Mentally Able

Chapter 4

I woke up in the middle of the night to a tapping noise on my window. I saw a flicker of movement outside. I nudged Mark awake.
" Mark something is outside. It wants to tell us something. " I whispered , glancing out the window.
Mark then woke immediately. " What? Who is it? "
" I don't know. " I replied " but it wants our attention. "
" How do you know that it doesn't want to kill us? "
" I've got a feeling Mark. It's here to help."
" Ok... Open the window, but be very cautious and ready to raise the alarm. " Mark said, grabbing his baseball bat from his box of belongings.
" Are you seriously going to use that as a weapon? "
" I gave someone a concussion with it once. "
" Whatever."
I moved slowly, silently over to the window, and opened it. I whispered out into the night,
" Who's there?"
Then, out of nowhere, a boy with dark brown hair dropped from a tree branch that hung 5 feet from our new second story window. I almost yelled, but his jade green eyes gave me a signal that meant " Be quiet "
" You have got to get out of here. " the boy said " Quickly. Climb out the window and follow me. "
" Who are you, and what are you here for? " Mark asked
" I am your Guardian. I have been watching and tracking you both for the last month. We have to get you somewhere safe."
" You still haven't told us who you are, and why should we trust you?" I asked
" Names have meaning you know. Why should I trust you?" Answered the boy
" Well, you've kind of been stalking us for the last month, so you should know whether or not you can trust us." I said, almost in an angry way.
" You have a point there. " mystery boy said.( was that a flicker of a laugh I saw in his eyes?) " My name is Ace. I'm like you. My mission is to get you to a base where there are more people like us. I'm pretty high ranked there, and from what I've seen from you both, you'll rise high in the ranking system pretty fast too. I can explain later, but we have to get you away from here as soon as possible. You aren't exactly making yourselves unnoticed. "
I glanced at Mark, and he nodded.
" Ok. We will go with you. But only because we were planning on leaving tomorrow anyway. "
" Good!" Ace exclaimed. "Climb out the window and I will meet you on the ground."
I looked at him like you really think I'm going to do that? And he answered,
" Mark can teleport you down. Mark, grab her arm and teleport the way you normally do. It will work. Trust me. "
Mark looked uncertain, but he tried teleporting down to the ground, and luckily, was successful.
" See? " Ace said as he scrambled down from the tree, " Told you that you could trust me. "
He started walking straight across the orphanage lawn, and jumped right over the sign that said " Do not walk on grass." That made me laugh a little bit. We followed him, and with that, left the orphanage once and for all. He began to explain his story.
" So, you both are Supernaturals, strong ones at that, and you aren't the only ones. I'm a supernatural, and there are thousands of others living in hiding. At this place I'm taking you to, everyone there is a supernatural. You will train here, get ready for combat or anything like that. As a supernatural, especially now, you don't know what you will need to be prepared for. This base will train you for everything that the Masters think that you will need to know. The Masters are the leaders of the Supernaturals. They have five supernatural powers, which makes them like, a supernatural supernatural. You will get rankings depending on your strength and personality. As you rise in rank, you receive more respect and power, kind of like in the army. "
"What are your powers?" I asked right as Mark asked " What's your rank? "
" I'm a Versatile General."
" Whats that mean? "
" It means that I don't specialize in anything, I'm equally good at everything. And that's not a common trait. There are only about 20, maybe 30 Versatiles right now. I'm the leader of them" Ace continued " my powers are... strange. I, unlike every other supernatural, have two abilities. Though the Masters have five abilities, I'm the first supernatural in recorded history to have two. The abilities themselves are rare also. I can manipulate the mind and what people see and think, but also can transform into anything I want. As long as I have seen it before, anywhere, and that it is living, I can be it. "
" That's awesome!" I exclaimed
" Yeah, I know." Ace smiled " it took a long time to master though. Anyway, the problem is, since the government had been trying to kill the Supernaturals, thinking that we would want to take over the world and such, which, by the way, we don't, at least our kind, they capture and kill most of us, unless they can convince us to side with them and kill more Supernaturals. Some do, but most would rather die. Many people from our base have been captured. Only one man from our base force has come back alive, and he has never been the same. " Ace shivered. " The government tracks us, and to them, the more powerful the supernatural is, the better to be killed. We have to keep very quiet about our... lets say " gifts". We are quite the distance from the base, and if Mark had mastered his skill by now, we would be just able to teleport there, but as of now, since he just started using his gift, he can only travel to places he can see. "
Mark gave him a look like thanks a lot.
"Not that I expected that you would be able to." Ace hastily said to Mark " You're actually doing better then I expected you to be. And even if you did know how to go to places you can't see, you would have had to have been familiar with the surroundings, and since you don't know where the base is, it wouldn't have helped. "
We had been walking all this time while Ace explained some stuff about Supernaturals and their history and such, so by this time we had reached a forest.
" Checkpoint. " Ace said " This is where we will stay for the rest of the night and tomorrow, so make yourselves comfortable."
I curled up on the grass, which was soft and springy, and fell asleep. I slept sounder on that grass in the middle of nowhere then I had for a long time.