They air was crisp and clean as Natalia ran along the side of the road cars passed her, but she didn't seem to notice as she was so engrossed in running and listening to music, she reached a side road and turned onto it, it as a dead end road she started running towards the end of it. She was still a long ways off when something jerked her to the ground she fell and banged her head on the ground just as she lost conscious she saw an animal ready to pounce on her.

Natalia woke up to pain throbbing in her head she looked down and saw that she was tied to a chair she immediately brought her head up and winced at the pain. She looked around, she was in this steel room, with light blinking on and off. She heard a growl echoing through the room in her head she kept thinking Whatever you do, DON'T PANIC. She squinted her eyes and could make out the shadow of an animal coming towards her all the sudden the animal turned into a man. He had on pants but no shirt and shoes, with shoulder length black hair with a few silver streaks in it, dark blue eyes a white scar was across his right eye.

"Who-who are you?"

"My name is QuickSilver he replies with a husky voice."

"Is that your real name?"

"No, it's his nickname Natalia jumps as another male voice speaks, then suddenly right in front of Natalia a man appears, he has hair white as snow and black eyes. His real name is Anzel. My name is Kayden otherwise known as Kovais." Kayden is wearing a white shirt, a black jacket and blue jeans his feet are also bare.

"So um why am I here."

"Well before we got out, we heard stories about you." Anzel speaks

"About me?"

"Yes Natalia, about you. Stories of how you and one other person were the strongest one there." Kayden answers

"Really?"

"Yes, you got in out of that building got food for others then somehow you got past that witch and was free." Anzel replies

"Yes I got out."

"Where have you been this whole time?"

"That's the thing, I didn't actually get away."

"What do you mean?" Kayden asks coming closer.

"Well I-I stumbled onto a farm and it was..."

'It was what?" Quicksilver asks. She hangs her head,

"Tt was the witch's house."

"What!" Kayden bellows out. The room suddenly begins to shake.

"Kovais, you need to calm down." A female voice calls out. Out of the shadows a girl in a knee length flowing black dress with long flowing sleeves walks out. She has chocolate brown hair, white skin and white eyes.

"Hello Natalia, My name is Aquilo otherwise known as Emma. She comes over and ices her ropes, they break free and she rubs her wrists.

"What do you think your doing?"

"She's not a prisoner Kovais, she's here because we need her help, obviously.

"Yeah, I agree with Emma. Another girl comes forward, smaller than Emma. She is wearing a light blue dress, the same style as Emma's. She helps Natalia to her feet. My name is Oliva, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"Oh,you too. Natalia responds with a half smile. Where exactly are we?"

"In an abandoned Warehouse that we found." Anzel speaks

"But I've never seen it."

"It was just covered with vines and trees and overgrown grass. Emma replies

"So why do you need me?"

"We will tell you more, but you better get back, you don't want the nice people who took you in to miss you." Oliva speaks

"Okay." Before she left, Kovais gives her his number and tells her to keep him updated on anything and everything Lucy does. And when the time is right, she needs to tell Lucy's children. Aquilo and Brier show her out and exchange numbers with her as well. They give back her headphones then,

"Make sure you walk home dear, don't want to ruin your head more. Olivia says with a smile. She goes over to the ground and lays her hand on the dirt. A glow begins to form circling her hand. When she lifts, a plant has been grown. She hands it to Natalia.

"What is it?"

"It's called a Passion Flower, it will help with your pain.

"Thank you."

"Your welcome." They finished walking her to the bushes, pushed her out, waved goodbye, then disappear back into the thicket. She put in one headphone and walked towards the road. She put the flower part in her mouth and as soon as she swallowed it, her pain was gone. She heard rustling to her left and saw QuickSilver in his wolf form following her, he gave her a nod and she smiled back. He came out and trotted next to her

"Why are you following me?" He looks at her and shakes his head as though she just asked a dumb question.

"Kayden wants me to follow to make sure you get back safely and he wants me to watch over you as it's going to get rough."

"Rough?"

"Yes, I can't explain it to you now, but I will make sure no one else sees me unless you say so. Oh and your supposed to come back later today, Kovais will text you" They fall silent. Before they reach the end of the road, he hopps back into the woods and his black fur with silver streaks pops out amongst the brown of the trees. She finally made her way back to the farm house, it is now 10:03. Her hair had fallen out of her ponytail and swung in the breeze. Getting to the middle of the yard she can see movement in the window and recognizes Danny's shape the door swings open

"Tali, your back!" He runs over and she picks him up with one hand she pulls off her headphones and puts them around her neck she carries him up the steps out of the corner of her eye she sees QuickSilver behind Lucy's car watching.

"Come on buddy, let's go inside. They walked in and Natalia set him down and he rushed back into the kitchen, Jack and Scout came over to greet them. In the background Mr. Steele is teaching Danny how to paint, and Mrs Steele is baking. The only person she didn't see was Max. Opal came down the stairs and went over to her

"Hey Natalia." Opal said

"Hi Opal, how are you today?"

"I'm good, um you know how I wanted to do that talk?"

"Yeah, I remember."

"Could we do it now?"

"Sure, let me go change, shower and then we can go wherever you want." Natalia came back down, her hair wet, she is wearing a white flowy knee length dress. They walked out the front door and into the main yard

"So, do you want to ride down to the cabin?"

"Sure." Natalia rode StarFire again and Opal got on her white and gray speckled horse, named StarLight. They began their journey making sure to stay to the side of the road when arriving at the road where the accident had happened. Arriving at the cabin they tied up their horses at the porch and then walked to the wooden swing that was in the water. Cement legs went down into the sand, a white wooden bench like swing dangled over the water, but high enough that only their feet touched.They climbed up the ladder and carefully sat down side by side.

"So, i've been meaning to ask you some questions."

"Okay, I have all day." She said with a smile. What she didn't know is that QuickSilver had followed them and was watching and listening.

"Number one, well actually the only question I have is how do you move things, do you use your mind, or what happened that made you to be able to do that"

"Well, Opal, it's a long story, but it all begins with me (Natalia's mind flashed back to the day and she could see everything again) being tortured for seven years, by this woman, she will remain nameless until the appropriate time. I was taken from my home when I was 10 and brought to a dungy facility filled with children and adults ranging from different ages. We were strapped to gurneys and one by one brought into a room. It was a small room with some lazer type thing over a table and multiple machines." The rest you know as she had told Max. As Opal listened she could picture everything that Natalia was saying she could also feel Natalia's pain she started crying she watched her tears fall onto her hands.

"I'm so sorry Natalia, so, one person did that?"

"Yes, but some of the guard were on her side, and she had some henchmen."

"Henchmen?"

"Yes, I never saw their eyes, they always wore sunglass and black suits."

"Interesting, we should name them something else then henchmen." Opal says as she sniffles and wipes her tears away.

"Oh yeah, like what?" Natalia asks perking one eyebrow up.

"We should call them The men in black!"

"Oh really?"

"Yeah, I mean they are always wearing black."

"I like it!" They hugged and then started for home.They hopped onto their horses and set them into a cantar. Halfway home Natalia noticed a black shadow in the woods. She looks closer and realized it's QuickSilver. He's watching them as he runs, she shudders at the blank eye with the scar running through it, she would have to ask him about the next time she gets a chance to talk. She was glad to have had others like her, she was glad that she wasn't out in the world alone. The air had changed between Opal and Natalia, as they were no longer enemies but friends.