-15 Chapter Three (1/2)
”Happy Birthday,” screamed my family, bursting into my room making me fall off my bed.
”Good Morning,” I groaned still not ready to wake up yet.
”We got you presents, open mine first,” squealed Luisa thrusting her present in my stomach.
”No I think she would prefer opening mine first,” said grandma firmly. She was right I did want to open hers first.
Smiling, I ripped off the gift wrapper curious to know what she came up with this year. One glorious thing about my grandma is she is exceptionally skillful at giving gifts.
”What's this?” not quite understanding why I would need a framed picture of a king and queen carrying a baby.
”It's a picture of you and your parents taken six days after you were born.”
”Mum!''shouted my uncle, raged with fury.
”She needed to know, she's sixteen.”
”I don't understand, what do I need to know?” I commented looking as confused as I felt.
”Have you ever wondered why the hybrids want you dead?” my aunt asked quizzically.
”Yes, always.”
”Well, that's because you are different. You, my dear, are one of the Starhians. As a matter of fact, you are not just any normal Starhian, you are the heir to the throne. You see the Starhisns are a group of people who unlike other people have special gifts.”
”So like superpowers,” I cut in.
”No, not quite, superheroes have superpowers like super strength, flexibility and super speed. This group of people have gifts like shape-shifting, ability to control people's mind, ability to create believable illusions, ability to borrow or copy other people's powers, ability to heal, ability to see the past, present or future, ability to read people minds, ability to see what others have seen or done by just looking at them and lots of other peculiar gifts.”
”How come I don't have a gift, I mean to be one of them, especially their princess, you've got to have a gift right.”
”You do, have you ever noticed that the weather seems to reflect your emotions, for example, has it ever rained when you're crying or was it ever cloudy when you are upset?”
”Yeah but that's just a coincidence.”
”It's not, and that's because you're a Natural,” Luisa commented.
”Naturals are people with the gift to control anything natural, that means things that are not man-made. For example, the weather, the sea, nature, even powers. This means you can control other people's powers. You can control everything except people and anything made by people,” Ara added.
”And that's why it's important you are told this, you see, a Starhian's powers gets stronger and more out of control when they're sixteen. You being the first natural in years makes it dangerous because we don't really know how stronger or how out of control it will get. It's bad enough you can control everything natural, right now your power will be so much stronger and that's not even your full potential.”
”What do you mean it's not my full potential?”