She felt a huge sigh of relief that I was actually alive. Kat started running quickly towards me and hugged me very tight. I hugged her back and started sobbing onto her shoulder.
"Olivia, I've been worried sick about you. I thought that you have taken a vehicle for some crazy joyride and crashed it somewhere in the city. I'm glad that you didn't. Where in god's name have you been young lady?" Kat asked as she took a very good long look at me to see if I was physically hurt.
"My back hurts and I may or may not have some bruising along it but I'm still alive. I was captured by Astra and Broodwing. They took me to Gruumm and he started saying how he wanted me to help him take over earth. When I told him that I wouldn't do it, he grabbed me and pushed me really hard to the floor. I really think that he either broke my spine or my ribs when I was on the ground. Do you think that I can skip my personal training for the next few weeks?" I said, as I tried not to show how much I was in pain.
Kat nodded and smiled at me as we started heading back to base. As we were getting closer to base, I grasped onto her arm very tightly and I started to look around, thinking that someone is going dart out from every corner to grab me any second. "How did you know where to find me, mom?" I asked her as we were getting into the vehicle. She looked down at me and finally told me that she had put a tracking device in my necklace several days before taking me to the orphanage. When we walked inside of the academy, Kat decided to take me to my room and stayed by my side throughout the rest of the day.
A number of days passed, I couldn't keep anything together mentally, especially when I tried to keep myself from moving things with my power under control. I couldn't even try to focus on the tasks that were set in front of me and I couldn't give my full attention to my schoolwork. As more days continued to pass, the rangers started to notice very closely that I was eating very little food and was jumpy every time someone started to have a conversation with me. At one point, Sky had placed a hand on my shoulder to see if I was ok. Soon as his hand was placed on my shoulder, somehow I squeezed my eyes and everything started to shake all over the place.
Every night after going to bed, I would start having these nightmares that were so frightening that they would wake me up, screaming at the top of my lungs. My screams would wake up Kat to see that I would have a petrifying look and she would try to soothe me, by singing the lullaby. One night after Kat went to bed, I kept tossing and turning in my bed that I decided to walk to the lab and started working on a project. I couldn't stop thinking about Gruumm and what he said to me when I was on his ship.
"It doesn't make any sense and things aren't adding up. Why in the world did he say that my powers were legendary? What was this other power I'm supposed to get when I turned 17? This is even more confusing than it has been. I really need someone to help me, like dad." I asked, exasperating myself on figuring out the best way possible to beat her. As I was deep in thought about Gruumm that I didn't hear the lab doors opening.
"Hey, I thought I heard you leave the room. What are you doing up this late, Liv? You should be in bed, asleep." asked my mother as she walked up behind me.
"I couldn't sleep. I was thinking about doing a simulation would help but instead I thought that maybe working on something in the lab would do me some good. I don't thinking its going to work and I just didn't want to wake you up with me screaming again tonight, mom." I replied as I turned to face her. "I know how much S.P.D means to you." She stood there, knowing that I was scared of him. She placed a comforting hand on my shoulder.
"I know sweetheart. I felt the exact same way as you do right now. The day I found out your father was killed, I couldn't sleep for a couple of weeks straight. You would ask me every night when he would be home to kiss you goodnight and read you a story. I would always tell you that he was working late on some project. Come on, I know something that might help you get some sleep tonight. It worked wonders for me when I couldn't sleep at night. It's something that your grandmother always did to help me sleep." said Kat. A couple days later while I was in the lab doing my calculus homework for school, Kat was sitting at her desk, working on various books for the security systems in the command center.
Every five minutes, she would look over at me with concern on her face, hoping that I would talk to her about what I was feeling. "Ugh, I really hate having to take calculus and these headaches are going to be the death of me one day. Curse you math. Why did I even choose to take this stupid subject in the first place anyway? I should have reconsidered my options when I was applying for this class. It's not like I'm going to be using it on a daily basis and I'm not even that good at it. I swear that this subject should never be taught in schools." I muttered angrily to myself. I couldn't focus really well on the math problem that I was working on and my eye lids were heavy, that maybe for a moment, I should closed them for a bit.
Soon as I had closed my eyes for what I thought was going to be just a few minutes, I started seeing Gruumm and his army attacking everyone that I loved. I started running and looking for my mom until I suddenly found her lifeless body on the ground. There was nothing that I could do and more people were getting hurt. I started screaming for help. The more I kept screaming, the more people were killed right in front of me and Astra stood there, giving me this evil smile. Before she could grab me, I felt someone shaking me very vigorously.