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I woke up to sunlight, just like my first day at Havenfield. (Is it HAY-ven field or HA-ven field)
Oh, how I missed those days. When I was fifteen, we had to move because the Neverseen were conducting daily attacks on either my house or my friends'.
Now, problems were weighing me, and I need a way to help my fellow elves. It seems as though my friends don't want me to do this, but they do at the same time. The shouts they repeated the last week were "Sophie! How could you not tell us! I thought we were friends!" "Just think about what you'd have to give up!" "I don't want you to become a snobby Noble!" "Please listen to us! We can help with the decision!" "Take your time, Sophie! They won't understand! I'm not sure I do either, so I'm not going to try and make this choice for you!" "I'll try to get them off of your back!" The last two were Tam and Linh. They knew no one but me could make this selection but me.
There were a thousand questions swirling around in my mind;
Why don't they support me on this? Are they really my friends? What should I do? Am I really considering becoming a Councillor? If so, am I betraying them? What makes them so against this? How come only Tam and Linh are the only ones that understand that it's my decision? How would the elvin world take this? Do they still think I'm terrible, trying to destroy this world? But...am I ready?WHY...? HOW...? WHO...?
Who do I want to be?
UGHHHHH THIS IS GETTING NOWHERE!
1. Q- Why don't they support me? A- No idea
2. Q- Are they really my friends? A- I think so, but...I don't know.
3. Q- What should I do? A- I think... I want to be a Councillor.
4. Q- Am I really considering becoming a Councillor? A- Yes.
5. Q- If so, am I betraying my friends? A- No, because they were even less against the Council at the beginning of this.
6. Q- What makes them so against this? A- I don't know.
7. Q- How come Tam and Linh are the only ones that understand that it's my decision? A- Because Tam knows choices like this and Linh is easy to talk to about most things. She understands easily.
8. Q- How would the elvin world take this? A- No earthly idea
9. Q-Do they still think I'm terrible, trying to destroy this world? A- Agian, no earthly idea.
10. Q- But...am I ready? A- I...I think so. They wouldn't have asked if they didn't think so.
11. Q- Who do I want to be? A- I want to be someone who helps the world, instead of harming it.
The questions all lead to this; I'm choosing to become a Councillor.
The pounding and shouting stopped.
Why?
Fitz...
Fitz was monitoring my thoughts.
"You! You don't trust me enough to tell you when I'm ready?! I thought we were Cognates! I thought you were my friends!" I was yelling, ripping the dresser away from the door. "Why don't you trust me anymore?" It was only a faint whisper now.
I was breathing hard, Thunder booming louder than ever and Lightning striking terrible close to the window.
"What don't you like about this?" I collapsed, watching my friends come closer, trying to comfort me. "NO! GET AWAY FROM ME!" I was screaming. At my friends. "Tam, Linh. Please stay." I watched the looks of pain and horror on Keefe, Biana, Fitz, and Dex's faces.
"Sophie...?" Keefe only used my first name when it was really important.
"Go." When they didn't move I yelled, "GOOO!"
They ran, Biana disappearing as tears streamed down her face.
"Its like their parents made them be friends with me all over again." I whispered to myself, getting up. "Come on. I need to talk to you guys. BIANA DONT FOLLOW!" I felt Biana's presence nearby, having learned to do that after developing other new talents.
The day before I turned fifteen was a very complicated day.
I woke up to the warmth of the sunlight shining in through the windows. Before I went to bed, I decided not to close my curtains at Havenfield so I could wake up with the sun.
"Woah." I felt... something new. Tons of new things in my body. The same feeling I had when I became a Telepath, Teleporter, Inflictor, Enhancer, and Polyglot.
I felt... joy. And excitement, but also some nervousness.
I sensed someone hiding next to my bed. 2 somethings. Then 3. Eventually I felt 4.
I grabbed a book from my nightstand. "Who's there?" I dropped to the side of the bed and instantly regretted it.
"Ahh!" I winced, feeling a sharp pain. There was a clear, blue-tinted force field around my bed.
"What's happening?!"
"Sophie? Are you ok?" A farmiliar Technopath popped out from hiding behind my bed, his voice muffled.
"What's that?" A confused Biana asked, her voice muffled as well.
"What have I done?" I whispered, staring at my hands. "Someone get help!"
"I-I'll hail Elwin." Fitz pulled out his Imparter and Elwin's face appeared.
"Is everything ok?" An even more muffled voice came from the box.
"Sophie-" Fitz tried to reply, but was quickly interrupted.
"I'll be right there!" Elwin clicked away.
"SOPHIE! WHATS ELWIN DOING HERE!" Grady yelled from down stairs.
"I CANT GET OUT!" Something is very wrong. Or very right.
A feeling of excitement and wonder filled my heart, and that day, I knew I was complete.
"OH MY-" Grady yelled.
"WHAT IN THE LOST CITIES IS GOING ON!?" Elwin cried, dropping his bag of supplies.
"I-I think I've developed new abilities." I replied through the force field.
"Are you sure?" He replied hastily coming up to the blue screen.
"Yes. Could someone call Mr.-I mean, Tiergan?" I was standing on my bed now, putting my hands on the walls of the confinement, feeling the energy that flowed through my hands to the force field.
"No need. Fitz transmitted to me as soon as he called Elwin." Tiergan walked in just then. "You have developed new abilities Miss Foster."
"Tiergan, if I don't call you 'Sir' please just call me Sophie."
"Yes, alright Sophie. Now, what exactly do you think you've developed?"
"Well, obviously a psionipath." I waved my hand toward the shield. "And I can sense when people are nearby. Also, I feel a bunch of emotions that aren't mine."
"You're now an empath and... something new..." Tiergan pulled out an small leather journal that looked like it was from a thousand years ago.
"What? But..." There was no argument that it was impossible. After all, I had already developed an ability that no one had ever had before...so why not again?
"Wow. Can't say I'm surprised. Foster does have a knack for breaking elvin records." Keefe teased, lying back down as the forcefield disappeared.
"Guess what, Keefe?" I smiled smugly.
"What, Foster?"
"You can't lie to an Empath." The smile broadened. I booped him on the nose."Wait..." I frowned, noticing that the barrier was down. "Why is it down now?"
"It probably has something to do with your feelings. That's what psionipath I know say what happens at first." Tiergan replied, recording something into his journal.
"Ok... should we call the Council?" Now I was nervous. Would they make me take more new classes at Foxfire, or would they just have me stay after everyone else last and take more classes?
"No need. I did before I got here. They should be here any second now..." Tiergan replied, still writing.
"Well, might as well go wait outside." I started two stand up, but stopped when I noticed that there was another book on my bed. It was the old scrapbook I made of my years with the humans. "How did that get there...?" I asked myself.
Dex was waiting at the door for me, since everyone else had gone down the stairs.
"You sure you're ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. It's just... what if there are more abilities that hit me, and I just find them later today? Oh, how complicated will my life get?" I sighed, getting up. "Let's go."
We walked down, finding everyone else waiting.
In short, that day I developed a bunch of abilities and some other ability that the Council hasn't had time to name.
"How come you understand that it's my choice and they don't?" I asked after closing the door.
"Don't know, but I do know that they're just a little hurt that you only told Fitz." Linh replied sitting on the floor.
"And they're idiots." Tam added, plopping down next to her.
"How long have they been out there?" I asked. There was no way I would know in my room.
"Three days." Tam replied.
"I need to visit the Council." I murmured to myself. "Thanks. It means a lot to me that you get it." And then I left.
Maybe the conversation should have been longer, but oh well.
A week and four days. That's how long I had until this mysterious ceremony.
I came up to the Council tree, noticing that gnomes had made a new crystal ball-house.
Its time to tell them my choice.
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In some future chapter, I'll add on to the memory.
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