “Ok I’m Thunderbolt, I have been in the slithers fake places for SP’s like us and I have found only one real person from all of them then I found the ISP then it got taken over by slithers and I lead them here.” The Supremes stood up after some more whispering. “We have decided…” I could barley hear them. I tapped my foot three times again. The fourth supreme cleared her throat. “We have decided that these people will stay here. They seem to know our enemy very well. Dismissed.” She waved us off.  

Right as we were about to turn around the four supreme started to descend from their platform. “You new comers. Stay.” I was very offended I felt like a dog! I was starting to charge and stuck out my hand, but Rileigh stopped me. The four walked forward. I could see them more clearly now. The youngest was maybe a little younger than me. She was the fourth that was very quiet. Her dress was yellow with some pink. The third seemed older than her for sure. She stood tall with a gown that was purple and blue. The second was about old enough to be Medusas sister. She wore a blue and white dress that kind of looked like a waterfall.  The oldest was probably Voldemort sister. Her dress was a dark blue with pink.  

“Thunderbolt. The leader. Do all of you have weird names?” The first said. We all nodded. “There are 2,414 of us 1415 girls and 999 boys.” I said. Then Sparky whispered to me, “They want to know your age.” I nodded and said, “I’m 13 almost 14.” They seemed surprised. “Is there anyone older than you in this group.” Sparky whispered to me again. “There are other people older than me, but the oldest is 24” The four supreme stared at me. “How did you know what we were going to ask?” I turned to Sparky. “Meet Sparky, she is a human fire and she can read minds.” They slowly nodded. “So what are your special abilities?” The fourth one asked. “I have supper speed, control lightning, and I can control anything that has to do with electronics.  

“SO that’s how you did the speakers.” She said. Then I realized that these were complete strangers. MY turn! “So what are your names and special abilities?”  The oldest spoke first, “I’m Coral. Master of wind.” Then was the second girl, “I’m Beam. Master of teleportation.” The name was odd, but not bad. Then the third.  “I’m Ace. Master of I want to say garbage and junk, but I guess food and plants.” I like Ace she seems cool and weird like me. Then the quiet one I could barley understand her. It was like a mouse was talking. “I’m Lila. Master of silence.” I stared at her. “I might call you mouse.”   

“We will have Kylie show all of you your rooms.” I thought. “Is there a large room that we could have a meeting in?” I asked. They nodded to Kylie and Mouse. “Follow me.” She waved her hand. I let Sparky lead the group while I slid to the back and talked to Rileigh. “I thought you got captured.” I stared at her. I ran through my thoughts. Either someone helped her escape or she was just lucky and got away before they caught her. She took a deep breath and sighed. “I’m sorry. The Bottle sent me here. After she got in contact with them.” She motioned her head to Kylie and Mouse.  “Then she some how got the information to you. That’s how you found this place.” I was hopping for more. I couldn’t have come up with that explanation. “What about Wave and…” My voice trailed off. I was about to say Scarlet. Then I realize that Nala wasn’t here. “How did you find out?” Rileigh asked. “What?” “You know. How did you find out that the island became over thrown by slithers?” 

 I thought back on what happened. How that one slither called me Ashure and not Zeus or Thunderbolt. And how I saw Medusa and Voldemort.  “Rim…Creator. There was one slither. That looked like you. They called me by my real name. And Voldemort was there. Same with Medusa. “ She processed my information like a factory. “Who is the kid, Sparky?” I smiled as Sparky lit someone’s butt on fire. “Some rescued kid. I gave her the name.”  We kept talking about not important things.  

Then we where interrupted by Kylie. “Here’s your meeting room. I looked around at the big room. “It will be fine thank you.” I said. Once everyone was in the room and the doors closed I pointed my fingers at the cameras and turned them off. “Who knows why we are here?” I asked. The crowd muttered, but nobody spoke up. I waited until Sparky yelled. “YOU SCREAMED AT US TO GET OFF THE ISLAND BECAUSE THERE WERE LIKE SLITHERS OR SOMETHING. IT SOUNDEDLIKE A SNAKE.” I nodded then the crowed whispered as in agreement.  

“The Slithers are stupid.” I began, “They think I am three different people. Didn’t booby-trap the air vents even though they know that is where I hide. They left their secret plans on a table so I got to see that.  There is a map of the place and how they got in and even better they are half human so they don’t survive in the cold long. Any questions?” There was a little pause then I continued. “Ok we are done.” I zapped the cameras back on and we continued to our rooms.  

Sadly. We didn’t all get separate rooms one for each. There were about 50 bunk beds in the boy’s first room than another three rooms. For the girls, 70 bunk beds were lined up in 7 separate rooms that connected together. It felt like a summer camp. As we walked in the room I quickly ran onto the first top of the farthest bunk bed. “SPARKEY! YOU WILL HAVE TO PAIR UP WITH SOMEONE WITH WATER POWERS!” Several girls groaned. Sparkey ended up bunking with Aqua. Rileigh took the bottom bunk underneath me. “Let’s see what you spill out tonight!” She snickered. I rolled my eyes. “At least I don’t snore like…WHO SNORES?” I screamed.  There were a few girls who raised their hands. The only one I recognized was Opal. “THANK YOU!” I turned back to Rileigh. “At least I don’t snore like Opal.” Rileigh was sandwiched between the blankets and the mattress. “What ever. See you in the dream world.”  

By the time everyone was settled in it was about 12:00. Midnight. Like Rileigh said, what would I talk about in my sleep tonight? I was in a big room, with one door. It was dark. Sparkey wasn’t there. I heard voices that echoed through the room. A chill was sent down my spine. I looked around trying to see who was talking. “She’s here.” I turned around nothing else there besides a chair. It wasn’t a slither; they would hold their ‘s’. I honestly was scared. There was a black chair in a dark room and a scary voice that was echoing. I got ready to fight someone. I started to make my fists glow so I could punch the person hard. “Hello.” The voice echoed the hello. “We’ve been waiting for you Ashure.” Then I heard more people chanting, “Ashure! Ashure! ASHURE!” It was getting louder and louder. Coming from all directions. I couldn’t see much. “Who’s there?” I asked. Then she stepped into the light, Scarlet.  

“Why are you in my dream?” She asked. We circled each other. “Why are you in my dream?” I asked back. I noticed she had her stick. It was different. A darker brown the crystal ball became cloudier. The raven got darker as well. “I usually have this dream.” She responded. “Scarlet. Come on! Why are you evil!” She smirked. “I’m not the one who’s evil! You are!” I stood there staring at her. “Ok well…” I punched her in the head with my fist.  She got back up with a bloody nose. “My turn.” She said. She summoned a hammer and threw it at my stomach. I felt that. Either someone is beating me up while I’m asleep or she can beat me up in my dream.  

I got up and went to punch her when something wrapped it’s slimy self around my legs. “OH COME ON!” I screamed. Scarlet stood there in disappointment. “I wanted to beat her up!” She pouted. “Why is Voldemort in my dream?” Scarlet thought that over. “Yeah leave our dream!” She demanded. I rolled my yeas as he slowly put me down. “Why is he Sooo annoying?” I asked. “Tell me about it! He keeps leaving his skins everywhere!” We stared at each other.  “Why are dream always interrupted by someone weird or annoying?” We both thought about that. Then Scarlet struck again with her fist this time. We kept fighting. I was badly beat up. I was losing.  It went back and forth. “Why do I almost always get beat up during battles?” She smirked. “I don’t know Ashure? Why do you have to have sisters?” I stared at her. “We can’t communicate in to each other’s dream. It’s sucky.”  She stared at me. “Where are you?” I stood there. “ Umm. In a dark room with a chair and you?” I said. She slumped. “Really? Not in the dream world! Where are you in real life?” I knew this was my time to annoy her. “On a bed, in a room, with lights.” I teased. She threw her hands in the air and screamed. “Ashure! Wake UP! ASH!”  

I woke up suddenly. I still felt the bruise on my stomach and face from my dream fight. Standing above me was Rileigh. “How are you standing above me?” I asked. She stood there staring at me as if I had a horn coming out of my head. “HELLO!” I screamed as I sat up. She jumped as I yelled. “Oh sorry.” She seemed embarrassed. “What happened?” I looked at her one of her legs where burnt like charcoal. “To you?” I added. She stared at me. “You. That’s what happened.” She crossed her arms. “You smell like burnt wood.” I smiled. “You look like a gorilla sat on your face and used you for tug a war.”  

Wait.  If I was actually beat up that means that Scarlet… I screamed. To be honest… I started screaming and shaking Rileigh. Everyone stared at me. Three nurse ladies ran to me as asked what happened. I kept screaming. I think my face was turning blue. Everyone burst into where ever I was. Rileigh started to get… I screamed as I rolled off the bed to take cover. BOOM! She exploded. I still screamed. Everyone covered in paint and one who was screaming her head off. What a lovely start to my day! Then I stopped. Rileigh walked up to me grabbed y shoulders and started shaking me and yelling, “ARE YOU OK!?” I held my mouth and stomach. BLEH!  

 She stopped shaking me and started Screaming. I whipped my mouth with a towel and waited. Once Rileigh stopped I grabbed a wet towel and whipped off my barf from her shirt. “ARE YOU KIDDING ME!” I shrugged. “WHY WERE YOU SCREAMING? HOW DID YOU DO IT FOR SO LONG?” She kept asking me questions about my screaming. “Creator, CREATOR!” No response. I was starting to get impatient. “RILEIGH! SHUT YOUR BABLING MOUTH AND LISTEN!” She stared at me shocked. She whimpered because of how loud I yelled. I opened my mouth about to say something, but I froze and fell on my face. I only know that everyone stood around me looking down at me and whispering. I blacked out.  

I am starting to get impatient with blacking out! I don’t want to miss Rileigh freaking out! Or Sparky pranking her! I hate blacking out. I HATE IT! When I was over and back in the bed Rileigh was replaced by Sparky and there was a nurse. Rileigh was out side of the curtain yelling at a guard.  The nurses were trying to get me to take some disgusting Medicine. I kept pushing the medicine away, but no. I just had to take all three medicines. Yep. Three. I handed them back the empty cup. “Sparky why does this always happen to me?” I asked. She shrugged. “Maybe your power is to powerful for a tiny scrawny kid like you?” She said. I stared at her with rage. I started to lift off the bed. “What did you call me?” I asked.  

She looked at me horrified to see what would come of her. My hands started glowing, and I was starting at her like I was going to murder her. Then I calmed down. When I was back on the bed, I stared at her and pointed my finger, “Never call me tiny or scrawny.” She backed off. Her face was white. “That’s new.” Rileigh was standing inside the curtain. “What was new?” I asked. She shrugged and pointe to my hair, “That and your eyes were glowing” I was confused. Why was she talking about my hair? “What is wrong with my hair?” I slowly said. She took a picture with a tablet and handed it to me. My blond hair now had a blue streak in it. Then she tapped on it and the blue steak started moving with tiny lighting in it. “Cool.”  

I looked around. “So when can I get out of here?” I impatiently said. One nurse lady stared at me. I felt uncomfortable. “What?” I waited for her to talk. “I-I don’t know what or how this happened to you, but you have an enormous bruise on your face and stomach.” She paused. Someone came in and handed her some papers. She briefly looked at them. “So you also broke your leg. What the heck was happening in your sleep?”  

I didn’t know how to put this. I itched my head. “I think Scarlet beat me up in my sleep and she might also be beat up if I’m beat up.” They stared at me. “Are you ok?”  I sighed. “What did I do in my sleep?” I looked at Rileigh. “You started floating and shooting lightning everywhere. You flinched a few times. I guess you also hit the wall.” The nurse lady stared at me. “I think there might be a few more injuries than what we thought.” I sighed. She touched her ear and spoke. “Mouse I think our patient might have some more injuries.” I recognized the voice coming out.  “What? Why didn’t you do all of the tests the first time?” I smile. Mouse decided to use the nickname I gave her. Yay! The Nurse turned back to me. “We’ll have to take you back to the healing room.” She walked behind the bed and started pushing me. Rileigh waved, “Have fun!” I rolled my eyes. I pointed my pinky at her. She pointed hers back.  

I was pushed into a room with a weird plus sign on it.  It was blue instead of red. The nurse lady washed her hands and put on some gloves. I sat there for a while. “What’s your name?” I asked. She turned around.  “I’m Mercury and you are?” I sat there thinking. “Which name do you want?” She was shocked. “You have more than one name?” I nodded. “Call me Thunderbolt.” She nodded. Then Mouse walked in. She was wearing Doctor clothes and blue plastic gloves. 

 “ Ok Thunderbolt. This may take a while.” I sat there waiting for something to happen. I looked up at the celling. I saw Mouse nod. I felt something prick my shoulder. “WHAT THE HEACK?”  I yelled.  I looked at Mercury.  She was holding up an empty shot. She looked at me. “Haven’t you ever gotten a shot before?” I stared at her. Ok I haven’t. When the doctor came to the orphanage to give us flu shots I hid in the air vents. I have never gotten a shot. I shook my head. “I always hid at the orphanage when the doctor came to give us flu shots.” Mouse stared at me. “So you’re an orphan?” I never had someone call me that before. “Yes? Why?” I asked. “All of us here have parents out there in America.” I shrugged. “I never new mine.” Then Mercury pricked me again.  I jumped back. “Would you stop that?” 

I sat there. Waiting for something else to happen. I recalled that they said I broke my leg. It wasn’t in a cast yet.  “Ok you broke your arm.” Mouse said. She wrapped it up and sent me off to the girl’s room. I snuck a few things from there to wrap my leg. I climbed up on my bed and pulled out the stuff I took. I started feeling around my leg. I felt the broken part of the bone and put a stick next to it. Then I wrapped some stretchy material around it and stuck it together. I felt my stomach growl. I climbed down the ladder and walked around to find the kitchen. 

I smelled something that smelled wonderful. I followed the scent to the kitchen. There were a few people making some food. I watched as they put some gross ingredients in it. “WHAT THE HECK IS YOU MAKING?” I sort of screamed. The three people in there stopped and looked at me. “I honestly don’t know.” I stared at them. “What is on the menu?”  I asked. One of them looked at a paper. “We are supposed to be making ham and turkey sandwiches, soup, and broccoli.” The three of them stuck out their tongs in disgust. Ok I thought. Not bad it’s easy to make all of that. “Ok someone go to the chopping board. Another person gets bread. And someone get me some broccoli.” I started yelling directions at them to make the food. It took us an hour until we finished. I started dishing them out then people started coming in. They formed a line and each grabbed a tray. Everyone took the food and came back for seconds. The only thing untouched was the broccoli. I started eating it. I’m not sure why it was on the menu if nobody would eat it. 

Then the four head people came in. The first one sniffed, licked their lips, and quickly ran to get the food. “This is the best food we will ever have.” The second one said. Mouse spoke up, “You three should cook more often.” I was horrified. She didn’t notice me.  “I think you mean four?” The four head people looked up. “You were behind this?” The third one asked. I nodded. “BRILLIANT!” She shouted. They started taking two of everything. Mouse stopped on front of me. “How did you get that stuff on your leg?” She asked I looked down. I had the bandages on.  “I snuck it into the girl’s room?” I said unsure of what she would do. “Is there anything you’re not good at?”  

“Not getting hurt?” I suggested. Mouse rolled her eyes. “Your little friend is looking for you.” I walked out of the kitchen and started filling up a plate with broccoli. “THUNDERBOLT!” Sparkey yelled. “What Sparkey?” I said. “I found their camera room.” we walked out into the hallway. I froze. Scarlet was standing right there. “Why are you here?” I asked. Scarlet looked at me in surprise. “Why are you in my room?” She asked. I shook my head. “No you’re in the hallway of where I am.” I responded. “Huh.” I thought. “So you see me in your room and I see you here in the hallway.”  

I studied Scarlet. She had a Band-Aid on her arm and that was it. “I think I lost badly when we fought last night.” I said. She looked at me. “Yeah I think I beat you.” So why are we seeing each other right now?” I asked. She held out her hand and her staff appeared.  “So are we going to fight or what?” she impatiently said. I held my hand out in front of me. “Hold on. Do you live in like a big fancy castle now?” She looked at me. “You don’t?” She responded. “How many dresses do you have?” I asked. “I have about 100 or more.” She said. “And your fashion choice really? A hospital gown?” She looked at my clothes. “Sorry if I was beat up in my sleep and taken to the hospital.” I got my fists ready.  

This time I struck first. I got her right in the face. “Ashure?” I didn’t pay attention to the voice. Scarlet came charging at me. I simply moved out of her way. She hit the wall. “Ashure? Who is that?” Sparkey said. I didn’t have time to tell her. Scarlet came charging at me with the end of her stick pointing at me. I moved out of the way and kicked her. She screamed with rage. “Sorry can’t let you kill me today.” I said. She charged at me again. This time she ran into and opening door. “OUCH! WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?” She screamed. I turned to see her holding her arm. I flinched. “I think you have something in your arm.” I said. She looked. Her staff was sticking out and she was dripping blood everywhere. 

I saw Voldemort slither over to her. He picked her up and carried her away. I couldn’t see her any more.  “THUNEDERBOLT!” Someone was shouting my name. “THUNDERBOLT!” I felt someone grab me. “Bro are you ok? Hello? CAN YOU HEAR ME? I’ll get help ok. SOMEONE GET MOUSE!” I started to see everything as a blur. My knees gave out after jumping around and fighting. I fell to the ground and slid down the wall.  “MOUSE!” I was too tired to think who I heard. They sounded so familiar. Leaned against the wall. “MOUSE!” They yelled for the third time. I felt two people pick me up and pull me to my feet.  “Thunderbolt? Can you hear me?” I was so tired I couldn’t find the words. The two people pulled me to a room.  The doors slid open. They pulled me onto the bed and I slowly fell down. The room got dimmer and dimmer, until it was pitch black.  

Oh so exiting! There was a big fight! Ha you wish. It was only one of the many small fights. You’re probably thinking.  “THIS IS SO EXITING! I’M STOKED!” ha not fun for me. If you were in my position blacking out almost everyday you would want to become a fish. That is the point I’m at, but I also have powers so, I would rather be me? I guess. It’s better than being a boring fish.  

I woke up in the same medical room I was in last time. Mouse was staring at me. Sparkey was in a chair talking so quickly Rileigh and Mercury had to tell her several times to slow down. I was the speed demon. I could hear every word she was saying. Mouse was doing something with my leg. Sparkey started sweating making fighting motion. Then she pointed to me. Mercury and Rileigh turned in my direction.  

I waved my hand and smiled. “Hi” They stared at me. “Can you understand her?” They asked. I nodded. Then I yelled, “SPARKEY SHUT UP!”  She slowed down and stopped. “Oh goody goody you’re awake! They can’t understand me. They process things so slow.” I waited for her to shut up. “SPARKEY ENOUGH!” I screamed. She covered her mouth. “If you want them to understand you, you need to slow down to the speed of their brains.” I slowly said.  

She nodded. “So there was this girl in the hall way and Ash- Thunderbolt called her Scarlet. Then they started fighting and hitting each other, then Thunderbolt moved out of the way and she ran into a door then she disappeared.” I nodded to everything she said. “Another fight with her? Really? Why does this keep happening?” I looked at Mouse. “She just keeps appearing in my dreams and where I am sometimes.” I shrugged.  

Mouse stared at me. “And how often has this happened?” I thought for a moment. “So far only twice.” I said. Mouse processed the information. “I think you should go see Ace.” I recalled from my memory, she was the master of garbage? No it was plants and nature like Bear. Then I recalled what Mouse was. “Hey Mouse, I thought you were the master of silence and not healing.” Mercury turned to her. “True, you started doing this the second day I came here which was, what eight years?” She sighed. “Ok So I don’t like being silent, but I like taking care of people. “ I studied her to see if she was lying. Nope not lying.  

“So where is this master of Garbage and junk?” I joked. I took some crutches and started following Mouse. We hopped onto an elevator. “What floor?” I asked. Mouse pushed the button with a 4 on it. I sat on the floor and touched the keypad. “Hold on!” I said. There was no time for them to question me. The elevator quickly zoomed up to the fourth floor.  Everyone hit fell to the floor. They screamed. It only lasted for what 5 seconds? DING! The elevator stopped. Everyone crawled out. I simply walked out.   

“Why?” Mercury asked. “It was going to take us 5 minutes to get to the fourth floor so I made it 5 seconds.” I said. All of them stared at me in horror. “Never. Again.” They threatened. I shrugged my shoulders. “No promises.” I teased. I started looking at the rooms for a fighting room. “Hey Mouse where is the fighting room?” I asked. Mouse was confused. “Why would she be there?” I stopped in front of a door and swung it open. There was Ace, strangling dummies with vines.  

“HELO ACE!” I yelled. She turned around and smiled. “HELLO!” She screamed back. I stopped. Wait, why am I on crutches when I can fly? I lifted myself off the ground. Mouse stared at me. “That’s new.” Mouse said. Ace went back to ripping apart the dummies. We waited.  I started to get impatient and Held out my hand so my sphere appeared. I threw it at the next dummy and it exploded everywhere. She stopped and turned. “What do you want?” She complained. 

Mouse spoke, “She’s been getting beaten up by someone in her sleep and the person is in a different place.” Ace turned to me. “Who is it?” I didn’t want to say it. Rileigh spoke for me. “Her name is Scarlet. She is currently the leader of the slithers, and Thunderbolt’s old friend/ sister kind of.” I hated hearing the last part.  

Ace nodded. “That explains so much.” We looked at her. “How?” I asked. She looked at me as if it was obvious. “Um is it because we have a special bond or something?” I guessed. She smiled and nodded. “So anyone want to blow up some dummies?” I happily flew over to them and started punching them in the face. I held out my hand and my sphere appeared in my hand. I threw it at the dummy and it exploded leaving only the burnt stick. Ace looked at me with curiosity.  

“Where did you get that giant pencil that makes things explode?” I went back to my memory when I took the bandana from the slithers place. I stopped. “How does it have the same power as me when the slithers had it?” I thought. I stopped thinking and started talking, “Is there a library with books about magical weapons?” Ace nodded. “Why?” I stared at my weapon. “I want to find out what this thing is.” I said looking at my weapon. It had two blue lightning strikes down the sides. Now that I was actually looking at it had a weird writing on the side. One of them looked like the pie symbol for math.  

“Let’s go.” I floated in the air following Ace to the library with Rileigh and Sparkey following me. We arrived in front of two brown doors. “Go inside and tell the librarian, Hailey for the old book on magical weapons and a translator.” I tilted my head. “A translator?” Sparkey asked.  Ace nodded and waved us bye. “I have some leader business to deal with.” She left.  

I opened the two brown doors. Inside there were humongous shelves with 2,000 books on them each. Ok another exaggeration. They were 20 shelves high and very long. I walked up to the desk. “Are you Hailey?” I asked. She stared at me with eyes like she was about to murder me. “Yes, SHHH! And what do you want?” She responded. “I’m looking for the old book on magical weapons and a translator for it.” She waited. Then I remembered that librarians like proper grammar. “Please.” I added. She nodded in approval.  

She went to the back of their desk and picked up a book with something else. She set it down with a loud THUMP! She stared at the book and hushed it. I was starting to think she was a little crazy. She handed it to me. “Here you go, be quiet and leave me alone.” She turned back to her computer and started playing a matching game. 

I took the book with me to the tables on the far side of the library. I purposely put it down loudly. Hailey turned. I saw what she really looked like now. Brown hair and eyes, glasses and she looked 12. I shuddered looking at her. “SHHHHH!” She hissed. Just to clarify she is not a slither. I just used that word to show that she was rude.  

I started flipping through the book. I don’t like using the table of contents. I found my sphere in the book. It showed it as a sphere and as a headband, mug belt, and bandana. I picked up the translator. I turned to Sparkey and Rileigh. “Any of you know how to use this?” I loudly said.  

They both shook their heads. I decided to put it up to the paper. It didn’t work. I tossed it to the side.  I started at the top. I saw the words real clear. I read the following: 

Lightning and speed sphere.  

Can change into different objects to the holder’s pleasure.  

I stopped there hopping it would turn into pizza. Nope.  I continued reading.  

Does not turn into food.  The holder is to be the only master of speed, lightning, and controlling electronics.  The sphere can be thrown and reappear in holder’s hand.  The sphere can also summon thunderstorms with lightning anywhere. Literally anywhere.  

The sphere is two of a kind. The other weapon is used to preform magic.  

The sphere can’t be taken away from the holder, unless the evil force destroys it.  (Don’t worry the evil force was destroyed and Lucifer is banished to the underworld).     The sphere is one of two that can destroy the creature for good.  There is writing on the sphere that should glow gold when the holder wants to read it. The writing is the instructions.  

The sphere was created on a planet called Jupiter.  Humans are stupid and think that it is only made of gas.        

The holder facts.                                                

The holder is naturally born a leader.  The holder is usually a girl. The holder should like to eat a lot of food and consume things. You should also be very bad at staying safe. Your sibling or adoptive sibling owns the second sphere. You get angry easily, and hate it when people call you short.  Your get tired of blacking out when you use your power.  

There is one thing that everyone doesn’t know. You remember seeing your mother. I know this because I am the master of lightning during my time.  You also hate when people insult you or your friends. You will have more adventures and life threatening fights. Have fun! 

I finished reading the short page. I held my bandana and it transformed into a headband. Then I held out my hand. It appeared in sphere form in my hand. I could now some how read the writing on the sphere. I followed one of the directions. I held it up in the air and shouted, “THUNDERBOLT!” Then the writing started glowing and I was lifted up in the air. Lightning surrounded me in a cocoon.  

I watched as my clothes transformed into a dress. I stared at it in disgust. Then it turned into something different. The dress shortened and some light blue leggings appeared then the bottom half of the short dress turned into a skirt, with a darker blue. Then the top turned into a yellow shirt with a blue jean jacket completed with a yellow headband.  

 The cocoon disappeared and I was dropped onto the floor. I stared at Sparkey and Rileigh. Their faces where white and they had a few scorch marks on their clothes. “WHAT THE CORGGIES WAS THAT?” Rileigh screamed. I stood up. Then I realized something. I started jumping up and down. Sparkey stared at me with concern. “Are you ok? You just came out of a lightning ball fell to the floor with a completely new outfit and now you are jumping around.” I pointed my finger to one of the speakers and a song started playing. I started dancing with my cringe dance moves.  

I danced out of the room leaving the book on the table. I had all the speakers turned on and bursting the song. I was dancing out into the hallway.  The main four rushed out of the meeting room. They stopped as they saw me jumping around and screaming.  Mouse was the only one that realized. “TURN OFF THE SPEAKERS!” Mouse screamed. I stopped jumping and shut them off. I crossed my arms. “Why did you have to interrupt my jam?” I asked. She pointed to me. “First, nice outfit. Second, WHY ARE YOU JUMPING ON YOUR LEG?” She started yelling at me. Everyone waited for her to stop. I got sick of her insults I pointed my finger at her and shocked her butt. “Mouse. Let’s go to the camera room.” She was confused. I signaled Sparkey and Rileigh to come to me. I grabbed all of them and zapped away through the lights until we got to the camera room.  

I just had to put my finger down on the control pad and it turned to the library camera. I showed Rileigh, Sparkey, and me. I made the volume louder. I was reading the book. Then I transformed my sphere. And I was yelling my name. Then the lightning ball showed and then it showed me falling.  

Mouse stared at the screen. She turned to me. Then she spoke in her quiet voice. “What language were you speaking?” I was confused. “I was speaking English.” I said. Mouse shook her head. “You said some thing like Thunderbolt.” She said. I under stood her perfectly. “Yeah I know I said Thunderbolt.” I responded. She shook her head. “Listen, T-h-u-n-e-r-a-i-d.” She spelled. I was shocked. “But that is not how my name is spelled.”  Sparkey butt in. “Thunderbolt. You spoke a different language. We couldn’t understand you.” She crossed her arms.  

 I had to make sure what I was hearing was right. “So you’re saying that I spoke a different ancient language?” They looked at me and nodded. They had Hailey bring the book in.  Sparkey flipped to a random page.  “What does it say?” She asked. I looked at it. “The sward of fire. The oldest master of fire can control if. It can be tricked into thinking that it is in its owner’s hand. A slither is able to shape shift into a fire master then the sward will act as the slither’s” I stopped there. “You can’t read that?” I asked. They all shook their heads no.  

“Is there anybody else that can read this?” I asked. Mouse looked around the room. “No. Not that we know of. The Bottle sent us some scrolls with similar writing, but we can’t translate it.” I thought for a moment. “Can I see them?” Ace brought them in I looked at them. I read the titles. “The first one is about Mouse and some special abilities, then the other is about.” I stopped there. I looked at Rileigh. “It’s about Scarlet.” I looked over the scroll again to see if it was right.  

 “Do you mind if I keep this for a while?”  They nodded yes. I went to the girl’s room and started reading.  It was like a prophecy.  

There will be a child of the slithers. An older girl will guide her. She will be two years Older.  She will be the most powerful of them all. During an attack she will be convinced to become one of them after learning the truth. She will either destroy or save the gifted ones. 

Her powers can be held back for a moment if the two spheres points touch. 

I finished reading it. I focused on being where Scarlet was. I opened my eyes and she was below me pacing around her room.  I looked down at her. “Scarlet.” I calmly said. She looked up. “Who’s there?” I smiled. I was hidden on the canopy of her bed. “It’s Zeus. Congratulations. My sister is dead.” I joked. She looked around the room. “Ashure doesn’t have any sisters.” She said. I sighed. “Why can’t I just have a little fun?” I asked. She looked up. I made myself float down to the ground. “But I actually do have sisters.” Scarlet stared at me. “Yeah right.” I rolled my eyes. I looked at her outfit. “Purple is a good color for you.” I said. She looked at me. “And you’re in pajamas.” I looked down. Apparently I was. I stuck my hand out. My sphere appeared. I held it up and yelled, “THUNDERBOLT!” The sphere made a ball of lightning surround me. Then I was in the blue and yellow outfit.  She stared at me. “Wow. I never new you could do that.” I shrugged. “I never new I could read a language that only a few people can read.”  She stared at me. I put my sphere on my head then it transformed into a headband.  

“Can I see your staff?” I asked. She reluctantly gave me hers. I looked at the writing. I nodded, as I understood the writing. “Ok thanks. I’m going to go now.”  I said. “WAIT!” Scarlet said. I stopped. She ran up to me and hugged me. “Ok now you can go.” She said. I reached on my back and pulled off the tracking device. “Nice try.” I blasted off and disappeared. I was floating above my bed. I looked at my clothes. Pajamas. Great. I felt around my back just to make sure there wasn’t a tracking device. I shocked myself for good measures.  

“ Thunderbolt there you are!” I turned and saw Rileigh standing there. “We’ve got a mission.” I happily hopped down from my bed. Rileigh lead the way to the meeting room. There I meet Sparkey and the big four.  “Hello. You three were chosen to go to the mainland for a mission.” I nodded. “You will be sent to an orphanage. There Queen Scarlet will be picking the oldest and some young to work at her palace.” I immediately had a question. “Wouldn’t she recognize Rileigh and me? Oh and they’ve seen Sparkey.” The four nodded. “That is why we will be giving you disguises and fake names.” I nodded. “So what are our fake names?” I asked.  

They shook their heads. “Disguises first.” The first said. They pressed a button the wall behind them opened up. There were three chairs and three hairdressers. I noticed some hair die and scissors. I stared at them. “So we are getting haircuts?” I asked. They nodded. Sparkey took the middle chair, Rileigh took the first chair, and I took the last chair with the youngest hairdresser.  

My hair was to my Bely button. First they took a spray bottle and made my hair wet and strait. They did the same to everyone else. I sat there patiently waiting for my hair trim to be done. The young hairdresser decided to cut my hair a little above my shoulders. I looked in the mirror to see that over half of my blond curly hair was gone. I turned to look at Sparkey; her hair was very short up to her ears. Rileigh had hers to her shoulder blades. Then Sparkey’s hairdresser took red die and started dyeing her brown hair red. 

Riliegh’s hair stayed the same color with a few lighter brown highlights. My hairdresser grabbed the white dye and gave me some white highlights. The hairdressers nodded as they finished. The big four signaled us to follow them. Next we had to sit in some more chairs as makeup artists disguised my freckles and put in some colored contacts that made my green eyes blue.  Sparkey’s red eyes were now yellow and she had a few freckles. Rileigh’ blue eyes where now gray. Then we had to get our outfits.  

 I ended up wearing some jeans ripped in the knees. Then my shirt was white. We went back to the hairdressers. The young one gave me Dutch braids. I changed my weapon into light blue jean jacket that had rips in the pockets and on the sleeves. I got to see my completed look in the mirror. Sparkey had red pants with a skirt that had flames on it. Her shirt was black. Rileigh had purple leggings with a grey shirt.  

We all gave each other thumbs up approving of our new looks. We meet back in the meeting room. “Thunderbolt your name is Skylar, you are fourteen. Sparkey, your name is Blaze, you are ten, and Rileigh your name is Madison. You are fifteen.” Beam sent us to under a highway.  

There were tents everywhere. A lot of homeless people. I heard a police siren. They all hid. Blaze (aka Sparkey), Madison (Rileigh), and me (Skylar) didn’t know what to do so we just sat on the dirt. The police car drove from under the highway. Then it stopped. The policeman got out and walked up to us. “Where are your parents?” He asked. We looked at each other. I played dumb. “Do you mean and orphanage? We haven’t gone to one sense ours closed. Now we live here.” I lied. He stared at me. “How about I take you three to an orphanage?”  

We looked at each other.  I decided something for us. “Me and my friends shouldn’t talk to strangers so we don’t’ know you and that makes you a stranger.” I said. I found a pocketknife in the pants pocket of my jeans. “RUN!” I yelled to my friends. I pulled out my pocketknife and slashed the officer’s out held hand. We ran up the hill and hopped over the fence to the highway.  We kept looking back at the moving police car. We Ran across the highway and hopped off when a restaurant was near by.  We ended up running into a crowded restaurant called, “Happy Burger.” We hid in the kitchen between the two freezers and the wall. 

The police officer walked in. He looked around. “EVERYBODY OUT OF THE STORE!” He yelled. I was frightened that he would find us. “I need back up at Happy Burger.” He spoke to his radio. We stayed silent as everybody exited the restaurant. “Come out orphans.” He spoke. I knew two things.  I did not want to go to the orphanage and I didn’t like being called an orphan. I looked at Blaze and Madison. They nodded with their pocket knifes in their hands. He walked past us. Then he came back and reached through the crack. All three of us cut his hand. He pulled it back. “I found them. And they have knifes.” He said in his radio. We looked at each other.  

I heard the other police officer enter. I held onto Blaze and Madison. We zapped into a light blub then at the entrance of the store. They spotted us as we opened the door. “GET THEM!” He yelled.  I knew that I shouldn’t hide in a light bulb this time.  We scattered around the restaurant. I was at one end of a table and the cop dude was on the other. We circled the table. I put my hands on the table and lifted it up so that it fell on him. 

Blaze and Madison did the same to the cop lady. We went to the back exit. We turned around when two cops came through there. We backed up. I did one of the craziest things. I grabbed a burning burger and flicked it at the cop’s face. Blaze and Madison did the same. The cops screamed as they got burnt in the face. We ran through the entrance and escaped. Not expecting cops to jump out and grab the three of us. 

“LET GO!” I screamed. Blaze and Madison did the same. It was no use we couldn’t escape. They through us in the back of a car and put the child lock on the doors. We were also handcuffed. I sat in the back thinking of a plan. I decided to annoy the cop driving. “Did you know that I get carsick?” I began. I did one thing that they did not see coming. I threw up on them. They pulled over and pulled us out of the back seat.  

They talked into their radio. “Uh can we have another cop car? One of the kids threw up in ours.” She said. “Yeah it’s everywhere.” While the two cops were talking I picked the locks on our handcuffs and we started running. We ran for three miles until we stopped. We were so tired. Blaze, Madison, and fell to the ground and passed out. 

I heard sirens and a car. I was too lazy to move. I felt someone pick me up and place me in the car. It was a bumpy ride to where ever I was being taken. I heard two other sirens. I was alone in a police car with a cop. “Blaze? Madison?” I asked. I didn’t want to be alone. I forced myself up. I decided to barf. I barfed right there between the bars separating me from the cop. The barf hit his shirt. I did it again. He quickly pulled over and hopped out.  

I heard him say some words that were very bad. I covered my innocent ears. I heard two more cars pullover. Then I heard the two doors open then shut. “SHE BARFFED ALL OVER ME!” He yelled. Then I heard the lady officer. “Let’s put her in the front seat of my car and you can ride in the back up car incase they run away. “ I heard the guy grunt. I sat up fully and waited. The door opened. When they saw me sitting up they quickly pulled me out and set me on my feet. I fell onto my face. I wiggled up. My feet were tied together and my hands were once again hand cuffed. 

I got up. I tasted blood running from my nose. I looked up at the guy. ”I think my nose is bleeding.” I said. The girl had purple hair and she hit the guy on the back of the head. She picked me up and put me in the front seat. She untied my feet and took off a handcuff then handcuffed me to the eat belt. She handed me a tissue. I immediately blew all of the blood from my nose and threw it out the window. I found a paper clip and used it to pick the lock on the handcuffs. I turned around and saw Blaze leaning up against Madison. 

 The lady cop kept her eyes on the road. “What’s your name?” She asked. I crossed my arms. “I’m not supposed to talk to strangers.” I said. She looked at me. “You’re the trickster aren’t you?” I didn’t speak. I searched my pockets. “HEY! YOU TOOK MY POCKETKNIFE!” I yelled. That woke up Blaze and Madison. The cop lady swerved a little when I yelled.  

“Skylar? Are we going to be fine?” Blaze asked. “Turned around. “Hopefully Blaze.”  The cop lady was listening. “So you’re the fearless leader?” I nodded. “I’m not the oldest though.” I said. She raised an eyebrow. “Really?” She asked. I looked in the back. “You good Madison?” I asked. Madison nodded. “So Madison is the oldest and Blaze is the youngest.” I nodded. “I like your hair.” I said. She smiled. “Thanks.” She stopped the car and unlocked the doors. Three cops waked up to the car. One for each of the doors. The guy that I cut grabbed me. 

I noticed there was a gate. Then the letters Orphanage. “Why can’t we go back to our home?” I complained. The purple haired cop spoke, “This is your new home.” She said. I shook my head. “This isn’t home this is prison.” I said. I looked back Blaze and Madison was being carried and I had to walk. The purple cop nocked on the doors.  

A woman with grey hair answered. “Yes?” The purple cop took her turn talking explaining that we were some orphans. The lady looked at us. “Trouble makers eh?” She asked. The cops took the keys and unhand cuffed my friends. We were shoved inside. The lady closed the doors. She handed us papers and pens. “Fill out the papers” She said. I looked at the printed papers. 

There was simple questions like, what’s our name and how old are you?  

I filled mine out pretty quickly: 

Name: Skylar  

Age: 14 

Special skills: can read and talk an ancient language 

Date of Birth: 14th of January. 

I had to help Blaze with hers. We handed them to the lady.  She walked over to a bell and rang it. 20 orphans came rushing down the stairs and lined up. The lady called out names. The lady called, “Madison” And pointed to and empty spot. The she called my name and pointed to my spot. And she did the same for Blaze. 

“The queen is coming to pick some of you to work at her castle.” She had us line up in front of a door in a line against a wall. I watched as Scarlet walked in. I suddenly remembered my mission. Scarlet strolled across the hallway with Voldemort following her. She entered the room and we started going in one by one to get interviewed by her. It was my turn.  

She had me sit. I noticed the papers that the lady had me fill out. She must have had every orphan do it. Scarlet looked up from her paper at me. “You’re Skylar?” She asked. “Yes mam.” I quickly responded. “You can read and speak a ancient language?” I nodded. “Where did you learn it from?” I rubbed my arm. “When I was little my mother taught it to me.” I said. She handed me her staff. “Can you read this writing?” I looked at her staff. I nodded my head.  

“The staff’s name is Magic wonder.” I said. She was surprised. “And you learned this from your mother?” I nodded. She waved her hand to Voldemort. He wrapped his tail around me and forced my arm out. I tried to get free. I felt something right underneath my arm I slipped out the sliver knife and gave the tail a small cut. Voldemort let go of me. I stood on the chair. “DO NOT TOUCH ME!” I yelled. Scarlet’s face was smiling. “My where did you learn those fighting skills?” I sat back down. “Self taught. You have to have some survival skills to not get caught by cops.” I said. She stared at me. “You have run from cops?” I nodded. “I just got here like twenty minutes ago. The cops ambushed us.” I could tell she had a question. “Us?” She asked. I nodded. “Blaze and Madison.” I said. She looked through her papers. “Ah Madison, her special skill is to paint, Blaze’s is to make fire and cook, and yours is to read and spark and ancient language.”  

I nodded. “How would you like to work at my palace?” She asked. I thought. “I can not go without my friends. They are basically my sisters.” I said. She was surprised. “You turned down my offer for sister like figures?” I nodded. “I’m loyal to the end.” I said. She thought. “What if I have your friends work at my palace too?” I thought. “I can’t make the decision for them.” I said. She waved to a slither and he showed me the door.  

I sat down on the floor next to Madison. “So?” “I refused. We’re loyal to the end.” Madison nodded. “I did the same!” She said. I looked at her, “Hopefully Blaze does too.” I waved my hands in the air saying. “Loyal to the end.” In sign language. “Always.” She signaled back. We smiled. The she entered the room. Madison looked at my hand. “What happened?” She asked. I looked at my hand. “Oh I cut the slither.” I said. She nodded. I ripped off part of my jean jacket sleeve and wrapped it around my hand. I did it the same to the other side. Then Blaze came out. “I got offered, but refused. Loyal to the end.” She said.  

We made up a handshake with that exact meaning. After Scarlet finished interviewing everybody, she came out. “I will take Skylar, Blaze, and Mason.”  Blaze and me frowned. We didn’t stand up. “Madam. We can’t without Madison. We’re Loyal to the end.” I said. Scarlet stared at me. “Fine we’ll take Madison too.” We all followed her out of the building. There was a carriage pulled by two white horses. We were pushed into the carriage. 

We sat there in silence for a few moments. I got bored. “So what are our jobs?” I asked taking charge. Scarlet looked up from the orb of the scepter. “Oh so, um, Skylar you are going to translate some ancient texts and help me read about my staff.” I nodded my assignment was easy. “Blaze will be down in the kitchen helping with the heater and food. Madison will be taking care of the armor and swords and make a portrait of me.” She looked at me. “You look familiar.” I shrugged my shoulders.  

“You probably saw me stealing from a drug store or running from cops.” I suggested. She looked at me. “You ran from the cops? THAT”S SO EXITING! Are you good at fighting? I learned my moves from…” She stopped there. Ii waited “from Ashure?” I asked she looked at me to see if I was possibly her. “I’ve heard some of the cops talking about you looking for … Are they a him or her?” I asked. Scarlet looked sad. “She was like my older sister, but once I find her, I will wipe the wrong thought that the gifted people are good. She should see what they have done.” I stopped her there. “I’m sorry, but our old orphanage got burned down by the snake people. Some girl saved us she had blond hair and green eyes. She was fast. And I saw you.” I lied. 

“Wait. How do you know it was me?” I looked at her. I pointed to her leg. “I can see that it has a scar on it. A pillar landed on your leg.” She stared at me. “So the three of you were there? I don’t remember there being kids with your names. “ I had to cover up that lie with another one. “We can’t remember our names. So we were named by some hoboes.” I lied again.  

The carriage stopped. The door opened revealing a big hill. “Mam the key pad is broken again.” I ran without using my supper speed to the moss on the hill and lifted part I fit up I took apart the keypad and fixed a few things. Then I entered in a code and it opened. They watched in amazement.  “Wow you’re good. I should put you on the engineer team.” I smiled. The carriage moved and I hopped in. “So is your castle secret or something?” Scarlet nodded.  

When we got inside we were immediately brought to our room. “You three girls will be sharing.” Voldemort hissed. I waited for something to happen. Then I saw a lady.  She talked. “For the rest of your mission you will gather information on what they are planning. Thunderbolt, don’t get caught up in trying to turn Scarlet good.” Then the lady disappeared. I turned to Blaze and Madison. “Did you see that?” Blaze asked. I nodded.  

Then the lights went out. We decided to sleep. DING! DING! DING!  A alarm went off three times. We rolled out of bed and started walking to our job. Madison went off by herself. I walked down the Scarlet’s room. My job was also to wake her up. I nocked on the door. I decided to talk in Voldemort voice. “My Queen it’s time to wake up.” I said. “General Hipto why are you waking me up?” She asked. “The girl was killed in her sleep.” I said. I herd her cry a little. I felt slime on the floor. I waited for a little. “Queen Scarlet, are you ok?” I asked in my regular voice. I hard a few lock on the door being moved. Scarlet was there with her face red. “I thought you were dead!” She sobbed.  

 I talked to her in Voldemort voice, “It’s ok.” I said patting her head. She looked up. “YOU JERK!” She yelled. Then she went to punch me in the stomach. I caught her fist. “Ok I’m pretty sure you don’t fight cops every other day.” I said. I put her fist away. I ducked as her leg went over my head. “Scarlet stop.” I said holding her foot.  I knew she would try to punch or kick me. I moved over to the opposite side of the room where her sphere was. I picked it up and threw it to her. She caught it in the air. “Say your name.” I said. She looked at me. I put my hands on my hips. “Do it.”  

She shrugged her shoulders, “SCARLET!” Nothing happened. I walked over and looked at her in the eyes. “Do you have a nickname?” I asked. She slowly nodded. I made her arm go up in the air. “LITTLE RED!” There was a small spark that grew into a big purple ball around Scarlet. I couldn’t see anything through the purple cloud. There was a bright light. I run underneath Scarlet as the cloud disappeared. I caught her.  

She had a new gown that was yellow and red. It was really sparkly. Her staff was different the pink orb was now red. There were a few red stripes in her hair. “Nice fashion choice.” I said. She stared at me. “How did you know I was going to be dropped?” I had to come up with a lie. “I saw you fall and I don’t know I just ran to catch you.” I lied. 

She tried using her sphere. Nothing. “WHY WON’T IT WORK!” She came at me swinging the pointed part of her staff at my face. I ducked and stepped back. “MADISON! BLAZE!” I screamed. MADISON! BLAZE HELP!” I yelled again. Scarlet kept madly swinging at my head. Blaze and Madison came running into the room with Voldemort and Medusa. “MY QUEEN WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” Voldemort yelled. Scarlet turned around. Her staff cut my arm. I slid under her legs and ran to the door. Medusa blocked my way. “No you don’t” I saw Madison and Blaze being blocked.  I saw a gap between her tail. I jumped through it and tumbled into Madison and Blaze. 

 We got up and started running through the maze of hallways. The slithers right on our trail. We took a turn. Out the secret entrance we went.  We kept running. At three miles we lost the slithers. We ran for two more miles after that. We stopped at a gas station. All three of us went into the bathroom. WEIRO! A police car pulled up. DING! The cop walked in. I hosted Madison up to the window. She climbed out. I did the same for Blaze. Then I climbed the toilet and crawled out the window. 

I grabbed Blaze and put her on my back. Madison ran with me while we ran four more miles to the ocean. I looked around. There were slithers everywhere. I looked at a cave. I started running to the cave with Madison right behind me. We ran into the cave. The tide was high. I looked at Madison. She was thinking. “Jump?” I suggested. “ARE YOU CRAZY?” She yelled. “Hey it’s either get captured and killed by the slithers or jump. Trust me. Loyal to the end. Don’t bail out on me Righ.” She grabbed my hand and we jumped into the deep water. I covered Blaze’s mouth and nose.  

Air bubbles appeared around our heads. I let go of Blaze’s face. Lilly appeared in front of us. “Hey remember your mission. Stay for a year then jump back in here I will be waiting.” Then she swam off. The air bubbles disappeared. I cupped my hands over Blaze’s mouth. I breathed in the water then out. That was not smart, but hey I didn’t drown! I felt a tail grab me. I was pulled out of the water. 

I looked up and saw Scarlet with six guards behind her. Her face had a worried look. I smiled and waved. “I’M ALIVE!” I declared. I sat up. Next to me was Madison gasping for breath. I crawled over to her. I started tapping her chest and secretly shocking her.  

She sat up on the third time. “WHAT THE HECK DUDE!” She yelled. “Your welcome for saving you from getting a kiss from the snake people” She stared at me. “Blaze?” I pointed next to her. “Hey Madison.” I put my right hand in then Madison, and then Blaze. Then we started doing the Macarena. Then we crossed our arms and gave each other high fives.  

I tuned to see us surrounded by slithers. They grabbed our arms and started dragging us on the ground. I didn’t mind getting dirty and a bit scraped up, but I didn’t like it when I seemed shorter than other people. I lifted up my legs and kicked the two slithers, which were pulling me, in the face. I then did the same to the other four slithers that were pulling my friends. I pulled them up.  

I pulled them up and got ready to fight. I pulled off my jacket and it transformed into a sword. I didn’t want them to know that I was actually Ashure, so I made my weapon a sword. I charged at the slither reaching for me. Then the one on top of the carriage. Then someone grabbed my friends. They were lifted up in the air. I threw my weapon between their heads and it Voldemort in the chest. She dropped them. I held out my hand and the sword flew back to my hand. 

I held it up ready to fight the next slithers. Scarlet clapped. “Wonderful job! Nobody else has been able to fight off my army of slithers Ashure.” I tilted my head. “Why would I be a boy? OH! Right. Wait. Ashure is a girl right?” I said. Scarlet spoke again. “Don’t play dumb Ash. Come join me then we can rule the world.” I decided to joke around.  “Have you gone crazy?” I asked looking concerned for her. “CAN I HAVE A FIRST AID KIT?”  I yelled. A slither brought me one. I started pulling out random things from it. “What does this thing do?” I said pulling out a stethoscope.  

Scarlet stared at me in disbelief. “So you’re not Ash?” I shook my head. “She’s my annoying cousin, but she knows I’m alive.” I said. Scarlet looked like she was about to cry. “Try using your staff now.” I added. She pointed her staff at a random slither. He blasted into dust. I was a little scared that she would do that to me. “Ok, don’t do that to anybody else except for the snake dudes. What are they called?” I asked. Scarlet looked up. “Ash called them slithers and it kind of stuck with them. This is Voldemort.” Scarlet said pointing to him. “Ashure liked old books and movies.” I nodded.  

“That’s one thing we have in common.” I said. She turned to me. “You also have the same birthday, but Ashure would have known what the stethoscope was.” I nodded. “So that’s what it’s called, I guess it doesn’t go in your mouth.” Scarlet turned to me. “You also did CPR wrong.” I shrugged my shoulders. “It worked didn’t it?” Scarlet nodded to the truth. 

“So do you want to continue learning the secrets of your staff?” I asked. She excitedly jumped up and down. I swung the carriage door open. “ALL ABORD!” I yelled. Rileigh, oops, Madison and Blaze hopped in. I closed the door. “I call making cookies!” I yelled. Blaze shook her head. “You burnt them last time we did it over a fire. You don’t throw them into the fire!” I shrugged.  

Scarlet decided to ask Blaze a question. “Is Blaze a nickname?” She asked. Blaze thought. “We don’t remember our actual names well we never had them. Skylar named me because I kept catching my clothes on fire. Madison is her actual name. And I don’t know who named Skylar.” I had to come up with a story. “Do you want the exaggerated one or the short one?” I asked. Scarlet decided, “Short.” I took a deep breath ready to talk as fast as I could. “Ashure named me in the orphanage because of my eyes and fashion choice.” Then I remembered. Oh! I held my hand out. The sword appeared. I turned it into a jean jacket and put it on.  

“Where did you get that?” I thought again. “I found it in the orphanage. It was under some wooden planks.”  Scarlet stared at me and she kept tilting her head in different directions. “ AH! Your Sky! I knew you looked familiar!” Wait. There was a Sky at the orphanage? Break. I need to freak out in my head. Ok done back to the story. 

“Scarlet, were you once like one of the people with powers?” Blaze asked. Scarlet froze. Her face turned white. I waved my hand in front of her face. “HELLO?” I yelled I saw her eyes starting to get misty. “I think I broke her.” Blaze said.  We watched has her head fell to the cushion. I grabbed her scepter. I traced my hands over the writing. “It’s a manual on how to take it a part and put it back together again.” I looked up. They stared at me. I started unscrewing the sphere part of the staff inside was a paper. I pulled it out and read it.  

I looked up at the cameras. I changed the view to us talking from earlier. “We need to get this back to head quarters.” I said in sign language. I made my sphere appear and twisted off the sharp part. I stuffed the paper inside then put the sharp part back on. I transformed it back into my jacket and put it on. I turned the cameras back to now.  

The carriage stopped. I opened the door and handed Scarlet down to Voldemort. I grabbed her staff. A slither offered out his hand but I declined it. I followed Voldemort to Scarlet’s room. I went to my workspace and started taking the sphere apart. I found a pink diamond in it. I decided it was the source of the power.  

I put it back together. I heard some groaning from behind me. I walked over to the bed. Scarlet was rubbing her eyes. “Who are you?” She asked my I handed her pink glasses that were on the nightstand.  She put them on “Oh it’s you.” She said. I pulled her up from her bed. “Want to learn more about your staff?” I asked. She eagerly nodded. She handed me her sphere. I started twisting off the bottom. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” She screamed. I put my hands up. “Calm down. There’s instructions on how to take it apart.” I said.  

I handed her the staff. She hit it on the ground. BANG! BANG! CLINK! Scarlet picked up her staff. A metal tube fell out. “That’s new.” I said I grabbed it and twisted off the cap. I knew immediately what it was. “It’s for you.” I said handing her a paper. I watched as she read it over and over again. “I don’t believe it!” She ran her fingers through her hair. “I-it’s from Big Blue!” I turned my head when I heard my Old Nick name. “Big Blue?” I asked. Scarlet nodded. “Ash is Big Blue, I’m Little Red.” I nodded. I totally forgot about that.  

“What’s it about?” I asked. I totally knew what it said. I wrote it.  

“It’s from the night I fought Ash in our sleep. “ She looked up in disbelief. I was now peering over her shoulder. I read what it said.  

Scarlet, I know it might be a while when you find this. I haven’t told you about who brought you to the orphanage that night, or why I named you Scarlet. I have always known about the secret places. I’ve seen that monster that we saw in the woods before. Voldemort brought you to the orphanage. I saw the monster hovering above Voldemort. You were asleep when you were brought here. I listened to what they talked about. The Orphanage lady was Medusa. I saw her transform. They said that when you turned 11 then they would burn down the orphanage. Voldemort was there he tried to get you. I told Sky to take care of him. She is the master of wind; we searched the orphanage head to toe together the night you arrived. We found her sward. It gave her the power to float in the air. I know it’s kind of stupid. She fought off Voldemort while I escaped with you. I found a map with the sword. I kept it from Sky. That is the map I used to find the first place. I turned it in different directions that revealed every slither hideout. One was your castle. The word Scarlet Red was printed on your glasses. I saw them when I ran into them. I know you won’t come back, but no mater what, I’ll try. Loyal to the end. Skylar taught me that. Well see you around. 

The truth was I just wrote that to cover up my mistake in it. “Wow.” Scarlet turned to me. “You really knew her didn’t you?” I nodded. Then Her smile turned wicked. “And you have powers.” I started to slowly back off. She pointed her staff at me. “Stay.” I didn’t have a choice. I walked back and sat down. “What else is in here?” She asked. I took the staff. I reached my arm up in the staff and pulled out the pink gem. I pointed to it. “This is the power source.” I said. “I don’t know why it didn’t change to red like the orb.” Scarlet took it from my hand to admire it.  

“So I had an expensive gem in that? I should be more careful with it.” I shrugged my shoulders. “It’s on the instructions that when it’s true power is unlocked then gem will transform into a piece of jewelry or something.” I shrugged. Scarlet turned to me.  

“What do you mean true power?”  

“It’s kind of like unlocking the mysteries of your power. Except your power comes from the staff.” 

“So how do I unlock the next level?”  

I smiled. I took the gem and started putting her staff back together. My stomach growled. I got up. “You want anything?” I asked. She thought. “Can I have a churro and pizza?” I nodded and left. I walked past a wooden door. “Hey! Wait for me Skylar!” I stopped. Madison caught up. “What are you getting from the kitchen?” She thought. “What ever I can grab.” I swung the kitchen door open. 

Blaze was getting ingredients for the chef. “Excuse me sir the queen wants a churro, pizza pink lemonade, a soda preferably root beer, and two tubs of strawberry ice cream.” I said. The chef shuddered. “She’s in the mood again ain’t she?” I nodded. I had no idea what he meant. He handed me the food requested. I sniffed the air. “Add some pepper, noodles, and cheese to the soup.” I whispered to Blaze. She nodded and added the ingredients when he wasn’t looking. 

I handed Scarlet her food. “How did you get your food?” she asked. “I maybe lied that you ordered mine.” I said. I threw her a spoon. “Why do I need this?” she asked. I then threw her a tub of ice cream. “How do you know that strawberry is my favorite?” I had to lie again. “Ashure told me that if she ever got kidnapped I would have to take care of you and protect you.” Scarlet rolled her eyes. “I ain’t a little girl any more, Ash should know that.” I shrugged and dug into mine. 

I sipped my root beer. “Do you have any fun around here?” I asked. Scarlet shook her head. I pulled some saran wrap out of my jacket. I put it from one side of the door way to the other.  “What is a food that Voldemort hates?” I asked. She made a face. “He hates ketchup it’s weird.” I couldn’t help laughing. Her face that she made. I ran to the kitchen to get some ketchup squirted some on. “Call him in.” I said. Scarlet smiled. She kept jumping up and down. “Don’t wiggle as much.” I said. “Pretend you just woke up from a night mare, I’ll hide.” I climbed the bed and sat on top of the canopy. “AHHH!” Scarlet screamed. Voldemort came slithering right into the trap his head hit the saran wrap. He stumbled backwards in disgust. He clawed the saran wrap down. “Very fun your highness. Scarlet was snorting so loud. I also started laughing. Voldemort looked around. “What?” He said. 

 “Say cheese!” I took a picture of him. Scarlet kept snorting. “You.” He said. I turned my head. “What do you mean Voldemort?” I was confused. He said ‘you’ like he wanted to kill me. He failed to climb the bed. I just sat there staring at him. I pulled out the tablet and started videotaping. “Come and get me!” I teased.   

I sat there as Voldemort struggled to climb up. He finally decided to stand on top of the dresser. He reached for me. I bit his hand. “Scarlet off the bed.” I said. She moved t the closet. Voldemort jumped on. The whole top of the bed collapsed down with him on it. I simply was floating in the air. He jumped trying to get me I just floated there looking down at him.  He did something I wasn’t expecting. He put his hands to his head and said something.  

I looked at Scarlet she started screaming, “NO!” I didn’t know what she was talking about until Voldemort messed with my mind. I fell down on top of a broken wooden poll. I quickly moved to the side and it went into my arm.  When Voldemort slithered up to me he saw that I was Skylar. His face was white. I sat up in the bed. I stood up and yanked my arm off the broken wood. I screamed.  

I grabbed my bleeding arm. I took off my jacket and wrapped it around my arm. I ran out of the room.  I headed for a box that said first aid. I grabbed it and ran to the weapon room. Rileigh was there in her disguise.  She saw me rush in. I was holding my arm up with the first aid kit in my hand. She looked at the jacket. “You’re bleeding!” She said. I nodded I opened up the first aid kit.  

I grabbed out some bandages and a needle for the stiches. I looked up at Rileigh. “You might want to look away.” I said. She did as she was told.  I started removing my jacket. The door swung open knocking me off the steps. It was a slither doctor. I hid behind some shields with the kit. He looked around. “Have you seen um.” He looked down at a paper. “Skylar?” He added. I didn’t want those hands on me. Rileigh turned around. “Oh, no.” She said. He examined the room. He shrugged and left.  

I looked at my hiding spot not bad. I started by taking out pieces of wood out of my arm. Then I stitched myself up and wrapped my arm in pads and bandages. I finished with a sling. I transformed my jacket into a sphere. I cleaned off the blood and transformed it back into a jean jacket. I wore it on one arm and hung it over the other. I leaned against the wall. I brick moved in revealing a secret passage. I looked back Rileigh was no there. I went in despite the cobwebs and my arm.  

I crawled through and lit my hand up. Inside it was only tall enough for me to crawl. Was on my knees. I stopped at a wall I dimmed my fire and pressed a random brick. The wall opened up only enough room for me to go through. I appeared under Scarlet’s desk in her room. She was yelling at Voldemort. “YOU ARE AN IDIOT!” She screamed. “Now we can’t find Ashure! We had her, but no. You couldn’t help yourself!” I went back through the wall.  

I decided I would stay there for a year. Wait. I put my ear up against the wall. “Um My queen?” Voldemort shuddered. “WHAT?” She screamed. “You called the girl Ashure.” I heard her anger cool down. “I did?” She said. Voldemort most likely nodded. “Oops.” I knew that she probably shrugged. I went back through the wall. I was under her desk.  

Voldemort had left the room. I sat under the desk. She started meditating in the air. “Come on Ash. Let me see you.” She muttered. After a while she threw her hands down. “UGH!” She screamed. I crawled out from under the table and sat in a chair. “Why are you asking to see Ash?” I said. She jumped when she heard my voice. “You’ve been listening the whole time?” I waved my head side to side. “Not the whole thing.” I said. There was an acquired moment of science.  

“Do I remind you of her? Ashure?” 

“Yes. You look so much a like, but you’re eyes and hair are different.”  

“You remind me of a character in a old movie.” She turned 

“What old movie?” 

“I don’t remember the name.” She stared at me.  

“Are you her sister?” I shook my head.  

“I’ve met one of her sisters.” I lied

 “Who? What do they look like?”  

“I meet Zeus. Ha. One of the worst names ever. She looked the same as Ash, but she had a different fashion choice and had the worst jokes.” 

Scarlet imagined what Zeus was like. “Have you met the other one?” I shook my head. She looked at my arm. “Did Apollo find you?” She asked. I shook my head. “I used a first aid kit.” She looked at my arm. I looked down my arm was completely drenched in blood. Then Scarlet got bigger than me she turned into a devil. “I told you Ashure. I would find you!” I ran. I didn’t know what to do I ran around the castle. Scarlet was still chasing me. “I can see you!” Then I heard people chanting some thing. It was quiet at first then it got louder and louder. “SKY! SKY! SKY!” I saw someone with white hair appear in front of me. “Hello.” She grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me. “SKY! SKY! SKY!” The crowed was chanting. I grabbed my head and shook it. I sat up drenched in sweat.  

I looked around I was in a bed with an IV. I looked at the foot of the bed. “HI Madison.” I said. She turned around. “Hello sleeping beauty.” She sarcastically said. I tried to use my arms to help me sit up. I looked down at my left arm. It was in some bandaging. Blaze was standing on my right side silently. I jumped. “AH!” I screamed. “You are supper quiet.” She nodded. “Duh! Your such a ding bang.” She said. I rolled my eyes. Before I could speak Rileigh answered. “Your in the castle hospital.” She said. “Voldemort dropped you and you started screaming. Then you ran into the hall and passed out.” She looked at me. “Blaze was chanting your name for hours.” I was about to speak again, this time Sparkey spoke. “You’ve been out for a week. Only three more months left.” I started excitedly screaming in my head. Only three months! Then we could get out of here!  

“It might be sooner.” Blaze said, “It’s supposed to be flu season soon. We might get brought in.” Then Ace appeared in my eye. “Good you’re awake. Don’t talk to me I’m just a recording. You three need to get back as soon as possible. I’ve been watching what you have seen. Boy Thunderbolt that was one dream. Go to the cave. There will be someone who claims to be Wave. She will bring our spy Nala there too. Come back as soon as possible.” Then Ace disappeared. I looked at them ”So just leave?” I asked they shook their heads. “The stupid slither dude has to say if it’s ok if we go somewhere.” Blaze said. I sighed. Then the tiny slither Apollo that I saw last year was right there. 

He used tools to make sure I was fine. “Can I go to the beach with Blaze and Madison?” I asked. He thought for a moment. “As long as you don’t go in the water. I nodded. We go to the cave near the beach. I pulled the silver knife from my jacket. I took off the bandages. On my arm was a bump. I had a scar from the bed. I took my knife and used it to get rid of the bump. I cut my skin and popped out a tracking device I threw it on the beach.  

I grabbed Sparkey’s arms and looked at them. I shocked her. “OW!” A BEEP! Sounded. I followed it to her clothes. I cut her jeans and pulled out a tracking device.  I did the same to Rileigh. I tried to shock myself. It didn’t work, but there was a beep that sounded. I pulled out a tracking device from my pants.  

“Ready?” I asked. They smiled. “Ready!” we jumped into the water filled cave. Air bubbles appeared around our heads. “WAVE! VINES!” I yelled. The two swam forward. “You look different” Wave said. I rolled my eyes. “Let’s go.” A current carried us all day. We had to crawl onto the icy land and found the entrance.  

I pulled up the ice block. I threw Rileigh and Sparkey in. They screamed. Then I threw in Nala and Wave. I jumped in. We fell down until we hit the land. I wanted to make sure they weren’t slithers. “Show they way Wave and Vines.” They lead us directly to the cave. We got inside. Waiting was the main four. Vines ran to give Mouse a hug. “I’VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH SIS!” She screamed. I was shocked. “You’re sisters?” I was confused 

They rubbed the back of their heads. “We don’t look much alike.” Mouse quietly spoke. “I was captured by the slithers. They thought they brain washed me” Nala said. I looked between the two they both had soft grey eyes and small ears. Then I noticed that they both had some red hair. “Huh. You two twins?” I asked they looked at each other and nodded.  

I looked at Wave. She was about to cry I turned away. “Wait isn’t Bear your sister.” Nala jumped. “She’s here?” be fore she blinked I was back with Bear. Bear looked up at Nala and Mouse. “SISIES!” She screamed giving them hugs. I noticed that Bear was five. “So all of you were born form the same mom?” I asked. They looked at each other and nodded.  

“Nice family reunion.” Rileigh said. I waited for something to happen. A kid ran in and whispered to Ace. “Um Thunderbolt. There is someone who is claiming to be Asher’s sister. Do you know her?”  My eyes got big. “I’m Ashure. Spelled with a u-r-e” I said. She nodded. “Follow me.” Ace waited and stared at Beam. “BEAM! TRANSPORT US THERE!”  

There was a white light around us. Suddenly we were standing in the hospital. Ace walked over to a curtain. She moved it aside. In there was a girl. She looked like me, when I’m not in disguise. She looked at me. “You ain’t Ashure.” She said. I shook my head. “Yes I am.” I said. “So your telling me that your actually Ashure, but your real name is Cindy Rose..” I put my hands over her mouth and shocked her. “WHAT THE HECK DUDE!” She shocked me back.  

“Never say my real name ever again.” I pointed my finger at her face. She nodded. “Ok, my sister doesn’t have blue eyes, and you look taller than usual.” I looked dawn at my pants they were now at my ankles. I took out the contacts that made my hazel eyes blue. “Happy?” I asked. I stopped and looked at her. “You ain’t real.” I said. They all looked at me confused. “Right now I’m not where I think I am.” I looked around. “I’ve never told anyone my real name and the slithers killed my mom.” I waited. “VOLDEMORT SHOW YOURSELF!” I screamed.  

I heard a voice in my head. “You are strong and smart.” Voldemort’s empty words floated around. I did the one thing that I knew would wake me up. I lit my fists up. They started glowing with the energy around them. I started glowing. I punched myself in the face. I tried to sit up. I was strapped down to a bed. Voldemort had his hands on his head. “Nice dream.” I said. I got ready to blast these leather restraints. Then Scarlet came in. “You really thought I would fall for your filthy tricks. Ashure, you think you are so strong and smart.” She kept talking at me.  

I blasted the leather straps off me. I jumped up. “ASH! STAY!” I shook my head no. “Sorry, you ain’t my queen. I don’t have a boss, so No. I got to go Bye!” I zapped out of the room. I switched between lights. I kept going until I reached the street lamps. “Beam. Come on!” I crossed my fingers. Nothing. I waited in the light forever.  

I decided to go find Sparkey and Rileigh. They now knew who I was so we better getting out all together. I zapped through the lights. I checked the kitchen. Then the weapon room. Nothing. I went to the room I woke up in. Nothing. I decided to find the dungeons. There they were sitting in a cell waiting for something to happen. “SPARKEY! NOW!” I yelled Sparkey stood up. She lit herself on fire. She started running around the cell screaming.  

We came up with the plan before we were brought to the orphanage what we would do if they found out. The guards rushed in. “GET SOME WATER!” Voldemort yelled. When they unlocked the cell door Rileigh exploded paint everywhere. I zapped out of the light. “Punch me.” I said. Rileigh hesitated. Sparkey didn’t care she punched me in the face. “Ow.” I stumbled backwards. “Thanks.” I said. We got ready to fight. I made my sphere appear. We started kicking and blowing up the slithers.  

We made our way to the door. Scarlet was right there. I used my speed to touch the ends of our spheres. When I did there was a big glow. I stopped. It got bigger and bigger. I ran and knocked over Sparkey and Rileigh. Before we hit the ground I moved into a light. I jumped us back and forth between them. I ended up in a store looking down at every one.  

“What happened?” Rileigh asked. “How did they know? Why are you here? Didn’t they kill you? We need to go back!” Rileigh quickly panicked about that. I waited for her to stop talking. “We stay. We also need to warn the others. They know where it is.” I said. They looked at me. “How do they know?” Sparkey questioned me.  

“Voldemort can read people’s minds. He saw in mine. He knows about everyone.”  

“Ok so how do we warn them?”  

“Water.”  

We landed outside of the store and started running. We hid behind some bushes next to the ocean. I touched it. I started speaking. “Evacuate. They know where you are. Get out. Find somewhere they will never suspect. Somewhere else. Not cold or hot. If there is an unknown island go there. Have one of the invisible people make it disappear. Be careful. Voldemort can read minds and make you think some thing is real. This is real. Go now” I stood up.   

We were surrounded by slithers. I knew that they wouldn’t be able to find the others. I looked at Rileigh and Sparkey. “Get out of here. Run and hide. I’ll find you. Loyal to the End.” Rileigh grabbed Sparkey. I started throwing my sphere at slithers making sure that none got them. Voldemort would never find where ever they were going. Plus, Scarlet will either kill us all or become on our side once again. Medusa slithered forward. “Elizabeth.” Medusa barked. A girl appeared from the crowd. I got a headache when she did.  

I grabbed my head. I would still fight. I kept fighting. I made all the other slithers turn to dust. The only ones left standing was Medusa with Elizabeth.  I started to make my fists glow. I lift off the ground. Grey clouds filed the empty sky. I stared at Medusa. I stuck my hand out at her. ZAP! She disappeared into dust. Elizabeth smiled. “Now the fight starts!” She jumped at me I moved out of the way. I flew around stopping her from grabbing me. I didn’t realize that she was distracting me. From the sky fell some one else they threw a bag over my face and easily handcuffed me. 

I tried flying away, but the handcuffs were had a rope attached. I was pulled by who ever the dude was. I could tell it was a boy. He quickly wrapped my up. He had short hair, and I kind of saw his face. His hair was black. He had blue eyes. That’s all I got. I heard a high-five. “Nice one Luc.” I forced myself to not move any more. No, not Luc. I would not move. Elizabeth pulled the rope with him. I didn’t move. I decided to fly up. I started to go a little higher. The weight of the two pulled me down.  

I screamed. There was nothing that I wanted to do more than escape. Luc would not bring me back. I wouldn’t go. Then I fell down. THUMP! I was pulled along. I squirmed. “LUCAS LET ME GO!” I screamed. I didn’t stop screaming. They dragged me off the beach. I was being pulled onto moist dirt. I heard birds chirping. I felt a few bushes. It was also getting darker. I stopped screaming. 

A hand went over my mouth. I was pulled to the side next to a tree. I still couldn’t see anything except brown. I heard two swards being used. Then they took off their hand and dragged me some more. Finally they stopped. “Stand up.” Elizabeth said. I stood up. I felt two hands grab my shoulder. They guided me up some stairs and threw a door. I was pushed down onto a couch.  

My hands were UN cuffed. I pulled the bag off my face. Lucas was standing there with the handcuffs. I punched his face. That felt good. He looked at me with a bloody nose. He rubbed his nose. “Ow.” I smiled. “Your welcome.” He punched me in the shoulder. “Thank you for kidnapping me and shooting me out of the sky.” I sarcastically said. He looked he hind me.  

“Ash, when did you get your powers?” He asked. I stared at him. I thought of my sphere. I stuck my hand out and it magically appeared. I heard a voice form behind. “I want one!” they whined. Ii transformed it into a long sleeve jean jacket. “You know when.” I said. He shook his head. “You’ve been to the doctor once at the orphanage then you hid every time. Why?” I shuddered as I remembered the horrible day.  

“Little bro, I don’t know. I definitely didn’t have them when I meet you first.” Everybody thinks that I was born with my powers. Nope. I sighed. “I’ll tell you when we eat.” I pulled out some mashed potatoes from my jacket. I heated them up with lightning. I finished eating.  

“Buckle up little bro, it’s a semi long story.” Elizabeth came in from the kitchen and sat down.  I waited. “What does she do?” I pointed to Elizabeth.  

Lucas smiled. “She can turn invisible and give you wicked head aches.” I nodded. She did that to me.  

“Thee night we got to the orphanage, it was the worst day of my life. The lady took me into a separate room. She left the room. A little while later, some doctor came in the room. He took me out of the orphanage and put me in a van. It had a bunch of blue things. I didn’t get it. He forced me on the bed. He tested me. I was an experiment. They were trying to make me turn into a light blub. Instead I absorbed the lightning and destroyed the van with the doctor. He survived and came on the doctor day. He did the same thing. This time I got my powers. He was disappointed, then he let me go out.”  

I sighed. “It was horrible what he did to turn me into what I am.” I felt my hand where there was a scar. Lucas stared at me. “I guess I owe you an explanation.”  He finally said. I threw my hands up in the air. “Nobody except for us can find this place.” He pointed to Elizabeth and him. “The slithers have been trying to hunt us down. You said Loyal to the End. So I’ve been hunting you down after I escaped the orphanage. Then I found Liz. We’ve been keeping watch. Every time we’re about to get you there is a slither that appears or you’re with someone.”  

I nodded. “Rileigh and Sparkey.” I remembered falling from the celling and landing on the wood. I knew that was real. My shirt was red and long sleeve. I lifted up part of it looked at my arm then put it down. “Do you happen to have a first aid kit?” I asked. He nodded. “Why?” Then my head started to get dizzy. Before I passed out I managed, “Hope you don’t faint at the sight of blood.” I fell forward off the couch.  

I felt Lucas lift up my sleeve. I was kind of awake when he removed the wood and when he did the stitches. I yelped on the last one. I decided to sleep now that he finished. I woke up in a bed. I rubbed my head. My arm was messily wrapped. By the bed was the first aid kit. I fixed my wrap, and changed the padding. I went down to see Lucas making food. “Good morning sis.” I waved my hand at him.  

I sniffed the air. “Eggs are burning.” He looked down at the pan. “Oops.” Then I started counting down. “3,2,1” I pointed to the kitchen. Lucas yelped. I decided that the bacon grease caught fire. I went to the pantry got a hand full of flower and put out the fire. I remembered that Rileigh and Sparkey were out there somewhere.  “Hey did you see what direction the two girls went?” I asked. Lucas turned. “I think I saw them go south, for the winter.” I rolled my eyes. “What ever I’ll just use water call.” I went to the bathroom. I turned on the tub. I waited for it to fill. I turned off the water and just stepped in.  

I used to do it in a lake. Don’t worry I still have my clothes on. My pants floated up. I focused on Rileigh and Sparkey. I was standing in a puddle in a cave. “Rileigh, Sparkey?” I saw two people on the other side. They walked over. “Why are you a water spirit?” Sparkey asked. “Ok so I got kidnapped by my little bro. I’m fine, but if you two come here then we will be safe. Just to make sure it’s you Sparkey light on fire Rileigh throw paint at the celling.” They did it happily. “How do we know it’s you?” They asked. I made a thundercloud appear above them. It started raining and two lighting bolts hit their butts.  

“Ok so where are you?” Rileigh asked. “I’ll send a message, well more like me in cloud form. Well see you around. “ I waved and stepped out of the tub. Lucas was standing right in the doorway. “Who were those water people?” I rolled my eyes. “Water message dummy.”  I dried off my feet.  

“Eggs and bacon ready?” He nodded. I skipped into the kitchen. Standing there was my worst fear. I stuck my hand out and got ready to electrocute her. Lucas grabbed my arm and pulled it down. “Elizabeth works at a hospital near by.” I wasn’t convinced. “She had to leave to work so I had to wrap your arm up, I see you fixed it.” Lucas said. I nodded.  “Fine. Don’t let the slithers get you.” I said waving as she left.  

“Ashure, are you really a failed science experiment?” Lucas was at the table. I zoomed over and sat before he blinked. “Yeah. When did you discover your special abilities?” Lucas looked around. He waved his hand for me to follow. He pressed a hidden button. The stairs moved up revealing a secret passage way. “I need one of these,” I thought. We went in. Inside was a whole group of people.  

“Ash, they are like us. They have powers. Where’s Lulu?” he asked everyone. A girl in the back shouted, “OVER HERE!” Her voice was sweet, but energetic. Lucas led the way to who ever Lulu was. I watched as they hugged. “Um. Is she like your girl friend or something?” I asked. Lucas stared at me. “No, she’s kind of like my little sister, but not by blood like you and me.” He said. I picked up the child. I guessed she was like seven.  

“Hi, I’m Isy. I couldn’t wait to meet you!” She jumped out of his arms and she tackled me to the floor. I got up holding Isy. “Why do you call her Lulu?” Lucas laughed. “No that’s Isy.” He pointed to someone almost identical to me. “That is Lulu.” She waved her hand. “Hi.” I waved back. “Why are you showing me this?” I asked.  “Ashure, she claims to be our sister.” I stared at her. “So your name is Lulu?” She nodded. I looked at her.  She wore booty shorts and a shirt that was a little small. I noticed she was carrying a big metal water bottle.  

I turned. Lucas accidentally elbowed me in the face. He was talking to Isy. I go mad. “Isy bring this to Liz” Lucas handed her the bottle. I punched his face. He fell back. I shocked him after. He sat there staring at me. “So can you do anything besides shocking people?” I nodded. “I can takeout a whole army with my shock wave.” Everybody backed up.  

“Ok, let’s not scare the recruits.” I turned to him. “Recruits? What for?” I asked. Lucas smiled. He brought me to a hidden room in the hidden room. Inside was a table with blue prints.  “We’re going to get the planet back from the aliens.”  I shook my head. “What aliens?” I asked. “You call them Slithers. We’ve found a video from when they landed on Earth.” He waved his hand to someone. I watched as a hidden projector showed the video.  

There was a huge space ship. When it landed this mist flew around in every direction. The spaceship door opened. Voldemort and Medusa slithered out followed by the rest of the slithers. The space ship took off. The video stopped. “Lucas how long have you known about this and why haven’t told me?” Lucas pulled my hands down, “Ash, We found this video after the first shock wave.” I tilted my head. “Shock wave? Wait are you saying that my shock wave went around the globe?” My mouth hung open. Lucas nodded.  

I looked around at everyone. “We need to get the others here.” I said. I turned to him. “Someone’s at the door. Don’t answer it. Close the scret passage door.