The shadow in the stars

Chapter 4

As I got closer i noticed that two of the other's in the group were vackers. I recognized them from all the time Keefe hung out with them. Dam, tam was right something BIG must have gone down, like join a  rebellion big. I approached them cautiously. And tapped the vacker girl's shoulder. The all turned to face me surprised. Sophie and Keefe's eyes widened the most. "Who are you and what do you want?" The one boy who I didn't recognize asked glaring at me. "I want to help" I said sticking my ground. "What's in it for you?" The vacker Boy, who I now remember name was fitz, asked. "Uhh not getting in trouble for starting this mess" "so it was you who started it" sophie shot at me. The words hurt but I didn't let that show. "Yes" I sighed. "Look my ability is unstable and when my emotions get overwhelming, stuff I can't control start happening" I looked at the floor selling my lie even more. I had to lie if I wanted to get in on some of this action. "So does that mean that if you started it you could stop it" Biana, the vacker girl, asked. I took a step back "oh hell no, I-I might mess something up I can't really" I stumbled over my words as I backed away a little. I really had gotten a LOT better at acting but I was a bit scared I had never tried a song to control so much before. "Hey..." keefe took a step towards me and place a gentle hand in my shoulder, I flinched at the touch. He lowered his hand quickly " I know your scared but you have to do something." The kids around us started dropping like flies getting hit with each others abilities. It was like a book I read in the forbidden series, the hunger games. "Look if you're not going to do anything we can sort this out just fine" the boy I didn't know piped up impatiently. The others nodded, all except for Sophie. She had all ways believed in me and that was showing now even if she didn't remember. The others started leaving doing what they could to stop the chaos. They were failing miserably though I mean there was a reason we all were banished and most of the time it had something to do with out ability. Sophie shot me a panicked look. I took a deep breath and whispered "ok"

I started humming a slow sad tune, one that might be used at a funeral. From about a 5 meter distance from me all the kids slowed and stopped moving. Sweat beaded at my eyebrows as I opened my mouth slightly so I could vocalize it instead of humming. As my radius grew I started shaking at the strain. Kids were stopping to see what was happening, a few were trying to run from the sound but once you heard it it was almost impossible to resist. I could see they boy I didn't know, Sophie, keefe, fitz and biana all staring at me. Fitz and Biana's eyes were they widest, they recognized me. I kept singing getting and louder and louder but by this point I could barely stand at the energy this was using. I saw tam and Lin pushing through the still crowd hands in ears so it wouldn't effect them. I gestured towards them so the group would copy them. Fitz getting the message shoved his fingers in his ears and yelled something at the others, probably telling them to do the same. Just then tam and Lin reached me, helping me to stand as I continued. My legs buckled as I kept going but my friends were there to help me. By now my song had reached all the kids and everyone was still. Sweat poured down my face as I wrapped up the song. When I finally stopped everything was silent.

Tam and Lin helped me into a sitting position. The coach I had originally froze came storming up to me "what they hell did you do!" He yelled at me. I looked up at him, not having the energy to argue right now "you have about 10 minutes before it wears off so I'd start putting them back in the tents before they go back" I said wearily. " now if you'll excuse me" I said as I pushed my self to my feet, I shook a little bit I managed to keep my balance " I have someone I have to talk to" and I walked carefully and calmly away from the dumbfounded coach with tam and Lin following cautiously.  I approached fitz and biana. "May I talk to you... alone" I said grabbing them both by the wrists and dragging them away from the group, leaving tam and Lin standing with the 3 others awkwardly. When we were alone I took off my hood and mask. "Breia!" Biana squealed as she gave me a massive hug. I had always seen Biana as a younger sibling and it was incredible to see her again. Fitz just stood there dumbfounded. "Breia I can't believe it's you" he said as he joined in the group hug. "Aww I missed you guys so much!" I replied as I embraced them back. We stood there for a minute clinging to each other like we were the only people left. I was the first to let go, I stared at them taking in every detail. " I have sooo many questions but that's not what I wanted to talk to you about. You can't tell Keefe I'm me" both of them stopped smiling and look confused " why? and I'm pretty sure he already knows I mean it's not like musical manipulation is a common ability" fitz said laughing a little. I sighed "it's... a bit more complicated than that" I explained everything to them, holding back tears as I spoke. Fitz and Biana both looked very surprised. " so that why he never talked about it after you left or acted confused whenever I brought it up, I just though he was grieving" fitz said "I can't believe your mom would do that to him!" Biana said sounding a little angry, that surprised me, I'd never seen Biana anything other than fake angry. "One more thing please don't tell anyone else I want to path my own life from here and I don't want others to know that I'm still here" I asked a bit wearily, the after effects of using my ability were really beginning to set in. "Yes of course" they both responded. " Well we better get back to the group or I think my friend is going to beat keefe up" I laughed gingerly. As I grabbed both of their hands and pulled back to the others. When we got back to the group I nodded at the others and walked away with tam and Lin.  The wayward's had all started waking up from the trance "How dare you leave me with them" tam grumbled " that girl kept asking us questions" Lin glared at him "I thought they were nice but we didn't answer any of their question's"  I laughed a little at the twins "I think we best be getting out of here " I told them " how we don't have tomorrows crystals" Lin said confused. I grinned at them slyly "or do we?" I pulled 3 temporary crystals from my pocket. "Snatched it out of the coach's pocket when he came to talk to me" tam laughed "there's the Breia I know" Lin smirked at the both of us " oh god, I'm not surprised you do something like this. But let's get out of here now before the coaches notice. And with that we leaped away leaving a mess of a school behind.

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Not including this the word count is 1317, wow a long chapter.
I really enjoyed writing this chapter and if you need help envisioning the chaos, while writing this I kept thinking of that one scene from them's the break kids from the owl house (check it out!)

-kei Saunders 🍀 signing off