I just left my deserted house, following the only cloud that was left in the sky after... you know what happened. Its like ten p.m. so I cant see anything without the help of my phones torchlight, but I'm not going to stop going until I find what I want, my Dad.

I can barely walk just thinking about what happened today. I mean, even in movies things don't happen this fast! All this magical quest stuff usually happens in the middle of the movie not the beginning!
They could've at least let me enjoy the first few weeks of my summer, but no they had to reveal this magic family battle thing on the first day! And is it only my parents that have powers? Does everyone around me have powers? What if I have powers? I mean a lot of crazy things happened today like that lightning, so what if I do?
Thinking about this a sharp pain strikes my hands causing me to wince as I lift it up. I suddenly feel a familiar feeling. Now that my dads gone I have no meaning which means my body will start falling apart slowly unless I find him. I look at my hands and find marks on them that look as if I've been burnt. Ill have to suck it all in if I'm gonna survive what's ahead of me.

Walking around the streets, I see that the storm a.k.a mum and dad affected a lot of people in the neighborhood. Some people are actually packing their things to move and I don't blame them. It doesn't really rain much in Shallow Avenue but when it does its a total disaster, so why not just move.

The streets have broken lights, smashed cars which lead to glass scattered everywhere, the grounds literally split into different parts! I can see that there are some teenage runaways too.
At each corner of every street you would see gangs surrounding bonfires made from the storm or some would just sit on the fences of houses that have been abandoned like they're shooting music videos or having a weird photo shoot. They all look like criminals; therefore I quickly find a metal rod to use as protection.

As I walk further down the dark street which is now completely isolated, I start getting goose bumps when I hear people down the road fighting. I slowly start backing away before they see me, but I step on a Doritos packet which makes a crumple sound and causes them turn around. I didn't really make it easy for myself to run because I still had my stupid torchlight on! I turn it off and commence on a race far away from where they are, but unfortunately they come running after me.

I just keep sprinting away, well its the only thing I can do when I see a guy in black chasing me with a broken bottle in his hand!
Why is my life so messed up!

I think the headache is starting to come back when someone hidden in some bushes jumps out and drags me into it with his hand over my mouth! I begin combat with him, but his huge muscles aren't even allowing me to budge. So I'm here getting sucked into a bush, just flying my legs in different directions hoping it would make a difference.
As soon as I'm dropped I opened my mouth to start cursing the unknown suspect when I remember that I have a metal rod that hasn't had anyone to hit, so I make sure he, the kidnapper, is looking out of the bush for the thugs and then whack him in the head.

"Who do you think you are dragging me into a bush? Look, I know you don't have a life but don't spend it doing garbage! Now move over so I can..." I'm stopped in the middle of my speech by his hand going over my mouth.

"Look do you want to die! Or do you not understand what's going on right now?!" He whispers, but it still feels like he's yelling at me.

"Oh hell nah, don't you talk to me about death! You don't know half of what I've been through today." Just then the thugs approached the place where we were and I fell silent.

The males were three in number and they had rugged clothes on which made them look disturbing. They looked dirty and had mischievous smiles on their faces except for one. He looks very timid just standing behind the other two. He has an iron arm and chest. Why does he have an iron arm and chest!? Did they do this to him?

"Hey little miss, we know your there, just come out and we wont have to harm no one." The guy with blue hair said trying to aimlessly negotiate.

"I going out, they cant be any more dangerous than my parents." I say standing up from the ground.

"Are you mad!? No like are you nuts?! You are looking at a group of jawbreakers and you just think you can happily skip outta here and everything will be alright!" He says bringing me back to my senses as I kneel back down. Something about that statement just sounds so memorable.

"Come on kid, I don't like waiting!" The blue headed dude shouts obviously sounding annoyed.

"Sugar, just come out you can hang out with me, never mind this doof over here." I was almost convinced until the other guy that said this made eye contact with the other men. He thinks he can just come and smooth talk me into coming out. Ha what a joke.

"You know what, why don't you go Renzo?!" They say.

"Yeah you are new in this business, why don't you get the job done Lorenzo?!" What business?! These guys are just absurd. By the way why does that name sound so familiar?

"Yeah, yeah o-ok." The so called Lorenzo stammers, though he's still standing there.

"Well go on then!" Blue head says.

Lorenzo was about to make a move when his eyes met mine that's when I realize who he is.

"I uhm, I don't think I should go its my first day, I think I should just stay back and watch." He say trying to avoid killing a soul.

"Don't worry I'll do it. It seems like I'm the only one that does anything around here." The guy with the blue hair says.

He's slowly approaching us, when Lorenzo quickly darts a knife like object out of his metal arm. It goes crashing into one of the broken down cars which makes the other men take off fearing that they're going to get caught.

Me, thinking Lorenzo's gonna stop and leave them, follows them away turning back just once, making it possible for me to see just the side of his face, his cornrows flying in the wind as he runs. The question 'why is he with them?' is running in my head along with my headache.

"Lets keep her, surely she's the one that gave us that save. Well just keep her for good luck!" A male voice says from behind me.

"What are you saying? She's the one that brought us into that mess!" Another female voice replies.

I turn around, still bending down, to find five people, probably around my age standing in front of me. One of the people that spoke is, a girl probably Chinese, that has black-that fades into red- shoulder length hair, that is just standing there, with a gum in her mouth, in the tiny shades of light coming from the remaining street lights. She looks like that kinda girl that gets into trouble every day in school. And a guy, that has the looks of Peter Parker from The Avengers.

"Well are you gonna just stay there on the ground, or are you gonna get up!?" The Chinese girl says.

"Oh y-yeah I was just about to leave. Sorry" I utter starting to leave.

"Wait!"

"Here we go again." The Chinese girl shouts. Wow I guess she's got a problem with everyone.

"We cant just let her go out I mean look at her?!" Ouch and thank you. The guy that said this I can tell is the passionate gentleman of the group. He's looks so gentle compared to the others. In fact he's also got the looks of an angel.

"What'd you say man?" He now turns to the guy that sucked me into the bush.

He is sitting under a tree so we basically cant see him under all the shade, but he's standing up now. He is walking over to me now. Why do I feel so scared? He's wasting time so I'm walking over to him myself, and I turn on my phone torch so I can see his face properly. I was yet again, disappointed because I found a bunch of trash. And by trash I mean Andre! Why am I not surprised that he's the leader of this gang.

"Wow I should've guessed it was you. Seeing as you're wearing the same big old jumper that you wear all the time." I tell him feeling relieved that its not some serial killer!

"Nice to see you too! Miss me!?" He says giving me a warm smile.

"So I can see you guys have met?" The peter parker guy says out of the blue.

"Yeah we are kinda related." Andre replies.

"Ooh, splendid! Tell me every embarrassing thing about Andre, I need all the juicy deeds! He always acts so cool, I could really get some dirt on him." I try to hold back my laughter as the gentle one says this acting like a girl.

"Come on! Thats enough Liam!" Nice name. It fits him. One name down, three to go.

"Now quick question what are you doing here! Why are you not at home?" Andre asks pretending he cares.

"What are you doing here?! Did Aunt Esther finally disown you?"

"No its a long story! Now back to my question. Arent you meant to be with your family after this kinda storm?!"

"Well my family kinda disappeared after the storm so Im on my own, looking for them."

"Boo-hoo." Alix says hurting my feelings. Not that I care anyway.

"Wow sorry, its gonna take a miracle before shes gonna have heart." Liam sure knows how to bring up a bad mood, but he doesnt need to worry if she wants to be nasty, two can play at that game.

"Did you encounter any, I dunno, supernatural things before they vanished?" Liam asks me.

"Well yeah, actually but you wouldnt even believe if I told you."

"Trust me, we'll understand." Peter parker guy said.

"By the way the names Devon!" So thats his name.

"Over there is Liam, Alix, you already know Andre, and over there is Rhea. She usually doesnt... talk but shes really nice once you get to know her, but dont try to be too friendly or she'll give you a nightmare. Literally!" Im sure its nothing! I hope not. Rhea does look toxic though, she hasnt said anything, done anything or moved since I got here. Shes just got headphones on and is playing a wrestling game on a Nintendo switch. She just looks up once in a while with her big anime eyes.

"Why dont we set up a bonfire and we can tell each other all about what happened today, I'm sure I'm not the only one whos gone through some weird stuff today." Liam says as he tries to hype up everyone. Even as enthusiastic he is I can still see a sign of pain deep down. I have a feeling Im not the only one that has lost someone today.

"Whatever." Alix says rolling her eyes. She nudges me as she walk past. Wow, Ive made an enemy in just five minutes. New record!

Now we've set up a bonfire and were all seated around it. Im sitting in between Andre and Rhea while the others are spread out on the other side.

"So Andre Im kinda surprised that youre here. I thought everyone at the party disappeared." Im trying to make myself comfortable on the log of wood Im sitting on. I think my butt has gone numb!

"Well I left early. First of all I had a craving for some KFC, and your grandpa freaked me out with all his crazy talk. He kept on saying stuff about a Vormir and magical stuff that I didnt pay attention to. But he totally chased me away when he said one sort of incantation. I think it went something like Su Ciente.. I dont remember the rest anyway." He shrugs.

"Thats exactly what he told me as well!"

"Wow."

"Except that he mentioned that something was going to happen today at noon and that was the time of the figh..STORM, and that was the time of the storm." That was close! I dont think Im ready to tell anyone what happened today just yet!

"Uh hello? Were meant to be sharing our weird encounters to the group!" Devon reminds us. So Andre and I turn and face the group.

"Wonderful! So who would like to share first? Devon how bout you?" Liam gleefully asks.

"Sure." He says with a straight face.

"Well I'm just gonna skip to the point. I woke up, hung out with my friends and then later on, my parents were having a barbecue outside when something swooped down and just floated them away into thin air, no one could help them. All I could remember, was seeing, I think pink smoke or was it purple?! From the second they were gone this stupid storm started." Me and Andre shared looks with each other probably having the same thing in mind.
As he finished what he had to say everyone just stared at him probably wondering how he could say all that so emotionlessly. I mean he didn't even change the tone of his voice or anything?!

"Okay that was. Something? Alix why dont you go next, my ol'mate?"

"If you call my name again, IM GONNA PUNCH YOU IN YOUR FACE TILL BLOOD COMES OUT YOUR NOSE, MATE!!!!! THEN IM GONNA....."

"Okay your clearly not gonna talk!" Liam says trying to back away from Alix's anger.

"Makayla you next then!" I hear someone talking to me but I'm completely zone out.

~

("Stop.

Stop!

Stop hitting him!

Uncle Remy stop!

All of you just stop!"

My head aches. My hands are burning. I can hear nothing but toxic frequencies slowly melting my away my consciousness. I can't help him I just can't. I'm not able to.

Its her fault.

No it's mine. I couldn't save him.

No! She did this! She did all of this!...")

~

"Hello? Makayla? Anyone home?" Andre shakes me back to reality.

"It was my fault." I look down at my hands and it was terrible. Me being separated from my dad it finally taking a toll on me. I have to hide this.

"What was that?"

"Nothing! I didn't say anything." I put my hands in my pockets and dodge having to talk while I turn to Rhea.

"Hey Rhea why dont you go next?! I'm sure you've had a really rough day!" She now has her hoody on but doesn't move.

"What is she doing?!" Liam asks Devon

"Didn't you warn her about Rhea?!"

"Yeah I did!"

"I'm sure sharing it would really make you feel better, you know sharing it with someone you care for. I can see you're the shy type, I'm sure your friends love you and would love to help you out." I say as she slowly lifts up her head and stretches out her hand.

"Oh no!" Andre says backing away.

"She's done for!" Liam and Devon say in unison.

"Finally something fun is happening." Alix says.

As she looks up all I can see are her eyes just glaring at me. She basically looks like Raven from the teen titans. But she suddenly removes her glove, touches my shoulder and says:

"Thank you."

I feel good about myself for helping her out. I don't know why the others were creating a fuss out of nothing. I'm totally great at making friends!

Wait a minute? What's happening?! Where...am... I?!.....

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