Dari Cross (On Hold)

Part Eighteen

My eyes wash over them curiously. There was Miles and Skylar standing close by his side. Cole stood a few paces away with a girl. She eyed me in the same way I did. Her blonde hair cascaded around her face like a waterfall, while her blue eyes sparkled in the low light. Another figure had joined the group from the shadow of darkness. She looked almost evil with her raven hair and cold eyes. “Dari Cross?” She asks.

“Yeah?” I answer slowly, feeling the rest of my ‘gang’ swarm around me.

She takes steps forward as her hair shifts to brown and large curls tangle themselves around her face as her eyes turn a deep color. “Autumn?” I say, a smile crossing my face.

I run to her and we embrace in a hug. Autumn was a friend, more than a friend, really, she was a sister. We had been friends, up until she moved a year ago. And now she was here of all places? One of the eight? “You are one of the eight?” she asks, untangling her arms from me.

I nod, “Number Seven,”

She beams at me. “Number Two,” she speaks, holding up two fingers with a quirky smile on her face.

“I’m number two as Miles says I am,” she adds, glancing over at Miles, who was grinning.

I begin to notice the rest of us mingling together, introducing themselves to each other. I turn back to my long ago friend, “Will you introduce me to our new friend?

Autumn nods and seems to float over to the girl with excitement. “This is Dari,” she says turning to the girl.

I put on a smile as she follows my move. Autumn then turns to me, a curl falling in her face. “This is Kenleigh,”

Kenleigh acknowledges me with a hand shake. Very formal, she must be. “So did-”

“Yeah, Miles explained everything,” Autumn interrupts.

I blink, “He explained what we know so far,”

“So obviously I’m a shifter,” Autumn says, “what can you do?”

“Um danger sense, that’s what I got from N.O.V.A and-”

I turn, looking around for something small enough to pick up. I soon spot a screw laying on the ground a few paces away. Raising my hand, it zooms in our direction and hovers over my palm. I beam at their reaction. “Whoa! That’s so cool!” Autumn exclaims as Kenleigh grins.

I raise an eyebrow at Kenleigh; she gets my hint and speaks in a surprisingly thick British accent. “I can paint the future,” she says, shrugging it off as if it was nothing.

“Wow!” I say.

She smiles in reply as I look around the room. Everyone of the eight was here, with the exception of…Grace. Her name sent slight shivers down my spine. I spy Logan standing a few paces away, clearly trying to avoid Sky, for reasons not excatly known to me. I walk over to him and try not to throw myself at him. I didn’t want to announce our relationship just yet. “So what now?” I ask.

“I don’t know,” he says after a few moments.

I scrunch up my eyebrows, thinking. So let me list off everyone and their powers.

-There’s Logan; unable to be hit by bullets, and very good with a weapon.

- Autumn; shape shifter

-Mile; computer geek.

- Cole; the healer.

- Kenleigh; painting the future.

-Then there’s me of course.

-And Gray; manipulating time.

-And then Jenna and Skylar.