Authors note: First off I would like to say sorry for the delay. Also I would like to thank those of you who reviewed. I greatly appreciate it. Now without furthur a due...
Intevitable
Chapter 2: Cloaked Quondam Divulged
The sound of screeching tiers could be heard near the tranquil pond accompanied with the calm waterfall that the five teens visited daily. It was amazing that someone hadn't found its beauty then revealed it to the public for material means. But then again, it was a magical place. The five teens soon arrived at their favorite place in a frantic hurry. They had to speak to Sensei Watanabe about Hunters condition; he just had to know something. Somehow, that guy knew everything about anything. Almost as if it was as normal as walking on land, Tori, then Blake and Dustin carrying Hunter, then Shane, walked on the smooth, glass like water, into the waterfall. As the five passed into the falling water, they walked to a hidden safe haven; their academy. With no time to loose, Shane sprinted full force towards the towering building, in search for Sensei or Cam, whoever appeared first. It just so happened to be the Green Samurai. Sensei Watanabe never seemed to be around when he was most needed.
"Dude, you need to come quick! Hunter just, he, his…well, his powers went all haywire, I think." Shane sputtered out as he nearly ran over Cam.
"What are you talking about and what do you mean by 'haywire'?" Cam questioned as he collected the scrolls he dropped due to his collision with Shane.
"Hunter. He's unconscious. He just fell over and started generating electricity and started glowing crimson. That kind of haywire." Shane said impatiently. Seeing that Cam still was confused, Shane motioned for Cam to follow. "Just come on, you'll see." But the two didn't have to take a step because Blake and Dustin appeared with the subject of the discussion. Hunter's head was drooping forward so his hair hid his face from anyone's sight. Cam stared at the hunched over figure and noted the faint glow of crimson that surrounded his body and his pale complexion. He was almost a deathly white, extremely far from his normally tan skin. Without a second thought, Cam ordered him to ninja ops while he retrieved his father. Something wasn't right. There was something wrong with Hunter that went beyond Cam's own expertise.
Blake and Dustin struggled to gently carry Hunter down the stairs on Ninja ops. Each step took an immense amount of strength to prevent Hunter from dragging along the hard stone steps. Eventually, the pair was able to successfully bring him to the secluded room without any harm, and then was able to lay him on the table in the middle of the room. The table felt ice cold compared to the warmth of Hunter's body as Blake slid his hands out from underneath of Hunter's body. Not even a minute later did Sensei Watanabe and Sensei Omino arrive in a frantic manor. Cam had retrieved his father, and his father had retrieved Sensei Omino since he would know more of Hunter's powers. The fact that the two schools had combined shortly after Lothor's defeat helped in situations like this. Both Senseis stared at their pupil long and hard. Both Senseis' eyes were clouded with a combination of worry and fear. The room remained silent for several minutes, almost in fear that if someone said anything, it would break the concentration that both Senseis were conducting. However, the silence was broken when the computer let out three short beeps, announcing that the data was ready to be analyzed. Cam was the first to react. He leapt towards the computer, almost like the way a cat leaps at a mouse, to quickly glance through Hunters health reports.
'Everything seems normal. His blood level is normal, blood pressure normal, brain waves stable, everything is perfe-" He stopped for a mere moment before finishing. "Everything is perfect, except for his thunder energy concentration. The data says that Hunter experienced a dramatic spike in his powers and it's still continuing to rise." Cam spat out in confusion as he read the data out loud. "The only question is why? He should have reached his peek the same time the rest of us did. Why is his power at an abnormal level; a dangerously high level?"
"I can answer that for you." A soft voice uttered. Everybody in the room spun around to face Sensei Watanabe. Neither of the senses had spoken since they arrived at the Ninja Ops with Hunter in his comatose state.
"The prophecy is beginning" Sensei Omino muttered to Sensei Watanabe. With concern etched into his face, Sensei Watanabe turned his back to Hunter for the first time that afternoon to face the five teenagers. "Hunter is nothing whom he appears to be. He was never suppose to receive the crimson thunder morpher." Seeing that nobody was contemplating this, he strolled over to the dusty scroll shelf and pulled out a scroll from the far left side on the very bottom shelf. With a deep breath, he blew off the dust that had collected on it over the years and slowly glided back over to the rest of the group without opening the valuable scroll. He took one last glace at Hunter, to make sure he still was in an unconscious state, then and only then did he begin to speak again.
"Contrary to what all of you have come to believe, Hunter's biological parents did not die. They were, in fact, traitors to us and ran away to a far off galaxy to escape the punishment. The two of them had been feeding information to Lothor for several months after they returned from imprisonment." Everyone, including Cam, was not following Sensei Watanabe's explanation. "They both were originally among the highest trained ninjas that we had at that time. However, in a mission to rid Lothor from this galaxy, they were captured. We believe they were brainwashed and they became corrupted by evil permanently. After three months of being missing, the two of them appeared one day from out of now where. The simply told us they had escaped and we just accepted that. Nonetheless, they served us for several more months, but only as spies for the evil. They betrayed the academy by feeding Lothor information about out techniques, our new technology, and our secrets. Anything and everything they could get their hands on. However, unknown to Lothor at the time of their capture, Ava, Hunters mother, was pregnant. She was about four weeks along when she and Andrew, Hunter's father, was captured by Lothor. His brainwashing and corrupting methods had to have affected the child. Needless to say, we found out about the whole ordeal, including the pregnancy, and Andrew and Ava fled out of fear of the punishment that awaited them. The day before we approached their house, Ava gave birth, not to one child, but two, fulfilling the prophesy."
"Wait, what prophesy?" Cam inquired as he listened to the story of the past.
"Your question will be answered in time my son. Now once we reached their house, Sensei Omino and I that is, we came to find an empty house with only two infants in it. Hunter's parents had left the two children behind. We approached the two basinets that were located at the very back of the house, and there we found the twins; a boy and a girl. They young girl had very blonde hair, and a presence of purity. However, the young boy had a much darker shade of blonde, more dirty, and he didn't seem as pure as his sister did. We left the two infants there in the house fast asleep for a mere ten minutes in attempts to find Andrew and Ava before they escaped. But we had no such luck. They were long gone. We returned to the house to retrieve the two children, only to find that the young girl was gone; most likely by an evil force. They too had to of known of the prophesy and tried to prevent it from ever coming true. We too, have taken several steps in attempts to prevent it from coming true, but it seems that we can not stop fait." He paused for a moment to unravel the scroll, and then took a deep breath. "Now, I'm sure that all of you are confused at what 'the prophesy' is." Everyone but Sensei Omino nodded their head in agreement. Sensei Watanabe then nodded his head in understanding and began to read from the ancient scroll. "According the prophesy, it reads asset of twins will be born to the traitors of the ninja academy. Because of their corruption to evil, and their original goodness that resides in their hearts, the twins will both be the greatest evil to man kind, yet the only good that can prevent the downfall of man kind. The pure twin conceals great power beyond belief. This child is visibly pure with obvious physical features, showing its purity. This child is destined to wield the crimson power. However, the other twin is the only other power that can compare. This child is equally as powerful, but darker. This child is visibly darker with physical appearances of darkness. These children are equally matched in power. The pure is destined for the crimson morpher while the other is destined to follow the path of darkness in its parent's footsteps with a passion for evil and domination." With that Sensei Watanabe rolled the scroll back up and stood there with a finality expression etched into his face.
"So as you can see, these two will destroy and save the world. The only problem is that evil had gotten its hands on the pure twin. And so in attempts to prevent the darker twin from turning to the path of evil, we placed him with two of our greatest ninja's who took him in as their own child. He grew up with them as his foster parents who trained him in the art of thunder while protecting him from himself." Sensei Omino stated, beginning to explain Hunter's past, but was interrupted by Tori.
"So what you are saying is that Hunter, our Hunter, is supposed to be the darkest evil that the world has ever known? How is that possible? He has done nothing but good for the world." Sensei Omino nodded his head to acknowledge Tori's confusement, and then continued.
"He has not appeared evil because we found it best to hide Hunter's past from him his entire life. We told him as a small child that his parents both died in a car crash. He has no idea that he has a sibling, nonetheless a twin. After several hours of discussion, the leaders of all the local academies found it best that we prepare Hunter for the crimson morpher since the 'pure twin' was kidnapped and no one else but someone with his families genetics could use the crimson morpher. Because we hide his past from him, he never knew his full potential. He never knew that instead of just the ability to control thunder, he has the ability to control all elements to create deadly storms across the world if he wished to. After Lothor's attack on the Thunder academy and the destruction of Blake and Hunter's foster parents, Lothor captured Hunter and Blake as part of his plan to control earth, as you all already know. However, what you don't know, is that Lothor began to realize Hunter's hidden potential, but being the buffoon he is, never thought that he was the child the prophesy spoke of. Luckily for us, Hunter still doesn't know of his past. He has no idea what he capable of and what he is destined for." The five students stood there in shook and surprise. Eventually, Shane was able to speak.
"So what you're saying…is that Hunter, our Hunter, is suppose to be the destroyer of the world, and only his sister can save us, but she was captured by who knows who, so really there is no way of stopping it."
"For the most part; yes. The only upside is that because Hunter was not raised with even the slightest idea of being Hunter, the process will be slowed down, but not stopped."
"But then why is his power surging now, and why is he unconscious?" questioned Cam from behind everyone else. Sensei Watanabe spoke up then.
"My guess would be that exactly eighteen years ago today is the day that Ava and Andrew were corrupted by evil. My guess would also be that Hunter's twin is also experiencing much of the same reaction." Sensei Omino nodded his head in agreement. "His body couldn't take the sudden increase in power, so it just shut down to protect itself from the dramatic effect that was happening to it until his body can stabilize itself affectively. If my judgment is correct, then Hunter will be up on his feet in about a day or two. I am just not sure what to expect from him once he awakens."
They continued to discuss Hunter's destiny and secret past for several more minutes. However, unknown to all of them, even Sensei Watanabe and Sensei Omino, Hunter was able to hear every word spoken in that room. He had heard every word spoken, every lie that has been told about his life, every word of the prophesy that he didn't want to believe that was true. He laid on the ice cold table, still in his comatose state, thinking about his entire life being a lie. How can this be? How can I be evil? How could my parents just leave me, how could they be evil? I don't want to be the one that destroys the earth! How could they all lie to me about everything? I trusted Sensei Omino with every fiber of my being and what does he do? He lied to me to hide my past from myself. He didn't even tell me I have a sister! I was never even to suppose to have the crimson morpher! Does that mean that I am useless, second best? If she was supposed to have the crimson morpher, then what was supposed to become of me? Where is she right now and does she know of our past? And if I am supposed to be evil, why haven't I become evil already and tried to destroy the world by now? I have to find out, and none of them can figure out what I am doing…none of them. He continued his thoughts like that the entire time his body continued to recover.
"Dude, this doesn't make sense though. If Hunter was really evil, then why hasn't he tried to completely destroy us already? I mean, he has had several opportunities to do it. Like when we are asleep, or we are watching TV, or when were racing, or swimming, or even when we were eating-"Dustin began to question before he was interrupted by Tori.
"Dustin, will you just stop! That is just creepy okay! I don't want to think of all the times that he could have killed us. That is just scary to think about." Tori yelled.
"That is part of Hunter that we do not know about. This is only a small part of him that we do know for sure." Sensei Watanabe began. "We do not know all the secrets that lie inside of Hunter and his life, and I do not believe we will ever have the opportunity to find half of them. So to answer your question, Dustin, I'm not sure why he hasn't shown any obvious signs of darkness." Unknown to the group of people, the computer's data about Hunter's health was changing. Instead of the normal low brain wave activity that occurred in most coma patients, Hunter's brain wave activity began to sky rocket, and a moment later, his right eyebrow twitched, signaling that he was about to exit his unconscious state of being
Up above the earth, in the darkness of space, was a ship, a very large ship that was watching earth very closely. Inside the ship, a tall thin figure walked into the main chamber where the captain and leader of the ship sat comfortably.
"We found him, the other twin that is." The tall figure said quietly. The leader's face was shadowed, and only his mouth could be seen in the faint light that shone into the room. The lax mouth then formed into a sickening, evil smile at this news.
"Perrrfect." The leader hissed quietly to his faithful follower. "Watch him closely. We can't afford to loose him."
"Yes master." The tall figure answered. With that, the follower, bowed deeply and exited the room with a swift motion. The figure thought to itself as it walked to the observatory room. Oh Hunter Bradley, if only you knew how powerful you really are. I'll just have to keep an eye out for you to make sure you don't do anything…heroic. Yes, I will just have to keep an eye out for you and I will find your weakness. And with that, you will not be able to over come your greater half. The figure laughed deeply as the bottom of its dark heel left the only light in the observatory room into the shadows of the ship. As the figure turned the corner, its long hair momentarily whipped back into the light that was flooding into the room by the only window, revealing the ends of blonde hair. And just as fast as it came into the light, it was back into the shadows of the ship.
Authors note: Sorry if this chapter is dificult to follow, I was having a difficult time writting fluently. I blame the weather. But if it's confusing just tell me and I'll fix it.
