Dawn of Jupiter

Chapter 3: Hawkins

My name is Erica, me and my brother are mutants. Since the day i can remember we were three, our parents. gone. Now here we are 12 fucking years later.

Hi, James here. I wanna apologize for my sister's cursing. John had no intention of lending the holo-logbook to her. Anyway, here's our story, the day we met him.

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 We were orphans. Me and my sister spent the last 12 years digging around trash cans, and bouncing from foster home to foster home. Here we were at our tenth home in just five months. New record.

We expected them to be cruel and judgemental, but it turns out they were really nice people. They picked us up from the social services office and was driving us down Nine Duane St.

"We have been looking for new kids for a long time", my new mom said. "We hope you enjoy our house as much as we do" she said cheerfully.

"Of course things will be different" my new dad said. "There are rules and regulations to be followed in our house"

He seemed like the strict kind of dad. Like the ones i've seen over the years. But me and my sister were already 15, Three more years and we would have been independent for life. Why would they adopt us?

"Be on your guard". my sister said, though she didn't actually say anything. We can read each others thoughts. Although other of our abilities were spawning as well. Like last night. She had a bad dream, I woke to her screaming, But her bed was floating with her on it. Or like last Christmas. I got a baseball bat. I felt such joy that i jumped into the air. Too high.

 I looked at my sister. She had her eyes aimed at the horizon. Her curly dark hair was loose around her shoulders. She had her stony-unforgiving stare on, and she was dressed to meet her new parents with a leather jacket, skinny jeans and combat boots. "Somethings not right". she said in my mind.

'What?" i thought back.

Have you noticed their eyes?

No

Take a look at them

I was getting a little bit annoyed with my sister. But i checked them, a reflection of my new fathers eyes in the mirror, and they were pure black. I mean no irises at all. I mean the white part of the eyes were there but no cornea or irises. Something was very wrong.

I tred to read their minds but usually they get headaches if another presence is there. But they did not seem to feel anything.

Then suddenly we stopped. We were not at a house.

It was a storage area.

"Why are we here?" i asked.

 But they got out of the car suddenly, and they motioned for us to follow. They herded us into the warehouse. But as soon as we got in, they shut the massive doors.

I was suddenly on the alert.

 They turned to face us, only they aren't human anymore.

Their foreheads had grown a long bone stretching to either side. Their hands had grown claws and their eyes now had yellow reptilian slits. Scales had now appeared on their skin.

Erica gasped. "What are you?"

"Your worst nightmares!" they screamed in unison.

Together, they lunged at us.

Q: What do you do when monster step parents attack you?

A: Run like Hell!!!!!!!

Erica was the first to react. She thrust her hand out of defense and the unexpected happened.