We are the 400

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                                  The clinic was a cold medicated room that  I   hated  only because a psycho alien killing telepathic was giving me a checkup. I  sat  on  a chair in the waiting room  waiting for Sylus, Ralph and Tom to finish. Alyssa sat across from me reading a magazine. Mark sat to her left  and Phillip at his left.  Lucas sits beside me acting like he's reading the magazine. "Damn that Alyssa  girl can fight hard." Lucas whispers to me. I grin and say "It's always the hot ones."   Lucas holds in a laugh disguising it as a cough. I pick up a magazine about sports cars and thumb through the pages.  Hailey walks into the waiting room  and Lucas says  "Another example."    Hailey sits beside Phillip and asks "So whats going on?"  There is silence. "Not much." I say putting down the magazine. "How can you trust anyone when there's a mole among us?" Mark whispers to Phillip thinking I couldn't hear him. 

                             I had discovered that  I had advanced hearing even for one of the 400.  "So that's why everyone's acting so tense." I say thinking out loud. "How the hell did you-?"  Phillip stutters. "Never mind that." I say. "If you think me or Lucas is the mole then ask us something only we would know." I  finish putting the magazine down.  "They're not the moles." Hailey says after reading our minds.  "OK so who is?" Alyssa asks. "We were thinking maybe it's Jack." Phillip whispers sitting near me and Lucas. Basically everybody moved over near us Alyssa sitting in the chair between me and Lucas.  I breath out  trying to not  stare at her. "Oh sorry, I can move if you want me to." She says seeing me tense. "Um its fine."  I answer.   Ok so we have to talk telepathically.   Hailey's voice says in my head. FIne by me  Lucas says.

                               So we've eliminated Lucas and Sol but how do we know it isn't you Hailey? Mark says flatly. She glares at him How do I know that its not you?. Mark shrugs and  then says solemnly I would've already killed you.   Sylus walks into the waiting room and says "Damn it's quiet in here."          

             "Yea I guess so." Alyssa says shrugging. It's not him either. Or anyone in this room for that matter   Hailey says.   "That  Smith lady is creepy as heck." Sylus says sitting down across from me.  You don't know the half of it. I think to myself.   "Yea she is."  I say.

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                I'm Sylus and shortly after I walked into the waiting room, I felt unwelcomed. It was a familiar feeling but it still stung.  I sat next to Mark  and said "So what's going on here?" Mark shook his head then grabbed me by the neck. Then slammed me on the table in one fluid motion.

                      "Mark what the hell" I growl blasting him with a cyclone. He hit the wall with a thud and I hear a crack.  Mark becomes eerily still "Sylus did you-kill him?" Li asks lifting Mark's head up as I stand. Behind Mark's head on the wall is a yellow liquid dripping off  of his neck.

                   "What is it?" Tom asks rubbing his  fingers  on the liquid. He pulls away his finger dripping the weird liquid. Li turns Mark's head revealing a hole the size of a quarter. "What's going on in here?" Sol's uncle asks from behind us.

            "Something is wrong with Mark." Alyssa says carrying Sol's uncle over. Mark's skin is growing paler by the second making Sol's uncle call over two nurses. They both lift Mark up and pit him on a cot then walk away with him.

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           I'm surprised that Sylus is still OK because the glass table Mark  threw him unto has shattered. Lucas is silent beside Phillip like everyone else. A couple seconds later and everyone is back except for Mark. "You can all go now."the nurse says  shooing us .

            We all leave and start  walking down the hallway back to our room when Jack falls to the floor and starts convulsing.  Santiago grabs him and then there's a pop as they teleport. Everyone is solemn as we wait for Santiago to come back. "What the hell is happening?" Sylus  asks looking at us. "We don't know." Lucas answers starting to walk down the hallway. "We need to be more careful." Tom  calls to Lucas as Santiago appears beside me making me jump. "Groups of two or three everywhere." Tom continues, glaring at me for a second. "Ok  got it." Lucas says walking through a set of double doors. Hailey follows him out along with Alyssa and Santiago.  Ralph me and Tom are all that's left in the cold tiled hallway. "The assassins are coming for us."  Ralph says solemnly after a long silence.  "Then lets make earth a hellhole for them." Tom says smiling. "Yea we need to come up with a plan." Ralph agrees.They're voices fade away and I think  about what all the people suspected of being a mole had in common. Then I shifted it to the accuser but still it didn't make sense because mark had the hole and I don't think Jack did so how did it make sense? I asked  myself . 

                       "Hey Sol you there?" Tom asks shaking me back into the present. "Yea just zoned out." I say   nodding . "Oh well we're going back to the rooms." Ralph says slowly walking away from the hallway. Tom follows him then turns around and asks "You coming?" . I nod and reply "In a minute." then after they leave I follow a pull I have in my stomach. An uncontrollable tug that makes me move forward step after step turning corners that I didn't even now the compound had. Then I reach a pitch black room  Now that I have control over my body again, now that I can feel emotion I want to run and go back to where I was. "So your Aralkis's child." says a gruff burly  voice beside me. I create a ball of energy which illuminates the whole room in neon blue light.  A man that is 6'8 and has  large shoulders and biceps and is wearing  black armor that is covered in glowing runes. "Who are you?" I ask looking up into the darkness only seeing his neck and jaw. He crouches down so I'm able to distinguish his features better. He looks like  Sylus but older with a full  beard and a weathered face. 

                   "I'm a friend." He says before looking around. "Just remember this because my time is short." he says before pausing."Always stay on guard these assassins will slaughter you if you give them that chance  so always be prepared."   Mere seconds later I'm laying in my bed the steady whir of the fan  above me.