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Chapter 4 : Damien

I wake up the next day. I can't stop thinking about everything. Or more like something. Can this girl be the one who will finally complete our team? Can she even use her powers yet? Are we leaving all of our trust in her hands? I slowly get out of bed and rub the sleep away from my eyes.

I walk in silence to the kitchen to make some breakfast. I usually do this task every friday, It's become one of our traditions. As usual, Bella is up and is preparing everything for me to cook. Since Bella can fly ( lucky bastard ), she always grabs the cooking supplies from the higher cupboards for me, 'cause apparently I'm short.

"Hi!" she sings, floating down to me.

"Hey, is Nora awake?" oops, I didn't mean to say that!

She smirks, "no, not yet".

I nod and gaze at the supplies she has brought me, pancake mix. Nope! I'm makin' waffles! Still gonna use the mix, though. Nora walks in through the door, I watch her, study her.

"H-Hi.." she mumbles.

I start up the stove. "After breakfast we start training" I say, not making any eye contact. Bella leaves to go check on Iris.

I give up on breakfast, they're never here t eat on training days anyway. I throw the bowl of mix into the sink and turn off the stove. "Follow me" I tell Nora, walking out into the hall. She follows me down the hall to the arena.

"Oh, I almost forgot, there are rules. Firstly, no weapons. And no murdering each other" I add in a little smile, Nora just stares blankly. I look down at my feet, this is just too awkward. I show her the white board with all our names and abilities written on it in cheap whiteboard marker.

"Are you ready?" I ask.

"Yes" she trying to sound confident.

"Okay, Bella told me you made a giant tree grow through the roof of your school cafeteria by concentrating..." I'm trying so hard not to laugh. "Can you concentrate again and grab the dummy with your abilities?" I point to the training dummy on the opposite side of the arena.

She nods shakily. She closes her eyes and I can almost see a smile. I can feel my own lips curling upward. A few seconds later, the ground starts to shake, I get knocked off my feet, scraping my knee on the dirt. Nora remains still. I gaze over at the training dummy, vines have grown out of the ground and raised up high.

Nora's eyes are wide with amazement. Then her hands fall down to her side and the vines retract into the ground. I stand up, "good job".

"That. Was. Awesome!" Nora giggles.

"Damien! Nora!" Iris and Nova come sprinting in.

My mouth tilts downward, "whats wrong?"

Bella's face is twisted in fear. "the news!" she blurbs out.

I immediately jump to my feet, anything involving the news isn't good. "Bella, Iris, lead me".

Bella nods and starts floating down the hall, Iris, Nora and I following. Fast.

This cannot be good.