The Reckoning By 331

Okay guys, I told you if I got at least 10 reviews I would give you the whole list. So I am. I took me a long time to decide if I should, because then it wouldn't be as surprising to find out what happens if I didn't tell you at all, but I've decided to be a push over and give you most of them. There are a couple things I'm not going to show, because those are just too good that they wouldn't work without the elements of suspense and surprise. but I will give you the list I had when I wrote the last chapter. And just so you know, if its bold font, it will definitely happen (there may be future changes, but these have the highest possibility of being put in), and if its regular font, I haven't decided yet. So here's the list (careful, its really long):

#1) Mall trip

#2) more interaction with housemates (romantic or otherwise)

#3) Chloe gets new powers

#5) Derek gets new powers

#6) Someone gets amnesia

#7) Someone gets kidnapped

#8) Derek dies (but comes back later with Chloe's new powers (there has to be a happy ending!))

#9) Car crash (accompanied by other strenuous events)

#10) Edison Group attacks and something weird happens to someone's powers

#11) Derek mutates in wolf form because of messed up genetics

#12) Chloe's new powers cause ghosts to flock to her overwhelmingly and fight over her (agito vs agito while Chloe's stuck in the same room!!!)

#13) Werewolves come for Derek (maybe or maybe not related) and fight breaks out

#14) Either they find Kit or Chloe finds out she has another supernatural relative besides Aunt Lauren and goes to look for them

#15) Chloe finds out about dead twin that is growing up in the spirit world and that will stop aging when she dies, and new powers and connection stuff like being able to bring him/her to life comes into play

#16) Chloe's dad finds her and Derek and takes her home and either Derek helps her escape after leaving her dad a note or telling Dad everything and getting him to help or flee the country

#17) ↑variation b: Chloe's dad finds them and arrests Derek. They go to court and the Edison group comes!

#18) Andrew and the Adults relocate them to LA, where they go to school with fake last names and Chloe's hair dyed, and then Chloe's dad finds them there and tries to arrest Derek, but Edison group intercepts and supernatural fight breaks out while Chloe's Dad and couple cops watch in shock and/or are hurt or kidnapped or killed.

#20)↑variation b: LA school, Chloe and and Derek are demonstrating some kind of thing to the school live via video, when Chloe's dad tries to arrest Derek on video.

#21)↑variation b part 2: all that, and Edison group comes and supernatural fight, all caught on video and streamed live to the entire school (Edison group doesn't know about video or that it's live, and Chloe and Derek conveniently forget)

#22)↑variation b part 2b: Chloe gets new powers that allow her powers to become offensive (battle wise, not insultingly), and she can do all the stuff she did in her dream (except killing the others, disintegrating, and falling into an ocean of glass), and she does this on the video to to the complete surprise of her dad and everyone else including Derek and the Edison group, and the housemates come to help fight, and Derek changes on command for the first time

#23) Adults put them in military school for safety reasons, which unfortunately is run secretly by the Cabals, and they begin hunting them too,and capture everyone except Chloe, Derek, Simon and Tori, and they finally break and go to see Chloe's dad which brings up more problems

#24) They flee the country and end up with the twins' brothers in England

#25) Aunt Lauren escapes and meets up with them

#26) Derek Changes again

#27) Time travel!!!! (just kidding!:P)

Review and give your opinion!!!!!(you can pick more than one)

(I think they're going to go to a school, but still haven't picked which one, and maybe Derek gets arrested twice?) (see what I mean by picking and combining more than one?!?!)

Anyway here's chapter 7

This is what happens after the Awakening by Kelley Armstrong.

I do not own anything and it all belongs to Kelley Armstrong. I am just using her characters and adding a few of my own.

Chloe's POV

Andrew was livid. He looked like he had been holding his breath ever since he found our beds empty, which was probably over two hours ago, so his face was puce. And when we came up the drive, he decided to put that pent up air to good use. Or, at least, loud use.

"ARE YOU INSANE!?!?!? THE EDISON GROUP IS HUNTING YOU DOWN TO KILL YOU, AND YOU LEAVE THE ONLY PLACE YOU ARE CURRENTLY SAFE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO GO TO McDONALD'S?!?!?!? DID YOU EVEN CONSIDERED WHAT THE REST OF US WOULD THINK, WITHOUT TELLING US OR EVEN LEAVING A NOTE―"

"Um, Andrew?" I said meekly from behind a tree about thirty feet away.

"WHAT?!?!" He was glaring at me throwing invisible eye daggers.

"We did leave a note. It's nailed to the post next to you," Derek said. He was sitting on a large rock only about 10 feet from Andrew, acting all nonchalant, as if this happened every day. He was also wearing his signature scowl. I gave him mental props for not running, but wasn't to sure that the effect it had on Andrew was a smart one to cause. Andrew turned and spying the note, swiped it off the pole and read it with a scowl almost identical to Derek's. His face went from outraged violet to just really angry red when he finished. At least he understood that we had been locked out, Derek had needed food after his change, and we had given a time frame and exactly where and how we were going. But he was still mad.

"YOU COULD HAVE JUST YELLED UNTIL SOMEONE LET YOU IN!"

"Well yeah, but then we'd get a lecture on going outside in the middle of the night alone and then waking the whole house up because we got stupidly locked out. So we left a note and went for food. If any of you had bothered to come check the porch then maybe you would have known that." Well said, Derek, but I don't think Andrew really appreciates you pointing out his mistakes. Then again he was doing that to us, so he had it coming. At least we were mostly calm and could take it (I was still hiding behind the tree). Andrew realized he was boxed into a corner and deflated, but still glared us with a look that said 'Do it again and you die', and ushered us into the house, still very mad. Everyone looked up as we entered the kitchen. I was tackled by two large blurs. Derek began to growl, but then chuckled and just stepped over.

"Chloe!!" It was Simon and Angie. Once Simon saw I was okay, he got off me and went over to Derek.

"Don't scare me like that ever!!! Do you even know the possibilities that went through my mind?!?!? Well of course not, only Caleb does cause he reads minds (smirk form Caleb), but you could have been kidnapped or killed or had just run away with Derek, which would be cute but terribly stupid. Don't ever do that again!!!" Angie was suffocating me with her elbows in my ribs.

"If I..say sorry.... do I get... to breathe....again?"

"Oh my god, here I'll get up! Sorry sorry sorry!" she jumped off me and I pulled myself up. Damien and Lacie were there too.

"That was incredibly stupid. If you had been attacked, we could have done nothing to help you, and we'd be more vulnerable if we had gotten attacked, because we'd have one less werewolf and they could've used you as hostages. Or you could've gotten into a car crash, or you could've been recognized and Derek arrested and you sent to your Dad. Your extremely lucky nothing bad happened, but because of that you learned nothing whatsoever about the consequences of what could've happened, so count your lucky stars that you even got back." Lacie was frowning at me. But then Angie elbowed her in the ribs and she smiled.

"But I guess I am glad you're back and nothing happened ," she said sheepishly, and I smiled back. Damien was scrutinizing me.

"What?" I said.

"Your a mess. You should have put on something more flattering before you got locked out." What?

"I was sleeping! Why in hell did I need to look flattering? And besides, all was thinking about was that Derek was starting to Change and that I had to get him outside." Everyone gasped and looked at Derek.

"You changed last night bro?" Simon was looking up at Derek, who was scowling at me. Sheesh, I didn't know it was such a big secret. He shrugged, which meant 'yeah' in Derekian (Derek language).

"Was it full?" Shane asked from the doorway. I hadn't noticed him earlier, but I guess werewolves were like that. Silent, moody, and on their own schedule. Derek shook his head, and Shane gave a curt nod and sat on the couch next to Joey, Tori, and Sarah. Anna, Arabelle, and Mike then took me and Derek aside and lectured us, though much less explosive than Andrew (who was still angry over at the granite countered island), still pretty much said 'don't do that again' and 'your lucky nothing happened' and 'don't be so stupid next time'. Then once everyone had calmed down, Angie roped us into going to the bouncy house room with her, which ended up not just having bouncy houses. It also had all those fun giant inflatable game things they have at carnivals, like giant inflatable jousting, and an inflatable rock wall, and an inflatable water gun maze, and an inflatable slide, and an inflatable obstacle course race thing, and one of those inflatable things where there a pole in the middle with a cord running through it connected to two harnesses, and two people get strapped in and run in opposite directions, and the first one to reach the wall on the far end of their side first wins. Plus many more. We ended up having a water gun war through out the whole room. The teams were Derek, me, Angie, Sadie, Tori, and Joey, versus Shane, Damien, Lacie, Simon, Petra, and Caleb (Sarah didn't want to play because she didn't want to mess up her straightened hair. Really? Straight hair a over water gun fight? I understood not wanting to get her hair wet after taking the time to straighten it, but she could just wear a swim cap or something). Angie used her powers to float up onto the roofs of the bouncy houses, and shot people in the back of the head, while Derek and Shane used their enhanced senses to catch us unawares, or pretend they didn't know we were there and then suddenly hit us unexpectedly. Caleb used his mind reading to figure out our moves and step to the side before he got hit, and Joey used his powers on our arms so whenever we aimed at him we would end up hitting Derek, regardless of where he was (Derek ended up cornering him and shooting him point blank in the face for two whole minutes(unfortunately, no, he didn't drown)). The twins were different though. They had their own level above the rest of us (2 levels above me and Damien, because necromancy did help unless we had an agito ghost friend to assist us and Liz still hadn't come to see me yet, and Damien said he'd never met a ghost of an agito half demon. Then again, he could've been lying, but I highly doubted it). They didn't even use water guns, just controlled the water and pummeled the rest of us until we were soaked to the bone. I swear, they had the force of a fire hose. It was great, and tried to be Rambo again. I heard the others yelling to or at each other, and Angie laughing as she squirted multiple people. I was hidden behind the giant slide to the left of the door, and I secret agent rolled over to the maze and flipped over the nearest wall (maze wall, not real one!!!). I came close to an intersection, and reversed as I saw the twins battling it out with giant water snakes. Like floating water in the shape of snakes, hissing and biting and striking each other. It was scary to see. I backed away quickly and quietly and went the other way. I stopped and listened, and heard footsteps coming. I sprinted as quietly as I could toward the sound, and then took a quick left. The footsteps were coming from where I would have gone if I'd gone straight. It probably wasn't Tori, Lacie, or Simon, because, like me and Damien, they had to be extra careful because their powers weren't good for avoiding attacks. And throwing fireballs had been forbidden, considering we didn't want to burn the house down, so Tori had practically nothing to use that she could control, and Simon's powers were too weak to be of much use. Lacie said she was only good at levitating, so she and Angie betrayed their teams and made a truce, and they were both up there somewhere shooting people. It was probably Caleb or Joey, because they were the only ones with good enough powers to have the luxury of just walking, and the werewolves were always silent. When they got close enough, I jumped out with my eyes closed and yelled "!!!" and randomly shot a long jet of water in the forward direction. The response was a chuckle and two jets of water in the face from in front and where I had been hiding. In front was Caleb and he was smirking. And to my left was Shane, who was laughing. They closed in and I tore down the path to the right (4 way intersection), with them close behind. I looked back while running and squirted at Caleb, who ducked, and the water hit Shane in the face, causing him to trip and fall on Caleb. They both hit the ground and I laughed, but stopped abruptly as I came back into the clearing where the twins were snake battling. The paused to look at me, then looked evilly at each other. Earlier I had shot them both, causing their water tornadoes (this was before the snakes) to fall on their heads and soak them. Apparently they wanted revenge.

"Truce?" Sadie asked.

"Truce," Petra said, and they turned their evil gaze toward me. I gulped. They morphed their snakes into a 30ft water dragon, and it surged forward. I shrieked and went running backward. It was following me with the twins riding on top and maniacally laughing. I was sprinting for my life through the maze. I saw Derek, Damien, Joey, Simon, and Tori battling up ahead. They saw me and the water dragon and gaped.

"RUN!!!" I screamed. They all turned and sprinted, except for Derek, who ran to me, picked me up, and carried me on his back out of the maze.

"Don't think you'll get out that easily!!!!!" Sadie yelled.

"Yeah, we're in control now!!!!" Petra called, and then the dragon breathed water/fire (it would've been fire, but it's a dragon made of water, so it breathed fire-like water). Derek leaped to the side, dodging by millimeters. I heard Lacie and Angie call out

"EVERYONE VERSUS THE DRAGON!!!!" and the responses of

"ALL RIGHT!!"

"AWESOME!!!!"

"THIS IS GREAT!!!!"

"I LOVE IT HERE!!!"

"Whatever (Tori)"and

"I always wanted to slay a dragon, just never expected it to happen (Damien)." And also two loud grunts from Shane and Derek.

"Hey, can I shoot fireballs at it?" Tori yelled.

"Only if you hit point blank, and are aiming where you shouldn't be able to miss and hit something or someone." Lacie replied. And immediately after a giant fireball hit the dragon in the stomach and made the water inside turn black.

"Hey!!!!" the twins screeched.

"You polluted our dragon!!!!!" and then a jet of black water shot out an hit Tori in the face.

"EW!!!!!! I'm covered in black water!!!!!!" Everyone laughed, and Tori ran out to get it off. Then everyone shot jets of clean water at the dragon, but it just got bigger, while the twins laughed evilly.

"You guys, aim for the twins, not the dragon!" Simon yelled, and everyone focused on hitting the twins. They shrieked and fell right through the middle of the dragon (apparently they needed to focus to ride on top of it) and all the black water came crashing down. Everyone got covered in gross black stuff, and though the twins got the black off the room and inflatables and themselves, they left it on us while they laughed. Then we all came over to hug them (wet black water hugs) and they quickly saved themselves by getting it off everyone else. But the said they were leaving it on Tori, because she polluted it in the first place. We thought that was fair and didn't argue further. Then we all went out to change (though the black water was gone, it still had stained our clothes) and came back down for lunch. Tori was shrieking at the twins to get the black stuff off her, and they were ignoring her while Joey, Caleb, and Simon watched and laughed. Shane had challenged Angie and Lacie to an eating contest, and to his dismay Lacie was in the lead. Damien was talking to Sarah about clothes, and the adults were having a whispered conversation in the kitchen. Derek hadn't come down yet. I just watched from the door at these events. I just wanted everything to stay like this, but I knew it wouldn't. The Edison group needed to be stopped, and eventually I'd have to go back to my Dad. Thinking about him still hurt, but I didn't cry. I wondered if I'd ever be able to tell him the truth. Maybe if the Edison group was stopped and there wasn't any danger, then maybe I could. But I shouldn't be thinking of it now. I felt hands around my waist and someone leaning on me.

"Miss me?" I chuckled and hugged Derek. He kissed my hair.

"What's for lunch?" I shrugged.

"Whatever's over there," I said, and he grabbed my hand and pulled me into the room. Simon saw me and waved, and I smiled and waved back. Apparently it was spaghetti and meatballs, because Angie and Shane had their faces in it in defeat as Lacie jumped around shouting 'I won!'. Derek grabbed two bowls and I grabbed one and we sat down nest to them.

"I can't believe I lost." came out muffledly from Shane's direction,

"Well get used to it because I'm here now and I.....I think I'm gonna--," Lacie ran into the bathroom and we heard the sound of retching. Shane and Angie shot up.

"Throwing up means instant disqualification!!" Shane yelled and he and Angie resumed shoveling. I grimaced and looked over at Derek to see he was already on his fourth bowl. Great, I'm surrounded by pigs, I thought. I nibbled at my spaghetti, and watched as eventually everyone migrated over and sat down for lunch with bowls of spaghetti. I got bored twirling my fork through the leftover noodles in my bowl, so I got up and put my dishes near the sink. I was about to walk out when Andrew gestured for me to sit back down. I did and he cleared his throat.

"Okay, so today we are going to go shopping. Chloe, we debated over whether or not it would be wise to let you come, seeing as you have half a million dollars on your forehead,"-I got some stares with that comment-" but, we decided it would be worse to leave you here alone in case something happened. So Sarah and Tori have volunteered to give you a make over and some clothes to borrow, and you will come with us and we will get your hair professionally died." I just then remembered my hair color. We'd been here for what, 2 days, and I'd already forgotten my hair crisis. Now that I was thinking about it, my hair felt icky and itchy and probably made me look goth. Or at least depressed or sick (don't get me wrong, I like goth, I just would not look good dressed as a goth). Andrew went on.

"We're going to the closest mall to buy clothes for Derek, Simon, Tori and Chloe, and some new stuff for the rest of you too. We'll be taking separate cars, which we'll sort out later, and we'll all meet by the entrance to Macy's to figure out timing and stuff. So don't make any plans for the next couple of hours, okay?" We all nodded and resumed eating. I got up and went down the hall. I found myself wandering into the library. It had a teen/young adult section, so I grabbed Marked by P.C. Cast (House of Night novel), and was about to sit down in a comfy armchair with it when I saw a sign for the Power training and usage section (non-fiction). I put Marked on the chair and sauntered over. I looked through the N's until I came to Necromancy, and pulled out a thick red leather book with silver writing. Necromancy was swirled in cursive on the front (as said the section sign where it was), and it had no written author I could find. I opened to the the table of contents and glanced down to 'common time line of necromancy powers' and flipped to that page.

Necromancers are all unique, but their power development generally follows the same path. When young, sometimes with the more powerful necromancers, they may begin to see a few ghosts sparsely throughout their early years,but most don't until around the ages of 11 to 16. Then their powers begin to increase gradually, whereas one day they see one ghost and on the next they see ten. The amount and age varies for each person. Later on when their powers are more developed (around the 21-26 range),necromancers can begin to see imprints, which is when a gruesome death so foul has occurred in a certain place that it replays over and over again, imprinted on that area. Some of the more powerful necromancers may be able to sense or even see them early, like at 19 to 20, but that is extremely rare. Bringing corpses back to life is one of the hardest things a necromancer can be able to do. Some necromancers aren't even strong enough to accomplish this even with fully developed powers. It takes an enormous amount of energy and fully developed powers to even begin to scratch the surface of this feat, and involves a certain extremely complicated ritual including certain elements. Not many have done it without practice, and very few were able to control the corpses once animated. The reanimating itself takes up so much energy that the necromancer usually does not have enough left to control what they created, and that can sometimes become a very bad situation. No necromancer under 35 has ever accomplished the task of reanimating a corpse, let alone controlling it, which means unless you are an extremely powerful fully developed necromancer with the ambition to control dead bodies, you will never animate and control a corpse. Talking to a ghost is the easiest thing a Necromancer can do. Summoning a spirit is a little harder, and you need to have something or be somewhere in relation the spirit you are trying to summon. Banishing is harder still, because it takes the most concentration and energy, but with practice and experience it usually able to be done quite easily. Any other powers are usually not because of necromancy, or because the powers have been tampered with. Tampered with powers can be extremely strenuous and hard to control,unless the powers have been made to be weaker. Because no one really had the stone heart needed to tamper with another person's power, this field has not been thoroughly studied, so no conclusive evidence can be found to say tampering is all good or all bad or a little of both. The only cases known to have been tampered with have usually ended with suicide, because the overwhelming powers were just to horrible for the necromancers to bear. Again, this evidence is not conclusive so there is no sure knowledge of powers that have been tampered with. The theories have usually been said as ending badly for the necromancer, and no one wants to test those theories.

Except the Edison group. My blood had gone cold. I had never been this frightened in my life. Everything on that list I had already, all of them extremely early and my powers had been tampered with. What if the evidence was conclusive, and I ended up dying?!?!?

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