The Grey Area of Sater

Chapter 1

Gray fumbled down the stairs gripping onto the railing. His vision was blurry due to covering his glowing eyes with a sleep mask the night before.

Ugh, this better be gone by the time I get to school.

Gray slowly walked to the front door swinging his backpack over his shoulder.

"I'm off to school!" he raised his voice slightly, not loud enough to wake the whole house but loud enough for one of his parents to her him.

"Gray wait!" Gray's foster mom caught his attention just before he closed the door, "Have a good day honey, and good luck on your test!" she kissed his forehead and walked him to the end of the driveway.

"I will..." he hesitated. He was still unsure what to call his foster mother. He'd never had such a... nice... relationship with anyone before, "thanks!" Gray smiled and walked off waving.

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"Hey, why were you walking like a drunk person this morning? Some late-night texting and the light screwed up your eyes? Who was it tell me!"

Gray was startled. He jumped sideways, body-slamming a locker. He knew the voice but it didn't register until after he had freaked out.

With his now-clear vision Gray saw his foster sister, Aline. She had a grin on her face from ear to ear knowing she had  completed her daily task that was annoying her younger brother, though she was the only one of his siblings that tried to form a relationship with him five months back when he was too anxious to talk to anyone.

As annoyed as he was, Gray was relieved that she of all people noticed his strange walking this morning... but then he started to panic again.

"Wait you saw a light coming from my room last night?" Gray could practically hear his heart beating in his chest. He was praying that Aline still thaught it was his phone.

"Yeah but it dimmed down as soon as I saw it." Aline shrugged her shoulders and decided to walk Gray to his class and he followed relieved that she wasn't suspicious.

"It was my phone but I wasn't texting anyone so you can let go of that," Gray rubbed his eyes trying to hide his face, "I was up for hours last night thinking about my test so I browsed the internet for a while."

"Tenth graders man you guys worry about everything!" Aline waved a hand in the air, "Gray, your life is easy right now, enjoy it before you get to my age." his sister stopped abruptly and pointed to Gray's class, "Good luck and stress less." she said walking in the opposite direction from which they came.

Yeah sure, being in the tenth grade is way easier than the twelfth espesially being the only one you know with uncontrolable magic. He thaught sarcastically.

Gray walked into his first-period class, history, with his textbook open trying to get one last review before his test. As he sat at his desk he saw a picture that looked oddly farmiliar then suddenly he felt a stinging feeling in his head.

A woman inhales deeply, "His name is Graynnon Raurral, please take good care of him." the woman hands a baby to a man and walks out of his office not letting the man see the tears rolling down her face. She meets with another man outside the building, "Do you really think he'll be okay with them?" she asks. "His powers are too strong for Sater, he'll be safer living with normal humans." the man reassures her.

"M-Mrs..." Gray raised a shaking hand, "can I p-please use the washroom?" without waiting for an answer he stood and swiftly walked down to the library with his history textbook.

As he walked into the library the librarian acknowledged him but Gray completly ignored him. He sat in his usual spot by the window and read everything his history book had on Sater but had a gut feeling some parts were being left out so he went to one of the computers.

Eventually Gray made his way to the dark web where he saw an article titled, "Parts of The Thaught to Be Extinct Saterians Are Now Being Sold On The Black Market."

This made Gray so upset he didn't notice the electricity flowing from the keyboard to to his hand until a few seconds had gone by. As much as it hurt he didn't pay attention to the pain.

Keeping the previous article open, in a new tab he found an article on Sater. It talked about how fifteen years prior the continent and all its citizens supposedly dissapeared after a baby with the magic ability equivalent to that of a five-year-old Saterian's power caused havoc. The child's power went out of control greatly affecting the land. After that neither Sater nor any Saterian had been seen until recently.

Wa-was this me... did I cause all of this?

Gray's vision made sense now he finally found out where he had come from. But he didn't have much time to appreciate his discovery.

Whoosh~ he could hear the wind blowing outside. It was blowing so hard some of the windows in the library broke.

"Graynnon Raurral," the two voices spoke synchronously, "we must see you. Now!"

Gray looked out the window to see who was speaking but he saw no one.