"Hey, pst, hey! Wake up." I hear someone whisper.
"H-huh?"
"It's me, Akira, wake up!"
"W-why?"
"Four members came while you were sleeping, it's time for you to get up. They want you to at-least meet the last one"
"O-okay." I say yawning.
I get out of bed and head to the cafeteria, the place where I they introduced me yesterday. I sat down and waited for the last member to arrive.
"Hey, do you know why we are here?" I say.
"No, not really." Akira responds. "But I do know we are getting tested today."
"Tested? Tested for what?"
"Our strength silly."
"Right."
"Okay everyone, settle down. Here is our last member. Her name is Violet. To sum up her story, let's just say.... she was blinded by love."
Huh? What does he mean by blinded by love?
Violet takes a seat at the table right in front of her. Ruby, one of the boys from the other new members makes conversation with her. I don't know why but, Violet has sparked a curiosity within me.
I see Chilo look my way and I quickly turn away.
"If everyone can form a single-file line, we will be on our way to the Strength Closet."
"The strength closet?" I whisper. "What the hell is a strength closet?"
Soon we reach a door and he tells us to line up our backs against the wall facing the door.
"Take a look at your bracelet's, they are electrically powered so if you try to escape during any time in the actual building, you will be electrocuted and we will be alerted." He says without a care in the world, like it's normal. "You will also notice that on your once plain bracelets, you now have a gem."
I don't even know what to think at this point. How the fuck did these gems get here? What is this place? And why did they choose me?
"Now, we did not place those gems there, those gems are your powers, weapons, and or abilities you have. They will appear one by one each day. We will be coming to this closet everyday until you have all your gems." He says.
"This kind of sounds interesting." I suddenly hear Akira whisper.
"I guess so."
"This is called the strength closet because, you will relive the most traumatic times in your lives and somewhere during that time, you are going to have to use your new power and or weapon."
"Heh, never mind. Maybe it's not so interesting."
"You think.?"
"Well will start with the back of the line."
The back?! I was the third to last person in the back!
"Cuba, your up first. Follow me please."
Cuba slowly walks up to the man as he opens the door, revealing an eerily dark room inside. Cuba begins to walk in hesitantly. He closes the door behind her.
The man then stands by the door as if he was guarding it. We don't hear anything for a while. Then a timer goes off. After exactly three minutes he opens the door.
Cuba steps out, she doesn't look the same as before. Her mid length brown hair looked as if she's been pulling it out of stress, her eyes are all puffy. What happened in there? I notice her gem, it's a chameleon. She was right, she has the power of camouflage.
"Akira." He says.
She slowly walks in. After another three minutes she comes out looking almost the same as Cuba except her clothes are all ripped up and her short black hair is running wild with her teal highlights trying to keep up. Her sea green eyes don't look puffy as Cuba's did. And her charm? Swords. I guess swords are one of her weapons.
"Idyllic."
"H-huh?"
"It's, your turn. May you please step in?"
I walk up to the door and look back before stepping forward. What I see is... Nothing. It's just pitch black.
Soon the room starts filling with a light gas. Then, I feel like I'm slipping away from reality into a flashback.
I'm eleven again. Blood was still all over the walls, but my mother? No where to be seen. This must be a sick joke, I thought. I go look inside my closet to find my two year old brother and five year old sister. But, they're not here either.
"H-hello?"
I look down at my bracelet. Katanas.
I used to train with katanas at this age. How ironic. Suddenly I hear a noise. Very faint, but still audible.
I don't know how to activate my powers or get my weapons. So I try thinking about the katanas. Nothing. I try messing with my gem. Nothing. Then I try both. I mean, what's the harm in that? It worked. I now had my katanas in hand. And the noise? Getting louder.
I don't say anything else, I just hide and wait for who ever it is to reveal themselves. I noticed it was one of the people that killed my mother. Instead of just going out there and attacking, I decide to stay still.
He turns his back and I quickly move to another location closer to him. Ironically he looks at my previous location. I see some cloth on the table, while his back is still turned. I hurry and grab it. He walks toward the kitchen. He begins to look through my fridge. Greedy bastard.
I tiptoe over to him and jump on his back. My katana over his throat and the cloth over his mouth. He begins to start breathing heavy, but then his demeanor changes rather quickly and... Eerily. He's calm now... A little too calm.
He suddenly grabs my arm and flips me over. Now that I'm eleven, I don't have as much strength as I did when I was sixteen, meaning he can easily overpower me, but I still have smarts. He managed to grab a katanas when he flipped me over. I quickly got up and ran under his legs, my katana cutting him as I did so. He was about to let out at scream, but I slit his throat in an instant and ran out through the back.
As soon as I was out of the door I heard someone go in the kitchen and scream somebody's name.
However, as soon as I was out of the yard the flashback was over and I ran into the door. I had a bruise on my forehead afterward.
When my three minutes were up,
everyone else went, but I was only curious about one person. Violet.