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Ella

"Are you alright?" John asks.

"Yeah, fine." I say distractedly. John looks unconvinced, but he doesn't question me anymore. I'm not alright, we're fighting a warship, the last time we fought one, I barely escaped with my life. I think I'm having a mini panic attack. But not as big as the girl sitting behind me. She's breathing really hard, and she hasn't stopped sobbing and crying since we got in the car. At first, we comforted her, but now, we've all given up. I sigh, I can't think with her making so much noise. I feel my patience finally snap.

"I'm nervous too! We all are, do you think bawling your eyes out is helping any of us?" I snap at the girl. The girl widens her eyes, and looks afraid of me. John decides to soften the blow. "I know you're nervous, but we're all trying to focus too. Maybe you could stop making so much noise?" John says. The girl stays silent. John shoots me a look. I hold my hands up in defense.

We're all in one car. And the only human I know the name of is April, since she likes John. Yes, all thirteen of us, in an eight seat car. It's not exactly comfortable. I lean my head against the window.

The truth is, I'm afraid. I'm afraid to fight, I'm afraid of the humans seeing me fight and thinking lowly of me, I'm afraid of dying, I'm afraid of a lot. That' why I'm so worried. What if something happens to me? Or John or Nine, Nine's our best fighter, and we're pretty sure John is Pittacus' heir without him we can't defeat Setrakus.

I've learned, in a war, the most important thing isn't fighting and killing, it's being able to manage everything, keep up with who died or was injured, or to just deal with all the stress. The only reason I've been able to keep fighting is my fellow garde, I remember how bad things got when Setrakus captured me. Right now, I could really use some time with Marina or Six, they're always there for me. I'm feeling pretty alone right now.

Suddenly, John's head snaps up. He whips his head around to everyone in the car. John relaxes and sits down. But, he's staring right at me. With his index finger, he taps his forehead. I mouth What? To him. John makes a talking symbol with his hands, then he taps his forehead again. Talk head, what does that mean? Maybe it was talk, brain. Talk with your brain! I nod at John. I telekinetically send him a message. What's wrong? I ask him. One of the girls in this car is working for the mogs! John says. What?! I shout back. I was trying to block out all of your minds, I'm learning to control mind reading. I heard a girls voice say something, It was, "Why are these loric so blind? They won't know what's coming! I hope Setrakus' plan works." John replies. My jaw drops. I analyse every girl in the car. My only suspicion is a petite german girl. She has a knowing smirk on her face, and from the way she walks and how confident she is, she obviously has had lots of training before us. But the mogs usually go for the people you would least expect. My second suspicion is the girl who was crying earlier, I wouldn't suspect her unless I really had to think about it.

My mind is drawn to the second thing the mysterious mog traitor thought, "I hope Setrakus' plan works." That makes me even more suspicious, Setrakus must be planning something big.

"Are we almost there?" I ask Nine, who is currently driving, way too fast. "We're almost there!" Nine calls back. 'There' is San Diego, California. John said we had to go there. I know he lived there for a few months before everything went down in Paradise.

A quiet Chinese girl next to me suddenly looks up. "What's up?" I ask her. "I feel like something is going to happen, an attack." The girl replies. "You might have precognition, the ability to see the future or have a sense of danger. Everyone keep your guard up!" I say to everyone in the car. I get a few nods and murmurs of agreement.

"Everyone out of the car!" Nine's voice wakes me from whatever fog I was in. "Why?" I ask Nine. John is the one to respond. "If we pull up to the fight in a car, the mogs will see us for sure, if we walk, we'll have the element of surprise." John explains to me. "Smart." I reply and smoothly hop out of the car. The girl who was crying earlier is right behind me, eyes puffy and red. The blonde girl I suspected is working for the mogs looks uncertain. "No, we should pull up in a car, it makes much more sense." She says. Suspicion confirmed, she has to be the traitor. Get the blonde German girl. She's the traitor! I say telepathically to John.

John doesn't react right away, but I do. I pounce on the girl and pull out a knife I had in my pocket. I hold it above her heart. The girl cries out and looks scared, I'm sitting on top of her on the ground aiming a knife at her heart, she should be scared. "I know you're working for the mogs, tell me their plan or I'll kill you." I threaten. "I'm not working for them!" The girl cries. Tears stream down the girls face. I know right away she's telling the truth.

"It's not her, it's her!" John says, pointing at the girl who was crying earlier. "I swear! I'm not!" The girl shouts. Read their minds and find out who it is. I'll distract them. Also, do they know you can read minds? I ask John telepathically. No. John replies. Perfect. I say back.

"We know someone here is working for the mogadorians." Nine says, though I didn't tell him about the traitor he must've picked up what was going on. John's head snaps up. "Her!" John shouts, pointing at the Chinese girl. The girl bolts, and she's fast. But John easily catches up to her and tackles her to the floor. The girl struggles, but John is too strong. "What should we do to her?" I ask Nine and John. "Kill her!" Nine says. The girl cries out and starts saying some prayer. "No, we should tie her up and leave her here, I don't want to bring a traitor along." April suggests. "Good thinking, I don't want to kill her directly. So lets do that." John says. The girl starts crying.

John steps off of the girl and grabs her. "What can we tie her up with?" John asks. "You can generate electricity, right?" I ask John, it's one of his newfound legacies. "Yeah." John says. "Can you make lines and circles with them? That stay there?" I ask him. "Yes. Why?" He questions. "Make her sit against that tree and put an electricity line around her." I instruct.

John drags the girl to the tree, she struggles the whole way. He sits her against it. John forms and energy ball in his hands, he twists it and straightens it, making a line. He sets it in front of the girl. Then at her sides and back. He repeats this on different parts of her body, making sure to make them at least one centimetre away from her. She won't get burned unless she stands up.

"That's so cool!" Nine says, he leans forward. John takes Nine's hand and slaps it. "What was that for? Now you have to heal it!" Nine says. "Sure." John replies, John takes Nine's hand and pulls him toward the tree. He takes Nine's index finger and lightly taps it against the electricity lines. "OW!" Nine yells. John quickly heals Nine. "I had to test if it worked." John says. Nine scowls at John.

We start to walk toward San Diego, about a five minute walk.

And the trouble begins.

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