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Truth part 1

"Um - Emma, remember how I said I've always been able to see presences since I was little?"
"Yeah. What's wrong, Lily?"

"Every other generation on my moms side can too. We go by the term Visionaries, and it is only hereditary like this with us Visionaries. But, it just dawned on me. I knew something was off."

At this point she was basically talking to herself.

"Well my grandmother once told of a prophecy of a special team with a Visionary, a bender, and a full body that would save the living and the deceased from the darkest and most dangerous of all presences. Anyway, she told me that the 3 elders- the tellers of the prophesy- knew one of the three members names. Emma, you are one of the three."

"What do you mean? What the hell are you talking about," I asked in full on hysteria now. If I was alive, I'd probably be passing out from hyperventilation.

"We need to get to my grandmother's house. She'll know what to do," Lily said as she got up from our spot by the door.

"No, Lily. I want an explanation. What are you even talking about? I'm nobody. Just another dead person." I stay rooted to the spot somehow finding what she's saying stranger than the fact she can see me.

"Emma, you don't understand. You're so much more than that. I promise, she'll explain everything, but we need to get to her house first, okay? "

I hesitantly stood up and began to follow her we walked- I mean what else could I do? We walked past Main Street when she suddenly turned onto Chesapeake Avenue and continued onto the walkway of a quaint little house. The tiny bungalow looked cute and full of life. The porch was overflowing with potted plans, and as I looked around the yard I could see beautiful flowers of all different kinds spread throughout. In that following moments that we neared the front porch, I notice a stout little woman with fairly long, blonde hair that greatly resembled Lily's . She was drinking bright yellow lemonade and reading a book on a very aged wooden rocking chair.

"Hi, grandma," Lily chirps with a smile as we step onto the porch.
She looks up from her book and immediately noticed me standing there. 

"Hello, Lily, who is this?" She inquired gently,  never once averting her eyes from my still form. I felt like she was peering into my soul, and I internally laughed at the irony of that thought.

"Um, yeah. That's what we kinda came here to talk about. This is Emma Finley," she replied with a slight tremble in her voice that seemed so unlike her; not that I knew her very well.

She looked utterly astounded. When she finally stood up, she quickly ushered us inside- her book laid forgotten on her chair.

We walk into what seems like a living room and as I sit down, I could hear pieces of Lily and her grandmother's conversation coming from the kitchen.

"Are you absolutely sure, Lily?"
"Yes, grandma. I could feel it when she was upset. And when we shook hands."
"Yes, but are you positive?"
"More than you could imagine, grandma. She is my full body"
"Okay. Okay, I trust you."

As they came into the brightly colored living room, I waited till the two sat down to start asking questions. But I didn't even get a chance, because as soon as Lily's grandma sat in the overstuffed bright yellow chair across from me, she began to speak.

"I know, Emma, that you must have many questions. Am I correct?" She asked, but the only thing I could muster up was a slight nod of my head that you wouldn't have even noticed if you weren't focusing on my gestures.

"Good. Okay. Um, Well as Lily all ready told you- about presences, and full bodies- I feel that we can jump right into what a Bender is, okay?"

"Um...I don't think I explained it all that well, grandma. I was kind of shocked," she let out from next to me in her usual airy tone.

"Okay- well a Visionary has the ability of communication with any animal. In addition a Visionary has the sight of presences and the dead. Unlike others, we can use this ability in full before our sixteenth living year."

What this woman was saying to me made no sense, and she seemed to know this because she paused to allow me to soak this information in.

After the most drawn out minute of my life - well death- she continued.

"A Bender is a person that can bend the fabric of reality. With training, they can conjure things with their minds, craft out of raw matter, and turn objects into something else entirely. But they can't telepathically move things. That's what a full body does. Each member is needed for the team to-"

I cut her off in the most bewildered tone ever; my brain was actually starting to work and what she was saying was a whole new level of crazy.

"What do you mean team? I don't understand. I mean, I do, but- I can't do that, I don't have special mind powers. The only difference between me and everyone else is that I'm dead." I streak out as I become more distressed than before.

"That's not true, Emma. You are the most special of all full bodies, and my little Lily is the most special of all Visionaries."

"Now, there are many others like you both. There is a whole organization of them called The Saviors - that I was part of at one point - which is comprised of 100 teams, 3 members each. A Visionary," she motioned to Lily.

"A full body," she motioned towards me.

"And a Bender. Each member comes into their fated ability during their sixteenth living year. The organization is run by one very powerful team, and every 30 years a new team is born into the title of leader over the saviors. You two are part of the most powerful team of leaders there has ever been."

"I'm still confused as to how this all started? " I questioned in a shaky tone.

"Yes, I suppose you would be," she sighed out casting her gaze down an a troubled way. 

"Centuries ago, there was a great war between two very powerful magical races that had once lived in harmony. The Celtons and the Presences."

"The presences that you know of today do not exist in their original form. When they lost the war, they became deeply troubled and utterly hopeless beings"  

"But during the time of peace, they became jealous of the Celtons power. The Presences thought that they were more fit to rule over the magical world but the Celtons refused, knowing that their powers were far stronger then the Presences. The Presences fought against this even though it was true."

She paused before continuing.

"One night, the Presences planed a sneak attack on the Celtons -being as they could not beat them head on- killing what they thought was the entire race. Little did they know three sisters escaped. Adelaide, Anastasia, and Andromeda. These- these sisters, like all other Celtons, had the powers of sight, fluidity, and bending all in one."

"Each one of the sisters decided to spread one of their powers to a group of brave, strong, and smart humans that would help them face the perilous battle ahead. All three sisters giving a piece of their magic away to 100 humans each. The power of the Celton sisters and the saviors combined banished these presences away into a form only the saviours or the three elder sisters could see- into what they are today."