I hated sitting in class. This was a traning facility, I was supposed to be learning how to kick major butt, not how to write! Im an Elite warrior. Not some frilly poet. I sighed and started to think of my past battles with the Destroyers. They where the most vile and desolate creatures that the universe has ever created! They actually eat the planet they're on, and thats how my parents died. I can't really remember much from that day, seeing that I was very young... but what I do remeber keeps popping up my head these days. I tapped my pencil on the desk. I knew that I needed to concentrate on writing aspects of the school, but I couldn't. I keep seeing my mom's face as she hands me to Tristian. The pain on her face makes me sad. Oh! That reminds me, Tristian is an Elite warrior, too. He's one of the best. As I was thinking of Tristian when a memory came along with him...
Tristan was the one who first noticed my mark, the mark of a Protector. I rubbed my forearm out of habit. I was only two when he found the mark on my arm. My parents had told him to look after me, and I didn't understand at the time what was going on. I looked at my mom in my memory. I could see that she looked exactly like I did now, except a little chubbier... from all the baby weight I suppose. She had dark brown hair and the prettiest blue eyes. The color of the sky on the planet Earth. I've only been to Earth once, and that was my final time too, because once Tristian and I escaped from the Destroyers they ate the planet. I need to control the vision to be able to use it to my advantage- I had lots of visions lately too. I breathed in deeply and closed my eyes. I saw the hospital that my parents where in, and I saw Tristian walking towards them in the lobby. Everyone's mouth's where moving I just couldn't hear them speak. I can still hear Mr. Exus talking in the background about writing essays though. Drown him out, a voice calls from inside my mind. I concentrated harder.
"Excuse me?" Trisian said followed by himself clearing his throat. "Im Tristian..." He looked down. I saw my mother sitting with myself in her arms, her face was smiling. Tristian moved his eyes from my mom to my father and then down to me. "Im here to pick up your daughter." His words where clear and I knew any minute the Destroyers would barge throught the door. Tristian held out his arms and my mother hugged me one last time. "Please, the Destoryers are here. We need to get her off-" He started to speak again, but my mother cut him off. Her voice was the one that I was just starting to familiarize myself with. It was small, and quite... you really have to be paying attention to her lips to hear her speak.
"I know, Its just that..." Her voice broke off and I could hear screams. I knew this was when the Destroyers where coming for me. I saw through Tristian's eyes for this vision, something that wasn't new to me. Tristan stood there waiting for my mother to finish. She shook her head. "Just take her." Her voice was loud and demanding. She handed me to Tristian, and he looked over his sholder to see the Destroyers coming around the corner. Thankfully he started running. All I could hear where the screams of the people in the hospital and the sound of Tristian's breathing. His footsteps where loud against the tile floor. More screams where coming from behind us, but he never looked back. Thats when something I never heard in any of my visions came through. It was someone talking, that someone had a very deep voice. Whoever it was sounded every annoyed.
I tried to concentrate harder on the voice, thinking it might have been someone I'd missed in my past visions.
"Saskia..." The voice called in that annoyed tone again. I couldn't open my eyes, because I knew once I did... that I would loose my vision. "Saskia...Open your eyes and pay attention!" The voice was louder now. I could feel a cold hand on my sholder. The hand was huge, and since I was seeing the vision through Tristian's eyes, I thought it must have been him. The voice continued to call my name and demaneded that I open my eyes. Thats when I realized who the voice was. It was Mr. Exus. He was a fairly large man. His voice was more familiar now. I slowly opened my eyes, knowing that I was in deep trouble now! I saw Mr. Exus staring at me with his face hard and flat."Saskia! I thought I told you NO VISIONS!" He said shaking his head.
"Sorry, sir." I said trying not to call more attention to myself.
"Well you should be. You know what happens when you have visions!" Mr. Exus was right, I did know what happened when I had a vision. I would have to go look for some human to save.
"I know, its just..." I looked behind Mr. Exus to see Tristian in the door way. He waited to hear what I had to say, just like Mr. Exus. "That I've been having them more frequently lately." I shrugged. It was really no big deal that I was having visions. I was supposed to have them, as protector of the human race, it was my job. Mr. Exus seemed to realized that I was looking past him and he turned around.
"Oh, Tristian. I didn't hear you there..." He turned back to me and his eyes narrowed. "Control your visions, missy." He said sternly and then turned back to meet Tristian's glare. "Can I help you Tristian?" He asked in a normal tone. Tristian nodded his head.
"Yes, I need to speak to you for a minute please." Tristian spoke with such authority. Mr. Exus didn't even have a chance to reply before Tristan walked out the door into the hallway. I could hear Mr. Exus sigh and then follw him. All the kids in the class turned back to me. I looked at Yadira, she sat there smiling.
"Okay... spill. Who was your vision about this time?" Yadira asked a little more concerned. I cleared my throat to speak but when I opened my mouth it wasn't my voice.
"The freak has visions all the damn time, what is so special about them?" It was Illiana. She was almost as bad as the Destroyers. She had light blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. She sat there smiling at me, her smile was much different than Yadira's. Illiana's smile was full of hate. I glared at her, and for a second she honestly looked scared. Her eyes grew wide and then snapped shut. "Don't use your petty tricks on me. Remember Im human." She flipped her blonde hair back over her sholder. "Your just half." I wanted to kill her. Right there in that small little classroom, it would be so easy. I was the greatest warrior in the Elite besides Tristian and Ajax. The only reason I didn't kill her was because Tristian was her father.
"The vision..." I started ignoring all of her remarks. "Was about me, this time." I sighed. Yadira's face turned to stone. Her eyes thick with fear, I knew eactly what she was thinking. Unfourtunatly that was just another one of my "gifts" that my father had passed down to me. I looked around at my classmates, the only person who's face was even remotly normal was Illiana's, and i knew that was because she was thinking that I saw my own death.
"Are you saying that you saw your own death?" Illiana asked confirming my thought. I already knew she was going to ask that, because I could hear her thought before she spoke it. I listened to everyone's thoughts in the small class room. This was the only time I could hear people's thoughts, because they where close. Everyone was thinking along the same thoughts
. "Oh no, now the greatest warrior is going to die, what hope do the poor humans have." It was Amir who thought that just because I had a vision about myself that I was only person who's thoughts wheren't reolved around me dying was Ajax's. He also had the gift of reading minds, and It deffinatly came in handy during battle.
"Can you just please tell them that your not dying!" Ajax pratically screamed inside my head. I had to be careful of my thoughts around him. I knew he didn't like me, but there was something about the way he looked at me made me think differently. "Saskia! Tell them, they're annoying me!" I liked our internal conversations. I nodded and he turned back around in his chair to face the teacher's desk.
"Im not dying, chill people." Everyone's thought suddenly began swiming. "I was just having a vision about my mom again, no biggie." I put my hand on the table. I could still hear their thoughts. I couldn't concentrate enough to speak again. Everyone's minds where going to fast. It soft of felt like ten million bees where buzzing around inside my head. "Ajax can you tell them to shut the hell up?" I asked Ajax inside my head thinking it would help. I didn't hear his 'voice' inside my head so I looked up at him. He nodded, not turning around to look at me.
"Please, please, please... " Ajax said standing up. "Its hard enough to hear ya'll when your thinking normally." He looked at me. Ajax was the strongest male warrior besides Tristian at Elite. He was strong and beautiful. His body was muscualr and tall, he had the same dark brown hair that I did, but his eyes where an abnormal color of a light green. They where the prettiest eyes I've ever seen. His shirt clung to his muscles around his arms and his chest. I heard everyone's thoughts as he stood up. "Hes most deffinatly the hottest guy here." all the girls thought at once. I rolled my eyes and so did Ajax. Looking at him made me think what I looked like. I tried not to look at myself in the mirror as much as I could, for fear that I would look like my mom. I however saw what people thought I looked like. In their minds I was just plain ugly, normal brown hair and eyes, but it that was true why did Illiana look so scared when I glared at her? Maybe my eyes where a cool color like Ajax's. I wasn't listening to Ajax talk... because I was too engrosed with what I thought I looked like. Mr. Exus walked back into the room, his eyes where narrowed at me. I could hear him thinking that I was a no good brat that didn't belong here.
"Don't listen to him." Ajax's voice flowed throught my thoughts. "And you should maybe look in a mirror once and a while... Im sure you'll like what you see." His 'voice' in my thoughts was just as perfect as his real voice. I was just a child to Ajax, thought. He was turning 19, and in these days he was considered an adult the day he became a warrior. Myself on the other hand, I was still a child, Im only 16, even thought my birthday is in two days! "I know your not a child..." Ajax's voice became angry. I snapped my head up to look in his direction. He faced Mr. Exus.
"Thats what your always thinking." I didn't quite realize that we where having an argument inside our heads. If it wasn't everyday life, it would have been funny. Mr. Exus stopped our argument to end class, and also give us all homework. Some how the end of Earth didn't end homework. "Anyway. I know what you think." I still wasn't finished with Ajax yet. I didn't look at him as I got up and walked with Yadira out of the classroom. Ajax didn't answer at first and I was halfway back to my room when I finally heard his 'voice.'
"Please Saskia." His voice was pleading. "Won't you talk to me?" I rolled my eyes.
"Di, I need to talk to Ajax..." Yadira's face frowned. She didn't need to say the words outloud and I already knew she was mad at me. She had liked Ajax since he came here. "Di... please don't be mad." Yadira was my best friend. Sure she wasn't exactly human... but she was always a true friend, but lately she was acting weird. She nodded her head and walked off to her room. Since we where on a space ship she didn't have a choice but to talk to me somtime.
"Meet me by the big window." I called to Ajax. He didn't answer, but I knew he would be there. It took me all of a minute to disappear and land by what we called the big , I can "transport" myself places... yet another power from my father. It was the biggest "window" on the spaceship. You could see planets as far as jupiter. It was also the darkest part of the ship, which is why most people avoided it. When I could finally walk straight I caught sight of my reflection. I had dark brown hair, my cheekbones where strong and and so was my jaw... a square face, is what my mother used to call it. I had a small mouth with lips that where curved and plump. My nose was perfect and angular to my face. My dark brown hair waved to the middle of my back, and I saw that sometimes as other ships would pass that I had hints of red in my hair. I saved my eyes for last, thinking that they would be dark like my mother's. I was wrong. My eyes where a strange color. They where brown, but had this tint of green that danced around the edges. I heard a noise and saw that when I was startled my eyes turned flat green. Woah, that was something you didn't see everyday.
"Told you." Ajax snicked from somewhere in the darkness. I turned around searching for him. "See, you did like what you saw." He stepped out of the dark cooridor that led to the captian's sleeping space. I rolled my eyes, and looked back out the window.
"What'd you want to talk about?" I asked him, still looking out at the dark blue space. More spaceships passed by lighting the air with their colored tails. I sighed, I wanted so badly to be out there, to fly on my own. To be free and to be able to do what I wanted.
"You'll get to fly soon enough." His breath tickled my skin where my spacesuit didn't cover. How was he so close? "I wanted to tell you something." He said matter-of-factly. I waited.
"Go ahead." I turned around and hit my head up against his chin. "Ouch, you could have told me you where that close!" I accused him. When had he gotten that close? He laughed quietly as I rubbed my forehead. Ajax was a good six feet tall, compaired to my five foot six. His build was tall and muscular. He smiled hearing my thoughts. Stop thinking... I ordered myself, before he turns mean again.
"Like I was saying, before you hit youself." He smiled again making me loose my breath. "I wanted to say that-" His voice cut off. I could feel the vision coming on. I knew I needed to sit. Like I knew he was doing, he read my thoughts and ordered me to sit. I sad down up agains the window. "Woah, Saskia... your eyes are turning black." He commented looking into my eyes. Black, what the hell? It was like I was possessed. He put his hands on my sholders and spoke more clearly than before. "Concentrate, see them, hear them... where are the humans?" He asked staring into my eyes. He was trying to see what I was seeing. I thought of the whole secne.
I was transported to a place that I never knew. It was bright and sunny, the world I was seeing was a desert. The same reddish brown clay covered the gound. I concentrated harder to find the humans that needed help. I saw the Destroyer first. He ran across my vision. His snarls coming from deep within his chest, I knew wherever he was heading was where the humans where, so I followed him. I could smell the blood, I could feel the heat of the desert and more importantly I saw them killing the people hiding there. This was a first for me. I never saw people dying... just that they would die if I didn't help them. Did this mean they're already dead? I tried to show Ajax where I was by thinking and seeing at the same time. "Please help, protector." a lady called to me before the Destroyer jumped on her. I screamed and that pulled me from the vision. I could see Ajax's eyes wide with fear, and his hands where tight around my sholders.
"No." I sobbed. I saw her die. I saw the Destroyer kill her. "She's dead." I shook my head. This was the worst vision I've ever had, why now? It was two days till my birthday. Ajax lifted me up off the floor and ran into the hallway. "Ajax, you saw it too, didn't you?" I asked him still crying. Im not sure if my eyes went back to normal or not, I didn't care.
He nodded. "Think you can transport to Tristian?" He asked speeding up. I closed my eyes and threw us throught time. We where in Tristian's office faster than we would have if he was running. " Thanks." He murmmered. His voice was just a quite wisper. I still felt tears coming out of my eyes. "Your safe, your okay." Ajax said not letting me out of his arms.
"Saskia, What did you see?" Tristian said running to us. When he saw my face his eyes widened. "What did she see?" He turned to Ajax since I didn't answer. Ajax shook his head processing everything he saw. He was being careful not to think of the Destroyer and the lady. I shivered when I saw her face and heard her voice. "One of you tell me now!" Tristian screamed and I cringed up agains Ajax, whos arms tightend around my body in response.
"I'll tell you, just please let me sit." I said still short of breath from the transport and all the screaming. Tristian nodded and pointed to the couch in his office. Ajax set me down on the couch softly, and then stood up against the window. "Okay, please don't be mad Tristian." I started and Tristian's face was full of curiosity. He couched down infront of me and put his hands on my knees.
"Tell me." He ordered. His eyes where cautious reading my eyes and my facial expressions. I took a deep breath and put my hand against his cheek. Tristian's face was soft and his light blue eyes looked into mine. His hair was a lighter blonde than his daugther's and his lips where full up against his small mouth. His body went rigid as I showed him what I saw. I knew that he had the ablity to see things too, espically when someone like me [who had visions] put their hands on him. His eyes went flat and grew even wider as he saw the lady dying right infront of me. I felt the tears coming down on my cheeks and yet I couldn't look away from her face. If I saw her anywhere in a crowd I would be able to point her out with no trouble. Her hair was fiery red and was cut short, almost to her jawline. Her eyes where a light brown. Her skin matched her eyes, which was a little tanned because of the sunexposure. I knew any second the vision would cut off and I could go back to normal. I knew that I would not be able to fall asleep because of this lady. I never knew her name, and usually visions give me something to work with, like a name of a person or place... or even a street sign, or a restraunt. Not this vision. This vision was either already happeneing or already had.
When the vision cut off Tristian's face went back to normal. His expression althought was unreadable. No doubt he was replay the entire vision in his mind. I cried again, not for the lady really, just for the fact that I couldn't help her. "She's dead isn't she?" I asked Tristian through quiet tears. "I saw her die, Trisitan... I saw him RIPE her throat out!" I emphasied ripe because thats exactly what had happened. He lunged for her throat as if he where a vampire. But Destroyers where not vampires, no they ate your soul. They took all of a person- their mind, their blood, their heart, their souls, and even their memories. Both Ajax and Tristian where thinking of the poor lady. "STOP IT!" I yelled closing my eyes and covering my ears.
As if that would help. Their thought grew quiet and all I could hear was me crying. "Ajax, take her to your room." I could feel his eyes on me. "She'll sleep in your room... you'll take care of her." Trisitan walked over to me and put his hand against my forehead. "Sleep little one." he murmmered and I felt my eyes close and my thoughts disappear. The only thing I could feel was Ajax's footsteps under us as he walked to his room. I heard the door open and I felt the comfort of his bed.