Nova

Chapter 5

Blake stared at Tara, his face full of confusion and fear. Tara's arm had randomly started glowing, her veins were showing a white hot light and she was yelling in pain. Then it had stopped, the light faded from her arm and Tara stopped yelling instead now she looked scared, her metallic eyes seemed to shake as she breathed in and out deeply.

"What the hell was that?" Blake shouted at her sounding a little scared, Tara was looking away from the both of them and gripping her arm tightly.

"I...I don't know. It's never done that before..."Tara answered quietly.

"What do you mean by that?" Axel asked firmly, at this point Tara looked up at Blake. Her eyes were starting to form tears, Blake relaxed a bit, and she doesn't look as scary as before.

"I guess there's no point in hiding it anymore..." Tara said almost laughing at herself. "You've seen way too much for me to make up an excuse" Tara spoke softly while looking at the both of them.

Blake and Axel were focused on Tara not wanting to take their eyes of her for even a second.

"I have an ability that allows me to manipulate the power of a star" Tara breathed like she'd been holding it in for so long. Blake and Axel looked at each other not really knowing what to say.

Tara stared at them waiting for some sort of response but they just looked at each other dumbfounded. Tara had to do something; she couldn't stand the awkward silence between the three of them. Tara then held out her hand palm facing upwards and made her hand into a fist. The veins in her hands began to glow white like they did before in her arm but they all lead to the centre of her palm, after a few seconds she released the grip on her hand and from it a small ball of white light rose with a small streak of what looked like stardust connected to her and the ball of light like an umbilical cord.

Now they were all staring at the light which reflected in their eyes.

"S...so you can make starlight?" Axel asked cautiously.

"Well I can also shoot rays of starlight and I have my own gravitational pull" Tara explained.

"Your own gravitational pull?" Blake questioned not understanding what it meant.

Tara sighed, then raised her other hand towards Axel. The pen from the clipboard flew over towards Tara straight into her palm. She then twiddled the pen between her fingers.

"Could you warn us before you do these things!" Blake shouted at her.

"If I didn't you wouldn't of understood what I meant" Tara said back quickly

Blake was about to say something else but he stopped himself as he realized that she was right.

"Is this all you can do?" Axel asked feeling a bit more confident.