Chapter 5
"What the hell is a Khivar?" Kyle asked.
"Not what, who," Khivar replied. "And I see that you four remember even less about your past lives than the girls do."
"What's he talking about?" Michael asked Maria.
"Allow me to explain," Khivar said in a smug voice. He walked over to the counter and took a seat on a booth.
"My name is Khivar, and I'm the soon-to-be ruler of Antar. You see, fifty years ago, my army and I declared war on Antar. We fought hard and finally we were able to kill every member of the Royal Eight, in other words, you," he said pointing the teenagers. "According to Antarian laws, if someone manages to kill the presiding officer or officers of the planet, that person can become king or queen. Normally, only three or four royalties run the planet, but for some reason, everyone thought all eight of you were special, so you all ran the planet as a team, with two of you as King and Queen. Anyway, as hard as it was, I managed to kill all eight of you, but then your idiotic parents decided to reincarnate all of you and send you down to Earth. Therefore, I still didn't get my rightful position in the royal house since you eight brats are still alive. However, I was able to track down four of you, and I've been trying for to kill them for over ten years."
"Is he telling the truth?" Max asked the girls.
"I have no reason to lie, Zan," Khivar said referring to Max's Antarian name.
"Get out, Khivar." Maria said.
"You never shut up, do you Rayana?" Khivar asked. "I'll still never get over the joy I felt at finally killing you all those years ago."
"It won't happen again," Maria said glaring at him.
"We'll see about that," he replied. "I must thank you, girls. You led me right to the other members of the Royal Eight, this makes my job so much easier," he said looking at the guys.
"You're not going to lay a hand on them," Liz said.
"Who's going to stop me - you? Please Zara, sit down, you were the easiest to kill," Khivar said with a roll of his eyes.
"We're not going to let you hurt any of us, so you can just end your little fairy tale right now," Isabel said stepping in front of Khivar in a 'no BS stance.'
"Did I ever tell you how hot you look when you're mad?" Khivar taunted. "It's such a shame you're a Royal - you and I could have had so much fun."
"I'd never associate with scum like you," Isabel said turning away from him.
"What's the matter, Ava? You've been awfully quiet," Khivar said turning to Tess.
"I hate your guts," Tess said with disgust.
"You're not still mad about the way I killed you, are you? It wasn't that bad," he said with a smile.
"You burned me alive!!" Tess yelled.
"You burned her alive?!?!" Kyle yelled with anger.
"I never really liked her," Khivar said, as though it was a simple excuse. "She and Rayana, Maria to you, always messed up my plans to kill you guys - they both got what they deserved."
"We will kill you this time - you can count on that," Maria said staring at Khivar.
"I wouldn't be so sure of that. You may have succeeded in your past life when you and Rath were the most powerful beings on the planet, but here, on Earth, you don't stand a chance. Rath has barely tapped into his powers, and the power you have, although strong, won't be enough to stop me. I will win again, Rayana," he said before getting up and walking toward the door.
"Don't come back here," Liz said to him before producing fire from her hand and throwing it at Khivar. Khivar easily deflected it and sent a bolt of light to Liz, knocking her unto the floor and unconscious. Maria quickly produced a ball of light from her hands and threw it at Khivar, knocking him through the glass window and unto the pavement.
"This isn't over," Khivar said before shimmering and disappearing instantly.
"What the hell was that!?!" Alex yelled. Maria ignored him and went over to help Isabel and Tess who were trying to waken Liz.
"Is she okay?" she asked.
"I'm not sure, she's barely breathing," Tess replied in a calm voice.
"Do something!" Max yelled. "She could die!"
"Relax, Max," Maria said before putting her hand and Liz head and closing her eyes. A few seconds later she opened her eyes to see Liz already standing up and fixing her clothes.
"Are you okay," Max asked worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Liz replied.
"Good, now will someone please tell us what just happened?" Michael asked in a loud voice.
"It's a long story," Maria replied.
"Well we've got time, Blondie, so start explaining," he said.
"Fine," Maria said with a huff. "And don't ever call me Blondie again," she said before taking a seat.
"Well, as you've probably figured out, we're aliens. We were in the spaceship with you guys. We don't know how, but we somehow ended up hatching in some hidden cave in New York. When we hatched, Amy happened to be around the area and saw all four of us wondering around. She was able to adopt us and has been with us ever since. We have little memories of our life on Antar, our home planet, but we know that we were the rulers of the planet along with the four of you. Apparently, there was some war on Antar, and Khivar wanted us dead so that he could rule the planet. Unfortunately, we weren't as easy to defeat as he thought so he ended up killing many casualties in his quest to get us. That increased the violence and anger on between Antarians and Khivar and his followers. Somehow, Khivar succeeded in killing us, but our parents reincarnated us because we were their only chance at survival. Right now Antarians are basically waiting and hoping for us to somehow kill Khivar, because if he wins, it'll be the end of all of them and us."
"So you've been running from Khivar since the day you hatched?" Michael asked.
"Basically," Maria replied. "We thought we would be safe here, but obviously, we were wrong. Now we stupidly led him to you guys also."
"Don't worry about it, we'll get through this," Alex said.
"You don't know Khivar like we do," Isabel said. "He is ruthless and despicable. He will do anything to get rid of us - hell, he's nearly killed our mom countless times. If it weren't for our powers of healing, we'd all be dead by now."
"Well, it'll be harder for him now that there are eight of us," Max said.
"No it won't," Maria said. "No offence, but Khivar was right - you guys have barely tapped into your powers. The most you could probably do is blow up something, and that's only when you're in a bad mood. We have been harnessing our powers since we were hatched and we still haven't been able to defeat him."
"Maria's right," Tess said. "All four of your powers put together wouldn't even amount to Maria's powers, and Khivar will use that to his advantage."
"All you have to do is teach us how to tap into our powers," Kyle said.
"There's not enough time for that. For all we know, Khivar could have already planted an explosive in the restaurant, ready to blowup at any second," Isabel said. The room became silent as the truth of her statement sunk in.
"Don't worry, Khivar wouldn't kill us with a bomb," Maria said.
"Good," Alex said with a breath of relief.
"He'd torture us a little and then kill us with his bare hands," she added.
"You're not easing my fear," Kyle said.
"I know you're scared, but there is no time for this," Tess said. "We have to prepare for Khivar. His army is strong and determined. They're not afraid of death so empty threats won't scare them away. They are willing to fight till their last breath for Khivar and that could be enough to kill all eight of us, not to mention the adults."
"Wait, they have nothing to do with this. What could he possibly want with them?" Max asked with worry.
"Many things. He could use them as leverage to get us to turn ourselves in; he could kill them because they know our secret; hell, he could kill them for the twisted joy he gets out of inflicting pain on innocent people. Khivar doesn't need a reason," Liz said.
"So you're basically telling us that we're going to die," Michael said.
"No, we're telling you that if you don't start preparing now, you're going to die. We can take care of Khivar for a while so that you guys can improve your powers, but he's getting impatient and there's only so long before he finally succeeds in killing us," Maria replied.
"Just hold on!" Diane yelled. "You can't just come here and tell us that our children have to basically put their life on hold to fight a war that could or will kill them."
"They don't have a choice!" Maria exclaimed. "It is their job as a member of the Royal Eight."
"You don't understand," Nancy said. "They have family and people who love and care about them."
"And we don't?" Isabel asked, clearly offended. "Amy is the only family we've ever known and everyday we have to live with the fact she could die while trying to protect any one of us. We have had to make friends only to leave them less than a year later because we were running for our lives. How dare you stand there and make it seem like we chose to live this life!"
"What do you want us to think?" Susan Whitman asked. "You obviously don't try hard to hide your powers, judging by the little show that we just saw. Not only that, but you seem a little too happy to start to fight this war with that man and our children."
"What do you want us to do?!" Maria exclaimed. "We've been running from this man and his army all of our lives! You're damn right we're happy that we found the other four! We can finally end this thing and live the normal life that they've been living and taking for granted!"
"You have no idea what this means to us," Tess said turning to Michael, Max, Kyle, and Alex. "None of you do. All four of you lived normal lives with happily married adopted parents. You didn't have to wake up everyday and pray that you'd live to see another day. And you," she said turning to the adults. "You guys didn't have worry that every time you saw your children, might be the last time. You have no right to stand there and accuse us of anything. You know nothing about us."
"I know that you're leading my sons into their death, and I won't stand for it," Jim said.
"Fine, go ahead and deny them their birth right," Liz said.
"I don't think their birth right is death," Phillip said sarcastically.
"We don't need this," Maria said. "If you guys don't want to help us, that's fine. We'll fight Khivar with or without your help. Let's go," she said heading toward the door.
"Maria, wait!" Michael said finally speaking up.
"Forget it, Michael," Maria said. "You said all you had to say when you stayed quiet while your family insulted us. We've survived eighteen years without your help - we can survive now. Goodbye," she said. And with that, she, Isabel, Tess, Liz, and Amy left the restaurant leaving a room full of remorseful people.
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"What the hell is a Khivar?" Kyle asked.
"Not what, who," Khivar replied. "And I see that you four remember even less about your past lives than the girls do."
"What's he talking about?" Michael asked Maria.
"Allow me to explain," Khivar said in a smug voice. He walked over to the counter and took a seat on a booth.
"My name is Khivar, and I'm the soon-to-be ruler of Antar. You see, fifty years ago, my army and I declared war on Antar. We fought hard and finally we were able to kill every member of the Royal Eight, in other words, you," he said pointing the teenagers. "According to Antarian laws, if someone manages to kill the presiding officer or officers of the planet, that person can become king or queen. Normally, only three or four royalties run the planet, but for some reason, everyone thought all eight of you were special, so you all ran the planet as a team, with two of you as King and Queen. Anyway, as hard as it was, I managed to kill all eight of you, but then your idiotic parents decided to reincarnate all of you and send you down to Earth. Therefore, I still didn't get my rightful position in the royal house since you eight brats are still alive. However, I was able to track down four of you, and I've been trying for to kill them for over ten years."
"Is he telling the truth?" Max asked the girls.
"I have no reason to lie, Zan," Khivar said referring to Max's Antarian name.
"Get out, Khivar." Maria said.
"You never shut up, do you Rayana?" Khivar asked. "I'll still never get over the joy I felt at finally killing you all those years ago."
"It won't happen again," Maria said glaring at him.
"We'll see about that," he replied. "I must thank you, girls. You led me right to the other members of the Royal Eight, this makes my job so much easier," he said looking at the guys.
"You're not going to lay a hand on them," Liz said.
"Who's going to stop me - you? Please Zara, sit down, you were the easiest to kill," Khivar said with a roll of his eyes.
"We're not going to let you hurt any of us, so you can just end your little fairy tale right now," Isabel said stepping in front of Khivar in a 'no BS stance.'
"Did I ever tell you how hot you look when you're mad?" Khivar taunted. "It's such a shame you're a Royal - you and I could have had so much fun."
"I'd never associate with scum like you," Isabel said turning away from him.
"What's the matter, Ava? You've been awfully quiet," Khivar said turning to Tess.
"I hate your guts," Tess said with disgust.
"You're not still mad about the way I killed you, are you? It wasn't that bad," he said with a smile.
"You burned me alive!!" Tess yelled.
"You burned her alive?!?!" Kyle yelled with anger.
"I never really liked her," Khivar said, as though it was a simple excuse. "She and Rayana, Maria to you, always messed up my plans to kill you guys - they both got what they deserved."
"We will kill you this time - you can count on that," Maria said staring at Khivar.
"I wouldn't be so sure of that. You may have succeeded in your past life when you and Rath were the most powerful beings on the planet, but here, on Earth, you don't stand a chance. Rath has barely tapped into his powers, and the power you have, although strong, won't be enough to stop me. I will win again, Rayana," he said before getting up and walking toward the door.
"Don't come back here," Liz said to him before producing fire from her hand and throwing it at Khivar. Khivar easily deflected it and sent a bolt of light to Liz, knocking her unto the floor and unconscious. Maria quickly produced a ball of light from her hands and threw it at Khivar, knocking him through the glass window and unto the pavement.
"This isn't over," Khivar said before shimmering and disappearing instantly.
"What the hell was that!?!" Alex yelled. Maria ignored him and went over to help Isabel and Tess who were trying to waken Liz.
"Is she okay?" she asked.
"I'm not sure, she's barely breathing," Tess replied in a calm voice.
"Do something!" Max yelled. "She could die!"
"Relax, Max," Maria said before putting her hand and Liz head and closing her eyes. A few seconds later she opened her eyes to see Liz already standing up and fixing her clothes.
"Are you okay," Max asked worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Liz replied.
"Good, now will someone please tell us what just happened?" Michael asked in a loud voice.
"It's a long story," Maria replied.
"Well we've got time, Blondie, so start explaining," he said.
"Fine," Maria said with a huff. "And don't ever call me Blondie again," she said before taking a seat.
"Well, as you've probably figured out, we're aliens. We were in the spaceship with you guys. We don't know how, but we somehow ended up hatching in some hidden cave in New York. When we hatched, Amy happened to be around the area and saw all four of us wondering around. She was able to adopt us and has been with us ever since. We have little memories of our life on Antar, our home planet, but we know that we were the rulers of the planet along with the four of you. Apparently, there was some war on Antar, and Khivar wanted us dead so that he could rule the planet. Unfortunately, we weren't as easy to defeat as he thought so he ended up killing many casualties in his quest to get us. That increased the violence and anger on between Antarians and Khivar and his followers. Somehow, Khivar succeeded in killing us, but our parents reincarnated us because we were their only chance at survival. Right now Antarians are basically waiting and hoping for us to somehow kill Khivar, because if he wins, it'll be the end of all of them and us."
"So you've been running from Khivar since the day you hatched?" Michael asked.
"Basically," Maria replied. "We thought we would be safe here, but obviously, we were wrong. Now we stupidly led him to you guys also."
"Don't worry about it, we'll get through this," Alex said.
"You don't know Khivar like we do," Isabel said. "He is ruthless and despicable. He will do anything to get rid of us - hell, he's nearly killed our mom countless times. If it weren't for our powers of healing, we'd all be dead by now."
"Well, it'll be harder for him now that there are eight of us," Max said.
"No it won't," Maria said. "No offence, but Khivar was right - you guys have barely tapped into your powers. The most you could probably do is blow up something, and that's only when you're in a bad mood. We have been harnessing our powers since we were hatched and we still haven't been able to defeat him."
"Maria's right," Tess said. "All four of your powers put together wouldn't even amount to Maria's powers, and Khivar will use that to his advantage."
"All you have to do is teach us how to tap into our powers," Kyle said.
"There's not enough time for that. For all we know, Khivar could have already planted an explosive in the restaurant, ready to blowup at any second," Isabel said. The room became silent as the truth of her statement sunk in.
"Don't worry, Khivar wouldn't kill us with a bomb," Maria said.
"Good," Alex said with a breath of relief.
"He'd torture us a little and then kill us with his bare hands," she added.
"You're not easing my fear," Kyle said.
"I know you're scared, but there is no time for this," Tess said. "We have to prepare for Khivar. His army is strong and determined. They're not afraid of death so empty threats won't scare them away. They are willing to fight till their last breath for Khivar and that could be enough to kill all eight of us, not to mention the adults."
"Wait, they have nothing to do with this. What could he possibly want with them?" Max asked with worry.
"Many things. He could use them as leverage to get us to turn ourselves in; he could kill them because they know our secret; hell, he could kill them for the twisted joy he gets out of inflicting pain on innocent people. Khivar doesn't need a reason," Liz said.
"So you're basically telling us that we're going to die," Michael said.
"No, we're telling you that if you don't start preparing now, you're going to die. We can take care of Khivar for a while so that you guys can improve your powers, but he's getting impatient and there's only so long before he finally succeeds in killing us," Maria replied.
"Just hold on!" Diane yelled. "You can't just come here and tell us that our children have to basically put their life on hold to fight a war that could or will kill them."
"They don't have a choice!" Maria exclaimed. "It is their job as a member of the Royal Eight."
"You don't understand," Nancy said. "They have family and people who love and care about them."
"And we don't?" Isabel asked, clearly offended. "Amy is the only family we've ever known and everyday we have to live with the fact she could die while trying to protect any one of us. We have had to make friends only to leave them less than a year later because we were running for our lives. How dare you stand there and make it seem like we chose to live this life!"
"What do you want us to think?" Susan Whitman asked. "You obviously don't try hard to hide your powers, judging by the little show that we just saw. Not only that, but you seem a little too happy to start to fight this war with that man and our children."
"What do you want us to do?!" Maria exclaimed. "We've been running from this man and his army all of our lives! You're damn right we're happy that we found the other four! We can finally end this thing and live the normal life that they've been living and taking for granted!"
"You have no idea what this means to us," Tess said turning to Michael, Max, Kyle, and Alex. "None of you do. All four of you lived normal lives with happily married adopted parents. You didn't have to wake up everyday and pray that you'd live to see another day. And you," she said turning to the adults. "You guys didn't have worry that every time you saw your children, might be the last time. You have no right to stand there and accuse us of anything. You know nothing about us."
"I know that you're leading my sons into their death, and I won't stand for it," Jim said.
"Fine, go ahead and deny them their birth right," Liz said.
"I don't think their birth right is death," Phillip said sarcastically.
"We don't need this," Maria said. "If you guys don't want to help us, that's fine. We'll fight Khivar with or without your help. Let's go," she said heading toward the door.
"Maria, wait!" Michael said finally speaking up.
"Forget it, Michael," Maria said. "You said all you had to say when you stayed quiet while your family insulted us. We've survived eighteen years without your help - we can survive now. Goodbye," she said. And with that, she, Isabel, Tess, Liz, and Amy left the restaurant leaving a room full of remorseful people.
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