Powering Up (a RV Fanfic)

Chapter 3: Illusion

"Who?" Irene asked in confusion.

"I'll tell you if you get this ice off my feet," Joy replied.

"Why can't you just make me?"

"I want to build some trust between us, okay? I really do need you."

"Fine." The ice on Joy's boots shattered and she was free.

"Okay, let me explain. These people from GOP wer-"

"Geo pee?"

"Gathering of Oddities Project."

"Oh. Continue."

"They were after me because I have special abilities that they wanted to use. They wanted to use me as a weapon," she emphasized. "I told them to leave me alone of I could find two other people to give them."

"Wait! What?" Irene yelled. "You were gonna give us to them?"

"But-"

"No!" Irene was furious. "You brought us here just to give us to this Gathering of Odd people thing? You are so selfish you know?"

"I know, but-"

"Seulgi trusted you," she interrupted.

"They're going after all of us now. It was a trap. I never should've brought you into this, but now we have each other and we can fight them together," she continued to explain. "There's not point in leaving alone. We have to leave together. We are stronger together against them. We need each other."

"Fine," Irene agreed hesitantly. "Only because I don't want to die."

"Thank you so much. Now we just have to explain everything to Seulgi." They hear tapping on the marble steps.

"Guys!" Seulgi called, running down the stairs.

"Well there she is," Irene said.

"There's this girl in Sam's room with his suit on."

"What? Sam, my butler?" Joy asked with slight shock.

"Yes!" Seulgi yelled.

"Sam?" Joy called for him to clarify Seulgi's accusation. Sam didn't appear for a couple seconds, then he walked down the stairs to Joy. "My friend here said that she saw a girl in your suit in your room. Is this true?" Sam didn't say anything.

"That's it," Seulgi had enough of watching everything happen. She wanted to take action on what her gut told her. Without hesitation, she pointed her finger at Sam and released a small jolt of electricity on his neck like a taser. Sam dropped on the ground.

"What the hell did you do?" Joy complained.

"Look," Irene pointed. Sam's face started disappearing and showed the face behind the man they thought they were talking to. A girl. A girl's face appeared behind Sam's. She groaned.

"Who are you?" Joy questioned, now in even more confusion.

"Owww. That hurt," the girl whined. "I'm not Sam."

"Yea, that's obvious," Irene said. "What's your name?"

"Yeri."

"Are you from GOP?" Joy asked.

"Eww, no!" Yeri responded. "I ran away from them."

"What's GOP?" Seulgi whispered to Irene who said that she'll tell her later.

"How did you get here and where is Sam?" Joy continued asking.

"In GOP's asylum there was a file about you being their target so I took it and went to the address. And Sam, your butler? He's in bathroom on the other side of the house," she answered. "I killed him."

"What?" Joy shouted. She didn't know how to comprehend the information. This whole time, GOP targeted her to be their weapon. They have her address. Sam is dead in one of the unused bathrooms the whole time. Joy holded her fist up, prepared to hit Yeri's head, but Irene and Seulgi holded her arm. Yeri disappeared.

"Yeri?" Irene called.

"Why did you hold my arm? She needed to be punished for killing Sam."

"She's one of us," Seulgi said.

"We need her," Irene added. "Like how you need us and we need you. She's a victim of GOP and she came here for answers and your help, Joy."

"Okay," Joy agreed after a long pause. "Yeri, I'm sorry. You can show yourself now." Yeri appeared at the front door, about to leave. "What can you do?" she asked.

"Umm, I think I can make illusions to change what people see."

"That's why she made us see her as Sam," Irene pointed out.

"We need to leave," Joy suddenly announced. "GOP is gonna come for all four of us."

"But we need to go back to the asylum," Yeri said.

"What? Why?" they all complained in unison.

"My friend," Yeri explained. "She's still in the asylum and I promised to come back for her."

"What's her name?" Seulgi asked.

"Her name is-" A deafening explosion rung in their vulnerable ears. The walls of the mansion collapsed onto the solid marble ground, cracking under pressure. The smoke and dust blurred their vision as the crackling of the fire resonated in their ears.