Into the Darkness
Rating: PG
Summary: There were two sets of Royal Fours. From sister planets Antar and Anterra, when sent to Earth not knowing who you are and what you're destined to become how do you survive? Alternate Universe
Coupling: M/M, M/L, A/I, K/T
Notes: Renege: Maria Kristien: Kyle Zia: Liz Mareke: Alex
The following school day seemed to drag on for ages though it was only a couple hours. Alex twirled his pencil in his hand watching it spin as he blocked out the monotone voice of his Geography teacher. He knew that he was talking about the Berlin Wall but he spaced out when the teacher rambled off on the subject of David Hasselhoff performing. None of the "others" as he had become accustomed to calling the seven of them were in his class, so there wasn't many else who he would socialize with. He set his pencil back down on the desk and watched the clock waiting for the last thirty seconds to pass so that he would be free from the unending class. The mild clicking made him tap his fingers to the beat and finally the bell rang. He sprang up happily grabbed his book bag and ran out of that room before he could fall asleep from the mindless talking.
"Hey Alex." A female voice called to him. He spun around in place and turned to see who it was. Isabel, the source of many adolescent fantasies was talking to him. He smiled at her, "Hey Isabel, what's up?"
"Max said that we're meeting in the desert to practice." She said softly saying the last word.
"Oh cool, I guess you guys want to learn as much as you can right?" Alex said as they walked down the hall so he could drop off his books in his locker.
"Well there's that and there's the fact that I think he wants to go out there and ogle Liz. He's practically obsessed, since the other day that's all he can talk about. Have you seen Liz? Liz did this. Liz did that. It's aggravating; I want to just smack him you know?" Isabel said in a ramble obviously annoyed with her brother's endless talk.
"Yeah, Liz was talking about him last night when we were getting dropped off about his eyes and stuff like that. I was frightened." He said slightly laughing at the end as he unlocked the locker and threw the books in happy to get rid of the extra burden.
"And the worst part is we're stuck with them." Isabel said seriously causing Alex to become confused since he could feel her amusement; he looked up and saw her smile. He loved her smile, "Well we better get going or Michael will get impatient, he wants us "on the ball"."
They walked outside to the Jeep in comfortable silence where Max, Michael, Liz, and Kyle stood.
"Hey guys, have you seen Maria?" Liz asked happily wondering where he friend was.
"Nope not since lunch, she probably forgot something in her locker and got all flustered like she usually does." Alex said not realizing Maria was walking up to him and could hear every word he said. He then turned around as he felt her annoyingness.
"Excuse me buddy, I do not get all flustered." She said poking him in the chest much to the other's amusement. Michael let out a soft yeah right and she glared at him, "How would you know?"
"Well for one you're flustered right now." Michael said stating the obvious.
"I am not you don't know what I'm feeling."
Kyle rolled his eyebrows, "Maria I feel you and you're getting flustered as we speak so let's get off that topic. Where were you?" He asked raising his eyebrows noticing her hair was flung around and she was breathing hard.
"Well, I left all my stuff in my locker, and then I had to stay after class to talk to my Science teacher to get the assignment and fix my grade, so I had to run out to get here."
Liz perked up at the mentioning of science but when she asked if she could help with anything she was let down to find out she couldn't.
"Well let's get this show on the road." Michael said getting anxious as he climbed into the back of the Jeep. Following suit Max got in the driver's side with Liz at the passengers. Maria, Alex, Isabel, and Kyle all hopped in and Maria was forced to move to the very back with Michael.
"It's kind of crowded." Alex said turning red at the closeness of him and Isabel. Kyle smirked at him and looked outside as the scenery sped by, and the city turned to New Mexican desert. Max drove to a large set of rocks and everyone got out. Max, Michael, and Isabel walked towards the rocks while Maria, Liz, Alex, and Kyle followed confusion evident on their faces.
"What're we doing here?" Maria asked looking up and down the rock.
"It's the pod chambers. We weren't carried like you were we were hatched out of pods." Max explained putting his hand on the rock causing it to glow a faint white leaving a silver handprint. A low rumbling was heard and the rock pulled away revealing an opening.
Maria nodded at him and walked in with the rest acting like she knew that all along. Liz looked around fascinated, "Where are your pods?" She asked curiously as the walked down a stone corridor.
"They're down this way." Isabel said motioning for her to continue to follow and she did just that taking her eyes away from the world of science around her. They came to the opening and the looked at the pods in wonder.
"You came out of them?" Kyle asked walking up touching the slimy inside, "Like came out all covered in this stuff?" He asked holding up a piece of a web-like substance.
Isabel shook her head, "No, that was just covering the pods. We were covered in this gel kind of stuff."
"Our planets must have shared the same technology too, because when our guardians were sent here they stayed in pods on their way and had must have had the same gel like stuff around them." Kyle said knowingly.
"How do you know?" Michael asked him.
"My Mom." Kyle said slowly. Isabel glared at Michael and made sure he knew not to badger him with more questions. Alex feeling left out turned his attention back to the pods.
"Can I crawl in one?" He said his eyes lighting up with ideas.
"What?" Max asked taken back, "Um sure I guess." He said becoming calm again. Maria smiled at her friend as he walked closer and finally inside.
"That's my pod you're in." Isabel said. She was happy that he chose to go in that one that was hers, like he was choosing her and she didn't know why she was so glad.
"Alex be careful you don't trip or something and fall back." Liz said knowing that he was a klutz, remembering once when they were little when Maria and Kyle decided to drop their pudding on the floor to turn it into jello when Alex came in not paying attention and slipped on it.
"Hey I am being care." He said being cut off then slipping from the slippery bottom and falling back against the wall- and through it, ".ful. Ouch." He said rubbing his butt as he stood up and then looked at the object that stood before him, "Keeping secrets from us are we?" He asked sarcastically in awe of what he saw.
"Alex! Are you ok?" Isabel said climbing in through the opening as the others followed in behind here, stopping and looking at the object before them.
"The Granolith." Maria said not knowing how she knew.
"What is it?" Max asked walking the closest up to it. He looked the Granolith up and down. It gleamed in the light that Alex made with his hand so they could see every detail of the object, including the shadowed parts.
"I don't know, but I know I have to protect it with my life." Michael said sort of unsurely, the same feeling that he felt about Maria, another mysterious feeling that appeared recently.
"I think we all have that feeling." Kyle said feeling the shared feeling between them. Max, Michael, and Isabel looked at him oddly, "I don't think we mentioned this before but we're empaths."
"We're not empaths why are you?" Max asked him still not taking his eyes away from the Granolith.
"Well we were from two different planets, even though they were sister planets, and everything. Doesn't mean we're the exact same. It explains why you have the more mind oriented powers and we have the elemental powers." Maria said walking up to the object and touching it. Her eyes closed shut and she saw images rush past her field of understanding and she pulled her hand back.
"Oh wow." She mumbled.
"What?" Isabel asked noticing something happened but she didn't know what.
"She had a vision." Kyle said knowingly, "Do you have those?"
"I've had one once or twice but that was only of where stuff is." Michael said he found his Ulysses book that way once.
"Well then what did you see?" Max asked her putting his hand on her shoulder in an attempt to calm her down.
"Well." She began, "I saw all of us, but not now from then." She said slowly saying the last word, "Our pasts."
"Well what exactly did you see?" Michael asked anxiously.
She blushed when he looked at her, "You and I." She said pointedly to him, "Were a couple and you two, and you two, and you and Ava.were together too. I guess it was a wide known thing back on our planets. People were happy about it too said we were stronger when we were all together." She pointed to Max and Liz, Alex and Isabel, and then to Kyle.
"What?" Michael spit out. That explained the feeling of protecting her he thought, but she was so annoying now, probably like that in their past lives, too. Max and Liz blushed, but moved closer to each other. A big goofy grin broke out across Alex's face as he though ah yes dreams do come true. Isabel looked thoroughly flustered yet happy at the same time.
"You heard me mister!" Maria said pointedly to Michael.
"Well I think this is enough information for today don't you? Besides we came here to try our powers." Max said ushering everyone out before anymore visions started popping up.
"Yeah that's a good idea." Liz said ducking under the top of the pod and back into the pod chamber.
"I'm going to leave my stuff in here, and I can just get it before we leave, alright?" Maria said to Michael since they had already made the decision previously before the new information was revealed. He looked down at the ground and nodded at her, his voice suddenly going dry. She was confused he thought he was going to respond with some witty comeback about her being a princess, though she was glad he hadn't because she wasn't in the mood to get into another scream fest.
They all walked out and moved apart from each other in case of any awry power bursts. Liz looked at Max and blushed once more. It was odd the way fate dealt her cards she thought. Getting stuck with her soul mate, she liked the sound of the word.
"Can you project a protection field?" She asked him overcoming her new- found shyness.
"A protection field.no.I didn't even know we could do it." Max said feeling dumb and like a child.
"Well, it's really easy and incredibly useful in case you were put into any type of danger. All you have to do is concentrate on something you want to protect over anything or just will yourself to survive and it'll appear. The more practice with them that you get the stronger they'll become."
"Ok." Max raised his hand and concentrated on protecting Liz no matter what. He just wished that she had never had to use it in a situation that was life or death. His hand glowed for a moment and green spread from the palm into the area around him. Liz smiled happily at his accomplishment.
"Great now I'm going to throw some earth at it and see if it can go through, only a small amount though because I don't want to hurt you." I don't ever want to hurt you she thought to herself. She waved her hand at the ground and a small chunk came out and sunk through the shield causing Max to put his hand down in embarrassment.
"Oh max that was fine, just not strong enough, let's try again." Liz said smiling reassuringly at him.
Michael looked at Max and Liz as they practiced and grew angry he couldn't put his protection shield up and he was getting frustrated. Concentrate Michael, think of something to protect Michael, he was getting annoyed from Maria's enthusiastic encouragements. He would try and then she would send a blast up wind at him causing him to fall to the ground. He was frustrated that he couldn't put up a simple protection field as Liz had called it. The angrier he got the more power he could feel building inside of him. Finally he shouted at her, "Maria, I can't do it!" He yelled waving his hand in the air causing a bolt to shoot out and hit a nearby rock.
"Oh I think we've found your individual power!" Maria squealed happily throwing her arms around him and giving him a kiss on the lips. She, realizing what she'd done, quickly let go and looked at the ground, "Great job.um we can practice more tomorrow I guess and we can see if you can put up your protection field." She was smiling in her head and her mind did a little dance causing Alex, Kyle, and Liz to wonder what made her so happy.
Alex and Kyle were helping Isabel put up her shield and throwing fire causing it to fall then Kyle's water causing it to fall once again.
"You guys I'm kind of getting tired. We could continue this tomorrow I guess?" Isabel asked holding her hands at her side talking to them both but looking at Alex.
"Yeah I mean sure!"Alex said as Kyle wasn't paying attention but thinking of his past self. He'd been in love with Ava; the one that wasn't there, but how could she not be? They all should have been sent together and he had no idea why she wasn't with them. He shook his head and began walking with the others over to the cave so Maria could get her jacket. She put her hand on the same spot where Max had not realizing that she didn't even know whether or not she could open it but like it was something natural. The rock moved and she walked in.
Kyle looked around and his surroundings as the entered the chamber once more. Next to the one he was guessing was Max's there was a distortion. The color was slightly darker than the color around everything.
"Do you see that?" He asked pointing to the area he was talking about. While they were young they were taught to be able to tell the difference between a distortion and the real thing because during the war Khivar's upper level men could use distortion weapons but never using them with their minds.
Liz and Maria nodded and Alex said a soft yeah. Max, Isabel, and Michael noticed the difference too and stepped forward as the others did. Kyle cleared his mind and focused his energy while chanting in his mind, break the distortion, break the distortion he touched his hand to the area and it flickered then stopped at what the real thing was.
Another pod.
He took a closer step forward and touched it getting a flash he pulled his hand away and stumbled back then muttered, "Tess." Saying it louder and more clearly this time he said, "Tess that's her name, your fourth and she's on her way to Roswell right now with your protector."
Please Review! As you probably read above the others do have the power of manipulating matter, more stuff will be revealed as the story goes on. Also I would like to thank everyone who has reviewed the story so far, you have no idea how much it means to me!
Rating: PG
Summary: There were two sets of Royal Fours. From sister planets Antar and Anterra, when sent to Earth not knowing who you are and what you're destined to become how do you survive? Alternate Universe
Coupling: M/M, M/L, A/I, K/T
Notes: Renege: Maria Kristien: Kyle Zia: Liz Mareke: Alex
The following school day seemed to drag on for ages though it was only a couple hours. Alex twirled his pencil in his hand watching it spin as he blocked out the monotone voice of his Geography teacher. He knew that he was talking about the Berlin Wall but he spaced out when the teacher rambled off on the subject of David Hasselhoff performing. None of the "others" as he had become accustomed to calling the seven of them were in his class, so there wasn't many else who he would socialize with. He set his pencil back down on the desk and watched the clock waiting for the last thirty seconds to pass so that he would be free from the unending class. The mild clicking made him tap his fingers to the beat and finally the bell rang. He sprang up happily grabbed his book bag and ran out of that room before he could fall asleep from the mindless talking.
"Hey Alex." A female voice called to him. He spun around in place and turned to see who it was. Isabel, the source of many adolescent fantasies was talking to him. He smiled at her, "Hey Isabel, what's up?"
"Max said that we're meeting in the desert to practice." She said softly saying the last word.
"Oh cool, I guess you guys want to learn as much as you can right?" Alex said as they walked down the hall so he could drop off his books in his locker.
"Well there's that and there's the fact that I think he wants to go out there and ogle Liz. He's practically obsessed, since the other day that's all he can talk about. Have you seen Liz? Liz did this. Liz did that. It's aggravating; I want to just smack him you know?" Isabel said in a ramble obviously annoyed with her brother's endless talk.
"Yeah, Liz was talking about him last night when we were getting dropped off about his eyes and stuff like that. I was frightened." He said slightly laughing at the end as he unlocked the locker and threw the books in happy to get rid of the extra burden.
"And the worst part is we're stuck with them." Isabel said seriously causing Alex to become confused since he could feel her amusement; he looked up and saw her smile. He loved her smile, "Well we better get going or Michael will get impatient, he wants us "on the ball"."
They walked outside to the Jeep in comfortable silence where Max, Michael, Liz, and Kyle stood.
"Hey guys, have you seen Maria?" Liz asked happily wondering where he friend was.
"Nope not since lunch, she probably forgot something in her locker and got all flustered like she usually does." Alex said not realizing Maria was walking up to him and could hear every word he said. He then turned around as he felt her annoyingness.
"Excuse me buddy, I do not get all flustered." She said poking him in the chest much to the other's amusement. Michael let out a soft yeah right and she glared at him, "How would you know?"
"Well for one you're flustered right now." Michael said stating the obvious.
"I am not you don't know what I'm feeling."
Kyle rolled his eyebrows, "Maria I feel you and you're getting flustered as we speak so let's get off that topic. Where were you?" He asked raising his eyebrows noticing her hair was flung around and she was breathing hard.
"Well, I left all my stuff in my locker, and then I had to stay after class to talk to my Science teacher to get the assignment and fix my grade, so I had to run out to get here."
Liz perked up at the mentioning of science but when she asked if she could help with anything she was let down to find out she couldn't.
"Well let's get this show on the road." Michael said getting anxious as he climbed into the back of the Jeep. Following suit Max got in the driver's side with Liz at the passengers. Maria, Alex, Isabel, and Kyle all hopped in and Maria was forced to move to the very back with Michael.
"It's kind of crowded." Alex said turning red at the closeness of him and Isabel. Kyle smirked at him and looked outside as the scenery sped by, and the city turned to New Mexican desert. Max drove to a large set of rocks and everyone got out. Max, Michael, and Isabel walked towards the rocks while Maria, Liz, Alex, and Kyle followed confusion evident on their faces.
"What're we doing here?" Maria asked looking up and down the rock.
"It's the pod chambers. We weren't carried like you were we were hatched out of pods." Max explained putting his hand on the rock causing it to glow a faint white leaving a silver handprint. A low rumbling was heard and the rock pulled away revealing an opening.
Maria nodded at him and walked in with the rest acting like she knew that all along. Liz looked around fascinated, "Where are your pods?" She asked curiously as the walked down a stone corridor.
"They're down this way." Isabel said motioning for her to continue to follow and she did just that taking her eyes away from the world of science around her. They came to the opening and the looked at the pods in wonder.
"You came out of them?" Kyle asked walking up touching the slimy inside, "Like came out all covered in this stuff?" He asked holding up a piece of a web-like substance.
Isabel shook her head, "No, that was just covering the pods. We were covered in this gel kind of stuff."
"Our planets must have shared the same technology too, because when our guardians were sent here they stayed in pods on their way and had must have had the same gel like stuff around them." Kyle said knowingly.
"How do you know?" Michael asked him.
"My Mom." Kyle said slowly. Isabel glared at Michael and made sure he knew not to badger him with more questions. Alex feeling left out turned his attention back to the pods.
"Can I crawl in one?" He said his eyes lighting up with ideas.
"What?" Max asked taken back, "Um sure I guess." He said becoming calm again. Maria smiled at her friend as he walked closer and finally inside.
"That's my pod you're in." Isabel said. She was happy that he chose to go in that one that was hers, like he was choosing her and she didn't know why she was so glad.
"Alex be careful you don't trip or something and fall back." Liz said knowing that he was a klutz, remembering once when they were little when Maria and Kyle decided to drop their pudding on the floor to turn it into jello when Alex came in not paying attention and slipped on it.
"Hey I am being care." He said being cut off then slipping from the slippery bottom and falling back against the wall- and through it, ".ful. Ouch." He said rubbing his butt as he stood up and then looked at the object that stood before him, "Keeping secrets from us are we?" He asked sarcastically in awe of what he saw.
"Alex! Are you ok?" Isabel said climbing in through the opening as the others followed in behind here, stopping and looking at the object before them.
"The Granolith." Maria said not knowing how she knew.
"What is it?" Max asked walking the closest up to it. He looked the Granolith up and down. It gleamed in the light that Alex made with his hand so they could see every detail of the object, including the shadowed parts.
"I don't know, but I know I have to protect it with my life." Michael said sort of unsurely, the same feeling that he felt about Maria, another mysterious feeling that appeared recently.
"I think we all have that feeling." Kyle said feeling the shared feeling between them. Max, Michael, and Isabel looked at him oddly, "I don't think we mentioned this before but we're empaths."
"We're not empaths why are you?" Max asked him still not taking his eyes away from the Granolith.
"Well we were from two different planets, even though they were sister planets, and everything. Doesn't mean we're the exact same. It explains why you have the more mind oriented powers and we have the elemental powers." Maria said walking up to the object and touching it. Her eyes closed shut and she saw images rush past her field of understanding and she pulled her hand back.
"Oh wow." She mumbled.
"What?" Isabel asked noticing something happened but she didn't know what.
"She had a vision." Kyle said knowingly, "Do you have those?"
"I've had one once or twice but that was only of where stuff is." Michael said he found his Ulysses book that way once.
"Well then what did you see?" Max asked her putting his hand on her shoulder in an attempt to calm her down.
"Well." She began, "I saw all of us, but not now from then." She said slowly saying the last word, "Our pasts."
"Well what exactly did you see?" Michael asked anxiously.
She blushed when he looked at her, "You and I." She said pointedly to him, "Were a couple and you two, and you two, and you and Ava.were together too. I guess it was a wide known thing back on our planets. People were happy about it too said we were stronger when we were all together." She pointed to Max and Liz, Alex and Isabel, and then to Kyle.
"What?" Michael spit out. That explained the feeling of protecting her he thought, but she was so annoying now, probably like that in their past lives, too. Max and Liz blushed, but moved closer to each other. A big goofy grin broke out across Alex's face as he though ah yes dreams do come true. Isabel looked thoroughly flustered yet happy at the same time.
"You heard me mister!" Maria said pointedly to Michael.
"Well I think this is enough information for today don't you? Besides we came here to try our powers." Max said ushering everyone out before anymore visions started popping up.
"Yeah that's a good idea." Liz said ducking under the top of the pod and back into the pod chamber.
"I'm going to leave my stuff in here, and I can just get it before we leave, alright?" Maria said to Michael since they had already made the decision previously before the new information was revealed. He looked down at the ground and nodded at her, his voice suddenly going dry. She was confused he thought he was going to respond with some witty comeback about her being a princess, though she was glad he hadn't because she wasn't in the mood to get into another scream fest.
They all walked out and moved apart from each other in case of any awry power bursts. Liz looked at Max and blushed once more. It was odd the way fate dealt her cards she thought. Getting stuck with her soul mate, she liked the sound of the word.
"Can you project a protection field?" She asked him overcoming her new- found shyness.
"A protection field.no.I didn't even know we could do it." Max said feeling dumb and like a child.
"Well, it's really easy and incredibly useful in case you were put into any type of danger. All you have to do is concentrate on something you want to protect over anything or just will yourself to survive and it'll appear. The more practice with them that you get the stronger they'll become."
"Ok." Max raised his hand and concentrated on protecting Liz no matter what. He just wished that she had never had to use it in a situation that was life or death. His hand glowed for a moment and green spread from the palm into the area around him. Liz smiled happily at his accomplishment.
"Great now I'm going to throw some earth at it and see if it can go through, only a small amount though because I don't want to hurt you." I don't ever want to hurt you she thought to herself. She waved her hand at the ground and a small chunk came out and sunk through the shield causing Max to put his hand down in embarrassment.
"Oh max that was fine, just not strong enough, let's try again." Liz said smiling reassuringly at him.
Michael looked at Max and Liz as they practiced and grew angry he couldn't put his protection shield up and he was getting frustrated. Concentrate Michael, think of something to protect Michael, he was getting annoyed from Maria's enthusiastic encouragements. He would try and then she would send a blast up wind at him causing him to fall to the ground. He was frustrated that he couldn't put up a simple protection field as Liz had called it. The angrier he got the more power he could feel building inside of him. Finally he shouted at her, "Maria, I can't do it!" He yelled waving his hand in the air causing a bolt to shoot out and hit a nearby rock.
"Oh I think we've found your individual power!" Maria squealed happily throwing her arms around him and giving him a kiss on the lips. She, realizing what she'd done, quickly let go and looked at the ground, "Great job.um we can practice more tomorrow I guess and we can see if you can put up your protection field." She was smiling in her head and her mind did a little dance causing Alex, Kyle, and Liz to wonder what made her so happy.
Alex and Kyle were helping Isabel put up her shield and throwing fire causing it to fall then Kyle's water causing it to fall once again.
"You guys I'm kind of getting tired. We could continue this tomorrow I guess?" Isabel asked holding her hands at her side talking to them both but looking at Alex.
"Yeah I mean sure!"Alex said as Kyle wasn't paying attention but thinking of his past self. He'd been in love with Ava; the one that wasn't there, but how could she not be? They all should have been sent together and he had no idea why she wasn't with them. He shook his head and began walking with the others over to the cave so Maria could get her jacket. She put her hand on the same spot where Max had not realizing that she didn't even know whether or not she could open it but like it was something natural. The rock moved and she walked in.
Kyle looked around and his surroundings as the entered the chamber once more. Next to the one he was guessing was Max's there was a distortion. The color was slightly darker than the color around everything.
"Do you see that?" He asked pointing to the area he was talking about. While they were young they were taught to be able to tell the difference between a distortion and the real thing because during the war Khivar's upper level men could use distortion weapons but never using them with their minds.
Liz and Maria nodded and Alex said a soft yeah. Max, Isabel, and Michael noticed the difference too and stepped forward as the others did. Kyle cleared his mind and focused his energy while chanting in his mind, break the distortion, break the distortion he touched his hand to the area and it flickered then stopped at what the real thing was.
Another pod.
He took a closer step forward and touched it getting a flash he pulled his hand away and stumbled back then muttered, "Tess." Saying it louder and more clearly this time he said, "Tess that's her name, your fourth and she's on her way to Roswell right now with your protector."
Please Review! As you probably read above the others do have the power of manipulating matter, more stuff will be revealed as the story goes on. Also I would like to thank everyone who has reviewed the story so far, you have no idea how much it means to me!