"Are we all ready?",asked Eva
"Yes!", everyone replied.
All of the ten children were standing infront of a table with a thin dirty stick on it.
Zane was not sure how that was going to work but they were all ordered to stand there and break that damned stick just with the power of their will. Meaning, they had to break the stick only and only with the help of staring at it and forcing it break with the sheer force of will, definitely without touching it.
"This is stupid",said Natalie suddenly from behind.
Everybody looked at her, surprised. Even Eva suddenly seemed interested in her.
"I am sorry Natalie, what did you say?",she asked
"I-I mean that this is stupid!",she inhaled sharply."NO ONE IS GOING TO HAVE SOME STUPID POWERS ABOUT BREAKING SOMETHING BY JUST LOOKING AT IT! AND WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?! WHY DO SUDDENLY SEEM SO INTERESTED IN ORPHANS?! S
"Let's go to the practice room now!",said Zane, getting up. "Or Miss Eva is going to burst with anger!"Natalie grinned and nodded and said,"Yeah, sure, let's go"The children were all still standing in front of their sticks and forcing it to break merely by the power of them looking at it and it looked like it was definitely not working.When Zane and Natalie entered the room, Eva looked at them sternly but did not say anything.Both of them went back in front of their tables and looked at that unfortunate piece of stick.Zane knew that it wasn't going to work for him so he wasn't particularly concentrating.Suddenly he heard a crack. A stick had broken for someone.Every head turned towards a girl standing with a broken stick in front of her."Miss Helen?",said Eva approaching the girl."You managed to break the stick"The gi
*2 months passed*Zane was sitting in the round table with the other nine children. It was his second month in the orphanageNatalie sat beside Zane and on his other side sat Bennett. Mick, Aidan and the other kids sat around the family like a big happy family. And Eva's voice came telling everyone to meet her at the practice room.All the children gathered in the room with Eva sitting in the front table."Okay children, I am calling out your names and as I do, please come forward and take a seat",said Eva, opening her diary. "Helen, status, a gerfin "Helen went forward and took a seat."Mick, status, a hender",Eva called out and Mick took a seat beside Helen."Bennett, status, a gwentus. Alice, status,a perfa. Derek, status, a zawen. Laurel, status, a qirpelt. Aidan, status, a cozentrer. Emily, status, an aviatell.",said Eva with a glint of pride in he
Scarlett Olivia was a normal girl with a normal life and it sucked. Her mother was dead and she lived with her father and her step-mother. Her step mother had three children, Arthur, Ruby and Mary. Arthur and Ruby were excruciatingly stupid and irritating . Mary was fine, she was understanding and everything that her siblings were not.The problem was that Scarlett was rich, like very very rich. Her father was a neurosurgeon and mostly stayed out of town. Everyone thought that Scarlett would be happy because she was so rich, but she was not. Her step-mother made her life living hell.Her father always told her to try and cope with her step-mother because she had too much in her mind too. But all she did was throw parties to her friends and neighbours and find any stupid way to waste money. Scarlett wished her mother was alive, because her mother was the only person apart from Sophia, her friend, who understood her.She studied in
Zane didn't like the girl named Scarlett. He was sitting and talking with Natalie when he saw the girl come in with Eva. She smelled so much sad, hurt, broken, nervous, scared and most of all, she smelled of lies.Zane almost got so confused by the overflow of all the smells of emotions that he had to stop smelling.Eva turned towards Scarlett and said,"If you don't mind then might I just have a word with my kids!"Scarlett nodded and said,"Sure! I will wait in the hallway"Saying this, Scarlett went outside the big room.Zane knew what Eva was going to tell them. She would tell them to control their powers and not reveal a thing about their identity to the girl and that is exactly what she said."Children, try to act normal, as normal as you can be, don't let her get suspicious. I couldn't ask her to not talk to you all because then it would have been even mor
"Are we seriously going to wear that?",asked Natalie"Yes, what's the problem with that?",asked Eva scowling"I mean they are pretty, but we are all wearing the same outfits?",asked Emily"Why Emily? Is that a problem?", asked Eva.Emily frowned and said,"Actually yes. All the girls are wearing pink dress and all the boys are wearing black shirts?! I mean won't we look like a band or something?""Yes Emily so what is the problem with that?",asked Eva."In case you haven't noticed we are not big on money right now....It would be great if you all tried to cope with it, this is what you all are wearing if you want to go to the party with Scarlett, or forget about it"Everyone was silent then Laurel said ,"Okay...we will wear those things, just let's get this over with, Scarlett is waiting outside"Everyone nodded and Eva handed them out
When the bus stopped, Zane thought it was one of those castles from his world.Scarlett's house was huge,it was really big and almost all the kids were staring at it from the window and gaping at it."Oh my God...Do you see that?!",Mick shouted Laurel.Laurel scrunched her nose and said,"Ofcourse I see it! I am not blind!"Laurel had been in a particularly bad mood since she had been made to wear the pink dress instead of the black dress she had been intending to wear.They saw Scarlett gesturing at them to follow her. As they were going to get out of the bus, Eva stopped them.Everyone looked at her and she said,"I won't be following you all inside but I assure I can see how you all are behaving. So all of you, behave yourselves and the only reason I brought you all here is because this is a part of the test. We will be monitoring your behaviour. So do your be
Ruby and Arthur stared at Zane incredulously."I know you from somewhere",said Arthur pulling up a pained expression"Woah....I don't know you from anywhere",said Zane in a convincing tone.Ruby gasped and said,"Arthur I saw this guy in my dreams! His name was something I don't remember..."Arthur shook his head vigorously and said,"I REMEMBER TOO! I SAW HIM IN MY DREAMS TOO!""Pardon?...You saw me in your dreams? Sounds a bit dramatic, don't you think?",said ZaneRuby smiled stupidly at Arthur and said,"Mary said we were mutual dreaming when we saw him in our dreams! Does it mean something?"Arthur shrugged like a big stupid baby boy and said,"I don't know but I think we should talk to him. We don't see a guy in our dreams everyday and see him in real life again!""Uh...I am standing right here",said Zane
All of them ran outside towards the garden"WE ARE SURROUNDED!", shouted Zane, amidst the confusion."Yeah we noticed",Aidan called back"What do we do?!",asked Laurel"I don't know",said Zane, panickingHe looked at Alice standing there and shouted,"Hey do you think you could summon a storm or a lightning or something?!""I can try",Alice saidAlthough she had never tried summoning a big storm in an alarming situation.Wind whistled in their ears although it did not seem to affect the ten of them because of some force-field Aidan had created to protect them. The storm did seem to be doing a lot of damage.Alice's eyes turned white and shone. She raised a hand and pointed at one of the scary-looking men's direction and impressively a lightning bolt hit the spot she pointed at. But unfortunately, the men jus