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Jade woke up breathing hard. He looked frantically around the room before seeing me. "Wh-where am I?"
"You are in my house. I found you in the woods and brought you here to heal you." I smiled warmly. "Do you need anything?"
He tried to sit up but winced in pain. "No, I'm okay. How long was I out?"
"A few days. You had a very serious… hole in your stomach. It took all my power to keep you alive long enough to get you here."
"Why? Why keep me alive? I'm not worth it. After all, if I was..." He looks down dejectedly.
I walk up to him. I turn his face to look at me. "You are worth it. Everyone is. And I need you."
"For what?" He falls back onto the bed. "Ow!"
"A team. I'm making a team. I need protection, as many people will want to kill me for who I am. Also, you were dying. I have dedicated my life to nurturing and preserving life." I sat down next to him. "Do you have any other questions?"
Jade POV
"Do you have any other questions?" The woman in front of me asked.
"A few, how will I get my new weapon, my last one was completely destroyed?" I asked.
"Well…"
"Also, what's your name and what's the name of my new teammates? And will I have to go by a new name?"
"Why?" she asked.
"I was betrayed by one of my teammates," The sadness washed over me again. "As much as I would hate to let my sisters thing I'm still dead, I don't know why she would kill me. And if she knows, she might try to kill me again. And I need to protect my sisters and do what she tried to do to me to her." I start burning with anger. I grip the side of my bed hard.
She looked confused. "Y-your teammates are Teresa, who helped me heal you, Violet, and Venarius."
"Yes Milady?" A man who was dressed in what looked like a ninja costumed appeared across the room. My chest froze and I threw my pillow in fear. It didn't even get halfway to him.
"This is Venarius." The woman glared at him. "He has fun using his semblance to spy on people. Even though I have told him about a thousand times to not."
"If you count that one, it's only 53."
"That's a lot." I groaned and closed my eyes. "So what's your name?"
"I am Zinnia."
"So, why are people wanting to kill you?" That really bothered me, because I didn't understand why people would want to kill her. She seems overly nice, and other than the mysterious "power" she mentioned…
"Now Jade, what fairy tales where you told as a child?" She smiled.
Two Weeks later
The funeral was very sad, as expected. Sapphire went too and gave a very heartfelt sounding speech. Sounding. I knew it wasn't. Zinnia had to calm me down so I didn't go up on the stage and attack her. I don't know why she wanted to kill me. I guess I'll have to adopt the mind of my sister and beat it out of her. But later, it would be bad if I kill someone at my own funeral.
"Hey, who are you?" I looked to my left and another wave of sadness washed over me. That's been happening a lot recently, probably because my teammate tried to kill me.
"I was friend of Jade's." I said in my raspy voice. My voice was damaged from the fire. "I'm Strazio." Of course she wouldn't recognize me. I was wearing a black hoodie and black pants. Because of my burns I was wearing a mask. It had a black base with roses on the left side, slightly encroaching on the right. On the bottom edge there were fringes of fire.
"Oh, he never talked about you."
"No, I only saw him a few times." I turned away. "I've got to go." I walked away.
"Strazio, wait!" Violet ran after me. I collapsed behind a tree, out of sight from Ruby. "Strazio, are you okay?"
"I can't just tell them, tell them I'm still alive?" A tear leaked out of my regular eye.
"No, that would probably make them targets too." She rubbed my back. "You'll be fine. Once we find out why she attacked you, you can tell them."
"You know Violet, for you being freakishly strong, you are pretty gentle."
"Shut up!" she punched me in arm lightly. "I'm not that strong, it's just my semblance."
I stared at the ground. "I used to have a teammate that their semblance was just super strength. He was cool, unlike…"
"Come on, let's get back."