Where Tears Fall Like Snow

29

-Callum-

The mini fireballs circle around my fingertips. Tyler walks in.
"I brought water and a change of clothes." He says, "And I have places I need to be." He put them down on the table and walks out. I get up, a sharp pain runs through my air. It had to be my right arm. I change into the t-shirt and jeans and take a sip of the water.
"You there?" I wait for a minute. I look at my phone, still no service. I don't know why I always check, it's not like there's gonna be service is a cell. Kat and Gaia walk in.
"Hey Quiet Boy, how ya doing?" Gaia says. I just watch them.
"You know what's a fun game?" Kat asks
"Throwing stuff at me?"
"Yeah but not the one I was thinking of." She says, "I call it, Interrogation, but whenever he refuses the answer, I scratch him."
"Bit long, don't you think?"
"Do you still think you're funny?" She asks
"No, but you really should stop eating fish." She appears in front of me, scratches my arm and teleports back over to Gaia.
"It's scratch whenever I refuse to answer, not when I say something you don't like."
"Yeah but I make the rules." She says
"Where's Skylar?" Gaia asks.
"I dunno." I say, "Also, are those cat ears?"
"My name is Kat, I have claws, cat ears, yellow eyes and a tail." She says, "Are you just figuring out I'm part cat now?"
"You kinda teleport around too much for me to pick up on that kinda thing."
"I want to scratch you so badly right now." She says
"Ok, that's enough." Tyler says, "Sir wants to see you two." They both walk out complaining.
"Thanks."
"Yup." He says, "Anyways, all the guards have an "unexpected break" and trackers are going down for a bit."
"So we can get out of here?"
"Yeah." He says. He closes the door.
"What happened to your shoulder?" I ask
"I needed to get the tracker out of it." He says, "Anyways, hold out your palm." He presses the the tip of his knife to his finger tip and drops a drop of blood on my palm.
"Close your fist and run at that wall as fast as you can." He says. We both run at the wall. Instead of hitting it, we run through it.
"Keep running through the walls." He says, "You can't be seen while you're running."

We stop running.
"God, I'm not in shape, one second."
"Uh, I don't think we have a second." Kat and Gaia appear and look at us.
"Just run towards the house!" Ash runs past us. Rain and Luna appear.
"Hey, Tyler sucks at making plans." Luna says
"Thanks Lu." He laughs
"It's true." Luna say, "Ash! Let's go!" She teleports over to us and we teleport back to the house.

-Lauren-

Ash, Callum, Luna and Rain appear.
"Hey, you guys are back." Ryan says
"Yeah."
"Oh, guys, this is Tyler." Luna says
"Hey." He says awkwardly.
"Guyssss, they're back!" I call. Everyone rushes down. Scott hugs Callum.
"That's a ship." Rain whispers to me. We both laugh.
"Wait, where's Skye?" Rain asks
"That's a good question..." Stella says, "Skye!" Rain, Ash, Andy, Stella and Luna head upstairs.
"So Ty, how've you been?" Ryan asks
"Good." He says. Andy comes downstairs.
"Uh, so, Ash is coughing blood again." They say
"I told Rain not to let her use her powers." Ivory sighs. She follows Andy upstairs.
"You're used to this kinda stuff, right?"
"Missing people and coughing blood? Yeah, this is a good day in the base." Tyler says
"When was the last time someone saw Skye?" Rain asks
"Going into the bathroom, she was gonna take a shower." I say
"Shelby, can you figure out where Skye is?" Rain asks, "You guys still have a link."
"She blocked me out of her mind a while ago." Shelby says
"Ugh." She heads back upstairs.
"Tyler, you can stay in the boys guest room, or in the-"
"That's fine." He says, "If it's fine with everyone already sleeping in there."
"Yeah, that's fine." Scott says. Callum, Joel and Oli agree.
"I'm gonna go do- This is awkward and I'm gonna go be anywhere but here." Eli walks out, Violet and Ivy follows him.
"Yeah... we're just gonna go back to our room." Lizzie, Shelby, Yammy and I head up to our room.

I groan and look at the time.
2:07.
Still half asleep, I head downstairs. A black cat sits on the counter.
"Violet was supposed to keep her animals in her room or something." I say to myself. I try to nudge the cat off the counter and it scratches me.
"Ow."
"Where is Skylar Dana?" The cat asks
"What, what?"
"Sorry, I forgot." The cat leaps of the counter and turns into a person who still closely resembles a cat.
"Where is Skylar Dana?"
"I don't know." I say, "We couldn't find her."
"Don't lie to me." She says, "You know exactly where she is." She walks towards me slowly.
"No I don't." She scoffs.
"Humans are stupid." She says, "You have the power to find her but you're too afraid to use it."
"Wha-"
"You guys could be gods, but you throw it all away." She says. Her eyes start glowing.
"I know what you really want." She says, "You want to go home, go back to your "normal" life and forget all of these powers and stuff."
"What?! No I don't!" I say
"Don't lie to yourself honey." She says. She walks around me, "You just want to go home."
"I-" She wraps her tail around my shoulder.
"Come with me and it will all be fine." She says. Her eyes glow green.
"No, stop!"
"It too late for that." She laughs, "You're under my control."