Crew of the Axe Chronicles, Kirsty's story,
Chapter 3 - Power unleashes, a gift or a curse?

Kirsty smiled as she looked down at the photograph back pile laying in front of her.

"That was one of the days that changed my life for ever, and I didn't even know how yet, until the that following year…"

"Maybe you have some sort of fire fruit, here does this hurt?"

"OUCH! THAT BURNS!!!"

"Okay then, I'm guessing that's a no. How about a lightening fruit!"

"Don't even think about it!!!"

--flashback--

"Ow, your no fun," Kyra told her sister as the twins walked in the streets.

"Come on Kyra, we've been doing this for over a year now, we're never going to figure out my power this way," Kirsty sighed as she walked beside her. "Maybe we should just give up hope…"

"Don't say that! We can figure it out, believe it!" Kyra yelled as Kirsty just stared at her.

"Please don't ever say that again…"

"Sorry…but we're bound to figure out sooner or later."

"Easy for you to say, you already know what your power is," Kirsty replied as Kyra

"And what a power it is," Kyra told her, turning her head to face her sister, grinning and holding up a V sign.

Kirsty sighed, looking towards her while still walking along, "I know but…" before Kirsty could finish, as she wasn't looking where she was going, she crashed right into the door in front of her.


Martin, after hearing a sudden bang at the door, immediately looked up from his desk to see Kyra walking in towards him.

"What's that Dad?" Kyra asked, noticing Martin had something in his hands all wrapped up

"Oh this? Just something we need to keep save," he told her, putting the wrapped up package in the desk draw before noticing something. "Hey, where's your sister?"

Kyra's eyes sudden widened. "Oh, right," she replied, twirling around, opening the front door to find Kirsty lying on the floor, with her opened backpack that has fell off when she got knocked down, beside her.

"Come on Kirsty, we can't both have the power to phase through things," Kyra reminded her, grinning a little, as Kirsty shot a glare up at her.

Once Martin had done the task he was in the middle of doing, he come out, kneeling beside his other daughter. "Oh dear, are you alright love?" he asked Kirsty, checking her over. "Does it hurt anywhere?"

As if nothing happened, Kirsty stood back up again and smiled at her father, "No Dad, I'm fine."

"What is this?" Kyra cried as the they immediately turned around to see Kyra holding on of the books that come out Kirsty's backpack.

"Kyra! That's my book, give it back!" Kirsty pleaded before Kyra smirked and ran off with it, chasing after her. Martin just watched the two girls run off as he smiled.

Kyra, stuck her tongue out as she ran, "No way, Kirsty! My book now!" she giggled as they ran through the streets, and with Kyra's phasing powers turned on, she could slip through places her sister couldn't.

'Oh man, that's not fair…' Kirsty thought as she chased after her, having to take the long way round. Then it hit her. 'If I've learnt anything during this past year, it' this…3...2...1...' Kirsty counted in her head before she leapt into the air.

"Eh?" Kyra murmured right before Kirsty tackled her to the dirt.

Kirsty grabbed her book and held it close to her, "Don't take what isn't yours, Kyra! What are you, a pirate?"

--end flashback--

"Haha, good times," Kirsty mumbled to herself as she thought back. "But then, that was on the same day…." Kirsty gulped.

"Pirates…"

"Looks like we were wrong...search the place,"

"HEY UGLIES!"

"I can't believe you just killed someone in cold blood, Kyra!" she

"…what I'm about to do will be in cold blood."

"Kirsty...I want you...to get out of here,"

"Forget it! I'm not leaving you here!"

"Do it! I'll distract this creep and you can make your way to the door!"

"AAH!!!"

"KIRSTY!!!"

Kirsty lowered her head, with her bangs covering her face as the voices echoed though her mind.

--Flashback--

"Over here!!!"

"What is it?"

"It's a child!"

"Is she hurt?"

"Oh dear, this isn't good, look at that wound!"

"Hello? Can you hear me?" a voice asked as Kirsty slowly opened her eyes to see a bunch of people standing over her, giving a small nod in answer to her question.

"Good, she's alive, lets get her to the surgery," the voices said, lifting Kirsty up and rushing her outside.

A while had passed by as Kirsty slowly regained consciousness. "Doctor! We found another one! She's in a very critical condition!"

"Well set her down on bed and I'll be with her once I'm down wit this patient!" a familiar voice told them as Kirsty opened her eyes a little more to see they were in room with lots of beds and quite a lot of people rushing around. The next thing she knew, she was quickly rushed over and set down on a bed.

"Don't worry, someone will be with you soon!" a woman's voice came as the they all lent over her.

Kirsty looked up at then confused at the panicked looks on heir faces. "But…" she whispered.

"Come on! We need to find more survivors!!!" one other voices cried out as most of them left, while some stayed behind.

"I'll go see what's happening, don't worry, I'll be right back!" the woman from before told Kirsty as they suddenly left.

But as they did, Kirsty at up as normal again, watching them go. "But, I'm fine…" she whispered, looking around the surgery to see people with all kinds of wounds, and some even fully covered over by a sheet, being wheeled out the room. "What's going on here? And where's…"

"Kirsty! Get out of here!" Kyra's voice echoed inside her head.

"KYRA!" Kirsty suddenly called out, with the memories coming back to her. Kirsty jumped off the bed and walked across the doctor's surgery trying to get answers as everyone rushed by her. "Excuse me…can you…?" she asked, they got no answer as they were all to busy. Kirsty went on to see if she could find them herself. "Kyra…Dad?" Kirsty called out again as she made her way through the large crowds gathered around until she came to the woman from before who brought her here as she was talking to doctor Kureha.

The woman was just explaining the situation to the doctor. "…and that's when we found her. She was lying in a pool of blood, and I thought…"

"Excuse me…" Kirsty asked, but she just waved her off.

"Not know dear…anyway, I thought she was gonna to…wait, what are you doing up?!" the woman cried as it she suddenly noticed Kirsty standing there. "But…but I found you…"

"Hehe, are you sure this is the same girl?" Kureha laughed as little. "Because she seems pretty fine to me."

"H-H-How can this be?!"

"What's wrong with everyone? Why are you guys acting so weird?" Kirsty confusingly asked, looking up with them. "And where's Kyra and dad?" Everyone immediately went silent as she asked. "What? Where are they?" Kirsty deliberately cried, but still, nobody had the courage to answer.

Kureha sighed. "Why you bunch of cowards," she said before holding out her hand towards Kirsty. "Come, we need to talk…" Kirsty slowly nodded as she took hold of the doctors hand as Kureha lead her into the doctor's office.


Later that night, the doctor's surgery was almost deserted, except the lonely 6 year old girl, sitting on her bed, in the moonlight that peeked through the surgery window. She was curled up with her face buried behind her knees, her cheeks completely soaked from all the tears.

Kirsty slowly lifted her head up glancing down at a large scar going across her back, making her fists become tighter.

"I wish this power had never come to me…" she sobbed.


Author's notes: (sobs) wow, that was a hard chapter to write, hope you liked!

Kirsty: Why did I have to have this power…Why couldn't of just let me die!
Kureha: That's just the way it works
Kirsty: My home, my live, my family, all gone…what do I have left?!
Kureha: ...Your dream

In the next chapter of Crew of the Axe Chronicles, Kirsty's story,
Chapter 4 - Follow the dream