Chapter 8
THE FIRST THING I notice when I wake up is Billy unconscious and tied up. Then memories of what happened flow back to me. I was filled with hate and anger, but mostly sadness. I couldn't believe my father would do that. He was completely zoomed if he thought he actually helped. "Spaz are you okay," asked Bean.
I felt pain when I saw she'd been crying. There was no way I could forgive him. "I guess. What are we going to do with him?" I see Lanaya come out of the shadows, but not looking at my face when she talks.
"We have to take him to the Masters. They'll have a trial and if he's guilty… he'll be executed…" The last sentence made me think a lot. I knew he was guilty and deserved this, but he was still the only family I had. We all waited in silence until the masters were ready to see us. What happened was something I was not expecting…
We were finally called to see the Masters. They looked a little nervous though I don't know why. "What happened?" Lanaya explains everything from the part of the screaming to when I had a spaz. Through the entire time they looked disgusted that Bean and I were back.
"Hmmmm. I never expected this… let me ask the three of you something. If you were to choose if he were guilty or not, what would you all say?" We all looked at each other and then said "Guilty." Then the Masters started whispering to each other like they were debating.
Finally, one of the Masters said "Well done Lanaya. This was a test and you passed. We wanted to see if you could actually handle the pressure that awaits you in the future. And as for Billy Bizmo, you did a great job. You fooled them well." Billy got up and the ropes fell to the ground.
"It was pretty simple actually. They all believed I killed Lanaya's contributors and the kid so the rest was easy." I just stared with my mouth open. The person who actually got the nerve to speak was Bean.
"Hold up. Are you telling me we put through a test to see if Lanaya was ready to be a Master? And he pretended to kill our friends just for that?" They nodded. That's what he meant, I thought, he really did help me. "Where are they," I ask. They all point to a corner. After a few seconds they come out. I couldn't believe my eyes.
I was so happy. Everything was going great. Lanaya finally became a Master and is still going to follow our plan, everyone's alive, and my dad was a good person in the end. Things were perfect.
Sadly the peace took a while. Even though Lanaya was Master, people kept fighting and arguing. The normals weren't so happy either. They thought the proovs would treat them like trash. Even though they were right, Lanaya never gave up. After a year, everybody finally agreed. Since then Lanaya asked me to be her assistant. We've been a team ever since. And that's just the way I like it.