ENJOY and Happy Moms Day!
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"Who set off all the alarms?" Lily asked as her husband and son came into the library, both had weapons in there hands.
"We don't know yet." Ryland told his wife as he checked all the windows. They were bullet proof and tinted.
Jack and Ken joined them with their boys. "Where is Cote?" Jack asked immediately.
"Oh no." Briony stated softly. "She went for a walk... outside." She answered.
'COTE DE' Jack called out to her. He got her message of messing up. 'DID YOU SET THE ALARMS OFF?' He asked, not sure what she meant. "Has anyone been able to contact her thoughts?" He asked,
he was worried now, even if she was hiding she would have answered and if she set the alarms off she would have reported so immediately.
"Jayce?" Ken asked his newphew. If there was anyone who get ahold of her it was Jayce. Her twin.
They all looked over at Jayce when he didn't answer, he was too into his thoughts to answer trying to find his sister. He opened his eyes quickly. "She's gone." He said terrified. "I can't even sense her and if she was still at the waterfall I'd been able to sense her thought pattern."
"She sent me a message saying she messed up. That was the last that I heard of her." Jack told them, as he wrapped his arms around his wife who was trying very hard not to cry.
Nico Trevane came into the room. "We checked the alarms and no one touched them." He reported.
"What are you saying?" Ryland asked shocked.
"No one touched them to make them go off." Nico replied. "Someone set off the alarms telepathically."
"Cote De?" Ken asked. "Warning us?" He suggested.
"Could be, if someone could do it Cote could." Lily stated, thinking about all her medical records she had on her.
Gator and R.J. came into the room. "We were at the waterfall and there was nothing to indicate a struggle, but there was a few sets of male footprints. We lost them a few yards into the woods. Though it looked like one of them went out heavier then he came in. Judging by his boot indentations." Gator reported.
"Someone kidnapped her." Briony stated shocked, tears were falling down her cheeks now.
"Someone who was like us. There is no way even if she was sleeping that a normal human being could sneak up on her. If they were gifted and she was half asleep they'd have a chance." Ken said to no one really, they all new her.
GHOSTWALKERS
"Oh look Fresh Meat." A females voice said.
It was the first thing her groggy mind could make out through the fog. She took a deep breath through her nose. "I don't smell fresh meat." She answered as she opened her eyes. A blurry image of a young man about twenty was leaning over her. She was on a cot she thought as the man above her became more clear. It was handsome, probably over six feet tall when standing. He had clear blue eyes and she could see a five o'clock shadow from his angle on a well chiselled face. His nose was slightly crooked probably broke it in a fight.
He was grinning at her. "You are the Fresh Meat kid." He told her, waving his hand in front of her face slowly.
She looked around and seen that she was in an extremely white room, with two rows of cots.
She did the math and there were sixteen cots all together, though as she looked about the room there was only six people in the room. She sat up quickly and rolled off the cot, away from the man.
"Woah." He stated, standing up just as quickly. "No need to figure out escape roots." He told her. He gave her a clue of what kind of person he was.
"Yeah the only way you are getting out of here is through Hells Fire."
"Lee!" The young man told the female sitting on the edge of a couch. He glared at her a moment longer before turning back to Cote De. "She doesn't need to hear that."
Cote De stood up from the crouch position. Lee was the one to call her Fresh Meat. "So you are saying that the only way out is to die?" She asked.
Lee grinned. "Yup."
"How old are ya kid?" The young man asked.
"Sixteen." She replied, looking around the room. She spotted two cameras.
"Gotta name Sugar?" A different female asked. She had a darker skin tone then the rest of them and funny accent that she recongnized immediately.
"Cote De." She replied. "Cajun?" She asked her.
The female smiled. "Yea. Names Haley." She motioned to the others. "Over there on the cots are Joline, Andrew and Mackie." She said introducing them they all looked up at Haley when she said their names.
"I'm Scott." the young man in front of her introduced himself.
"Where am I?" She asked.
"Your guess is as good as ours. What we can tell you is that you are underground at least thirty feet. So don't go thinking about escaping."
"Yea you won't make it far." Lee told her. a
"Lee." Scott glared at her.
"Ever try?" She asked them, looking at Lee. Lee smirked at her and winked. 'Bingo' Cote De thought. "How long have you all been in here?"
"Three years or less." Scott answered.
"Gotta last name Cote De?" Haley asked politely.
"Norton." She answered not really thinking about it. Until that is the whole room went quiet.
"Norton as in the twins Jack and Ken Norton?" Joline asked shocked, sitting up.
"Jack is my father. What about them?" She asked.
"Now we know why." Joline muttered going back to her book.
"Why what?"
"Why you are so young." Joline answered. "We are all to be paired up with others in the other room. They are more freaks then us."
Cote De stayed quiet for a few moments. "Because they have been genetically modified with pheromones."
"How do you know that?" Mackie asked, coming over to join them.
"It's what they did to the first generation of GhostWalkers." She answered, pacing a few steps away looking at air vents, windows and doors. All the vents and windows were covered in criss-cross bars. "How come they keep us in one room?"
"No idea." Scott replied. "Seems stupid. Unless they are hoping we fight." He said,
shrugging. "It happened a lot when they bring a few newbies in at one time."
Cote De looked around at the other six. To her they seem minor threats to her, their thoughts had no hatred towards her. "I'd rather get out of here."
Before anyone could comment sirens wailed loudly and red lights flashed over the door way.
It took a lot for Cote De not to cover her ears at the high pitch frequency they were using on purpose. She seen Andrew, Joline and Mackie curled up on their cots or on the floor squirmming in pain. Scott and Lee looked at the door in annoyance, but their eyes told them they were struggling with the pain aswell.
The door opened and three enhanced soldiers with traq. guns came through the door first.
"Stay where you are!" The one in the middle commanded looking at the three still standing. Two doctors came behind them stepped around the soldiers. The lights and sirens were still going.
"Sorry for the intruding." The male doctor said smoothly, walking to look pitifully at the three curled up from the pain. "I wanted to see if you were all getting to know your newest family member." He told them, walking over to stand in front of Cote De. He smiled at her. "Well I wonder what he greats Jack and Ken Norton would say if they knew you were here." He stated, happily.
"Well I can't rightly speak for my father but I'm sure he'd share my opinion." She looked at his two lankies and judged the reaction time of the traq. guns. She grabbed him by the throat and pinned him against the wall. She felt the dart hit her. "You are dead." She spat at him, as she fell to the floor unconscience.
The others watched in horror as the doctor looked down at the limp form of Cote De. "She'll work perfectly. Bring her with us." He told the soldiers. "Anyone else would like to speak their minds?"He asked, looking around the room. "I didn't think so." He walked out and the door locked behind him.
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