it almost worked

chapter 3

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The only thing val could see was red.
Smoke filled her lungs as she looked for someone. Who she was looking for, she did not know.

The sounds of screams could be heard, however she couldn't see were it was coming from. Following the sounds of the screams, val frantically called for them trying to find who it was. They sounded familiar but she couldn't figure out who it was.

Through the red smoke she could make out the color of dark hair and the sould of a body hitting the ground. When she finally made it to the person she received her immediately.

"M-om" you could barely hear her voice. She could barely her it herself.

She looked the same way she did that day on the bridge. Her hair was spread out, blood sticking to the strands like honey on your fingers. Her once lively eyes, now lifeless. There was a bullet hole in her chest, spilling blood the same way it did on the bridge.

The blood on her hands made the same patterns as day on that brings. The deep slowly seeping into the cracks on her hand forever staining them. "Val"

Val looked up to find vi standing about 3feet away from her. She didn't looked the same like her mother, she looked older than she was. She looked how she looked now.

"You did this"

"What?"

" You killed your mom. If she never had you she would have never went to fight, this is your fault."

" No..no I didn't mean to, I didn't know"

" Yes you did, you killed her. I mean you never even went to look for your dad maybe if you found him he'd still be alive"

"Stop...stop your not real.....STOP"
Val started crying, falling to her knees. She head in her hands as she sobbed, tears leave a trail on her face. The same as that day. Slowly it became harder to breath, the red smoke she was inhaling making it harder to breath between sobbeds as 'vi' keeped talking.

Vi opened her eyes bringing her free hand to rub her eyes. It was early morning, the clock on the wall saying it was about 4am. Heavy breathing could be heard through the room as vi looked over to val. Her face was scrunched, soft whimpers passing her lips. The painful look on val worried vi.

Lightly shaking val, vi tried to walk her but It didn't work

"Val...val" vi was whispering, trying not to wake the others.

Val shot awake, breathing heavy and inconsistent as she sat up. Val looked to vi who looked at her in worry.

" Hey, whats wrong?" Vi was lightly rubbing her back. Vi wasn't the best at comforting, never really getting any herself. She normally just hug them and told them they were alright. Val also wasn't one for sharing how she felt or what she was thinking.

" I'm fine" val said rolling over and trying to go back to bed. She didn't want to tell vi about her dream, it made her feel weak.

Vi sigh then rolled over to go back to bed.

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Sitting on a stack of boxes, val watched vi take another swing at the boxing machine. Vander had told them to laylow.

The old arcade wasn't much. It had a couple game she help powder fix up and vi's boxing machine. Dust cover the place in the unused area, box's layed everywhere and mylos annoying voice rang through the air.

"Remind me why we bother with this dump." Mylo complained messing with one of the gun to a game.

"Vander said to lay low"vi said Taking a step back and rolling her shoulder. Val was watching her the whole time lightly blushing val looked away."enforcers never come down here"

Oh what's the matter mylo?" Claggor started to tease mylo leaning on the crates I was sitting on. " You worried powders gonna beat you again" val laughed lightly at claggors teaseing. Mylo wasn't very good with a gun.

"Hey, if she didn't keep fixing the thing, I wouldn't keep missing" power popped up from behind the counter as she plugged in two cords. They sparked and the game lit up. The targets on the game glue brightly as she hoped over the counter and grabbed a gun.

Mylo started firing, missing every one of the glowing targets. Val laughed as he missed. Val could see he was holding it wrong, he kept turning it. "Mylo you doing it all wrong" val said laugh as she jumped down and walked over to him after he finished the round. "What do you know" mylo said leaning on game with his arms crossed.

Val wasn't the best at shooting, she hadn't shot in years. She used to take lessons when she was 5 until she moved to the undercity when she was 8. So val had an idea of how to shoot.

Val grabbed the gun from mylo. " powder can you start it" vals asks as powder does just that. The game sprung back to life, glowing and the targets moving around. Val held up the gun and aimed at the targets.

She shot all but one.

" how-w-w w-what where you learn to shoot like that" mylo said studdering. Val laughed as she set down the gun. " don't worry about it" val said sitting back onto the boxes.

" you guys know I wouldn't take you on a job you couldn't handle, right" vi said as she finished her game. Val looked at vi as she said this. Val nodded. However mylo just had to put in his nonsense opinion.

"Are you kidding" said mylo looking at vi. "That was the best job we have ever had, maybe just don't take powder next time"

" my God mylo, do you ever shut up" val says upset. She hated how mylo acted to powder even if she loved mylo like her brother. Val turned away from mylo and faced vi. The box she sat on poked into her thighs as she turned away.

The sound of voices could be heard as vi and the group kept talking. Toning out th group, val saw shadows dance in the dusty covered glass. " Hey guys.." before val had a chance to finish, the glass was broken by the shadow outside. It was enforcers. Nervously val stood closer to vi. close enough that val could grab vi's hands.

" Search them"

" Go ahead idiots, we've got nothing to hide" mylo and his big mouth said. Val glared at him and his horrible way of keeping his mouth shut. As she glared, powders hand reached for something, something glowing bright blue. " Vi, powder" val said in a hurried whisper
As vi saw what powder had.

A couple enforcers made their way up to val and vi, one of them roughly grabbing onto val. " Let go!" Val struggled against the bruising grip on her arm. Before anything was said, claggor pull the lever and killed the lights. Vi helpingval with the creep enforcer.

Running, the group reached a dead end. 
" Over here" a voice said. ekko! Sighing with relief the group barley missed the enforcers.

" You need to hide those"

" Yeah, no shit"

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Finally back. I lost interest in writing Because of having sports and school starting but I finally finished another chapter. Also there will be more of her powers added into the story later because I know there isn't a lot of them right now.