Chapter 1 Mind Reading

Two more days until my birthday and it's going unbearably slower each day. The door opened and I looked up to see who was there. Standing in the doorway he stood there with a smaller boy at his side. The boy looked at my disgusted while he looked at me with pride.

"In two days." He smiled, "Just two days the world will be at our mercy my dear." I glowered and he looked at me shocked. "Ace…why do you look at me that way?"

"Go to hell." I mumbled and tuned away from him. I wouldn't look at him…not now and not ever. After what he'd done to me all this time I wasn't about to start ignoring it now.

"Ace, come now. You're like a daughter to me I love you Ace." He said walking into the room with the boy. That boy, was he captured and brought here just like me? Or was he truly related to the monster that stood by me now and tried to get me to accept him as my father?

"I hate you." I said to him then turned back around and then I heard the boy laugh. What was so funny? I didn't quite understand the humor in this as he did. I turned to him with a glare, "What in the hell are you laughing at?" He slowly stopped and looked at me.

"I think it's funny that he chose you." He admitted and he glared at the boy. The boy paid no mind as he could see the question in my eyes. "he chose me and you for a certain reason although you haven't been treated nearly as worse as I have." He said and now glared at the man standing beside him.

I stood now furious and turned to that monster. He could never count as a human now. Now he was just a thing, a monster, anything terrible, and so much worse to come. I walked over to him and as hard as I could I smacked him across the face. The boy's eyes widened and quickly he got between us, "She didn't mean that Hotoran."

"What?!" I almost yelled outraged, "Yes I did mean that! He's a monster! He can't even be called human for all the immoral things that make him up! He's sick and way beyond anyone's help!" Hotoran smiled at me and moved the boy out of the way.

"I'm glad you can admit your feelings Ace…though I do wish you would have done it a bit more civilized!" He yelled and raised his hand. As it came down I stood tall and strong ready for it so that I could come back with ten times that strength in pain and anger, but the boy got in the way taking the blow for me.

"I'm sorry Hotoran but I can't let you hit a girl." He said in a low tone. I looked at him astonished. Why was he standing between us and protecting me? He didn't even know me! But Hotoran ignored him and gently moved him aside and took my hands. He put on the smile again. That entrancing smile and I had to close my eyes so I wouldn't fall into his trap again.

"Don't worry Ace. In two days time…the world will be at your mercy. You will be able to do whatever you want. Get all you want when you want it!" He smiled. "Doesn't that sound great to you?" He asked getting a puzzled look on his face. "I don't understand. Where's my obedient little Ace that used to love me and admire me and look up to everything I said and did?" I knew he hadn't said anything because his lips didn't move but I still heard the words in his voice so it made me angry enough to kill.

"That obedient little Ace you knew died with all the admiration she had for you when you left and left me at the mercy of merciless men!" I yelled and yanked my hands away from him. "Don't touch me! I don't even want you near me!" He looked shocked and he took a few steps back.

"Ace…can you read minds?" I pursed my lips together refusing to say anything else to him and I looked at the boy who was just as shocked as he was. "Ace," He looked at me and smiled. "You can can't you?" He asked. I snarled and turned away from him walking back to the corner I grew up in. "Ace don't turn away from me!" He yelled.

Hotoran looked to the boy and snapped his fingers a few times then left. I turned and noticed the boy was still there. He kept just staring at me his eyes moving all over me. I felt the heat rush to my face then I decided to tap into his thoughts. See why he was staring at me so.

"Pervert," I yelled and turned back into my corner blushing madly. I heard the footsteps walk over to me and his hands slid from my shoulders to my waist. "Hey…stop it already." I muttered. He smiled.

"What you saw in my head…what you also heard. I know you were in my head or else you wouldn't have called me a pervert. But that's not a fantasy Ace. It's a vision and my visions are never wrong." My eyes widened but I felt better once his hands left my waist.

So now I was left with this clown, huh? I felt his hands putting pressure on m back but I didn't turn to him I didn't need to. I knew already what he was planning on doing and none of it was bad. Besides this only made me feel good…really good.