Their Elemental Curse: Book 1

Chapter 26

*Shimizu Hada's POV:

"I am so sorry that you have to go through this Katie. This must be really hard for you" I said as I placed my hand on Katie's shoulder.

"Yeah, it is" she whimpered as she wiped her tears.

Me, Katie and Danny were standing around the grave that we finished burying Kamryn in.

We had been standing there for about thirty minutes, but had a moment of silence for about a minute.

"It's funny really" Katie spoke up after the moment of silence.

"What is?" I asked as me and Danny looked at her.

"One time before, she told me that when she gets old and dies, she would like to be buried in the forest or jungle. She wanted to be one with nature. She wanted to be surrounded by it. Little did she know that she would die so young, and have her wish be granted unknowingly by us."

"It's kind of like a coincidence right?" Danny asked.

"Yeah, it kind of is" she looked up at Danny, tears still pouring down her face. She began talking to Kamryn.

"I promise that I will be strong for you. I promise that I will continue to keep going and fight through every little struggle that comes my way. I promise that I will be brave and not be insecure and hate myself because of my powers. Like you said before: "my powers don't define me, they are just a part of me". You scared off bullies for me. You comforted me through our hard times when we were being passed around from foster home to foster home. You were always there for me. You will always be in my heart, soul and mind. I can't wait to see you again when it's my time to go. I love you, rest in peace Kamryn Scott, my one and only sister."

Katie started crying again.

"Long live Kamryn" Danny said as he looked up at the sky.

"Fly high Kamryn" I said, trying to hold back tears. Even though I only knew Kamryn for maybe an hour or so during the revolt, it was still a very sad thing to see her die. It was sad to see Katie lose the only family member she had left.

Katie turned her head at us.

"Since I don't have any family left, hopefully, maybe, I can look up to you guys as my family."

"Of course. Maybe you can look up to us as big brothers" I said with a faint smile.

Katie smiled back, but suddenly frowned again.

"Do you want to know how we got captured and taken to the camps?"

Me and Danny looked at each other.

"Sure" Danny nodded.

Katie got up as she stared at her sister's grave.

"At our last foster home, we were abused by a drunkard couple. We were abused sexually, emotionally and physically. It got so bad once that the boyfriend of the couple pulled out a gun at us because we didn't do the chores right. After about six months, me and Kamryn were fed up and made up a plan to run away. We took some medicine, clothes and even stole the couple's money. We ran away, maybe about seven miles from San Francisco and stopped at a gas station to take a break and to get something to eat. As we were eating outside of the gas station's store, a F.E.M.A truck pulled up. Us knowing about the call for an extermination on "experi-babies", we tried to run, but it was too late. They already caught us. They injected us with something, something that made us not able to use our powers. They forcefully placed tape on our mouths so we couldn't say anything and then tossed us into the van."

"Wow" I responded, extremely sad to hear her story. It sounded like she and Kamryn came from a tough life.

"That's terrible. I was taken away from my backyard" Danny spoke up.