A/N

Ok so we would have had this up a couple days ago, but our computers both started glitching and my dog came in and sat on my computer so we had to do A LOT of editing to get rid of the havoc he caused. By the time we were done it was late and I didn't feel in the mood to write anymore. The next day we were really busy with homework and sports and stuff so we couldn't do anything then either. That's my excuse. Just so you know, my friend was being really dramatic when we wrote the tests, so she just had to make it like that. I let her do whatever she wanted on that part. So that part is not entirely my fault.

Up until now has basically been filler chapters to get to the actual point and introduce the characters, but we are running out of names and new people to introduce to the story. We are now accepting OC's to help with that. At the bottom of this chapter is the guidelines for making a character, but I can't guarantee that your character will be used in the story, and if it is, then it may take a while before we introduce him/her. Sorry for the really long author's note. Onto the story!

FOUR |

EDILIO STARED SCEPTICALLY down at the girls, his face full of the same expression of disbelief the girls, Diana, Astrid, and Sam had been wearing when they first found out about the girls' power.

"These girls are all four more powerful than you and Caine, but they had no powers at all in the last FAYZ, and they still haven't shown any signs whatsoever of any powers? That doesn't make any sense," he said, shaking his head with disbelief.

"We don't get it either," Angelina agreed. "We were shocked when Diana said we were fives. It was the last thing we expected."

"So you don't even know what your powers are?" Edilio exclaimed incredulously.

"No, we don't. None of us do," Sapphire responded. Her twin nodded in agreement.

Edilio and Sam exchanged a look that none of the rest of them understood.

"We may have a way to figure out your powers," Sam began slowly. "But you're not gonna like it."

"What is it already?" Rose snapped impatiently.

"Well," Edilio said nervously, wringing his hands. "We may need Sam to do something if you can't do it on your own, but if you can then he won't have to. We're hoping for that second option. That's about the best I can explain it."

The girls went white again, but they all nodded fearfully. Sam looked away, an expression of what could be pain crossing his face.

Edilio looked at them regretfully. "I'm sorry. I really don't want to be doing any of this, but I think it's best to be prepared for this situation. I don't like it, but I think we can all agree that this is necessary."

Sam nodded, his face grave. "Edilio's right."

Somehow Sam's endorsement didn't really make them feel better about this plan. It sounded like a death sentence to their fearful ears. They later realized that might have been somewhat an overreaction, but at the time they were terrified.

As usual, Sapphire spoke up. "So, do you guys have any ideas on how we're going to try to discover them on our own?"

"Um," Edilio looked at Sam, who shrugged.

"Just point your hands in that direction," he pointed over to a corner that was completely empty, "and try to make yourself mad enough to want to hurt something, to take your anger out on it. Thats how a lot of us did it at first. When you get more experienced it should just come naturally." The girls looked incredulously at Sam, who had said this all like it was no big deal.

Sapphire still looked doubtful. "What if that's not the kind of power we have? What if it's like Lana's, and nothing will happen when we do any of this?"

Sam's brow furrowed. "I guess I didn't really think of that."

Astrid stepped forward. "If that's the case, then we'll just have to wait until the FAYZ to see what you can do. I'm sure your powers will show themselves somehow, seeing as they'll be so strong."

Sapphire nodded reluctantly. She wasn't sure what she'd been hoping, but she was a little disappointed.

Sam nodded as well. "So, who wants to try it out first?"

Sapphire stepped forward, appearing a lot braver than she felt at that particular moment.

"I'll go first. I'm going to try and do as you said, but I'm not entirely sure I want to try the other thing if I can't do it," she added, fear crossing her face only long enough for Scarlett to notice. She stepped forward, about to protest, but Sapphire cut her off with a look before she said anything. A pained look dominated her expression, but she fell back to where she had been, closing her mouth.

A similar expression was on her twin's face, but that passed quickly once again. Sapphire, out of all of them, was by far the best at keeping her feelings hidden. Even Scarlett often was left clueless over how she really felt. That's why she had been such a comfort to the other girls. The fact that she was showing this much emotion, even, meant she was really afraid.

Sam watched the silent exchange between the two intently, so he was a little caught off guard when Sapphire raised her hands and turned to the corner he'd gestured to earlier. He took a second to comprehend, but as soon as he did he stepped back, gesturing for everyone else to do the same.

They did, all except Scarlett, who had been so focused on her sister that she didn't notice that anything else had happened until Rose tried to reach out and pull her back with them, but Scarlett gave her a withering glare and Rose relented, stepping back to join the other girls and Sam.

Sapphire closed her eyes, focusing intently on everything Sam had said. She channeled every shred of fear, sadness, or anger she'd felt during or since the FAYZ, the thing that had ruined her life so long ago, which added up to a lot. Despite how long it had been, it almost scared Sapphire how easy it was too call up these ugly, deep emotions, and she added that feeling into the mix. She recalled the feeling of hatred she had felt towards those who had been involved in many of the evil things there - Zil, Caine, even Sam, to some extent. A jolt of pain raced through her heart.

She was on the verge of sobbing, and suddenly she felt a rush of power rise up in her. It threatened to explode out of her, and Sapphire felt herself losing control of it entirely.

Panicking, she quickly reined in her feelings again, which took a long moment as she pinched her eyes shut even tighter, but she finally opened her eyes, blinked, and stepped back. The power dropped back inside of her, making her feel dizzy, rattled, and completely sapped of energy. It took everything left in her not to fall over.

"Nothing," she said in a small voice. Scarlett rushed forward, enveloping her sister in a bone-crushing hug that would have nearly suffocated some people, but Sapphire only smiled and hugged her sister back, entirely used to this. There was no sign of anything she'd just felt, and that just made Scarlett hug her tighter, as she knew her twin was holding back her feelings.

Actually, it was Scarlett who had tears fill her eyes as she hugged Sapphire. The others took a small step back as the sisters hugged. After a moment, Sapphire gently stepped out of Scarlett's embrace, but she still held onto Scarlett's arms, keeping her a little closer than arms' length.

Scarlett wiped her eyes angrily, feeling dumb for tearing up when her sister was the one who'd just felt that wealth of feeling. Sapphire was fine, nothing had even happened to her, and here she was crying like an idiot. Finally her eyes dried, and she looked at Sam.

"My turn," Scarlett announced with finality, knowing Sapphire would try to argue with her.

Sure enough, Sapphire didn't even hesitate before saying, "No. No way."

"Why?" Scarlett challenged, her eyes narrowing as she stepped away from her sister, causing Sapphire's hands to fall back limply to hang at her sides. They weren't limp for long, though, as she almost immediately put her hands on her hips in a stubborn stance.

Sapphire opened her mouth, about to respond, but Scarlett cut her off. "Why? You just did, and nothing even happened to you. I didn't try to stop you, and now you're trying to stop me. I can do the same things you can do, no matter what you believe."

Sapphire flinched and took a step back, a wounded expression appearing on her face; this time she didn't bother trying to conceal it. "I never said that! Scar, just trust me. Don't do this," she pleaded, begging Scarlett with her eyes as well as her words. "Please."

"No, Saph. Don't try to protect me."

"That's not it! I would go back and choose not to have done that, and I know you'll feel the same. I'm not saying I'm any better than you." Sapphire all but yelled.

"Why? I don't even get how it's a big deal! Nothing even happened to you! You're fine! Why are you acting like this?" Scarlett responded, flabbergasted.

Sapphire hesitated, and for a second it looked like she was going to answer, but then her face crumpled and she ran out of the room.

Everyone else just shared looks of complete bewilderment. They'd all been following the incomprehensible argument like a tennis match, their heads swiveling back and forth between the twins as they fought. They had no idea how they were supposed to react to this fight, though. Sure, the girls had had their fair share of quarrels, they were sisters after all, but nothing as intense as this was. And nobody could understand why it was such a big deal.

On top of that, the girls were all confused by how Sapphire had just run off like that. She'd never backed down from an argument bigger than just a dumb squabble, and she never showed emotion of that magnitude. They'd never seen Sapphire react this way to anything before, even in the FAYZ.

Rose cleared her throat. "Um, Scarlett, what just happened?"

Scarlett just shook her head mutely. She had no idea how to answer Rose. Instead, she turned to Sam.
"Well, I guess it's my turn to try," she said shakily. She was more afraid than she cared to admit after Sapphire's words of warning, and how worked up her usually calm, peaceful twin was left her feeling more than a little shaken up.

Sam shook his head. "No. You need to go after Sapphire."

Scarlett started to protest, but Sam's voice was firm and she was still a little too intimidated to challenge him. But still, she looked around at the others for support, but all of their expressions urged her to go after Sapphire, even Astrid's and Diana's. Sophia placed her hand on Scarlett's shoulder.

"Go," she said softly, "Sapphire needs you."

Scarlett still huffed indignantly as she left, but her heart wasn't in it. Sophia was right, and that propelled her out the door after her twin.

Meanwhile, Sapphire had locked herself in a small room nearby. She'd spent her entire life always keeping her feelings in check, and now that she'd acknowledged them she felt the heavily fortified walls she'd worked so hard and so long to build crumbling down, demolishing them, as if they were never there in the first place, leaving her feeling easily viewable for the rest of the world, and her vulnerable to outsiders.

Waves of emotion racked her body as she huddled in her little corner of the room. She tried desperately to control her feelings, build a temporary fortress to keep them in check, but her terror just added to the melee and she felt herself losing control once more.

The power rose up in her again, overwhelming Sapphire. She screamed, and the power burst forth in a sudden and unpredictable rush.

The air in the room seemed to crystallize, freezing and thinning until most normal people wouldn't be able to breathe at all. But Sapphire wasn't normal; she knew that now, she had to accept it. Anyone who would have walked into the room Sapphire was hiding in would have been stunned by the beauty of the crystallized air, practically sparkling with crystals, but Sapphire didn't even notice it. Her emotions took over the power, and the air that had stopped moving and almost frozen began moving again all at once, causing a tornado of swirling air to form around her. She wasn't even able to feel shocked, still just focused on her emotions and trying desperately to control them that she wasn't really processing anything.

But then she was jerked out of her reverie by a noise that pierced the howling wind, hardly audible over the tremendous roar, but shattering in volume to Sapphire.

It was a scream. Scarlett's scream.

A/N

Little cliffy there for ya. This chapter was mainly centered around the twins, Sapphire and Scarlett, along with Sapphire's discovering her powers. Anyways, don't forget to R+R.

These are the guidelines if you want to submit an OC:

Character name

Power (If any, can not be any previously used) (Power level may be altered depending on how many people we have at different levels)

Appearance

Age (Must be younger than 17)

Anything else you wish to add (Background, jobs, what they did in the last FAYZ if they were there, parents, etc.)

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If anyone is confused on the ages of the girls, then here's a list

Sophia-16

Rose-15

Sapphire-14, older than Scarlett by, like, 3 minutes

Scarlett-14

Angelina-14, 5 months younger than Scarlett and Sapphire

CYA!

-Kari