Chapter 13
Zed's POV
We are all stunned into silence. All the information and then Sky, no Ally running out like her head was on fire.
I can't even believe it. Sky. The girl I used to kiss, the girl I loved is basically a goddess. A step above savants, that what she said.
More powerful than the strongest savent. And the people they are facing are like this to. Its almost too much for me to wrap my head around.
But the one question nagging me is, are we still together? Can we be? With what I just found out, is there some unspoken rule?
What about Luke? Are they boyfriend and girlfriend? I doubted it. They couldn't be soul finders so I bet that they are just hooking up. But will she take me back?
"Hi I'm Connor, Wow are you guys OK? You look like the world is ending?" A cheerful voice echoes through the room. I look up to see a tall red haired boy.
He smiles cheerily and I can already tell that we would be friends.
He looked like a born troublemaker, from the smirk to the wicked gleam in his eyes. "Fine." Victor snaps at him.
"Actually do you know where Sky, I mean Ally," I pause here at the unfamiliar word "went?"
He pauses for a moment, thinking. "I think they are going out, come with me." I look around, questioning whether anyone wants to come with me.
"Y'all can stay here if you want." He says stepping into the room, "I'll bring him back. If I must, then yes he will be alive"
"I want to come," Phee announces standing up. Yves stands with her but no one else seems like they want to. They all seem scared, like Conner will attack them at any moment.
"I'm Phoenix and this is Yves." "I know" he smiles and looks at everyone else. "Alright, let's go." We walk into the hallway and take a left turn.
"So Als spilled the beans." I look at him strangely before nodding, "Guess she did." "How do you feel about that?" Phee catches up to us, dragging Yves with her. "What are you talking about?" "Ally's freaky transformation."
He laughs. "John, John." He runs ahead a few steps to catch up with brunette. They have a quick conversation before Conner runs off and John heads towards us.
"Sorry, about that. Conner has to go do something." I need my head calmly and we continue walking in silence.
That is until a person turns onto the hallway. She's small and blonde and for a second my heart leaps. But it's not Sky.
It must be one of the sisters. "Red." John says, and there's a pleading edge in his voice. She ignores him passing by us, with barely a word. He grabs her shoulders and she glares at him.
"Em, are you going to be mad at me forever?" "I'm not mad" she snaps. Like everyone else in this place she has a thick accent.
"I'm furious."
"Em, come on. I didn't mean it. You know I didn't mean it."
"Get out of my way before I break your nose again." He let's go of her and she stalks past, body slamming him into the wall.
He rubs his shoulder ruefully watching her walk away. With a forced grin he turns back to is. "Sorry about that, it's me she's pissed at not you guys."
"Are you and her dating?" Phee asked. He laughs, "hell no. That would be so creepy." "Why?" "I mean I love Red, Perrie and Maggie but like a sister. Yeah they're hot, you would have to be blind not to see that but it would be like dating my little sister."
"Luke doesn't feel that way?" Phee spat his name out as if it tasted bad. John cocked an eyebrow, "now Luke's situation is different."
"Why is she so mad at you?" I asked, trying to change the subject. I really didn't want to talk about how my soulfinder was dating someone else.
"Let's just say that you never want to get one of us made but with the triplets it's a package deal. You get one mad, you deal with the sisters." He rolls his eyes.
"As for what got her so pissed, who knows? It's Red, she can get mad at anything."
"You keep calling them different names?" "Silly thing but I always call them after birds." "Birds?"
"Yeah. Ally's Perrie for the Peregrine falcon. She's fast, nicer than the other two and extremely protective. Emmy's Red, for Red tailed hawk. Beautiful, lethal, vicious and a good hunter. And Aya is Maggie for Magpie. She always flits around from thing to thing and if you ever want to distract her, hang something shiny in front of her face."
We drift off into silence processing this information. I can't get over the fact she had a whole family here.
A family that she never told us about. A whole new life to come to, a life where she didn't need any of us. Especially not me. All we were to her was a distraction, something that had to be tossed away.
"We're here!" John announces yanking open a metal door. We walk into a space about the size of a arena. It's huge with large hangar doors and a balcony that leads presumably to other rooms.
A girl stands in a corner hurling knives at a target. I recognize her as Emmy the girl we met in the hallway.
She's phenomenal, hitting the target every single time. John heads off in the opposite direction, obviously trying to avoid her. "Hey." She starts looking around for the sources of the voice.
When she sees us she sighs, setting the knife on the table beside.
"Rule number one, don't sneak up on someone holding a knife unless you want this in your throat."
She taps the hilt of the knife, giving us a sweet smile. "Understood." Yves says quickly. She laughs and walks over to the target, rolling her shoulders.
She opens a door at slides out of the room. "She's not very friendly is she?" "Nah but if you knew Em you would know why." I turn to look at at unfamiliar boy with dark red hair around his face. "I'm Alex" he laughs. "How many people are here?" Phee shook her head in amazement. "7. Wait. Aya, Ally, Emmy, Me, Connor, John, Luke."
He ticks them off on his fingers as he counts. "Yup, 7!"
"Why are you all Italien?" He laughs and beckons us to come with him.
"We're not we just sound like it. Our language is very similar to Italian so our accents sound very similar. Only Em and Al don't have accents. Ally's a little English girl. And Em sounds like she belongs in the fricken south. She says "y'all" way too much."
From the way he says it I can tell that this is a teasing point for them. I'm betting that this is the one main thing they are teased on. "So you guys met the unfriendly one?" "Who?"
"Emmy. She's the nasty one but that's not saying the other two won't be just as bad. But she's like consistently bad with meeting new people."
"She threatened us with a knife." Yves deadpans. "Good girl." He says thoughtfully.
"What?"
"She's normally so much worse. We've had death threats, actually throwing the knife at someone, getting a chainsaw." "She's an interesting person" he adds laughing at our startled expressions.
"So you guys have no experience with soul finders at all?" Phee asked, trying not to look like she was investigating for me. She failed spectacularly. I was going to have to tell her that acting wasn't her thing.
Neither were interrogations. "No we have one pair. But the rest of us aren't really looking. I mean we're kinda living in a war zone."
"Ally and Luke right?" Phee asked, glaring at him. She was trying to look intimidating but was not doing so well.
Still I couldn't help but stare at him as well, waiting for the answer that can either give hope or despair.
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Hint for the next chapter
*...her ice blue eyes fixated upon the screen. In the dim light they gleaned like twin blue flames, "Well if they are not with us. They're against us. And we all know what happens to people that are against us. " A smile curled across her full lips as she grinned down at the family who thought they were escaping. "They don't tend to live much longer." A cold sound of a metal blade being unsheathed echoed through the room, followed by the click of her stiletto heels.*