The Mission part 3

The next few days were worse than all the other ones. The big festival was coming up and that year it was celebrated at our school, so the college students also come. We had to clean up the yard and building. I was paired up with Holly. She talked and talked the whole day and I didn't have one second of quiet for 4 days straight. I felt like punching something, but of course that wouldn't look to good when all the older, noble students came to visit out school. Also, a lot of kids from other high schools came and the top business men or our community (all psychic of course). At least I was better off than Hunter who had to cook. 1

I picked up the broom and began sweeping through the classroom, just like I had the other 10 times. 2

"Oh my god and then when my parents are here, I am so going to hide, because, like, you know they are really important and they, like, don't like me that much and I am scared I'm going to like, you know, like disappoint them..." Holly talked and talked. How many 'likes' does one person use in a sentence?! 3

I swept through the class and cleaned up the chalkboard. 4

Then next day, we had to help set up for the party. Jason and Joe had to help set up the sound and I was stuck getting all the tables into the gym and putting the table cloth on the table. My 5 feat 05 didn't help me much in this situation. I was a midget compared to everyone else around here. 5

And finally, it was the great festival of all psychics. I wandered through the crowds trying not to get seen by anyone I knew; even though that was virtually impossible and just like that Ryan got a hold of me. 6

"Hey, what's up?" he asked and smiled. 7

"Nothing, you?" I answered.8

"Oh same old same old. Nice festival, what's new? Seen any cool ghosts?" I knew dad had told him already and he just wanted to hear about it from me. 9

"A dead woman... But dad already told you so I don't have to tell you what it was about." 10

"Okay so you don't want to tell me, I understand that, when dad called and told us what was going on I really didn't even want to think of it." 11

I shrugged and left him back there. Of course I also ran into my other brothers but they did most of the talking. Ryan was always the most observant and my father figure. Elric was too fed up with his own life that he even took notice of me and Jonah was the hyper character in our family. Ryan was the one who found me in my mother’s room the night she got murdered. I don't remember anything from back then other than being scared and a weird coldness. Loic was quiet compared to all the others and Reese was too carefree to really try and help me. 12

I finally got out of the crowded area and walked out into the yard. Nobody was outside which was easy to understand because it was freezing cold out there. I sat down on a swing and i swayed with the freezing wind. Then a ghost appeared out of nowhere in front of me. 13

He had dark eyes and I saw a bullet wound in his forehead and his chest. He had long dark hair and he seemed to have been on earth for a long time. 14

I looked at him and he took another step towards me. 15

"Would you like me to do something for you before I send you away?" I asked him a little annoyed. 16

"Yes please, I would like to have a book, but this book only exists in the forbidden library." 17

"Okay, I'll get it for you, what's it called?" I asked. 18

"Merlin’s ways." The ghost answered. 19

Once a ghost has told me to grant them a last wish I have to do it, otherwise I'd be dead or they’d be stuck on earth forever. Both were very unpleasant to me because they'd torment me the rest of my life or immediately kill me. And so, I was on my way to find this weird book that ghost was talking about. 20

I walked back into the main building, but instead of going left to the gym I walked right towards the stairs. I took the ones downwards and landed in the cellar. A lot of experiments were done down there and it had this weird feel to it. I reluctantly walked further down. The forbidden library took most part of the underground school and only seniors and teachers were allowed to use it. If I was caught I'd be expelled and that wouldn't be too good for me. Thankfully, it was the festival so nobody was guarding the doors and I could freely walk in. 21

Immediately as I walked over I felt a different mood. It seemed very quiet and... sad. I began searching for the book. I didn't know how the books were arranged, but not by title or author. I got further and further into the library and after maybe a few hours I found it. It was all alone on a bookshelf and there seemed to be something forbidding about it. I took it and began walking out of the library and as I was about to exit I saw my father turn around the corner and he of course saw me in the library. 22

"Zack what are you doing?" He asked me, but I didn't listen and began running. 23

Being expelled isn't as bad as dying and I knew that the death wouldn't be painless. 24

I hustled up the stairs and out of the school. My father was also running after me and then I saw the ghost. He was still very far away, but when he saw me sprint towards him he also moved. I got to him and gave him the book. 25

"Zacky, what are you doing?" My father shouted at me. 26

As the ghost touched the book he got more color in his face and the wounds somehow grew backwards. They shrank and he just seemed to turn human again. 27

"Thank you kid." He smiled at my awe struck expression. 28

Then a shooting pain went through my whole body and I saw how he died. 29

I stood across from a younger version of my father and I wasn't worried one bit about what was going to happen next. 30

"You killed her, you *bunny*!" My father shouted angrily. 31

"It was necessary to awaken the powers of the young one." I answered. 32

"No, you idiot, he already saw everything just he didn't know what it was until now!" 33

Then, my father jumped at me an got out a gun and shot me 5 times. The head, heart, stomach, knee and neck. 34

I was on the floor panting for air and cold as hell. I was soaking wet and I had a very bad headache. My father murdered this man who killed my mother. I closed my eyes and rolled up in a ball. I helped him get back, because I was afraid of dying... Now my whole life would be over. My father hated me, I had no school, I bet my brothers didn't even want to look at me and I brought back the man who brutaly murdered my mother. I drifted in and out of consciousness and finally I realized I was on a warm bed. 35

I looked over and saw my father sitting beside me. 36

"I'm sorry." I whispered. 37

He looked at me, but didn't say anything. His eyes were empty and if there would have been some kind of emotion in there it would have been hate or something like that. I thought. 38

"You idiot Zacky! Bringing this man back from the dead!" Elric said. 39

"Be quiet Elric, how should he know who he was? He forgot everything!" Ryan mumbled. 40

"Just stop defending him all the time!" Jonah muttered angrily. 41

"He is just a kid guise and they make mistakes!" Reese said. 42

I couldn't handle it anymore and I cried out, "I'm sorry, I never meant to do that! I didn't know what was going on! It was either getting that retarded book or getting killed! I didn't want to do... I don't want to become one of them..." I began drying and I felt all their eyes on me. 43

"You would... Die?!" Elric muttered dumbfounded. 44

I didn't know what to say to that so I drifted back into a dreamless sleep.45