Relentless

Chapter 78

"Celeste, you can't. He-he's probably bluffing anyway." My father said as we discussed our decision.

Although, to me there was nothing to discuss. The choice was simple.

"I know him. He's not bluffing." I countered.

"But still... She's your mother"

"He'll kill my fiends!"

"But she's your mother. You owe them nothing!"

"Oh, I owe you nothing. You are cold and heartless. Just because we share blood doesn't measure your worth. Not to me."

"But, Celeste, she's your mother! You can't actually be considering this?"

"Cel-" My mother tried to speak but we talked over her.

"They won't hurt her. They need her, but they will kill my friends."

That's not my only reason but I'm too ashamed to tell my own father that she will die because I lost the pendants and Ashton is the only one who can save her.

"They won't hurt her! Uh, yeah, because that's what I'm here for!" He snapped, gesturing to all of the fresh and slowly healing wounds on his back and shoulders.

"I'm sorry. That's not what I meant. I know that this has been hard on you. It's been hard on all of us."

"Hard?" He chuckled. "You have no idea." He spat each word at me. "You don't know what it is like to be surrounded with so much power and yet powerless. You have no idea what it is like to only be the victim and watch the one you love slowly die every day. You have no idea what my life has been like since I found out that more races than just human exist!"

And the penny drops.

My father has finally revealed his true colors. He has always seen us being separate from "his world" and never a part of it. My mother tried to be a part of this world, a part of the human world, but my father was only happy when she was playing human housewife, not powerful extraterrestrial.

"Celeste..." I finally turned to my mother. "We can still save them. You can save them."

"No, you don't understand. I can't-"

"You are more powerful than you know."

"Oh, trust me I know. I just can't control it."

"Then don't try to. It isn't something you need to control. Your power comes from the Ether Current that flows through you. It is alive, trust it. Let it guide you, not control you. The more you try to control it, the more it will control you. The only thing holding you back is you."

'The only thing holding you back is you...'

The words echoed in my head. I thought about training with Peter, watching Katrina die and letting Ashton leave. I was holding back. I have always been afraid but not of what I thought. I've been afraid of myself and who I would become and hurt with my power like Ashton. It wasn't my powers holding me back. It was me.

My ability is like my partner and I have been running the show, instead of doing it together. It I ever wanted to rise to who I am destined to be or to save anyone, I had to let go.

I took a deep breath, closing my eyes. I relaxed my mind and body and focused on the world surrounding me. I began to feel the electricity in the air, the gentle charges connecting everything. They were in everything. The ground, the air, every person. And I was connected to it all.

I could see it. The little electric strings that connected everyone and everything. All I had to do was to tug on those strings and I could do anything.