HEY EVERYONE! GUESS WHAT IT'S TIME I GROW A PAIR AND FINALLY GIVE A CHAPTER STORY A SWING!

I alright in all seriousness this plot's actually been in head for long time but i'm always really hesitant to make chapter stories, i get writers block way too easy!

before you all run away because my stories set in the future and it's got an OC in it, give it a read and wait for the first chappie since this is just the epilogue! then if you don't like i will respect that!

btw for a story like this i'd really appreciate some REVIEWS tell what you like! tell me what you don't like CONSTRUCTIVELY mind you! (i know i suck at fics...) NOOO FLAMMESSSS

oh and yes Circe is Rey's mother, more will be explained in chapter 1 hope you'll stick around!

alright time for the story!

Epilogue: Pride

Casualities of war are not always what we label them to be, one does not have to die to be a casualty, one does not have to bleed to a casualty… there is pain far worse than the one cause from the bullet from a gun or the blade of a knife. i learned this sad fact of life from my mother, not verbally mind you she's far too gentle of woman to tell her child something so cynical, but from her eyes... We are what this generation has dubbed EVOs, two of the lucky ones she says, blessed with powers others call a plague, and given the ability to control them… only to be treated like those who have lost their soul and reason, she's complex in her explanation of our abilities:

She tells me not to be ashamed of them… but to tell no one.

She tells me they are a gift, but mourns them like a curse.

She tells me one day people will accept us, but that humans are not to be trusted.

It's human, I supposed, for her to be wishy-washy… my mother's always been a pessimist at heart, but can't seem to spout negativity at her only source of joy, she fights within herself constantly… she mourns this war constantly.

she always gets nervous when people mention EVOs around her, people think it's because she was traumatized by an attack, others believe her to have lost someone to this plague… she doesn't mind their fumbled guesses, she rather they think anything than the truth.

I've lived in La Sombrita in Mexico all my life, protected from the outside world, our little town is quiet, that's how mom likes it. She says big cities are trouble, just about anything outside of our home is trouble in her opinion, hearing about the war, watching people live with that hate in their eyes makes her ill… she says here it's safe, here in secret just the two us, is only place she can find peace… I think she's still looking for it.

Her smile is empty and the burden she carries from this war gnaws through her heart like acid, but she braves it all with her love and no matter how pained my mother's eyes are and false her smiles may be, I know nothing to more true than the love my mother carries for me.

But now as I watch this man, the same one from that crumbled up photograph she keeps at the bottom of her drawer, displaying his powers, powers that trump mine a thousand fold, with pride I've never felt or seen in my mother… I can't help but wonder if love and truth really have anything to do with one another… I know she loves me…but … she lied…

He soars through the air like an eagle with a pregnant woman in his arms as men in black and white pour from a giant ship in the sky… he gently places her down far from the fighting.

It's unbelievable… it's a dream… it has to be a dream! This man here … the one day I sneak out of La Sombrita… the one day I go out into the city, he's here and so is that-

"MONSTRO! MIJO CORRA! TE VA COJER!(1)" an elderly woman shouts at me snapping me from my thoughts. The man with the goggles rushes towards me… but he wouldn't make it in time…

"damn it." I swear under my breath as my hands glow red with the patterns of a circuit board as a barrier of crimson energy shields me, my nanites hold on just in time for the man to slam what looks like giant pair of boots into the EVO's face.

"What the hell was-." He asks cut off by an inhuman screech, his eyes just barely tore from me, he was in shock… this power was not common…. I looked to see the news helicopter roam through the air.

"mami's going to kill me." I mutter as I let the shield dissolve, I covered half face with my bandana hoping it's will hide my identity. the man stands beside me, and his hand turns into a giant cannon.

"Kid, your mom's the least of your problems right now." The man retorts firing a chunk of the debris at the creature.

"pfft no conoces mi mami (2), I rather this any day." I reply in my broken English, I run towards the EVO with all my might … I think about it now and it think it was jealousy that made me do something so stupid, for so long I had felt shame for what I was… and here was this man with the same blessing and curse running around like he was superman…

He was not so special, he did not know what it was to be casualty … to mourn his existence like my mother did… for a brief moment I hated him.

"KID YOU'RE INSANE WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" he shouted at the top of his lungs.

"ESTOY HACIENDO LO ME DA LA GANA! USTED NO ES TAN ESPECIAL!(3)" I replied jumping onto onto the raging monster, a net-like pattern of red circuits cover me and the evo…

"no way…" he breathed out in disbelief.

I'd only done this once in all my life but it felt like second nature… once the smoked cleared I looked down to see a man with a half torn shirt unconscious on the ground, l take my hands off him and look down at them…I grip them tightly…. I felt such rush of pride in heart!I look up only to see everything my mother was afraid of… the people…

…their eyes, just like my mother had told me… just like she said… filled with fear… some with hate…

Pride came with heavy price… a gentle hand on my head woke me from my glooming thoughts.

"how the hell did you do that?" The man asked helping me up. Mami told he was a dense good natured man… she should have really emphasized the dense.

"Estupido… I'm your son."

to be continued...

alright! hope to hear some love guys! or at least some comments! share your thoughts please!

BTW HERES THE TRANSLATION TO THE LINES IN SPANISH!

(1) MONSTER! RUN SON HE IS GOING TO GET YOU!"

(2) "pfft you don't know my mom."

(3)I'M DOING WHATEVER I WANT! YOU'RE NOT SO SPECIAL!"