Battle Born Vagabond Prequel

Chapter 14: Reunion: Marie: July 12, 4996

  I realized about a year ago that my mom always says "usually find children", "usually find children" and I look just like my mother, I know something is wrong here but I don't know what exactly. And I started to realize that I also have powers, I find it to be so cool. If I concentrate, I can appear somewhere else. I have found my place in the village, I have become the sun scout for the village, sun up to sundown it's all me. I get to explore as my job, I report in person to chief or our warlord if I see anything of interest and check in once an hour telepathically.

Mommy still stays up at night crying for daddy to come home. Flynn's messages come to us every 2 weeks, I bring that message to her being our warlord and the chief. They don't know how he got so lucky to find a revolutionist like this but we love him very much for what he is doing for us. My mom's friend Michelle say's that she would love to take care of him someday and she has this crooked smile. She hides her thoughts when she says that too, I don't know why but with that smile I don't know if it's needed to know.

It's the crack of dawn the orange and purple haze is beginning to blind me from the light emitting everywhere it's time for me to start my job. I see Tommy with cloth tightly around his eyes waiting for me the sun burns his eyes. I help him to his den, he is 16, blind but can feel everything for kilometers around him. He just walks around all night looking for trouble to find him. If he does, then he lets out a yell that pierces out everything and wakes everyone for kilometers. His lung power makes him dangerous to everyone around him. I take him to his den and put him deep in his den where there is no longer any light emitting through so that he isn't in pain trying to sleep it was much more difficult before I could take us to his den. Afterwards he tells me mind to mind "I felt something fall, in the direction of the forest, please investigate or I will."

"No, you sleep, I got this Tommy"

"Thank you, Marie, I wish you the best as I always do. I want to make you a woman."

"I'm too young for you, we are not becoming husband and wife, we talked about this! We are just friends"

"Good night Marie I love you. I will marry you someday."

"No, no to everything you just said. No to any thoughts you have of us when you sleep. We are just friends, go to bed."

I let myself back up topside and begin my way to the forest. After walking for a while stealthily I approach the forest. And I start going bush to bush for cover as I continue deeper, I have on my side a small pistol for my protection I teleport to my final set of bushes and then I have a clear view of the spot the babies rain down. I see two soldiers who plummeted to the ground they are hurt pretty badly just using each other to support each other. Doing little more than walking in a circle. They both collapse to the ground on top of each other. I pull out my pistol aimed right at them as I do a half circle towards them gun always on them.

One of them finger spells my name above his head, I know it's my dad so I holster my gun and run to them. And I just start thinking to my dad. "What are you doing here?"

And he starts thinking back, "we got discovered and we both got exiled for it. I need to speak with the chief."

"You need rest though, what happened"

"Head honcho up there didn't like that I wanted to stay up there and send messages to the Wyoming people asking for help. And I fought for most of the night, even fought the detainment team."

Flynn speaks up, "oh ya, that was incredible, and I wanted to see so I was following him around even while in a mobile electric shield imprisonment. He just didn't go down, he tried to overpower his imprisonment and if it weren't for them hitting him in the face with their Kevlar rods he would have escaped."

I think to Flynn, "Shut up, or else they are going to find us."

Flynn thinks, "Sorry."

Then my dad, "they know where we are" then he looks at me with this new brutal glare,"I thought I told you I need to speak with Chief"

"This is going to feel funny", I hold him in a hug him and his eyes lighten up but there's no smile on his face and teleport both of us to the edge of town. "That's my range, wait here, I need to get Flynn."

I go back and bring Flynn and he is just very confused. Then I tell them both, "stay here, I'm going to bring the chief." I go inside the chief's den and I put my hand on his back and bring him back outside and he is snoring. So I wake him.

He shouts out "Oh my God we've been discovered! Everyone at the ready for an in-base defensive attack."

Dad says to him "Hey Chief, I have information from you. Kind of important."

He shouts again, "Stand down, false alarm"

Flynn is just standing there like an idiot he doesn't realize that 50 people around him were ready to fire on him standing in the middle of town.

I hug my daddy and let him carry me around on his leg as he is walking around with the chief briefing him on everything. I'm having the best time any 7-year-old girl can have with her dad ignoring her. Eventually, my daddy says aloud to me, "honey I don't trust that there isn't some scouting party tracking us, and they already know where we are, please go do your scouting duties. I would love to spend time with you after dark when you get Michael one his guard duty. Please honey, you are the scout you are first in our line of defense."

I let go of him with a tear and think to him "I just missed you so much daddy, I love you."
I go checking my points never walking only using my teleportation abilities, makes my stealth unfounded when you can't hear me coming or going or what elevation I will be at.

As the night approaches I start thinking again based off my dad's journey, he almost left everyone behind without a 2nd thought. Every night, we disappear into the darkness. But if you don't come back to life with the light from the sun. Who will be there to tell your story of your life? The people you love are the only ones you want to be around to remember your last goodbye. This is war. And war is useless, it just causes illness, death and worst of all, heartache. In the end, what you do doesn't matter, only who you leave behind to learn from your lessons. But right now our hands are tied. So we pray for the night to end and for the day to start again.