Part two
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'What the hell was that?' Josie whispered dramatically to Adriana in the alleyway. When Adriana didn't answer Josie tried a different question. 'Who's the princess they're looking for anyway?'
'Me,' Adriana whispered to Josie, 'Now be quiet or else they'll find us!' Josie didn't need to be told, she was speechless.
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'How long do we have to wait here, your majesty?' Josie was bored, and dirty, she had been sitting in an alleyway now for over two hours.
'Don't call me that and a few more minutes.'
'Really?'
'Yep, two more minutes, then it's safe.'
'What happens in two minutes?'
'The sun goes down, it goes dark, we go to the prison and we release my mom.'
'Wait! This is a rescue mission?'
'Look, my mother is the queen, and the reason she is locked up is because Matthew overpowered her. But because I'm here and I'm not locked up, I can release her and my mother can easily get the palace back.'
'How?'
'I was born in my mother's cell. They took me away from her. My mom is fuelled by hate and anger, she's indestructible if she's out of her cell.'
'Wow.' Adriana just nodded her head whilst looking out through the gap onto the streets, within a second darkness had covered them in a shadow.
'Come on,' Adriana helped Josie up, 'Let's go.'
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Adriana and Josie were now crouched behind a rock in front of the gates to the prison.
'Doesn't look very inviting,' Josie muttered.
'It isn't,' Adriana retorted. Adriana picked up a rock and threw it over the top of the rock alerting the guards of their presence.
'What are you doing?! Are you crazy?! They know where we are now!' Josie whispered frantically to Adriana.
'I know,' Adriana grasped Josie's hand and within seconds they had disappeared in the blink of an eye. Leaving two very confused guards looking over the rock.
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Inside a dimly lit cave Josie and Adriana landed with a thud on the floor.
'Oh, I really need to work on my landings,' Adriana stood up and dusted herself off, she then offered a hand to Josie who accepted it.
'I ask again for the second time today, What the hell was that?'
'Shush! We're not that far in the cave the guards could still here us!' Adriana dragged Josie over to the wall as she saw the guards approaching their posts. They two of them stayed as close to the wall as they could so they wouldn't be seen. 'My powers are all about auras, I can read them, I can sense them, I can make them stronger or weaker and I can move them from one place to another.' Adriana whispered to Josie as quickly and as quietly as she could.
'You can teleport?'
'And other people,' Adriana said with a slight shrug of her shoulders. 'Come on!' She grabbed the torch from the wall, 'This way.'
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The two of them walked down the tunnel with the torch lighting the way, they reached another archway which had a message engraved on it.
'Lasciate ogne speranza, voi chi'intrate,' Josie read, 'What does that mean?'
'Abandon all hope, ye who enter,'
'That's,' Josie paused, 'Friendly.'
'And highly ironic,' Adriana said to her whilst slightly turning to face her, 'Come on, there's not much further to go now.'
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Josie and Adriana were walking down through the middle of two rows of cells. Josie was staring at all the prisoners,
'They're all women,' Josie whispered.
'Women are treated like dirt here, they are sold at a young age and brought here, where they live, die and are tortured non-stop.'
'There's nothing happening to them now,' Josie told her.
'Not every torture is physical,' Adriana stated as she stopped briefly outside of a cell, Josie walked up and looked at what was inside. A young girl who looked no older than eight was sitting in the corner of her cell rocking backwards and forwards whispering to herself, when she saw Josie she tried to back further into the wall. Josie carried on walking with a sad look on her face.
'I can't believe this, it's so-'
'Sad? Don't pity them.'
'How can you say that?' Josie asked appalled.
'Do not pity them because you won't be able to stop. Instead of pitying them, feel angry towards the one who put them here.' Adriana looked down and suddenly her face changed into a hopeful one as she quickened her pace and stopped in front of a cell. 'Mom?' she whispered. Josie curiously followed and stood next to her.
Lying on the floor of the cell was the broken body of a woman who was bleeding profusely from her stomach and lower torso. 'Mommy?' Adriana whispered brokenly, Josie could only stare.
'Aww,' Josie and Adriana turned sharply towards the new voice, 'How sweet? A child crying over her dead mother.'
'Matthew,' Adriana spat out hatefully, 'You did this! YOU JACKASS YOU DID THIS TO MY MOTHER!' Adriana charged forward but was stopped by Josie who was trying her hardest to hold her back. 'No! Let me get him!' Matthew just stood there laughing maniacally.
'No!' Josie whispered into Adriana's ear. 'Let him feel what you felt for sixteen years.' Adrian's expression changed to that of an understanding one. 'Let your power flow through you, swap their auras.' Josie slowly let go of the now still Adriana and slowly stepped away.
'What's the matter sweetcheeks?' Matthew stepped forward towards her, 'Lost something?' He stopped walking when Adriana looked up and her eyes had changed colour. They were now a raging fire.
'No,' she said angrily, 'But you're about to.' Suddenly all the women who were in cells started to appear out of nowhere behind and around Adriana, Josie and Matthew.
'That's it,' Josie whispered, 'You can do this!'
More and more women were blinking into sight. Throughout the whole prison guards were shocked to see the women disappear from their cells and reappear in front of the bars that had held them in for so long.
'NO!' Matthew screamed.
'Yes,' Adriana said to him before he disappeared, along with every guard in the prison, and reappeared behind bars. Josie walked up to Matthew in his cell.
'Have a nice day. ' She spat out at him before turning and walking over to Adriana whose eyes had now returned to their normal green colour. Adriana was staring into her mother's cell. 'Are you okay?'
'I've been better,' Adriana whispered to Josie whilst turning to look at her. Josie wrapped an arm around her shoulder.
'Come on,' She started to tug her towards Matthew's cell. 'We have somewhere to be.' Adriana had placed Matthew in her old cell, which was where the black hole was. 'Let's go home.' Josie stepped into the black hole first and disappeared in a flash of light. Adriana slowly stepped towards it.
'Yeah,' she looked around, 'Home.' She stepped forward and disappeared in the same light. Matthew rushed forward and stepped on the same spot they had but nothing happened. The black hole had moved on.
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Adriana fell in a heap on the floor at the Science club's feet. Lucas helped her up and supported her, she was very tired. 'Do I have a room yet?' She said whilst walking slowly to the door after removing herself from Lucas, 'I think I'm black hole lagged.' The science club laughed except for Lucas, he knew she was just covering.
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Lucas walked outside and sat down beside Adriana who was watching Vaughn practice.
'Are you okay?' Lucas asked her.
'Nothing gets by you does it?'
'Not really,' he looked at her, 'So, what's up?'
'The sky?' She said cheerfully but he gave her a pointed look and the smile disappeared off her face. 'I'm scared, of what I can do. I managed to teleport 600 women in one go and then 100 men, and yet, I feel I can't even sleep for a day. I'm not even tired.'
'Well, why should you be scared of that? You're powerful, everyone dreams of that.'
'That's not what scares me though,' she whispered.
'What does then?'
'Myself. I let my emotions get the better of me and I had the power to kill someone, but I didn't. And do you know why? Because I thought it would be a waste of time.' The two of them sat in silence watching Vaughn when Josie came out to speak to him. Vaughn and Josie were chatting with each other and laughing. Lucas sighed quietly.
'You don't have a chance.' Adriana told him.
'Excuse me?'
'With Josie, you don't stand a chance.'
'I'll have you know that-'
'I don't care what you know. I care about what I feel, and what I read. She loves you, she does, but she loves you as a friend. She thinks of you like you're her brother. But with Vaughn, she's IN love with him. And I know deep down that you know that, and that you think of Josie in the same way that she thinks about you.' Adriana stood up and put a hand on her shoulder. 'You helped me, so I helped you. Don't let yourself get hurt in the long run. Let go of her now, and it won't hurt so much when she chooses Vaughn.'
Adriana turned around and walked back to the school, leaving Lucas behind watching Vaughn and Josie. After a few minutes Lucas smiled at the pair he was watching. He stood up and jogged back to the school.
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'What the hell was that?' Josie whispered dramatically to Adriana in the alleyway. When Adriana didn't answer Josie tried a different question. 'Who's the princess they're looking for anyway?'
'Me,' Adriana whispered to Josie, 'Now be quiet or else they'll find us!' Josie didn't need to be told, she was speechless.
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'How long do we have to wait here, your majesty?' Josie was bored, and dirty, she had been sitting in an alleyway now for over two hours.
'Don't call me that and a few more minutes.'
'Really?'
'Yep, two more minutes, then it's safe.'
'What happens in two minutes?'
'The sun goes down, it goes dark, we go to the prison and we release my mom.'
'Wait! This is a rescue mission?'
'Look, my mother is the queen, and the reason she is locked up is because Matthew overpowered her. But because I'm here and I'm not locked up, I can release her and my mother can easily get the palace back.'
'How?'
'I was born in my mother's cell. They took me away from her. My mom is fuelled by hate and anger, she's indestructible if she's out of her cell.'
'Wow.' Adriana just nodded her head whilst looking out through the gap onto the streets, within a second darkness had covered them in a shadow.
'Come on,' Adriana helped Josie up, 'Let's go.'
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Adriana and Josie were now crouched behind a rock in front of the gates to the prison.
'Doesn't look very inviting,' Josie muttered.
'It isn't,' Adriana retorted. Adriana picked up a rock and threw it over the top of the rock alerting the guards of their presence.
'What are you doing?! Are you crazy?! They know where we are now!' Josie whispered frantically to Adriana.
'I know,' Adriana grasped Josie's hand and within seconds they had disappeared in the blink of an eye. Leaving two very confused guards looking over the rock.
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Inside a dimly lit cave Josie and Adriana landed with a thud on the floor.
'Oh, I really need to work on my landings,' Adriana stood up and dusted herself off, she then offered a hand to Josie who accepted it.
'I ask again for the second time today, What the hell was that?'
'Shush! We're not that far in the cave the guards could still here us!' Adriana dragged Josie over to the wall as she saw the guards approaching their posts. They two of them stayed as close to the wall as they could so they wouldn't be seen. 'My powers are all about auras, I can read them, I can sense them, I can make them stronger or weaker and I can move them from one place to another.' Adriana whispered to Josie as quickly and as quietly as she could.
'You can teleport?'
'And other people,' Adriana said with a slight shrug of her shoulders. 'Come on!' She grabbed the torch from the wall, 'This way.'
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The two of them walked down the tunnel with the torch lighting the way, they reached another archway which had a message engraved on it.
'Lasciate ogne speranza, voi chi'intrate,' Josie read, 'What does that mean?'
'Abandon all hope, ye who enter,'
'That's,' Josie paused, 'Friendly.'
'And highly ironic,' Adriana said to her whilst slightly turning to face her, 'Come on, there's not much further to go now.'
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Josie and Adriana were walking down through the middle of two rows of cells. Josie was staring at all the prisoners,
'They're all women,' Josie whispered.
'Women are treated like dirt here, they are sold at a young age and brought here, where they live, die and are tortured non-stop.'
'There's nothing happening to them now,' Josie told her.
'Not every torture is physical,' Adriana stated as she stopped briefly outside of a cell, Josie walked up and looked at what was inside. A young girl who looked no older than eight was sitting in the corner of her cell rocking backwards and forwards whispering to herself, when she saw Josie she tried to back further into the wall. Josie carried on walking with a sad look on her face.
'I can't believe this, it's so-'
'Sad? Don't pity them.'
'How can you say that?' Josie asked appalled.
'Do not pity them because you won't be able to stop. Instead of pitying them, feel angry towards the one who put them here.' Adriana looked down and suddenly her face changed into a hopeful one as she quickened her pace and stopped in front of a cell. 'Mom?' she whispered. Josie curiously followed and stood next to her.
Lying on the floor of the cell was the broken body of a woman who was bleeding profusely from her stomach and lower torso. 'Mommy?' Adriana whispered brokenly, Josie could only stare.
'Aww,' Josie and Adriana turned sharply towards the new voice, 'How sweet? A child crying over her dead mother.'
'Matthew,' Adriana spat out hatefully, 'You did this! YOU JACKASS YOU DID THIS TO MY MOTHER!' Adriana charged forward but was stopped by Josie who was trying her hardest to hold her back. 'No! Let me get him!' Matthew just stood there laughing maniacally.
'No!' Josie whispered into Adriana's ear. 'Let him feel what you felt for sixteen years.' Adrian's expression changed to that of an understanding one. 'Let your power flow through you, swap their auras.' Josie slowly let go of the now still Adriana and slowly stepped away.
'What's the matter sweetcheeks?' Matthew stepped forward towards her, 'Lost something?' He stopped walking when Adriana looked up and her eyes had changed colour. They were now a raging fire.
'No,' she said angrily, 'But you're about to.' Suddenly all the women who were in cells started to appear out of nowhere behind and around Adriana, Josie and Matthew.
'That's it,' Josie whispered, 'You can do this!'
More and more women were blinking into sight. Throughout the whole prison guards were shocked to see the women disappear from their cells and reappear in front of the bars that had held them in for so long.
'NO!' Matthew screamed.
'Yes,' Adriana said to him before he disappeared, along with every guard in the prison, and reappeared behind bars. Josie walked up to Matthew in his cell.
'Have a nice day. ' She spat out at him before turning and walking over to Adriana whose eyes had now returned to their normal green colour. Adriana was staring into her mother's cell. 'Are you okay?'
'I've been better,' Adriana whispered to Josie whilst turning to look at her. Josie wrapped an arm around her shoulder.
'Come on,' She started to tug her towards Matthew's cell. 'We have somewhere to be.' Adriana had placed Matthew in her old cell, which was where the black hole was. 'Let's go home.' Josie stepped into the black hole first and disappeared in a flash of light. Adriana slowly stepped towards it.
'Yeah,' she looked around, 'Home.' She stepped forward and disappeared in the same light. Matthew rushed forward and stepped on the same spot they had but nothing happened. The black hole had moved on.
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Adriana fell in a heap on the floor at the Science club's feet. Lucas helped her up and supported her, she was very tired. 'Do I have a room yet?' She said whilst walking slowly to the door after removing herself from Lucas, 'I think I'm black hole lagged.' The science club laughed except for Lucas, he knew she was just covering.
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Lucas walked outside and sat down beside Adriana who was watching Vaughn practice.
'Are you okay?' Lucas asked her.
'Nothing gets by you does it?'
'Not really,' he looked at her, 'So, what's up?'
'The sky?' She said cheerfully but he gave her a pointed look and the smile disappeared off her face. 'I'm scared, of what I can do. I managed to teleport 600 women in one go and then 100 men, and yet, I feel I can't even sleep for a day. I'm not even tired.'
'Well, why should you be scared of that? You're powerful, everyone dreams of that.'
'That's not what scares me though,' she whispered.
'What does then?'
'Myself. I let my emotions get the better of me and I had the power to kill someone, but I didn't. And do you know why? Because I thought it would be a waste of time.' The two of them sat in silence watching Vaughn when Josie came out to speak to him. Vaughn and Josie were chatting with each other and laughing. Lucas sighed quietly.
'You don't have a chance.' Adriana told him.
'Excuse me?'
'With Josie, you don't stand a chance.'
'I'll have you know that-'
'I don't care what you know. I care about what I feel, and what I read. She loves you, she does, but she loves you as a friend. She thinks of you like you're her brother. But with Vaughn, she's IN love with him. And I know deep down that you know that, and that you think of Josie in the same way that she thinks about you.' Adriana stood up and put a hand on her shoulder. 'You helped me, so I helped you. Don't let yourself get hurt in the long run. Let go of her now, and it won't hurt so much when she chooses Vaughn.'
Adriana turned around and walked back to the school, leaving Lucas behind watching Vaughn and Josie. After a few minutes Lucas smiled at the pair he was watching. He stood up and jogged back to the school.