Chapter 1
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Everything around me appears fuzzy and then slowly I start to see a room come in to focus. I seem to be in some sort of a training room with everything from exercise bikes to sit-up machines. Even more strange is that there appears to be an array of weapons stored in a chest against the back wall. Suddenly a door opens and two individuals enter the room. One is me and the other is a fairly tall guy who has a strong build with dark spiky hair. The way we're interacting it's as if we know each other. We're sparring and working out together. We're even talking and joking around. Wait a minute…he's hugging me! Oh god did he just say what I just thought he said. But it's really what I said back that startled me. The dream ended abruptly and I woke up in a cold sweat with my heart beating so fast it felt like it would burst out of my chest. I kept replaying those words over and over in my head. I love you Kaia. I'll always be there if you need me. I love you too Dad…I love you too.
Could this guy be my real father? God why do I keep dreaming about this guy and it's always as if I'm watching a movie or something. It's almost like an out of body experience, because everything from the touches to the emotions seems so real. I feel so connected to him...to a person that may not even exist. Deep in my heart I know there is a strong possibility though that he may truly exist. I've dreamt about things before and then they actually happened. I guess you can call them visions. I'm scared that the dreams may become reality. I would like to know if he is a real person, but I almost hope that he isn't.
If I actually meet him I might not be alone anymore. But I can't risk his safety. I can't risk that he may get hurt. Ever since my adopted parents died or shall I say was killed, I've kept to myself. They killed my parents to get to me. They tried to take me back and when I failed to appear, they took away the only two people that ever meant anything to me. After my parent's death, I managed to finish high school and I sold the house. I've been living off of the proceeds from the house and my trust fund for the last five years. Thankfully, I managed to get my B.S. degree in Computer Science through Internet courses. Now, I build computer programs for various companies. It's great to work for myself and to not have to report to anyone. The only thing that gets to me is the loneliness. I have to stay lonely though, because anyone who spends time with me will be at risk. You see, they're still following me and tracking my every move. I always manage to lose them for a couple months, but then eventually they find me. Just thinking about it always makes a knot form in the pit of my stomach. There is always a constant fear and apprehension of being captured and taken back to that place. I vowed that they would never be able to perform their experiments on me again. I refuse to be someone's lab rat.
I still haven't figured out who's funding the underground agency that kept me prisoner all those years. They were experimenting with the mutation of human DNA and also held various alien life forces prisoner; all for their sick love of supposed "science". Apparently, I was supposed to be the future. A new breed of super entities that were meant to be half alien and half mutant was supposed to be formed. I was one of the "practice" dummies, but I'm considered a failed experiment. They couldn't make me do what they wanted, which was to be a hired gun or assassin.
The only way I even knew what they were planning was because of my telepathy. That was one the gift they did not seem to know about. I'm still not sure how they didn't find out about it. I know that I can block other telepaths from entering my mind, but with all of the technology they had I'm surprised they didn't know I was a telepath. Sometimes, I think they always knew and allowed me to escape so that they can observe how I perform in the real world outside of that prison they had me in. I will never go back there and I won't drag anyone into this. I'll continue to deal with this on my own. I refuse to let anyone be hurt...not like how they hurt me. Kaia Johnson will have to settle for being alone.
After her shower, Kaia had decided to take a walk to clear her head. Plus she was in desperate need of coffee and she was all out at home. She made sure to dress in slightly baggy cargos, a t-shirt, and sneakers to call less attention to her feminine curves. She pulled her hair up into a messy bun and grabbed her backpack as she went out the door. All she needed was some Starbucks right now and all would be right with the world. She became lost in her thoughts as she strolled down the sidewalk; her thoughts always going back to the strange dreams she was having. Kaia sighed loudly. She couldn't even enjoy the sunshine without those disturbing dreams plaguing her mind. Could her real father be out there somewhere? Could he be searching for her? Did he even know that she existed and how would he react to having a daughter who could do the things that she could? After all, according to society rules, she was a freak. Kaia shook her head gently. She had to stop thinking like this...giving herself false hope. She had no real parents, because was constructed in a lab. She was just an experiment that had gone wrong.
She had almost made it down the block when she felt the familiar tingly sensation in her head, which usually meant someone, was in danger. She was torn between ignoring it and just going about her business, but she knew she couldn't. She had never ignored her "special instincts" and she wasn't about to do it now...even though using her powers to help people had often gotten her into trouble growing up. Now she just had to focus and figure out where so that she could teleport there. She turned around and ran back to her apartment. She couldn't take the chance of teleporting outside in the open. She could just imagine how people would react seeing that. When she got to her apartment building, she ran up the stairs and opened the main front door. She continued running down the hallway until she got to her apartment door. She entered her apartment and paused for a moment to make sure she had closed and locked the door behind her. By then the tingly sensation in her brain had gotten stronger. She threw her backpack on the floor and concentrated until she felt her body go loose as she teleported. If Kaia had known where she would have ended up, she would have thought twice about it.
When she opened her eyes, she realized she had teleported to someone's office where a serious fight was taking place. There were three guys and a woman all battling about six demons. It wasn't uncommon to come in to contact with various demons in LA, but they rarely struck during the daylight...at least to her knowledge. She did a quick scan of the room and then suddenly her heart stopped. It was him…one of the guys from her dream…the one she had called "dad". She shook off her shock, realizing she had to jump in quickly because he was to busy fighting to notice another one of those demons was creeping up on him. Kaia teleported over to them quickly and gave the demon a karate chop in the stomach and then a spin kick to the face. The demon snarled at her. "You'll pay for that you bitch," he growled.
"Now you (a punch to its face) have (another punch) a very (kick to stomach) dirty (an upper cut to the chin) mouth (finishing with another spin kick)," Kaia responded. They continued to fight a while longer with Kaia countering every one of the demon's moves. She soon grew tired of the fight and decided to end it by breaking the demon's neck with a quick snap. She released the demon and let its body slide to the floor. Kaia wiped the blood off her now split lip and bent over in pain holding her side, as she noted some of her ribs had been broken. When she looked up, all the demons were laying on the ground except one that was choking a wiry looking girl with mousy brown hair. Kaia used her telekinesis to lift the demon up and threw its body across the room where it crashed onto a wall. It dropped to the floor where it finally lay unconscious. She then teleported over to it, and crouched down to break the demon's neck quickly...just in case it decided to get back up.
Suddenly the room seemed incredibly quiet. Kaia remained crouched on the floor for a while trying to avoid the obvious confrontation that was about to take place. Her eyes finally roamed the room, giving everyone a long look as she got to her feet...everyone except him. She was afraid to look at him; afraid to look into his eyes. Her worst fears were coming to pass. It seemed like her dreams may have some truth behind them after all. The room stayed quiet a moment longer before Kaia finally decided to break the silence.
Note: I reposted this chapter because I wanted to write most of it in regular story format instead of in Kaia's view. Please review!
