The Forbidden Children

7: Threats

February 23, 8019

Ralph POV

It's been months since the nine of us stepped into the grim building we soon called home. Weeks of what seemed like never ending torture of extensive training sessions, arguments, and unfinished plans. It has been so long that Jack even turned 17 and Tate turned 16. 

Smiles were rarely seen, everyone was on edge, and everyone was handling it differently.

For instance, Fiona was most likely to point out something beautiful, like a lady bug or the sunset. While Alex and Kadyn snapped at the slightest high pitched giggle or rolled their eyes in disagreeable silence.

Their main priority was to focus, to grow stronger, and to kick the gang leaders asses. Of course that goal is what all of us are trying to achieve, but some of us need to really lighten up for God's sake.

Jaanai knows every nook and cranny of the overgrown hospital, it's to the point where Kadyn can't even force her to go to gun shooting class because she hides in a new location every day. If she successfully misses her classes, you most definitely will find her in the cafeteria studying the many medical books she discovered. This has led to long nights of the group covering their ears because of the overbearing echos from Jack and Jaanai arguing, with Kadyn creating the tension at points.

Because of Jaanai disagreeing with violence, Jack has the heavy weight of both of their lives at stake during battle. He trains more than all of us combined, he even has private sessions with Kadyn during lights out. Jack is incredibly fast, and sneaky at times. He can pick locks like his life depends on it every single time, we even time him to see if he can beat his personal record of eight seconds. He often collaborates with Tate about engineering and technical aspects we can use to our advantage.

Tate is something else, first off he is a terrific liar, he has already made me believe he went to public school and that he's escaped several of Blade Briar's men with different identities each time. Then there's the fact that he literally has the recreation of Albert Einstein's brain in that little head of his. His IQ is probably tremendous, it hurts my brain just to think about. Tate is 100% an intellectual, he can create statistics of every possible outcome In his head at any given second, he is the definition of back to the future. We have backup plans A through Z because of him. Every computer, every security system, and every file could be at his access if he had the machinery.

Hunter may be quiet and have really weird outbursts of energy, but he is very helpful. Living with a mother who believes she's the witch of medicine can really come in handy in times like these believe it or not. He created specific meal plans for all of us with the food we scrounged up, for our specific needs like strength, energy, etc. His knowledge of fitness machines and workouts also came to use, he made a gym using the hospital equipment. The fitness training course is all ran by him, we all meet with him for two hours daily.

Then there are the rest of the girls that Kadyn tried to put down every second, saying stuff like the guys have to work harder to make up for the weak ones, but boy was he completely wrong.

Alex is the spawn of satan with sharp weaponry. She can use anything as a weapon if she had to, her quick instincts, and smart ass wits make her the actual devil. The other day she was practicing fighting with a spear and holy shit if it was real Kadyn would be ripped to shreds. She definitely found her weapon of choice. Briar's army even has to fear her in hand-to-hand combat cause god damn I swear she's telepathic with how fast she responds to your movement. Her and Fiona are each others hype girl, honestly they are each others only challenge.

Fiona never fails to surprise us all. Even Kadyn was found with his mouth open at her extremely accurate aim. She never misses. Especially since she started practicing throwing knives, it's her new favorite thing, you can always find her outside hitting tree trunks or the actual targets we set up back in the beginning. It all started at our first target practice, everyone got the hang of it at some point, but as soon as Kadyn handed Fiona the gun and showed her how to turn the safety on and off, we were all done for.