Chapter One: Recalling Voices

"Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened"

Ow…My head's pounding. My body is sore all over. I can feel a tingling sensation overwhelming my senses

I was standing amidst the darkness as a gush of wind swept by. I tried to focus my eyes and sharpen my senses but I still feel hazy and I can't concentrate that much. My lightheadedness caused me to wobble a bit while I attempt to walk out of the dark.

Right foot forward…..Wait, is this my right foot?...Left foot forward…And right and left and right and left

I became determined to leave the awfully dark and eerie place. I felt for my legs and forced them to lift up then fall down. And up, down; alternately with each foot. I continued to stumblingly walk for what seemed like hours and hours. I ordered my foot to lift up and it hit a wall.

I try to snap out of my hazy, indescribable state and jerked my hands forward with palms out. My palms landed on a smooth surface. I tried to coup a feel of any type of door but to no avail.

Stupid wall! Doesn't even have a door for me to use

I started to punch the wall until another feeling graced my fists. That was when I realized something. I was trying to knock out a wall with the punches I did that it made my fists swell. That tingling sensation subsided at my fists but still remained all over the rest of my body.

Oh! Right, powers…..Duh

I faced my palms at the wall and closed my eyes. I tried to calm my tingling senses and concentrate force from within to produce a wave of hex.

Concentrate…..Control your power….Dig deep within yourself to create a hex to destroy this damned wall….Hex…Bad Luck…..Jinx…

"Jinx" I heard my name called out and I immediately lost concentration. My eyes snapped open as my name was called out again.

"Jinx" I couldn't distinguish the voices calling out to me. I looked around the darkness and saw only black. My senses started to revert back to normal.

"Jinx" I heard one more call out. I connected the voice to its owner. The voice was masculine; arrogant, cheery, and loving. "Slowpoke" He said in a teasing manner.

"Kidiot" I exhaled and I recollect myself from breaking down. I smiled as I remember his face; with and without the mask, he still grinned like an idiot with his red hair slicked back and his blue eyes sparkling. I started to feel relief course through my veins. My fright in the darkness fled from my mind while the feeling of warmth in only my memory of his smile invaded my being.

"Jinx" I heard another voice call out. Tears ran down my cheek as I remembered this person. The voice was young, a bit high-pitched and happy. I wiped tears off my cheeks as I recall…..her. "Lucky" She said in a cheery playful way still resounding in my head.

"Sera" I said and smiled. A memory of her face flashed in my mind. Her messy black hair tied in pigtails with matching green ribbons, her Prussian blue eyes shimmering in delight, her peach colored arms outstretched towards me, her mouth open in a cheery laugh, and her body clad in a short black and green dress.

"Jinx" I heard again, this time more clear. The voice was feminine, smooth and velvety. I started to sort out the person until it clicked on me…A voice I haven't heard for most of my life. "My little baby unicorn" She said in an adoring way evident in her voice.

"Ms. Alexandra" I mumbled as I realized the voice calling out to me was my loving governess. More tears rolled down as a memory of her smiling face flashed in my mind. Her bouncy blond hair in pigtails, her baby blue eyes shinning at the light, her tanned skin mellowed by her peaceful and joyful smile, and adorned in short black and green dress under her pearl white lab coat.

"Where am I?" I wondered after recollecting my usual demeanor. I suddenly remembered the wall in front of me.

"Jinx" Voices called out to me in a harmonized way with Ms. Alexandra, Sera, and Wally's voices standing out. I felt out my arms and placed it on the smooth wall. I neared my ear to the wall and heard voices through it.

"Guys?" I placed my ear fully on the wall and began to hear mumbled voices even louder. Minutes ticked by as I tried to make out words from the voices on the other side of the wall. And I distanced myself from the smooth surface after failing to decode the voices I overheard.

"If this one of Wally's pranks, I am so ripping his dick off of him" I stated and inched my side closer and closer and closer to the wall until…I almost tripped down face first on the floor.

"What the?" Was all I could muster out after seemingly entering a dark room. It had a white chair in the middle and a huge screen in front of it.

"Looks like Mad Mod's thing" I started to walk around the room to inspect if any surveillance, audio, or battle devices were in the area.

"No devices of any sorts" I hummed and hesitantly sat on the chair. On cue, a device was placed on my head, restraints were around my wrists, ankles, and waist and the screen flashed brightly. Expecting a hypnotizing screen of black and white swirl, I shut my eyes closed and straggle against the restraints. I tried to use my powers but to no avail.

I stiffened when I felt a strong power surged into me with great force. My eyes shot open with shock and I tried to hold back a scream. My visions started to blur; the screen revealed to be only words I couldn't make out now. Colors started to blend in every way possible.

"But Jinx is a rather…uncommon name"
"It will be my pleasure to have you as my daughter"

"Let's play"
"Come Jinx, join us"
"Hehe. Lucky" What is this?
"She nicknamed you 'Lucky' Jinx"

"He did what?!"

"Do not forget this, my daughters, I will always love you wherever you may be and whoever you may become" Ms. Alexandra!

"It's just us now; Jinx"
"She's been…decommissioned" Seraphim?
"Don't worry, Jinx. I promised her that I'll protect you. I'm your big sister; I won't let anything harm you ever again"

"I promised….I…protect…Keeping…I'll…your side" Stop please!

"Sera was killed during her mission…..by a person codenamed Snake" I don't want to hear it!

"You have very advantageous skills, my dear Jinx. Use them with precision and accuracy. Control you power or it will control you" Count Draken

"Welcome to Dark Way Prep" Head Mistress Cassandra
"Welcome to Junior H.I.V.E Academy"

"H.I.V.E. means Hierarchy of International Vengeance and Extermination" Why am I hearing things?
"Welcome to H.I.V.E. Academy"

"Your powers spread like cancer" Headmaster Blood

"You can do better" Wally
"I am crazy, crazy in love with you. I am a lunatic but I'm you're lunatic. And I'm telling my girlfriend who I love so much my secret identity"
"This is my personal oasis. My 'happy place' as most people put it"


Nene: Yeah, Hi! Sorry if I haven't updated for a few weeks, family stuff going down. Please comment me if the story's plummeting down or you're getting more and more intrigued with it, kay? Bye!