The hopefuls

Chapter three: The awakening

I was going to give up, for the past few hours he's beaten me, tortured me, drowned me, burned me and electrocuted me. Each time I was about to die they stopped me, and continued hurting me. All this for a 'power' I know nothing about. And to think these people these evil, nasty human beings have done this on children younger then me. I can only imagine the pain they went through, they could have gone through worst then what I'm going through. 

A few moments ago the guards came in and strapped me back up to a chair, they were now shocking me with electricity once again, but each time the voltage went up making it worst. Now because of the constant pain my body was beginning to get used to it, and my mind was know else where thinking of other things but the situation I'm in now.

The same old voice takes me out of my thoughts making me listen to them. 

"I'll be honest Eighteen, you are the most strongest patient we've ever had to repel against the fazes, you are strong which is understandable".

"what do you mean understandable" I says confused.

"Oh silly me, course you don't know. You forgot" he laughs and continues.

"Like I said you have the strongest power in the world, your ability is so strong people say you could destroy the universe with one thought. Oh and your famous. Everyone who is anyone knows your name, then again you did kill half a million people so why wouldn't you be" he say like he accomplished something.

"it was very hard to capture you, you know your a tricky one, even for your age. You was 7 maybe 8 ? You've got very high intelligence, causing a lot of.. mayhem for the public you and your little friends" he continues.

"Once we had you all, we harnessed all your powers which obviously drained the living out of everyone but you. Now why is that ? Why are you so strong compared to everyone else.. why?"

"We.. the council decided to keep you alive, we was going to create a Monster out of you, so we placed all of the powers of those we harnessed inside you. You have every soul of the children that was killed. We was going to use you to capture everyone. However we found we didn't need no use for you, so we left you in 'storage' for a couple of years till you may have come in use. But now ... now I have found a use for you" 

"I..I don't have the souls of those YOU killed in me! NO NO that's not true it's not possible" I shout at him.

"Oh but it is" he replies with a grin.

"How.. how could you do that?! What are you going to do now with me ?!"

"Now.. Ahha Now, I'm going to kill you" he said that in such a deep way, with a seduced face.

"No, no you can't do that. Please don't do that!" I beg 

"Oh don't you worry, I'm going to harness your powers and put them to something much more useful"

I think what I'm going to do. I close my eyes and breath deeply. Okay, Okay stay calm. 

"Do you know my name?" 

"Of course I do, but don't think I'm going to tell you it, after all it's for me to know and for you to never find out" oh trust me I going to find out. 

"I'm not that person though, that's not me. That was someone else in my body and because you erased the memory of that, I'm a new person" I was disappointed with myself, I know I wouldn't do that, but all though I perhaps killed people, I don't remember it so does that still make me a murderer ? 

"Me and my colleagues here decided a physical pain will not awaken the abilities, so we're going to do something much simpler and easier" I'm not even bothered anymore of what he might do to hurt me.

My head hangs low waiting for something sudden and painful, a few seconds go by until I lift my head up to see what was happening.

Hart was stud there with a picture in his hand facing it to me. It was the imagine I ripped of the wall hours ago.

"I found this in your pocket earlier, do you know who he is ?" I look at the imagine wondering who in the crowd of people on the photo he was talking about until I see the little boy with an arm around me, I don't remember who it is.

"That's your brother" I was shocked, I didn't know I had brother.

"This is him now, Patient 137" he says happily.

I look across at the second picture it was young man, his skin pale white and lifeless, his head was detached from his body. 

I suddenly realised that dead body was my brother, someone I once loved and cared for was dead. It hit me the worst pain for anyone, was the loss of another. Even though I don't remember my brother I'm sure I would have had a lot of memories of him. 

I cried, I sobbed and choked on my own whimpers. This pain was worse then any burns. 

"Oh and I believe this is your mum and dad" I don't look properly at the images but just glance all I see is two more lifeless bodies side by side, their bodies mutilated and mauled to death. I wasn't even crying anymore but instead I just felt anger at the person who did that. I wanted to kill him for doing this to me, for doing it to my family and other people, children !

"And by the way, even though I killed your bother, but your parents. Well, you got to them first" I watched him smirk at me and turn around leaving the images standing up against the glass. I couldn't do this anymore.

"Stop" I shout with so much anger. My hands rip out of the cuffs attaching me to the chair, and I run up to the the window. My arms reach out, hitting the window, the glass smashes in the corner. I hit the glass again not stopping, hitting it over and over again. 

"Keep going your turning into your true self" I was staring at him, if I could kill him just by looking at him.

I don't listen to what he says but I keep hitting the glass. 

The glass window, suddenly turns back to a mirror I could see myself again, but something had changed my once ginger hair had turned a pure blood red colour and my eyes they... they were now black, even the whites of my eyes. I step back thinking it was an illusion, only to see red strand of hair fall onto my face.

"ahhhh" I step away from the mirror turning my back to it. I was changing, my eyes and hair changed but my face and my body was staying the same i felt my strength and intelligence had grown dramatically. I felt strong, strong enough I could get out of here and back into the real world.

I turn around seeing myself, I walk over to the mirror no longer caring about what I look like but embracing my new strength. With all my power I smash through the glass.

I'm then in the room with the man who calls himself hart, he's not looking at me but the sound of the glass shattering turns his attention on me. 

He looks at me scared backing away trying to get to the door. As I run towards him I come face to face with the guard called Alex. He shoots the laser gun at me, but to my surprise it didn't have an effect on me. 

"Aw poor thing, don't wet your little pants" I mock him and grab the gun off him holding it up and shooting him, paralysing him.

"Hurts like a b***h doesn't it" I say close to his face repeating his words before walking after Hart. I look around the room no longer seeing the nerd, meh he didn't do much to me anyways. I walk to the door seeing hart running down the corridor, I run after him but my speed was incredible and I was beside him instantly. 

"Where yeh going Mr Hart" I taunt him as I walk beside him.

"Please don't hurt me, you have much to know. Things only I can tell you" he was begging for his life, hmm reminds me of something I was asking him for a couple of moments ago.

"You better get speaking then" I pin him against the wall.

"What you want to know" he asked.

"My name" 

He was about to reply until someone cuts him off.

"Hands of him or we'll shoot" there was a number of guards pointing guns at me, guns I've never seen before they weren't the typical laser gun, they had actual bullets. 

I glance at Hart before using my leg to kick him onto the floor. My foot presses on his chest pinning him to the ground. I suddenly feel a pain in my arm, one of the guards shot me in my left shoulder. Hart drops to the floor getting shot straight into his hand. The pain of the bullet was bearable but felt like a sting, oh how that made me mad.

"You did say hands off, didn't you ?" I smirk raising my hands in the air, in defeat. The guards walk towards me with their guns still aiming. I took my leg of Hart as he laid on his back as if he was shot in the chest.

I stand still waiting for them to get closer to me, as I feel someone touch my hand to place cuffs on me, I lean back head butting the person behind me hearing him grunt. I start getting shot at feeling stings all around my body like a load of bees swarming me.

I power through the small amount of pain punching one of the guards, he flys backwards hitting the ground unconscious. The other two guards started to back up towards the exit, I run towards them pushing them to the side for them to hit the ground. I quickly look for Hart but he was gone. I walk out the door, surprised of my actions, but they deserved it so oh well.

I walk through a couple more corridors, seeing rooms similar to the one I lived in for years, I notice there were a few people in them. I run back to the unconscious guards and grab his arm dragging him to the door. Inside the guards arms are chips that allows only them to open the locked doors. 

I lift his arm to the key pad and it's scans through. The door opens and I see a young man about the age of 20, he had his back to me but soon looked at me when he noticed I was stood behind him. He turns around startled, he looked frightened of me, must be my eyes. 

I look down breathing calmly before closing my eyes, trying to relax hoping they might turn back to their normal green colour. I look back up at him, noticing the he was burned on his face, it was a fresh burn that reach from his eyebrow to the edge of his lip. That must be very painful. He noticed me looking at the wound and turned his head to a side so I wouldn't see it.

With out any other communication he helps me get the others out of their rooms, we work together to free each one after another. There was only about 5 of them, two of them were children and the others where around my age. I walk over to another door at the other side of the corridor noticing a clipboard, the clipboard contained information about each one of the people I just freed, before I could get a good look an alarm starts ringing. 

"What do we do ?" The young man says that I freed first. The children look at me as if I was the adult, the leader who's meant to be in charge, I honestly don't know what I'm doing. 

"Okay erm...follow me" I shout to everyone. With out replies they followed me. We came to a dead end, I think for a second. I stare and the wall feeling a weird sensation go through my body. The wall crumbles to the floor. I turn round gesturing for everyone to run through. As I go through I feel a breeze hit my face. I blink a few times as my eyes adjust to the light. I walk out stopping as my bare feet touch the grass, I haven't felt that in years, I can't even remember what grass felt like.

Their was two boys around the age of 7 and 10, who stood next to me.

"Can you take us home" the boy asked all innocent.

"I'll try my hardest, I promise" Isay smiling back at everyone one. 

All together there was 6 of us, a young man about the age of 20, A teen age boy and a girl around the age of 17 and two younger boys. I feel a tap on my shoulder turning around to face them it was the man with the burned face. 

"Look" he says pointing at something in the sky, I turn around seeing a helicopter flying towards us from what it looked like their was guards on it. 

"Run" I shout we all run forwards towards a fence, climbing other it, we helped each other to climb the metal wall with the children over it first. 

Suddenly we started to get shot at. We continue running into a forest as we're entering it. I realised one of the young boys is missing, I stop running turning around to run back. I see the boy stood still looking at the helicopter as it shoots at him.

"Run, come here" I shout. I was protected from the bullets by the canopy of the trees but he was in the centre of a field with nothing covering him. I run back to him about to grab him when something surprises me, he has his hands facing the helicopter with a blaze type coming out of the palms of his hands. I step back surprised at what I was seeing. The blaze was strong, the power of it was pushing me back. 

The helicopter sets a light and fell to the ground making a whistling noise as it fell, it made an explosion as it hit the ground sending me and the boy metres away from where we previously stood. I opened my eyes seeing nothing but a thick ash cloud, my ears were ringing making it hard for me to stand up. I slowly stand up regaining my balance. I grabbed the boy who was now unconscious and ran towards the trees, my speed of running was fast and soon enough I was side by side the man with the burns on his face once again.

We eventually stopped running and started a fast pace of walking, walking as far away from that prison as possible. 

"My names Autumn, whats all your names ?" The young girl says to us all.

"My names Aidan" the youngest boy says, he quite brave for someone his age.

"How old are you Aidan?" Autumn replies.

"I'm seven" Autumn nods at his answer and turns to the young man.

"And yours " she gestures to the man with the burns 

"Jax" hm cool name. Jax turns to me and nods at me.

"Eh, I don't know my name" answering his nod.

"How do you not know your own name?"

"They erased my memory, I don't know nothing but that place" I was sad about it, but it's seems everyone I knew was dead so I guess erasing my memory might be a plus side for it all that. 

"Oh.. well what shall we call you ? " jax says facing to me.

"Erm... well for now you can just call me Eighteen, since I don't know my real name I'll use my Patient number " Everyone nods at me.

Jax laughs "At least it's short, mine was one thousand five hundred and seventy eight" I laugh, true true.

The teen aged boy walked ahead of us, he doesn't turn around but carries on walking, I'll just leave him alone.

The boy still in my arms starts shuffling and moving, his eyes open and I place him on the ground. He had his hand on his head. 

"Ouch" he says

"Are you okay" everyone starts swarming around us.

"Yeh, that happens when I use my skills" he answers

"Skills, you mean you have powers to?" Autumn looked confused but pleased.

"We all have them" I say to her before the boy answers. "You guys were on the list to get your memories erased, that's what I read from the clipboard"

"Why would they want to erase our memories" Aidan asks scared. 

"Basically, they take our abilities because they are scared of us. They would erase your memory of everything that happened in your life and then test you for years, working out what powers you had.  When they're ready to harness them they would torture you till your powers awakened". I say quickly so the young boys doesn't understand. The air goes quiet and no one was speaking. 

"So what's your name" I look at the boy who broke the silence, he was still laid on the floor after banging his head, everyone starts looking even the teen aged boy walks closer to us. 

"Eh Hunter" he answers

"I'm.." Autumn was about to say her name again but she was interrupted.

"Don't worry I heard what all your names are, I just pretended I was still knocked out so I didn't have to walk" that little devil.

"But I don't know yours" pointing at the older boy. The boy doesn't answer Hunter. 

Hunter ask his name again, the boy was looking at hunter but doesn't answer him again. He doesn't under stand us, so I walk up to the boy putting my hand on his shoulder. 

"Do you understand me" he looked lost. I noticed two faint scars on his face both on either side travelling from his lip to his ears. The poor thing that would have been painful. His hair was covering his ears, is he deaf? I smile at him slowly raising my hand up to his air. He seemed nervous. Is he scared of me? I move his long hair of his face to have a look at his ears.

I gasp at the sight seeing no ears but a small whole of where his ears are meant to be. Someone had cut them off, he looks at me with a tear in his eye. 

"I can hear you, I just don't like talking to new people" he says with a slurred speech. 

"Ah..it's okay, don't be scared of us. I won't hurt you" I said smiling at him. He seemed to relax in my presence.

"So what's your name?" i smile 

"Hal" I nod at him, I turn around seeing everyone sat on the floor.

"This is Hal, now guys we need to get somewhere to sleep" It was starting to get dark and who knows whether them guards are coming for us.

Aidan runs out from behind some trees "There's a barn just over there" he shouts, we all get up following Aidan. We eventually get to the barn, it was a bright red barn that was well looked after.

I tried opening the door but it doesn't budge. Jax gently moved me out the way before kicking the door. It swings open showing nothing but some hay stacks. 

We all pick a hay stack and lie down on it. Jax was opposite me, I gazed into his eyes as he was looking at the others who were settling down. His eyes were similer to mine thy were a greeny blue, how I would imagine the ocean being like. His eye suddenly peer at mine, s**t I look away fast gazing at the ceiling of the barn instead.

"Good night" he says, I look at him as he smiles back at me 

"Good night Jax" I reply before closing me eyes and eventually falling into a deep sleep

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