ELSEWHERE IS NOW HERE!
Sorry, I messed up the upload thing and double-loaded the 12th chapter -_-;
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Losing The Grip of The Rules
A few days passed since the attack back at the forest, Bruno was able to heal the fox that was injured but it seemed to take a while for the venom to get out.
The jets and planes stopped coming but Samantha was beginning to get a few headaches, it came in less and less though, no one knew why she was getting headaches at all.
"We have to go down that hill?" said Suzanne nervously as she shivered from the cold, pulling the blanket tighter around her.
"Yup," said Jonas walking ahead, they had all long deserted their bikes when they reached the rocky path.
"Do you think the people in Elsewhere will find out what's wrong with us?" said Fiona as they followed Jonas up the path in the hill.
After the past few days everyone started acting strangely. On the rocky path, Suzanne had fallen off her bike but the strange thing was that she was a few inches over her fallen bike, not touching the ground.
There was another part when the weather was getting colder, Benjamin didn't need any extra clothes or blankets to warm him up. Neither did Tori and Aurora.
Everyone else was receiving the strange.....happenings, they called it.
Jonas shrugged. "I don't know, nothing happened to me and Gabriel when we were on our way to Elsewhere, unless you count the time I fell off my bike and he was in the child seat unharmed, but that was luck.
"But something's happening to all of us.....how come Asher and you are the only two that aren't changing?"
"I don't know....." Jonas frowned, he knew something happened; on the first day of their journey he had heard Asher's thoughts for a second. How could that have happened?
They continued walking up the hill where Jonas knew a sled was waiting.
* * *
The community was back to normal now, the power was back and the people were given an even stronger pill for their stirrings.
The parents that lost their children received newchildren, no one spoke of the children who escaped, it was either because they were an embarrassment or just saddening. Either way they didn't speak of them and the newchildren were given different names, not that same as the RTR.
The Chief Elder stopped sending off airplanes because Samantha kept sending them back (without knowing) so she stopped when the tenth plane came back empty-handed.
They kept the escape very quiet too, afraid that more children would escape.......and join the enemy.
The Giver was gone now; their last chance for advice was gone so it was time to begin something that they've wanted to do years ago.
* * *
"So are you gonna tell me how you found that room under the park?" asked Asher his sister.
They were getting closer to the top of the hill, all of them except Benjamin, Aurora and Tori were wrapped tightly in their blankets, noses and cheeks red with cold.
"If I tell you now then you won't understand.....you'll know when we reach Elsewhere-a sled!" said Phillipa.
The RTR members looked ahead and saw, to Jonas's surprise, a number of sleds waiting for them.
Fiona stared at them for a while. "They changed......what does that mean?"
The RTR members looked at Fiona with shock.
"NOW she sees them!? Well it's about time! I thought she was BORN color blind!" laughed Lily.
Fiona looked at her puzzled.
"We'll tell you when we reach the bottom," sighed Jonas as he sat on a sled. The others followed suit and looked expectantly at Jonas.
'Ready?' thought Jonas, Asher nodded. Jonas looked ahead, 'now I see what Giver said.....we can communicate through the minds even without dreaming.'
He pushed himself forward and slid down the hill, gathering speed as snow gathered at the front edges of the sled, he heard a few members scream in delight as they slid down the hill on their sleds behind him.
Then he heard the music that was so familiar to him since he had come three years about with Gabriel.
There was a pause in which everyone landed and got off their sleds. Then-
"JONAS!!!!"
Lily looked up at the screamer and froze. "Oh my god," she said as tears started filling up her eyes.
Everyone, including Jonas, watched in shock as the three-year-old Gabriel shot in the air and hurtled straight to Jonas, knocking him to the ground and hugging him tightly.
"Gabriel did you just.....Gabriel you're choking me," Jonas choked out.
"Oh, sorry," giggled Gabriel as he let go of Jonas, he looked up at the others, "LILY!!!" he screamed shooting up in the air and hugging the stunned Lily.
"You remember me?" said Lily weakly as Jonas stood up, brushing snow of his blanket that was wrapped around him.
"Of course you dolt! How could I forget your face always popping in my face when I was still a newchild?"
"Oh, yeah," said Lily looking flushed. Gabriel let her go and looked at the others.
"Who are you guys? We received a message of you coming but we still don't know your names."
One by one every RTR member introduced himself or herself and even said their numbers.
"How did you get a message about us coming?" asked Anna bewildered.
"From Terrace, he has the strongest sight in Elsewhere. He saw you guys coming and spread out the word," shrugged Gabriel.
"You mean......Jonas you never told us that this place had the people with the same problems that we have!" said Brad.
"I didn't know either-"
"What?" Gabriel turned to Jonas shocked, "Jonas you were here for one year you must remember something."
"All I remember is the family we stayed with and......and...why can't I remember?" Jonas racked his thoughts.
"They must have messed with your memory."
Benjamin whirled around so quickly his neck cricked. "Daniel!?"
"Hi Benjamin, I see you've come ok," said Daniel cheerfully. He walked up to Jonas, "now don't fall asleep on me ok?" and he lay a hand on Jonas's head.
The feeling was tingling inside Jonas's head, a warm tingle, he felt warm and comfortable but he tried not to doze off.
Daniel took away his hand and Jonas felt the memories of his year here in Elsewhere, the holidays, friends, newly released people arriving from different communities everyday, how the family had taken care of him and Gabriel when they were sick.
But there was something else that he remembered now, something that made him angry with his community for erasing it from his mind....but how did they do it?
"Now do you remember?" said Gabriel happily. Jonas nodded and Gabriel cheered.
"Come on, I don't fancy freezing my butt off out here," said Daniel leading the way away from the hills.
"What's been happening here?" Jonas asked Gabriel as they walked across a street, the RTR members watched in amazement as they saw people either floating, flying, gliding, or running really fast to their destinations, a few kids who were playing with snow was also mesmerizing to see, they threw their snowballs in great distances or made them float and hit the person they wanted to hit.
"HE came," said Gabriel gleefully as he quickly ducked an oncoming snowball and got Brad hit.
"Who?" Jonas raised an eyebrow.
"The Giver.....well now they named him Taylor but he came!"
"He came back as a baby right?" Gabriel nodded, "but then that means that-"
"That your community has no receiver of memories," said Daniel gravely.
"How bad is that?" asked Benjamin.
"Not good. Now that your community has no receiver of memories......well we're at war here does that answer enough for you?"
"What?" blinked Lily, she thought for a while and gasped, "then people will...will-"
"WE won't die, but they will if they don't back of, we have the advantage in this war. They're trying to stop us from receiving escapers from their communities-no it's not your fault, it's been happening for a while-and they don't like the idea of our...well they say 'your kind' like we're a totally different species."
"What do you mean?" asked Stewart.
"We have evolved bodies, they don't...it's like saying we have super natural powers that are different to each of us."
"Cool, wish I had an evolved body," said Asher.
"You do. You can read people's minds, but it seems very easy to communicate with Jonas here."
Asher blinked. "I THOUGHT HE WAS DOING SOME SORT OF TRICK! SPEAKING WITHOUT MOVING HIS LIPS AND ALL!"
Daniel laughed. "Well you all have different evolved bodies. Your communities just found out about it and they want to stop us."
Benjamin stared at his old friend; he was referring to the community that was once his as 'your community'. "How did evolved bodies come around?" he asked.
"All of your birthmothers came from a different community that's shut down, including my own birthmother. It was shut down because there was a chemical explosion, it spread and killed the whole community except our birthmothers because they were able to accept the chemicals into their bodies, they were sent to the next community and there, we were born."
"So we're each...related to each other?" said Brad.
"Yup, except for Jonas, he's an only child."
"So I'm....an evolved body too?" asked Fiona.
"Yeah, you have super strength. And you're related to Asher but he can read minds."
"Where are we going?" asked Ben.
"Well we're going to this place that determines what powers you have, and from there you get sent to your birthmothers but if their not here then you get adopted."
"Is it possible to produce children and KEEP them?" asked Fiona.
"Yes it's possible."
"And-and, you can choose your own job and choose your own spouse?" asked Tori.
"Of course it's possible, this is Elsewhere remember?" said Phillipa.
"Why did the singing stop when we came?" asked Lori.
"That was me singing. It's sort of like tradition here, whenever we get the message of someone coming here, we sing for him or her to come. Sort of like 'welcome to elsewhere'," said Gabriel.
"You mean this year it was your turn? But your so young?" said Jonas.
"Yeah well the people liked my singing and my mom wanted me to do it," Gabriel blushed brightly in embarrassment.
"Here we are," said Daniel stopping in front of a tall building with walls made of black glass. Daniel held the door open and the RTR group walked through feeling exited and nervous at the same time.
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Well? Wadya think? REVIEW! ME WOULD BE HAPPY!!!! ^_^
Sorry, I messed up the upload thing and double-loaded the 12th chapter -_-;
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Losing The Grip of The Rules
A few days passed since the attack back at the forest, Bruno was able to heal the fox that was injured but it seemed to take a while for the venom to get out.
The jets and planes stopped coming but Samantha was beginning to get a few headaches, it came in less and less though, no one knew why she was getting headaches at all.
"We have to go down that hill?" said Suzanne nervously as she shivered from the cold, pulling the blanket tighter around her.
"Yup," said Jonas walking ahead, they had all long deserted their bikes when they reached the rocky path.
"Do you think the people in Elsewhere will find out what's wrong with us?" said Fiona as they followed Jonas up the path in the hill.
After the past few days everyone started acting strangely. On the rocky path, Suzanne had fallen off her bike but the strange thing was that she was a few inches over her fallen bike, not touching the ground.
There was another part when the weather was getting colder, Benjamin didn't need any extra clothes or blankets to warm him up. Neither did Tori and Aurora.
Everyone else was receiving the strange.....happenings, they called it.
Jonas shrugged. "I don't know, nothing happened to me and Gabriel when we were on our way to Elsewhere, unless you count the time I fell off my bike and he was in the child seat unharmed, but that was luck.
"But something's happening to all of us.....how come Asher and you are the only two that aren't changing?"
"I don't know....." Jonas frowned, he knew something happened; on the first day of their journey he had heard Asher's thoughts for a second. How could that have happened?
They continued walking up the hill where Jonas knew a sled was waiting.
* * *
The community was back to normal now, the power was back and the people were given an even stronger pill for their stirrings.
The parents that lost their children received newchildren, no one spoke of the children who escaped, it was either because they were an embarrassment or just saddening. Either way they didn't speak of them and the newchildren were given different names, not that same as the RTR.
The Chief Elder stopped sending off airplanes because Samantha kept sending them back (without knowing) so she stopped when the tenth plane came back empty-handed.
They kept the escape very quiet too, afraid that more children would escape.......and join the enemy.
The Giver was gone now; their last chance for advice was gone so it was time to begin something that they've wanted to do years ago.
* * *
"So are you gonna tell me how you found that room under the park?" asked Asher his sister.
They were getting closer to the top of the hill, all of them except Benjamin, Aurora and Tori were wrapped tightly in their blankets, noses and cheeks red with cold.
"If I tell you now then you won't understand.....you'll know when we reach Elsewhere-a sled!" said Phillipa.
The RTR members looked ahead and saw, to Jonas's surprise, a number of sleds waiting for them.
Fiona stared at them for a while. "They changed......what does that mean?"
The RTR members looked at Fiona with shock.
"NOW she sees them!? Well it's about time! I thought she was BORN color blind!" laughed Lily.
Fiona looked at her puzzled.
"We'll tell you when we reach the bottom," sighed Jonas as he sat on a sled. The others followed suit and looked expectantly at Jonas.
'Ready?' thought Jonas, Asher nodded. Jonas looked ahead, 'now I see what Giver said.....we can communicate through the minds even without dreaming.'
He pushed himself forward and slid down the hill, gathering speed as snow gathered at the front edges of the sled, he heard a few members scream in delight as they slid down the hill on their sleds behind him.
Then he heard the music that was so familiar to him since he had come three years about with Gabriel.
There was a pause in which everyone landed and got off their sleds. Then-
"JONAS!!!!"
Lily looked up at the screamer and froze. "Oh my god," she said as tears started filling up her eyes.
Everyone, including Jonas, watched in shock as the three-year-old Gabriel shot in the air and hurtled straight to Jonas, knocking him to the ground and hugging him tightly.
"Gabriel did you just.....Gabriel you're choking me," Jonas choked out.
"Oh, sorry," giggled Gabriel as he let go of Jonas, he looked up at the others, "LILY!!!" he screamed shooting up in the air and hugging the stunned Lily.
"You remember me?" said Lily weakly as Jonas stood up, brushing snow of his blanket that was wrapped around him.
"Of course you dolt! How could I forget your face always popping in my face when I was still a newchild?"
"Oh, yeah," said Lily looking flushed. Gabriel let her go and looked at the others.
"Who are you guys? We received a message of you coming but we still don't know your names."
One by one every RTR member introduced himself or herself and even said their numbers.
"How did you get a message about us coming?" asked Anna bewildered.
"From Terrace, he has the strongest sight in Elsewhere. He saw you guys coming and spread out the word," shrugged Gabriel.
"You mean......Jonas you never told us that this place had the people with the same problems that we have!" said Brad.
"I didn't know either-"
"What?" Gabriel turned to Jonas shocked, "Jonas you were here for one year you must remember something."
"All I remember is the family we stayed with and......and...why can't I remember?" Jonas racked his thoughts.
"They must have messed with your memory."
Benjamin whirled around so quickly his neck cricked. "Daniel!?"
"Hi Benjamin, I see you've come ok," said Daniel cheerfully. He walked up to Jonas, "now don't fall asleep on me ok?" and he lay a hand on Jonas's head.
The feeling was tingling inside Jonas's head, a warm tingle, he felt warm and comfortable but he tried not to doze off.
Daniel took away his hand and Jonas felt the memories of his year here in Elsewhere, the holidays, friends, newly released people arriving from different communities everyday, how the family had taken care of him and Gabriel when they were sick.
But there was something else that he remembered now, something that made him angry with his community for erasing it from his mind....but how did they do it?
"Now do you remember?" said Gabriel happily. Jonas nodded and Gabriel cheered.
"Come on, I don't fancy freezing my butt off out here," said Daniel leading the way away from the hills.
"What's been happening here?" Jonas asked Gabriel as they walked across a street, the RTR members watched in amazement as they saw people either floating, flying, gliding, or running really fast to their destinations, a few kids who were playing with snow was also mesmerizing to see, they threw their snowballs in great distances or made them float and hit the person they wanted to hit.
"HE came," said Gabriel gleefully as he quickly ducked an oncoming snowball and got Brad hit.
"Who?" Jonas raised an eyebrow.
"The Giver.....well now they named him Taylor but he came!"
"He came back as a baby right?" Gabriel nodded, "but then that means that-"
"That your community has no receiver of memories," said Daniel gravely.
"How bad is that?" asked Benjamin.
"Not good. Now that your community has no receiver of memories......well we're at war here does that answer enough for you?"
"What?" blinked Lily, she thought for a while and gasped, "then people will...will-"
"WE won't die, but they will if they don't back of, we have the advantage in this war. They're trying to stop us from receiving escapers from their communities-no it's not your fault, it's been happening for a while-and they don't like the idea of our...well they say 'your kind' like we're a totally different species."
"What do you mean?" asked Stewart.
"We have evolved bodies, they don't...it's like saying we have super natural powers that are different to each of us."
"Cool, wish I had an evolved body," said Asher.
"You do. You can read people's minds, but it seems very easy to communicate with Jonas here."
Asher blinked. "I THOUGHT HE WAS DOING SOME SORT OF TRICK! SPEAKING WITHOUT MOVING HIS LIPS AND ALL!"
Daniel laughed. "Well you all have different evolved bodies. Your communities just found out about it and they want to stop us."
Benjamin stared at his old friend; he was referring to the community that was once his as 'your community'. "How did evolved bodies come around?" he asked.
"All of your birthmothers came from a different community that's shut down, including my own birthmother. It was shut down because there was a chemical explosion, it spread and killed the whole community except our birthmothers because they were able to accept the chemicals into their bodies, they were sent to the next community and there, we were born."
"So we're each...related to each other?" said Brad.
"Yup, except for Jonas, he's an only child."
"So I'm....an evolved body too?" asked Fiona.
"Yeah, you have super strength. And you're related to Asher but he can read minds."
"Where are we going?" asked Ben.
"Well we're going to this place that determines what powers you have, and from there you get sent to your birthmothers but if their not here then you get adopted."
"Is it possible to produce children and KEEP them?" asked Fiona.
"Yes it's possible."
"And-and, you can choose your own job and choose your own spouse?" asked Tori.
"Of course it's possible, this is Elsewhere remember?" said Phillipa.
"Why did the singing stop when we came?" asked Lori.
"That was me singing. It's sort of like tradition here, whenever we get the message of someone coming here, we sing for him or her to come. Sort of like 'welcome to elsewhere'," said Gabriel.
"You mean this year it was your turn? But your so young?" said Jonas.
"Yeah well the people liked my singing and my mom wanted me to do it," Gabriel blushed brightly in embarrassment.
"Here we are," said Daniel stopping in front of a tall building with walls made of black glass. Daniel held the door open and the RTR group walked through feeling exited and nervous at the same time.
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Well? Wadya think? REVIEW! ME WOULD BE HAPPY!!!! ^_^