The Narrator

Father?

Eddy now fifteen years of age left the town in Alaska in search of Jobs, the tasks he completed caused him to go cross country quite frequently.  Until one day a man asked him a question.

“What do you do with your power?”

“What power?”  Eddy answered.

“You have a gift Eddy, every one of your kind has a gift.”

“What do you mean?  And how do you know my name?”  Eddy asked quizzically.

“You were born with great power and a purpose, that is my curse.”

“I was told I am a descendant of the Narrator, he is my, like fifteenth great grandfather.  And what do you mean you’re cursed?”  Eddy responded.

The man turned lifted up his hood and said, “My curse is blindness, and I am cursed with the knowledge of all I see.”  He returned to his secluded position hiding his face.

“What is my power?  And where am I supposed to go?”  Eddy persisted.

The man stood up, “Follow me”  and walked down the street.

I ran after him to catch up, we walked then along the back streets avoiding the guards that were making sure there was no suspicious activity.  We turned left into a doorway cloaked in black robes.  The air smelled of honey, there was a staircase down with burning incense on the stair sides simply for a pleasant aroma.  He walked around the corner, as I followed into a room with dazzling starlights.  A table about the center of the room with what looked like a map was present.  Around the table people whom I’ve never met before but have seen at least once rounded the table discussing something.  I drew in closer to understand what they were saying but they drew silent when they saw me.  The man said something in a foreign language and they all nodded.

The one on the left a girl who seemed to be their leader, she had a look of courage in her eyes.  A sense of belief and purpose to what she did, “The one to my left is Mikayla, then there’s Preston, Andrew, Amber, Sarah, Lily, and David at the end.  Onward we have Chloe, Hannah, Luis, and Paiton.  I am Rylee, Sarah and Lily are sisters, Amber and Andrew are siblings and so are Luis and Hannah.  We have been waiting for you, Eddy.  You are one of the descendants of the Narrator James Borne, yes?”

“I am, and what of it?” I said.

“Have they not taught you, if you are of the Borne Disendence you can write in the book.  Any one of us cannot.  We need you, or else this rebellion is useless.”  Rylee Stated.

I stare for a moment, not knowing what was to become of me, “What am I to do, all I have done thus far is deliver packages and work for people’s everyday deeds needed doing.  I am bored of it.  If I am who you say, then what becomes of this.”

Her eyes softened and she spoke, “I can not make you help us, but if you choose not to, the world as you know it will not get any better.  Times are short, and the days in fact get worse.”

I turn back to them, “I’m in, what plan do you have that could be better than what has already been tried.”

Rylee answered, “There are more ways than ever with all his gifts are still blind.” she said gesturing to the man in the hood.

At that, the man stood and raised up his hood, “You will see my friend, as she said, even with such power I am still blind to a great many things.” I looked at him and realized who he was.

“Father?”

“Yes?” the man who looked like my dad asked.

“Your supposed to be dead, how are you still alive after all this time and you didn’t come to see me.”  The tension in the room grew, the smell of lavender was diminishing as the sticks burned out.

“I could not find you, if it were my choice I would have come to you sooner, she saved my life.  As she did yours and every one of us here.”  He was gesturing to Rylee, she then turned to me and spoke.

“I began searching for special people who could help us against them, as I was looking there seemed to be a correlation between the people James was attacking and something special.  So when your dad’s house was attacked I got him out before they could find him.  And sure enough, there was a correlation, he was attacked because he had special powers.  Every one of us was attacked and had some power that could be used against James.  This is why we know we can win the war, he is scared of losing his power.  And he knows that we are a threat.”

“And what is special about me other than the fact that I’m related to a power-hungry murderer,”  I said.

“Come here,” she said, waving to the table.

I walked over to the table, we all sat down and she explained over the map.

“We all know that his Mansion is on the edge of Niagra Falls, it is heavily guarded and wouldn’t be easy without all of you working together.  Mikayla is able to manipulate people’s perception of sight and sound, thus she can make people not be able to see us or hear us.  Preston has an enhanced brain speed, he has been able to see a person do an action and copy the same thing even better than them.  His reaction time is way above average, he has learned to dodge bullets in some cases.  He also can regenerate entire limbs.”

Preston interrupted, “Yeah that one on the hip hurt a whole lot.”

Sarah and Lily giggled a little and Rylee then continued, “Amber and Andrew have shared intelligence, they can read each other’s thoughts.  They can also read other people’s minds as long as they are touching.  Sarah is basically Loki from Norse mythology, she can’t make herself invisible, but she can make herself or anyone look like anybody she has seen.  She has also learned to hide objects and make them invisible.  Lily can shapeshift into any useable object, if she turns into a key it can open any door regardless of its shape or physical properties.  That means she is like the Skeleton Key that people made on the SCP wiki site.”

“I still hate that I’m being compared to a fictional foundation that does terrible things to other people and entities,”  Lily muttered.

Rylee rolled her eyes and continued, “And yet you say entities as a bunch of objects on a spreadsheet, David is able to lift any object with no found restrictions.  Chloe has no set joints and is able to bend any way she wants.  Hannah can burst eardrums with pinpointed accuracy, Luis can sabotage electronic devices, he can also download and upload data from a computer or anything that has storage.  Paiton can manipulate people’s speech, and I can do anything that is written down in that book that James has.  So far, I’m immortal, powerful, a leader, able to write in the book with just my hand, barrow people’s powers and use them myself.”

“Wait, if your able to barrow people’s powers then what are mine?”  I asked.

My dad responded, “You have to figure out your power on your own, she can not borrow what you don’t have.”

“And I just help with people’s powers, I am not the leader.” Rylee instated.

“Then who is?” I say finally, they all looked up at me with a terrified look.  Who could be that bad that when they’re on their side that they would fear their own leader.