The Stars Aligned

Chapter 8

It was after school, and Pat was coming to pick me up from my school. Chloe who I used to walk home with looked at me and gave me a hug. “Ugh, I'm so glad your safe, the day the ISA attacked was scary. But it was scary enough seeing you being carried by one of them.” She said making sure not to talk too loudly. I nodded, “Thank you but I'm okay.” She hugged me again and waved goodbye as I got into the front seat of pats car. I sigh and look ahead, but not before long Pat asks me if anything happened relate to the ISA. I shook my head, “Activity is low with them at the moment, but I doubt they stopped trying.” I said a little upset. I'm 14 and just want a normal life, like my friends. Like I said before living as a superhero has its huge con’s.

Pat nodded his head, “If their activity is low then their planning something big.” I nodded knowing he we 100% right about that. Once we got back to the small apartment, he grabbed a necklace. “Your father made this and was going to give it to you for Christmas till you know... If you press this, I'll get an alert on my phone saying you're in danger.” I smiled and looked at the necklace, it was a heart locket and had a picture of me and him and then if you turn the picture over a picture of Me, Anaya, Him, and Issaac my twin. I smiled and whipped a small tear forming in my eye. I thanked pat and walked upstairs to take a closer look at the golden necklace. It wasn’t pure gold it was just painted. But it still had the same meaning in my eyes. If you looked closely enough there was a second handle that you open, and a small red button appears.

I put the necklace on and head to open my laptop to play some music and try taming down my ability's. A lot of you may be wondering what my abilities are, I've told you what I can do but haven’t said anything about them. I’m what they call the Cosmic Staff Guardian, I protect the staff and pick who I think is worthy of the staff. The last guardian died after she picked my father and she ended up picking me as the new guardian. With my powers I can control the staff without touching it and can control anything with light. So yes, the means I can bring down the sun and kill everybody! I'm not going to do that though, I’m NOT a murderer.

My father also helped a siren queen once and she promised him that I would be forever protected. Whenever I needed help, I can just sing to them, and they would come to help me. I’ve never met any of them since I haven’t been in grave danger before. So, there was no need for me to sing to get their attention. But that doesn't mean I'm never going to use this. I started making little flickers of light and made them dance around my fingertips. It felt nice and warm but didn’t burn my skin. Since I can control light, light doesn't affect me. For example, while others can get a sunburn I can’t my skin just doesn't get it. If someone were to throw a match and it hit my arm it wouldn’t leave a mark or anything, it would just hurt like Sh (). I sighed as the music ended and I grew tired of using my magic I laid down on my bed and slept.

I woke up to a loud banging coming from my closed door. I got kind of scared, so I created a small sun and was about to attack what was at the door. But when I opened it all I saw was the Cosmic Staff. “Buddy you shouldn’t be here, what if Mike see’s you?” I ask the bored staff. It looked at me and opened the window pointing to go out. I looked annoyed at the staff, “No” I simply said and pushed the staff back and closed the windows. “It’s too dangerous and I'm too tired for this anyway.” The staff got annoyed and swung me on and barged out the window. “AHHHH” I yelled, I forgot how fun it was to ride the cosmic staff but also got scared that I would be caught.

The cosmic staff dropped down at a small forest and we just sat down and let nature do its own thing. I looked at the staff and smiled, “Thank you I really needed this.” The staff made a high-pitched noise, it was saying you're welcome. After about an hour I was ready to go home and go to school for the next day. I didn’t want to be up late as I had a couple of tests to make up. When the attack happened at school, and it was all cleared up students were told to go inside and resume their studies. Even though they should’ve been sent home after what they’ve just saw. But I'm not going to argue it happened a week ago and I'm not going to fight something that happened so long ago.

Once we go back to the house, I softly dropped down not waking anybody up and the staff went back own to its crate. Sam sighed and got changed into some pajamas and headed back to bed. What I didn’t realize it would be the last time for 3-4 years that I get to see or even remember Pat, Mike, School Friends, and Who I really am.

I got up and did the normal thing people do when they wake up. Make my bed, use the bathroom, get changed, brush my hair, eat and got to school. It was a Wednesday, and It was rather dreary if you would ask me. I liked sunny weather a little bit hot but not too cold. I stepped out and walked to pat who was waiting for me in the car. I got in and looked out the window not really noticing anything different. But there was something different. Once I got out of the car and pat drove off, I felt a slight ringing in my head. I let it go I wasn’t going to let it ruin my day. I had good grades and everything and I can’t let everything get to my head. I was stupid, I should have been more careful, less careless a, more observant of my surroundings. But I wasn’t and it caused what you guys are here for. The main story line, the love and all the gooey stuff.

It wasn’t long before lunch began, they were serving us breakfast for lunch which I wasn’t upset about. I was quite exited for this rare occasion. Once they called my table I got up and got some food. I also bought a double chocolate cookie, because why not? I sat down and heard some of the annoying boys in my grade talking about the whole incident. I even heard how they mentioned that I should have been killed by the villains. I wasn’t important and it would be cooler if they were fighting the villains themselves. They would try to join them and everything. I turned around to them and scoffed. “Yes, you should try and do that, because they would totally be like “OMG yes, we need new members, and you just seem right up our alley!” Then you can wobble right into their secret lair and enjoy some tea and biscuit.” Everyone who was around me and heard what I said laughed. The two boys got embarrassed. “Well, at least I have a greater chance than you!” The one boy Kasim blurted out. I looked at him and stood up, “I would rather die than join them.” Well maybe not die but if I had to, I'm going for it! They aren’t forcing me to join their marry band of pirates.

Once I stood up and told him that everybody heard a loud crash from the back of the school. A teacher who was in the cafeteria heard it and looked out to see what had happened. But to her surprise it was not something that fell over but more like the ISA. The teacher locked the wood door and yelled that everyone should stay silent and not say a word. We stayed quiet as I snuck off and headed to get into a super suit I made when nobody was around. I put it on and ran out to see the ISA already made it in. Brainwave looked over at Kasim who heard everything he said. He yelled at him and the rest of the students. “You said you wanted to join me well here we are.” Kasim looked over at his trouble making friend and gulped. “I-I was joking! Um- nice costume S-sir...” I rolled my eyes at the stupidity.

“HEY UNCLE!” I yelled across the room, the ISA and the rest of the students looked up at me. “You wanted me?” I said looking at my uncle. He looked at me and smirked, “Hello sweetheart.” I scoffed and ran towards him dodging any ice pieces coming my way. When I got close enough my eyes turned a bright yellow making the students watching turn away. I shot light towards my uncle which made him fall back not realizing what I was going to do. Icicle looked at me upset and threw several shards at me. “Not so fast” I quickly melt them away, and signal for the cosmic staff. My uncle got up and was talking to me with his thoughts. “It’s been a while.” I rolled my eyes as I responded, “Yeah, could have been a bit longer though.” I said watching over making sure no one was going to toss any attacks towards me. “I think it's time to come and meet your cousin, or maybe even join us.” I scoffed, “Hell to the NAHH.” He looked at me and just laughed, ‘Have it your way then.”

He looked over at a now scared Kasim he used his abilities to talk to him, “You ready to come and join us?” Kasim smirks, “Um... this is a prank to get back at me... right Sam?” He says trying to relax himself a bit. Every kid looks at Kasim, they knew this wasn’t a prank. “No Kasim this isn’t a prank.” I started forming light around me till I heard an all too familiar noise. “IM OVER HERE!” I yelled at the staff. It flipped over brain wave, and I grabbed it. “2v4” I said allowing the staff to raise me up in the air. I started going out the door leading them away from the kids. I ended up moving to the German classroom and hid there. I whispered back to the staff, “I know I need to contact Pat, but I don’t know how to use this...” I open the locket and find what looked like a button. “It won’t do anything!” What I didn’t know was Pat was getting about 50 notifications from me. I was pressing it to many times.

“You need to stay quiet so shoo.” The staff wanted to go out and battle them, the staff was also close to Starman. He most definitely wanted to kill icicle, but I wasn’t going to murder anybody just yet. I held my breath as I heard footsteps coming to the D wing. “This is the last wing she has to be here Brainwave. It was Kasim, but I knew once he helped them, he would be dead. My breathing sped up quite a bit, I was going through a heart attack. “She might be in her German class.” I looked at the window and sighed, this was going to hurt. I used the staff to break the window and flew through it. “I need to get everybody out of the cafeteria, come on!” the staff quickly through the air getting to the cafeteria. “You ready to break one more glass window?” The staff made a happy noise and broke 3 of the 4 windows. “EVERYBODY OUT NOW!” I watched as everybody got out and saw pats Starman car.

But before he could get there, I was slammed down onto the cafeteria ground by sports master. I quickly tried getting up, but I took a hard hit. I looked at the staff that was still glowing bright yellow. “It's too late for me, so they can get me, but they can’t get you.” The staff stayed and looked at me not going anywhere. “GO!” The staff finally got the message and flung through the crowd and hid behind several buildings. quickly got to the cafeteria only to see brainwave squatting where I was laying. “Time to go to sleep for a bit.” he punched me, and I passed out. “Let go of her!” Pat yelled only to be frozen to the side of the building. “I'm afraid that won’t be happening.” Brainwave picked me up and slung me over his shoulder. My necklace fell off into the broken glass one of the only things that was left.