Half-Blood Academy of Super Powers
Chapter Two
Nico woke up to see the same annoying girl looming over him. She smiled at him, only to reveal that she had dimples. Nico bent over, and studied the room he was in. It was bright green everywhere. The bed he was sitting on had green bedsheets, and the walls were painted green. The carpet was green as well. He frowned, it looked too alive, too happy.
"Your finally awake." The girl was now sitting on a green desk, eating a green apple. "You took forever, normally people wake up once we're here."
"Do you have a problem?" Nico asked her. She almost choked on her apple.
"A problem?" She stopped eating her apple and tossed it into a green garbage bin.
"Everything is green." Nico breathed. "Its... disturbing."
"Everyone thinks that when they come in." She jumped off the desk. "Especially people who hate green, and even the people who have green as their favorite color don't like it."
"Then why do you keep it green?" A loud knock surprised Nico. He forgot how he got here, that this lunatic girl kidnapped him. The girl was about to open it, when Nico grabbed her arm.
"Why am I here?" Nico growled. "What did you do?" The girl's eyes flashed a darker shade, and the same thing happened again. He felt all the energy drain out of him, and he was about to pass out when it stopped.
"Great, now your going to make him faint again," The girl groaned. "Do you know how long it takes for him to wake up?" Nico was on the floor now, gasping for air. He felt a new surge of energy run through him, as the girl helped him up.
"Sorry, Nico." He heard another girl apologize. The voice sounded familiar, very familiar. I turned towards her.
"Hazel?" I heard her voice, but I couldn't see her.
"Whoops, sorry about that," The girl said. Her green eyes got lighter, to a ghostly pale.
He soon saw a figure in the background, and he was sure that it was Hazel. Nico walked towards her and they hugged. Hazel was Nico's adopted sister, and she mysteriously disappeared a few months ago.
"Where are we?" He asked. "Who is she anyways?" Nico said, eyeing her.
"Em, would you kindly introduce yourself to my brother?" She stuck her arm out for Nico to shake it.
"My name is Emery Morgan, and I'm fourteen." Emery said flatly. Hazel turned her attention back to her brother.
"You must be hungry." She told him. "I have to go now. Emery will give you a tour of the place, and she will explain everything." A bundle of questions flashed through Nico's head.
"Where are you going?" Nico asked. Hazel looked hesitant to answer, so Emery answered for her.
"She's going to find others." Nico looked at them confused.
"They could hurt her." Emery frowned in frustration.
"That's only if they discovered their... abilities." Emery stated. "I'm her backup, I'll help when she needs it." Nico was only getting more and more confused.
"Abilities?" Nico paused. "If you're with me, how are you going to be able to help Hazel?"
"Nico, she really has to go." Hazel soon disappeared from Nico's vision.
"Where did she go?" Nico snarled. Emery ignored his question, and lash of anger. It didn't seem to affect her at all.
"Follow me." She said as she exited the room.
"The room we were just in, is mine." Emery stated. "Each tracker has their own room, and each room has their very own color."
"Were you able to choose white?" Nico asked. "Or black?"
"Yes, I was, but that's not the point." Emery stopped in front of a large door. There was a sign above that said, Feeding Quarters. There was a keypad on the side with all the letters of the alphabet. Emery punched in the word, Apollo.
"Apollo?" Emery flinched when Nico said the word.
"We do not say his name here." Emery pushed open the cafeteria door. "Nor do we say any others." The cafeteria had multiple sections. Each section a different color.
"Where is everyone?" Nico asked, scouting the area.
"They're training, or like Hazel, searching." Emery started to explain everything that happened. "Hazel and I are the trackers."
"Trackers, they search for others?"
"Nico, we have special abilities. That's why I brought you here. We're... different."
"So, we basically have super powers?" She got up and took two plates off a steel counter.
"That's the deal." Emery came back with two plates of spaghetti. "Hope you like pasta, cause that's all there is." Nico stared at the plate of stale carbohydrates.
"Its not that bad." She said. "If you want luxury food, then I suggest you eat elsewhere."
"So, what are your powers?" Nico said as he pushed the pasta away from him.
"I'm good with minds." She smiled. "Minds meaning that I have almost absolute control over them."
"That explains a lot." Emery tapped the side of her head.
"I can get inside their head, gather all the info. That's how I know their weakness." Nico looked at her worried. He was afraid of what she saw.
"Don't worry, I don't care if your gay or what-not." She said aloud as multiple people entered. Nico knitted his eyebrows.
"They shouldn't judge you," Emery grinned at the people walking by. "If they do, I got your back." Nico wasn't used to having someone stick up for him, and he didn't like the fact that she knew everything about him.
"You disturb people's privacy." Emery's face turned blank.
"That's the downside." She sighed. "There is always a con."
"When do I find out my power?" Nico asked.
"Anxious to do some action, are we?" Emery laughed. "We should go since you don't want to eat your food anyways." The two made their way to the exit.
Don watched them in the distance, and smirked to himself.
"If only they knew what was going to happen next." He whispered as he made way for the exit. He pulled out a golden rod, and pointed it at the wall.
"Hey!" Cassie yelled. "Don, what are you doing?"
"You were a good friend, too bad I have to dispose you." A dark mist surrounded Cassie, and she soon was engulfed in it. The mist burned her skin like acid, and swallowed her whole.
"If anyone speaks word of this, you'll be next." Don warned the others than were hugging the wall in fear. He blasted through the wall, and left the academy. Leaving many speechless, and one dead.