Forest Hope

Chapter 8 (The Meeting)

Chapter 8_________

After the trial, I stopped for a minute. Could I really shoot my brother? Or anyone else for that matter... The lights dimmed and the voice came on the speaker..

Trial 1 complete. Please enter door to left.

Ugh not another Trial...

I started walking towards the door that opened up. Inside the room was a long table at one end of the table was Harvard.

"Paloma, come sit down." He said.

I sat down, and looked around the room. It was as empty as all the other rooms. Just metallic walls, and metallic table and chairs.

"I hope the trial wasn't to traumatizing for you..."

I looked back to him. He was smirking.

He kept talking..."I didn't know that you had the guts to shoot everyone... including your brother." Smirking...

"How...did you get a hologram... of my brother...?" I asked gritting my teeth.

"I can't tell you all my secrets...." STILL smirking.

"Quit smirking." I said angerily.

"Why...I thought you like to see my smile."

"No! I don't, especially when you made me kill a hologram of my brother!" I got out of my seat.

"Calm down, Paloma it was just a trial to see if your emotions would get to you."

I walked over to the end of the long table, where Harvard was sitting.

"You better not mess with me or my brother. I will get out of this freaking jail and find my brother, and if any of your guards get in my way... Then don't be suprised if they are dead, because I can and will kill, if my brother is in danger." I walked back to my seat.

He just sat there with a surprised look on his face.

"Why do you care so much about your brother?"

"Why should I tell you?"

"Because it might help us find him. You haven't told us anything about him."

"I don't need your help finding him, you never even told me why they took my brother."

I could tell I was making him aggravated. "I think you do need my help. I also can't tell you why they took your brother, because you and your family would be in danger!"

"Family? What family!? All I have is a deadbeat grandma, and my brother!" "And God only knows where he is or if he's still alive! I am wasting time in this place. Time, that I need to find Callum. Now please let me leave."

"I can't let you leave, at least not yet. If you leave this place then they will track you down. The Penaeluges are searching for you and they won't stop until they capture you."

"WHY? What could they possibly want from me or Callum?"

Harvard sighed, "I will answer that question only if you answer one of my questions first. Ok?"

"Fine...."

"How did your parents die?"

"I don't want to talk abo...." I forgot that I had to answer the question. "The police said that they drowned in a lake....Their boat caught on fire and sank. The police never found there bodies."

The room was filled with an awkward silence for about a minute. I decided to break the silence.

"My turn, why are the Penaeluges hunting me down?"

"The Penaeluges are hunting you down because you and your brother are different."

"Like how are we different?"

"You aren't human. We don't know what powers you and your brother have...yet."

"How do you know that we are different?" I asked confused.

"I know because your mom told me."

"What? that is impossible! I told you they died in.."

Harvard cut me off. "Paloma, your mother is alive. She survived the fire on the boat."

"What!? How....and...is my father alive?"

Harvard shook his head.

I felt a tear go down my cheek. I quickly wiped it off.

"Does she.....have powers too?" I asked.

"Yes, your mother has the power to change people's thoughts and she is immortal to natural deaths. So she can't die by fire, or old age, or anything like that. She can only die from unnatural including bullet, or being hung...ect."

Harvard continued, "Your dad had no powers, if he did, then he could control them unlike your mom and you."

"Why did my mom disappear?" I asked.

"She had to... if she didn't then you and your brother would have been in danger much earlier than this. Your parents were being hunted. The Penaeluges set the boat on fire, killing your father, and your mother they thought. Your mother escaped and went into hiding. Your father died in the fire not by drowning.

The Penaeluges tried to recover your parent's bodies but they couldn't find them. One was ashes and the other one was gone. So the Penaeluges had to track down their children. (which is you and Callum.)" He finished.

"So they can create the mutant..." I mumbled to my self.

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Author's Note

Ok guys since everyone wanted me to update and I didn't update for like 5 months. and I felt bad about the one I posted a couple days ago because it was so short. So I wrote a really long one and I will keep writing these big chapters, hopefully you enjoy this book so far. After I finish this book I have a really good Idea for a second book to this, comment below if I should make a second bookcin the future when I am done with this one. Which will be a long time. Love ya all and all the readers that waited 5 months and got like the shortest chapter of all...hope this one makes up for bye :)