Electra 1 How It Begin - 6 Chapter 6

Now I was back, looking at all my older brothers and twin brother too. I felt happy, even though we were prisoners. It was the best birthday present ever. My powers back, my family back and something good to do when I wasn’t at school. Now we had to think of a way out of this place, where ever this place is. We talked about everything that had happened in the past years. “So mum and dad are mean to you and Blades?” Asked Loki.

“Yep, been like it since you left. They have only just told me that I was in a coma.” I replied. For a couple of hours they taught me how to selfheal, go invisible and the hardest shifting. Shifting was when you turned in to an animal. The boys are all able to turn into wolfs. I tried to turn to a wolf but I couldn’t. After a while of trying I gave up. It was good I stopped trying because 5 armed men came in. “Follow my lead.” Loki said.

“No follow our lead. Loki ends up in trouble all the time. It’s funny most of the time.” Tommy replied. They all put their hands out in front of them. Loki didn’t and he was in wolf form. He ran out of the room. I ran after him. He must have done this a load of times before because he went straight to the exit. I opened the door easily as it was a simple 4 pin code. Funnily the code was 1234. I wondered if they wanted people to get out or not. So far they wanted people to escape. We ran and they were right behind us. Loki was running faster than me and I struggled to keep up. He slowed his pace for me but I was out of breath. I heard a car or truck behind me. It was the only thing that kept me running. We headed to the forest which was a short cut to my house. They were driving next to me now so I told Loki to go on ahead. He sent a telepathic message saying he wouldn’t leave me. Now they were driving next to me. I could feel my legs about to give way. I jumped over roots and logs and still couldn’t shake them. I fell and I laid there. I felt dizzy and scared. I tried to stand, but when I did, I was on 4 legs. My hearing and other senses were acute. I ran and found new energy. I ran past Loki and ran to my house. At the last moment I stopped and realised. No human could out run a wolf or a car. I put a hand in front of my face and instead saw a paw. I looked at myself in a puddle. No way to hide the fact that I turned into a fox. I ran the opposite way to the house, to the biggest woods I knew about. It would keep them away from Blades and everyone else I cared about. Loki caught up with me and told me to follow him. We went to the mountains at the edge of the city. “They managed to get out to, and will be here in a minute.” Loki said. “How do you know?” I asked.

“We can communicate like you and I can, telepathically.” He replied. “How could a human out run a wolf and a car?” He asked. “No idea.” I needed to be sure I had shifted before I told him. “Maybe because they can turn into a fox. Ring any bells?”

“I think I can shift into a fox. That was the first I knew I could do that. I thought I would be a wolf like you lot.” I answered. After that 3 wolfs came to the entrance of the cave in the mountain. I instantly knew that it was my 3 older brothers. I could smell their scent and it was fear. Loki could smell it too. “What’s wrong?” I asked. “Blades knows. He found out after he saw us being put in the van. Now they have him.” Tommy said.

“See you when I get back.” I said and ran. I had no idea what Blades would be thinking. He would be so scared, that was for sure. At least I had someone there when it happened. I shifted again and ran. I followed my way back to the lab I had been taken to. I saw it properly now. It was a black cube building. It looked like an office and that was its cover. All the windows were blacked out so you couldn’t see inside of the building. I went around to the loading bay and shifted back. For me, that was easier then becoming a fox. I smelt wolf behind me. I shot lightning at the leader as a warning. The lightning went a bit out of control and hit van and a lamp post too, but I didn’t care. I was about to go in when armed men came out to see what was going on. They saw me and put one and one together and hand cuffs on me. The wolves were further away, but still there. We went inside and I got pushed and pulled in every direction. By the time we got to the heads office, my arm had a few massive bruises. Blades was there and I could smell fear and excitement. He was stronger than I thought. In the office there was a simple table and 3 chairs. Around the room there were various newspaper articles and weather maps on strange weather patterns. One was in September, when the weather was lovely one day and stormy the next, then back to normal. No weather stations picked it up and it only lasted a few minutes. One was about me being struck by lightning. Another was about tropical weather in one end of town, and a snowstorm at the other end, in December. They all lead to certain people being involved. The Storm family and the Summer family were involved. April Summer was my best friend at school and then she moved to Spain. She never said why, except it was warmer. Someone came through the doors at the end of the office. He had grey hair and eyes with simple silver rimmed glasses. You could tell he was in charge due to the fact he had two body guards around him all the time. For some strange reason, I felt instant hatred towards him. Maybe it was to do with my brothers, what he did to them made me want to lash out at him, but that wouldn’t solve anything. I stayed cool and calm instead. He went and sat down behind the desk on a black leather chair. He indicated that we should sit down and we did, we had no choice in the matter. “So you are the legendary Electra Storm, Queen of Storms.” He said. I never know I was a legend. “And I have no idea who you are. Or what we are doing here.” I replied.

“I’m so sorry. I’m commander Obsidian, head of Organisation Storm. We are the ones that investigate strange weather patterns. You and your brothers have been on our radar for ten years now. We only just got your brothers three years ago. We could never find you though.” He finished.

“Well, now you have me you will let Blades go. And if not the others are just a call away.” I replied. He shook his head and clicked his fingers. A screen came up and showed my other brothers. Loki was smashing everything whilst the others tried to calm him down. “Let Blades go now!” I shouted.

“Let him go. He is no use to us anyway.” They let Blades go and I got chucked in with the others. We were in a plain black room it was lit by three lights in a row. To one end there was a table and chairs. In other places there were bean bags and pillows. There was a room leading off to the bedroom. There were five beds in a row and another room that lead to a bathroom and toilet. The beds had simple blue covers except one that had pink instead at the end. I wanted to crash out on the bed but I also wanted to shout at someone, the person responsible for all of this, Loki. If he hadn’t had needed my help in the first place, I would be at home or school. It was hard to keep track of time when you had no clock. I felt like crying, because of the pain in me, the heart ache, the anger, the anxiousness and the confusion. I wanted to scream and punch something, or just talk to a friend. I wanted, no needed, to tell Amy and Bethan. Let them in on everything that had happened all through my life, so we could work it out together. That would never happen. It would put them at such a risk of Storm finding out and any way, I couldn’t get out. Tommy came in and saw me standing in the middle of the room. Blackness filled my mind and I heard nothing. I could just about hear the sound of Alex shouting my name. John was shouting for someone to come and help. Loki and Tommy were nowhere to be heard. I sensed the ground coming to meet me. The hard cold floors meet me with a thud. I didn’t hear anything else after that. All I wanted to hear was Blades and the school bell and my parents and friends and teachers, even my geography teacher. I didn’t want to be at a secret lab with magic powers. I wanted my simple life not