Colin wakes up and rolls out of bed. His body feels heavy. He wanted to talk to the youth today.
He finds all of them waiting for him outside. They are watching the wolf sleep.
Luna smiles seeing the mall without shields or a wall. It's like a dream to believe she's not living behind a wall anymore. Technically anyway.
"Guys, what I'm telling you stays in this room. The boy named Avalon that you boys went to see. He's Kai and Bella's son. Toya you probably don't remember him you were still young when this happened, but Lily has a sister by the name of Leigh.
"Leigh has a similar power to Lily but she can only see the future of people she has seen with her own two eyes, hence why it had to be you kids for this delivery. 16 years ago she kidnapped a baby and ran away from the camp. That baby was Avalon. We tried every desperate attempt to get him back but she could see us coming and it was too sensitive a matter to involve just anyone.
"Wolf, was generated by Avalon. He inherited it from his father, but Kai hasn't used it in years. I don't know why. The last time we tried to retrieve Avalon. Jet and Jake's mother died, she wasn't killed by an Infected it was Leigh. I don't know if it's comforting or not, but she managed to at least talk to Avalon and tell him about us.
"If by months end he hasn't come to us you'll go retrieve him. She won't see any of you coming and with the phone Comms we can see exactly where he is." He looks at everyone present.
Sarah was not called because she tells her mother everything.
"Why did she steal him in the first place?" Sharon asks trying to get Leigh's side of the story.
Colin sighs, "Because she couldn't have children of her own. It's not everyone that can have a child. You're surrounded by a family where we all had children, Leigh too. She went mad from the idea she might never have a child at all. We tried everything and it didn't change anything. Toya was already 2 years old, but Avalon was only a few months old so she picked the east target. No one saw it coming not even Lily, she kept seeing visions too far into the future she couldn't connect the dots."
"Why couldn't she have children?" Dodge asks.
"Growing up exposed to too muc black toxin. She used to sneak out of her father's camp when she was young. No protection at all, those are the consequence. Lily and Kai are brother and sister, grew up in the same camp, that's what makes this really painful. She targeted someone who trusted her with his life. She was baby sitting the baby and I don't know what happened but she must have snapped or something."
Chronos rests his hand on his forehead, "Ow."
Rex looks at him, "Similar background. It can be painful to relive."
Colin sighs, "That's all. Chronos drink some water and get fresh air."
"Yes sir."
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Bella uses her power and generates a cloud making it rain from the sky above. It's always been her dream to know what it's like.
"I'm here about the meeting I heard about." Sarah arrives, her mother cornered her first.
Colin smiles and sits with the teens, "You kids handled your training exercise well, but now the adults are back in charge, but I want you to look around and to know that all this. The shields, the lack of one, it's all you, and I want you kids to know that one day you will have to protect it tooth and nail." He coughs and wipes some sweat off his forehead.
Thomas is watching everyone noting every single thing. He wants to know every single detail about the orange vaccine.
"Gee, you're not creepy at all." Susan says
"Yes I am not, you on the other hand are certainly creepy. Asking your daughter to spy on everyone. You are wired different. Very Crazy, that's what you are." Thomas says as cool as a cucumber as he takes notes.
Susan glares at him as he walks away.
~~~
The kids look around and smile.
"I never wanna be in charge again." Luna says laying on the ground enjoying the rain. She closes her eyes and accidentally doses off.
Colin smiles, "You'll wish you were in charge. Training your powers non stop is all you will do from now on. Start by moving everything out of the mall. I want it as empty as we found it. Chronos will be rewinding the mall room by room for his training and when he turns back time, present items seize to exist. So hurry up and get back to work."
Mira and Dodge ask the generation 1 women to pack up their stuff and take it outside, "Don't leave anything behind or you'll never see it again."
Sarah stands next to the girls and passes on the refuse bags, "We should start on the roof."
"Of course. We'll get the others to help." A woman says super excited. Once the kids are gone she turns to everyone, "I heard in the building across the street everyone can sleep in their own room. Hundreds of people could sleep in there. There's even large rooms known as penthouses that have room enough for families with children."
Susan crosses her arms, "I overheard that no one is moving there because they don't trust us."
The woman looks at her, "Oh, you of course are eternally doomed to sleep outside. You pissed them off."
"Yeah, I don't envy you at all. You are just constantly getting on their nerves.'
"Yeah, and pissing off Luna has earned you a lifetime supply of toiletries without healing essence in them. She's just hoping old age catches up to you fast."
"Meanwhile the rest of us have flawless and youthful skin. Khole told me I look really nice."
"Oh, I have totally noticed him checking you out. I kept thinking it's all in my head."
"You guys, let's hurry up. We'll talk about Himawari's romance later."
A woman nods, "I heard them talking about a list with people to move there. It could be within a month though, but I was awake last night because I could not sleep, they mentioned my son's name." She says excited.
The other women suddenly chipper go and ask everyone to help move things around.
Mystic who is excited that her son is going notices Mira holding boxes, she walks towards her and carries her box, "I see you guys are busy and almost time to eat, I could cook while you work."
Mira smiles, "Luna's cooking. She's sleeping at the moment. Thanks for asking everyone to help."
Mystic smiles, "A pleasure. I don't see Split and the twins, where are they? This would be going much faster."
"They are moving food crates. They are giving everything away. It's faster that way. Aira is with them since he can make things weightless." Mira replies.
Mystic runs and tells the other women Luna is cooking today.
Susan sighs, "Good she's the only one that knows how to cook out of that group. Did they say what she's cooking?"
Mystic shakes her head, "No, usually she asks the men, anyway let's hurry up."
"When she's lazy it's Rice. When she's in a bad mood it's spaghetti. When she's in a good mood it's a feast with turkey, potato salads, green salad, and dumplings. My favourite."
"My favourite is the desert table. It's been a while since she set up 2 tables. Last time it was an Oreo cake, I miss it."
"She actually added a fridge with ice cream only for the children. My son brought me some last time and it's so good."
"Oh, she said if we want snacks we must say so. I wish when I was at her age my camp trusted me with the keys to the food. She's so reliable and trustworthy, she never plays favourites but she does spoil the kids more."
"Are you kidding me?! She more than favours the kids. I asked her for cake last week she told me the kids already asked for something else."
"Ohh. I remember. You're still sour about that?"
"Yes!"
"I asked her for extra lotion she gave me. I think it depends on what you're asking for where we are concerned. Cosmetics she never holds bag. I've changed toothbrushes twice already."
"I told her my hair wasn't growing, she gave me oil for my hair. We probably have been asking for the wrong things."
"We want sweet stuff too!"
The women laugh as they walk up and down the mall.
~~~
From there on Chronos trains his power by turning the mall back into what it was room by room.
Everyone is surprised by the clothes, the dishes, the bags, the groceries in the grocery shops and more.
"This is for a baby. Wow, way better than what the women have." Dodge comments.
Mira looks at all the different food and recipes at the back, "Finally. People must stop saying they want Luna to cook instead."
"Her food is always better, hot, and everybody shuts up after the meal."
~~~
Aira trains by generating air through out the entire dome, that's the aim, so far he can cover half the dome.
June is in charge of up keep of the water firm. Working with some of the men that manually make sure the water is clean and the machines are at peak performance.
Toya and Rex help out here and there getting used to the others powers. However Thomas works with them much closely and trains them personally.
"I thought your power was to shrink stuff." Toya says.
"That's not my power. I borrowed it off the old man who took me to Black. I was hiding it."
"You had to keep your power a secret or running away wouldn't happen?" Toya asks.
Rex nods.
Toya bites his bottom lip, "Sorry I was a jerk and didn't you here out."
Rex chuckles, "Really? I barely noticed." He remarks sarcastically.
Toya shoves him, "Shut up. Don't make this harder than it has to be."
Rex smiles, "Whatever. Cry baby." He teases.
Toya strangles him and they fight.
Luna chuckles, "They almost made it 24 hours without fighting. Only 10 minutes left, bunch of idiots."
Dodge scowls, "Idiots crazy about you."
Luna jokingly thinks very hard about it, "I wonder who will ask me out first, that's who I'll choose."
Wolf jumps on her lap and Luna chuckles.
"Sorry buddy. I choose you."