Chapter 2

Akari: I am Cookie.

Miyuki: I am Cupcake.

Akari: Okay, onto a new conversation. This chapter is going to be about my OC.

Miyuki: And it is going to be awesome! :D

Akari: Yes! Now do the disclaimer!

Miyuki: We do not own the the YJ characters except for our OCs.

Akari: Now enjoy the story!

I opened my eyes and saw nothing but darkness. I had the feeling I knew where I was, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I somehow knew there were several other people here. Suddenly the whole place jerked to the right and I felt myself fall. I was helped up, but almost as soon as I was back on my feet the whole place started to shake. At first it was barely noticeable, but after a minute it became almost unbearable.

I was getting a horrible feeling of falling. I smelt smoke and heard pops and cracks. People were shouting, but I couldn't make out what they were saying. It wouldn't have mattered anyways seeing as they all turned into blood curdling screams. I was screaming with them as well until I felt someone grab my hand and embrace me. I suddenly felt calm and peaceful, as if all the horrible things outside had gone.

I knew that soon we would crash, but I didn't care.

"Ah!" I bolted upright in my bed and quickly looked around. I sighed in relief when I realized that I was safe in my own room. I yawned and picked up my phone to look at the time. "9:00... On a Monday! Crap, I knew I was forgetting something last night!" I shouted and jumped out of bed. I ran over to my closet and grabbed my school uniform. Now usually my parents are here to wake me up, or they at least remind me to set my alarm before they leave, but they left at 12:00 Friday when I was still in school.

They were always off doing their job, and traveling to other countries. They worked as bodyguards for high ranking government officials and anyone else of great importance. Since they were traveling so far away they would often be gone for days. When they were home though, they were like any other parents I suppose. They would push me to do better in school because they valued education above anything.

After I tied my black hair up in a ponytail I grabbed my phone, bag, and textbooks. When I passed the kitchen I considered eating something before deciding it was too late and sprinted out the door. As I reached the sidewalk I looked at my watch and saw that it was 9:20. I widened my eyes and quickly ran towards the school. "Please don't give me detention, please don't give me detention." I muttered. By the time I there the front doors were closed. I ran around the side and to the window that lead into my classroom.

I couched low and peeked into the room. Mr. Anderson was writing on the board and giving another one of his lectures. I looked at the kids and saw my friend Kyle sitting at our table in the back of the classroom. I lightly knocked on the window to try and get his attention. Fortunately he heard and looked over at Mr. Anderson before silently making his way over to me. As soon as he opened the window we both bolted to our seats.

I sighed thinking that I had avoided getting a detention. "Where were you?" He asked. "I slept in because I forgot my parents weren't home." I explained. He opened his mouth to say something, but our teacher turned around and looked at me. "Hello Miss. Forte. So glad you could join us today." He said. "What are you-" He silenced me and pointed behind us. "You left the window wide open. I also remember that you were not hear when class started. I'm not an idiot."

I turned around and sure enough the window was open. I looked at Kyle and he shrugged. I facepalmed and Mr. Anderson walked up to me. "You will have detention today. Don't be late." I groaned, but accepted the slip of paper. "Fine. I won't."

After the horrible extra school hour I was more then ready to go home. As I made my way off campus I heard someone call my name. I turned around and saw Kyle running up to me. "Hey Val! How was detention?" He asked. I rolled my eyes. "Oh, yeah, it was awesome. A real party." I said sarcastically. He just laughed and asked, "Did you ever figure out the meaning of that dream?" I shook my head, "No, but I had it again. I just don't understand what it could mean."

I started to have this dream last week and whenever I fall asleep it would replay over and over until I woke up. It didn't really effect my sleeping, but it was rather annoying. "Let's just hope it's nothing bad. Who knows? Maybe you can see into the future!" He suggested with a smirk on his face. "Yeah, if only." I said smiling. After we got to my house we said goodbye and I headed inside. "Anybody home?" I called out hoping my parents would already be here.

To my disappointment there wasn't a response. "Oh well. What should I do in the mean time?... Oh! I know!" In my rush to get to school this morning I had completely forgotten to check on my black and white Siberian Husky, Kira. Almost as soon as I stepped foot in the backyard she tackled me to the ground and started to lick my face. "Ah! Kira, I know, I know! I'm sorry I didn't come to see you this morning!"

After she finally got off of me I opened the door and took her inside the house. I filled up her food and water bowl before going to my room and grabbing my sketch book. I loved to draw anything and everything. I have several sketchbooks filled with drawings that people always say are amazing. So I grabbed a new sketchbook, pencil, and started to draw.

After a couple of hours of drawing and playing with Kira I heard the doorbell ring. "Yes! They are finally home!" I shouted and ran to the door. When I opened it my parents were on the other side. They hugged me tightly and my mom said, "Valentina, we missed you so much!" I hugged back and said, "I missed you too!" I heard a bark behind me and quickly moved out of the way to see Kira running towards us. My dad started to slightly back up repeating, "No, no, no , NO-" Kira didn't listen and tackled him anyways.

"Well, that's what you get for being her favorite person and leaving her for the past three days." My mom said. "She does this every time though! You would think she would get used to it!" My dad said while trying to get Kira off him. Me and my mom just rolled our eyes before starting to walk away. "You're just going to leave me here?" My dad called after us. "Remember the last time we got her off you? She wouldn't look at us for a week!" My mom reminded him. "Fine…" My dad sighed.

"So when are you guys going to leave again?" I asked my mom. "Unfortunately we will have to leave again this Wednesday after you come home from school. Me and your father have to get on a plane to Germany with the Secretary of Defense." She explained with a sigh. "Germany?! It will take you guys forever to come back!" I complained. "I know, but there's nothing we can do about it. The job will require us to be gone for two weeks maximum." She said. I sighed and nodded. "So if you guys are leaving so soon, can we do something awesome before you leave?" I asked hopefully.

"Depends what it is. Last time I ended up stranded in the middle of New York wearing a pink princess dress." My dad said grumbling the last part. "Don't worry dad, it's nothing extreme like that. I was wondering if we could go to the new amusement park that just opened up. I heard they have really good rides." I clarified. "Okay, that seems safer for my reputation. We will go tomorrow after you get out of school." My dad stated. "Yes!" I cheered. "Hey, can I bring Kyle along too?" I questioned. "As long as his parents are okay with it then yes." My mother agreed. I cheered again and ran off to my room.

The next day I was woken up by my mother calling my name. "Val, get up. The sooner you get through with school the sooner we can go to the amusement park." She said through my door. "Alright, I'm up." I mumbled, slowly getting out of bed. Sometime later when I had dressed and had eaten breakfast (something I wasn't able to do yesterday) my dad drove me to school. "Bye dad!" I said while getting out of the car. "Bye!" He said before starting to drive back home. I walked inside of the school and as I made my way to home room I saw Kyle at his locker. "Kyle! I have to ask you something!" I said excitedly as I ran up to him. "What is it?" He asked as he closed his locker.

"Would you be able to come with me and my parents to the amusement park after school? It will be awesome!" I shouted, causing some people to look in our direction. "I'll have to run it by my parents, but I'm sure they would agree." He said. "Great! I'm so excited! Not even our boring math teacher can bring me down!" I said whispering the last part so I didn't get detention again. Kyle laughed and agreed as we entered home room.

The rest of the day went by pretty smoothly.

The only thing that brought me down was when my English teacher said we had to have partners for a project, but I was happy again when I was paired with Kyle. I walked out of school and waited for my parents to show up while Kyle called his parents. After a few minutes I saw them coming down the road and Kyle ended the call. "Yeah, they agreed." He stated. "Yay! Now let's go ride some roller coasters!" I shouted. "Yeah!" Kyle agreed as we sprinted up to the car.

"Hey dad, where is mom?" I asked. "Oh, she had to do something real quick. She will meet us at Six Flags though." He explained. "Alright." I said. The rest of the ride to the park was fairly quiet, and by the time we got there my mom was standing outside the gate waiting for us. I run up to her and asked, "Hey, where did you go?" She paused for a second before answering. "Oh, it was just some boring work for our trip to Europe." She stated. My parents can usually fool everyone else when they lie, but I'm their kid. I've lived with them my whole life and have figured out how to tell when they were lying. This was one of those times, but I decided to let it slide. "So which ride do you want to go on first?" My dad asked. "Hm… How about the Texas Giant?" I suggested. "Yep, lets go!" Kyle said.

After we had ridden all the rides and dropped Kyle off it was already late at night. All of us were tired and as soon as we went home I fell asleep on the couch. I woke up the next day and felt a pain in my back and neck. "Ow… That's the last time I sleep on the couch." I muttered. I got up and almost instantly fell over someone. I looked down and saw my dad lying on the floor. "Ow, you just stepped on my stomach.." He groaned. "Sorry, but why did you fall asleep on the floor?" I asked. "The same reason you fell asleep on the couch." He responded. I just sighed and looked at the clock.

"Can I just stay home today? It's already too late to try and make it to school on time." I said. "What time is it?" He asked. "10:00." I stated. My dad sighed, "Alright, you can stay. Only because your mother is still asleep and I am too lazy to drive you. There is also a catch. You have to make all of us breakfast." He said. "Really?" I raised an eyebrow. "Hey, that's a fair deal for letting you skip school. I could get in trouble for this, and I work for the government!" He shouted.

Suddenly a pillow was thrown in his face and I saw my mom glaring at him. "Stop yelling before I call Kira to tackle you again." She threatened. "I'm quiet…" My dad said, looking away. I just rolled my eyes and walked to the kitchen. "Your lucky I'm good at cooking."

I said to him. A few minutes later I had made eggs and bacon. "This is breakfast?" My dad asked. "You didn't say how elaborate you wanted it to be, so I made it as simple as possible. I mean, if you don't like it I can throw it away-" I held the bacon over the trash can and started to tilt it.

"NO!" My dad shouted and grabbed all the bacon. "How dare you threaten my bacon!" He said looking at me in shock. I rolled my arms and called my mom. "That bacon is being shared between all of us." I said as me and mom too our share from him. He looked at his small pile of bacon and grumbled. "I can take that too." I suggested. "No! This bacon is all mine." He said. "Well then stop acting like a child." I said. After that breakfast was quiet.

Later that day my parents were packing up again to leave for their next job. "I promise we will stay home longer when we come, okay?" My mom said. "We will also need to talk to you about something when we come home." My dad added. "Why couldn't you tell me while you were here? You had plenty of time." I questioned. "Well it requires a lot of work and effort, so we will discuss it when we return." My mom stated. I sighed and nodded. "Alright, but it better be the first thing we talk about when you get back." I said. They both agreed and after we said our goodbyes they were gone again.

When my parents would go out of town for long periods of time I usually ran out of things to do. When that happened, I tended to slightly dangerous things. Now was one of those times. It was Saturday, I wasn't allowed to leave the house except for school and emergencies, and Kyle couldn't come over because his parents were having him do stuff. In just a few minutes I had somehow managed to climb onto the chandelier, but the bad news was that I didn't have a way down. "This could end very badly…" I said to myself.

The couch was the closest thing to me, but I would have to jump pretty far. "If I slip up it's going to be a long way down, so I better do it right." I thought. Just as I was about to jump I heard Kira bark, and I instinctively turned to see what she wanted. Unfortunately my foot slipped in the process and I started to fall. I felt something click inside me and I closed my eyes waiting to hit the ground, but it never came. Instead I felt myself fall on soft cushion. "Wait… What?" I said. I opened my eyes and saw that I was lying a few feet away on the couch.

"Okay, there is no way that could have happened…" I said. After a few more moments of of lying there in shock, I got up and started to pace around the room. "I couldn't have made that jump, not with how I got distracted like that. I clearly saw that I was headed for the ground, so..." I trailed off and looked back up at the chandelier. "Maybe I should try and do it again, but in a less dangerous way." I said, making my way over to the kitchen. I climbed on top of the counter and stood up. The height wasn't enough to injure me greatly, but it would still hurt.

I closed my eyes and let myself fall. Instantly I felt something click inside me and I opened my eyes. I could see the ceiling and expected to hit the floor, but instead I saw blackness surround me and in an instant I was back on the couch. I sat there for a minuet before I heard the doorbell ring. In my shocked state I decided to ignore it, but the person must have really wanted to come inside because they started to ring it repeatedly. I glared at the door and yelled, "Who is it!?" The person on the other side surprised me when they said, "It's Layla, now you need to open this door right now!" Layla is my parents best friend. She is a foreign translator and has worked on several jobs with them.

Her voice sounded urgent, so I quickly got up and opened the door. As soon as I did she rushed into the house. "Um, hey Layla. What are you doing here?" I questioned. "We have to get you out of here." She said, walking over to the backyard. "What? Why do I have to leave?" I said, starting to get suspicious. She didn't say anything and walked up to Kira, putting her leash on her. She handed me the leash and said, "Follow me." I was about to argue, but she was already going into the hallway. I run after her and noticed she went into the guest room. "Hey, you can't just leave me in the dark! Why are you here, and why do I have a bad feeling about this?" I asked. She looked at me sadly and closed the door. "It's... It's your parents." She sighed.

"My parents? What about them?" I questioned, getting a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. "They..." She paused, seemingly trying to find the right way to tell me. "Come on, spit it out!" I shouted, getting frustrated. "Your parents plane were shot down over the Atlantic Sea!" She shouted back. I froze and felt like someone had shot me in the chest. My parents are dead? What am I going to do now? There's no way I would be able to keep living here... "Val!" I heard Layla shout, snapping me out of my trance. "You can't freeze up on me now! You need to get out of here! The FBI are coming to your house right now to get you!" She said.

"... Why?" Was all I could bring myself to ask. "You have powers that they want to keep for themselves. If you go to the Justice League, they will keep you safe. They will teach you how to control your powers." She explained. I sighed and pushed all the thoughts of my parents to the back of my mind. "Alright, so how do-" I cringed when I heard the front door slam open. Layla went to the back of the room and opened up a secret hole in the carpet. She motioned for me to come over. "Walk down there and keep going forward, alright? You will eventually come out at a forest. Keep Kira with you and be safe." She said before motioning for me to climb down the ladder.

I took one last look at her before grabbing Kira's leash and walking down the steep steps. I barely managed to say a thank you before she tightly closed the opening. "Alright, come on Kira. We better get moving. In fact, it will be faster without this thing." I said, taking the leash off and leaving it behind. After that we started to make our way as quickly as we could to the exit, and after a few moments, we reached another set of stairs that lead to a door.

I opened it and walked out into the forest. "So where are we supposed to go now? I mean, how could we possibly find the Justice League!? We can't just call them up on the payphone and say, 'Hey, I have powers and the is trying to chase me down. Can you come get me?' So if we can't go to the League, who do we go to?" I said turning to Kira.

I sighed and face palmed. "I'm getting so stressed over this that I'm expecting an answer from my dog." I turned around and started to walk forward. I wasn't able to walk long before I tripped over something. "What the hell?" I raised an eye brow and looked back. I widened my eyes when I realized it was a girl near my age. "What is she doing here?" I wondered. She looked like she had been through a lot. There were a bunch of cuts and some bruises. "Doesn't look good... I guess I should stay here until she wakes up." I said, sitting up and leaning against a nearby tree. As Kira laid down next to me I noticed the sun starting to set. "It's going to be a long night." I sighed before falling alseep.