"What are you doing here?" Sam asked her with a concerned look. He knew nothing good would come out of it.
"Can't a friend make a visit to her friends. Come on Sam." She said jokingly.
Earlier when she had noticed Felix's presence she had tried to teleport to somewhere else but I stopped her before she could do so. She then froze time,or made it go slower, whatever thing it was she did. She had wanted to take Felix to the headquarters for his memory to be erased. Sam asked the consequences of doing so and the answer didn't please him.
"He is going to forget everything, including being your friend, his name or anything he has never known except for the basic things in life, like eating, or even going for a call. He'll be.."
"Just stop, right there." Sam cut her off. "This is my best friend we are talking about here. I'm sorry but you are not doing anything to her at all."
"I'm sorry Sam but it has to be so. My existence should not be known by anyone except those that the Rebel chooses that should know. I'm a ghost, and it should remain like that."
The argument had reached its peak. Sam was getting angrier as the conversation went on.
"Guys, guys. What if we asked Koyala what he thinks about this?" I had to do something before things exasperated and got out of control.
Furious, Maya touched Felix's back of the head to knock him unconscious then flashed her light and we were at the headquarters. It was a different headquarters. I didn't even recall a thing. There was a question I had wanted to ask for a very long time, but I had to wait for the right time to pose it. We still had a problem at hand to be solved.
"Wait here," she ordered. Felix was still unconscious and Sam was all sweaty from the game. He had not even taken a shower, gosh.
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"Why would you go there in the first place? I said I needed a word with them, I didn't say you go for them Maya. Argh, what are we to do with him now." Koyala had not healed from losing his friend. Ever since he died he had always been bitter, nothing ever pleased him and he trusted nobody. Maybe Maya a bit.
Maya had wanted to please him. She had really longed to see him smile again and hear his crooked jokes. He was a hard to deal with man but there was a soft spot in him, he cared.
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After waiting for like forever, she finally came back. Sam was almost losing his cool. He was sure his brother was waiting for him back at home with a feast or some present to celebrate his good work.
"Okay, follow me."
We did. Felix was dragged in the air towards Koyala's new office. That time round he even had soldiers guarding his office. We got in the room and silence struck for a few seconds. "Ahem," Koyala cleared his voice,"I'm sorry about all this. So after a lengthy discussion, we have decided to let his memory be. Only and only if we remain ghosts to him. By that I mean, he shuts his mouth, you get me?" He pointed towards Felix's direction as an indication for Maya to do something. She stared at him and he came to. She stared at him waiting to see his reactions.
"Ouch, my head hurts," Felix said as he opened his eyes and struggled to lift his head up. "Woooow," he exclaimed and passed out.
"You see! That is what I was talking about," came Maya almost screaming at us. "I told you he wouldn't take it. I say we erase the memory."
"Just you dare," Sam warned, already forming fists with his hands.
"Watch your mouth young boy, before I.."she was beginning to lose it till Koyala cleared his throat.
"Look, Sam. Him knowing about us isn't really a great idea, judging from the previous experiences. Look, just the sight of us and he can't even catch his breath. But let's make a deal here, if he wakes up and you can explain everything to him till he understands then I will reconsider. It's up to you. I give you one hour, deal?"
"Deal," Sam replied even before the last word could escape his mouth. The two friends were taken to some room as they waited for Felix to come to, as I stayed behind. I had some questions to ask, and I guessed Koy as they called him, already knew it.
"Haha, Oh Junior. I can only know what you let me. You may ask your question."
"Where's this headquarters? How are we supposed to help you guys if we don't even know what we are ourselves?" I was really concerned.
"Junior," he began," we were once living in the space between two different times. Your time and our time. Let me use that for palatability. We wanted to be hidden but we were compromised, you remember? So we moved our ark in the Kamana Sea,deep down where no human activity has taken place."
"Wow, wow," my heart almost skipped a bit. I had been scared of deep waters all my life. "Don't worry, you are perfectly safe," he said, realizing my fear. "About your abilities, we'll be taking you through steps on how to use them. So don't worry yourself that much. All we know is that the Force is after you and we have to keep you safe."
I didn't know how exactly I felt after the conversation. I left the room and went to meet with Sam to see the progress with making Felix come to an agreement with all that was happening. I was led to that room by one of the soldiers. I found Felix asking Maya so many questions. They were actually making stories. When they got in, Maya said it was time to leave, Sam had a big banquet awaiting him back at home and he wouldn't have wanted to miss it. Maya's third eye flashed out the light and we were back at school. It was late so we had to rush back home.
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"Sir, we have an emergency." Came Maya rushing into Koyala's office ignoring all the two soldiers that stood guard outside the office.