Chapter 14.
Andy and Destiny climbed out of the truck, a few minutes later. They were outside Scott's house, everything seemed alright; but the lights were off and there was a very dark aura lingering around the house. The aura was so dark and heavy, you could actually choke on it, like you do with fog that is too thick.
"The lights are off. Maybe they went to bed." Destiny tried to reason, even if she knew better.
"No, someone cut the lights and telephones out. They did a bad job at it to. The wires are all cut, there's no fixing it." He simply stated.
"So that's what your ability is. You can use electricity. "
"Yeah. I can control, use and manipulate it too. " Andy said and climbed out of the truck. He walked over and helped Destiny out of her side.
They climbed to the front door, and they looked around the front lawn to check for any threats to them. All they saw were animals in the woods waiting to provide aid anyway possible. The clouds started to droop and a fog started to kick in. The temperature stayed warm, and the wind picked up to carry the warmth around them. Tides started to raise and fall.
"They can help from that far away?" Andy asked, shocked.
"Yes. Jewel and Kallie can do a great distance. The others they will be able to as well, when they are in more control of their abilities. Besides we're only a block or two away from the house." Destiny answered proud. "And they have this code that no one messes with one person in their family with out the rest of us getting involved. It's our family code. Which is why we're here, Scott may not be blood; but he's family. Just like you; and I am their mother so obviously family too."
"That's a comfort. We'll at least we know that we have outside help if we need it." Andy said with a smile, when they reached the door. He opened it, and stuck his head in. They walked in slowly to avoid any traps set in the room.
The house was pitch black, and empty. The halls were long and hollow. Any noise made, echoed down the hall and bounced off the stones. In the daylight, Destiny thought that the home was beautiful. At night however, she thought it was scary and reminded her of an empty asylum. The hall ended in front a staircase. Destiny knew the staircase led to the second floor bedrooms. She climbed the staircase, until she came to a closed door. Lilly's room. Lilly was Scott's mom. The door was covered in black aura. Destiny opened the door and saw a stream of blood; her eyes followed the river to find a pool of blood and a body in the middle of it. Destiny walked in the room, and screamed. Andy hugged her from behind, there lying in the middle of the room was Scott's mother Lilly. Lilly was lying in her own pool of blood. Destiny walked over to Lilly and grabbed her hand.
"Lilly, what happened? Where's Scott?" Destiny asked.
"In his room. On the dresser, there's a will." Lilly said, and then her eyes glazed over.
Destiny hugged Lilly's arm and placed a kiss on her hand. She gently lied her body down and closed her eyes. She wiped away her tears and turned to Andy.
"Come on, we need to find Scott. Grab the will, Andy." Destiny said and walked out of the room holding Andy's hand.
Destiny heard a bang come from Scott's bedroom. Instinct took over and she ran towards the room at vampire speed, dragging poor Andy with her. She opened the door and found Scott on the floor with a gun shot wound. She rushed to his side, and Andy followed.
"Scott, can you hear me? Hang in there okay." She called to him.
"Mom, the girls….the house. He went there….Help." Scott stammered out. His body went still. Andy leaned over and checked his pulse. Destiny looked at Andy for an answer as to what to do next.
"He's still alive, but barely. Kallie's screaming at us. She said to bring him to the house. Come on D, we don't have a lot of time left." Andy said, and picked Scott up fire-man style.
Destiny and Andy ran down the stairs, to the front door, and then out to the lawn. There on the lawn were two men with guns. Destiny continued to run toward the truck and the earth started to shake. The ground swallowed the men right up. Destiny looked around and saw that another man was drowning in the sea, another was being shot with his own gun and another was being attacked by a bear. Once in the truck, she started to drive to the house, she knew Scott's only hope was, that Jewel could heal him. She looked at Andy who was applying pressure to the gun wound on a very pale Scott.
"I should have known this was a distraction." Destiny sighed.
"It's okay, D. Our kids can handle everything fine, until we get there. Remember the damage they did to the kitchen, they'll do ten times worse to anyone who tries to hurt them. Scott's not cold, that's not normal. It's Jean, isn't it?" He reassured.
"Yeah. She's keeping his temperature up until we get there, so Jewel can help him. Jean's always had the closet connection to Scott, even though Sean is his best friend." Destiny said turning into the driveway.
She turned the truck off, and hopped out. She helped Andy out and ran to the door. She opened the door and screamed for her kids.
"Jewel!" She screamed for her oldest.
"Put him on the couch, Andy." Jewel instructed as she came in carrying a blanket.
Kallie closed the door as she came into the room. Andy put Scott on the couch, as the other children entered the room.
"Is he gonna be okay, Jewel? Do you need me to keep his temperature up anymore?" Jean asked closed to tears.
"Yes, Jean. He'll be fine. The wound is not that deep. You can let his temperature go now. I need you too, so I can if he's recovering correctly. Go secure the rest of the house, please." Jewel stated, as she looked at her sister sympathetically.
Everyone left except Destiny. She stayed to watch over Jewel and Scott as Jewel finished healing him.
"How bad is it, really?" She asked when everyone was out of the room.
"Not too bad. Small wound, it's almost healed. But I need some water, for me." Jewel answered, without looking up from Scott.
"You're giving him your blood? Why, we have plenty of blood from the bank."
For the first time since she started healing Scott, Jewel looked up at her mother and looked her in the eye. Destiny saw tiny blue flames in her eyes, which only appeared if she was very angry and controlling her-self. She had only seen it like that once.
"Mom, Scott's half human and half vampire. He needs strong and powerful blood. I gave him my blood because I thought asking for someone's blood would cause drama and I wanted to avoid as much drama possible. I already have to heal Jean when I'm done. She feels like she's having a heart attack. So my blood fully turned him. Now I'm finishing up here, and the others will be here in a few minutes, so I can heal Jean. I need that water before our visitors show up." Jewel angrily snapped at Destiny, before returning her attention to Scott.
Destiny was about to say something, but just kept her mouth shut and left to get her a glass of water. She realized that if Jewel had to give him blood then it was worse than she was letting people know. She grabbed the biggest glass; she could find and filled it with water. She picked the glass up and left the kitchen. When she came into the room, Jewel had her hand on Jean's chest and Jean had Scott's hand in hers. She handed the glass to Jewel, when she was done. Jewel drank the glass, like she had been in a desert for the past week and was dying of thirst.
"We've got some company." Andy said from in front of the window.
All of them moved to the window, and saw a van parked in front of the entrance to the beach. Destiny looked at her kids, who nodded their understanding. Andy had turned everything electronic off in the house and in the van. Jade made it very cloudy outside, slightly rainy, and a fog started to come in. Scott got off the couch and walked over to the group in front of the window.
"Glad to see you up and walking." Andy greeted him.
"Thanks, Andy. Thanks for healing me up very beautifully Jewel." Scott acknowledged.
"Don't I always? And no problem" Jewel answered.
Jade and Kallie hugged him. Destiny gave him a kiss on the cheek as she hugged him. Sean gave him a slap on the arm. The most surprising gesture though, was when Jean jumped on him. Scott caught her, and hugged her. He then turned his attention back to everyone else.
"There's three at the back by the greenhouse, two to the left of the house, two to the right of the house, and the one crawling his way to the front door. Also the van, that we can see; has at least three people in it. " He said to Destiny.
"Finally this family has a tracker. So now that we know where our enemies are, why don't we give them a friendly greeting Matthews style?" she smiled at her kids. Her kids returned the smile and nodded their heads.
"Watch this." She said to Andy and Scott. Who have never really seen the Matthews use their abilities to an extreme level.
Destiny froze everyone outside the house in place, except the left side of the house and the man in the front lawn. She then turned her attention to Kallie. Kallie started a tornado. She sent it spiraling to the left side of the house. The tunnel of angry air picked the men up and carried them to the edge of the cliff. The tornado then dropped them over the edge. Too avoid any screams; Kallie removed all the air from their lungs. Kallie nodded to Sean. Sean moved his attention to the man at the door. He conjured up the ghosts from the man's past. The man screamed and ran from the house. For the final touch, Sean conjured up the man's dead mother. The man saw his mother and had a heart attack right there on the lawn, he then turned toward the forest and called to all the animals causing them to leave. Destiny kept the other men frozen, but let the three men at the back unfreeze.
Jade quickly sent some vines after the first man. He was tied to the ground and muffled, as well as strangled by the vines. The second man was grabbed by some vines as well. He was dragged up a tree. Jade muffled his screams with poison ivy leaves, and hung him from the trees. She then turned her attention to the third man, who was about to break the window to her beautiful greenhouse. She sent some vines after him. The vines wrapped the man up in a cocoon of leaves. The first layer was poison ivy, then there was some bark, and then a Venus fly trap held the cocoon in its mouth. When the three men were dead, their bodies fell to the ground.
Jewel looked out the window to the van, and nodded her head at Destiny. Destiny unfroze the van and the last three men climbed out. She watched as Jewel stirred-up the sea. Jewel sent the first man, into the sea to drown. She then turned to the second man. For the second man, Jewel allowed all the water in his body to evaporate from his body. She allowed the man to dehydrate, she allowed some water to wedge its way to his throat to keep him from screaming or drinking any form of liquid. After his body dropped to the ground, Jewel looked to the third man. The small blue flames in her eyes grew larger with every second. She clogged all of his veins, arteries, and stopped all blood flow. She clogged his throat with sea water to prevent him from screaming out. The man grabbed his chest as his heart attack came to an end. After his body dropped dead to the floor, she had the sea spit the first man's dead body. Jewel smiled and looked at Jean.
"It's okay Jean. Do it, Jade and I can fix it after." Jewel encouraged her.
Jean nodded, and turned her attention to the right. She waved her hand and the forest caught fire. Sean, had told all the animals to leave the forest when he was attacking his gun-man, so he didn't freak out when his twin made a ring of fire around the two men. The first man, Jean turned her attention to, was going into shock. Jean raised his temperature, Jewel sped the pace of the water leaving his body faster. Kallie knocked the air out of his lungs to stop his screaming, and Jade had vines tie him down to the ground. After he died, Jean turned to the second man, and decided to burn him alive slowly for attacking her family. Kallie knocked the scream right out of his lungs as Jean's flames attacked his legs. After all the men were dead, Jean cried out in pain and cried. Scott went over to comfort her. Jewel put her attention to putting the fire out and healing Jean's pain. Jade was rebuilding the forest. Sean was sending the spirits back to the spiritual world and calling the animals back to the woods. Kallie was sending her tornado to pick up all the dead bodies and drop them over the cliff. Kallie also sent the van over the cliff as well. Jade then buried the evidence under the earth's surface. Andy and Destiny went to get snacks for the children so they would feel better.
Once in the kitchen Destiny looked at Andy. Andy hadn't said a single word during the kids' show of talents. He had also grown very pale. Destiny was getting very worried, as she grabbed some cookies and milk.
"Wow. They are really talented. I'm so glad that I'm on their side." Andy finally said.
"Yeah, they get very angry and dangerous when you threaten their loved ones." Destiny said, happy that he showed some form of emotion.
"Well its comforting and nice to know that WE have a family that looks after each other." He smiled at her.
"Really, you mean that?" she asked hopeful.
"Of course D. I love you and you couldn't get rid of me even if you sent all of them after me." He smiled at her and kissed her. "I gotta ask though. Wouldn't it be easier to just have Jean burn the evidence, instead of having Jade bury it and have the risk of someone finding it?"
"I love you too. You're right it would be easier, but it would be less fun for them. And we don't need to worry about evidence, Jade buried it so close to the ozone layer that it'll probably melt by tomorrow. If not then it will take millions of years before that evidence to become close to being found." She smiled.
"So why did Jean start crying?"
"Remember, she's an empath. She felt every single person's pain and it became too much for her. However when she was fighting though, she could feel everyone's anger and determination to protect us. She concentrated on that as much as she could until her task was done. I have to give their school credit though. Joseph Academy taught them to control them-selves and their abilities to the fullest. Jewel is graduating in a couple of months."
"Well I think it's a great idea that she has a place to go, so she can learn to control her abilities better."
"Come on, they're quiet. So they must be done cleaning up." She laughed and walked out the door. Andy grabbed the rest cups of milk and followed.
Destiny and Andy made it about three feet before they both dropped their glasses and plates of cookies and gasped. Andy stiffened right next to Destiny at the sight, he just couldn't believe his eyes. Destiny couldn't believe this was happening. "This can't be happening, this isn't real." She thought over and over.