The Little Ones

Chapter 13-

"Wait so I'm your what?" I ask for the bazillionth time.

"You. Are. Our. Savior." John says again.

"But what am I supposed to do?" I ask confused as hell at the moment.

"Save us, duh." John says looking as if he's dealing with a child.

"How? What? When? Where and why?" I say not knowing which question to ask first. How is this possible? What? When am I supposed to save them? And why me?

John sighs but Mr.Daniel takes over, "Okay, we need you to help us defeat someone, possibly kill."

I shake my head vigorously, "No, I'm not up for killing anyone. First of all why should I help you when you did nothing but kidnap me, starve me, and torture me?"

"I...I guess its time to tell you the truth," Mr.Daniel says looking solemn.

"What is it?" I ask dreading the truth.

"Well, this isn't a place for kidnapping children." he says with no further explanation.

"I'm confused. You kidnapped me. From my house. I was there you know? I was the victim."

"I know but this is a place where people send there kids who have...special abilities. Powers. Kids who have powers."

I still don't understand.

"He's saying that your mother sent you to us." 'Mr.' Boss says walking into the room.

"No. No." My mom would never do that. That's just horrible. "Wait, if she sent me here then why did you barge into my house and take me away like mad men?"

"It was a set up your mom didn't want you knowing she sent you away somewhere you'd probably never want to go to."

"I don't believe you."

"Well, you don't have to. We have the video of her telling us we can take you. Want to see?"

I nod my head and Ted walks over to a flat screen TV and puts in a disc. I wait as he turns it on and I immediately believe them when I see my mom talking across the table from someone. The same man who visited me.

For a second there is no sound on the tape but after tampering with it, Ted got it to work.

We listen as my mom starts in the middle of a sentence, "...because I don't want her hating me for eternity."

"But she might be the Savior. Don't you want this too all be over? We can't fight this war on our own forever," the man says recahing across the table to grasp my mothers hand.

"I know but if she knows about this place, she will question everything about her life. About everything I ever taught her. I didn't want her to have to live the life I did. To constantly have to turn around to see if anyone is following you, waiting for a chance to grab you," after she finishes she starts crying then when she recovers she says, "O-Okay, I'll let you take her but only on one condition. It has to look like you kidnapped her I don't want her knowing that I gave her away to you."

"Wait, so you want is to take her way like she is being kidnapped?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because then she...would believe that it is happening. If she were with me she would think that it was a joke or a prank or something."

"Okay, I'll go tell John and Daniel."

The tape stops and Ted takes it out.

"Okay, so my mom did set this up. So, what do I do now?" I ask pretending not to care about what my mom did even though I do. Why did she have to do this? She should've just told me the truth.

"We train you," John says looking at me.

"Train me for what?" I ask.

"Must we go over do this again? Train you for the war."

"Who are we fighting?"

"People. People that want to destroy us or use us for their own deeds." Mr.Daniel says, can't he just go a couple of minutes without having to say anything. Its like he needs the attention.

"So, we are fighting...normal people?"

"Somewhat. Some might be betrayers from our side. Who think that we should turn ourselves in. Mostly people ftom other governments."

"What do you mean other governments? Are you the government?"

"Yes," 'Mr.'Boss says. She's just like Mr.Daniel. She wants all attention on her.

John looks at me and laughs. Crap, I forgot he reads minds.

"Wait, haven't I already started my training." I say remembering the foil helmet.

"Yes, but that was basic training you need to skip that. We will begin in a few hours. Why dont you go and get some rest," Mr.Daniel says opening the door for me.

***
After my 'rest', which consisted of staring at the wall and contemplating my life so far. My own mother betrayed me, but I'm pretty sure she thought she was doing the right thing. My kidnappers aren't really my kidnappers? Let's just say that I confused myself more than I ever had an my entire life.

So, where was I? Oh, so after my so called 'rest' John came to get me from my room. We walked down the hallway and this time I didn't see the boy in the room.

When I asked John where he was he said that the boy was where we were headed. That he was going to help me also.

We finally reach a door and John goes over to the lock pad and punches in a code. A code that I am not able to see due to his excessive height.

The door swings open and we step into a stadium-like room. There are posibbly thousands of bleachers and sitting in them are a few people, standing in the middle of the room is Ted, The boy, Lucy, Celeste (Mary), and Mr.Daniel.

Where's 'Mr.'Boss?

"She left. Thats what she does she comes and visits without warning and disappears at important times." John said walking me to meet the others.

I hurry and catch up wuth him, stopping in front of Mr.Daniel.

"Rochelle, how are you?" Mr.Daniel asks and I am really confused because 1- he always calls me 186 and 2- He never, and I mean never asked how I'm doing.

"Uhh, great I guess."

"Good, good. Now your basic training that you did earlier, was just that, basic training. You don't really need that."

Righhht, all of this happened in one day. Why can't my life be normal like any other preteen? I should be fantasizing about the cutest boy or girl at school not trying to save the world.

"What she needs is 2nd Level Training," John says looking Mr.Daniel in the eye.

"What? I'm still on 1st Level. How can she be above me? She hasn't even been here for long," I look over at Lucy as she pouts at her father. What has gotten into her?

"What's 2nd Level Training?" I ask raising my voice to be heard over their bickering.

"Using your power in defense," Ted says speaking softly.

"But...I don't know my power," I say looking around at all of them and when my eyes land on The Boy and I can't seem to look away. Its like I was mesmerized. But I didn't know why, there wasn't anything special about him. He had impossibly black hair though, but besides that just another typical tween boy.

"Hi, my name is Milo," I blink as he says this remembering that Ted once told me his name.

"Hi Milo, I'm Rochelle." I say smiling softly.

"I know." He says and looks toward Lucy and Mr.Daniel.

Well, that was rude.

I get a little angry at gim so I take it oit on the rest of them as they have continued their argument, "Hey! I don't even know my power so how on Earth am I supposed to use self defense?!"

They all turn towards me like I just lost both my brain and my fingers.

"There shouldn't be any screaming here,"