"Only one stop is waiting
In ashes
As our god shines."
-E. E. B.
EMA's pov
I saw people shaking and shivering. I was standing alone in front of gigantic being. Is this how I die? One memory of a little boy made me smile. I know what to do. So I ran as fast as my legs carried me. I will save them. I will. No city will fall again and no people will die.
At least I won't die in pain.
"Ema!" I heard Malia's voice in my head. It woke me up from strange dream I just had.
"What happened?" I asked Malia.
"I saw the end. Ema, I saw everyone die.", Malia said. She sounded so sad and broken. "It's the future. Every single person will die. Just like Prometheus told us yesterday. We will bring death."
"No, no, that wasn't vision if future. I think I shared a hallucination with you since I dreamed of us. I'm sure it's only because of fear from yesterday."
That calmed Malia down. She didn't say anything more and probably fell back asleep.
I was in my room in Croatia. After what happened yesterday, Connor took me back home and waited for me to wake up. I drained myself with massive hallucination too much and my body gave out. After I woke up, Connor told me that Astra, Zack and Malia went back home with taxi and how he needs to take Malia back to France. As he went away, I fell asleep again since it was already very late.
Connor told me how fearful Astra was. He hates now knowing what's happening and not having control over anything so yesterday way traumatic for him. Zack spend a lot of time with him calming him down.
It's early. Dad just woke up for work and Luka is probably still in deep sleep. I decided to wait in bed until dad leaves.
I was scared. What if things from my dream really happen? I was alone. I felt so alone. Even now I feel so far away from my own family. I can't tell dad about all of this. And if I tell Luka, he won't let me leave home. I have to leave. Being far away from my new friends is hurting me. The longer I stay away, the harder it is to breath.
I heard dad leave so I got us and decided to eat something. I was starving. Yesterday I ate only breakfast.
As soon as I ate, I started to get ready to leave to library, but this time Luka woke up before I could. He walked to kitchen and saw me.
"We can see a movie today if you want to.", he said. I didn't want to decline his offer, but I had to.
"Sorry, I already have things planned for today."
"Not going to library just one day won't kill you.", he commented trying to change my mind.
"I really have to go Luka. Next time, okay?" I said, already waiting by door to leave.
"You are never home these days! What are you doing there all day!?" Luka got mad.
"I meet up with few other kids from school.", I tried to stay calm. He can't find out I'm not really in the same country.
"Really? So meeting few friends is more important than spending one day with your brother? Just one day!"
"No!"
"So what then? You know what? Leave. They can deal with your freaky powers too."
As he said that, I saw regret in his eyes. "No, wait. I didn't mean that."
But it was too late. I knew that he didn't really like my powers so much, but I didn't think that he would turn his back on me just by declining his offer. He hated my powers. He only pretended to like them.
"Ema I didn't mean that!" he said, walking closer to me. He went to touch my shoulder but I moved. I know he will not hit me, but I moved. He was angry with me.
"You seriously think I will hit you? What the fuck is wrong with you?" he asked. he didn't feel regret anymore. Now he was seriously mad. "Just leave already.", he added and turned around.
I ran outside.
"Please come quickly.", I begged Connor. Before I even got to library, he was waiting for me with his hands open. I told him about what just happened and he hugged me even tighter. We came to England. First thing I saw was Astra. He was already worried from yesterday and seeing me like this now didn't help.
"What happened?" he asked me. I still didn't let go of Connor as I explained him how Luka hates my powers.
"People suck Ema, they always do. You know they will force you to be 'normal' until you have to hide yourself. But please don't feel sad about that. You always have new home and new family here. Family that will understand your every problem and family that will listen to you. We are the same.", Astra said. His words made me feel much better. I needed some more time to think about living here, but every day I'm more confident about it.
"Thank you.", I said to Astra and went to my room. Connor went with me and on our way there he suggested I go with him to library that is in city where magic show was held.
"I'm not sure. What if that man comes again?"
"He can appear anytime, anywhere. I'm damn well sure he won't just come after us in library.", Connor said as we reached our rooms. "Do you maybe want to cuddle first? We have whole day ahead of us and everyone else is busy today except us two."
I liked how more open we were about this whole soulmate thing. After talking with him about Mia, Connor hugged me more and kissed me more. And I liked all of it. Just idea of cuddling made butterflies rise in my stomach, but I declined. Honestly, after seeing his reaction of dress yesterday, I wanted to wear them more. I know clothes didn't say how much he liked me, but I felt good about the way I looked because of his reaction. So I found one more dress that was also knee length but pitch black with yellow stripes. Connor usually wears black clothes or dark gray so I wanted to match him better today. I put on a dress and knocked on his door.
"Come in!" he said from other side so I did. He was sitting on his bed with phone in his hands.
Our eyes met and then his eyes started to travel down my body.
"Come here beautiful.", he said and opened his arms. I looked taller than him as I stood while he was still sitting down. Connor's hands went around my waist and he pulled me to his bed with him.
"We should go to that library.", I said giggling as Connor buried his head on my neck.
"Nope. I changed my mind. You're staying here, in my room, cuddling.", he whispered right in my ear. His voice goes deeper while whispering. That's bad for my self-control.
"Connor please. Pretty please.", I said. I didn't want to go either, but there is something I needed to check.
Connor's room is always dark which made transporting easier for him. In this case, we were transported in library while cuddling on a bed. Weirdest transport I was ever part of. Instead of his warm bed we touched hard floor.
Connor got up and took my hand so I could get up too. We were in one of biggest libraries I've ever seen. "Here we are princess. Have fun."
"Is that a new nickname?"
"Suits you well, so yes."
We went around library looking for books about Greek gods, but we didn't find any so we decided to ask a librarian. It was a woman. She looked young, her brown hair was tied up and her glasses were too big for her.
"How can I help you?" librarian asked. On her name tag it said Helena.
"We are looking for books about Greek gods. Can you show us where we can find them?" I asked Helena and she got up.
"You will not find a lot of useful thing in them, thought. All you will learn is about their greed for power.", she said while walking. "But you already know that someone made it all better."
I looked at Connor. How did she know about that?
We stopped by one table with random books on it. Helena handed Connor one book and smiled.
"You are not the first group of kids that tried to find out everything. There were two more before you. One group of three kids and one with only one child." then she gave us a Bible. "One child that was too powerful."
I turned to Connor. He knew what was going through my head. All of this didn't make a lot of sense. I wanted to ask Helena few questions, but she was already gone.
Both Connor and I were confused beyond words. He took my hand and we appeared back in his room.
"I think we just met Prometheus wife.", I said to him. We sat in his bed next to each other.
"And we are not the only one who got powers.", he added.
"It can't be Jesus, Connor. It really can't."
"I know. Maybe she was only messing with us by giving us the Bible. Who knows what's in her head."
I put my head on his pillow and tried to think a bit. Last two days were just too much for all of us. We found out more than we wanted to.
"I'll call everyone to meeting room and go get Fran, Yuko and Malia. We have to talk about all of this.", Connor suggested. I just nodded and stayed in his bed. He vanished in front of me so I got up and went to that one big room with huge table in the middle.
"We all have to talk in meeting room.", Connor said through link.
I sat on one chair and waited for everyone else to come. After few minutes everyone gathered so Connor decided to say what happened to us.
"We met wife of Prometheus in library.", he started.
"What? How?", Fran asked what everyone else had in mind.
"I asked her about Greek gods. She was dressed as librarian and her name is Helena.", I said. Malia already knew her name from before, but I felt like I need to make sure everyone knows.
"She told us that before us there were other people with magic. First one was just one person, then there were three and now it's us seven.", Connor continued.
"As she talked about first person, she gave us Bible.", I pointed out.
"What the fuck?" Fran said out loud. To that Malia laughed quietly.
"I guess that's possible. Jesus did have powers, he came from one God and some of his wonders like walking on water and turning water to wine sound like powers that Greek gods had. You did good job darling.", Yuko said to me. But it wasn't just me. It was both Connor and I that were greeted by Helena.
"Plus, Ema had a dream of everyone dying and she shared it with me.", Malia added.
"Prometheus did say yesterday how Ema was chosen one.", Astra said. "But chosen for what?"
"Death.", I said. "I am chosen to die. I saw it in my dream yesterday."
Everyone froze.
"No, Ema, you're wrong. That was just your mind acting out after what Prometheus said yesterday.", Malia tried to comfort me.
"How can you be so sure? I don't know what is a dream and what is future now!" I said. How are any of us supposed to trust our head anymore?
"Let's all calm down. Answers will come over time. For now, we have to worry about present. Not future or past.", Zack said. His deep baritone silenced us all. But he was right. Just jumping in conclusions is bad. We have to keep our heads clean.
"Now let's go to cuddle room and relax a bit together. Astra found one good movie yesterday that we can all watch.", Zack advised and we all went with him.
In cuddle room only after half an hour or so we were all asleep.
This is the place where I feel safe at.
With them.