"This is where you will be staying until your powers have been placed" Chris said sounding quite bored having to show us around. "Thank you." I made a small smiled at him but he remained indifferent. "I'll give you all 15 minutes to unpack and then i'll be back to put you into power placement." We all said goodbye and went inside the dormroom we had been escorted to. It looked like any other college room though a small but modest kitchen to the left as soon as soon as you walk in, a dinning table the opposite side to the right, as you walk further in you get a modest living room with one large L-shaped sofa and a flat screen tv mounted on the wall across from it, to the left is a room with two bunk beds on either wall and behind the door is the ensweet bathroom big enough for both a bath and shower. "Nice" we all looked at eachother and smiled. Erika turned away and sat on the bottom left bunk as I grabbed the one above her as Mara took the one opposite me and Eva the one under her. I zipped open the duffle bag of stuff they had packed for me as I was unconscious and realised that I didn't have much stuff at all. I had two pairs of skinny jeans,three tank tops, one dress, four shorts and five pairs of shoes plus my hair brush and tooth brush and tooth paste that's it except what i've got on that is.
'Knock, knock' wow 15 minutes already we all got up and went to the door. "Ready?" We all looked at eachother nervousness dripping off us. Slowly but surely we all left the room and walked to the gym.
The gym look old but new at the same time. Strange. We all stepped in to see a tall elegent women smiling at us stepping down from a large stage at the end of the gym. When she got up close Chris left us alone with this stranger to fend for our selves tipical man. "Welcome. My name Willow Trype and i'm the power placement and guidence councilour here. I will be determining where you will be placed on a yearly bases. Now i'm sure you're very eager to get this done so lets begin."
"Now we'll be going in alphabetical order so first up is...." we wait nervously as she sifts through the clipboard in her hands. "Hicks you're up." We all look at eachother when Eva stepped forward and as she did so we all looked at her. Miss Trype sighed and said "please come with me and step up onto the stage."
They both stood in the middle of the stage when all of a sudden the creaky gym door opened to reveal my brother. "Ah headmaster thank you for joining us." Miss Trype said in a formal and polite tone. Headmaster? When did that happen?
Miss Trype turned back to Eva and continued her power placement. "Now my dear please show me your power." Eva turned to me as if looking for conformation that this is ok. I nodded for her to show that this was ok and she shifted into her beautiful leopard self, which made me smile in not exactly sure why.
"Beautiful. Is this the only shape you take?" Eva answered her question by shifting into a falcon and flying around the room. "Excellent. Now can you please land and change back so I can ask you a few questions." Eva did as she was asked and when she was ready miss Trype began asking her questions. "How old were you when you changed for the first time?" Eva turned head to the left and looked at miss Trype as if she had insulted her, but she regained her composure and answered her question. "I was 12 years old." Miss Trype didn't say anything she just scribbled something on her clipboard. "And when did you first realised you were different?" Eva took a moment to think about this and finally answered "around about 10." Again she scribbled something on her clipboard and asked another question. "Can you take another form besides animal?" Eva just shook her head. "Ah I see. What about your parentage?" Eva turned to her a wave of emotions crossing her face, anger, shock, sadness and fear. Although eventually she once again corrected her stance and answered her question. "My parents were human, but when I was 13 I told them what I could do and they were discusted all my mother could say was 'the shame of it.' My dad started yelling throwing things around the room when my older brother Jace ran in with my baby sister in his arms. He put her down in her cot and then out of nowhere he froze him, we were all in a state of shock but that wasn't the worst of it Jace's power was unstable he hadn't had the practice to hone his power like I did. The ice started to crack and unintensional the ice shattered and our father was lost forever. Mom called the police but before they could get there me and Jace packed a duffle bag each and hightailed it out of there."
Miss Trype just looked at her sympathetically and slowly asked "where is your brother now?" Eva lowered her head as if she were ashamed "he's dead. His power ate him alive." Miss Trype looked like she regretted asking that question. "Would you like to know where you've been placed?" Eva didn't say or do anything but miss Trype continued. "Well after our long talk i've decided that you're a level 3 shapeshifter with and evolutionary stage of 2 now keep in mind this is all out 5 so don't be discouraged if it's not as high as you wanted. You will be given your class schedual tomorrow and classes start next week on monday." Miss Trype glances at her watch and gasps "oh my goodness we've been here for almost 2 hours it's nearly 10:30, lights out are in 30 minutes you best be off to bed I will see..... Mara Jackson bright and early at 10am tomorrow for her power placement goodnight girls enjoy your time her at LAE.
With that we were all chaperoned back to the dorm we were given. When we got back Eva ran straight in and locked herself in the bathroom. Erika and Mara ran after her while I just turned to Chris and said "we're gonna need:
Two boxes of tissues big ones.
Four bags of chinese food.
And movies I suggest Mockingjay part 1, Maze runner and Pitch perfect 2." As i'm about to turn away I hear wailing from Eva and unhelpfull comments from Mara. "And Chris i'd hurry." Chris just laughs and walks away.
Please let him do as i've asked. This was going to be one hell of a night.
