Akaisha looked at him as he glared at her. Her hands balled into fists, ready to fight. After escaping his clutches, she found her parents, who took her in, bewildered. The way the pair of them acted when she found them was apprehensive, then glee. They put her in self-defense classes at her request.
She was proficient in mixed martial arts. The man turned away to leave. “I know that you know I won't give up. Not until you're dead.”
He looked over his shoulder at her. “Find me when you start hearing the unspoken thoughts or anything else… strange. Until then, goodbye.”
She clenched her fists tight. Too tight, she could feel her nails digging into her skin. Anger took consumed her rationality. Akaisha charged at him, aiming to land a blow, one hit. Just when she thought her fist would connect with his shoulder, he vanished right in front of her. The whoosh of air disoriented her. The confusion kept her from slowing her momentum, but she turned just enough to not break any bones. She fell down to the ground on her ass, only to see him appear right above her. She tried to trip him by side, sweeping his legs. That only made him flash in place. He grabbed hold of her leg, twisting her onto her stomach. He placed her in an ankle lock. Akaisha wanted to yell uncle or tap the pavement to insure she surrendered.
Immediately, he subdued her. His voice was hoarse as the unexpected rainstorm came down. “I'm not the one you should be hunting. Other than testing on you, did I do any harm towards you? You were fed, clothed, and well taken care of. You were a pet project that I needed to work on. You failed. I didn’t search for you because of that reason. If you want to be angry. Be upset with your parents. Your parents sold you to a brothel. I saved you. Think of it. A seven-year-old child stuck in a place for grown men and women. There’s no business for a child.” He released her as he vanished once more into thin air.
Any idea of struggling vanished from her thoughts. ‘They sold me?! That makes no sense.’ Just as she was about to talk back to him, the grip on her leg was released. She looked over her shoulder to see he was gone. Akaisha sat up, her head hung low between her legs. Her thoughts were running rampant in her head. ‘What did he mean? That can't be true.’ She sat for a few minutes before getting up, the rain falling around her, but other than her hands, she remained dry.
She still had a job to do, despite wanting to search for him once more. Work came first. It paid the bills. Standing up, she dusted herself off. Now that she knew he was still alive and somehow managing to move faster than sound. She was going to stop him. A drunkard wandered into the empty alley. Just by the smell of him, she knew he wasn’t human. A drunk person is already a nuisance to deal with, but a drunk werewolf is dangerous. The pungent smell of earth and alcohol mixed together. She smiled politely at him before leaving. The man stumbled into some trash cans to sleep it off. The thought of him being a lone wolf or a pack wolf crossed her mind, but not enough to delve deeper into it. She looked back once to make sure he didn’t wolf out. She found him breathing easily in the pile of trash cans. He had fallen asleep.
Her ankle throbbed while she walked back to the parlor. She walked slower, stiffer, limping back. Akaisha thought about how she wished the pain would go away. Soon after, her ankle felt normal. Her strides were longer and assured. The limp vanished just as the pain did. It didn't register at the time because it just happened, but she was just glad the pain went away. She bumped into someone wearing dark clothing and shades. As she was about to apologize, the person hissed. With their mouth open, a hint of fangs peeked through. Only a new vampire would tempt fate or a hybrid would proudly. It just wasn’t her luck today. Between that man, the wolf, and now this vampiress, she wondered what else could go wrong. Or who else she would run into.
She made it back to the parlor. Mahima was just coming out from having her massage. That was when Akaisha realized she had been gone for at least an hour. “You! Where did you go? It's almost time to prep for the evening news. Chip chop let's go.” She clapped her hands together. It was degrading and annoying. Mahima handed the carrier to her roughly. The cat hissed and swatted at the exposed skin on her arm. A thin claw grazed her hand.
“Ouch. Damn it.”
Akaisha narrowed her eyes in anger. Angry at the cat, Mahima, and the man. She then kissed the back of her hand, where the droplets of blood formed. Then a few seconds later Mahima’s foot caught on the rug, causing her to fall into the door. *crash* the glass cracked under her weight. Blood oozed from her forehead. The crimson stream stained her clothes.
Akaisha immediately covered her mouth, muffling her words. “Oh my God, did I do that? No, it was an accident.”
It had knocked Mahima unconscious. Her body crumpled against the door. The celestial called for an ambulance and went to check on Mahima. It looked at Akaisha with a solemn voice. “Miss, you did not cause this. We’ve asked the owner to remove the shotty carpet. It was just an accident.”
The EMT rushed to the scene. They made it to Time Rewind within minutes, and both the celestial and Akaisha answered their questions. They permitted Akaisha to go with her to the hospital as her assistant, with her demonic cat in tow. On the way there, she made calls to the station. They agreed that James Fidget would go on the air alone until Mahima came back from the hospital. It was a hard decision, with her being the face of the station despite her capricious attitude with everyone.
Akaisha paced back and forth outside of the hospital room, nervously chewing on her thumb. The cat carrier rested inside the room with her kitty mewing softly. Mahima was still unconscious from her fall, with no signs of waking up. Many of the nurses fretted over their favorite star being in a coma. Akaisha, on the other hand, had hoped none of the other news stations reported the incident. Half of them respected her as a journalist, the others were not so much for her attitude. Left up to her own thoughts, she wondered how did Mahima fall. How did she hurt herself from the fall? The trajectory and speed weren’t enough to do this to her. Just as she continued to think about it. ‘Is that woman crazy?’ The unknown voice flitted through her mind. The random thought caused her to look around her surroundings. She caught the eye of a wary nurse, looking at her with disdain. She was one of the fans concerned about Mahima. ‘What does she have that I don't have?’ Akaisha’s face twisted in co
The elderly man had been watching her ever since she ran away. She was never truly out of his sight. It was his dream to have a prodigy that could live the life he couldn’t. Having experimented on himself years prior to adopting her from the hospital. He knew just what her life would have turned into had he left her there alone. Her parents were Tracy people. They cared more about the almighty dollar versus her well-being. He had used clairvoyance to monitor once she reunited with her parents. Every time she succeeded in MMA, he smiled. She would have been the perfect daughter had she stayed with him. When she was asked out on a date, he reached into the mind of the person giving them threats he made good on if they hurt her. Once, a budding young Lycan tried to get frisky with her. The young man hadn’t yet controlled his inner wolf, and they were on a date just as the moon was rising. It was a no-brainer to interfere when he refused to let her go home. The man was obsessed with her s
Akaisha ended the call with Dave on a peaceful note. Which is surprising. Sometimes he made her feel annoyed. She hadn't wondered how he knew about her being in the hospital too, no matter how brief it was. There was a time she had felt that he liked her more than a coworker, but then one day that feeling was gone. It was as if they wiped the notion from his head. It didn’t bother her that the feelings vanished. A part of her thought to ask, but she didn't care to have any romantic entanglements with anyone. She finished drying off and got ready for bed. The cool satin sheets felt nice against my skin. Blue jumped on the bed right behind her. She dug her nails into the bed, scritching and scratching against the sheets until it was soft under her paws. “Blue? Are you finished?” She looked up and scratched again. ‘Not yet. Just … about… done..’ She finally laid down. Akaisha rubbed between her ears. Then the two of them fell asleep. The next day was gloomy. It was because of the dark c
Akaisha was sitting in the car, looking out the window. The FFACs glided in the sky above her head. The cars were at a standstill because of traffic. Pedestrians hover walked across the road or stood there motionless as the sidewalk moved for them. This was the world she came to know after the rumors of vampires causing the end of the world. History would never mention the truth, only that a virus broke out and zombies appeared. The authorities extinguished all the zombies. Their world now allowed for the preternatural beings to flourish and live side by side with humans. Who repopulated the world once more. When Akaisha's mind was at ease, she could control the freaky problems she had. Meditation had become her friend during her stint in the psychiatric hospital. It was during those times of meditation she wondered what her life would have been like. If her parents hadn’t disappeared. She hadn't fallen prey to a psycho. If she had lived a normal and loving life. Sadly, some of her me
Blue pranced to the car. When Akaisha opened the door, she eagerly sat in the front seat. Her head plastered to the window, looking out. A tongue print had formed on the glass. Where are we going? Isn’t some place fun? Where? Where? Where? Akaisha wanted to open the window, but now wasn’t the best time. Her windows had the darkest tint. It was hard to see who was inside. In her panic, Akaisha bolted from the restaurant. Leaving Dave there. She hadn't eaten all day. This wasn’t the best decision. “Blue settled down, girl. We’re going for a drive.” Blue turned in a circle a few times in the seat before she laid down on to relax. Her head rested against her front paws as her body curled in itself. Akaisha reached over to press the different stations to find something soothing when she heard the emergency alert system going off. The static of the radio caused Blue to lift her head. “Attention! Attention. Police are looking for an armed female. Believed to have taken out armed suspects.
Unwanted Assistance The police were all searching for her. There were several units patrolling the area. Sergeant Acheki knew it was rare for an individual to display multiple powers. Most of them would use a maximum of two, usually never more. There were a small few that could use three, but Akaisha wasn’t normal. She showed the use of three, maybe even more. They considered her a superhuman. It gave him a guilty conscious. It was illegal to use any form of superhuman traits, even if she was doing it for a good reason. Saving lives and stopping a robbery in progress was amazing. Akaisha was, by definition, breaking the law. Unfortunately. He was back at the station, trying his best to look into her. Any information would do at that point. Something. Anything at all. Thinking her name in the search box didn’t yield any results. It was abnormal. Something should've come up, but not even a dob. “What are you hiding, Miss Morningstar? Why can’t I find anything about you?” His eyes scan
Professor Mozart kept driving down the road before he reached an area that seemed the same as everything else they had passed by. Same mountains. Same rocks. Same everything. The silence in the car was deafening. Neither spoke to the other. He knew in his heart that once he told her everything, she would have understood what was going on. She would want to help him. He didn't need to resort to shameful tactics. If she didn’t understand, then he was proud of using her trash father’s face as a way to get closer to her. It was better for him to have every potential outcome known to him. So that he could have a plan for it. If it came down to her rejecting him. What could he do or say to get her to help him with this mess he unwittingly made? That mistake was surprisingly hostile towards him. They arrived at a seemingly normal patch of mountains. The only difference in front of them was the two cacti. The arms on them made it appear as a goal post. He pressed a special button on the car t
Her eyes bore into him, trying to discern his intent. His face was a mask. Not even a twitch of his brow gave anything away. He was better at keeping his emotions in check. “Where should we look for this animal?” Akaisha was worried about Blue’s safety. Considering how she wasn’t sure how big this thing was or what it even was. Were they actually sure that the animal left this secret compound or was it hiding somewhere within it? “Fortunately, during my experiments, we put a tracker inside of its leg.” He smiled at her. It was a smile filled with secrets and lies. “So, we should be able to find it with this.” He held up a small device with a screen attached. “I just need you to use any of your abilities to bring it back safely. Emphasize on the word SAFEly.” He went rummaging through several drawers, looking for something. He muttered curses when he couldn’t find it. “And if I don’t? What will you do?” She was testing him, he knew that. She was always defiant towards him. He motione