Lightning

The darkest reflection

I didn't hesitate. Flying in the house I was welcomed with fire, nonbreathable smoke, unbearable heat, and high piercing screams. You don't need to be a superhero to know that the screams were coming from upstairs. The bathroom to be exact.

When I got there, the door was locked so I punched the doorknob. It poped right out making a hole in the door, pushing it open I found my Grandma on the floor. She stopped breathing.

I carried her outside and started doing CPR. Sooner or later she started coughing and breathing. Her snow white hair had grey dust on it. I turned around and with my super breath I blew out the fire and stopped anymore damage.

"Elysia!" Grandma Lynn said.

"What?" My Gran knows my secret identity?

"The Creepy Clown said that he's doing this because of my granddaughter Elysia." Tears started to run down her face. "Lightning, you have to go find her! That monster is going to hurt her!"

She was shaking head to toe. The ambulance came and I flew away.

"Your Highness." Blue said. "You know what this means right?"

At first I didn't say anything. But then I spoke the words.....

"He knows who I am."

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A few hours later, I ran into Grandma Lynn's hospital room with my family voices trailing behind me.

"My Elysia!" Granny said. "I was worried The Creepy Clown had hurt you."

"What happened?" I sat in a chair that was next to the bed.

"I was cooking and out of nowhere Clown broke my door down. I ran up to the bathroom and hid. He said if I came out a bomb would go off. For hours I sat in the tub shaking. I never moved but the bomb still went off." She was crying so much her hospital gown was getting wet.

"It's okay Gran." I grabbed her hand.

"Your not suppose to be here Miss Jacqueline." The doctors said.

"I'll leave. And my name is Warisha." With a final goodbye I walked out of the hospital. After today, I really need a little fresh air.

It was starting to get dark but I didn't care. I need to walk around, see where my feet take me, what I can buy with the 9 bucks I have in my North high backpack.

I don't know how, but next thing I know I'm on Rock Road and in front of the city's most popular book store. 5 minutes I stood in front of the door frozen woth an unexplainable fear. Slowly, I reached out and grabbed the knob. The entire plase smelled of coffee and new books.

Slowly, I stuck my hands in my pockets and walked around. I don't know why I'm so scared. It's just a book store. The same one I've been going to for years.

But haven't been to in over 3 years.

Now I know why I'm shaking uncontrollably. This is the last place the human Elysia went to with her bio-dad on the day he died. The bus explosion was just out in the streets.

Not to be extremely rude or anything but......

Damn that human Elysia and her feelings.

I know that I'm the reason why she's dead but John Warisha was her father. Mine is King Bolin of pluto.

I'm not shaking anymore now. To prove it my hands are steady and I can breathe again.

Just for the hell of it, I looked around, found a new book and took the bus home.

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In my bathroom I'm holding the Invisi-box and thinking about which one of my family members to call.

"Your twin." Blue said.

I was about to activate it when I caught my reflection in the mirror.

God damn, I look like crap ran me over.

Dark circles were under my eyes, and it looks like I haven't brushed my hair in days. My skin was pail and I mean pailer than usual, and my eyes were dull and not bright.

If your judging right now give me a break.

I had to leave school early (and now that I think about it, it's really not that bad), went to a crime scene and saw 3 bodies, went head to head with The Creepy Clown, I don't know who he is, he blew up my Grandma's house, put her in the hospital, and got a serious case of the jitters just by walking in a book store.

And that was all just today!

So instead, I crawled in my bed and went to sleep.

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"What have you done?"

I was in my Lightning uniform and I was sitting in the living room. The mother of the human Elysia was screaming at me.

"You lied to us. How could you? We're you family." She was yelling so loud the house was shaking.

"I was trying to protect you." I got up and started flying around the room. "I'm sorry you had to find out this way."

"Your sorry? How could you keep this from us?"

"I really am sorry, I have to go mom, Wichita needs me." I started to walk out the door. "We'll talk when I get back."

"You are not leaving!" She grabbed me by the shoulder and turned me around.

"I have to. I'm the city's hero."

"You are an embarrassment to this city and to this family." She pulled out a mirror. "You look the part too."

I screamed. My reflection was terrifying. The mirror was cracked down the middle. One half was me as Lightning, the other was me as Elysia. Both of them were covered in bruises and blue blood.

And both of them were dead. You could tell from their open lifeless eyes.

"This is your reflection." My mother scowled. "The darkest reflection."

I ripped the mirror out of her hands and smashed it against the wall over and over.

But that just made it worse because now there are several mirror peices with dead Lightning's and Elysia's all over the floor.

Several peices of my darkest reflection.

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I woke up covered in sweat and gasping for breath. Placing a hand over my chest and looked around my dark room.

A nightmare. It was just a dream.

But sometimes, even on pluto, my dreams come true.

Especially my nightmares.

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Sorry about the long wait things have been kind of crazy with the holidays and all.

More updates coming soon.

Bye.