Chapter 7

LEA

I stopped dead in my tracks, two more lions?! We can barely handle one! But I had to keep moving. I ran to the top of the escalator and yelled

"when I press the button, you are going to jump to the top and then I'll press it again!"

"YEP, JUST DO IT ALREADY!"

I yelled ok in response and then searched for the button, I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner, the button probably wasn't here, it was only at the bottom. I grew weak, I failed and all my brothers would die all because of a stupid button. But NO I can't give up, I tried to think, if I could get the shiny light out of my mouth again, but this time for longer, I could blind the lion enough for Teal to escape. She tried to feel it, the emotions that she had right before it happened in the parking lot, she knew somehow it was connected to her feelings.

She was happy at the time, because her eldest brother was being silly,

"LEA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

And a little funny, so she was laughing, she tried to feel happy. Closing her eyes, she remembered her mother pretty brown hair and greenish bluish eyes that always got compliments

"HELLO, KIND OF STUCK HERE!"

Her friendly smile, that had all the people catch their breaths, and

"LEA!"

A cool, keep it together attitude even with all her little children, "I have to, it's a mothers job to be nice" she said after I asked her why she wasn't punishing her after killing the goldfish by accident. "I didn't mean too the light.." "it's not your fault, you don't know how to control your—"

"BUTTON TIME!"

Imagining what it must feel like to take care of all those people, I felt like I had a million tons on my back, feeding them, cooking for them, I opened my eyes driving them to school, paying for them, I opened my mouth, working for them, all six of them.

Teal got the memo, he closed his eyes as a bright light shined right in the eye of the tiger, but this time it was a lion, a Martichora. Teal took this as a chance to look back (after I was done of course) and jump on him then as if he were a trampoline jump back to the floor. He noticed that the lion had several arrows on his back and added more, with his bow.

I did feel a little dizzy, but I was ready for more. I felt a surge of energy when I did that. I was like I was letting go of troubles and I have an empty space for more. I ran back the way I came, and caught a glimpse of what my brothers were doing. Green ooze all over the floor and chunks of the ceiling and wall were missing from the walls dotting the floors, like a puzzle waiting to be solved. The girl who was kidnapped was gone and so was Richard, the other lion seemed to disappear too.