Arakune had had it. He was done with all the stuff his family was doing to him, mainly the way his parents were always treating him. Just becuase he didn't want to have a business or wasn't the first kid or whatever other reason they had for treating him like this for as long as he can remeber. Since two years ago, when his powers had first started, when they gave up. It hurt him so much. It was like he was invisible. Nothing. Ever. In their eyes, he might as well have been dead. But this was the last straw. He had was sick for 2 weeks, and it wasn't pretty, and no one, not even his mom, had even checked on him. Not once. He was better now, of course, and well enough to leave. He had been planning to leave earlier, but then he got sick, so he took that time to plan and prepare. Of course, it all went to pieces as he walked into the front hall-foyer-room. He never did know what that room was called, the one right with the front door. His father came from behind; his mother from the front.
"Where do you think you're going?" his father asked, his normally rough voice, smooth with anticiaption for the kill.
"I'm leaving. You people have nothing to offer me here, and I doubt you ever will."
"And where are you going to go?"
"Anywhere. California maybe. Anywhere but here, where I'm treated like I don't exist."
"Fine, leave. To be honest, your mother and I were waiting for the day you'd crack. For the day that you would leave. Becuase we know what's going to hapen."
"What's that?" His mother had walked away, probably to check on their stocks for a moment. Thanks for the love mom!
"You're going to try to run away, but after, hmm... I give it a few days, you'll come back running, begging for us to take you back. But we won't. Then you can really see what it's like to be not loved. You're always going on about how you're so unloved and uncared for. Well, if you're running away, obviously you don't need any of this, now do you?"
Arakune remained silent, not sure if this was a trap or not, though the anger on his face was clearly starting to show as wind started to blow around him, though they were inside and there were no fans present.
"And then, here's what you'll do: You will try to blackmail me again, like you tried to do all those other times. Not that it worked. No one is going to believe you, especially when you're going to be even skinny and dirtier from being a hobo. And then, you'll be, you'll plead, do anything you can." There is a slight pause here as his face suddenly becomes angry and my face becomes blank with the slightest tinge of melancholy.
"We will shut the door in your face... Because all the crap we have given to you doesn't amount to all the crap you have given to..US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, leave, do whatever you want. BUT DON'T YOU DARE TAKE ONE THING IN THIS HOUSE BESIDES THE CLOTHES ON YOUR BACK!"
"WELL DON'T WORRY, I WASN'T PLANNING ON IT!" He yells as the wind suddenly becomes violent.
His father's face becomes calm and blank once again. "Trying to threaten me with your "gift" again? I'm so scared. But, anyway, as I was saying, whenever you want to leave, you may! Good day." He turns and walks away.
The wind suddenly ceases as he says, "I'm taking Maggie with me."
His father, without turning around. says, "Good. One less mouth to feed. Now she'll die with you from being underfed instead of dying of old age with us."
The hurt suddenly appears on Arakune's face as he looks like he is about to cry. But he wipes his eyes quickly and the look is replaced with cold hate and he walks out the door.

After walking outside and sitting on the stone bench for a moment, quietly, he walks around to the fence and unlatches it, calling to Maggie. She comes running, and after a moment a small flat-faced cat follows.
"Are you guys as fed up with this place as I am?"
"Woof!"
"Good let's go."
He picks up the cat in one arm and holds the gate. Maggie walks out, and he follows closing the gate and leading the way to a new life in California.

Wale wondered where the girl was going, he wouldn't mind going of course for someone who liked like her, but it depended how far off course. "No problem, really, today yo lucky day then" He always found it awkward starting conversation with hitch hikers, or people he met at places he wouldn't want to meet people such as at a gang meeting or a trap house, well the latter he didn't mind THAT bad. "I know how that is, car my dad use to have me driving, looked like it was chilling inside a blender for a while."

"Rheanne, that's a pretty name, like I said I'm Wale" Once she was settled in, and the door close he resumed driving. The one thing he wouldn't miss about the Big Apple was it's legendary traffic, he could tell when he was getting farther away from the city as the traffic was lessening from it's usual epic proportions. "Naw it's alright, long ass drive ya know, eventually ipod's gonna die, then it's gonna quite, awkward silence just ain't my thing" Talking to others was easy for him, the problem was getting him to shut up. With another passenger he reached over to turn his GPS down somewhat he could still hear it, but he didn't want it too loud. It would get annoying especially when it was getting repetitive or he was changing course.

He thought the woman looked familiar, but he wouldn't say anything. She didn't look like a serial killer, but he was on his guard. His ipod changed to another song, and he just realized a song from Drake. He liked the guy, but sometimes his voice could be annoying, and it really got him when he was boasting, but "The Motto" Was a good enough song that he didn't care.

"So why you heading to Cali" He said hoping the question didn't make it seem like he was trying to get into her business too bad. He'd be willing to share why he was going, as it wasn't anything too private.

Rheanne leaned back in her seat with a slight shrug, thinking about her reasoning carefully. She didnt want to reveal to much, telling people you had control over sound didnt go down too well with very many people. "Well, mostly for myself, I wanted to get away." she let out a small humorless laugh, "And for my parents, they would be better off if they didnt have me around." She shifted her bag.

"They even told me so. But I didnt really care, as I said, going to Cali is mostly for me and not them. I bet by now they are regretting telling me I was an accident that shouldn't have happened." She was happy with her answer, having not let anything slip passed her. She then realized that she was unconsciously unloading her troubles onto this stranger, "Sorry, I dont normally unload my troubles like that." She apologized.

"If you dont mind me asking, why are you headed to Cali?" Though Rheanne was curious, she wasnt going to pry if he didnt want to say, after all he was being kind enough to give her a ride, she didnt want to over exert his hospitality.

Alex smiled when Jason agreed to accompany her. "Well looks like you get a free ride buddy" she said with a smirk. Placing a five dollar tip on the table she got up pulling along one suitcase full of clothes and other stuff whilst the other was now empty due to placing all the money that was in it, in to the bank. " The garage is just around the corner of the mall if you want to follow, once we got to the garage you can stick your stuff in the back of the car so we can finally leave this rotten place called home" She said slowly smiling.

Jason was radiating happiness. Literality. His ability was causing a feeling of euphoria in anyone who stood too close to him. Jason was unaware of this however and he followed, putting the map in his backpack as he did. "Thank you Alex. I really appreciate this. Um, if you don't mind my asking, why are you going to California?" he asked.

When jason asked why Alex was going to California she stopped, panic started to fill her mind causing her to lose control of her powers slightly, any electrical objects in a ten mile radius suddenly stopped or exploded due to the panic. When she soon started to calm down Alex turned around acting as if nothing happened "Well after my sister ended up in a coma last year it felt empty and my aunt who we were living with started to beat me and other things, so i decided to travel to california they have a good motor cross team i was told" she partially lied everything about the motor cross and her sister was true but the part about her aunt being mean to her and beating her was not she just had to lie to him untill she was ready to tell him the truth.

Jason jumped upon hearing the sound of exploding electronics but then Alex started speaking as though nothing were wrong so he probably didn't need to be worried about that. Then he heard the answer to his question. "Oh." Jason said for lack of anything better to say. 'Well you asked genius.' he scolded himself. "I'm sorry. I probably shouldn't have asked." After a pause he asked "Motor cross?" It sounded vaguely familiar so he'd most likely heard some of the others back at the orphanage talking about it. Despite this, Jason wasn't entirely certain what motor cross was.

"Oh its ok my mum and dad died in a shark attack when i was five years old me and my sister survived so we moved in with my aunt and only last year my sister was involved in a hit and run and has been in a coma ever since" Alex kept a smile on her face showing that this did not affect her in any way she started to walk slowly towards the garage "Oh motorcorss is different types of events on a motorbike its competitions and sorts ranging from, racing, tircking and time trials mainly, I'm a trickster so thats why we have to go to the garage to pick up my rang rover so that i can attatch a trailer on the back with my dirt bikes" she said with a smile. Soon they arrived at the garage Alex was literally jumping as this was finally happening she was finally leaving.

"You seem excited." Jason said, both surprised and pleased that he hadn't asked the exact opposite of the right question after all. "You know, this turning out to be a lot easier than I thought. If I'd known that getting to California was going to be this easy I would have gone looking for my parents a long time ago. Then again," he said smiling up at Alex, "then I wouldn't have had you for a traveling companion."

"Oh what happened to your parents?" Alex asked whilst walking over to her range rover which had the trailer on the back aswell as two other dirt bikes she smiled softly whilst opening the back door of the car and placing her suitcases in "Just put your stuff in the back, so we can finally leave" she said with a smile. Opening the front door and placing the keys into the ignition she turned them only to find out the car would't start the engine was running but the battery had ran out " Haha I would of ended up kidnapping someone if you did't come with me any way, but now im gunna have to sort the battery out yay" she said sarcastically whilst getting out of the driver side of the car. Opening up the bonnet looking to see if anybody was around aswell as notcing that Jason was not watching 'Please don't let him relise' she though to herself.
Placing her hand above the battery she began to concentrate as electrical sparks began to emit from her hand travelling down the battery pack, crackling sounds were heard as she was doing this soon the car started up. Smiling to herself whilst putting the bonnet down and climbing into the, driver seat. "You coming or you gunna stand around her oh and if anyone ask... I'm sixteen ok" showing him, her fake ID.

"I'm not exactly sure what happened to them. The people at the orphanage said that the only thing they could tell me was that my parents are or were from California." Jason put his backpack into the back of the car as instructed and laughed about her comment about kidnapping someone if he hadn't decided to come along. He looked off into space as he thought that this must be what friendly banter was like. He had grown used to talking to himself over the years and was quite enjoying a conversation with another intelligent being. Jason snapped out of his thoughts when he heard Alex asking if he was coming or not. "Sorry." he said running over to the passenger side and climbing in. "Okay." he said in response to what she said about the fake ID. Unfortunately Jason couldn't lie. Ever. It wasn't that he didn't know how, but instead that his conscience wouldn't allow it. 'Well,' he thought, 'I don't know for a fact that she isn't sixteen. She never did tell me how old she was. For all I know I'm telling the truth.' That was a flimsy excuse at best but it would have to do. Jason buckled his seatbelt and then turned to Alex. "Ready to go."

"Ready as ever" Alex said with a smile. Pulling out of the garage on to the nearly empty road, she was trying to figure out a plan of traveling and how long it would take and how many times there going to have to stay in a motel. "Hey can you be my map person and tell me when there is a motel as it should be getting dark soon and i dont want to be driving in the dark so i would say three hours driving then pull into a motel" she said with a smile and she drove down the motorway at 60mph.

"I'll try. Jason said climbing into the back of the car to retrieve the map from his backpack. "But I don't think I'm much of a navigator." After getting the map he climbed back to his seat before unfolding the map and looking at it. "You're right about how long until it gets dark by the way, assuming there aren't any storms, and it looks like there are several motels that we could stop at three hours from here." Jason then looked up from the map and said, "I will find a way to pay you back for this, by the way. I'm not sure how but I will. Maybe I'll get a job once we get to California."

"Don't worry about paying me back im tecniqually loaded when i turn 18, i got half of my parents savings in my bank right now the rest i wont get till i turn 18 like i said but if you feel that you must pay me back then feel free but im not to bothered about it" Alex said with a smile. Everything she had mentioned about the money was true and if her sister does not wake up from her coma in the next 6 months Alex gets all the money and other things she was given aswell. "Hey i have a question.." Alex took a deep breathe, "how do you cope with people who are't well.. um..normal?" she questioned well if she is going to be travelling with her he might aswell know and if he threatens to tell well she can just kill him. Cant she?

"I don't think I've ever know anyone who could technically be considered 'normal', myself included." Jason answered with a short laugh. "Why? What's on your mind?" He gave his companion a concerned look hoping that everything was alright. Jason refolded the map and put it in the dashboard before turning in his seat to face Alex more directly.

"Um how would you respond if i told you that i could move things with my mind, aswell as read minds and another thing?" she asked casually when he mentioned that he was't normal himself she wandered if she was like her or was one of those qsyco killers. Well if her was one of them hes got at hiding his identity.

"I would say that that sounds very, very, familiar." Jason said grinning. As he spoke he opened the dashboard to retrieve the map and then caused the map to hover above his hand for a few moments. "And there you have it. 'Not normal' isn't very specific, I was getting confused until you mentioned telekinesis. It's really good to know that I'm not the only one like this."

Alex let out i sigh of relief "I thought i was going to have to blow you up there" she said smiling. Removing one of her hands from the wheel and moving her hair away from her face, causing electric spark to form. "Oh and thats something else i can do so what happened in the mall earlier was me" she said laughing as she placed her hand back on the wheel. Looking around for the nearest service station as she really needed the resroom aswell as something to eat and drink. "How long untill the next station and how long have i been driving?" she questioned him whilst keeping her eyes on the road.

"I think it's been about an hour since you started driving." Jason answered. "There should be a service station a few minutes up ahead. But just to make sure I understand, your gift is to make things explode?" That was far cooler than Jason's ability, although it was also a lot less subtle. "Alright, this is the exit for the service station." he said as the car neared the exit.

Alex nodded her head as she took the turn on the exit to the service station. She smiled when Jason mentioned making things explode. "You can say that in a way but yea i can manipulate and generate electricity its cool but annoying when animals are scared of you" She sid with a serious expression on her face as she parked the car outside the petrol pump. "Do you want anything to eat or drink? As ill get it when i pay for the petrol." she said smiling.

"Electricity." Jason mused. He hadn't seen the spark earlier when she had made one. "No thanks, I'm alright." he answered Alex's question. "I wish I could show you what my power is but firstly it's invisible and, secondly it's... " he trailed off looking for an adjective that fit the manipulation of human hormones. Well maybe it wasn't limited to humans, he hadn't tried it on any animals. Jason laughed. "I can't really think of a word to describe it."

Wale pondered on reading the girl’s mind to see what her intentions where, he was trustworthy but he was no fool. With the ability to invade people’s thoughts and confirm whether there words were of true or false it made him harder to put his complete trust in others. “Get away huh, I guess you could say the same thing about me, just trying to see what else is out there, options.” He wondered what she meant regarding her parents. Was she a trouble child, or perhaps abused.

“I’m sorry..”He didn’t really know what to say, he wasn’t the best with words of comfort. From his own personal experience there was nothing you could say about someone who had a poor situation, except pray they got out of it and moved on to bigger and better things.” That’s alright, sometimes you just gotta get things off your chest. As for me reasons, for one I need to get away, ran into lots of bad crowds, bad people, people I ain’t got the time or money to deal with.” The last part was one of the main reasons, he didn’t need to end up getting shot up he was even dealing with people he owed when he was trying to leave.

“That and don’t know if you know him or not, but I got a call back from Wiz Khalifa. Talking about possibly being on his new album, that’s what really motivated me to get my ass to Cali. I’ve always wanted to make music. Giving into his curiosity he tried to read her mind, and noticed he couldn’t. That had never happened before, that aroused his suspicion even more but he wouldn’t say anything. Either he was getting really bad with his powers, or something else was going on.

Alex just nodded when he said he did't want anything. "If you cant descirbe it why dont you just use it on something?" she questioned whilst filling the tank of the car with petrol, looking around the area spotting only a few cars around but they were all empty. Raising an eyebrow she put the petrol back "Back in a minute just going to use the loo and pay for the petrol and a few other things. Walking into the service station spotting only two or three people in here each of them looking suspicious, smiling to each of them as she walked past.

Washing her hands after she used the bathroom, looking around as she swore she heard something 'I think im just going insane' she thought to herself. Walking back into the building to pay for the petrol and some snacks she spotted the three men from before were still standing around doing nothing. Picking up a couple of bottle of waters, two bottle of pepsi's, two large packs of haribo's and some other snacks she made her way over to the cashier. Feeling a pair of arms snake up her back and latching on to her hard, placing one of his hands around her mouth so she was unable to speak and the other pointing a gun to her head. "Empty the money into the bag now or the girl gets it"! one of the larger men shouted at the clerk. Alex could feel her blood boiling knowing she was having to control herself around these people right now. Suddenly feeling another pair of hands grip her waist moving his hand up and down her body, her eyes widened in fear 'Jason help!' she screamed in his head. "Maybe we could keep the chick and have are way with her." The one gripping her hips said to the other guy who hand a hold of her whilst watching the clerk put the money in the bag. Alex began to panic more causing the light in the room to suddenly explode.

Hearing his name shouted in his mind in a voice that most certainly was not his, Jason turned toward the building's front window to see three men apparently robbing the station using Alex as a hostage. "What do I do?!? You know what you do, you walk in there and use your power. We practiced this." After a short panicked debate with himself Jason got out of the car and ran up to the building. He opened the door as slowly as he could while holding the bell on the door in place so that it wouldn't alert the robbers. The clerk saw him though and Jason indicated that he should be quiet. Sneaking up as close as he could behind them he muttered "Sleep." and with that the criminals swayed where they stood and then slipped into unconsciousness.

When the bodys around her dropped into unconsiousness Alex let a sigh of relief out, "Thank god you were here" she said to him smiling. Placing a hundred dollars on the desk infront of the cashier, she ran out the room grabbing hold of Jason in the process. Pulling him over to his car, she pulled him into a hug "Thanks" she whispeared to him before she let go. Taking deep breathe's trying to control herself pulling out one of the bottles of water from the bag and taking a swig from it. "I dont wanna be here when the police arrive so could we make a move?" she questioned him whilst opening the door of drivers seat and throwing the bag of food and drink in the back.