I traced my finger along the picture and noticed a date from about a month ago. My mum looked as beautiful as I remember her being, every flawless feature of her face but then I noticed another picture. It was my mum from the day after the other picture which was also a month ago but there was an X over her picture. It doesn't take a genius to realise that the X meant she was dead and if that wasn't confirmation enough the caption was, 'on the run for 13 years for being in the paladin resistance by association'. I decided to rip the picture of the wall; I guessed that I would ask Sophie about it later but I just needed to get out of this creepy room.

I retreated to the door but trod on what seemed to be a broken version of their electric weapons. I gripped it in my head, slipped out of the room and ran down the corridor. While running a weird sense of Déjà vu hit me and I was running down the same corridor but a woman was holding my hand. I wasn't the age I am now, I must have been about 5 and there was a woman pulling me along begging me to run faster or I won't be safe. I suddenly felt dizzy but I kept running because in my reverie I kept running. Before I knew it I barged into the room which David was being held in; I walked in to Griffin, David and Sophie who were talking quite intimately.

'So you didn't know I was your half-brother this whole time?' David questioned. There were a couple more unconscious paladins on the floor so I'm guessing they did have company.

Sophie who was about to break into tears said, 'No, I wouldn't have let them touch you if I did know'

'That didn't stop our mother' David complained, 'she could have helped me!'

'There's a very high cost for helping jumpers… I should know' Sophie whimpered. 'She had no choice'

Griffin put his arm around Sophie comforting her, 'I'm sorry I didn't believe that you helped me… and Jamie'

'It's okay' she smiled, 'After everything I can understand that' She rested her head on his shoulder and I suddenly wondered what happened in my absence that brought everyone so close.

'How's Millie?' David questioned when I approached them.

'She's doing okay, she's in the hospital' I confirmed.

Griffin squeezed my shoulder, 'I'm glad you're here. A lot more paladins are coming and we need you'

'I hate to interrupt' a voice from behind us interrupted. Before I had the chance to tell Griffin about the creepy surveillance room, we all turned around and what awaited us was a sea of paladins with various weapons. In that moment we all looked at each other but we all looked determined appose to feeling defeated.

As if a scene for a movie we charged at each other and fought each other; punches were flying and kicks swinging. I never realised how many different types of paladins there were; races, heights and fighting technique. The paladin that I was fighting had jet black hair and kept aiming punches at my head but I dodged every one. It didn't help that we couldn't jump in this room but Griffin and I made the most of it.

I grabbed my paladin's arms and swung him in Griffin's direction in response Griffin knocked him out with an electric rod. Now that's what you call team work, I thought to myself. Another paladin came at me with a gun but the gun didn't look like a pistol or a handgun it was bright blue and at the end facing me there was a blue light shining at me. I didn't know what the gun was capable of so my instincts told me I had to get rid of it. I held my hands up and said, 'Woah, easy with that'

The paladin smiled at me callously still pointing the blue weapon towards me, I took a step forward and smiled mischievously at the paladin. Then jumped into the air and kicked the gun into his face causing the paladin to fall straight to the ground.

'You make this way too easy for me' I smirked. I turned over to look at Griffin who made my karate skills look intermediate; he was fighting two paladins at a time elbowing them both in the face then smashing them to the ground. Griffin was invincible and you could tell that this is what he did best; he'd only been hit a few times. David however seemed to be hit more times as his nose was bleeding but him and Sophie were working together. David would hold one down while Sophie hit them with their own weapons. As I was examining the rest of the room a paladin knocked me onto the ground with his electric rod which sent shrills of electricity through my body. He started relentlessly beating me paralysing me with the blinding pain. The paladin knelt next to me laughing bitterly and I thought he was going to kill me until Griffin wrapped his arms around his neck and strangled him to death.

I lay on the ground temporarily motionless and surveyed the room again and it seemed like the war was over. Paladins limp on the floor and the jumpers still stand strong… well strong enough. Sophie advanced towards me and gently caressed my forehead underneath my hair. I forced a smiled onto my lips in return to her compassionate gesture. It was now that I had a better look at Sophie and Griffin they both looked tired and beaten but I could see the shine of victory in their eyes.

'Will he be okay?' Griffin asked Sophie.

'Yeah he will be, the weapon the paladin used on him is a temporary paralysing rod' a voice from behind us said it was a woman's voice.

'Mum?' Sophie and David said together.

'Hello…' Mary answered. Mary turned to David and continued, 'you should leave. Now… the General will be here soon and after that I can't help you'

'You didn't help him anyway Mum, you let him be tortured and on my watch' Sophie accused her mother with pain in her voice.

'I couldn't do anything about that-' Mary coughed not being able to finish her sentence.

'David, Sophie and Jamie can go… but I'm going to meet this General guy'

'That's not advisable…' Mary muttered, 'Sophie can't go with you'

'I can do what I want, Mum and I'm going with Griffin' Sophie said ignoring her mother.

'If you're not with us, you're against us' Mary said sternly.

'Well then I'm against you.' Sophie retorted.

'Fine, I'll lose you too' Mary muttered to herself and then turned around to leave but before she left she turned round again and said, 'I suggest you leave now… or you won't be about to leave'

Although Mary was trying to sound as if she was warning us but her voice made it seem like a threat. The numbness in my body ceased and I was able to move so I sat up slowly. When I did I noticed that Sophie had her hand over Griffin's hand as she watched her mum walk out the door and out of her life.

After Mary left there was silence to allow David and Sophie time to think and compose themselves; I used the time to stretch out my bruised body. While stretching I looked up and at the door were two girls, they were wearing paladin uniform but they looked too innocent to be paladins.

'Who are they?' I said smiling almost in a daze by their cuteness, I was in awe. They looked older than me maybe about 24 but something about them made them look younger than I am.

'Watch out for them…' Sophie muttered in fear.

Griffin and I burst out laughing at the fear in her voice and Griffin said while laughing, 'those two girls couldn't hurt a fly let alone us'

'I wouldn't be so sure' and as if Sophie activated them the two girls walked towards us with the paralysing weapons in their hands. It was the way they walked it was like a waltz but a creepy slow waltz; but the worst thing was we didn't move we just watched as it happened.

We were hypnotised by the two identical girls, they looked like the same girl but their features differed slightly and then the girl on the right raised her weapon and struck down with full force on Griffin's head. This brought everyone out of their trance.