Portia turned on her bed, lives, flashing before her eyes, despite having these nightmares every night for years on end, the sixteen year old wasn't at all used to them.
They were always different, but all began when her mother was born and continued in uniquely false ways.
She had no idea how she recognized that witch who dumped her into the world only to abandon her to face all the tortures of life, alone, but she didn't like it.
She screamed and woke up, but the other kids in the dorm groaned and either told her to pipe down, or threw stuff at her.
She was probably the only person who was bullied by kids literally half her age, but never minded it, she couldn't as news would be sent to the patron who would ' punish her accordingly ' as in starve her and lock her out of the orphanage for a whole day, at least.
Not that this was actually a punishment for her as she was used for working for her, unwholesome and unsanitary two meals a day, one point five on average.
She wasn't treated like this because she did something wrong, as was always said, but because her parents did something wrong.
She was literally the only child in the entire orphanage of forty well placed children, who had no records.
Every child could be traced to their elite or rich family who dumped them there for some scandal they had absolutely no involvement in, but we're taken care of accordingly and the poor children were given ' the better lives they deserved ', all except for Portia.
One would think that since there was no report of any parents leaving her there or, anyone related to her, they'd treat her kindly for the loneliness and isolation she may have felt, but no, everyone just placed all their problems on her as she could literally be related to anyone, a criminal, a social vicest, anyone bad, not good.
She just lay on her bed again then stayed awake till morning, three whole hours later.
Even when rushing, she was blocked by the eight person queue to the girls' bathroom then groaned, but forgot to pay attention to the time and immediately realized, several minutes later, that the line was done and Akosua just walked out with her towel then glared at Portia before leaving.
Portia ran into the room and caught a glance of herself then frowned, she always knew why people said she was just as beautiful as her mother, because she was, she looked exactly like the old hag, and nothing like her dad.
But that made her wonder why people who knew how her parents looked never bothered to say something to the authorities, unless they also had nightmares like her, or it was just the norm and decision of society for girl children to resemble their mothers, either way, they were right.
She just went to take a bath, placing her bucket of water down and removing her towel, she cleaned herself.
She went to change then went for a hard earned breakfast, before walking the three kilometer walk to school.
She didn't pay much attention to anything apart from...
"Skylar..."Princess said.
Princess was the ex girlfriend of the school's main heartthrob; Skylar, or Sky as Portia preferred to call the jock and she wanted him back, badly after they broke up.
He was of the Angel family, whose genetics made them a perfect bond for fallen angels.
He didn't have any giant, two meter long, snow white wings at his back, but Portia knew they were there, ready to unfold at any moment he wished.
Portia just stared at him in awe, from a distance of course, no one knew if he got his inhumanely strong and beautiful features from his symbiote or he was just naturally that good looking, but each school of thought had their own beliefs and proof, Fallen angels being enchanting on their own right, gave that gift to their wielders, but he was already known to be very good looking from before his transformation.
He brought out his huge wings and they covered his body like a cotton coloured sphere as bullets were fired at him, then his wings swung open, throwing the bullets back at the robots with an even greater force.
He then flapped his powerful wings and flew into the air, throwing the destroyed robots onto the others, then twirled in the air as feathers were launched from his two wings at them.
The feathers compacted as they flew down, then sliced through all the robots like bullets, right before pulling out and flying back to their owner.
He then landed with one wing curved over his charming face and the other at his back, looking like a pure white cone with spiral slits on it.
The wings shrunk as he stood up then everyone cheered for him as he went to take his seat, only to see Princess waiting for him.
She started smothering him with unwanted affection and everyone actually saw his pain, though he never confessed it.
The next person was an Electro kinetic, who had a Chakka as his symbiote, which was basically one of the most powerful and attractive lightning creatures, his name was Kofi Badu and he seemed very proud of his sub element.
There were five main elements; Earth, Fire, Water, Wind and Quintessence.
These elements formed the basis of all symbiote abilities, with these elements being the supreme and rarest of them all, though elements between were much more common.
The rarest of the five yet not necessarily the most powerful, was obviously Quintessence.
It was the name given to all other elements which didn't fall under the first four, but had similarities in reality.
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In a training session...
The robots shot bullets at Kofi but when they were halfway through the air, Kofi grinned then lightning started arcing spontaneously and haphazardly from his body, using the bullets as a path till it got to the robots and literally obliterated them.
He completed his round in two seconds flat so got the highest score, then chanted his own name with the crowd as lightning streaked across the sky and Portia rolled her eyes.
Kofi's massive ego wasn't the reason Portia didn't like him, it was his tyranny.
After practice that day, she caught him zapping a small boy just to give him his money.
Portia couldn't stand that then ran to him and yelled,"Yo, Kofi!!"
He looked at her from the corners of his eyes, chuckled then said,"Go back to your dumpster, Yodo, I have business to handle."
Yodo was an offensive and racist term for people without symbiotes, specifically Portia as she was the only one without one her age in the whole city.
He turned back to the severely burned boy as he begged for mercy, and blue electric arcs started jumping across his hand, then he yelled in pain as electricity started zapping down his body then fell on his face.
Everyone stared at Portia who had poured bleach filled water on him, including Sky, then she gasped at the sight, she didn't mean to hurt him, but his minions didn't think so.
They charged at her and she screamed then took to her heels, dodging the metals that were blasted at her and trying to escape the creeping ice.
The ice caught up to her and she slipped and fell on her back, then metal circled around her, making a sort of wall of aluminum spikes turned towards her.
Adults didn't usually interfere when children or even other adults fought using their abilities, it was a waste of time as that would just cause more damage, so they let them settle their issues on their own, with their own abilities.
The boys started walking closer to her and she begged for them not to hurt her, but there was a shingling sound as she screamed...
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Dear readers, I just wanted to let you know that all my stories, if not most, were not meant to be scientifically, historically or even religiously accurate in any way, but were merely written for your entertainment, the events, characters and settings were absolutely fictional and had nothing to do with the reality we live in, but rather, the reality we could live in, thanks for listening 😁