Donor
By: Anna Q.
Chapter 5
"Oh my god, I can't believe we are actually going shopping, 'cause the money we earned from working in Antarctica like disappeared like that." Nudge snapped her fingers as she went on and on about the fact of shopping. She was about to ask if we could stay in a five-star hotel when Max interrupted her.
"Nudge, I'm sure we would all love to hear more about the fact we are going shopping, but please shut up. I need to ask Violet a few questions." We walked out of the forest from our quick mile long walk in the direction of a mall that supplied clothing for the residents of George, a town in southern Iowa known for their drum factory and nice vacationing for those in semi-close cities.
"What do you want to know?" I asked, as our walking hit the cement side walks on the edge of 'down town.'
"What exactly are your powers?" she asked.
"Well, as we all found out this morning, I can block out mind reading." I reviewed what we had concluded that morning "But that's only if I'm focused, calm, or not distressed." Angel coughed, still frustrated at the fact. "But, as you saw yesterday night, and Iggy, as you witnessed, I did that special mind thing. I call it mind placement, I can take my memories, thoughts, anything that is going on into my mind and place it into some else through touch." The flock became silent thinking about this. "Which means," I grabbed Angel's hand.
"I can hear your thoughts!" she cheered.
"Exactly," I let go of her hand. She frowned, losing the connection from my mind. I rolled my eyes and continued to hold her hand; she happily skipped next to me.
"Anything else?" Gazzy asked.
"Do you count the ability to learn any language ten times faster the a normal human?"
He gave me the maybe look.
"But I must know, what are yours?" it was a fair trade, each told me of what they could do.
Max could fly at super fast speeds, and had a voice in her head, who sorta lead them in the right direction. Surprisingly, the voice hadn't contacted Max since I had come. "It's nice," she commented.
Fang had the ability to hide in backgrounds if he stayed still. This explained why I didn't see him in the morning. It reminded me of the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland.
Iggy had many. He had super touch, detecting any defects on anybody, the ability to feel color, and see people if they stood still on a white background. But I also added the fact he could easily find people and function well without sight. Also that he cooked the best omelets I have ever had.
Nudge was little miss magnet. She wasn't strong enough to grab my backpack that was draped in carabineers, but she could detach them from my backpack. Nudge could also hack into any computer, so fast that was right when I guess she was reading their mine. "I don't think it's as interesting as a human mind though." She commented.
Gazzy's power to mimic any voice, which I do admit, was an importance for his jokes. Then he had the ability to toot, like no one could toot. He was refrained from demonstrating.
And Angel was simply amazing. I had scanned her documents before and knew that she would have special powers, due to brain enhancement, but I didn't know this many powers would exist, I didn't know that powers I anyone, including myself, would exist. Angel could read minds, control minds through speech, breath under water, and transform into many strange things. Every single one was beautiful, unexpected, and amazing.
Total I had also give credit to, he was a talking dog! But, thought he could keep them hidden under his fur, were bird wings that he was growing, not what he was born with. Akila was the only one who wasn't mutated since she was never a mutant, though I wouldn't be surprised if she did.
We came to a mini outlet mall. We decided that Akila and Total would wait outside, which perfectly fine with Total. We went into Gap, where we all seemed to find new clothes that would last longer then normal. We split up into two groups, Max, Nudge, Angel and I went to the women's section first, as well as gap kids for Angel and Nudge. The guys were on their own as they went through the Men's section and kids. By the end, almost everyone had two pairs of pants, preferably jeans, four shirts and a jacket of some sort. We came together were the shiny credit card in my pocket was easily handed over to the cashier.
After our quick little shopping spree through Gap, we went to a random shoe store, which luckily had a clearance sale going on. Seeing that most of the Flock's shoes were too small or so worn through that the sole was not even a centimeter thick, a brand new pair of shoes was well appreciated.
After, dumping most of our worn through clothes and garbage in a near by, we quickly headed off to a camping store. I persuaded Max and Fang that they sorta needed some better camping supplies if they often camped out due to lack of money, and that certain supplies don't last forever, like their cooking pan that had rusted, which explained why their food often tasted weird. Fang, Max, Iggy and I also got Swiss army knifes, which, since mine had recently been broken, I said were a complete necessity and I was going to get one any way.
We had a cheery and quite expensive lunch. I knew that the flock ate a lot, but this much. Wow. I felt like I was anorexic along the crowd, and even I had to intake twice as much as a full-grown man.
By the end of the day we sat in a motel, the kids to sleep, joined late by Nudge who just tried so hard to talk while falling asleep. Total and Akila had been asleep since Angel was put to bed, and the only place where we could be without waking anyone up was outside against the Motel's wall. Thankfully the manager had given us the rooms on the edge of motel rooms, far away from the other customers.
"How old are you?" Max asked me.
"I'm 13, I'll be 14 in a month," I told her. I already knew how old they were so they asked me another question.
"Is your hair color… natural?" Fang asked me next. I sighed, how was I going to explain that one.
"I was born with blonde, almost translucent hair, but my hair slowly turned a tinted blue, till it darkened, with a red hue in it, Eventually, in the past three years, my hair was purple." I told them. They seemed to get but their expressions, epically Fang were hard to read, almost as if they were thinking of something. Max answered the curious silence.
"Are you mutating?" she asked staring me strait in the eye. It was a bizarre question that took me a while to process.
"Um, if you mean I'm growing tentacles, then no."
"No, I mean, are you like getting strange powers? Because in the past year, all our powers have tripled or double." She told me.
I thought for a while what had happened to me. "I don't think so. My hair is sort of an oddity that all donors have, the donors either have hair that's translucent or are bald. But my memory placement ability I received when I was staying at the institute for a month five years ago, but the scientists were not injecting me with any chemicals or placing me under radiation. They just fed me and left me alone."
"Chemicals?" Iggy asked.
"Yeah," I froze, before I went into full scientist mode. "Just to warn you, I might go a little scientist like on you." I warned them, and continued. "Itex injected many of their experiments with unknown chemicals and hormones. Things made by the scientist, and things made by mother earth." I paused. "I had only heard of one recorded instance where these compounds, that should never been injected into anything no matter how small, had mentally changed a being. That was a small black dog that recorded brain wave activity. Wait!" I thought realizing who it was. "That's Total!" I looked at Max, Fang and Iggy. We were all surprised.
"How do you know all this?" Fang asked.
I taped my head. "I managed papers for the scientists, they didn't have anything for me to do while I waited to replace something on someone, so that's what I did. I have photographic memory, each piece of paper that intrigued me, each piece of paper that I knew could be destroyed at anytime I quickly memorized. I know I must sound like a stalker, but I want to help those who want to know why, how, and where. I want to help destroy Itex."
OKAY! Sorry for the long update. Been very busy at camp this summer. So next update will hopefully be soon. Probably will be FAX in the next chapter. Comments, suggestion, questions are most appreciated. Hope your summer is very nice and not too hot!