CharaMystic by Shante` G.J.G (books for 20 year olds .TXT) 📖

“No I just mean you need to be careful.”

I propped up off the floor so quickly I nearly fell over. “Ok so it’s decided.”

“What’s decided?”

“We need confront them.”

“Confront them!”

“We have to hunt down Senya and let her know that she doesn’t scare us and we have to destroy S.W.I.F.T headquarters. And then we’ll use the Chrysalis to prank people and take over the world.” I said maniacally.

“What?”

“Or we can use it to end world hunger or something, I guess?”

Zane just stared at me unsure how to react.

“What! I’m just kidding but if you want to use these powers for something practical I guess when this is all over we could also cure cancer or something. I mean if you want to use it for something boring.”

Zane laughed. He told me that my plan was good except there was one flaw. Finding Senya and getting into S.W.I.F.T headquarters was nearly impossible. Senya was a highly trained assailant of S.W.I.F.T and their headquarters is invisible to nearly everyone. It’s not exactly invisible it’s just hidden by an illusion. The entire building is a mirage of a hotel.

And that’s not even the strange part. If a person who is not part of S.W.I.F.T walks in they immediately go into a dream-like trance and forget the reason why they even came there in the first place. The agents there use their abilities to first subdue the intruder and then tamper with their memories. It’s so people won’t get suspicious of what’s in that building also so they could be in plain sight. Also the headmaster legally owns that space so there is even more reason for people not to be suspicious.

I know this is a long shot and that this plan is probably stupid and might get me killed but I can’t just live out the rest of my life wondering if Senya or anyone else is going to attack or kill me. So I have to do this.

“So are you in?” I asked Zane holding out my hand.

Zane stared at me for a second, looked to the side then got off the bed and reached out for my hand. “I’m in. But I must warn you, Senya can be ruthless when she wants to be. She’s really scary.”

“That’s ok. I may not be a typical heroine but I have to try to be, because that jerk threaten my friend, so now it’s personal.” I actually wanted to say the B word but out of respect for Zane I decided to go with jerk.

Zane said that the only way for sure that we can contact Senya is just to wait by S.W.I.F.T. headquarters. He said that whenever necessary she always found him and he could never find her except when he traveled there. So that’s what we did, we bought a whole bunch of stake out gear and watched the hotel from a hill way on the other side of the street. It wasn’t the most glamorous or exciting plan but it was something at least.

“Auaaaa! How long is this going to take? You said she’d be coming back here.”

“You have to be patient. It’s only been 3 hours.”

“Grr, she better get here soon because I’m getting real antsy and I’m hungry. I knew I should have gotten some food but I got distracted by the - ”

“Look! She’s here!”

I rolled back onto my stomach and took the binoculars from Zane, I looked through them and spotted Senya. She was walking towards the side of the hotel. I couldn’t believe waiting around for her actually worked, because too be honest I was worried find out we were spying on her and get us before we got her.

I was just about to tell Zane to let’s make our move and follow her but then I noticed two things. One she was with another girl and two they were talking to a boy. Initially I wasn’t even considering the fact that this boy could be him, but once I adjusted the binoculars for a closer view I realized that the boy they were talking too was Christopher, Reenee’s missing ex-boyfriend.

Christopher disappeared last summer and I don’t just mean out of Reenee’s life, I mean he just disappeared……from existence. No one knew where he was, not his parents, not his friends and definitely not Reenee. This was weird because the night before he disappeared Christopher and Reenee were closer than ever. It was the night of Reenee’s first time. It was after they left Lion’s house party, Christopher drove her to his favorite spot at the pier.

He told her that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her and that he would follow her anywhere. It took him awhile to say this because he didn’t want to go to college like Reenee wanted him too, but that night he just decided to follow her. Not exactly to college but where ever she wanted to go. He also told her that she was his every reason for getting up in the morning and that without her he had absolutely no reason to live. And once he said that they both said I love you and they had their first deep physical moment together.

Reenee couldn’t wait to tell me the next day but as you know now he never show up to school. He never answered anyone’s calls and not even his parents knew where he was, not that they cared anyways. He didn’t have a very loving home to go to. His father always picked fights with him and his mother blamed him for his father’s violent behavior.

So pretty much it’s been a year since I’ve seen him, since anyone’s seen him. So now you could understand why I am so shocked to be seeing him here at a place like this, after all this time has passed. Since he just disappeared when he did, that very date is considered to be the worst day of me and Reenee’s life. It will always and forever be the anniversary of the day we both loss of first loves.

I don’t know what’s going on, but I hope he’s not one of these S.W.I.F.T agents, because I just don’t know what I intend to do about it!


Chapter 11: S.W.I.F.T. Moves! (Early Saturday Night)

“No way! Christopher!”

“No, that’s Senya remember, Sen-ya.”

“No the boy their talking too. That’s Christopher Sans. I knew it! I knew that was him at the beach hotel. But….but what’s he doing here?”

“Who’s Christopher?”

“He’s Reenee’s ex but that doesn’t matter anymore. Now we really have to get in there. I have to find out what happen to him and what’s going on. Let’s go.” I stuffed the binoculars back in my backpack and shot down the hill, practically skateboarding with my feet.

“Wait up! Amethyst! Wait!”

Zane grabbed my arm to hold me back. He nearly yanked my arm right out of its socket. “Ah! Geez!”

“Sorry. I’m still can’t control my own strength. But you can’t just barge in there. They’ll spot you before you even make it down the hill and send out a retrieval force.”

“So! That doesn’t give you any good reason to relocate the position of my arm. Ow, gosh! That really hurts.” I was rubbing my arm smoothly. I knew Zane didn’t mean it but I was just so anxious to find out what happen to Christopher that I didn’t even think it through.

“Sorry I didn’t mean to -”

“It’s find. So what do you suppose we do Zane?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t think about what to do when we actually spotted Senya. I guess we could – WAIT! I remember something. Senya told me about a way I could get in without her bringing me here. But she said it was only to be used if I absolutely had to see, because it is forbidden, not even she is allowed to enter the building this way.”

“So what is it?”

“I don’t know how were going to do it but the only safe way to enter the building without being caught is on the roof.”

“The roof? How the heck are we supposed to get to the top of the roof without of being seen; and hello, neither of us can fly. And even if we could it wouldn’t matter because there are camera’s circling all the entrances so we’d be caught if we get even within a few feet of the building.”

“I know I asked her about that too and all she said was if I felt my heart I will know how to fly.”

“What in the hey does that mean?”

“I don’t know, that’s all she said.”

“I think she was messing with you Zane.”

He held his head down saddened by the thought that Senya might have toyed with his emotions even more. I put my hand on his shoulder to let him know that it was ok that he trusted her and he’s not stupid for doing so.

“Hmm. I wonder?” I mumbled.

“Wonder what?”

“If I really could fly?”

“Huh? You can’t fly.”

“Can’t I?” I said arching my eyebrow comically.

“I’m not sure what you’re thinking but it’s scaring me.”

“Hey how good of a climber are you?”

Zane hesitated to answer at first but he reluctantly responded. “Good I guess. What are you thinking?”

“You see that tree right.” I pointed.

“Yeah?”

“Were going to climb it.”

“I don’t get it. Why? No! If you’re thinking we can jump from that tree to the top of the building then you’re crazy.”

We began to walk down the street and then crossed over away from S.W.I.F.T. headquarters to where the tree was. “What no, were not jumping? That would be crazy. I’m thinking I’ll lift you and myself over from the very tip of that last branch sticking to the top of the roof.”

Zane just looked at me like I had lost some brain cells or something. He was completely speechless about my suicidal plan. I guess I could understand why. The tree stood in the next property over but it was massive. It was taller than the 6 story building. And its branches were crazy long and wide spread that some were even stretch over S.W.I.F.T.’s parking lot. I figured if we climbed to the top of the tree and crawled alongside the branch that was just barely touching it; I could then use that levitating ability I used before and get us across. But I guess Zane had no faith in that.

“But you don’t have any powers remember we talked about this.”

“I know what you said but you believed me when I said I had visions right? So whether or not I actually have powers from the Chrysalis I do have some type of power; like these visions or that levitation ability I used before. And it wasn’t just once I used it either. Remember at my graduation when the security guards were lifted into the air all of sudden. I don’t think that was just a coincidence I think that was me.”

Zane just kept quiet.

“Hello! Say something!”

He was still silent for a moment more.

“Alright, I guess we could try it. What do we got to lose.”

We put my plan into action. It took us a while to get up the tree, as it was really high.