Light And Death.

Chapter One: Beginning

It all started on a particularly very painful day for me, I looked straight at my dad and I saw him hovering over my mom with a heart in his hand and a hole in her chest, I understood what had happened and immediately bolted past him and straight to the door but as expected, he was faster than me and not by a minor scale. He immediately caught up to me and hit my head with something heavy, I passed out almost immediately and when I’d woken up, he was right in front of me, telling me to keep quiet and listen to him. He explained to me that my mother was a spy sent to kill both of us and that, he had done it to protect us. I had problems understanding what he had said, after all, my mother was the one who gave me life, she had taken care of me throughout my life and if she wanted to, she could have easily killed me without stress and she had handled our meals for years, if she wanted to kill us, she could have just poisoned us, it would have been rather easy for her but almost like he read my thoughts, my father said to me, if you’re thinking of why she didn’t poison us, then you need to know that it’s because we’re special, we had things that differentiated us from normal people. I could reason with what he’d said, I was somewhat special, a car once hit me at over a hundred miles an hour and went into a wreckage, leaving me unscathed. I had unbelievable strength and intellect too, I was very smart, I was something you’d consider a genius and despite the fact that I was an eight year old then, I could lift things as heavy as a car without any problems. I however still had problems believing what my dad had said, it seemed untrue and unrealistic and just as I was contemplating what would come next, the police barged into the house and my father immediately grabbed me towards the window, he was going to escape with me but I wanted no part of his nonsense, I kicked him in the groin and ran straight to the police who were ready to fire thinking I was my dad, immediately they saw me, they asked where my father was and I ratted him out immediately, they went up and came down with disappointment written over their faces, I understood, my father had escaped and considering the fact that they made no efforts in chasing him, it was rather obvious he was gone for good. The police told me I needed protection and took me to a maximum security facility where gifted kids like me were thought to harness their powers.

And that Elizabeth, is how I got into the academy and worked my way into the league of light, I said, looking at her deep blue eyes, she was so beautiful and the fact that my story brought tears to her eyes made me a little shy, the mere fact that she’d shed a few tears for me got me red in the face, she was making me blush. It was obvious I liked Elizabeth, I had this huge crush on her and the moment I was told I’d lead team Alpha with Elizabeth and Jordan, I knew she was made for me, Elizabeth however had no interest in me and even if she did, she didn’t show it, she never did. She was consumed with vengeance and hatred for her mother, you see, her story was even much more tragic than mine, her father had lost his wife some years ago and then decided to get married to her mother who had also lost her husband. You can’t really call her father her father since he played no part in conceiving her but that has nothing to do with the story, so, as I was saying, her mother got married to her dad and it was blissful for a few years, apparently, tragedy always had its part to play in our lives, her mother murdered her father and the three children he had before he met her and like that wasn’t enough, she beat Elizabeth near death, the police saved Elizabeth before her mother could finish her off and brought her to the academy before she then joined the league of light. Elizabeth was what you’d call extremely powerful, she was gifted with unbelievable speed and could generate electricity and use it in battles, she moved at the speed of sound at this moment but according to our technician, she could move at the speed of light soon enough, like her mother. She hated her mother immensely but she looked just like her, they were both so beautiful. Elizabeth looked at me with pity and said to me, “I’m so sorry, I never expected your story to be so tragic”. I told her it was alright and asked if we could both join Jordan in his loft which she agreed to do. The truth was that I couldn’t ask about her story, everyone knows her story, she didn’t have to tell anyone. Jordan had nothing like tragedy tho, he was picked up on the street, told his father was a wanted murderer and brought to the academy, the only motive he had for being in the academy was the fact that he believed in truth and justice. Jordan was really powerful tho, he was telepathic and could control metals, he could force them into any shape and could use them as he wanted, he however had endurance problems and unlike Elizabeth and I, he couldn’t use his powers that long. He’d pass out with blood running from his nose whenever he reached the limit. We were team alpha, the most powerful of all ten teams in the league of light. The vast majority of us had parents in the Death Squad, a team of assassins and murderers who had special powers like us but they were much more powerful, we were half bloods, possessing only half their powers and they had all their powers in full. My father was rumoured to be the leader of the Death Squad and Elizabeth’s mother was his assistant, that’s right, our parents were the heads of the most dangerous organization ever created and we were the one’s tasked to stop them, and we knew that failure was not an option. We arrived at Jordan’s door and knocked, if you think we have been through a lot, well, know that this is only the BEGINNING.............