"Hey, wake up, Jay. We're having a meeting about stuff and Theirry is requiring everyone to be there. It's 8 in the morning, by the way. I will smack you or pour cold water on you if you don't get up." I squinted, then said "Close the blinds, Ash. Please, just close them."
He widened his eyes, smirking. "Oooooh, big tough Jay is very sensitive in sunlight!" I sprang out of bed and jerked the blinds closed, then walked over to Ash and slapped him as hard as I could. He gasped dramatically, looking hurt. "Don't ever speak of it." "Don't worry, I'm still your friend, Jay. I can keep secrets, you know." I smiled, relieved he wouldn't go around telling everyone to open the blinds and force me out in sunlight. I was this way especially in the morning. Hunter's right hand man then had tortured me with it before, and I was scared to tell anyone. What if they thought I was weak? He had noticed one morning, and for the next week, he put bright lights on me, tied up, in a white room. He also staked me with toothpicks, but not enough for scars to show. Nobody would believe Marcus had done it.
"Hey, come on!" I nodded, then followed Ash out of my room, not even having time to change out of my faded red tee I had been wearing the first day I was here. I loved it. It was the one of the only connection I had to my parents. It had been my dad's, I figured out. I also had a necklace my mom had owned. It was a thick chain, hard to break. There was a line of rubies, then a gold bit on each side of a beautiful white diamond. It was embedded in a black shell, shaped slightly different than the usual diamond shape. It was crooked, which made it special. I never took that necklace off, and I kept my red shirt with me as often as I could.
There was also a note. It said not to open it until I was 18 in huge, cursive, ink letters on the front. Well, it was more like a manilla folder. It must have an object in it, but I couldn't guess what would be in there. Only 8 more months. After the huge war.
When we got to the living room, everyone was slouching on the couch, watching tv. Were they waiting for me? Ooops. "Hey, guys, I'm here." "Okay, so we all know that the apocalypse will happen very soon. Extremely soon. All of you Wild Powers are 17, and will all turn 18 in 8 months, which means that before that, we will have the apocalyptic fight everything's been leading up to. I know you are all good fighters, well not all of you, but all the fighters are. They have been training.
My point here is, I want everyone to start working out, learning battle tactics, first aid, and learn to fight and use your resources to help you. Now I know a few of you, Thea, Eric, David, Gillian, Mary-Lynette, Galen, and a few others, none of you are real into fighting, but we will need all the help we can get. So, chop chop, let's go down to the base ment and begin. Rashel, Quinn, you two teach the stealth center, Keller and Nyala, you girls help with basic hand to hand combat, Ash and Delos, help people work out correctly, like a personal trainer, Jez and Morgead, you two teach how to use resources around you, Thea and, hmmm, Winnie, work on basic first aid without magic if needed. That's it, once everyone has been checked off on your list, you may go around to the other stations. Try to go along the line, whenever the timer goes off you go to the next station." Theirry started to explain who started at each station. He left out me and Jace, though.
When everyone else started at the stations, we both walked up to the man. "Uh, dude, you forgot us." He smiled faintly at us. "Yes, when you are finished at the stations, you two mind telling all about Hunter and his people, all our enemies basically, and things that would help us defeat them. I know neither of you need this practice, so why don't you two go stay at Ash and Delos' station the whole time." We both grinned at each other, nodded at Theirry, then went over to the correct station.
As I did pushups, Ash walked over. "Hey, you getting special treatment, Jay?" I chuckled, and without slowing down, replied, "Yup. Only have to do this station. And I don't even have to teach! I don't need any practice anyways. I'm... superwoman." He crossed his arms, and stuck his tongue out at me. "Ha, you're not nearly that awesome. Sorry, Rose." I froze. "What did you call me?" He crouched down, smirking. "I called you Rose. Now get back to those pushups. You're not as strong as everyone, and you, think. You're just a cocky little-"
"Ash! What did I say about manners?" He groaned, then said immediately, "Sorry, Mare. No harm, babe. See?" He kicked me so that nobody could see, then I smiled at his soulmate to reassure her. "Why do you get to be like that?" I laughed so hard, I started coughing. "You—You're jealous! The famous Ash Redfern is jealous! Philip loves me so much, he doesn't mind." I beamed at his sad expression, then he kicked me again. "Hey! You kick me one more time, " He kicked me again. "Get back to work." I stood up, fuming. Pushing him hard, and smirking as he hit the wall. He narrowed his eyes as he sailed at me, trying to knock me over. I quickly dodged, and he spun around, putting his hands on his hips and putting on a comical pout. "Why don't we just open these sunlights?" "Ash," "Yeah? Not so tough now are you?"
I turned on my heels, trying to walk away, but he ran in front of me. "Ok, ok, too far. At least we weren't for real fighting. Good moves though. I nodded, then looked around before whispering, "I need to feed. Soon. I don't wanna kill Eric. That wouldn't be good." It was his turn to laugh, as he tilted his head, barely suppressing a laugh. "Hmmm, tell Theirry." Shaking my head, I went back to pushups.
All of a sudden, a blinding pain hit me, knocking me on the floor. I sucked in air, as hard as I could. Gripping my head, I screamed. The pain was horrible. Squeezing helped, just a little, but not enough. "Make it stop! Thea!" I vaguely noticed Phil shaking me. "Jay, Jay! What's wrong? Where is it, everywhere or just your head?" "I-I don't know, it's horrible!"
Thea hovered over me. "Someone's doing this to her, from far away. They're sending out a frequency that's set to give her pain, but nobody else notices. They need her DNA for it, and a powerful witch. I can stop it, if I give her blood. It only works when the vampire needs to feed, they're weaker then." I felt skin in my mouth, and bit down, feeling the rush of blood down my throat. After a few gulps, the pain slowly went away. When it was gone, my head throbbed, but I was better. Letting go of Thea's wrist, I shakily sat up. "Hey, Jay, you better?" It was Quinn, and he looked like he had been panicking a minute ago. Phil looked worse. Ash looked shocked, and a bit guilty, like he had done this. He hadn't though. "I'm fine. Seriously. I won't let myself starve again. I just wanted to wait till this was over. Sorry." Theirry walked up, parting through the small crowd. "Everyone back to work. Now! Even you boys, she's fine now."
Everyone scurried away, glancing back at me on their way. "Hey, kid, you need a break? You're already strong enough." I nodded, then said, "I'm good. I know it was them doing this to me, don't worry about it. We'll just have to fight them then we won't have any more problems. I'm ready to talk now." The man, who looked like a young adult but was older than any human, chuckled, his forehead not creased anymore. "Really?" he turned towards everyone else. "Hey, guys, Jayden and Jace are going to tell about the enemies now, listen up." Jace walked up to me, then we fed everyone our former teammates' secrets.