Newborn Eyes

Power

"He can't hear you," my brother states, "He's completely sedated."

"Let him go," I growl, "Let him go right now, or I'll kill you."

"Constance, you aren't going to kill me," he says as he stares into my soul.

I can feel myself nodding, agreeing with him. I knew he would do this! He's controlling my mind. I thought I was strong enough to fight it but it feels like someone is pushing a metal clamp against my head and squeezing it so hard that I have to agree with what he is saying. Now I know what my mother felt like when my brother was controlling her. There was no way to fight against the pain. I keep staring at Leon, hoping he'll waver at some point and I'll be able to hurt him. Surely he couldn't hold his focus for too long?

"You still think you can win? I don't think you remember but I can also read your thoughts. I am well aware of the powers that you possess and the things you could do to me. But you forget that I've been controlling minds since I was a kid. You really think I would waver? I controlled your boyfriend who has the same powers as me!" Leon mocks. 

"He is not like you! He would never use his powers to control and manipulate people like you do!" I growl between my gritted teeth. 

Leon looks surprised that I can even talk while he is controlling me. I use this moment to focus all of my powers onto him. He steps back in surprise and releases his control over me. He grabs at his chest and starts making these terrible gargling noises from the back of his throat. "Constance, stop" he growls, trying to fight me.

"I already told you, I'll stop when you release him. Why are you keeping him captive anyway?"

"You think I want to mess with your stupid boy? He means nothing to me! I was forced to capture him by my boss."

"Who is your boss?" I demand, tightening my grip on him, causing him more pain.

"I don't know! He never showed his face to me! But he had the power to kill me. I had to capture him in order to save my own ass! Please, Constance, stop!"

I feel blood rush to my head as I realize that this person may possibly have the same power as me by the way that Leon described him. I release Leon and he falls to the ground, gasping and coughing. "Jesus, you're powers are sick!" he states.

I ignore his comment and walk past him to the door where Ty is being held. I hold my hand out to Leon, demanding the key. He shakes his head at me and tells me that he doesn't have the key. His boss does. "I want to meet him, I want to face him in person." I demand.

"Constance you can't do that! He will destroy you! He's like Satan with Xena powers even though he's Cerebrus."

"Wait! He's Cerebrus?" I ask, confused. 

The last time I checked, there was no plot against the Xena by Cerebrus. It was always Nibiru. Was everyone out to get the Xena race? Were they jealous of the powers that they had or was it something else?

"Why is Cerebrus against Xena?" I question.

"The only thing I know is that everyone wants to get their hands on that machine that Xena created. Stupid idea if you ask me, creating a device that can give anyone Xena powers. Well word has gotten out about Tyler's powers and yours as well. People in Cerebrus and all the other races are freaking out. Everyone wants powers like that. I think my boss might be looking at Tyler's DNA and figuring out how to replicate the gene that has his powers. He would have done it on me but I'm not a Xena by birth so he thinks Tyler's genes are easier to replicate or something like that."

So that was it, my brother's boss was going to operate on Ty, and possibly kill him, just to gain some stupid power? However I could see his motives. If he had the power to control death and thoughts, he could rule the world. One thing I knew for damn sure, there was no way in hell I was going to let him get Ty's powers.