Anima University

Chapter 9: Glass Domes and Tubes

P.O.V. Third Person
The Gifted look around the dome in confusion.

"What?"

"Where are we?"

"Is this guy for real?" Are just some of the things going through their minds at this moment.

"My name is Ben Denver." The man, now known as Ben Denver, tells them. A young girl of about twelve or thirteen near the five calls out,

"Are you related to Bryan Denver?"

"Yes. I am." Ben says through gritted teeth.

"Somebody's got brother issues..." the girl leans over to the five.

"Yeah. I wonder what?" Luna says out loud.

"I'm Stella, Stella Challenor." The girl extends a hand to each of them. They introduce Themselves before turning back to Ben Denver.

A boy next to Stella raises his hand before shouting out,

"Why don't you like your brother?" Ben grits his teeth and plasters a fake smile on his face,

"That isn't relevant to the situation at hand, now is it?" The boy slowly lowers his hand, shrinking into the crowd.

"Nice going, Skylar." Now he's going to hate us because of your stupidity." Stella scolds the boy.

"Sorry, sis. I just wanted to know what happened and for some reason I  can't See his Past." Skylar says.

"Sister?" Adish looks at the two. They turn simultaneously to the kids,

"We're the twins, Stella and Skylar Challenor. And what my brother means be 'Seeing his Past' is that we have the abilities to See people's Past and Future. I can see their Futures." Stella explains.

"I can see people's Past." Skylar adds.

"What do you mean 'Futures' as in 'more than one'?" Luna asks. Stella and Skylar turn to her,

"Depending on their choices, people's Future can change. I see the Future of the path they're on currently. If their choices change, so does their Future." Stella explains.

"Since the Past already happened, I'm simpler. Or something like that." Skylar says. The others nod.

"That's also the reason we're here. Because of our abilities." the twins say, "In fact, that's the main reason why any of us are here. Because we all contain special abilities that make us exceptionally different from everyone else in the world. Which means you all have abilities too." the others gasp slightly at the realization that people know about their abilities.

"You mean we all have powers and we all have abilities." Adish says slowly.

"I get it now." Terrence suddenly speaks, "The Government brought us here to train us how to use our powers and heighten them to become their own personal army. They're going to turn us into weapons for their own personal use." the twins nod,

"Exactly. That's why our parents sent us here. To serve our world till our Deaths."

"I'm sure you all made some friends on the train ride here so you can share a dorm with them but only if they're the same gender. The girl's dorms are in the West Dome, boys in the East Dome." Ben Denver says loudly as he points in the direction of the Domes. The kids turn to front and realize they missed the entire speech Ben Denver gave. The other kids join up with their friends and go to the dorms.

"Hey." Stella looks down at her feet while talking to  the girls, "I already look at the dorm room plans. The rooms fit four people and I was thinking, 'I met three other girls who already know me and I already told them my secret so why not ask them to share a room'." she looks up at this point, "So, what'd you say?" the girls look at each other before nodding to Stella. "Great! Let's go." the girls grab their things from the train and walk to the dorms. After looking in all the rooms, they finally choose one with two metal bunk beds on either side of the room, two desks next to the beds, and a small living room. Because they picked an edge room one wall is made of curving glass. A fairly large wardrobe stands next to a floor length mirror. Since bathrooms and a group kitchen are already in the Dome, Anastasia only brought in a microwave and mini-fridge. The small living room already has a few bean-bag chairs, a normal chair and a couch including a large fuzz-rug and foot rests.