I got an idea for something that I don't know if you readers would find
cool or not.........still pondering.......but I'll give it a shot in this
chapter.
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Losing The Grip of The Rules
Through the first day of their journey, the RTR had passed all of the communities.
It was morning and they were all hidden in the same bushes that Jonas and Gabriel had hid in three years ago. Everyone except one RTR member was asleep, this member was to keep watch for one hour then it would someone else's turn.
Fiona was the watcher now. She wrapped herself in a blanket that her brother Bruno had given her.
Her eyes traveled to every sleeping form. She was quite surprised to see such young faces learning things even adults never understood, and keeping it quiet.
When she was a three she told anyone she'd meet whatever she learned, that is until she got chastised for bragging.
Then her eyes stopped at Jonas and Asher who were both snuggled together in deep sleep. She frowned, guilty that she had reported them to their parents. They wouldn't have been punished if she had just kept her mouth shut.
'No........reporting them because they broke the rules was not the reason I did it.........but what was it? Jealousy?' thought Fiona still staring at the sleeping forms of her two friends.
She smiled slightly when Asher held Jonas closer to him. She realized now that they really did love each other, it wasn't just mindless curiosity that she was trying to convince herself as the reason. They really loved each other.
She sat up straight when she realized something dawning upon her. "Oh no," she whispered as she checked her pockets frantically, "no, no, no........I forgot my pills!"
* * *
The community was in a disaster; they were starting to receive a few memories now that Jonas left.
They couldn't bring him back either because the power in the entire community was stolen into the now destroyed machines they found in the park, it would be a while before they could restore the power back.
They knew things would get worse because the memories were getting in the way of their very clear minds.
The Giver was busy everyday, helping everyone in the community, giving them advice and stuff, but after a while everyone besides him will soon realize that he would have to be released. He was getting old; he would have to be ready to go to Elsewhere sometime very soon.
* * * * * * * * * *
Jonas and the other RTR members were all awake and having a small snack before setting off again. A few days had passed and they were already at the forest part of the journey. No plane had come yet because of the power they cut off, but they knew that the planes would eventually come.
"Jonas, Asher......why do you love each other?" asked Fiona nervously. Jonas and Asher were about to put away their food. They looked at Fiona surprised.
"I can't really explain it, we love each other because we've known each other for a long time, but the reason that we LOVE each other is just something that happened, there's really no answer for it," shrugged Asher
"I don't understand......there's no reason to love?"
"No, there's always a reason to love, but for us it just happened, we got attracted to each other, either that or it's just hormones," laughed Jonas.
Fiona sighed, 'I'm never gonna understand this LOVE thing.'
"Is that a deer, the type of animal that you've shown us in one of our lessons Jonas?" said Brad pointing towards a deer who was a few yards away looking at the RTR group calmly. The RTR looked at it fascinated.
"Yes that's a deer, don't get too close you might scare it away," said Jonas as Brad was about to walk towards the deer.
"It's beautiful," breathed Fiona, mesmerized.
"We'd better get going if we don't want any planes coming anytime soon," said Lily who was having a hard time herself to look away.
They rode their bikes looking at a few animals with fascination. They never saw the real thing, just pictures of them, that's why they were so spellbound to see the real thing.
Tom froze and grabbed Suzanne's arm. "Do you hear that?" he whispered. Everyone stood still and looked at Tom. Suzanne listened quietly but shook her head, "it's a plane," said Tom in a hushed voice.
The RTR members squealed and started to hide behind trees and bushes. Jonas looked up at the sky. Where is it?
The forest was suddenly in a shower of fast tiny needles, hitting everything and getting a fox, she collapse and started to wail in pain.
'They're shooting us?' thought Jonas in horror, he grabbed Asher's wrist and pulled him behind a bush where he saw a few fives hide-
"Oh my god," said Asher shakily. Jonas looked at the hiding RTR members and found it hard to breathe.
Adrian had two needles in his left arm, he was breathing hard, Anna quickly took out the needles and threw them away, her face pale in horror.
"Oh shit!" shouted Lily, Jonas looked around and saw Lily behind a tree holding her leg tightly, there were four needles sticking out. She ripped them off and collapsed breathing hard.
The firing stopped, there was a pause, and then Tom shouted from somewhere behind a rock, "IT'S GONE!"
The RTR members nervously got out of their hiding spots and gasped when they saw that nearly half of the members were injured.
"HOLY SHIT!!!!" shouted Bruno, several heads shot towards him. They never heard a three curse, and it was very rare that he even spoke a word.
"What's wrong?" said Fiona running to her little brother.
She gasped.
Bruno's hands were glowing brightly for a fraction of a second. His injured neck released all of the venom that the needle released and it healed instantly.
"What just happened?" said Samantha shakily.
For some apparent reason Bruno ran to the injured children, pulled out the needles and touched the injected spot, the same thing that happened to his neck happened to the children's injured spot.
Everyone watched in shock as Bruno went from next injured child to next injured child, healing him or her by just touching his or her injected spots.
After everyone was healed, Bruno looked at his hands in shock.
"How did you do that?" whispered Brad.
"I-I don't know, something made me do it........like I knew I could heal you all."
"Tom," said Suzanne shakily, "how did you hear that plane when we all couldn't?"
* * *
"Chief Elder ma'am," said the Assistant Chief Elder walking inside the office of the Chief Elder, a sheaf of paper in his hands.
"Have you received news from the pilot?" asked the Chief Elder.
"Not yet, she's on her way back. We found information concerning the escaped children and about their birthmothers."
"What is it?"
"All of their birthmothers were released just after they started to do their laboring jobs."
"What?"
"They each showed signs of something we've never seen before. The birthmother of Lily, Lori, and Adam showed vague signs of very sensitive senses, she could sometimes sense a person a mile away."
"The birthmother was released because she constantly broke the rules, correct?"
"Yes. The birthmother of Phillipa, Anna, and Daniela showed a few signs of very high intelligence. She was released for.....well....she uh-"
"Yes I know why she was released but what does this have to do with the escaped children?"
"There's a connection to this. The birthmothers of the escaped children have shown signs of something we've never understood, they were released for strange reasons that are well against the law, and now their children are running to Elsewhere? Why?"
The Chief Elder suddenly realized this but couldn't think of an answer.
"Have the children shown signs similar to their birthmothers?"
"Well Jonas has already shown signs of seeing beyond like his birthmother-"
"I apologize for interrupting, but why wasn't SHE a receiver then?"
"She didn't show any other signs besides seeing beyond, she was released because she didn't produce anymore children but as you know that rule has been deleted from the-"
"Yes, yes, continue!"
"Well-"
The door opened and a small skinny young woman walked in hurriedly. "I apologize for interrupting but we've received news from the pilot."
"Which is?" said the Chief Elder.
"She said that the children have somehow heard her silent jet and hid, she got quite a few children hit with the needles but some type of force pushed her back here before she could even bring the children back here."
"A force?" the Chief Elder turned sharply to the assistant who quickly looked through his notes.
"The birthmother of Samantha, James, and Emily showed signs of levitating things with her mind. Samantha's the only one that's escaped from that bloodline, it must have been her that pushed the pilot back to us."
"And what about the children hearing the silent jet coming?"
The assistant Chief Elder shuffled through his notes again. "Um.....the birthmother of Tom, Suzanne, and Katharine showed three different signs, one is to see beyond, Katharine has the sign, she's one of the candidates to be a receiver of memories, the birthmother's also showed signs of having very sensitive hearing and levitation of her own body."
"So Suzanne and Tom have signs of-"
The assistant gasped as he read one of he notes. "The needles won't work.......even if the children were hit with them they would be healed by Bruno."
"Who's the birthmother and who are the other two blood related children to Bruno?"
"The name of the birthmother I couldn't get, but she was quite a good healer, the other two children of hers are Toni, and Daniel."
"Daniel was released.......Toni's the only one here. Any other children and birthmothers with these signs?"
"Yes, The birthmother of the newchild named Gabriel from three years ago, the twins born in the same year as he was and Ben has showed signs of......well I don't know how to explain it but I asked the receiver about it and he said it was angelic powers, I don't understand much of it but the attitude of the birthmother was gentle, calm, and pleasant, and she had two voices, one that was normal and another that's quite different, but very pleasant."
The Chief Elder blinked. "And?"
"Well, the other signs are of gracefulness and quite a lot of luck. The twin that was not released three years ago was named Brad."
"So the three are gone to Elsewhere."
"Yes."
"But I still don't understand these sign things, how is it that they showed the signs but we don't?"
"Because they were all from a different community, and that community was shut down because of a chemical explosion. Everyone died except for that handful that came here......so those chemicals somehow changed their DNA and genes and somehow......evolved their bodies to do something the ordinary human body couldn't do."
The Chief Elder and lady who came in a few minutes ago blinked blankly. "And that would mean?" said the Chief Elder.
"Well for example, flying, our bodies can't do that, but an evolved body possibly can."
"What were the scientists at that community experimenting?"
"They were experimenting on genetics and how the chemicals can change it.....a scientist-in-training had mistakenly used one of the chemicals in his test and mixed it in with his own mixture causing an explosion and a strange radiation to spread the community, those babies that survived were able to get their genes or DNA to accept the chemicals that entered their bodies."
"Urgh.....this answers EVERYTHING," said the Chief Elder sarcastically as she collapsed onto her chair.
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Very informative chapter........I just realized that this DNA gene thing sort of fits with X-men.....why do I always copy!!!!???? REVIEW IF YOU DON'T WANT ME TO KEEP UP MY RANTING!!
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Losing The Grip of The Rules
Through the first day of their journey, the RTR had passed all of the communities.
It was morning and they were all hidden in the same bushes that Jonas and Gabriel had hid in three years ago. Everyone except one RTR member was asleep, this member was to keep watch for one hour then it would someone else's turn.
Fiona was the watcher now. She wrapped herself in a blanket that her brother Bruno had given her.
Her eyes traveled to every sleeping form. She was quite surprised to see such young faces learning things even adults never understood, and keeping it quiet.
When she was a three she told anyone she'd meet whatever she learned, that is until she got chastised for bragging.
Then her eyes stopped at Jonas and Asher who were both snuggled together in deep sleep. She frowned, guilty that she had reported them to their parents. They wouldn't have been punished if she had just kept her mouth shut.
'No........reporting them because they broke the rules was not the reason I did it.........but what was it? Jealousy?' thought Fiona still staring at the sleeping forms of her two friends.
She smiled slightly when Asher held Jonas closer to him. She realized now that they really did love each other, it wasn't just mindless curiosity that she was trying to convince herself as the reason. They really loved each other.
She sat up straight when she realized something dawning upon her. "Oh no," she whispered as she checked her pockets frantically, "no, no, no........I forgot my pills!"
* * *
The community was in a disaster; they were starting to receive a few memories now that Jonas left.
They couldn't bring him back either because the power in the entire community was stolen into the now destroyed machines they found in the park, it would be a while before they could restore the power back.
They knew things would get worse because the memories were getting in the way of their very clear minds.
The Giver was busy everyday, helping everyone in the community, giving them advice and stuff, but after a while everyone besides him will soon realize that he would have to be released. He was getting old; he would have to be ready to go to Elsewhere sometime very soon.
* * * * * * * * * *
Jonas and the other RTR members were all awake and having a small snack before setting off again. A few days had passed and they were already at the forest part of the journey. No plane had come yet because of the power they cut off, but they knew that the planes would eventually come.
"Jonas, Asher......why do you love each other?" asked Fiona nervously. Jonas and Asher were about to put away their food. They looked at Fiona surprised.
"I can't really explain it, we love each other because we've known each other for a long time, but the reason that we LOVE each other is just something that happened, there's really no answer for it," shrugged Asher
"I don't understand......there's no reason to love?"
"No, there's always a reason to love, but for us it just happened, we got attracted to each other, either that or it's just hormones," laughed Jonas.
Fiona sighed, 'I'm never gonna understand this LOVE thing.'
"Is that a deer, the type of animal that you've shown us in one of our lessons Jonas?" said Brad pointing towards a deer who was a few yards away looking at the RTR group calmly. The RTR looked at it fascinated.
"Yes that's a deer, don't get too close you might scare it away," said Jonas as Brad was about to walk towards the deer.
"It's beautiful," breathed Fiona, mesmerized.
"We'd better get going if we don't want any planes coming anytime soon," said Lily who was having a hard time herself to look away.
They rode their bikes looking at a few animals with fascination. They never saw the real thing, just pictures of them, that's why they were so spellbound to see the real thing.
Tom froze and grabbed Suzanne's arm. "Do you hear that?" he whispered. Everyone stood still and looked at Tom. Suzanne listened quietly but shook her head, "it's a plane," said Tom in a hushed voice.
The RTR members squealed and started to hide behind trees and bushes. Jonas looked up at the sky. Where is it?
The forest was suddenly in a shower of fast tiny needles, hitting everything and getting a fox, she collapse and started to wail in pain.
'They're shooting us?' thought Jonas in horror, he grabbed Asher's wrist and pulled him behind a bush where he saw a few fives hide-
"Oh my god," said Asher shakily. Jonas looked at the hiding RTR members and found it hard to breathe.
Adrian had two needles in his left arm, he was breathing hard, Anna quickly took out the needles and threw them away, her face pale in horror.
"Oh shit!" shouted Lily, Jonas looked around and saw Lily behind a tree holding her leg tightly, there were four needles sticking out. She ripped them off and collapsed breathing hard.
The firing stopped, there was a pause, and then Tom shouted from somewhere behind a rock, "IT'S GONE!"
The RTR members nervously got out of their hiding spots and gasped when they saw that nearly half of the members were injured.
"HOLY SHIT!!!!" shouted Bruno, several heads shot towards him. They never heard a three curse, and it was very rare that he even spoke a word.
"What's wrong?" said Fiona running to her little brother.
She gasped.
Bruno's hands were glowing brightly for a fraction of a second. His injured neck released all of the venom that the needle released and it healed instantly.
"What just happened?" said Samantha shakily.
For some apparent reason Bruno ran to the injured children, pulled out the needles and touched the injected spot, the same thing that happened to his neck happened to the children's injured spot.
Everyone watched in shock as Bruno went from next injured child to next injured child, healing him or her by just touching his or her injected spots.
After everyone was healed, Bruno looked at his hands in shock.
"How did you do that?" whispered Brad.
"I-I don't know, something made me do it........like I knew I could heal you all."
"Tom," said Suzanne shakily, "how did you hear that plane when we all couldn't?"
* * *
"Chief Elder ma'am," said the Assistant Chief Elder walking inside the office of the Chief Elder, a sheaf of paper in his hands.
"Have you received news from the pilot?" asked the Chief Elder.
"Not yet, she's on her way back. We found information concerning the escaped children and about their birthmothers."
"What is it?"
"All of their birthmothers were released just after they started to do their laboring jobs."
"What?"
"They each showed signs of something we've never seen before. The birthmother of Lily, Lori, and Adam showed vague signs of very sensitive senses, she could sometimes sense a person a mile away."
"The birthmother was released because she constantly broke the rules, correct?"
"Yes. The birthmother of Phillipa, Anna, and Daniela showed a few signs of very high intelligence. She was released for.....well....she uh-"
"Yes I know why she was released but what does this have to do with the escaped children?"
"There's a connection to this. The birthmothers of the escaped children have shown signs of something we've never understood, they were released for strange reasons that are well against the law, and now their children are running to Elsewhere? Why?"
The Chief Elder suddenly realized this but couldn't think of an answer.
"Have the children shown signs similar to their birthmothers?"
"Well Jonas has already shown signs of seeing beyond like his birthmother-"
"I apologize for interrupting, but why wasn't SHE a receiver then?"
"She didn't show any other signs besides seeing beyond, she was released because she didn't produce anymore children but as you know that rule has been deleted from the-"
"Yes, yes, continue!"
"Well-"
The door opened and a small skinny young woman walked in hurriedly. "I apologize for interrupting but we've received news from the pilot."
"Which is?" said the Chief Elder.
"She said that the children have somehow heard her silent jet and hid, she got quite a few children hit with the needles but some type of force pushed her back here before she could even bring the children back here."
"A force?" the Chief Elder turned sharply to the assistant who quickly looked through his notes.
"The birthmother of Samantha, James, and Emily showed signs of levitating things with her mind. Samantha's the only one that's escaped from that bloodline, it must have been her that pushed the pilot back to us."
"And what about the children hearing the silent jet coming?"
The assistant Chief Elder shuffled through his notes again. "Um.....the birthmother of Tom, Suzanne, and Katharine showed three different signs, one is to see beyond, Katharine has the sign, she's one of the candidates to be a receiver of memories, the birthmother's also showed signs of having very sensitive hearing and levitation of her own body."
"So Suzanne and Tom have signs of-"
The assistant gasped as he read one of he notes. "The needles won't work.......even if the children were hit with them they would be healed by Bruno."
"Who's the birthmother and who are the other two blood related children to Bruno?"
"The name of the birthmother I couldn't get, but she was quite a good healer, the other two children of hers are Toni, and Daniel."
"Daniel was released.......Toni's the only one here. Any other children and birthmothers with these signs?"
"Yes, The birthmother of the newchild named Gabriel from three years ago, the twins born in the same year as he was and Ben has showed signs of......well I don't know how to explain it but I asked the receiver about it and he said it was angelic powers, I don't understand much of it but the attitude of the birthmother was gentle, calm, and pleasant, and she had two voices, one that was normal and another that's quite different, but very pleasant."
The Chief Elder blinked. "And?"
"Well, the other signs are of gracefulness and quite a lot of luck. The twin that was not released three years ago was named Brad."
"So the three are gone to Elsewhere."
"Yes."
"But I still don't understand these sign things, how is it that they showed the signs but we don't?"
"Because they were all from a different community, and that community was shut down because of a chemical explosion. Everyone died except for that handful that came here......so those chemicals somehow changed their DNA and genes and somehow......evolved their bodies to do something the ordinary human body couldn't do."
The Chief Elder and lady who came in a few minutes ago blinked blankly. "And that would mean?" said the Chief Elder.
"Well for example, flying, our bodies can't do that, but an evolved body possibly can."
"What were the scientists at that community experimenting?"
"They were experimenting on genetics and how the chemicals can change it.....a scientist-in-training had mistakenly used one of the chemicals in his test and mixed it in with his own mixture causing an explosion and a strange radiation to spread the community, those babies that survived were able to get their genes or DNA to accept the chemicals that entered their bodies."
"Urgh.....this answers EVERYTHING," said the Chief Elder sarcastically as she collapsed onto her chair.
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Very informative chapter........I just realized that this DNA gene thing sort of fits with X-men.....why do I always copy!!!!???? REVIEW IF YOU DON'T WANT ME TO KEEP UP MY RANTING!!