Discovering Yourself
Chapter 6
'The 3rd one has been found. 2 boys, 1 girl. I am going to the cave to see if I can find the 4th one. The evil one.'
'Ok this is really freaky.' Liz thought, thinking maybe she'd become so hysterical that she was imagining things. She flipped a couple pages forward
'When I got to the cave the 4th was gone. I'm assuming it was Nasedo, my brother, who got to her first, he is her father after all. I just wish I could've gotten to my son before he was thrown into the system. I think, yes that's right, his name is Michael.'
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At this Liz closed the book hard and her mind was running a million miles a minute.
"What the hell? What is going on here? My mom? Michael? How the hell could Michael be my mother's son? And Tess? Nasedo's daughter? Nasedo, my mom's brother? Tess, my cousin?" Liz opened the same book, this time closer to the end and read:
'It's my baby girls 7th birthday. She looks just like she did before. She doesn't know anything. I want to tell her, but I can't. I want her to have a normal life. She shouldn't have to deal with this kind of thing. Being different on this planet could get her killed. But she is already showing signs of powers and Jeff and I are trying to develop ways to keep them at bay. I am so blessed to have been given a second chance. My baby's birth was such a surprise. Jeff and I didn't even do anything yet. But one day, I just realized I was pregnant. I guess it was what had been planned. Since her brother was her twin in her other life, they must have programmed me to become pregnant so they would be the same age when her brother hatched. I still wish I could've given birth to him as well, but in that other he had died and was put into a pod before we even knew there was a way for our children to be reborn to us in a knew life. So now it's just a matter of getting him to trust me. He never took well to trusting new people. I just hope that he will remember me.' Again Liz closed the book, trying to digest what she had just read.
"Ok, so what I'm reading is that my mother and father are aliens and Michael is my brother. This has got to be some kind of joke." Liz said trying to laugh but it only came out as a choked cough.
"I'm an alien? How can that be?" Liz sat there; repeating it like it was her mantra. "I am an Alien. I am an Alien." But it never really sunk in. So she decided to read some more of the journals. She read every one of them front to cover. In one of the journals one entry struck her as extremely important, so she paid extra attention while reading it. It was about Tess.
'She has arrived. I don't know it the others know about her yet. I've noticed Liz is spending lots of time with Zan, oh or Max as he is called now. And Rath, or Michael and Vilandra, Zan's sister, Isabel she is called here. I suppose since Ava is has arrived Nasedo is here as well. Which can't be good. I just hope things are different. But I highly doubt it. I hope they figure out that Nasedo and Ava are evil. In their past life they were working with Kivar. They had planned to kill Zan, Vilandra and Rath. Then Kivar and Ava would marry and rule together. But this went wrong. On the day they all died, Ava was caught in the crossfire and was shot down along with the rest of the royal four. When I found out, I went straight to Eleez, my daughter, but I found her dead. Murdered at the hand of Ava.
'Her and Zan were to be married until Ava's father, Nasedo, convinced the king to let his daughter marry Zan. He did so by changing his form to an older looking Zan and going to the king saying that if Zan and Eleez were to marry it would bring about the end of the world.'
"Oh my god, It was Nasedo. But I thought he died. Maybe it was someone working with Nasedo, or Tess and her mind warp." Liz concluding. Her hatred for the girl growing deeper with every passing moment. Liz continued to read:
'But what the king didn't know is that if Zan had married Eleez, the world would have been a happy peaceful place. But marrying Ava caused destruction and destroyed that world. I just hope that they don't try the same trick this time. I suppose I'm going to have to tell Lizzie about her heritage soon because I'm sure she already knows about Max, Michael and Isabel, because of the whole shooting back in September. Because if she doesn't know how to use her powers by the time the world is attacked by our enemies we well lose.'
Liz closed the book and sat there dumb founded. "Tess is evil. It was her. She convinced me to make Max fall out of love with me. I have to show there to everyone. They need to know the truth. About everything. I just have to make sure Tess doesn't find out." Liz was furious with Tess for doing this to her.
"She ruined my life before. She will not get away with it again. I am going to learn how to use my powers and she is going to pay.' Liz was so angry that she could literally feel the energy bubbling inside of her. She lifted her arm and concentrated on turning a page in the journal. It took about 2 minutes of concentration, but after she had began to sweat, she succeeded. She looked at her hand then the book in amazement.
"Oh, My god!" Liz stood up quickly and took all of the journals and put them in her room. Then she went to the phone and called everyone and told him or her to come over to her house right away, and to not tell Tess. She said it was urgent.
When everyone was in her room, she announced, "I have something extremely important to tell all of you." Liz raised her hand and concentrated really hard, and eventually after everyone started giving really weird looks she waved her hand over her shirt and it changed colours from blue to red. To say that everyone was surprised would be a complete understatement.
"How the hell did you do that?" Michael bellowed.
"I am an Alien." Liz replied flatly.
"WHAT!?!" Maria screamed.
"How is that even possible?" Isabel asked softly.
"It's kind on confusing. I have something for you to read. I was look through my parents room when I stumbled upon about 10 journals that belonged to my mom. I started reading them and well, you need to read some of the entries." Liz opened the first one and everyone read it. She them let them read the other entries she had read that had really intrigued her. The first to break to silence was Michael.
"Twins?" Michael asked look Liz straight in the eyes. "You're my sister? And Tess is our cousin?"
"Yeah, I just found out myself. You're my brother. Wow it's really weird to actually say. Michael is my brother." Liz spoke the last part softly.
Just as Max was about to say something, Liz cut him off.
"Max just let me finish ok. If you haven't figured it out yet, do you remember how I told you about Future Max? Well it wasn't real, it was Tess." Liz stated firmly.
"God, I can't believe it. I knew I had a legitimate reason to hate her." Maria growled out angrily.
"Oh this is just great. What the hell am I supposed to do? I have to live with her." Kyle cried out.
"I'm sorry Kyle, but you're going to have to pretend like everything is normal." Liz said apologetically.
"Great." Kyle mumbled.
"Liz, how could you do that to your shirt if you just found out yourself?" Max asked. He was ecstatic and horribly terrified by all the things he had just found out.
"When I read the thing about Ava and Nasedo I was so angry. I could feel this energy bubbling inside of me. Now that I think about it, whenever I feel really strong emotions I feel this energy inside me but I never really paid attention to it. Anyways, I guess I just thought that maybe if I tried something would happen. So after concentrating really hard for a while I was finally able to turn a page of one of the journals. I've been practicing ever since. It takes a while still but eventually I can get it." Liz finished proudly.
"Wow, I just... can't believe it. You, this whole thing. It's just so amazing." Max said more to himself, but everyone heard.
"Max, I mean what I said this morning. I can't rush anything. This doesn't change anything between us." Liz said holding his gaze.
"I know Liz, and I'm not trying to push you. I just, it's amazing." He finished solemnly.
"Oh Max, that enough of you have sexual thoughts about my sister, we have to come up with a plan of action." Max and Liz were both blushing furiously at what Michael said.
"Michael, you're not gonna go all big brother on Liz now are you?" Maria asked, shooting Liz an apologetic smile.
"Look, she's the only blood related family I've ever known and she's been right under my nose for a year now. I just don't like my best friend thinking those kinds of thoughts about her, you know? And Max, I swear if you ever do anything to hurt her, I'll kill you." Everyone was surprised by his behaviour. Max was just smirking. Liz walked over to Michael and hugged him tightly.
"Thank you Michael. And Maria, Ditto." Liz said with a spark in her eyes. Everyone laughed at the thought of Liz having to protect Michael from Maria. Michael just leaned over and whispered in Liz's ear, "Thanks, I might need to take you up on that one day." She laughed at that and pulled back to look at everyone.
"So, what do we do about Tess?"
"Well, I guess we act normal for now and don't let her know about Liz or that we know about her." Max said seriously.
"I think she might attempt something with Liz, you know, because Max walked out on her for Liz." Isabel said a little scared for the newfound member of the "I'm an Alien club."
"Well I think we should help her work at her powers, so she can protect herself. We could work at my place. What do you say Liz?" Michael asked. "I'd love that. Can we start soon, I'm really anxious about learning my powers." Liz said excitedly.
"Hey Liz, we should finish with the house before you start that. You know so me and mom can move in."
"Right, ok so Michael I guess I'll come by later tonight. I'd just like to spend some time alone with him. Is that ok with everyone?"
"Yes," "Yeah" and a bunch of nods were her response.
"Ok, thanks. You guys can leave now." She said.
Everyone walked out of Liz's room. Max turned back and looked at Liz before leaving. Liz and Maria finished going through everything after about 2 hours, they had moved things down into the storage room in the back of the Crashdown.
"Knock, knock. Liz, Maria, are you guys here?" Amy called walking in the door.
"We're in my new room." Maria called. Amy walked over to the entrance. "So, how are things going?"
"They're fine," Liz said. "Amy, do you want your own bed or do you want my parents bed?"
"Well, I don't know. It would be nice to have a new bed. I think I'll go test it out."
"Yeah sure." Liz answered.
Maria stood up and walked into her mother's new room. "Hey mom, it's still early, should we start to move our stuff? Liz needs to go to speak with a friend." Maria asked her mother.
"Sure, ask Liz if she wants a ride."
"I'd rather walk Amy, thanks though." Liz said coming up behind Maria.
"Ok, we'll see you later Liz." Amy and Maria left and Liz went to put her jacket and shoes on and she too left.
Chapter 6
'The 3rd one has been found. 2 boys, 1 girl. I am going to the cave to see if I can find the 4th one. The evil one.'
'Ok this is really freaky.' Liz thought, thinking maybe she'd become so hysterical that she was imagining things. She flipped a couple pages forward
'When I got to the cave the 4th was gone. I'm assuming it was Nasedo, my brother, who got to her first, he is her father after all. I just wish I could've gotten to my son before he was thrown into the system. I think, yes that's right, his name is Michael.'
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At this Liz closed the book hard and her mind was running a million miles a minute.
"What the hell? What is going on here? My mom? Michael? How the hell could Michael be my mother's son? And Tess? Nasedo's daughter? Nasedo, my mom's brother? Tess, my cousin?" Liz opened the same book, this time closer to the end and read:
'It's my baby girls 7th birthday. She looks just like she did before. She doesn't know anything. I want to tell her, but I can't. I want her to have a normal life. She shouldn't have to deal with this kind of thing. Being different on this planet could get her killed. But she is already showing signs of powers and Jeff and I are trying to develop ways to keep them at bay. I am so blessed to have been given a second chance. My baby's birth was such a surprise. Jeff and I didn't even do anything yet. But one day, I just realized I was pregnant. I guess it was what had been planned. Since her brother was her twin in her other life, they must have programmed me to become pregnant so they would be the same age when her brother hatched. I still wish I could've given birth to him as well, but in that other he had died and was put into a pod before we even knew there was a way for our children to be reborn to us in a knew life. So now it's just a matter of getting him to trust me. He never took well to trusting new people. I just hope that he will remember me.' Again Liz closed the book, trying to digest what she had just read.
"Ok, so what I'm reading is that my mother and father are aliens and Michael is my brother. This has got to be some kind of joke." Liz said trying to laugh but it only came out as a choked cough.
"I'm an alien? How can that be?" Liz sat there; repeating it like it was her mantra. "I am an Alien. I am an Alien." But it never really sunk in. So she decided to read some more of the journals. She read every one of them front to cover. In one of the journals one entry struck her as extremely important, so she paid extra attention while reading it. It was about Tess.
'She has arrived. I don't know it the others know about her yet. I've noticed Liz is spending lots of time with Zan, oh or Max as he is called now. And Rath, or Michael and Vilandra, Zan's sister, Isabel she is called here. I suppose since Ava is has arrived Nasedo is here as well. Which can't be good. I just hope things are different. But I highly doubt it. I hope they figure out that Nasedo and Ava are evil. In their past life they were working with Kivar. They had planned to kill Zan, Vilandra and Rath. Then Kivar and Ava would marry and rule together. But this went wrong. On the day they all died, Ava was caught in the crossfire and was shot down along with the rest of the royal four. When I found out, I went straight to Eleez, my daughter, but I found her dead. Murdered at the hand of Ava.
'Her and Zan were to be married until Ava's father, Nasedo, convinced the king to let his daughter marry Zan. He did so by changing his form to an older looking Zan and going to the king saying that if Zan and Eleez were to marry it would bring about the end of the world.'
"Oh my god, It was Nasedo. But I thought he died. Maybe it was someone working with Nasedo, or Tess and her mind warp." Liz concluding. Her hatred for the girl growing deeper with every passing moment. Liz continued to read:
'But what the king didn't know is that if Zan had married Eleez, the world would have been a happy peaceful place. But marrying Ava caused destruction and destroyed that world. I just hope that they don't try the same trick this time. I suppose I'm going to have to tell Lizzie about her heritage soon because I'm sure she already knows about Max, Michael and Isabel, because of the whole shooting back in September. Because if she doesn't know how to use her powers by the time the world is attacked by our enemies we well lose.'
Liz closed the book and sat there dumb founded. "Tess is evil. It was her. She convinced me to make Max fall out of love with me. I have to show there to everyone. They need to know the truth. About everything. I just have to make sure Tess doesn't find out." Liz was furious with Tess for doing this to her.
"She ruined my life before. She will not get away with it again. I am going to learn how to use my powers and she is going to pay.' Liz was so angry that she could literally feel the energy bubbling inside of her. She lifted her arm and concentrated on turning a page in the journal. It took about 2 minutes of concentration, but after she had began to sweat, she succeeded. She looked at her hand then the book in amazement.
"Oh, My god!" Liz stood up quickly and took all of the journals and put them in her room. Then she went to the phone and called everyone and told him or her to come over to her house right away, and to not tell Tess. She said it was urgent.
When everyone was in her room, she announced, "I have something extremely important to tell all of you." Liz raised her hand and concentrated really hard, and eventually after everyone started giving really weird looks she waved her hand over her shirt and it changed colours from blue to red. To say that everyone was surprised would be a complete understatement.
"How the hell did you do that?" Michael bellowed.
"I am an Alien." Liz replied flatly.
"WHAT!?!" Maria screamed.
"How is that even possible?" Isabel asked softly.
"It's kind on confusing. I have something for you to read. I was look through my parents room when I stumbled upon about 10 journals that belonged to my mom. I started reading them and well, you need to read some of the entries." Liz opened the first one and everyone read it. She them let them read the other entries she had read that had really intrigued her. The first to break to silence was Michael.
"Twins?" Michael asked look Liz straight in the eyes. "You're my sister? And Tess is our cousin?"
"Yeah, I just found out myself. You're my brother. Wow it's really weird to actually say. Michael is my brother." Liz spoke the last part softly.
Just as Max was about to say something, Liz cut him off.
"Max just let me finish ok. If you haven't figured it out yet, do you remember how I told you about Future Max? Well it wasn't real, it was Tess." Liz stated firmly.
"God, I can't believe it. I knew I had a legitimate reason to hate her." Maria growled out angrily.
"Oh this is just great. What the hell am I supposed to do? I have to live with her." Kyle cried out.
"I'm sorry Kyle, but you're going to have to pretend like everything is normal." Liz said apologetically.
"Great." Kyle mumbled.
"Liz, how could you do that to your shirt if you just found out yourself?" Max asked. He was ecstatic and horribly terrified by all the things he had just found out.
"When I read the thing about Ava and Nasedo I was so angry. I could feel this energy bubbling inside of me. Now that I think about it, whenever I feel really strong emotions I feel this energy inside me but I never really paid attention to it. Anyways, I guess I just thought that maybe if I tried something would happen. So after concentrating really hard for a while I was finally able to turn a page of one of the journals. I've been practicing ever since. It takes a while still but eventually I can get it." Liz finished proudly.
"Wow, I just... can't believe it. You, this whole thing. It's just so amazing." Max said more to himself, but everyone heard.
"Max, I mean what I said this morning. I can't rush anything. This doesn't change anything between us." Liz said holding his gaze.
"I know Liz, and I'm not trying to push you. I just, it's amazing." He finished solemnly.
"Oh Max, that enough of you have sexual thoughts about my sister, we have to come up with a plan of action." Max and Liz were both blushing furiously at what Michael said.
"Michael, you're not gonna go all big brother on Liz now are you?" Maria asked, shooting Liz an apologetic smile.
"Look, she's the only blood related family I've ever known and she's been right under my nose for a year now. I just don't like my best friend thinking those kinds of thoughts about her, you know? And Max, I swear if you ever do anything to hurt her, I'll kill you." Everyone was surprised by his behaviour. Max was just smirking. Liz walked over to Michael and hugged him tightly.
"Thank you Michael. And Maria, Ditto." Liz said with a spark in her eyes. Everyone laughed at the thought of Liz having to protect Michael from Maria. Michael just leaned over and whispered in Liz's ear, "Thanks, I might need to take you up on that one day." She laughed at that and pulled back to look at everyone.
"So, what do we do about Tess?"
"Well, I guess we act normal for now and don't let her know about Liz or that we know about her." Max said seriously.
"I think she might attempt something with Liz, you know, because Max walked out on her for Liz." Isabel said a little scared for the newfound member of the "I'm an Alien club."
"Well I think we should help her work at her powers, so she can protect herself. We could work at my place. What do you say Liz?" Michael asked. "I'd love that. Can we start soon, I'm really anxious about learning my powers." Liz said excitedly.
"Hey Liz, we should finish with the house before you start that. You know so me and mom can move in."
"Right, ok so Michael I guess I'll come by later tonight. I'd just like to spend some time alone with him. Is that ok with everyone?"
"Yes," "Yeah" and a bunch of nods were her response.
"Ok, thanks. You guys can leave now." She said.
Everyone walked out of Liz's room. Max turned back and looked at Liz before leaving. Liz and Maria finished going through everything after about 2 hours, they had moved things down into the storage room in the back of the Crashdown.
"Knock, knock. Liz, Maria, are you guys here?" Amy called walking in the door.
"We're in my new room." Maria called. Amy walked over to the entrance. "So, how are things going?"
"They're fine," Liz said. "Amy, do you want your own bed or do you want my parents bed?"
"Well, I don't know. It would be nice to have a new bed. I think I'll go test it out."
"Yeah sure." Liz answered.
Maria stood up and walked into her mother's new room. "Hey mom, it's still early, should we start to move our stuff? Liz needs to go to speak with a friend." Maria asked her mother.
"Sure, ask Liz if she wants a ride."
"I'd rather walk Amy, thanks though." Liz said coming up behind Maria.
"Ok, we'll see you later Liz." Amy and Maria left and Liz went to put her jacket and shoes on and she too left.