The Travel Master

BOOK ONE: Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fourteen (edited) 

I walk into school with a purpose. What is that purpose? That's what I can't remember. Last night, well, I was falling asleep. I made a whole list of things I was going to do today. Then when I woke up I remembered then when I got here right now, I forget. I sigh, forgetting all about it when my eyes land on Ben. Today we're meeting up and he's going to tell us all about what he found out. I'm very nervous, to say the least. I've been thinking a lot about this Travel Master character. He probably has more tricks up his sleeve that Ben will and won't have figured out and revealed to us. I eventually make it to all of my random classes. All of them insufferable and not worth mentioning at all. I sit by Octavia today, partly because I don't want Ben to give me any sneak peeks into what he's going to tell us tonight. I dread it for some reason, maybe because I don't think any of it will be good.

"Okay, so..." Ben opens this weird folder thingy. We are all sitting in his living room, his parents are out. He looks nervous. "Alright, well just to be forewarned, it's not good." Then he pauses. "Okay, so, um." And he stops altogether. I wait a few seconds so does everybody it seems. This is bad.

"Ben? So if you could just tell us we're ready to hear the worst." Paige says this.

"Alright, sorry. So the Travel master from, reports and such, travels from country and states. To find people. And kill them. He seems to be some sort of demented serial killer. Except that all of his victims are seemingly random, we know the real reason for this, it's because he goes after people like us...okay, so I've been not just researching these things, but also thinking. I found some 'wonky' websites about him. I looked through a bunch of loonies and such and then I found something that could be true. It seems that the Travel Master can, much like Drew, take away people's powers and absorb it, or even be able to use the powers himself. Nobody knows for sure, but what we do know is that when people get...attacked by him they start with their powers and end up without them after.

And uh...I was thinking, separate from my research, that there are a lot of people out there, like you Ivy, who have the powers that just haven't been...uh 'activated' so to speak. So it's dormant. So when he kills random people there is a chance that he can get something from that as well. Anyway, it also seems that he might have some sort of shapeshifting power, and if he does that would point to him being able to steal other people's powers...and uh also the last sighting of him was in...South America. It seems he killed someone there. That's another problem, who knows how he figures out these people have powers. And also who knows how to prevent him knowing. We are like sitting ducks, he could come to kill us at any moment...and yeah..."

I sit back a bit shocked that he said this much in one sentence. Shocked also he just rambled all the facts like that, with no interruption or questions and no pauses just like...one stream of words. How...

"Wow." I turn my head and look at Nicki who said this. "Ben...thanks for researching all of this. And this is all very informative..."

"Yeah." Paige chimes in. We take a moment of silence, just to let everything sink in. it didn't seem that anyone was surprised about this. Since they had given me the sort of rundown of the Travel Master I wasn't surprised, sadder. People dying is never nice to hear about, especially if you're at risk as well. I shudder at the thought. Drew breaks the silence.

"Thank you Ben...so with all of this information...what do we do?" Everyone looks at each other shrugging. Like it was something you can just shrug about. Nicki says,

"Well, we gotta do something. I mean it's only a matter of time before he finds us, even if we are careful, especially since we don't know how he can find us. He could already know we exist. I mean, we need to figure this out."

"You're right Nicki. But what do we do?" Octavia says this. Nicki looks at her rather blankly.

"Now that is a good question." Drew Groans.

"Okay, um how about we take this one step at a time. Drew, we should find a way to protect ourselves against the effect of your power to protect ourselves against the Travel Master." Paige says this calmly.

"Yes. That's a good idea. Let's start there." Octavia says.

"When?" Ben says

"I think we should do this as soon as possible."

"Well, how would we even go about doing this? I mean, what would we do to protect ourselves, also the Travel Master might be entirely different from Drew!"

"True, but it's some sort of a start," Drew says this. I nod my head not wanting to get super involved but at the same time showing I agree.

"We don't have to just do this, there's probably a way we can...I don't know to strengthen our 'powers'. Even just working out would work." Octavia says this rather softly. I try to smile but it turns out looking like a weird thing balbalabla. Oh well.

After Octavia and I go out for ice cream. It's a bit late, but ice cream is always crucial. I get my cookies and cream ice cream cone. Octavia gets chocolate. We sit down licking out cones not saying anything, just contemplating. Finally, Octavia breaks the silence.

"So..."

"So..."

"What do you think of everything?"

"A bit terrified, A bit tired, A bit...yeah a bit of everything. I kinda wanna just bury my head in the sand, you know to end it and also end the stress." Octavia rolls her eyes,

"Wow."

"How are you feeling?"

"I don't know honestly I'll give it until tomorrow when I've fully processed everything, to tell you."

"Okee. Anyway enough about that...stress..."

I move the conversation to more boring topics. That way I don't have to dwell on it so much. When I get home I plop on my bed. And after I get ready for bed and do everything I need to do. I lay in bed for real and do my homework. Then try to go to sleep, keyword try. I toss and turn all night. Every Time I drift to sleep I remember that I might day at any moment. I never fall asleep. When the sun streams into my bedroom I feel like crap. 

I'm back, although who knows when I'll update next lol. Sorry for the really long wait, I just didn't feel like writing much. But now I do! :)

-Chrissy