Chapter 7: Blue POV: Tested
I walked into my apartment and began, "I-I had this-this flashback with Jazmine and a black bat in it!" Blue's parents just stared at her.
Come on can't you at least tell me something? I feel kind of like an idiot having these unbelievable flashbacks?
"Blue when you were a baby you were tested on," Abby, Blue's mother explained.
"What!" I growled.
"Please, Blue. Just let me excited plain, you and Jazmine were born the same year, same month, on the same day, and in the same hospital. Your brains were extremely active, by that I mean you two were extremely smart for your age. You two seemed to...communicate with each other. It was almost like you two were linked, but the government found out. They had you brought to a research center along with a bat and owl who were born on the same day, same year, and even on the same street. The bat and owl were also extremely smart for their species. The scientists, without the government's permission, tested on you. The scientists let you chose either the owl or the bat as a pet. You chose Apollo, the bat and Jazmine chose Selene, the owl. After the government found out about the tests they gave you back to us," explained Abby, "you need to understand!"
"I don't want to understand!" I yowled as I stormed into my room.
You can't blame me, all this information had struck me, surprising me. If anything I could have handled it way worse.
As soon as I entered my room I suddenly felt a pulsing pain go down my head to my arms, and to my legs. Everything around me began to grow. I looked at myself in the mirror. I almost yelled because I was a…cat!
I had to go, now.
Okay. Either this is a crazy dream or a side effect from being tested on. One or the other. I thought.
Tested side effect. Blue2.
I had to leave, period.
I jumped on the window sill when a black bat with...navy blue stripes on its wings flew into my room.
"You do know cats don't always land on their feet, right?" The freakin bat asked.
"What in the name of bane is going on?" I hissed.
"Sorry. My name is Apollo," The bat-Apollo-spoke, "We met like thirteen years ago. Anyway. Selene and I have been waiting until the right time to show ourselves to you. I was that bat in your flashback."
"Okay, do you know how to fix this?" I questioned, gesturing to myself.
Would I have been freaking out if I hadn't been turned into a cat? Yes.
"Yes," Apollo answered, "Just think of humans."
I thought. I want to be a human.
Bam! I was human!
"Okay, Apollo. I want answers," I said.
"Well, like your parents said you were tested. You can shapeshift, you have super strength, and super speed," Apollo replied bluntly.
I rolled my eyes. All I needed was vague answers.
"What's your connection to me?" I questioned.
"I was your closest friend, besides Jazmine of course-" I cut Apollo off.
"How long have I known Jazmine?" I asked, stunned.
"All your life! Jazmine and you were in sink. You thought the same," Apollo said, shaking his head.
"Oh," I muttered, "continue."
"Well, my kind had a tradition called linking. It's when you save each others lives, in any situation," Apollo answered.
"Okay, let's do that again. You seem cool," I spoke up.
I felt something when I talked to him. It wasn't love. If I had to name I would say loyalty.
"Really?" Apollo questioned. His face had brightened.
"Yeah," I responded.
"I'm sorry. I just figured since you didn't remember me, you wouldn't be so quick to link," Apollo replied.
"I feel like I know you, but I just can't remember. I'm sure I'll remember soon," I answered.
"Cool. So you swear that you would save my life as if it was your own, after I do. Okay?" Apollo finished.
"Good with me," I agreed.
"Blue the human, I link to you. I swear that I will save you as if your life was my own," Apollo began.
"Apollo the bat, I link to you. I swear that I will save you as if your life was my own," I finished.
"It is done," Apollo said.
"So, what did we do-or what happened? You were tested on too," I questioned.
"Oh," Apollo responded as he became four feet taller than me, "I can do this."
"Awesome!" I yelled.
"Yeah, you can shapeshift and I can become large. What a match?" Apollo laughed. I snickered.
Get Apollo out of there! Now! Blue2 screamed in my head. Man, that hurt.
"Out! Now!" I whisper-yelled.
"Okay!" Apollo whispered. Then he was gone.
"Are you okay, Blue? I mean with the tested thing," Abby asked.
I don't refer to her being my mother 'cause she never acted like one.
"Why do you care? You never cared before," I growled.
"I was just asking!" Abby yelled. She was acting like an older sister, not a mother.
I glared at her.
"I know we have had our differences but can we just talk?" Abby questioned.
"I'll talk, when I die," I retorted.
"That's impossible-" Abby replied, "Oh!"
I rolled my eyes.
I went into Abby's head.
I don't even like this! Why do we have to do this! She thought.
"Well, neither of us want to do this so...just leave," I snarled.
"How did you know?" Abby questioned.
"I just knew! Now leave!" I yowled.
"NO!" Abby screamed.
"I'm going to Jazmine's!" I growled. I slung a backpack over my shoulder.
Abby slid in front of the door before I could leave.
Great! Now how am I going to leave! I snarled in thought.
Jump out the window. Apollo will catch you. Blue2 said in thought.
I shrugged my shoulders and jumped out the window.
In seconds I was whisked into the clouds.
"How you do'in?" Apollo asked.
I rolled my eyes and he snickered.
"To Jazmine's?" I asked.
"Yep!" Apollo answered.
Once Abby left the window we slid in front of Jazmine's window. Jazmine quickly opened it. I climbed in, then Apollo became smaller so he could fit.
When I got in her room I ran straight into a white owl.
"What in the name of Bane!?" I whisper-yelled.
"That's Selene," Jazmine replied.
"Oh!" I exclaimed, "What up?"
"I'm fine," Selene responded.
"I got two questions," I started, "What can you shapeshift into? Did you link with Selene?"
"I can shapeshift into plant-eating savannah animals and rodents. Yeah, we linked," Jazmine answered.
"Cool," I laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" Jazmine asked.
"I'm all predator and you're all prey!" I snickered.
"Well, what can you do?" Jazmine questioned.
"Felines and reptiles!" I concluded, as I became a reptile.
"Whatever," Jazmine retorted. I became human again.
"You two are destined for greatness," Selene said, gesturing to Jazmine and I. Apollo rolled his eyes and I snickered.
"Links alike," Jazmine mumbled.
Apollo and I glared at her.
"So...do you want to visit Renee?" I inquired.
"Sure!"Jazmine exclaimed.
"Apollo out first. Then I'll jump out the window and meet you on the sidewalk," Blue responded.
Every one gave a quick nod.
I jumped out the window and Apollo quickly caught me. We landed in an alley.
Not one of my finest moments. (From now on if I make it italicized it is me thinking. If I write Blue2 near it, it is Blue2. Got it? Good.)
Apollo clung onto my shirt as I met Jazmine. I had put my jacket over my shirt, so besides a strange lump on my back, nothing was suspicious.
We were walking when I noticed that Jazmine had a new watch.
I asked her about it, "Hey, where'd you get that watch?"
"Did Apollo not give you one!?" The watch yelled.
Man, this is by far the weirdest day of my life!
"What the bane!" I whisper-yelled.
"Selene is in the watch," Jazmine whispered.
I rolled my eyes.
"Apollo, Blue, Jazmine, we are having a talk about responsibility!" The watch yelled, but the volume made it very quite.
"No! Not again!" Apollo whispered, and I elbowed him. He grumbled and I started laughing.
Jazmine knocked on Renee's apartment door. Her apartment was around two blocks away.
"Hello, Jazmine and Blue. I assume you're here to see Renee?" Mrs. Sants asked.
"Yes, we are," I replied, politely.
"May I ask what is under your jacket, Blue?" Mrs. Sants questioned me.
"Nothing to worry about," I finished. Jazmine and I strode into Renee's room and shut the door.
"Hey, guys. I wasn't expecting you. What's up?" Renee greeted.
Jazmine hit a button on her watch and I saw a lump form on her back. The lump was Selene.
"Check it out," I answered. I unzipped my jacket and Jazmine did the same.
"What the," Renee responded, "where did you get those? You know those are both illegal to own!"
Renee's mom had been listening, over protective parents. Tisk, tisk.
"What do you two have!" Mrs. Sants exclaimed. To her dismay all she saw was a stuffed bat and owl. Selene and Apollo had stopped moving, completely.
"Renee, what did you mean when you said they were illegal to own?" Mrs. Sants inquired.
"I said that because they are so cool!" Renee thought fast.
"Okay," Mrs. Sants replied, suspicious.
"No, really, where'd you get those?" Renee asked after her mom had left the room.
"First," I began, "it's not those, it's Selene and Apollo. Second, we didn't get them, they came to us."
"Oh, yeah, and I'm a fish," Renee retorted, rolling her eyes.
"Do you think she is trustworthy, Apollo?" I questioned.
Apollo tilted his head, thinking. Then he nodded his head, yes.
"What about you, Selene?" Jazmine inquired.
After a few moments she shrugged her shoulders, as to say I don't know.
"Well, that's a yes and an I don't know. Apollo tell we didn't get you, you came to us," I announced.
"As my Link said before we came to them, they didn't get us," Apollo spoke, "and nice to meet you."
"How can they talk!" Renee screeched.
"Shhh! They were tested on twelve or so years ago. It's a side effect," Jazmine replied.
Renee poked Apollo, and he rubbed his shoulder.
"This is just some big joke, right?" Renee questioned.
Jazmine lost it, "No it's not!"
"Dude chill, it's harder for her to expect it because she didn't grow up with them," I explained.
"You're right. I'm just not use to Renee being so argumentative," Jazmine agreed.
"Hey! I am still here!" Renee spoke up. Jazmine just glares at her.
"Well, she is clearly not ready," Jazmine said as she got up, "And we are clearly not welcome."
Apollo and Selene went under our jackets and we left.
"Oh, one more thing," I popped my head in, "Don't tell anyone or we'll drive you insane."
"What are in your jackets!" Mrs. Sants screeched.
"None of your business!" I growled, I had lost it.
"Is that how you treat adults!?" Mrs. Slants retorted.
"Well, so far adults have been real jerks!" Jazmine yelled.
"Doubtful! Just because you can't do whatever you want doesn't mean adults are jerks!" Mrs. Sants said.
"That's not what we are talking about! And if you had learned what we have just learned about our past, you would be crying in a corner!" I growled. Mrs. Sants was quiet.
"That's what I thought," I growled. Jazmine and I left the apartment building and we went to our apartment building.
"Bye Jazzy," I said, after our silent walk.
"Bye," Jazmine returned and we went in our separate apartments.
"You know Apollo I don't want to go to school Monday," I complained as I entered my room.
"Well you need to go to school, you know that," Apollo replied, "but I will be with you." Apollo handed me a watch and I quickly put it on.
"Wait what," I questioned.
"Well, if you push this button," Apollo said as he indicated to a button on the side of the watch, "I will go into a 'file' in the watch."
"Explain," I replied.
"I won't actually go in a file, I will go in a room that is in the watch," Apollo answered.
"Where did you get this," I began, indicating the watch.
"You made it, when you were younger, you were extremely intelligent," Apollo replied.
"Wait, wait, I was extremely intelligent?" I asked.
"No, you are still smarter than average. But you must unlock it. After you forgot your past in the lab and lived a normal life, you wanted to be normal so much you shut off your extra intelligence," Apollo finished.
"Blue come to dinner!" Abby yelled.
"Okay, I got to go," I said as I left.
