White Rabbit

Chapter 63: A New Era

CLATTONIA

"I'm sorry," I pause, waving one of my hands around, "did you say you were Bennett Cessair?"

"Uh, yeah," Bennett nods, rubbing the back of his neck, "why?"

"Clattonia," Reece says, locking eyes with me and I look at him in a confused manner before looking back at Bennett.

"Because my last name is Cessair," I say and Bennett's eyes widen.

"Guys!" Juniper gains our attention as she hurries up to us with my father trailing behind her, "we need to go outside. Labyrinth and the others captured Loralai and deterred the other White Rabbit members, but now a bunch of news crews showed up and want to know what's going on! Ink and Indigo just came down a few minutes ago and told me before they hurried back outside."

The group of us hurry outside to find all of the others safe and I breathe out a sigh of relief as Caliber turns and waves to me, smiling from beside Labyrinth, who is currently dealing with a reporter. On the other side of Caliber, Kazuki watches her with a warm expression before reaching for her hand and lacing their fingers together, making me raise a brow at the sight, but I'm happy nonetheless.

"I told you, I'm not answering any more questions," Labyrinth grumbles and stands there with her arms crossed as Reece, Essence, Jace, and I approach her, the others trailing behind us.

"Oh, miss! Miss!" The female reporter's blue eyes widen and she swooshes her dark umber ponytail around, adjusting her dark framed glasses and smiling as she holds out her mic towards me, her notepad clutched in her other hand with her light pink manicured fingers, "can you tell me about the events that transpired here today? The world is dying to know."

I look at the reporter for a few seconds before taking her mic and briefly glancing at the news crews beside her that are filming as multiple camera flashes go off.

"My name is Clattonia Cessair," I say, my gaze firmly meeting those in the crowd, "and I am a Supernatural. I'm not ashamed to admit that here in front of the world. I am not scared to admit that either. I stand here before you today with many of the people I love. Up front with me are Reece Maverick, Jace Athens, and Essence Kaori. I have fought to survive my entire life, struggling to get by from a young age. However, I made many, many friends along the way who went through their own struggles. I have also lost many that I loved due to circumstances that should not have had to happen. I stand before you here today to tell you all that this is the beginning of a new era. Nobody should be persecuted simply because of who they are, what they are, what they believe, who they love, where they come from, or at all as long as they are not harming anyone else. We have as much rights as anyone else does and I'm here to tell you that today. We want peace between humans and Supernatural. Does that mean all Supernatural agree with our cause? No, it doesn't. However, there will always be evils in the world-- they just come in different forms. Not all humans are saints either, which is why the justice system was created in the first place. However, there are many, many great human beings out there, just as there are many amazing Supernatural who just want to live their lives without the fear of being mercilessly slandered or killed or losing their loved ones. I am asking you to open your hearts and learn to accept us into society, because there honestly isn't much of a difference between us when it comes down to us. We all have hearts. We all have souls. We all have morals. We all have emotions, dreams, and aspirations."

"We're not asking you to drop everything and invite us into your homes and let us take over your society," Reece starts, the crews now focusing their attention on him, "we're simply asking to live in peace with human beings. What happened here today is a testament to that. We did not want to be violent in order to get where we did, but we refused to stand there and be beaten down silently. So, we fought back. However, we did not ruthlessly murder innocent people. You can see that if you notice how many of the workers here are completely fine, minus a few scratches and minor injuries. However, there were some who were entirely not innocent, and so they were dealt with accordingly in the only ways we could. We tried everything we could to protect everyone. I believe that shows that all we truly want is to live in harmony."