The Gifted

Chapter 5:Daniella sees the truth

Edited by NerdWorks

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I have to. I need to know if he's okay. I need to find him. Daniella thinks to herself.

Daniella keeps running. By now she has regained her balance and was no longer dizzy. She runs faster and faster and eventually she reaches her house.

If I'm going to find him, I have no better place to start than at home. Daniella spends the whole morning and half the afternoon looking for something - anything - that would give her a clue about what could've happened that night when it all started.


Daniella starts having memories unfolding in her head, memories she would rather forget but would have to force herself to remember if she wanted to have any chance of finding her brother.

She lies down in her brother's bed and remembers something her mother showed her when she was still alive.

That's impossible I would never be able to...but there is no choice.

Daniella's mother had the gift of time-reveal. She used to be able to see what happened in the past at the location she was at. Suddenly a tear formed and rolled across Daniella's cheek. She folded her hands and began to pray and asked her mom for help. The minute she finished she began to try and mimic what her mom had showed her.

She placed her left hand on her forehead and her right hand on top in the shape of an X. She did everything like her mother used to do but nothing happened.

Maybe if I concentrate really hard I can trigger someth-

Before she could even finish her sentence, a massive spiral of wind formed around her and blew harder and harder until it finally came to a halt and when she sat up she saw her brother standing in front of his desk drawing as he usually would do at this time of the afternoon.

That's my big brother - always practicing his gift, thought Daniella.

Mark, Daniella's older brother, had the gift of draw-story. It allowed him to change slight things in the past and it would alter the present slightly.

He's probably trying to change the answers in the test he wrote yesterday.

Okay, if I remember properly mom said she could maintain her gift as long as she had her hands on her forehead.

So Daniella made sure to keep her hands on her forehead as long as she possibly could until she got some answers. Daniella looked into a mirror her brother had on placed on his wall and realised that her eyes weren't glowing the same regular white they usually did. They were still white but now they had this shade of purple. She was sure this wasn't normal.

I should probably try to stop using my gift for some time, I'm starting to get worried.

Suddenly, she heard a loud noise that came from the top of the ceiling as if something had landed on it. Then she looked at the window and saw that there was a shadow stretched across the tree outside. The shadow seemed to move closer towards the window and then without even a warning, a massive snake slithered in through the window and stopped once it reached the inside of the house. It stared into Mark's eyes with anger. Its eyes were red with extremely diluted pupils.

Mark was now pushed against the wall.

The snake started to "mutate". It grew ears, it's eyes became less diluted, it formed legs and started to stand up. Soon it was an actual person.

"He's gifted!"

The snake had completely mutated into a man. The man had short brown hair, blue eyes and two small snakes around his neck and he looked like he was in his thirties.

"Looks like you've been a naughty boy, haven't you?" the man said with a wicked smile on his face.

"What do you want, Damian?" Mark looked extremely scared.

"He wants to talk to you."

"Damian, I told you people that I didn't want anything to do to with the likes of you."

Damian laughed, "You think you have a choice."

Damian opened his mouth and a very long snake went flying at Mark. It wrapped itself around Mark's neck and sank its teeth into it. Mark's eyes became diluted and he fell to the ground.

Damian then swallowed the snake, put Mark on his shoulder and went out through the window.

Daniella was pale and her eyes started to turn back to normal. She started to see everything fading away.

No, I need to know where he's taking Mark.

"Mark!" Daniella screamed, "MARK! "

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