The S.T.F. Files, Book 1: S.T.F.

My Family Of 2

"Get the girl! Leave no witnesses," the FBI agent says. I'm hiding in the corner of my laundry room, under the sink that is weirdly placed in here. "Search the area now." The dude barks his orders to the teammates as he busts through the laundry room door. I hear screams. They got my family. I didn't realize he was staring at me.

"Look who we have here," he says, grabbing my hair and pulling me out of the room. I scream in agony and kick around. "Stop it you brat." The dude punches me in the gut. I scream even louder until he covers my mouth. The shots in the distance...they killed my family.

"Got her, let's go," the agent says. I couldn't let them catch me so I bit his fingers. He lets go and holds his injured hand. I try to run,k but the next guy whirled me around.

"Leave me alone!" I shout. I suck in a big breath of air and blow. The whole house is flooded with a mini tornado and I escape, hiding out in the forest until the FBI retreats. My name is Alison McGrath. As you can see, my power is Air, even though I don't know how I got it. I scout the area and run. My house is gone, I have no where to live, and I am a Wanted Fugitive by the FBI for some unknown reason. Not thinking, I run into a girl in the woods. She was hiking and was now on the floor.

"Watch it..." I say as I look at the girl. She looks kind of pretty. Brunette. The girl stood up. Her eyes were lavender.

"Ouch. Jeez, can you watch where you're going?" she says under her breath. I can tell she is shy right away.

"I found her!" a stray FBI agent calls from the bushes. He lunges for me. I take a deep breath in and blow. He blocks my air surprisingly. I try again and this time he uses the girl to shield him. Crap. The girl throws her arms in front of her face to block the air and debris flying around.

I smell smoke. There is fire around the girl and the agent behind her is burned to death. The fire heats my air and blows it upwards. What is going on?

"Was there really need to attack me?" the girl glares at me. Her aurora is different. She looks tough and fierce instead of shy. Fire burns in her eyes.

"He made you block him, so I didn't do anything wrong," I reply haughtily.

"Whatever," she says and starts walking away.

"Hey!" I call and run up to here. "You have magic...no more like power like me. How did you get it?"

"How am I supposed to know?" she says looking away.

"Well, we should stick together since we have similar powers," I say.

"Oh, really," she stops and looks at me.

"Yeah. My name is Alison McGrath, but you can call me Aly," I tell her.

"My name is Theresa "Riza" Terezinha Tabithana Tsuki Nadie Detrasta," she says. I look at her in bewilderment. "But you can call me Riza."

"Why do you have so many names?" I ask.

"Who knows," is all she says. "Why were those people chasing you?"

"Because...they know about me and my power. They want me to be a test subject for their scientists and crap. Since they know about you, they will be hunting you down as well," I tell her. She thinks for a moment.

"So, now that we are both being hunted down by the government...what should our group's name be?" she says, exasperated.

"I don't know. Specially something since we are special kids?" I think.

"Specially? Umm...how about Specially Talented Force?" Riza says.

"Doesn't that seem a little long?" I ask.

"No, it seems about right. We can call it S.T.F. for short," Riza tells me.

"Got it," I say.

~Pic of Aly in side