I woke up in a hospital room. I looked around and saw a man and Twitch standing at the side of my bed. "Oh, she's awake!" exclaimed the man. His big, light brown eyes looked to me and quickly to Twitch. This man looked extremely strange to me. His long, black hair went down to his lower back. He was quite short and had on a tan robe-like garment which went down to his feet. He did not seem exceptionally old but I could tell he had been through a lot in his lifetime. He seemed considerably wise. "Steph! You've been out for days! I-" Twitch was cut off. "Now listen to me, Stephanie. Your parents were looking for you so we had to make it seem like you've died. I hate lying but it is absolutely for your own safety." the man explained. "We had a fake body and EVERYTHING!" Twitch added as he started to laugh crazily. The man, glaring at Twitch's terrible immaturity, started again, "Now I don't agree with abducting you from your home. But it is only to help you. You won't be able to see your family or friends ever again I am afraid. Will you be alright with this?"
"Yes." my subconscious replied even before I could think about all he had just told me. I realized these past few days had actually happened. This was a little too unreal for me to handle. A few days ago I grew wings, WINGS! And I flew into a tree. There were four men trying to kill me. To all who knew me before, I was already "dead" and my only current friend was someone who a witch warned me could be crazy. I was going to be taken away from Earth never to return and I would be brought to a place I had never been of before. I thought I was going to pass out for another week or so. But I agreed and we left the hospital with the man and went into the woods where we had last seen those four wizards.
There was a humongous, red space ship in the middle of the clearing. The man told us to stay here until he returned with a ship that actually worked. As he left I felt very unsafe. I wasn't exactly sure if I wanted to be alone with Twitch. "Okay, so who the heck was that?!" I asked in a flustered voice. "That is one of my future teachers, Professor Saladin." Twitch replied with a smile. It comforted me and after that I felt fine with him. "Ha, we have a court date in a few days about our whole predicament last week with those cops." he informed me hysterically. He thought it was funny that they were going to try to imprison a dead girl and her alien friend. It did sound funny. But he insisted we went just to see them try to arrest us. I don't know why I agreed with this but I did.
The day of our case came and we got on some nice clothes and went to the courthouse. While we were walking inside we were "escorted", or should I say "captured", by police officers, to our seats. I looked around and saw a lot more people that I thought I would. I assumed none were there for me; I was "dead". No one knew Twitch so no one would be there for him either. As I glanced at all the faces of the crowd, I saw Tressa! TRESSA!The second of the only two people I could, at that moment, call my friends. I could barely even remember my old friends. I hit my head so hard, I assumed I'd forgotten all of the people I knew before. I didn't even remember my family but I guessed it didn't really matter now; I was "dead". I ran over and hugged Tressa. I talked to her for a few minutes. I looked up briefly and saw a man, behind her, staring at me. His mouth was wide open and so were his eyes. He stood up and bellowed, "I knew it!" and he got up and left the courtroom quickly.
I was so confused. Did I know him? Am I supposed to know him? Why did he leave like that? I went back to my seat and sat down next to Twitch. The case finally started. We were asked a lot of questions they brought up the police men who witnessed my flight. They talked about how I was flying and everyone in the courtroom went crazy. The judge asked me if I could prove that I could indeed fly but Twitch and I decided that the wizards could be anywhere and if they were near when I used magic, they would know where to find me. I knew if they found me, they would surely kill me. I refused to prove me ability and just then I looked at one of the two identical bailiffs. I thought it was weird that twins would share a profession. Also, it was strange that I thought they both looked familiar; like one of the wizards. One of twos' eyes turned yellow as I gazed into them. My eyes widened and terror paralyzed my entire body. The judge asked me what my problem was and Twitch understood and answered for me. "She thinks the bailiff wants to kill her, sir" he replied in a very serious way. The whole court was laughing and the judge got mad at all of them but me, mostly. The bailiffs stared at me, laughing. It was a hateful laugh. I knew they were really angered that I'd figured them out. I remembered Tressa's descriptions of the wizard:
4)Black hair,red eyes, dark skin
I also thought about the third description:
3)Red mohawk, yellow eyes, tan skin
"Yellow eyes" I whispered to myself quietly looking at the wizard. I decided it was definitely him and all the blood inside of me ran cold. He was staring right at me now and I knew any second, he was going to attack me. I looked quickly at the door and back at him. I looked at Twitch, and bolted toward the door. Twitch followed me. As I looked back to see if anyone was coming after us, I saw the wizard transform completely into himself and the two of them stopped all the police and chased after us.
Right when we got outside of the courthouse, Twitch was grabbed by one of them, but I kept going. It was pouring and extremely dark out. I saw two humongous red ships identical to the one from the clearing on the street right in front of the courthouse. I could barely make out the shapes of the seven bodies standing in front of the two ships. The four from one of the ships immediately went to free Twitch. I didn't want to watch what was going to happen next, so I kept running. I turned back quickly as I heard Twitch yell something to one of the three people from the other ship. I couldn't see anything anyway so I didn't bother to look and see what the guy was doing. I heard a motorcycle coming towards me. Twitch must have told someone to come after me. I eventually made it to the edge of the woods. The motorcyclist was very close but I didn't stop running and got far into the woods. He drove in front of me, forcing me to stop, and got off of the bike. He told me that I could trust him and that he was friends with Twitch. We saw the ships take off and I heard someone running towards us in the distance; it was Twitch. His friend got back on the bike and started it up. He looked back to one of us though I couldn't tell to whom because he had a helmet over his face. Twitch ran towards him. "Captain!! Captain, they told me to tell you to meet them at the planned location, but how are we supposed to get there?" he got out to his friend over the loud roaring of the engine. "You're not!" he replied and revved up. "We'll come back for you two when it is safe to return. In the mean time," twitch stared at him. His mouth gaped open. "stop getting into trouble."
The person turned to face me but I could not tell his expression because of the helmet. He drove off through the woods. "Captain!" Twitch finally understood that he was being abandoned yet again, and subconsciously interjected. With the rest of his energy, which was not very much at all, he tried to run after his friend. He barely made it a few meters before he collapsed onto the ground.
The police, minus the wizards, come and offered to take us to a hospital. They told us that checking into the psychiatric ward could be highly beneficial to our well-being. Though I knew we were not insane, I agreed to be taken in to avoid having any further legal trouble.
When we arrived there, I told them I did not remember my name. This wasn't entirely false considering I did not know my last name. But the police knew I was "Stephanie", so I remained solely without a last name. The only thing I feared was if some one I previously knew came here looking for me. That night I dreamt of that exact thing; only it had already really happened.
I woke up, screaming. I had figured out who the man in the courthouse was. I'd been to his house many times before, though I didn't quite know my exact relationship with him. He seemed fatherly but was not my father. We were not at all related, and I wanted to go find him.