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Chapter 3
"Mom! Dad!" Sam called though the house, searching for her parents.
"Yes?"
"What is it, Sammykins?"
"Okay, first off, stop calling me that," Sam said. "And secondly, where did you find me? I know I'm adopted, and I need answers."
"I told you this would happen eventually," Thurston Manson whispered.
"Sammy, Sam," Pamela Manson corrected herself, "we found you next to a spaceship. We did some research and found out you are from a planet called Terathia. Though, what a five-year-old was doing in a spaceship we'll never know."
"Did you ever stop to think that I might have a family!?" Sam yelled back.
This was not quite the reaction Pamela and Thurston were expecting. What they did expect was for Sam to freak out about the fact that she was an alien, but she seemed almost as if she already knew that.
"Sam, the place was a wasteland," Thurston replied. "We didn't think anyone could have survived. Now… did you already know that you were from another planet?"
"I found out the other day," Sam replied coldly. "Correction, my brother, my sister and I found out the other day. And we have these… powers." Sam said the word as if it was something to be ashamed of.
"Sam, your powers are gifts," Pamela replied. "If there's one thing I know, it's that you're here for a reason. You and your brother and sister are going to figure this out."
"Aren't you guys going to help?" Sam asked.
"Sorry, but this is something you have to figure out on your own," Thurston replied. "We'll give you our notes, but that's it."
"It says here that Terathians can have one of these powers here on Earth," Sam explained, looking through her parents' notes. "The power of heat and warmth, electrokinesis, or water manipulation."
"What's electrokinesis?" Paulina asked in confusion.
"Electrokinesis is where you can control electricity," Sam explained. "Like… making the TV turn off and on with your mind."
"Or… making the lights flicker?" Paulina asked.
"Yeah," Kwan replied. "I guess that would count. Paulina thinks she may have the electrokinesis thing."
"Okay," Sam replied. "Odds are that we all have different powers, so that just leaves you and me."
"You're not telling us something," Paulina said knowingly. "C'mon, what is it? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?"
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you!" Sam gave in. "You know Danny Fenton? Well, he… died. Er, half-died, rather. I… I healed him."
"You what?" Kwan asked in shock. "That wasn't even a power in your parents' notes."
"Wait, wait, wait," Paulina said. "I think it was in the notes. Humans need warmth to stay alive. What if you granted warmth in the form of healing?"
"That's…" Sam began, ready to say ridiculous, though she realized something, "…not such a bad idea. When'd you grow a brain?"
Paulina glared at Sam, but turned back to the notes. "I think I was Matriarch, and Sam, I think you were Akarthia, and Rekiotho seemed to be the only boy-ish name, so I guess that's you."
"Okay, well, now that we know our names, what are we gonna do about these supposed powers?" Kwan asked. "We can't exactly go around using them."
"No one said we had to," Sam replied. "We don't have to acknowledge the fact that we're… from another planet." For some reason, Sam couldn't bring herself to say the word alien. Now that all of this was sinking in, she was thinking clearer and realized the gravity of the situation.
"How can you not see this as cool?" Paulina asked. She also had some time to think about the concept, and unlike Sam, she had grown to like the idea. "We've got superpowers. That is so cool! Kwan, er, Rekiotho, back me up on this."
"I think…" Kwan began. "I think I need some time to decide where I stand."
"You don't seriously think this is a bad thing, do you?" Paulina asked.
"Like I just said: I don't know yet," Kwan said. "And I have a lot of questions. Like… why were we sent here? Did our home planet get blown up like in some comic book? Or were we just here on vacation with our parents and our ship crashed? And if so, why hasn't anyone come after us? We must have had friends on that other planet. And our parents must have had friends who would have gone looking. Did our parents even come with us? For all we know, they're fine and just didn't want us."
"Well they- well we-" Paulina didn't have an answer. "They didn't abandon us. It's just something you know."
"No, Matriarch, you don't know," Sam replied, using her sister's birth name. Paulina was an evil shallow witch, but Sam could learn to be sisters with Matriarch. "For all we know, our parents could have sent us here in an attempt to kill us!"
"You and I both know you don't believe that," Paulina whispered.
"Hey, guys, I want you to meet my friend, Alex," Kwan said the next day to Sam and Paulina.
"Hi," Alex said. "Nice to meet you. So… Kwan says you're all siblings."
"What?" Sam asked in surprise. "Just one second." Sam pulled Kwan and Paulina away from Alex and whispered, "No one can know we're siblings. Questions may be asked, and if the right questions are asked, we may be royally screwed. Got it?"
"Got it," Kwan and Paulina gulped. Sam was not a person you wanted to piss off. The three walked back over to Alex and began talking.
"So, how do you and Kwan know each other?" Paulina asked.
"Oh, Kwan and I go way back," Alex said. "Best buds since diapers."
"Uh… cool," Sam said. "Well, I've gotta go talk to my friend. Bye!"
Uh-oh! I officially introduced a plot! But Akarthia, Rekiotho and Matriarch have a long way to go before they can truly call themselves family. Let's see who can tell where I hid the plot… (insert evil laugh here)
