Chapter Eight

PK & ESP

(Mai Provo)

It was a huge relief to step out of the bitter cold winter air and into the warm S.P.R office building and even though Christmas was fast in it approach with people outside starting to bring out their decoration the S.P.R building did not seem to care what time of year it was, everyone was moving around from place to place like any other day. I found this slightly unnerving and annoying, in any other businesses that I have worked at even if they did not decorate their rooms they at least had a warmer smile to show their Christmas guess, but then again from what Mel told me England was either covered by rain clouds or in the scorching heat of the sun so it seemed kind of understandable for them not to really care about the seasons if they hunt ghost for a living; you would think everyone either goes insane or emotionless, it sure seems that way with the family I stay with. The insane group being lead by Luella and the followers are Madoka and Gene. The emotionless group leader by Naru and his followers being Martin and Lin. I wonder which one I would fall into. God I hope I go insane, at least then I could laugh and smile sometime instead of showing as much feeling as a rock at the best of times, well no that's a lie, Mr. Davis dose show his emotions when he is at home so he isn't that bad.

Once we were all in the elevators we went straight up to the top floor and into the half full meeting room. Everyone in our team was already there and sitting in the same places they were in the last time we were in here but what surprised me was that another person was sitting at the table. I had never seen him before. He had black hair, brown eyes hidden behind glasses and a devils smile, and he could not be any older then Naru and Gene. Once we were all sitting down Naru once again stood in the front of the table only this time he was joined by Martin. Once again I was only half paying attention to what was going on. Apparently one of the two remaining employs is experiencing some family trouble so she will not be joining us until the start of the year. It was not until the introduction of the young man did I give my full attention.

"This is Osamu Yasuhara top graduate at his old high school. He will be a researcher for my team" We all nodded in understanding. "Ok, today will be straight forward. We will be taking each of you into a separate lab and do some testing on each of you to see how big a challenge you can handle and what is beyond your abilities, Mr. Brown, Mr. Houshou Miss. Hara and Miss. Matsuzaki if you would follow Miss. Blare, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Williams and Miss. Campbell to the labs they will be testing you, Mr. Yasuhara you will be put through a test in one of the computer labs with Miss. Allan to see how good your research skills are. Mai you will be with me, Madoka and my Mother, Mel you will be with Eugene, Lin and my farther." Once he had finished speaking both the professors and the others stood ready to head towards the labs except me, Mel and the boys who remained seated until the room was empty.

"What are you testing us on?" Mel finely broke the short silence with her small questions. Naru face snapped to her and stared her down with a cold glare. Mel sunk back further into her chair. "I-I was just wondering" By the time she had finished speaking her voice could barely be heard. She sounded so small and defeated my animal instincts were awake; awake and angry. I could feel the growl building in the back of my throat. Before I could lash out at him Gene beat me to it. "Look Naru it was a perfectly reasonable questions and she had every right to ask it so stop with your stuck up glaring" I could not quite place the tone in his voice but I knew it was not tone he would normally use by the shocked look on his brothers face, granted it was barley there but it was there all the same and it made me smirk while looking right at Naru in the eye.

Naru let out a slow breath before he stood and began to make his way towards the door and down the hall forcing the rest of us to jog to keep up with him. Within no time we were once again in front of the door to their lab, pushing in a bunch of numbers the doors automatically opened to let us in. Now that I knew what was going on and my 'animal instincts' were not trying to take over my body I now allowed myself to have a proper look around the room taking it all in.

The room itself was a very big square shape with white walls and gray tiles covering the floor. The wall in front of me was almost completely covered in all kinds of different machines that each seemed to do something to do with science except a small space on the left were a simple wooden desk with an office chair stood. On the left wall there was what seemed to be a small kitchen with a sink a fridge and even a small four seated table in the middle, on the wall behind me to my surprise there was two single beds made and ready for sleeping in. 'Do they really sleep here sometimes?' I just had to ask. 'Who knows?' was my sisters only answer. But it was the left wall that did catch me off guard, instead of a solid wall like it should be there was glass, one way glass that looked into a small empty room. In fact the only pit of solid wall was left was the bit that was holding up a single black door with a silver handle. 'What a strange lab' Mel thoughts echoed my own.

Naru was already moving around turning things on and typing things in. Gene had choice to move into the kitchen area and after he monitored for us to follow him we did the same and sat with him at the table. "It is better just to stay out of his way when his like this unless you want to turn to ice with a single glare" Mel's face turned down slightly, I could tell she was remembering the events from a few moment ago. "Don't I know it" Once again my blood began to boil at the look on my sister face but I quickly calmed myself. It would do no good having one of my bosses in the ICU, at least that was what I was trying to tell myself.

Genes face turned unexpectedly cold at her words. "Do not worry too much about it Mel, I don't know what is wrong with him today but I know it was nothing personal" He pointed to his head with a mocking grin. "Trust me, know these things" We both smile at his self mocking until something caught my attention. "You don't know what is upsetting him?" His facial expression turned annoyed. "Yes well when ever my brother has a mood like this or is thinking about things he does not want me to know about he uses a kind of shield to block me out, I don't know whether I should be happy about it or annoyed. I'm just so use to know what my brother is thinking" I smiled knowing exactly what he meant by that.

"So what are you guys testing us for anyway?" Mel asked again, her voice a little stronger then her first attempt with his brother. I could feel she was half expecting another glare but thankfully for both of the boys physical welfare she only received a kind smile. "From the notes that Makino gave us she believes that you Mai" Gene looked straight at me, "have ESP and that you Mel" Gene hen then looked towards Mel, "have PK we just don't know what kind" there was silence for several moments before Gene suddenly started laughing. "Do you know what ESP or PK stands for?" I shook my head feeling Mel doing the same thing, this only caused Genes smile to widen. "Well ok let's see" he put his in front of him with a thoughtful look on his face as if he was trying to think of the best way of explaining it.

"PK is short for Psychokinesis it is also known as Telekinesis, which is basically the ability to move objects of matter using only your mind. There are several different gropes of PK though I am not sure what all those groups are; you will have to ask Naru what they are. He is the one with PK." I could already feel Mel's fear of not only having such a power growing within her but having to ask Naru for advice on that new power. Well if he ever makes her scared like that again he will have me to deal with and this time I won't have a leash to hold me back, "and from what I can remember from my own training ESP stands for 'Extra Sensory Perception' and it has three different categories, telepathy, precognition and clairvoyance and that is the basics of it but in all truth there a lot of different stuff like-" he lifted his hand and counting them on his figures "Clairvoyance, it allows psychics to locate people, places or things using ESP, Mediumship the ability to channel dead spirits, precognition is the knowledge of future events, Psychometry the ability to read information about a person or place by having access to a certain object and Retrocognition is the ability to see the distant past and those are just the ones I can remember"

I could feel my mouth fell open in shock. 'The ones you can remember? The ones you can remember? Dear god how many different ones are there?' 'Mai calm down I am sure it won't be too hard to find out which ones you have ok, it won't take weeks and weeks ok, I am sure of it.' But I knew even as she tried to reassure me there was little reassurance in her mind and that is where it always counted for me. A voice can find ways deceive; the mind is the one thing that can never lie even to an intruder. I would know, I have been deceived by a voice before and it cost me dearly.

'Thanks for trying Mel but we both know you don't truly believe it so why bother trying?' Mel'sresponse was soft and reassuring. 'Because sometimes it is nice to hear a bit of encouragement Mai' I said nothing on that. I said nothing because it was true in a way. A short time after that Lin, Madoka and Mr and Misses Davis arrived in the lab. The men went straight to Naru and stared to talk to him in rapped English while the two women went to us.

"Ok first we will put each of you in separate rooms, Mel you will be staying here with Lin, Gene and Martin. Mai your first test will be simple all you have to do is guess what light will light up before it dose and lights will begin to speed up just so you know" I gave Madoka a dull look before she turned to Mel. "Your test will be to try and guess what image is on a card that Lin will be holding once you are both finished we will move you both on to a different test. You both understand?" Both I and Mel nodded.

The next few hours proceeded that way that is after I was hooked up to all theses wires and things. I hated that lights thing; hated it with passion. I missed every single light but was more surprising was that Naru did not tease me about it. True he did have a satisfied smirk on his face but it was not one of mocking it was more a look as if I had just proven something to him, a point he was trying to get across to me. At one point I felt a sudden chill go up my arm though I did not dare to see if was actually Mel who felt something cold just encase that triggered some shock or something. By the end of all tests I was about ready to collapse from the lack of food. By the time we were in the canteen it was well pass three o'clock and my stomach was empty and Mel's group had not even finished yet so she must have been dying.

"Man why couldn't we had eaten earlier instead of waiting so long? Aren't you guy's hungry?" I was beyond caring if I sounded like a whining five year old. "No Mai because you see unlike you we don't need to it every hour on the dot" Naru answered in a sarcastic tone. I felt my anger rise but before I could start yelling at him both Madoka and his mother slashed out at him.

"Naru I taught you better manners that! Behave more like a gentlemen!" his mother yelled. "If I did not know any better I would say you were raised in a cave" Madoka added her two cents. Naru face turned annoyed for being told off by his family, I almost feel sorry for him. Almost.

Once we had all gotten our food there was silence between me and Naru wile the others chatted away. It was not really tense but there was something between us that was not there yesterday, something like a thin fog seemed to surround me now making it a bit harder to breath. It was not until the others arrived did the air seem to become less dense. 'My god I hate this! Im sore all over and just want to crawl into a ball and fall asleep for the next two days!' I raised my eye brows at her. My sister rarely complains about anything something she sadly picked up from the darker days of our lives. As much as I should have asked out loud I really could not be bothered so I just picked it out from her mind. I must say her test look some much worst then mine. 'Sorry Mel. By the way did you touch something cold?' 'Ya they told me to grab soothing at the bottom of a box. I was blind folded so I could not see, there was ice at the bottom and I got a bit of a shock from it, did you feel that?' 'Ya but I did not want to check on I was wired to so many things for all I know I could have been zapped if I tried'

The rest of the meal went by with out comment until Misses Davis dropped a bombshell on all of us. "Just letting you all know that next week will be the annual Christmas party and it is a formal black tie ball, the men have to ware a black suit but is girls have a wider option of midnight colours. This means black, white and silver but also dark blues" several people around the group gasped. I looked over at the boys to see that they shared our shocked looks. "And when were you going to inform me of this event?" Naru's face only stayed on shock for less then a second before it was replaced with a cold glare; his mother looked less then impressed with is tone and just flat out ignored him. If looks could kill she would have been ash by now.

(Naru Provo)

Great! Just GRATE! Offcourse I knew of the Christmas ball, I had been forced to go there last year with Gene were our mother had first started her blind dating plots, I just though with the rude behaviour way both me and Gene displayed it would get through her head that we did not want to go back. Guess not.

"Oh and one more thing" Madoka added. "You will have to dance once at the very least with a partner and we have already decided who you will be paired with" Wait-what! "What!" Gene and Mai's cries were so loud several people sitting at surrounding tables turned and stared, they did not seem to notice, Madoka a smiled at them both like sweet child. "Yes, yes! Mr. Brown will be dancing with Miss Hara, Mr. Houshou and Miss. Matsuzaki will dance together. Gene will be with Mel and Mai will be with Naru, any question? No? Good!" It took me a full minute to process what had just been said but once it had my brain could only think of a simple sum, Mai + Ballroom dancing = Touching! I had to work very hard to keep the blush from reaching my cheeks. Why did I want to blush anyway? I have danced with girls before and I did not act like this, I must be getting sick.

Father voice thankful stopped me from going insane as he spoke after a short pause. "We will be heading home after our meal we will all be going back to our living quarters we have results on all of you now" His gave turned to Mai and Mel "Before you two go to bed we need to talk to the both of you about our findings" both girls nodded. By the end of the hour we were back home and at the dinner table and having read the files in the car I already knew what the girls had tested positive for and so in a way so did Gene so we all knew except the girls who were still blind to all this which I am sure is killing them both. I don't know why but they both look really pale, Mel is even turning a bit green in the face.

"So do you want to know what we have discovered today" I asked. Both girls nodded furiously. "Alright well lets see" I stared to flip through the files, "Mel it has been confirmed that you that you do indeed have PK and Mai you do have ESP, at the very least you do have the ability to have postcogntive dreams" I could see there faces turning whiter and whiter with every word that left my mouth and I was not the only one who did, Gene was holding onto the table to stop himself from jumping from his seat and going to Mel's side. The sucker was so whipped and he hasn't even kissed her yet even if he has thought about it a lot in the last few days. 'Hay I heard that!' His slightly high and embraced voice would have made me laugh if we were alone.

"What dose that mean?" both said at the same time, this caused me to sigh. I could already see that this is not going to be a short chit-chat about the weather, and to think I thought I would be in my room in the next hour, well that was wishful thinking.

(Madoka Provo)

'Ha! This is just too good! Those poor fools think they will just have to dance just one, little do they know of what me and my bestie have planed for those teenagers. Naru my be suspicious of us but what can he do about it, we have six hours to push him and Mai together and not to mention all of our planes for the other two. This ball will be so mush fun!'

A/N: Ok first I am sorry I did not update like TEN chapters but the Chrismas brake was just going by so fast and brfore I knew it mum was draging me to the shops to buy my school stuff! Why dose the school term drag on but the things we want to last just zip on by? Any way I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter. Any ideas on a case or any think you want to see more of send me a Review. Sorry for grammer error and spelling but also remember for those of you not lving in Australia that some words here are spelt differantly in the USA.

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